grilledcheesecowboy

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

You're right, I'm voting for Trump now because of the Biden genocide. If he didn't want to lose the election he shouldn't have supported Israel or tried to close the border. I honestly don't even care what happens to Palestinians under Trump, Biden should have thought about that before hand.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago

I used to think this line of thinking was dangerous and was going to help Trump win reelection. But I think you're right, we can't let the threat of a Republican being elected coerce into supporting a genocide.

The only clear answer is to teach the Democrats they need to hear and listen to us and champion our policies. The only way I can see to do that is to throw my support entirely behind Donald Trump and other Republican candidates up and down the ballot.

Maybe once only right wing candidates are winning the Democrats will learn that the only way to power is to run extremely left wing candidates and we'll finally see some progress.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh shit, Biden is trying to give more bombs to China and Russia?

Yes, those are his only policies and that's all that matters. Moa is clearly the centrist candidate you would support.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I don’t think Biden is paving the way for anything but more Center-Right presidents like Biden. He’s not pushing us Left. He’s not enabling that. He’s actually pushing us to the Right.

Oh, you're an uninformed bad faith actor. I'm glad I saw this before I took anything you said seriously.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (14 children)

Congratulations, by not voting for Biden none of your politics are being represented and you're helping Trump get elected.

As a bonus, by helping Trump get elected you'll be actively aiding and abetting whatever Trump decides to do, which I'm sure will be great for the people in Gaza.

But you're not crossing your line in the sand so I'm sure you'll sleep well at night knowing you stuck to your guns.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I've had pretty good luck running llamafile on my laptop. The speeds aren't super fast, and I can only use the models that are Mistral 7B and smaller, but the results are good enough for casual use and general R and Python code.

Edit: my laptop doesn't have a dedicated GPU, and I don't think llamafile has support for Intel GPUs yet. CPU inference is still pretty quick.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The paid proton accounts let you use several custom domains, although I'm not sure if you can combine custom domains with email aliases. For random sites the email alias with the stand @proton.me would probably suit your needs.

After about 3 years of use I've been very happy with proton's spam filtering.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

My friends and I all use Simplex and have been very happy. There's an annoying feature where messages in group chats are sometimes delivered out of order, but it's easy enough to live with.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So it takes you 15 minutes to put water in tank, put grounds and filter into the coffee pot, and brew it? And you can't do anything else productive with your time while the coffee is brewing like take a shower, login to work a few minutes early and read and answer emails, brush your teeth, do some dishes, take out the trash, walk your dog, or anything?

And your work doesn't allow you to get up out of your chair for the 30 seconds it would take you to walk from your computer to coffee pot and fill your cup and walk back? Or even better, bring the entire carafe back to your desk with you? Are you working for the FSB and they have surveillance cameras in your house or something?

It really sounds like you're trying your absolute hardest to turn making coffee into such an onerous chore that it negates all the other benefits of not having to schlep to an office.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

My personal theory is that a lot of advocacy for working in-person goes away when you remove:

  1. People that financially benefit from office culture (office land lords, restaurants near office buildings, janitorial services, etc.)
  2. Social vampires that view the office as the best place to gossip and share their boring personal lives with a captive audience
  3. Managers and executives with poor leadership skills and low self esteem
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