LesserAbe

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[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Right, there's also a constitutional amendment saying insurrectionists can't stand for office

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Well I don't really expect someone in prison to win, but I don't believe there's any law about the location where the president gets sworn in. If a majority of voters chose that person, they could get sworn in in jail, immediately pardon themselves and off they go.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Eugene Debs, the must successful American socialist candidate for president, was at one point running for office while in prison. Of course he lost so I can't imagine it helped

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

I hear you that it's tiring and intimidating dealing with fascists. That said I don't think it's factual to say they only need to win once, and believing so creates a strategic disadvantage.

Factually, world war 2 is the classic example of fascists needing to win continually and being unable to do it. The Nazis had a good showing in an election, Hitler was made chancellor and then they used that foot in the door to take over the government and seize many countries. But they lost in the end, and that was a result of resistance, not just militarily but the sum of every individual act of opposition.

There's a concept of anticipatory obedience. Corporations and local governments sometimes fell over themselves to do what they thought the fascist government would ask before the actual ask. Even if Trump seized power, that wouldn't be the end. They need us to cooperate. And by resisting in a concrete way (not just #resist posting of course) we will stop fascism.

It's never over. Fascism is destined to lose. It's a question of how much suffering and injustice can we avoid by defeating it sooner.

And believing like they want us to believe, that it's all over, is a strategic disadvantage. If we believe we're beaten or that victory is impossible we'll act that way. Believe that we can win, and spread that belief, and we'll act that way.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

He's an inspiration.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 71 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She said to vote straight Dem ticket while at a really meant to bring out support for Harris. This article is intended to sow division instead of report in an accurate context.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think it would have helped for the person who posted that to include context, but I would guess they were linking because it also talks about how Kagi isn't privacy focused.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The linked post goes into detail about why the author views Kagi as not privacy oriented, and that in the author's opinion Kagi is overly focused on AI. (And was originally started as an AI company)

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not familiar with all his policies, but he's been good on gerrymandering which is my pet issue, and which I think is key to making progress on pretty much every other issue.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd say it's been over a decade since I've had an issue where windows task manager didn't work. Maybe I'm not using exciting enough programs.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Is there some Linux equivalent to "ctrl + alt + del?" I get that killing a process from the terminal is preferred, but one of the few things I like about windows is if the GUI freezes up, I can pretty much always kill the process by pressing ctrl+alt+del and finding it in task manager. Using Linux if I don't already have the terminal open there are plenty of times I'm just force restarting the computer because I don't know what else to do.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I didn't come up with the advice, just relating what I've read a few times. So maybe that's not representative of the current advice.

That said, moving downhill isn't really random. Gravity is a universal rule, and water moves downhill. Humans for our entire existence have needed water for survival, and eventually for agriculture. So we tend to gather around it.

I've also read if you're lost advice to stay where you are, but that's in a scenario where you expect people to know where you are and to come looking for you. Probably a tough call to make in this case, plus the guy had his dog with him.

Specifics of this situation aside, I don't think 20 miles is that hard of a push. I'd expect to be able to do that in a day or two.

 

In the US most students recite "the pledge of allegiance" every morning before school, which is kind of crazy. If you were in charge, what if anything would you replace it with?

 

I just saw a discussion among corporate event planners where one person was upset that event organizers don't give proper consideration to scheduling over top of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.

I can appreciate the annoyance, when I was still a practicing Christian I would never think to schedule a work thing over Easter or Christmas. We should treat others with consideration, and should be mindful of what others view as important days. But I also don't know what each religion considers to be major, non negotiable holidays. Do you?

Another question, does it matter where the event is? (for example, in the US should less consideration be given to holidays of religions that have fewer adherents?)

 

I know people can wear two video cameras to recreate a first person experience in virtual reality. I also know they make those mannequin head stereo mic sets that create interesting spacial audio, supposedly because they mimic the head's shape and position of our ears.

Instead of the dummy head, does anyone make a mic set that you can wear, with the mics in approximately the position of our ears / ear shaped?

I was thinking you could do some interesting things with that, like recording a band in their practice space from the perspective of the band members. Or tracking lead vocals where the singer is singing to a person wearing the mic set.

 

Some animals sing (birds, whales) and plenty of animals make sounds together at roughly the same time (wolves howling, prairie dogs yelling at threats). Are there animals that harmonize? Or animals that make sound that's rhythmically coordinated, like has a time signature?

Guess I'm asking about more finely coordinated sounds. It's something that's pretty neat about human music.

 

No, not talking about their own shit or vomit, har de har. I mean how dogs can't have chocolate, can't eat grapes. Are there things it's no big deal for them but would be toxic for us.

 

Prompted by another thread about conscription in Ukraine.

 

I wasn't aware just how good the news is on the green energy front until reading this. We still have a tough road in the short/medium term, but we are more or less irreversibly headed in the right direction.

 

Man, fuck this guy

 

My default buying process is research + spreadsheet creation, this time thought I'd ask the community here if you have any experience / wisdom with garage door openers. Thanks for any help!

Additional info: Single car garage built in the 1950s in the U.S. The current opener is a lift master, just eyeballing it probably from the 90s. The door could be original? I don't know. It's wood, seems fairly substantial.

Yesterday and this morning started having issues with the door just stopping in the middle of opening or closing. When it stops, the remote button becomes unresponsive for a few seconds. When it starts moving again it goes the other direction so you have to keep pressing and try to get it to close/open before it stops again. This morning I ended up pulling it down part of the way because I'd gone through several rounds of up, down, up, down. It doesn't seem to want to move manually which isn't surprising. Worried my car is going to get stuck in there before work so I figure should probably be proactive here.

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"...These kinds of private conferences, where business and cultural leaders interview one another free from the pesky, prying grasp of the press or public, are becoming increasingly common."

 

Amazing and horrific footage. Definitely not easy to watch, but worth seeing.

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