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  • Does anyone else feel like tech peaked around 10+ years ago?

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  • Yes you are correct, it's worse now. At first it was creative, innovative products that made things more convenient or fun, or at least didn't harm its users. Now all the new things are made by immature egotistical billionaire techbros: generative AI which has ruined the internet by polluting it with so much shit you can't get real information any more, not to mention using up all our power and water resources, the enshittification of Web 2.0, Web 3.0 that was pure shit from the get-go, IOT "smart" appliances like TVs, doorbells, thermostats, refrigerators that spy on you and your neighbors, shit "self-driving" killer cars that shouldn't be allowed on the roads, whatever the hell that new VR Metaverse shit is, ads, ads, ads, ads, and on and on. It's a tech dystopia.

  • Microsoft tries to convince Windows 10 users to buy a new PC with full-screen prompts

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  • I can only hope that nothing ever happens to where I'd have to use Windows again. (been using only linux for over 10 years and the latest Windows I ever used was win 7 at work).

    If that happened, the shock of all the last 10-15 years' accumulation of enshittification hitting me at once might give me a stroke. The boiling frogs of today have gotten used to their OS serving them ads and spying on them by now, but I wouldn't be able to deal with it.

  • A petition has been created by an Austrian EU rep. to replace Windows with GNU/Linux in all Europe

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  • I've always said governments and public institutions funded by taxpayers should use FLOSS and not be beholden to private companies. Any shortcomings or unfulfilled needs in Linux and FLOSS software would quickly be dealt with once large organizations like these started using it as the default, since they could easily fund whatever features or fixes are needed for significantly less money than they pay for proprietary software (especially now that these days they're forking over annual subscriptions), and thus they'd also have much more control over the making sure the software meets their needs.

    It seems like a no-brainer to me. Maybe it wasn't in the earlier days of Linux but not for the last decade or so.

  • Forget Matt Gaetz. Merrick Garland Is America’s Worst Attorney General.

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  • He authorized Ukraine to use US missiles to strike inside Russia. Waited too long, but at least he did it. UK has followed suit. So remember, just because the media likes to show the things like going to the rainforest because they have video of it, doesn't mean he's not still doing stuff.

    I've read that they've been doing a lot since well before the election to protect or shore up what things they can to make it harder for Trump to do some of his dictator stuff. Some things they've worked on since he first took office. Unfortunately, there's not a whole lot that Biden can do on his own that Trump can't just turn around and undo. But they're trying to make it as difficult for him as they can bureaucratically.

    As far as rallying a resistance, nope, he's apparently not willing or able to do anything like that. He greeted Trump like everything was normal, which I found pretty irritating. It's up to the people. I hope we can find someone charismatic to lead a movement. Charisma seems to be the most important or maybe even the only thing that matters these days.

  • Forget Matt Gaetz. Merrick Garland Is America’s Worst Attorney General.

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  • Garland was the biggest mistake Biden made.

  • Anon questions our energy sector

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  • Just because burning fossil fuels is bad doesn't magically make nuclear good, or somehow no big deal. The chance for a catastrophic accident mentioned in the meme is only one drawback (which is bad enough--get real, denial is not a strategy here). Just a few other issues:

    • the problem of what to do with the waste: no permanent solutions have yet been implemented and we've been using costly-to-maintain "temporary" methods for decades. Not to mention the thermal water pollution to aquatic ecosystems
    • the enormously out of proportion up front costs to construct the plants, and higher ongoing operation and maintenance costs due to safety risks in proportion to amount of power generated
    • the fact that uranium is also a limited resource that has to be mined like other ores, with all the environmental negatives of that, which then has to go through a lot of processing involving various mechanics and chemicals just to make it usable as fuel.

    Anyway I'm not going to try and go into more detail on a forum post, but all this advocacy for a very problematic method of producing power as if it's a simple solution to our problems is kind of irritating. At least I hope the above shows we should stop pretending it's "clean energy". We should be focusing on developing renewable and sustainable energy systems.

  • Trump Makes Chilling Joke About Staying in Power Forever

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  • nope, it's the usual European smug superiority complex I see all over Lemmy, as if they don't have the same problems there (not to mention have had in the past). They can enjoy gloating until the same thing happens in their country, which won't be long.

  • Trump Makes Chilling Joke About Staying in Power Forever

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  • You deserve what’s coming.

    You're talking to the people who tried to stop him, so fuck off.

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    Republicans "stunned and disgusted" as Trump taps Matt Gaetz for AG

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  • Thune (just chosen as the new Senate majority leader) has already agreed to recess the Senate so that Trump could appoint whoever he wants without going through the confirmation process by using the recess appointment process. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recess_appointment

  • Trump Makes Chilling Joke About Staying in Power Forever

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  • Wow, already in the first week. Expect to hear this joke periodically over the course of his term, each time getting slightly more seriously stated. By the third year, everyone will have heard it so much it'll be accepted as a perfectly reasonable idea. And the media will help that along in how they report on it. This is the tried and true playbook and it will work, not only for this plan but for their other plans.

    Take for example the planned mass deportations. They'll start out with finding some people who have committed crimes (or they claim have), deport them and no one will object to that, it's already how it's done. As they move on to those whose crimes are not very consequential, like traffic tickets or whatever, if libs say anything against it, they'll pounce on it and amplify stories how the libs are overreacting and want criminals to be left free and have open borders. Harping on any criticism in cases that are technically justified is key to getting the public used to pooh-poohing any dissent as they start escalating and going after the law-abiding (other than being here illegally ofc) immigrants, families with mixed status members, DACA/Dreamers, parents of children born here and thus citizens and deporting the children with them, etc.

  • Republicans projected to win House majority, securing GOP trifecta

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  • When they talk about a "trifecta" in this context it means the presidency, the Senate and the House. That applies to both the national and State governments.

  • Republicans projected to win House majority, securing GOP trifecta

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  • It's for the best at this point, they own everything and everything that happens is on them and no one but them. trump can't say, "oh the House is why I haven't been able to do this or that thing I said I would do."

  • Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is Trump's pick for director of national intelligence

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  • A Russian asset in charge of every department, what could possibly go wrong?

    (answer: everything. every fucking thing.)

  • Trump picks Matt Gaetz for attorney general

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  • What a fucking clown show.

  • Trump Draft Executive Order Would Create Board to Purge Generals | Panel could upend military review process and raise concerns about politicization of military

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  • Why not both? He prevents a coup against him and orders a coup to stay in power after his term runs out.

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  • I have a pre-touchscreen era (for its model anyway) 2012 car. I'm hoping by the time I have to get a new car this touchscreen fad will have come and gone. How are you supposed to use those things in the winter when you have gloves on?

  • No sex. No dating. No marriage. No children. Interest grows in 4B movement to swear off men

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  • The American women are getting some inspiration for this idea from South Korea, but that doesn't mean what happens here will be like what's happening there. The cultures are quite different. I'd say wait and see what actually happens with this in the US, if anything even does, before getting overly worried about it.

  • No sex. No dating. No marriage. No children. Interest grows in 4B movement to swear off men

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  • This is exactly correct. Hey guys, while typing all these (dare I call them "hysterical"?) comments freaking out that the number of possible sex partners might be lower than before, could you take a moment to stop and actually consider what WoodScientist is saying?

    Getting pregnant and having a baby when you aren't ready for it completely changes the lives and limits future possibilities for both the father and mother, and much more so for the mother who 99% of the time is the main caregiver. It's the woman who has the greatest risk by far.

    Besides the risk to a woman socially and career-wise if she gets pregnant, it's dangerous. There's a chance of dying or permanent health consequences from it, physical and mental. And remember that healthcare will be worse too because they'll be repealing the ACA and/or removing a lot of the protections the ACA provides, like requiring insurance companies to cover maternity and any complications. Many Clinics that used to be there to provide low-income women with maternal healthcare, abortion services, cancer screenings, birth control, etc. have already been shut down in red states that have banned abortion.

    So a lot fewer women will even have health insurance and it won't cover as much. Plus the odds of getting pregnant will be higher since access to contraception will be more restricted (not covered by insurance and possibly even banned entirely).

    So this about more than just your fear of maybe getting less sex. Your biggest possible risk is financial, if you get held responsible for child support. Risks to women are a hell of a lot higher. They gotta do what they gotta do so.

  • No sex. No dating. No marriage. No children. Interest grows in 4B movement to swear off men

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  • Women trying to protect themselves against misogyny =/= misandry. Calling it misandry is the same principle as when the ruling class opposes equal rights for others by calling it oppression against them.

    Women having autonomy over their bodies means they can choose whether to have sex or not. Period. For you to call that choice punishment against you is to say that you have some kind of right to or power over their bodies. I'm already seeing this "your body, my choice" shit going around now that trump won, and it's disgusting and horrifying.