🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@stux Like I said, go with what works.. its just an open invite for you should you need it (we have a very very beefy CI runner and a second one with GPU acceleration)

@louisrcouture

when someone guys an election with cash thats just a fancy way of saying "they used their money to convince people to vote for them"... that isnt people not having a choice, that is people having 100% of the choice, and letting that choice be bought..

For every vote someone buys someone else had to sell their vote.. So you can just as easily say voters had 100% of the choice,a nd they chose to sell their vote unethically rather than to use it.

@stux

@stux

Of course use whatever works best for you.

Though your going to get a lot more power out of the qoto git post upgrade from a few angles. Cant garuntee it will hav ethe same uptime (so not saying its the best choice).. but in terms of CI power, the ultimate license, bandwidth, and storage, obviously the qoto gitlab will be significantly more pwoerful, especially now sine the overhaul.

@stux my git server is pretty beefy, feel free to use it as always. Since the upgrades it doesnt have the downtime issues it faced for like a month there (it was a major overhaul to fix it)

@louisrcouture @stux Pete Buttigeg (sp?) was my top choice last election. He didnt wow me and was not an ideal candidate... but he was the best IMO.

@stux if its the hosting at 10mb they need to be pretty slow....

@stux its likely cause im on wayland... 3d graphics int he browser or other graphics stuff can be glitchy.. id have to log back into Xorg to get it to work I think.

@stux shouldnt be the size im on a 1 GB two way link a few feet from the main exchange :) I literally bought my house specifically for the high speed internet :)

@stux I did its just slow as well... like reallly slow to load.. its slowly facing inthe robot now after 2 minutes

@stux I hope the damn thing is nuclear :)

By the way you ever play screeps?

@stux At this point i'd just settle for something that isnt a lizard in a human skin suit (obviously im half joking)

@stux

> if 80% if the people on the ballots are madman how big do you guess chances are the sane people are getting into office

100%, if voters were responsible.

They arent responsible though, and thats what im saying... **we** are 100% guilty for this situation because we choose to not pick the 20% sane people... thats on us.. cause we know damn well who they are, we just cant be arsed to get involved at lower levels.

@stux but what im saying is that because we get to place the people on the ballot int he first place, we are the ones to blame for only having craxies to choose from.

If we had simply picked sane people for our ballots then we would have sane people to pick from... remember by the time we see the ballots these people have went through dozens of lower tier elections to get there... its those lower tier elections that decide if the crazies or the sane ones bubble to the top.

@stux I mean... its hard to compare overt racism and the oppression of people with a threat that could lead to a global war... I agree neither should get a pass..

But also, lets look at the results... Trumps threats in this case literally had no negative outcome (despite its potential).. mostly leaders just laughed at him and in the end there was no nuclear war (not an excuse its jsut, the facts of what the consequences were)...

Biden however... he caused 10-15 extra years of segregation in our schools and a huge population of minorities who were unable to get a proper education because of his racism... bidens actions had real quantifiable harm... Trump, at least in the example of threatening nukes, did not...

That said Trump did worse things than threaten nukes and overall was a lot worse than that one example... was he worse than biden overall... i dunno.. he certainly **sounds** worse than biden.. but as I said I think biden is just smarter and more able to hide his evil... trump you know is evil the second he opens his mouth.. biden you have to do research.

@stux

The modern term for senility is dementia. and it comes in multiple forms, Alzheimer for example is the most common form people know. But yea this stuff can be seen on MRI, some people get diseases that cuase dimentia in old age, others dont.

> We can teach them to vote "better" but if there's nothing "better" to vote for it doesn't mean a thing and won't help either

This statement is wildly confusing... who you have to vote for is... the result of who you vote for... My presidential choice is the result of who i vote for at the party level... who is availible at the party level is the result of who i vote for at the local level, who is availible at the local level is the result of who i vote for out of the counsels and new comers... You act like they are forced to some small selection of people to vote for.... **you** (us) get to select every person at every level every step of the way.... so its still on **you** .. you (us) choose to vote for this people from the local elections on up... we put them on the ballot, and then voted for them.

@stux

For reference here is the quote we are discussing regarding Trump's thread of nuclear war:

> North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!

I certainly agree with you thats wrong and make no excuses for Trump speaking like that as president.

Now how does that compare to Biden who spent the first 10 - 15 years of his career trying to keep segregation alive so his kids can legally keep going to all-white schools... in his words because he doesnt want his kids to grow up in a "racial jungle"... and he was largely successful in his efforts to keep segregation alive too...

Id say of the two bidens impact is far far worse than the example we just gave of trump.. for one biden wasnt threatening he carrier it out and people suffered for a generation at the hand of his horrible racism.

@stux The problem is a person can live to 100+ and never show senility.

Senility is well defined in medical terms and can even be seen on an MRI... it does not have to go hand in hand with being old... yes you need to be old to get it, but being old doesnt garuntee senility either.

The way i see it if someone is senile it shows... everyone can see without much doubt biden is senile... so at that point it should be the voters who have the good sense to pick someone else... the fact they dont doesnt mean we need a law, it means we need to teach our children to be better voters.

@stux

I dunno their both dangerous in different ways... Trumps issue is that he doesnt try to hide how evil he is... the result is that causes people to riot (either for or against him, as we saw it from both sides)... and yes thats dangerous...

Biden the problem is he is just as evil, but he is smart enough to try to hide that evil... and he gets away with it (even if its obvious to people like you and me that he is just putting on face)

@stux yea our general polarity causing deadlock i a huge iussue too..

That said it is designed that way, so that when people stop talking and coorperating you dont get a tryanny of the majority, no side can function without compromise....

Its a good thing, because right now we are so dysfunctional the USA **should** be deadlocked, we are dangerous with one side in unilateral control or a lack of bipartisan compromise

That said its bad for ukrain and I admit thats a problem.

@stux The fact that Trump might actually win after his last HORRIFIC go at it is, I agree, laughable to say the least.

I dont fully agree with you that there should be an age limit. Its not about age, its about the senility... like Trump wasnt senile, he should of lost cause he was a piece of shit, not his age (or just being an idiot more generally)...

Biden is senile and i would have said he should not have won not because of his age but because of his obvious mental decline....

Lets just hope we get someone new this next round who is better than either of these asshats.