aspensmonster

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[–] aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Indeed. The main benefit is the ability to eventually boot out nut cases. We could have instant recall of the positions too, but I'll take what I can get.

[–] aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

Also this very doxxable info btw

I lead a rather public life. I'm okay with it.

[–] aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

To be fair, making judges elected rather than appointed is like, the one thing that I think Texas governance got right.

 
[–] aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml 55 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We know that not everyone in our community will embrace our entrance into this market. But taking on controversial topics because we believe they make the internet better for all of us is a key feature of Mozilla’s history. And that willingness to take on the hard things, even when not universally accepted, is exactly what the internet needs today.

But you're not doing the hard things. You're doing the easy thing. Capitulation to surveillance capitalism is the easy thing.

[–] aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Dover: it's either a breeze or completely inscrutable.

[–] aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Holy shit that's fuckin' awesome XD

[–] aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 month ago

I don’t regularly wear a kippah but even if I did, I’m not looking to antagonize. I strongly believe in no political anythings at work, even things that the majority deem inoffensive like pride pins or whatever.

I strongly believe in no political anythings at work

no political anythings at work

Work. Is. Political.

[–] aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Could you please rebase over main first?"

[–] aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 month ago

Not me standing at the driveway to my polling center with a signature PSL sign (our signs really are the best; call us Professional Signs League the way we be pissing off interns that have to censor our signs before putting them on their articles and videos and ads).

[–] aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The radlibs outed themselves the day Joe Biden had a good day on super tuesday 2020.

It wasn't so much Joe Biden having a good day as it was Obama, making all the calls necessary for the other neolibs to fall in line (and perhaps for the other "progressive" to stay in the race).

[–] aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Perhaps I should rephrase. They attack Mozilla (and users of Firefox) infinitely more than Google (and users of various Google products). I heard it said after Mozilla introduced their opt-out privacy-respecting ad tracking that users should “move to a more privacy-friendly browser like Google Chrome”.

One of those entities claims to be on the side of users. When it constantly throws those same users under the bus anyway, it isn't surprising that it gets more hate than the entity that removed "don't be evil" from its motto.

Tell them you’re a liberal? You’re practically a Nazi collaborator!

It's not our fault that fascists bleed when liberals get scratched.

[–] aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Similarly, I find a fair number of Rust crates (that I want to use) have virtually no doc or inline examples, and use weird metaprogramming that I can’t wrap my head around.

Is it really a true rust crate if it doesn't contain at least one inscrutable macro?

 

The 1% have 30.3% of the wealth. The next 9% have 36.6%. The next 40% have 30.6%. The bottom 50% have 2.5%.

 

Meme

Ben Shapiro pooh-bear on top: "facts don't care about your feelings." Karl Marx pooh-bear on bottom: "material conditions don't care about your idealism."

 

By Derek Cai BBC News

US President Joe Biden has called Chinese President Xi Jinping a dictator at a fundraiser in California.

His remarks come a day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Mr Xi for talks in Beijing, which were aimed at easing tensions between the two superpowers.

Mr Xi said some progress had been made in Beijing, while Mr Blinken indicated both sides were open to more talks.

China is yet to respond to Mr Biden's comments.

President Biden, at the fundraiser on Tuesday night local time, also said Mr Xi was embarrassed over the recent tensions around a Chinese spy balloon that had been blown off course over the US.

"The reason why Xi Jinping got very upset, in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two box cars full of spy equipment in it, was he didn't know it was there," Mr Biden said.

"That's a great embarrassment for dictators. When they didn't know what happened."

Mr Blinken's visit to Beijing - the first by a top US diplomat in almost five years - restarted high-level communications between the two countries. Both Mr Biden and Mr Xi hailed it as a welcome development. But Mr Blinken made clear that major differences remain between the two countries.

Washington and Beijing have long locked horns over an array of issues including trade, human rights, and Taiwan.

But relations have especially deteriorated in the past year. With the US election looming and tensions with China emerging as a political issue, some Republican senators have attacked the Biden administration for being "soft" on China.

 

OCR/caption below. It's a post from a sopuli.xyz user saying that Lemmygrad is the worst Lemmy instance of them all, even ones carrying far-right terrorism, NSFL gore, and CSAM.


same, I'm on Sopuli and their Blocklist is pretty short but has the worst ones.

they are really, really bad and some are straight up illegal in some countries.

Mostly far-right ones, straight up terrorism (seriously there are people with RAF and other terrorist organization's logos on their profile pics there), nsfl gore videos (like people dying and being tortured type of stuff), and nsfw ones full of underage anime girls in suggestive poses...

lemmygrad is probably the worst one out of all of them, just because of it's [sic] size (tankie terrorist group)

--@vox@sopuli.xyz

Ah yes. There's far-right terrorism, NSFL gore, CSAM, but it's the commies that are "the worst one out of all of them."

--@aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml

 

Glock G19 compact 9mm, three yards, ten-round group. Still got some work to do.

 

Haven't been to the range in a while. My trigger discipline has definitely decayed. Still not terrible though.

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