the same thing i did when even biden, et al. voted against gay marriage; gays in the military; supported gay ban in the federal gov’t and stayed silent on a slew of anti-immigrant & anti-abortion state laws.

Computer, delete that entire log

yes obviously I have to choose bad over worse.

we’ll all be doing this for the rest of our lives thanks to this system and it still leads us to the same place that the worse option does, but at a slower pace.

kissinger was fat and lived to be 100

That’s the best thing about the stuff that the CIA has done: they publicly admit to it in writing and people still refuse to believe it’s true

I wouldn’t even call what they’re eating in Europe “tacos”.

the same applies to most americans as well

The fact that Biden chooses to risk a Trump administration over ending a genocide should be very concerning to the average voter, but Americans of course rather blame the people than their elites. Same shit like with anti Union stances.

that’s why i expect unions drives to mostly fail; we’re all susceptible to propaganda and the people refusing to accept it are making it worse.

Support is moving to discord

do you know where?

There’s lots of LGBTQ+ and FOSS (I wonder why lol).

the lemmyverse was created by tankies as a leftists social media platform; it moved to center right and octupled in users when reddit went full corporate.

there’s a lot of overlap between lgbtq and left leaning views as well as left leaning views and foss enthusiasts.

hi. are you me? lol

I’m an Aussie in my early-mid 30s. I’ve been living in the USA for the past 11 years. I’ve been a software developer, mostly focusing on web development, since the late 90s personally and since the mid 2000s professionally.

so your birth year would be somewhere between 1987 to 1993; you started professional web development when you were 14 to 20 years old? you moved to the us somewhere between 20 and 26 years old?

i didn’t even start dating until i was 27 and my career at 26 while my first website was at 16 years old and i never truly left the country; you’re either very impressive or lucky af! i envy you! ;)

Until someone makes a decision that Israel are actually committing genocide (and in my opinion based on the evidence I’ve observed, this seems very likely)

what evidence are you referring to?

Linux user, still tweaking colors and theme options in their DE after 4 years: Let me finish setting up my device!

switch to gnome; customizations are intentionally buried because a huge majority of users don’t go very deep w with them.

What’s real interesting is TikTok’s refusal to sell, which tells me that they think they have a very solid court case.

they’re stuck between a rock & hard place and suing is the only path left open to them

the rock): the chinese government has laws similar to the united states that will block a sale of any algorithm to a foreign enemy.

the hard place): bytedance uses the same algorithm in all of their social media companies and american tiktok is a relatively small slice of their revenue pie so it doesn’t make business sense to give their secret recipe to a competitor

On the other hand, the legislation isn’t technically a ban, but a forced divestment of a corporate asset.

this reminds me of how democrats marketed don’t ask/don’t tell as a “compromise” when in reality military policy already mandated that any and all hints of “non-hetero-ness” on service members must be investigated and dishonorably discharged if they were discovered to be lgbt.

like don’t ask / don’t tell, the forced divestment is true, but it’s not the reason and the devil is hidden in the details.

in case you don’t already know: force divestment isn’t a real option because 1) the american government already knows that the chinese government block it and 2) bytedance uses the same algorithm across all of their social media companies so giving away the secret sauce to a competitor is a bad idea when tiktok in the united states makes a relatively small portion of bytedance’s revenue.

Maybe he just doesn’t have as much to lose as the rest of us…

i’ve lost my livelihood 3x because of biden’s anti-lgbt votes & anti-lgbt support; with #4 on the way; and will suffer more under trump as a non-white non-hetero non-christian; i still think macklemore is in the right here.

i agree and like @archomrade i too have been depressed at the large number of center-right users on a platform built by tankies for all leftists.

as a fellow reddit refugee i’ve been wondering if the reddit refugees were the reason for it and, now that someone else agrees, i know i’m part of the problem.

… every trans person, every immigrant … anyone who isn’t a white, cishet, Christian man is at risk of violence or death.

this rings so hollow because i lived as a target of biden’s votes & support of laws against lgbt people for decades and biden opportunistically switched sides LONG after public opinion changed and he is still literally imprisoning immigrants fleeing persecution like the person who i built a life with before he got deported also because of biden’s votes.

it sucked trying to make a life during that time and it’ll suck again under trump, but i’ll still be alive to try; which is much better than the people in gaza will get either way.

i’ve learned the hard way that the aftermarket makers have learned that planned obsolescence makes them more $$$ and going for similarly aged infotainment systems work longer than many of the new stuff

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