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  • Captain Howdy@lemm.eetopolitics @lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    18 days ago

    Because roughly half the country believes what he says. If it affirms their worldview (usually hatred of some “other”), then they are happy to take it on face value.

    Because we have blatantly partisan media companies willing to parrot his lies and unwilling to challenge even the most harmful of them.

    Because our two party system makes nearly everything a political issue that is supported by one party or the other, and voters have to choose between the lesser of two evils (whatever that means to that voter) than vote for someone who better represents their actual world view.

    Because he is rich. Because he is privileged. Because he has never been made to actually face the consequences of intentionally lying to everyone.



  • Who’s going to do the regulating?

    Sure, a liberal could impose sane regulation, but what happens next time the US elects a Trump?

    You want Trump (or any other fascist wannabe dictator) to have the ability to control what people say on the Internet? He’s already calling to take down ABC for fact checking him!

    So just like gun control (as in an all-out ban), regulation of free speech/communication is just so risky.

    I do think platforms should be doing more to remove disinformation from the mainstream, no matter who it pisses off. Unfortunately that does end up leading to echo chambers when what Americans need is to hear (truth) from all points of view.

    Very complex situation that AI is only making worse.








  • If you’re doing it right, containers are less like VMs and more like cgroups. If orchestrated correctly it uses less system resources to run lots of services on a single system/node.

    That said, I’m a devops/infrastructure/network professional and not a developer, so maybe I’m missing something from the dev experience… But I love containers.

    Docker does kinda suck now, though. Use podman or another interface instead if you can help it.




  • Airsonic Advanced and DSUB on Android are pretty good options since DSUB has advanced local caching options.

    I aquire my music then run it through Picard for tagging which places it into my NAS where it is mounted to airsonic and jellyfin containers for consumption.

    The jellyfin apps have gotten a lot better and I find myself using feishin and finamp more often lately.






  • I wonder if you have read/heard the things Rowling has actually said about trans issues.

    I also find it ironic that you liken her to a chrisofachist, when in the early 00s she was basically crucified by those people.

    I certainly don’t agree with everything she has said. But some of her points are genuine “maybe this is something that deserves conversation and contemplating”, which are immediately construed as transphobic or hateful by many people who haven’t personally read/heard what she said. People jump to screaming online instead of trying to refute her points.

    Again, I do NOT agree with her on many, many things!