jaaake

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[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

CEO = Cogsucking Executive Officer

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I also found those.

The image in the article has a watermark from Memezar, has all of the same text from the Memezar Facebook post, except that it has named the woman. Searching for a woman of that name in Toronto doesn't match up with the image in the article.

The YouTube video doesn't offer any new details or cite source, but it repeats some of the details from the Memezar Facebook post.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Can anyone find a legitimate source for this?

Everything I can find all points back to a Facebook posting on a page called "Memezar," which doesn't cite any sources or contain any details that would help in a search.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

My 2019 VW GTI has this, not because it's electric and has no engine, but because the sound dampening between the engine bay and cabin is so good that the engineers thought it necessary. It's the first thing I disabled. So dumb.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

God I wish we could do RCV, even if only in primaries to start with. The candidate most closely aligned with my views is Tony Thurmond, but he's polling at 2% so I can't responsibly vote for him. Even if the votes end up the same after RCV, we'd get the most accurate polling data and the will of the people could be better understood. It's literally superior in every way. Fuckin establishment politics.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tell me you've never worked at a large company without telling me you've never worked at a large company.

This is pretty standard policy and has been true everywhere I've ever worked. In order to maintain any amount of security or stability, you'll need everyone not only in the same OS, but will prescribe the specific updates/patches that need to be applied. Depending on the industry, you may also need to approve things anywhere from the level of individual applications to device drivers.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

LOW-ER DECKS! LOW-ER DECKS! LOW-ER DECKS!

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Everyone who isn't terminally online thinks like this. People who aren't exposed to the deluge of shit that is actually happening all think "He's a pretty bad president, but if he was as bad as these people say he is, he would have been impeached by now."

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Declining birthrates are a good thing for sustainability. But it's a generally a bad thing for the older generation as they need the economic and societal support of the younger generation.

Can't be a pyramid scheme unless the base keeps growing.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Structure for my personal life at every level is still a skill I'm struggling with at age 45.

I feel like if I had been taught to plan my day and held accountable for it at an early age, it would come much more natural to me now at the micro and macro level.

Instead I just blame my lack of ability to organize on my work schedule, which truthfully only fluctuates by a couple hours at most.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

I think everyone agrees, we just don't have faith that it'll bear fruit. There's been someone in the party doing this since Trump won his first primary, but they've always been stopped at some level by ANY degree of opposition, from thinly veiled foot dragging to blatant corruption.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

This has already been fixed. The top AI result is now this article.

 

Nobody likes voting for the “lesser of two evils.” Casting a vote in favor of someone who is diametrically opposed to your viewpoint(s) absolutely sucks. The shitty reality is that we aren’t going to change the electoral process in the next two months.

If you don’t see either major candidate as a champion that you can support, it seems more beneficial to see it as selecting your enemy for the next four years. I would rather fight against someone that I have a chance of changing. At minimum I would rather protest against someone that I think has a lower chance of authorizing lethal force against a march that I attend.

Voting for a 3rd presidential candidate (or not voting at all), is letting someone else make that decision for you.

That said, we have got to get out of this constant cycle of only having two options. There’s too much money at a national level to start there. We’ve got to start local and get third party candidates into offices at a city level, then state, then national. It’s going to take a long time and it should have happened so very long ago. We can’t change the past, we can only change the future. The only time to start changing the future is in the present.

 

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