Go on ebay and look for refurbished PCs, it'll probably be cheaper than buying a wireless router. It'll take some setup but you will get the configurability you need, in spades.
“Public opinion in the project’s target countries is gradually moving towards reducing or completely stopping support for Ukraine,”
Call it trailing twelve months to look at the trend, say charitably that the 4-5% change since January is that, and that it'll continue linearly like that, and you can extrapolate that the result will hit the 50/50 point in April 2028.
Of course, if Trump gets elected, all bets are off in terms of what will happen supportwise.
Stevens ran another campaign against Peterson in 2016, which she said was derailed by stolen yard signs and a mishap that prevented fliers from being distributed. She decided not to organize one during 2020 because of the pandemic. This year, Stevens said she is in a better position to organize a campaign.
What?
So you’re running against him, and you want to blame him because… you lost the last time you ran against him? And you’re angry that he plays tabletop role-playing games?
Stevens said she lost her house, tens of thousands of dollars and custody of her two children who are now grown because of how he mishandled her case.
It would be wonderful to hear more details about how he mishandled your case, and why you say it was mishandled. You could have spent column inches on that instead of on this:
Campaign fliers call Peterson “Demon Lord” in reference to his former avatar: the demon prince Orcus, Lord of the Undead. He posted hundreds of comments on online fantasy message boards while at work, according to a 2013 Spokesman-Review story.
Or this:
The county prosecutor’s office filed a sexual harassment complaint against Peterson last year on behalf of a female deputy prosecutor over her objection. She said she believed it was an accident.
According to the complaint, the deputy prosecutor knocked before walking in on Peterson changing into his gym clothes, despite his knowledge that she was on her way to deliver paperwork.
If someone posted 15 articles a day saying that Google was running a secret satanic society in the basement of their Mountain View campus, and they had to be stopped by supporting Microsoft instead, I would object to that. Not because I love Google, but because that's a bunch of lies, and the solution that's proposed is going to make things worse.
I don't know how many times I have to say it. The issue is not that counterculture viewpoints are unpopular on Lemmy. The issue is that this particular "counterculture" viewpoint is both false, and leading very predictably to very non-counterculture result, getting Trump elected, which would be a catastrophe for both the counterculture and the mainstream.
You're asking me questions, and you don't like the answers. You've got a right to your opinion, but I think I've explained sufficiently why I would like to see you banned. I'm not interested in a debate about it.
I do want to address this:
Seriously?! You’re saying that me posting articles from Newsweek to Lemmy—a platform with a much smaller audience than the original sites—is “threatening development” in your government? Do you even realize how tiny the Lemmy audience is?
I think the impact of this particular pollution will be small, but I value the idea of being a part of a little community where this type of pollution is minimized, and I think that in the aggregate across many different types of social media, the impact is large. I think that social media large and small are subject to a huge amount of manipulative content of some kind, and I think that does incalculable harm to the exchange of information that's essential to a functioning democracy. It's why democracy is on such a back foot in so many different places right now. The old model of journalism with high standards, whatever its numerous flaws, has been replaced by standards-free anarchy which carefully engineered propaganda is free to flood into at scale, and it's happening to a huge degree, and we're not well-equipped to deal with it. Whatever your intentions in being here, whether or not they are well-meaning, you're participating in that flood.
I don't really care how the mods are currently defining good behavior and bad behavior. Whatever they're doing as pertains to you, it's leading to a massively unpopular reaction in the ordinary members of this community, and I think we've all spent enough time explaining our reasons for that reaction at this point. You can hide behind the mods if you want. I've observed your openness level to what people are telling you, and at this point I've mostly given up on talking with you, and am simply aiming my conversation at the moderators, arguing for why their current approach to moderating you is wrong, and you need to be banned.
If you were just coming in with an unusual point of view, that would be one thing. Honest criticism of the war in Gaza, honest criticism of the Democrats' economic policies, honest critique of the whole idea of capitalism in general, is all fine. They're far from un-heard of. Lemmy is far, far, far from some kind of DNC circle-jerk where you're the only one who's got any kind of rebellious viewpoint. The problem with your content is that, like this article, it is wildly and deliberately misleading, and repeated at a scale that's offensive. You post all this stuff blaming Kamala Harris for the massacre in Palestine, but you voted for someone who wants to accelerate the massacre and is angry at the Biden administration for not doing enough to support and enable it. You claim not to care who wins the election, but you constantly post attacks against one side like it's a part-time job. You claim to want third parties to be viable, but you spend very little time supporting the exact reform that would make them viable at doing anything other than spoiling the election for the other side.
If you don't want me criticizing you, and it seems that you don't, then be straight about what you believe. People respect plenty of minority and counterculture views here. Pretending that you're getting this reception because people love Kamala Harris is precisely the problem. Recognize that other people have valid reasons for their criticism. Respect their time and opinion enough to cool it with the megaphone, and engage directly with what people who disagree with you are saying, instead of pretending they said something else. If you refuse to do any of those things, you're going to receive criticism from the community, and when that criticism is ignored, you're going to receive insults in kind to the disrespect you are showing to everyone else. That's how humans function.
Do you actually think Newsweek, Reuters, AP News (the sources I often use) are all publishing false and dangerous material?
Yes, sometimes. Absolutely. The badness of the mainstream press is a big part of the problem as well. We're currently discussing Newsweek, which it seems like has been taken over by an explicit propaganda operation to some extent, but almost all of the US press is subject to the corruption to at least a certain degree.
Come on! I thought you were serious at first, but now it’s hard to take you seriously. Sorry, guy.
I'll have to try to carry on, somehow.
I've discussed it elsewhere in the comments. The reason why more people changed their party affiliation in 2024 than 2023 has absolutely nothing to do with them being Democrats or not, but the article has constructed this bizarre artificial lens to look at that fact through, that lets them pretend that it had something to do with them being Democrats, and imply that that means people overall are leaving the Democratic party, when that has nothing to do with the data they're looking at.
Because they're comparing the number of people who changed their registration in 2023 to the number in 2024, and implying a conclusion from the fact that the number went up that is anything other than "2024 is an election year so it actually matters what people are registered as, so of course the number will go up."
So, the question remains: if I bother you so much, why don’t you just block me?
Because you're polluting the community.
If someone's yelling with a megaphone on a street corner, and a lot of it is false and dangerous material that's clearly in service of a threatening development in my government, putting on noise-cancelling headphones is not a solution.
You’re welcome to mock me or twist my words, but doesn’t that undermine your own argument?
When did I do either of those things?
Are you talking about me quoting your fake-friendly style of messaging back to you? I did feel a little bit dirty about doing it. Why would that be an offensive type of message for you to receive, though? I want you to explain to me why me reacting to your message with that type of cheerful dismissiveness would be a bad thing for me to do.
It seems odd to call for a ban when it’s clear I’m the one facing trolling and personal attacks daily.
They're two distinct issues. If someone's being uncivil to you, that might be against the community rules. If you're posting things at an unbelievable volume, from dishonest sources, for a dishonestly partisan purpose, then I think that should be forbidden, although it may or not not be against the current community rules as interpreted by the current moderators. I do think the latter leads to the former, but in terms of everyone behaving and following the rules, they're simply two separate actions. Certainly the latter doesn't justify the former.
If you check the mod log, you’ll see more posts removed for trolling me than the other way around.
That sounds completely plausible. That, to me, is gross negligence in moderation. I think I've explained why already.
Read the last paragraph of my message.
If someone posted 15 times a day some objectively misinformational story about how great Kamala Harris is on some issue, then yes, that would be a bunch of crap. I still wouldn't react to it with the same level of vigor, because it's not potentially harmful in the same way to the same level to myself and my country's government, but yes, it would be inappropriate.
This is the problem with being full of shit. You’ll magnetically attract people to your organization that are also full of shit, and then somehow when it’s you on the receiving end, it’s not so much fun anymore, is it?