“But both parties are the same”, they say. “There’s no point to voting or supporting Democrats because they will never try to change the status quo.”

The key is to organize at the local level. Get into politics and either change your state’s party from within, or failing that, challenge them from another party like the DSA, which has made strides across the US.

Tesla stock is up because the board has quietly indicated that they are searching for someone to replace Musk

It ended when Reagan was elected

Word you’re looking for is rimshot

Mostly to be more efficient and save water, though I couldn’t fathom how that would work with a toilet. Perhaps it’s part of a system to monitor your water usage to help you reduce your use? Maybe the app suggests to let it mellow when it’s yellow?

Yeah I think the meaning of the above comment boils down to “If it doesn’t have a simple fallback, it can’t be trusted”.

Most people I know are either organizing to build community resistance or cowering in their homes.

Polling data shows Trump has a roughly 40% approval rating, which is extremely low for a recently-elected president.

The kind of people who respond to polls and the kind of people who have jobs and lives have little overlap, so you know, the polls are kind of not representative of what people feel.

I think a lot of people are expecting the courts to come down on him and stop the worst of it, because they just can’t bear to face the truth.

Hello Jazzy, it’s nice to see you here. Hopefully your GNOME issue gets sorted quickly!

Is it tech

I bet it’s tech isn’t it

This is just survivorship bias. Nobody remembers the bad movies from the 80s but there sure were a lot of them. Think of all the movies you pass by in the thrift store. They’re trash. We still get good movies today. Think of Everything Everywhere All At Once, or Oppenheimer, as examples that will define this era in film.

This is standard anti democratic behavior from neoliberals. What did you expect?

Source: made up

Literally none of this is true lmao

Something something Linux something something Windows bad something something proprietary

If you have terabytes of data in iCloud, use their mail, contacts, photos, everything? Plus decades of purchased content, expensive devices losing functionality by dropping the iPhone… you have to basically replace everything with something else and it’s tedious especially for a less techy person. This is the reason walled gardens are anti consumer.

I think for most privacy nuts it comes down to “I don’t trust them and it’s closed source. They could be hiding anything in that code.”

And then there’s the people who can’t afford or won’t spend the money it takes to have an enjoyable Apple experience. It genuinely costs multiple thousands of dollars to get into the Apple ecosystem and then it’s massively painful to get out. It’s basically just “corporation bad” because corporations are bad. The only way to be truly private is to not carry a phone at all and use only FOSS solutions.

Oh good. 6.1 seems to fix the only bugs that have personally bothered me. I’m stoked!

Wow! Opinion pieces! It’s not like every newspaper for the past 50 years has had these!

Ehhhh my friends told me they prefer indigenous or native. To many, “Indian” is a slur.

This was about as predictable as hurricanes in Florida

Oh cool. Racism from a racist. Lovely.