@stux how you been doing lately. We havent caught up proper in a while.
@realcaseyrollins
Awesome, glad to hear it!
@realcaseyrollins By the way havent checked in with you in a while. How are you and the family holding up, particularly your brother whom I know you werent seeing as often as you'd like last we caught up.
@realcaseyrollins yea but then the groups would know their labeled extremist groups, we would all know who they do and dont label extremist groups. That means we could actually challenge their biases, we cant have that!
Man soldering 0402 components is brutal. I wouldnt wish this on my worst enemy... but progress is being made!
I dont necceseraly think that the election was rigged, waiting on the evidence to decide. But man this meme is spot on.
@freemo @design_RG @olamundo Mostly I just wish people used public keys. Because we require a digital signature from the instance, not the user, it lets instances use their users as unwilling weapons to sabatoge other instances. I never thought I’d see it being done under benevolent pretenses, but here we are.
Maybe I should make a list of safe instances for people to join too…
@cy
Agreed, im all for personal control of our identity and keys
@design_RG @olamundo
@cy
Yup there is a reason we dont cave to their insanity. We do what is right in terms of server policy not what a few radicalized servers demand we do.
@design_RG @olamundo
@star
Biden literally fought to keep schools segregated which is how he got in the senate in the first place. His own words as to why is because he didnt want white schools to become a "racial jungle"... If you think trump is more guilty of diving us by racial lines then i think its time you look at the policies each of them passed again. Segregation is pretty much dividing by racial lines by definition.
@star I think it says it all that Biden and biden supports lost their shit when Trump engaged in peace talks with our enemies. Meanwhile Biden was off murdering US citizens in drone attacks (including a 16 year old boy) with no trial or due process and apparently thats A-Ok by the democrats.
trump cant reach Bidens level of evil even if he tried. Trump does something bad and people accuse him of murder. Biden literally is caught red hadden being part of murder of a US citizen and most democrats dont even know about it.
@star Man I wish that were true. Biden did far **far** mroe evil in his political career than trump even approached. Trump is just an idiot and says dumb and even horrific shit. But ultimately thats about as far as it went.
The bigger issue isnt even that biden is significantly more evil with the track record to prove it, the bigger issue is he isnt an idiot in the way trump is and knows how to play the game and manipulate people into thinking Trump is the enemy and he is the good guy. That makes him not just evil but effective atit.
USPOL
@bhart I think you are confusing charisma with agreement or support/likability. There is certainly a group of people who agree with trump on many stances, including "lets only care about the US".. in turn this causes people to like him for president and support him because they agree with him. That is not the same as charisma however.
The vast majority of people who voted Trump, in my opinion. did so more because they agreed with his policies more so than Biden. but in the same breath most of the people are quick to point out that Trump is not very charismatic and that they simply have to overlook the **way** he talks and see past it to agree with what he is saying.
So while i agree biden may come across a bit slimy, and trump may have a stance some people like and agree with, overall I'd say even most trump supporters would gree biden is the more charismatic one, even though they like biden less than trump. In fact I've had many people state that the reason they support trump is his lack of charisma, because they feel charismatic leaders can hide their bad deeds more easily (and in that sense I would even agree as a general notion).
In fact even if we talk en mass, 10% voting who really care about their vote is harder to rig because they care enough to bother to double check afterwards if their vote was registered and counted and if it isnt they may make a stink about it.
If you have 90% voting with 10% really being enthusiastic and 80% being apathetic and not caring too much, then the vast majority of voters arent even going to check their vote or say anything, relying on others to detect any possible fraud.
So it would seem in this scenario even then more people voting means its harder to detect fraud, not easier.
By the way not sure more people voting neccesearly equates to being easier to rig. If only a single person voted it would be much easier to see if its rigged, just go ask the one person how they voted and you have your answer in a few seconds.. .With tens of million voting determining if the system is rigged becomes far more complicated and would require more man-hours to get to the bottom of it.
USPOL
@bhart What word, charisma? Are you really of the opinion that Trump is more charismatic than Biden? Really? The man as a bocab of like 8 words.
@lnxw37a2 I think this comment would be welcome in the thread and wouldnt infect it at all. I would imagine Gina would feel the same.
but yea this attitude right here is like 95% of our problem as a nation honestly. The result of this attitude is polarization. Our left becomes more and more extremist as does our right. The more you see a difference of opinion as the mortal enemy the more you will push yourself to the farther end of the spectrum to seperate yourself from it.
Dont get me wrong this is an issue in all politics, and in ability of people to see past their ideological purity to some solution that takes the concerns of both sides into account. But in america this issue is amplified many times over.
USPOL
@Matter He was surrounded by "good" people when he was vice president. Didnt prevent him and Obama from murdering that 16 year old kid and other citizens though did it?
Sorry but assuming some evil person will be ok because they surround themselves with people who are also evil but look good on paper doesnt solve the problem. It does however let the american public drink the kool aid and look the other way a bit easier.
You'd be amazed how most democrats never even heard about the murders under Obama despite the fact that it established fact from both sides, there was outcry from the ACLU and tons of civil rights groups, etc, yet democrats are like "what scandal, there was a scandal under obama"... Yea sorry but the democrats are good at doing evil in plain sight and making sure no one cares a lick about it, thats their thing.
@Gina I agree entierly. I love difference of opinon, thats how we grow and learn, even if we dont change our opinions.
Its really what I love about the Dutch to be honest and why I moved there. Most americans, particularly liberals but also non-liberals, will have a complete meltdown over a difference of opinion, even minor ones. Not only can you not be civil after that, they will actively be aggressive and seek it out, its horrible. The Dutch know how to disagree, even strongly disagree, and not make it personal unless it is really justified. Obviously if i was a legitimate hateful racist you'd probably judge me, and should.
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
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(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
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