Again, political polling is notoriously meaningless outside of exit polling.

This election the media is doing the same thing they do to make our bullshit exploitative economy seem like it’s healthy. They focus on measures that mean fuck all as if they were representative of something significant.

It’s smoke and mirrors.

Want to make sure we don’t get a fascist? Get poor people to vote. If the poor turn out to the polls, we can literally flip every single state.

Trying to talk the DNC into an absolutely bonkers gamble will not win the election. Mobilizing voters will

Planescape: Torment is extremely replayable. I’ve been playing it every few years since I got a copy in I think like the early 2000s. It may be that this has something to do with having gotten to play it a little bit in the 90s but not having gotten to play the whole thing. There was a lot of anticipation there.

But I don’t think it’s just that. It’s incredibly responsive to choice, and it’s one of the first games I can recall with things like faction reputations and alignments. There’s a lot there to dig through, and even once you have, it’s always cool to wander around Sigil. It feels very alive.

The other one I end up replaying over and over is Shadowrun for SNES. That’s not so much infinitely repayable though as just a really great game that I’m happy to run through.

So eggs are a high source of PFAS, but they’re also one of the healthiest things I can eat.

You know, I’m just gonna eat what tastes good.

You know what they say: fives have lives, fours have chores, threes have fleas, twos have blues, and ones don’t get a rhyme because they’re garbage!

If you read the article, they’re raising the concern that we might have the technology to destroy a potential Martian ecosystem before we have the technology to detect it. The question isn’t what we currently are aware of, it’s whether we might be losing a one-of-a-kind resource that we’re completely unaware of.

If there’s life on Mars of any kind, that’s extremely profound. It would give us a chance to study life on another planet and compare it to our own. It may be that there’s no ecosystem on Mars, but it’s probably worth it to make absolutely sure that that’s the case before we go destroying what might be there.

It may be that we won’t have the opportunity to screw Mars up for decades, or centuries. But it’d probably be a good thing if we’d give it some serious thought as a species first.

Eggs and coffee? Guess I’m gonna be building my cells out of PFAS.

Birdo is even trans!

What an incredibly misleading article. ABC asked a leading question about what happens if he loses, then Axios misquoted him. Watch the video. There’s nothing ‘at peace with losing’ about his words or his attitude.

This is a low-effort hit piece. Absolutely pathetic yellow journalism.

Biden is absolutely right that the press has been wrong about everything, and they still are. Polling is not an accurate measure of presidential races outside of exit polling. Debates are a media circus and do not determine elections, and it would be absolute madness to abandon an incumbent.

It’s increasingly clear that the press wants a second Trump presidency. Thankfully, they are far less relevant and far less competent than they’d like to believe.

Ironically, the current members of the supreme court do seem to have given the white house the power to execute and replace them with no repercussions.

🤷‍♀️

I suppose in reality the repercussions would more likely look like a complete upending of the legal system. Honestly, that’s probably inevitable in one way or another at this point.

Yeah. We probably should.

Changing our behaviors isn’t a binary, though. It takes effort. Sometimes it takes changing the world around us first to accommodate new behaviors, or waiting for the right opportunity. And given all the other things we should also be changing, prioritizing matters.

Finding a Lemmy alternative is somewhere on that list. Is it anywhere remotely near the top? No. There are a great many other things to do. It’s probably closer to the top of alyzaya or Chris’s lists than mine; close enough, it seems, to be carried out even.

But it isn’t about trying to figure out who’s a shit and point fingers at them while loudly demonstrating non-shit behaviors. If we actually want to make the world better, we need to figure out how to work together rather than just glue everything in place.

People are so defensive about being wrong. And why wouldn’t they be? Whether you look at how things are set up in school or the cruelty and corruption of the prison system, or the poverty-reinforcing measures set about in our banking and credit rating systems, the elements that we need to grow past push this tendency to categorize people and sort of socially compartmentalize their various experiences.

End up in the right categories and you don’t really have to worry. Companies will throw free cellphones at you just for breathing. End up in the wrong categories, and you’re going to have to struggle against a system that’s built to keep you from getting back up.

We can spend eternity playing with the categories, moving around between them or building or diminishing their relative social power. We can change the criteria that we categorize people by, or try to keep them the same. But in the end we’re not really going to make much forward progress until we let go of thinking we know the potential of every human being at a glance. We don’t.

What we can do though is be patient, speak our minds honestly, set boundaries, allow others their own autonomy, and try to help ourselves and other humans open up and grow rather than close off and shrink.

In any case, the world is complex. It’s silly to try to boil it down into absolutist binaries. It’s also probably really bad for your cortisol levels.

I interpret this as a sarcastic dig at the politicians who can’t figure this out struggling to rub the two neurons in their brain together. Elise definitely isn’t transphobic.

I personally left and haven’t looked back.

I don’t like the idea of blocking a Beehaw community, especially one I actually use, but honestly I might do the same if it keeps up. It’s a bummer.

People talk about forking open source projects as if you just push a button and it happens on its own. I mean, okay, that’s the first step, but maintaining an repo is a whole thing. Saying ‘well just fork it then’ is only a viable solution if you have the the means, the time, and the inclination. It isn’t really an exclusive alternative to criticism, but another, much narrower, potential additional path.

It would certainly be good if people would fork all the useful projects made by devs who are interested in promoting social conservatism masquerading as ‘apolitical actions’ that attempt to reinforce the existing status quo of power. I’m not sure how likely it is, though. Certainly less so than bringing criticism to the table.

I’m not intentionally mischaracterizing anyone, or for that matter unintentionally mischaracterizing them.

My takeaway from reading the post and looking at their comments on Github is that the developers have a disdain for women, a disdain for trans folks, and a disdain for anyone who doesn’t look like them. They do not want to have to think about anyone else at all, and they make it very clear.

I don’t know what to tell you other than go read it yourself. If you don’t come to the same conclusions, we’re probably very different people who see the world very differently.

Personally, when I see the kinds of responses yourself and others have made to that topic of discussion, it feels to me like you haven’t actually done any of the reading.

Nothing about being a non-native English speaker requires you to stubbornly continue to use specific language. I have many non-native English speaking friends. Generally they actually want to know how their words are being taken, and will make corrections to be sure they’re not saying the wrong thing.

You know, like, as one does when learning another language. I’m not going to insist on using English grammar rules while speaking Spanish and then just tell all the Spanish speakers to stop being so political at me when they correct me. That’s nonsense.

Absolutely this. Twitter-level toxicity coming out in this thread from outside instances is already a bad indicator of the kind of communities that are peripheral to open source.

I mean, the whole point is kind of that the problem is getting defensive rather than making a change.

That’s the root of a lot of these problems. People are intimidated by ‘wokeness’ because they think that caring about how they affect other people means that if they have the wrong idea they’re irredeemable. Clearly that isn’t compatible with continuing to feel alright about themselves, so they become defensive and double down. But the reality is, if they’d just like, quit it with the callousness and cruelty they’d be eliminating the problem to begin with.

Lack of acknowledgement of there being an issue becomes the primary motivator for making the issue worse.

It’s like becoming a hoarder because you’re too embarrassed to acknowledge what a mess your house is to clean it. Rather than pick the trash up off the floor, they shout about how clean their house really is and how deluded we all are for talking about the smell.

Y’all just don’t even bother moving your eyes over the text before you post, do you?

It’s almost like the philosophy behind a software matters to its long-term stability. Like, as if devs might find reasons to, I don’t know, reject PRs, ignore bugs, and trash their users when they come to them for help.

Weird that the content of someone’s mind might affect their actions or be an indicator of what level of trust they should be extended!