I too would love to see us do better than the two deeply flawed parties we have now. I wish we had a better voting system that allowed better parties.

i can understand the “better red than dead” voters because they’re getting what they want; so i mostly blame the “vote blue no matter who” voters because they have never gotten what they want and continue to believe that choosing the lesser evil option will somehow make things better even though it never has and never will.

i’ve voted democrat before and will likely again; it’s fascinating how people interpret a message in a way that wasn’t said and that’s not meant as an indictment on you.

unfortunately for me and many others like me, politics is life due to simply existing at the intersection of every major national political topic for the last 35 years.

calling it “politics” divorces it from reality and frames it as purely theoretical even though it’s not true; anyone calling it that is either clueless, privileged, or dog whistling. (sometimes 2 or all 3).

vote for a third party if you’re in a safely red or blue state and vote your conscience otherwise.

martin luther king called them moderates and he agreed with both of us.

the problem is that moderates today call leftists they don’t like tankies and other leftists agree; effectively proving king’s point to be true.

like abortion, the democrats did nothing when they had the chance and; in my case and many others like me; they actively made it worse.

it was hollywood that changed people’s minds on lgbt issues and democrats are simply the political beneficiaries.

One silver line here is “the youths” will learn, in an unusually clear way, that the government effects their lives and can screw up their lives.

this happened to be back in the 90’s & 00’s when biden et al. spearheaded non-dischargeable student loan debt; anti-gay marriage; and a ban on gays in the military and now i’m permanently anti democrat party.

however i don’t think think that this will have the same impact depth because being denied videos does not have the same impact on your life as your government deporting the person you built a life with because you can’t sponsor them for legal residency simply due to the fact you’re both the same sex and being driven towards taking on huge student loan debt because the military won’t let you join to obtain the college tuition part of GI bill.

in addition: people will brand you a tankie or a “both-sides-ist” for pointing out these anti-gay & anti-youth laws online; so today’s youth will be pressured away from giving voice to it publicly.

i was forced to use systemd professionally when it was buggy and broke all the time in its first releases in the red hat eco system; so it’s fair that some people would hold grudges against it.

apple and google are helping lead the charge against carplay and android auto

car makers started phasing out dins in 2013 and they don’t give warnings if newer models don’t include them, so you better buy sooner rather than later

What are the odds GM starts charging a subscription fee to access apps on these vehicles?

that’s why theyre doing it and both apple and google are helping them.

it doesnt have to be nsfw; women’s official nfl uniforms circa 2021 on male players would have improved the game dramatically. lol

it depends on the carrier; (ime) most of the ones in north america use some kind packet encapsulation technique to find out if you request originated from a phone and auto reject it.

then don’t buy locked phones; that’s the exact reason why they’re locked.

A majority have crabs-in-a-bucket mentality and this “news story” is meant for them

Why does this article exist? Who cares what tech workers think about someone else’s pay rate?

is there to make people mad that the drivers are getting paid more and make you more predisposed to hate unions.

Is there anything actually interesting inside?

the inside or substance doesn’t matter; what matters is that it gets attention (like it is here) and makes other mad enough that drivers are getting paid so much more than they are that they support politicians and laws capping/crippling pay transparency.

That would got their gd attention.

it always gets their attention and then they pay people to lobby our government to get a lowered; which also always happens.

The corporate failure to retain money making accounts made national news.

This is a thing?!

PLEASE let this be true!!! i’d be happy with a just a lemmy version of pg-13 subreddits like r/pecsandpecbouncing and/or r/topsandbottoms