[-] niucllos@lemm.ee 21 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

This premise gets thrown around a lot but I actually disagree. "Every time people turn out" is always also thrown in there like some arbitrary thing--when I think the past several election cycles have shown that when there are younger, more progress candidates who make it past the primaries turnout shoots up. Courting the 3% uninformed flip-floppers by moving right is a losing strategy when you could be motivating your own party to turn out by moving left and driving turnout up. There's no money in that though, so dumb centrists get wooed

[-] niucllos@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago

Look, I'm with you most of the way in theory, but a lot of rural areas don't have plumbing and drinking water from public utilities, they have their own septic and water wells. I know it's pedantic but a lot of parts of the world are so rural that it probably doesn't make sense to have fully public transport, like it doesn't make sense to have centralized water. The scope needs to be great systems within towns and cities and lots of park and ride hubs around the perimeter

[-] niucllos@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago

Keep in mind NH is only vaguely a battleground at the federal level, Biden won it by 7+ points in 2020 and they haven't voted for a Republican president since 2000 and even then Bush barely eked out a win. Push against the fascists still!

[-] niucllos@lemm.ee 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

In all three cases, he can do it as long as Congress gives him that power. In this case it's unlikely Congress will push back on banning Russian software, in the other two the republicans have promised to block any executive effort

[-] niucllos@lemm.ee 22 points 3 months ago

One could make the case that it is a patriotic duty to divert money from fascists that would otherwise go to fascist causes

[-] niucllos@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago

Just sounds like the first episode of community with less context and more soapboxing

[-] niucllos@lemm.ee 20 points 4 months ago

Oh ho ho, where have you been that you think they'll hold their own side to this standard?

[-] niucllos@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago

Funny thing is they aren't even GMOs, they're hybrids between tetraploid and diploid watermelon cultivars. You could do it yourself in your backyard if you can find tetraploid seed for sale, or make it yourself with colchicine

[-] niucllos@lemm.ee 18 points 6 months ago

https://freesewing.org/ has somewhat limited patterns but they're flexible and a really cool project!

[-] niucllos@lemm.ee 14 points 6 months ago

"We need you to stop ~~making a good product~~ forcing your customers to only use your version so your customers can finally move away from it." Fixed it. Non-apple watches, for instance, can't use GPS from an iPhone or cause it to emit sound to local lost phones, despite being previously able to, demonstrating no technical limitations just a walled-garden limitation

[-] niucllos@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago

US funding for basic research--the type that will lead to the truly paradigm-shifting breakthroughs--has also been in decline for 50+ years as a proportion of GDP. While bureacracy could be an obstacle, the much larger one is insufficient resources to fund a lot of moonshots that may fizzle or may result in 'zero to one's innovation, as the author states

[-] niucllos@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

He rarely pays his own lawyers, why the heck would he pay anyone else's?

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