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united states politics 

@coriander we don’t care about your silly election cosplay just give us somebody to actually vote for jfc

united states politics 

@coriander after two elections of screwing over bernie sanders behind the scenes at least this time everyone is on the same page that nothing about them is democratic or fair

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@aescling to the contrary, i think the argument is “it’s okay to use the process to constrain voter’s choices, but not to subvert the process to remedy procedural failures”, which is very amenable to term limits

united states politics 

“replacing Joe Biden means leaving behind a candidate voters picked for a candidate they didn’t” yes, because it was definitely voters who picked Joe Biden

@packetcat (i blame the switch to USB-C, and the fact that i’m still not sure in 2024 which combination of USB ports a given computer will support)

@packetcat i was just thinking about this the other day; why did we ever stop having a physical means of getting information off of a computer on our person at all times, it was so convenient

on 04 July 1776 there definitely wasn’t a United States or anything like it

it was a different time

you ever be on tumblr reading a post and the person says something that seems a bit sus so you check their profile and see the phrase “comically cynical of reality” and yep there’s a young white trans girl racist no doubt

you can publish open source software without providing so much as an email contact, much less a listserv, forum, or other community space

@wallhackio @aescling time to add a downvote button (it just favourites the post)

i’ve committed code to this repo every month this year and i’m just waiting to see how long that goes on for

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@thomholwerda as it happens, i was coincidentally scoping out the Ladybird dev team a few days ago, before this latest announcement, because they were linked in (iirc) an old Servo blogpost and i wasn’t familiar with them at that point

i pulled up awesomekling’s account on X.com and the first thing i saw was a laudatory quote-boost of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz’s talk show

immediately lost all interest in the project

@thomholwerda as it happens, i was coincidentally scoping out the Ladybird dev team a few days ago, before this latest announcement, because they were linked in (iirc) an old Servo blogpost and i wasn’t familiar with them at that point

i pulled up awesomekling’s account on X.com and the first thing i saw was a laudatory quote-boost of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz’s talk show

immediately lost all interest in the project

the reason why umbreon is always so angsty is because espeon is straight

@coriander only button i’m willing to hold in a videogame is Z to target

(original post wasn’t about Swift, but i was just thinking about it versus such languages as Zig and Rust which target much larger sets of platforms)

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