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  • ‘You Don’t Care?’: GOP Senator Shocks ABC Host With Take on Background Checks for Trump Picks

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  • The process must have slowed down considerably. About two decades ago I had a security clearance (just a basic one for access to some military bases for contract work) and that process, although the paperwork was a nightmare, got cleared in under 2 months. I'm sure a higher level of access takes longer, but equally someone being vetted for one of the highest offices in the world is certainly going to be a higher priority than some military contractor pleb.

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  • Both can be true.

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  • India is just like anywhere else, you get what you pay for. There's plenty of cheap dogshit contractors there but there's also some pretty good "expensive" ones. I say "expensive" because they're still cheaper than domestic, just a lot more than the cheap ones.

    The interesting bit though is that the end state of all this outsourcing is an inversion. As US companies pour more and more money into foreign contractors the quality of those contractors steadily increases which then drives their prices up. Concurrently with that as the domestic market languishes and skills atrophy domestic prices fall. Eventually the US will find itself as the cheap 3rd world country the other countries are outsourcing to. That assumes of course other countries are as blindingly short sighted and stupid as the US. The more likely scenario is that those countries enact subsidies, tariffs, and tax breaks to protect their domestic markets in which case the US doesn't become the hot outsourcing market and instead just continues to fade into irrelevancy.

  • Trump Promises Clean Water. Will He Clean Up ‘Forever Chemicals’? Public health advocates worry that Donald Trump could unravel federal clean water efforts, including restrictions on lead pipes & PFAS

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  • He's going to follow the same plan as he did for COVID. He'll remove all regulations and then attack anyone trying to measure the impact. Might even make it illegal to report on pollution if he can.

  • Kamala Harris won politicaly engaged voters, but lost voters who don't follow politics.

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  • By "I'm not sure if that's true" I meant the attack ads costing them the election, not that they would get attacked which I'm pretty sure they would. For what it's worth I do agree that an actually progressive Dem running on a anti-capitalist platform would do quite well. I'm not sure it would be well enough to win, but I don't think it would be a guaranteed loss either. The biggest counter example I can think of would be Bernie Sanders, but that has the extra complication that the DNC did everything they could to try to bury him. A progressive candidate with the backing of the DNC I suspect would do well enough to offset any possible damage done by attack ads.

  • Kamala Harris won politicaly engaged voters, but lost voters who don't follow politics.

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  • Made this point on another article and the response I got was that they need to keep fellating rich donors because if they stop those rich donors will run attack ads against them and cost them the election. I don't know if that's true or not but if so they might as well give up now because those rich donors aren't winning them elections either.

  • Kamala Harris won politicaly engaged voters, but lost voters who don't follow politics.

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  • Don't forget Sinclair Broadcasting. They're the local branch of the right wing propaganda machine.

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  • That was my first thought as well, but per the article it sounds like EU regulators requested that data from Google.

  • ‘A change from the status quo’: the voters who backed Trump and AOC

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  • There needs to be some kind of solution or compromise though because as has been demonstrated this last election ignoring the working class is just handing their votes to the Republicans. Bernie Sanders demonstrated that it is possible to raise enough money from small donations to run a campaign. Yes the rich donors could out spend that by a significant margin, but I still believe someone with a good plan to address income inequality and out of control cost of living would do well enough to offset that.

    The Democrats current policy of catering exclusively to rich donors is a losing strategy. If they ever want to win another election they're going to have to find a solution to that.

  • ‘A change from the status quo’: the voters who backed Trump and AOC

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  • Absolutely, but that's not really comparable to the current situation. The US is far from well run and has a ton of problems that need fixing ASAP. While Trump will absolutely no question make things significantly worse, the Democrats message of "this is fine" did not in any way resonate with voters. It very much had the feel of "Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make".

  • ‘A change from the status quo’: the voters who backed Trump and AOC

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  • To make an analogy out of your statement, in this scenario the nuclear powerplant is in the middle of melting down and one party ran on a platform of "Your right, that plant is a problem, but don't worry we'll fix it by removing all the control rods" while the other parties platform was "We think all the readings look fine, we're not going to change anything, the control rods are just fine where they are". Neither one is actually solving the problem, and one is actively making it worse while claiming the opposite. Everyone is rightfully concerned and wanted something done, and enough morons believed the lies to hand them the win.

  • ‘A change from the status quo’: the voters who backed Trump and AOC

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  • People are fucking stupid, but to the previous point that doesn't mean they can just be ignored. Their concerns are real and need to be addressed, they're just gullible morons for believing the first snake oil salesman that comes along promising to solve all their problems.

    The DNC fucked up and has been fucking up consistently for decades now by ignoring lower and middle class Americans to focus solely on the upper class. Talks of the stock market doing well and the GDP being good means fuck all when that's all built on the backs of some of the most extreme income inequality and poverty in the history of the US. As the middle class eroded and wealth increasingly is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands it becomes critical to appeal not to the rich but to the poor who overwhelmingly outnumber them. Failure to do so has had the entirely predictable result that elections become impossible to win.

    The GOP is fully aware of this, the big difference is they're more than happy to peddle comforting lies to an increasingly ignorant and stupid populace, due in no small part to Republicans decades of attacking and destroying public education. If the DNC or any other non-GOP party ever wants to hold power again they need to convince the poor to vote for them, one way or another.

  • How Bluesky, Alternative to X and Facebook, Is Handling Growth

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  • It's an alternative to Twitter in the same way Pepsi is an alternative to Coke, it's still essentially the same thing. This is just trading one really shitty corporation for a different not as shitty yet corporation. As it grows it will eventually become the exact same thing and everyone will be back here celebrating the rise of some other corporate social-media network.

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  • JS is a cancer infecting the programming world. It never should have escaped the browser. If null is the worst programming mistake ever made, JS is a strong contender for the second worst mistake.

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  • The opt outs don't work. Even if you opted out of the telemetry that only disabled some of it, not all of it, and MS constantly re-enables it with updates. I can't count how many times I've had to uninstall OneDrive, But. It. Keeps. Coming. Back. Windows 10 you could previously disable most of the worst crapware that MS shoveled in. Windows 11 you can't disable it, they just don't give you the opt outs anymore. It's all mandatory. Even worse, they started backporting that stuff into Windows 10 as well. Did you notice when MS silently installed copilot on your Windows 10 system?

    Ultimately though, I just don't want to keep fighting a losing battle against a company I despise. I'm done giving my money to them. It would be one thing if they provided a good service that I enjoyed like Valve does with Steam, but the last time I actually liked a version of Windows was when XP was released. It's basically been downhill since then. If there was a decent alternative to Android I'd switch that as well, but unfortunately Linux phone just isn't ready for prime time yet. But thanks to the amazing work by Valve, for gaming systems, Linux is finally a viable alternative.

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  • If you don't see the point, then Microsoft has successfully boiled the frog.

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  • One thing you'll have to do (which is kind of annoying that it isn't enabled by default) is go into the steam options and toggle "Enable Steam Play for all other titles". That enables proton/wine for everything in your library. In the early days of Steam on Linux Valve setup a white list of games that ran under Wine that mostly contains their own titles in it, and for some reason they just never removed that behavior even though that list is unmaintained these days.

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  • Not every game that uses anti-cheat, there's plenty that do run fine in Linux, but the major ones it's unsupported. Technically the games run, and run really well, it's just you'll get banned for running under Linux. The big ones I'm aware of that don't work are Valorant, GTA5, Destiny 2, LoL, and Apex Legends.

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  • Steam is available and runs great. Valve has really put an insane amount of work into making Linux gaming smooth and painless. They have their own flatpak equivalent called pressure-vessel that steam uses by default, and everything that steam supports in Windows is 100% supported in Linux as well. If you check out protondb.com you can put in your steam account name and it will scan it and tell you any games in your library that will have issues in Linux, but outside of a few of the competitive shooters that have super aggressive anti-cheat generally everything either works out of the box, or after some minor tweaks (typically adding a few launch parameters).

    Additionally, there's an excellent unified launcher called Heroic that lets you connect with and use the GOG, Epic, and Amazon Gaming stores, and provides a convenient wrapper around Wine/Proton for actually running the games.

    Finally there's another launcher called Lutris that a lot of people swear by and supports some of the less used stores like Itch.io, although when I tried it recently I ran into some problems getting it to work.