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Someone please convince me I'll be alright if Trump wins in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

There are no guarantees. Life is just like a hold em game. The only thing you can do is make good decisions based on the information available. Sometimes a dumbass with 2-7 off keeps calling your bet when you hold AA and catches two pair on the turn and river. The only thing you can do is not get tilted and keep making smart plays. Variance is a massive asshole. Eventually you will come out ahead.

Teary-eyed John Oliver begs reluctant voters to back Harris in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 19 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

What are you trying to accomplish by posting this stuff? What are you actually accomplishing by posting this stuff?

Teary-eyed John Oliver begs reluctant voters to back Harris in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 67 points 19 hours ago (38 children)

https://psychology-spot.com/basic-laws-of-human-stupidity/?origin=serp_auto

Doing anything else other than voting for Harris in this regard is firmly in the stupid category. Trump would be worse in this regard. You are not only hurting yourself but others as well.

Teary-eyed John Oliver begs reluctant voters to back Harris in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 43 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

What's even stupider is Trump would more than likely be worse in this regard.

US elections: European Greens call for Jill Stein to step down in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

must be a psyop agent from the "enemy".

You might be.

I'm pointing out the government is shit

Nobody is claiming it doesn't have problems. If you haven't been paying attention, there are things that non-MAGA wants to change about it.

Our government is the best in the world

As we constantly complain about citizens United, electoral college, first past the post elections, car dependant infrastructure, and the list goes on.

US elections: European Greens call for Jill Stein to step down in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Or a non-US psyop agent, or a GOP supporter

What could the reason possibly be? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 160 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Here's what I do. I have my kids injected with weakened or dead pathogens. Sometimes I can I can just have them injected with a molecule that looks like a pathogen.

carrot.py in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (3 children)

HR with an HP

Unpaid bills haunt Trump's Halloween rally in Albuquerque, leave campaign scrambling for venue in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 days ago (5 children)

455,000 is 0.0455% of 1,000,000,000. Not a big deal to someone with allegedly multiple billions.

I'm creeping up an a million net worth. That is like me trying to stiff someone for 455 dollars. An unexpected 455 dollar expense is a tiny bit annoying. This wasn't even an unexpected expense. This is like me stiffing the guy I paid to power wash my house and complaining he won't come back next time. The city should sue. 455k is worth the lawsuit in my opinion. Plus damages since the cost likely prevented the city from doing other important things.

This is bigly sad.

American house in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Sort of. Another way of thinking about it. Clips feed magazines, magazines feed guns.

https://www.fieldandstream.com/gear/clip-vs-magazine/?origin=serp_auto

American house in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (9 children)

clips.

Magazines. Magazines include a feeding mechanism, usually a spring. Clips just hold bullets together.

American house in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They all have mags in them. Hopefully they aren't chambered.

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The first car-free community built from scratch in the US is starting to take off: 'For some, cars equal freedom, but for me, it's a restriction' (www.thecooldown.com)
 

Also a huge number of people in the US travel to places that are walkable:

  • Disney World
  • Las Vegas (The strip is anyway)
  • DC
  • NYC
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Doomerism (lemmy.world)
 

I would like to address the doomers.

Just stop. All you are accomplished is dissuading people from trying. Even if we fail, some of us would rather go out feeling good about ourselves knowing that we actually tried. If we succeed, I want to be on the right side of history. If you want to drive a canyonero through a drive through to buy a double cheeseburger on your way to the airport to fly somewhere for a shopping trip: please keep it to yourself.

  • There is still hope
  • Most people want action. I can cite more than one source.
  • Things are starting to turn around. Not as fast as we need to, but we are seeing change
  • Some of us are parents and have a reason to fight with all we have
  • If things get bad, our kids will actually want to have a relationship with us if we cared enough to try
  • Many things that help are economically better on the micro and macro scales

Doomers are the fossil fuel industry's best friend-- even more than the deniers are. If enough people succumb to it, they don't even have to pay lip service to the problem. Doomerism means you can continue to pollute and not even try.

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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's administration is sending out tax rebates during election week (www.nbcnews.com)
 

Not a good look...

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Let's fight back! (lemmy.world)
 

We are racing down a mountain at full throttle. Our children are in the back seat. The speedometer is buried. The road curves sharply ahead. On the outside of the curve is a cliff with a 200 meter drop. On the other side is a vertical rock wall.

Here are some ideas I came up with to help push people into taking action. Sure we need systemic changes like ending car dependent cities and heavily reducing fossil fuel usage. Doing nothing is smashing through the guard rail and off the cliff. Doing one is slowing enough to MAYBE survive crashing into the mountain. Doing both is slowing down enough to navigate the curve.

There are some things we CAN do.

  1. Start spreading the word on social media for unofficial things like moo-less Monday. Don't eat beef on Mondays. Weather Wednesday, where you adjust or turn off your HVAC. This could be a whole other thread.

  2. Start getting louder and louder. Remember, we need to both act AND influence enough people for systemic changes.

  3. Consume less. Be as efficient with resources as possible. There tons of things you can do here that are minimal effort and barely noticeable.

  4. Political action. Vote. Run if you are able. Contact politicians at all levels. Talk with people about things that have benefits beyond just climate. E.g. transit reduces traffic.

  5. Stay strong. Don't succumb to doomerism.

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What happens if a US site just ignores the GDPR? (lemmy.world)
 

Forget all the stuff out there that says the GDPR protects EU citizens. This is a question of jurisdiction and enforcement. Say I run a blog under a business registered in the US funded by advertisers in the US. A EU citizen that comments on posts issues a GDPR request that I ignore. Their government fines me. I tell them to get bent, I am out of their jurisdiction. What can they do at that point?

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