Hey, all I can say is that there’s a lot of really uneducated people in the US, and they voted for a president that is skilled at whipping them into a frenzy over anything.

It’s not you guys, it’s them. I’m sorry. I wish there was something I could do. I’m afraid to speak out though, my wife doesn’t have her citizenship yet and they’ve been unlawfully deporting green card holders left and right.

I kinda wish the world would stand up together and say “fuck you, guy” and literally cut the US out of the world economy until they depose the dictator. Sadly nation states seem more interested in making backroom deals than bringing the global recession that is inevitable/ongoing.

I completely understand. In ITIL terms they’re addressing the incident - the thing that is causing someone immediate harm. To continue the ITIL analogy, the problem is not being addressed and will never be addressed. I am confident humanity will never stop using the concept of mental disabilities as a slur regardless of the verbiage used.

Any ‘nice’ term you can think up is immediately ammo for someone to use once it starts getting traction as the new way to talk about it. “Trump has a mental disability”, “republicans are mentally disabled” are two examples of what people could say until that term is no longer acceptable, and the cycle repeats.

Really what should change is that mental disabilities should be normalized so that descriptors cannot be used to degrade people based on a reality that cannot be changed.

Anyway, regardless of our best intentions, empathy, patience and understanding for others, the cycle will just keep continuing. Idiot is a great example of a word for the same thing and is used frequently and often because people simply have forgotten over the generations how it was once used. It’s original term was innocuous, simply describing common individuals, not necessarily implying any truly negative thing. Eventually it was used to describe the mentally disabled, and then used as a slur, and then it fell out of favor for a long, long time. Ultimately the meaning and the application is the same. The problem remains.

The war on all words that describe a negative trait continues.

I promise whatever the goalposts are set to will be the next inappropriate term.

It’s got electrolytes.

I think that’s a fairly reasonable solution. The problem is asking people though. Can’t really blast on the loud speaker that someone died, hard to go seat by seat.

Jellyfin is absolute dogshit though.

Sauce: I just installed it on my media server that concurrently runs plex. I run the app on a fire tv cube to use it… and it crashes* constantly.

Edit: More stuff :)

-My media library when imported immediately showed seasons of shows as separate shows, it doesn’t intelligently automatically merge it like Plex would.

-Subtitle options are not consistent or robust. I MUST have subtitles due to having a multilingual family which is largely ESL, if they speak English at all. This is the problem I tried moving to jellyfin to fix.

I don’t think this is the way. Take their money and do the bare minimum. Malicious compliance that causes issues is a good way to get the public outraged enough that something changes.

not that long ago, a single working man could provide for a house, 2 cars, a wife and 2.5 kids.

While women worked for pennies on the dollar, people of color weren’t allowed to go to school with white people and women didn’t go to college, they went to secretarial school. Plus tons of people were dying from all manner of health conditions because there were no regulations for practically anything.

The “golden days” have some serious nostalgia but they were far more fucked up than people remember. Buying a home from 0 has always been like living in poverty for almost everybody in the US. Only the top earners have ever had vast excess of earnings.

When houses were 35k people were making $3500/year or much, much less.

You know how we “make an example” out of people who do things we don’t like?

We need to make an example out of billionaires that put up hundreds of millions of dollars to manipulate elections. Billionaires and big business should have no place in politics.

This will do literally fucking nothing because food stamps don’t cover grocery bills for anybody. You always have to subsidize it.

Too much money involved for that.

Pharma has an open left leaning culture but once you get to executive leadership and the board the only thing that matters is sales. The bribers (aka lobbyists) will work with anyone.

You can bet your ass there is more chance of the FDA getting disbanded than drugs having prices regulated or simply being banned from sale. I’m expecting the biden price negotiations for medicare and medicaid to go away so the pharmas can milk us even more with their exclusive monopolies for the first decade or so of sales.

Didn’t he just make stupid billions from his ponzi coin scheme?

allegedly influencing the 2024 election

Where are the damages again?

I get weird replies when I mentioned this on reddit in the past, but it’s true. He’s the only one worth trusting at the place. The moment his inheritors sell out is the moment steam dies taking all our libraries with it.

Good thing I pirate all their shit already if I want it.

I stopped paying for Amazon Prime over a year ago once they announced similar bullshit with their video service.

Once Disney dropped subscription sharing… I started downloading their shit too.

Now i’m left with Netflix and Crunchyroll. I’m this close to axing netflix. Crunchyroll is kinda shit but at least it’s cheap.

We’d be better off with a website that has farms owned by the workers that are also politically aligned away from hateful views.

Race based delineation is stupid.

This is the thing that I literally do not understand. Self-segregation is the stupidest shit.

A coalition of independent farmers or farmers with a specific agenda is much better than dividing shit by race. Race is the least meaningful way to divide people.

My wife is black, but she’s not stereotypical American black. If she owned a farm she could be on this list… and she has zero roots in the historical american bullshit. She’s literally an immigrant who pulls six figures in the corporate world. Most of the people of her cultural background are trump supporters for some stupid fucking reason (they think trump will only deport the “other” POCs, not their own, surely THEIR brown people are better right? Morons.)

If her trump loving copatriots registered as "black’ farmers they could be included in this list… and by buying through them we’d be supporting the establishment no less than if we just went to a mega-corpo grocery store.

I’m all for supporting businesses and groups that are doing something positive for the community or at the very least are trying not to actively make things worse for people but blindly “buying black” is stupid. I’d much rather buy from a fucking worker owned co-op farm that is politically aligned as far away from hate as possible.

Those texan gun dealers love selling to the cartels through proxy buyers. They are so easy to find if you have access to the right information - just look at whoever buys more than two guns in a 6 month period… the top 80% of that list will probably be unable to procure all the guns they bought because they distribute them over the border.

If we can smuggle people in to the US easily, it should be trivial to smuggle weapons out of the US easily. Hell, if you take out the receivers you can do it in plain sight, just move the receivers illegally.

So no asian farms, no spanish farms, no middle eastern farms?

Why just black farms? Doesn’t this lend itself to the trope of black people being farmhands?

This almost certainly will go nowhere.