[-] lengau@midwest.social 4 points 23 hours ago

They officially publish the snap, the flatpak and a deb in an apt repo.

[-] lengau@midwest.social 4 points 1 day ago

No, they're just in an abusive relationship with it.

[-] lengau@midwest.social 45 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

THIS NO LEGAL
FOR ALL DE PUBLIC

[-] lengau@midwest.social 1 points 2 days ago

The Afrikaners weren't disenfranchised. The National Party held seats in parliament from shortly after its founding in 1914 and JBM Hertzog was prime minister from 1924-1939. The first prime minister of the Union of South Africa was Louis Botha, who was a Boer veteran.

The United Party was a centre-right party that was an alliance of Anglophone and Afrikaner whites as well as coloureds (n.b. for Americans: not what you're likely thinking, so click the link). They lost the 1948 election to the far-right National Party, at which point the government of South Africa became dominated for 40 years by far-right Afrikaner grievance politics.

The most notable English-speaking member of parliament during apartheid was Helen Suzman.

[-] lengau@midwest.social 1 points 3 days ago

Really? When did they make the switch?

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I think this is really great! Too many cities are quite hostile to people with mobility issues.

[-] lengau@midwest.social 2 points 4 days ago

Only one of the two major parties helped ensure that a good friend of mine had legal access to lifesaving healthcare recently, and it wasn't Republicans. Pretending one party isn't worse isn't productive. How are you going to approach the spoiler effect, or do you simply not care about all the death and suffering that will result from strategy that doesn't tackle the spoiler effect?

[-] lengau@midwest.social 2 points 4 days ago

How do you plan to avoid the problem of abandoning the DNC causing Republicans, who are worse than Democrats, from gaining unmitigated power while said other party is gaining momentum?

[-] lengau@midwest.social 9 points 4 days ago

I literally know someone who's not running for a state office because even with the compensation he can't afford the expenses of actually being in office.

[-] lengau@midwest.social 4 points 4 days ago

The thing is that people somehow don't seem to realise there's a bog monster pulling in the opposite direction. Yes, it's a problem that they only got pulled 1 cm in the right direction. Yes, it's well worth criticising that it could have been 10 cm if the person doing the pulling hadn't tied a hand behind their back. But 1 cm of movement in the right direction is still far better than 2 m of movement in the wrong direction because the bog monster gained the upper hand.

And the people standing on the sidelines saying "let go of their hand and grab mine! I'll pull you in the right direction with both hands!" are also acting in bad faith, because if they actually had an interest in doing that they'd be grabbing onto the person who's currently doing the pulling and pulling helping them pull rather than expecting the victim to release and flounder around for their hand.

[-] lengau@midwest.social 4 points 4 days ago

Put them in a blender together and you'll get one that lets in only the right folks and one that lets in only the wrong ones.

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The original title was "State Senators from Ann Arbor pushing for repeal on ban of single-use plastic regulations" but that sounded confusing to me.

This change, if implemented, would allow Ann Arbor to do things like require that stores charge for plastic bags.

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This is great to see! We need more green energy all over, and rooftop solar is one of the easiest places to do it.

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Gift link to avoid the paywall, but also: archive.today

I think this is a net positive, but I really wish this had more housing and less surface parking. I'd love to see the city start requiring that new developments have most of their parking underground.

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Spot the deep cuts.

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