brianary @ brianary @startrek.website Posts 0Comments 103Joined 2 yr. ago
I was mostly being facetious. I haven't tried it in decades, but I'm pretty happy with Cosmos.
🎤 Tap, tap, is this thing on? Posting again, even though this joke is probably only for me.
Presumably, this is F W DeMorgan's Law.
KDE: With too much power comes too much responsibility. 😉
Zero that axis, please.
I didn't even know they had GPS that long ago.
Bruce Schneier has been saying for something like 25 years that technological advances always favor attackers over defenders.
What does "too" salty mean? Is that even possible?
The NexDock works, too.
Please, no. We don't need more myopia from politicians.
Do they mean "buying" instead of "owning"?
Adding seats to the court needs to happen, as well as reapportioning representatives, and giving electoral votes to DC and the territories. We need to find politicians that aren't afraid to do it.
That's an important issue, but if Democrats ever see power again, it'll be important to focus on re-enfranchisement (RCV, instant runoff, or anything fairer than FPTP; NPVIC; national mail voting; mandatory voting), on judicial reform to undo the corruption and incompetence that has been packed there. Without those, keeping any gains will be impossible.
Then, triaging existential threats is critical, which will mean fighting climate change, investing in public transport (trains), and breaking up trusts will have to be pursued simultaneously. Stopping any support for genocide needs to happen as soon as possible.
There will be plenty more structural changes to fix beyond that: Protecting whistleblowers and protesters, improving FOIA, replacing norms with laws (Emoluments Clause enforcement, financial records disclosure, no insider trading for Congressmembers, &c), and all manner of civil rights protections and police reform.
After all that, it'll be time for the stuff I've been hoping for: nationalizing healthcare and Internet access, and copyright reform.
Democrats aren't authoritarians. It's a bad comparison. Democrats are always fragmented, it's virtually a defining characteristic. Post-Biden unity has been quite unusual.
The fixation is because there is no clear line of succession. If he fails, who steps in? They'll splinter and fragment. They'll still be deplorable, but less effective when not united behind a single authoritarian leader.
None were leftist, and only one got as far as violence.
When did they last get their way via shutdown? Usually it costs Republicans politically.
His communications director who?