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orclev

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  • Bernie Sanders blames election loss on Kamala Harris choosing billionaires over the working class

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  • Not to mention their perpetual blackballing of anyone actually progressive in the party. The neoliberal arm of the DNC has done nearly as much damage to this country as the Republicans have.

  • Bernie Sanders blames election loss on Kamala Harris choosing billionaires over the working class

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  • Sure but to his point you and everyone else on here are in the minority. About 1/3rd vote Democrat consistently, and about 1/3rd vote Republican consistently. The remaining 3rd are the ones that flip flop between elections and unfortunately they're the ones that actually determine the outcome (although in reality it's more like 1/4th in each category with a final 4th that just doesn't vote). Lastly for the pedants these are all very rough approximations of the numbers involved, for instance the real percentage that doesn't vote is actually closer to 40%.

  • Democratic Voters Choose Fighting Corporate Power Over Neoliberal Abundance 'Scam': Poll

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  • This shit right here is why FPTP needs to die. There are definitely better and worse options among the proportional voting systems, but all of them are at least better than FPTP.

  • The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women

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  • China also has an established, robust, and technically advanced manufacturing sector. That honestly is the biggest thing keeping manufacturing there. Things made from raw resources could be moved easily but the lower labor costs would be offset by the decreased demand due to most of their customers being back in China.

    Things are even worse for anyone making something that requires manufactured components as all those suppliers are in China so now not only are they taking a hit for reduced demand, but also the headaches of having to import their components from China just to build anything. Labor would need to be ridiculously cheap compared to China for that to start looking like a good idea.

  • The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women

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  • Well it's also about supply chains. All the components are also made in China so you'd end up ordering the parts and then having to wait a month or more for them to be shipped to the US. If you want to avoid delays that means maintaining a significant stockpile of parts in the US that you may or may not ever actually use.

  • @chrlschn - Beware the Complexity Merchants

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  • My job has a 3rd kind of complexity, non-essential complexity, which is like essential complexity in that it comes from the business domain, but isn't actually required. It's non-technical decisions about how our apps and services must function that introduce all our complexity and massively complicates our code bases. At one point we literally have to attempt to predict the future because they adamantly refuse to simply ask the customer what they're planning.

  • [Open question] Why are so many open-source projects, particularly projects written in Rust, MIT licensed?

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  • The crux of it is that it allows for commercial use without needing to distribute the source code. Whether that's a good thing or not depends on who you ask. There's basically a continuum for open source software with GPLv3 at one end and MIT at the other.

    GPLv3 guarantees that corporations can't play games with patents or weird DRM to hobble an open source library and tie it to their closed source product. A lot of corporations will specifically bar employees from using GPLv3 code out of fear it could force them to open source their proprietary code as well.

    At the other extreme you've got MIT which basically says do what you want with it. Fork it, embed it in your projects, sell copies of it if you want. Anything goes as long as you include a copy of the MIT license along with your software.

    Rust tends to get a lot of commercial usage so GPLv2 or MIT tend to be chosen over GPlv3, and between them most companies feel more comfortable with MIT.

  • Trump calls for ‘major investigation’ into Bruce Springsteen

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  • Let me get this straight. Trump thinks a presidential candidate paying someone else to endorse them is a campaign contribution? Illegal or otherwise that's not how that works, that's called advertising.

  • Gun Reform Groups Warn Trump Admin Settlement on Trigger Device 'Paves the Way for Mass Violence'

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  • Most "gun enthusiasts" don't give a single fuck about these. They're pretty useless as they just waste ammo and make your aim worse. I have no idea who's actually fighting for these, but it's definitely not the majority of gun owners. You're right, nobody needs these, and almost nobody actually owns them. This decision won't really change that either. Ultimately this is largely a non-story just as much as it was when they were banned in the first place. There's far more meaningful things people should be focusing on right now both in terms of gun violence and just in general.

  • Gun Reform Groups Warn Trump Admin Settlement on Trigger Device 'Paves the Way for Mass Violence'

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  • Yes. The guy just dumped the magazine, you can do that with a normal trigger as well, it just takes a second or two longer. Lets say it takes you 7 seconds to empty a 10 round magazine with a normal trigger. A forced reset trigger lets you do it in 5 seconds. Meanwhile an actual machine gun can do that in half a second.

  • Gun Reform Groups Warn Trump Admin Settlement on Trigger Device 'Paves the Way for Mass Violence'

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  • More violence possibly but it's not going to meaningfully increase gun sales. This entire thing is so ridiculously overblown. The thing in question here, forced reset triggers, just let you pull the trigger slightly faster (like less than a seconds difference compared to a normal trigger) than you otherwise would. It really is the most inconsequential decision whether you're for or against gun ownership. Almost nobody cares about this decision.

  • Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs

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  • I think it's more that most people just aren't aware of any equivalent alternatives, or in some cases like where there literally aren't any alternatives. Look at phones, both Apple and Google suck and their mobile OSes are terrible but what's the alternative? Sure there's a few Linux phones out there and that's almost an alternative but it's not there yet. You could go with a "dumb" phone, but for most people that's not going to work. So you pick your lesser evil and bitch about it whenever the latest round of enshitification hits.

    If you asked most people what alternatives exist for Spotify they'd probably say Pandora, and maybe Apple Music or Youtube Music and then struggle to come up with anything else. The better alternatives are suffering from a massive discovery problem.

  • Trump admin permits sale of device that allows standard firearms to fire like machine guns

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  • Nope although they do get a mention. Apparently in this case it's forced reset triggers. Saying they allow a semi-auto gun to fire like a full-auto is a bit of a stretch though, even more so than for a bump stock.

  • Texas House votes to formally repeal gay sex ban in historic, unlikely vote

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  • If it was ruled unconstitutional you'd think it would automatically be considered repealed. I suppose this could come into play potentially with our nut job supreme court though. If they decided to overturn the 2003 decision and it wasn't officially repealed it could come into effect again, so uh... good on Texas I guess?

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  • That will be an incredibly short section of class then. Here I can help:

    In 2020 Trump claimed there were discrepancies in the election after losing the election, but when forced to submit evidence under oath admitted he had no evidence of discrepancies. That concludes the section on 2020 election discrepancies.

  • Kennedy sidesteps vaccine questions: ‘I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me’

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  • I don't think people should be taking medical advice from me

    Says the guy in charge of the department responsible for medical advice.

    This is one of the incredibly rare instances where I agree with something RFK Jr. says, I agree nobody should be taking medical advice from him. Now if he could fucking resign and you know stop giving medical advice that would be great.

  • President Trump's Qatari 747 is a flying security disaster

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  • Exactly, he's already a walking security disaster.

  • OpenAI says its latest models outperform doctors in medical benchmark

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  • Wake me up when someone besides OpenAI says they're the best at something. When a company releases a benchmark they designed that their own tool that's generally regarded as not very good is suddenly the best at, that's not news, at best that's PR, at worst propaganda. This reeks of "we investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong".

  • Trakt to increase prices to $60 for all users, including those on legacy, promotional, and grandfathered pricing

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  • Seems to be some kind of centralized streaming service catalog. Never heard of it before now and no idea why anyone would be willing to pay $30 for it let alone $60.