hobovision

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[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think we'd all love to. The constitution is fundamentally broken and should be completely rewritten. It's founded on ideas that just aren't true now, if they ever were. The idea that the states are more like countries than counties is the biggest one. The idea that we can and should protect ourselves from the tyrrany of the majority by having independent branches of government and countless ways to stop and stall things is another huge one.

But here's the biggest problem, not enough of the country agrees that the system is broken, and even smaller portion of those who do can agree on how it's broken or what changes to make. So no, we can't just abolish it. We can either (1) fix it enough to get to the point that we may be able to have the stability it would require to safely transition to a new constitution or (2) see things get so bad that enough of the country is on board for revolution. Both options suck, but option (2) has a pretty bad record compared to option (1) in my view.

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago

Don't forget the current supreme court motto though: "rules for thee but not for me". Only massive and rich corporations will be allowed around copyright rules, but you and I and indie and open source will be held to the letter of the law.

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Copium.

Steamdeck made many times more Linux users than Windows ever did.

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

Buy 3 bicycles! 1st an electric commuter/cargo bike so you can run errands without a car. 2nd a road/hybrid bike for fun and exercise on paved paths. 3rd a mountain bike so you can enjoy more nature. (an eMTB if they're allowed on your local trails can combine all 3 bikes if you want)

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

Plex has started to enshittify as well. I switched to jellyfin because Plex had features behind pay walls and kept going "oops I accidentally changed your settings so you have to look at the plex home screen with ads for our streaming service".

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Caltrian is not California High Speed Rail

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Compression artifacting it looks like to me.

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 21 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

No shot 4 SSDs will be the same price as a HDD of the same capacity yet. HDD is still the king of GB/$.

If I'm wrong... Can you send me some links? I could use some cheap 8TB SSDs.

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not voting is a choice. Not voting is saying you're okay with either option. You're OK with fascism because you can't bear to have neoliberalism instead. Maybe you'd rather have genocide of both Arabs and Latin Americans? Maybe you'd rather have a president who has promised to make the genocide worse than one who might put some amount of pressure to make it less bad.

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I imagine we can agree no American president has been ideal? Some of the presidents who have given us the most progress in important areas like welfare, civil rights, and environmental protections have also been war criminals. Roosevelt, Kennedy/LBJ, Obama, etc. Imagine where we'd be if no one voted for the lesser evil in those elections, held firm and didn't vote for the president who would set up concentration camps, or keep us in wars in Asia and the middle east.

Throwing away your vote got us presidents like GWB and Trump. Stalled progress for decades. Evil supreme court justices. In fact, the most underrated job of the president is picking supreme court justices, since the court has made itself the single most powerful institution in the country.

How about you vote for the most potential for progress?

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee -4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The not voting strategy has never worked before, why would it work this time? You want the let the future of this country determined by someone else?

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

What are we going to change our vote to? Only two parties can win this year (let's change that) and the other option is worse on this issue.

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