Biden is too old, I refuse to vote for Genocide Joe!
Ok, but Harris is really the only choice this late in the race, and her policies are probably pretty similar. Would you really vote for her?
Yes! Anything is better than an old senile man!
Biden steps down.
1 month of silence.
Screeeee I refuse to vote for genocide!!!
Lemmy “leftist”: ULTIMATUM ULTIMATUM ULTIMATUM ULTIMATUM ULTIMATUM
Dems: ok fine, here.
Lemmy “leftist”: takes one step to the left ULTIMATUM 2.0 ULTIMATUM 2.0 ULTIMATUM 2.0 ULTIMATUM 2.0
Dems: ugh. Shut the fuck up.
Lemmy “leftists”: so much for the tolerant left
You give the media and social media propaganda machines too little credit. Maybe they aren’t directly tied to the official Trump campaign, but they’re funded and executed by the same organizations.
And in the same breath, they’ll say it’s the Dems fault for supporting genocide.
“Or votes wouldn’t have made a difference in the outcome, but Dems lost because they didn’t do the thing that would have supposedly gotten our vote”
Yep.
No, the difference is the extent of which they will enable genocide. And I’m not just taking about Gaza.
It’s a massive fucking difference.
I thought the Harris campaigns ads to encourage female voters in red counties was incredibly demeaning.
“What happens at the polls stays at the polls”
I’m male, but I cringed hard at those ads.
I wonder if the had good reception at focus groups or something. Maybe it really did play well, I don’t know. But it made it seems like women were too weak to own their opinions or vote.
Don’t worry, he’ll live comfortably with himself because all the bad things MAGA will do in the next 4 years and beyond will be the Dems fault. No self reflection or personal accountability will occur.
Eh. The local elections are pretty hard to find good information. Candidates and ballot measures.
It’s hard to even find any kind of real debate outside of their written statements, which seem extremely misleading.
Edit - but at least the vote tallying makes sense
Contrary to our stereotype, the vast majority of Americans don’t resort to gun violence or the threat of gun violence to get what they want.
The gravy seals you see on TV are just cos playing and would turn tail and run if they ever really had to put it all on the line. Or even if the local police simply didn’t enable them.
Except catering to these clowns doesn’t get you anywhere. They’re the same people that said they’d vote for any dem that’s not Biden. They got him to drop out, and have just moved the goalpost.
It’s the 11th hour. People are voting now. If you’re still armchair activist-ing to “hold Harris’ feet to the flame” to get results, you’re fooling yourself. All you’re achieving at this point is disenfranchising people into not voting or wasting their vote, which only serves to give Trump another term.
And I think you all know that. And is your goal.
Rofl. As a developer of nearly 20 years, lol.
I used copilot until finally getting fed up last week and turning it off. It was a net negative to my productivity.
Sure, when you’re doing repetitive operations that are mostly copy paste and changing names, it’s pretty decent. It can save dozens of seconds, maybe even a minute or two. That’s great and a welcome assist, even if I have to correct minor things around 50% of the time.
But when an error slips through and I end up spending 20 minutes tracking down the problem later, all that saved time vanishes.
And then the other times where my IDE is frozen because the plugin is stuck in some loop and eating every last resource and I spend the next 20 minutes cursing and killing processes, manually looking for recent updates that hadn’t yet triggered update notifications, etc… well, now we’re in the red, AND I’m pissed off.
So no, AI is not some huge boon to developer productivity. Maybe it’s more useful to junior developers in the short term, but I have definitely dealt with more than a few problems that seem to derive from juniors taking AI answers and not understanding the details enough to catch the problems it introduced. And if juniors frequently rely on AI without gaining deep understanding, we’re going to have worse and worse engineers as a result.
Never broken a toe, but both my long 2nd toes are curled. I have size 13s as an adult, and I remember outgrowing shoes frequently but still wearing them past when I should have because I hated shoe shopping. I think I basically bound m y feet out of laziness.
Wait, it’s bad for your back? Why?
My lower back problems started pretty young. Never would have thought my stupid long long toes would be related.
And then they blow up the conversation like you’re crazy.
“… I don’t care what they do”
“But whatabout blah blah blah”
“Yeah, whatever. Why is this even an issue to you? How many Trans people are in your life. Your life. Personally.”
“That’s not the point!”
“I think it is.”
Even if you’re in a solidly blue state, don’t fuck around with your vote.
You fuck around, and we all find out.
If you’re that dialed in to the railroad strike this long after the fact, you are absolutely aware that Biden helped get the unions their biggest demands shortly after ending the strike.
Get your bad faith soundbite bullshit out of here.
People are already early voting. If you’re goal is to ratchet up the protests to get a change from the Dems, it’s too late.
Now all your doing is encouraging people to waste their vote in protest.
Or in other words, you’re campaigning for Trump.
It’s almost like the frequent commenters in lemmy advocating against either real candidate, or more specifically, against Dems, have ulterior motive besides helping as many Gazians as they can.
Almost like their arguments are in bad faith to achieve a particular political result.
Go figure.
Eh. Honestly, the line of “questions” was rather stupid.
“Why aren’t you lobbying to make your business irrelevant” is essentially what the interviewer pushed aggressively.
Sure, I get calling out a CEO for deflecting tough questions with corporate BS. But it was a pretty dumb line of questioning in the first place.
Why isn’t Google lobbying for privacy protections?
Why isn’t Comcast lobbying for net neutrality?
Just make your statement and ask for comment. “Our listeners consider Intuits lobbying against tax reform that would benefit tax payers to be adversarial to their customers. What would you say to them?”
He seems to represent McConnell, who certainly seemed surprised about the dictator thing. His bitch ass still fell in line, though. Even if he does quietly complain occasionally.