I’m asking how one thing leads to the other or what your end goal expectations are. I didn’t ask those questions when I did what you did and feel kind of dumb now. Wanted to spare you that.

What I’ve learned is that if your action doesn’t convince those already convinced of the opposite then it’s a wasted effort unless you’re building a tribe that feels superior to the other. Tribes are a bad way to go about politics.

Once protest is very visible, what happens then?

If you’re okay with consequences that I described (it happened in multiple places already but maybe there’s American exceptionalism at play), or are just a liberal and like what liberals have been doing then you’re probably getting everything you need out of those marches. That’s fine but then the point of this post seems to be communicating how much of a cool guy/gal you are and that’s just vanity and not real action.

I don’t have answers you’re looking for. Christian fundamentalists refined their playbook to perfection in Europe by now. We’re so fucked that I became an accelerationist. Liberals seem unable to learn anything and keep banging their heads because they won’t do anything that would upset business. Going to those marches is just further enabling them. Maybe you’ll get further if you skip futile steps.

Don’t need to know how to swim to tell someone’s drowning.

I’d rather have people learn from failures of the others rather than repeat them.

Yeah, up to a certain point in time when autocrats realised that they don’t have to do shit and wait them out.

To me they’re a way of increasing public pressure on the opposition party to get its act together, because ultimately it will either take politicians who can build and implement effective strategies to head off the decent into authoritarianism, or it will take violent revolution should that fail.

I’m not sure how one leads to the other. Are you going to vote for a third party? No, because you think it’s a lost vote. You have no leverage and Democrats will just adopt whatever is popular with people and that’s a taste for easy solutions and revenge. I think marching is feeding helplessness because ultimately you’ll see it doesn’t do anything and by the time you realise you’re wasting energy it’s already too late. Speaking from experience of a country that doesn’t even have a two-party system but the guard rails of this process are impressively precise in outcomes.

I’m at the step where I break law frequently for safety of my surrounding but turns out nobody else wants change using bricks and bottles as long as they have 9-5 and TV in the afternoon.

Sorry to be a party pooper but I’m from a country that went through multiple stages of this already. I say this because I care.

Peaceful protest don’t do much. For them to work your opponent would need to have conscience or to be able to feel shame (your opponent is not Trump voters btw). Trump will inevitably be voted out because he’s just incompetent at running a country. You should be planning for what happens next (competent autocrat like Orban) and what you are doing now is just showing politicians of every side that they can consolidate power by doing those desperate marches. In a couple of years it will be a picnic for the most hardcore, being called whenever whenever a party leader needs to reconfirm their leadership position. Once that ends giving people a kick they’ll vote for actual bad guys because underlying issues that led people to vote for Trump (which is not that they hate gays or immigrants, that’s just a byproduct) won’t change because of marching.

Your biggest worry with something that’s connected to the internet are security updates and in general nobody will support a product indefinitely so can’t really buy anything for life. Your best bet would be a router that supports open firmware like OpenWrt.

Good for them, politics has no place in…

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…in politics?

That’s what happens when the government works only for the wealthy. KO is more guilty of losing than PiS is guilty of winning. With how they’ve been doing I’m thinking they might have lost on purpose, otherwise their excuses so far would stop working.

Nothing changed compared to yesterday, no need to panic.

I thought I’d be using Polars more but in the end, professionally, when I have to process large amounts of data I won’t be doing that on my computer but on a Hadoop cluster via PySpark which also has a very non-pythonic syntax. For smaller stuff Pandas is just more convenient.

Redlib does that but it’s a game of cat and mouse these days. Facebook fought off web scrapers and while Reddit is much less technically competent they’ll get there too eventually.

I assume those who were interested enough could whip out a script to do that easily until Reddit disabled API which is the moment I lost interest in the platform. I don’t know how people do it these days without getting accounts suspended for automated traffic but it’s something you have to consider and probably the reasons why such tools are not available widely.

Reddit won’t show you that your comment was removed by a mod and shows removed comments on user profiles (unless they had to be nuked for legal reasons). If you suspect you’re shadow banned or if your comment was quietly removed you have to check for that from a separate account in that comment thread directly.

THE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW THAT NINTENDO IS WORSE THAN IF POL POT AND MING THE MERCILESS STARTED A KISS TRIBUTE BAND WITH POL POT PLAYING THE SAXOPHONE.

Forums with admission fee make a sense to people discussing there. If you’re just observing then of course there’s no reason to pay but you need to wonder what was the reason you loved browsing that site.

This is something real to get angry over, for people looking for reasons, you’re welcome ;)

GamePass Ultimate and PlayStation Plus Extra too, starting tomorrow. I try not to get hyped but people hyping this have not let me down yet.

I’m the same, which sucks because I want to play Hades 2 badly. I think it’s safe to say it should be pretty polished by 1.0, that’s the point of early access when done right.