TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)

I"m sure the irony is intend on an election on the same day as the US celebration of Independence. =) I watched the John Oliver episode about this election though, and congrats on what looks like Labor being the big winner over the Conservative party.

behavioral issues and diagnoses such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism and post-traumatic stress disorder. A medical examiner’s report released with the autopsy findings said the boy who died had ADHD, anxiety, migraines and social challenges, including “a very hard time making friends.”

Fuck this camp, and fuck this kids parents! And fuck all the parents doing this shit to their kids. Sending your kids off to some camp because they aren’t neurotypical is fucking disgusting. And then not any camp, one that locks them up for a condition they have no control over, fucking hell. This is on the same level as all these assholes trying to “convert” or “rehabilitate” LGBTQ+ kids. Leave the kids alone you sick assholes, and deal with your own shit.

Holy shit! Where’s the Tylenol?* /rant

• Stolen from Christmas Vacation

Yep, was all about not having to pay labor. They can continue to use immigrants as cheap/slave labor under the fear they have of being deported, and if these businesses are caught they get a “hand slap” as by design. They then rinse and repeat the process.

Ok, and electing Trump who has said he 100% approves of the genocide also, and would like to also kill protesters domestically is better? He also wants to remove our constitution, democracy, and round up the kind of people having these very discussions. And I agree Biden absolutely should move faster to do something about what is happening, but being upset about it and then pissing away any chance it could get better, among all the things that will surely get worse does not compute for me.

If they don’t vote for democracy, they are allowing the rise of a dictator. A dictator that is going to make their world a whole lot worse. Someone calling them an anti-semite when they know they aren’t, and the Jewish people protesting with them know they are not, sucks and is misguided. But that shouldn’t be reason enough to hand democracy over to the guy who wants to be a dictator. The next protest they attend will have the military putting it down, or his proud boys.

But voting Trump would be just throwing gas on that fire. He is all in on this genocide and has called it great. His base thinks they need the Jews to trigger Armageddon so the Zombie Sky Wizard can come save them all. He would also pull funding from Ukraine, and back Putin in anything he wants.

Also anyone writing that the protests are antisemitism are spreading right wing talking points. They know the majority of the left have an issue with being seen as racist, while they wear their hoods with pride.

EDIT - autocorrect is my enemy.

Yeah that’s pretty much the point, but it’s a real world method to get work done , see the bounties here, it might be especially important if the developers make a mistake when prioritizing (which is expected because they are humans, if there are bugs in code there are bugs in priorities).

It’s open source, feel free to contribute. Throwing money to support a dev doesn’t entitle you to anything, let alone to be the arbitrator of their priorities. And this is the thinking that leads to dev burnout, and likely why Lemmy devs are not interested.

I think one of the big issues with bounties on features for an open Source project is that some people will see them paying into a bounty as them paying a developer to implement a feature, and that goes from “supporting” the developers to “I pay your salary” territory. These people want timelines, and a return on their investment. I can’t blame a dev for not wanting to go down that path.

This is all to say: we’ve been given many different channels and suggestions by the developers during our time on this platform for how to influence priorities. However, those priorities still have not materialized even after we used those channels and followed those suggestions–in fact, we’ve often observed our priorities seemingly being derided, played down at times, or to languish.

To me, this sounds like they were repeatedly trying to get the devs to work on what Beehaw wanted, and they are upset that those demands have not been met.

Trump isn’t pro-anything but Trump. He would agree to anything if it would get him what he wants. He has no values, or morals, it is 100% about HIM in everything that comes out of his mouth.

Isn’t the blue kind the gel stuff? The white is the “solid” kind.

I’m sorry to hear about your dog, but personally that list would have had me making the appointment already. Putting me in place of your dog, it’s what I wish someone would do for me. Having been there I know it’s one of the hardest calls to make, but it really is about quality of life and not wanting to wait “too long” and cause undo suffering to a non-vocal friend. 😢

Hopefully the next time he blacks out like that he isn’t behind the wheel of a car or something where he could be endangering the life of someone else. Something like this should allow medical staff to have his license temporarily suspended, just like people with a seizure condition until they can go a set amount of time on medication without a seizure.

I think most of that can be taken from here: join-lemmy.org/donate. If you click through each donation method they each list goals/monthly intake.

EDIT - Minus crypto of course!

Measles is nothing to mess around with. A fine is a good deterant for some things, but something like this deserves your license to practice any kind of medicine in NY pulled permanently, as well as jail time.

Yeah lots of “drop shipping” folks on Amazon, they buy a pallet of whatever it is from the same source as the top seller and then do some magic to get the “buy box” (the company that shows as default seller). Once they run that person out of business they are free to raise pricing until they no longer are winning the buy box again.

Amazon has also gotten bad with who it allows to sell on the site, and has been known to lump similar SKUs together, even ones from different sellers. This becomes especially troublesome when someone in the stack is selling counterfeit items.

All that is to say, pay attention to who you are buying from, and be on the lookout for counterfeit items.

EDIT - I don’t think this is the case here, but Amazon is also known to look at the users location and device and change prices accordingly. A great example of this is that sometimes a user buying from an Apple device (desktop or iPhone) will pay more than a user from a cheaper Android or Windows PC for the same item.

Stuff like this should get you walked out of Congress, leave your credentials on the desk and security walks you out. This level of government should not tolerate conspiracy theories to just be thrown around as facts like this. If you can’t back a claim like this up (and you can’t because it’s to cover for Trump’s cognitive decline at his rallies always saying Obama instead of Biden) you should be just barred from Congress full stop.

So basically a “you can’t sue or I’m rubber and your glue” bill to go with the “don’t say gay bill”. Imagine needing to put this much time into bills like this because you can’t stop your hate from getting you in trouble and you would rather attack marginalized groups than do any actual governing.

I said some pull because the UK and others would still need to get on board to do a blanket “cease-fire if you want aid” type statement. The US alone would only be a bump for them, but since they already have weapons they have bought from us for years, and aid coming in from other countries it would mean they wouldn’t need to pay any attention right away.

Yes, that is why I included Debian and the Ubuntu spins (Mint/etc.). They all run outdated software, and I don’t think in 2024 they are a suitable desktop OS for someone new coming to Linux. They were fine back in the day when things were not moving as fast, but now, well running one of them is a disservice to the user IMHO. Unless your only using your system to make spreadsheets using an outdated version of LibreOffice and don’t mind that your 6+ months behind the rest of the world.

I think they certainly have a place in the server world, but as a desktop new users should be looking at the EndeavourOS, CachyOS, Fedora, Nobara, Ultramarine, or even SUSE Tumbleweed.