LesserAbe

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[–] LesserAbe 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It should really be global orgasm hour, or ideally minute

[–] LesserAbe 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

After a cursory search I couldn't find info on whether global orgasm day is still celebrated. But I did find out a number of countries have national orgasm day, which isn't as cool

[–] LesserAbe 3 points 1 month ago

Well I don't really expect someone in prison to win, but I don't believe there's any law about the location where the president gets sworn in. If a majority of voters chose that person, they could get sworn in in jail, immediately pardon themselves and off they go.

[–] LesserAbe 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Eugene Debs, the must successful American socialist candidate for president, was at one point running for office while in prison. Of course he lost so I can't imagine it helped

[–] LesserAbe 4 points 1 month ago

I hear you that it's tiring and intimidating dealing with fascists. That said I don't think it's factual to say they only need to win once, and believing so creates a strategic disadvantage.

Factually, world war 2 is the classic example of fascists needing to win continually and being unable to do it. The Nazis had a good showing in an election, Hitler was made chancellor and then they used that foot in the door to take over the government and seize many countries. But they lost in the end, and that was a result of resistance, not just militarily but the sum of every individual act of opposition.

There's a concept of anticipatory obedience. Corporations and local governments sometimes fell over themselves to do what they thought the fascist government would ask before the actual ask. Even if Trump seized power, that wouldn't be the end. They need us to cooperate. And by resisting in a concrete way (not just #resist posting of course) we will stop fascism.

It's never over. Fascism is destined to lose. It's a question of how much suffering and injustice can we avoid by defeating it sooner.

And believing like they want us to believe, that it's all over, is a strategic disadvantage. If we believe we're beaten or that victory is impossible we'll act that way. Believe that we can win, and spread that belief, and we'll act that way.

[–] LesserAbe 5 points 1 month ago

He's an inspiration.

[–] LesserAbe 71 points 1 month ago (1 children)

She said to vote straight Dem ticket while at a really meant to bring out support for Harris. This article is intended to sow division instead of report in an accurate context.

[–] LesserAbe 17 points 1 month ago

The article spent a lot of time speculating about the reasons why one candidate or the other had a lead, without providing any data. Then it gets to this guy's model, and it's based off predictit??

I think Harris pulls this off, but as problematic as some polls can be, betting markets are even less reliable. This article essentially means nothing.

[–] LesserAbe 1 points 1 month ago

I think it would have helped for the person who posted that to include context, but I would guess they were linking because it also talks about how Kagi isn't privacy focused.

[–] LesserAbe 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The linked post goes into detail about why the author views Kagi as not privacy oriented, and that in the author's opinion Kagi is overly focused on AI. (And was originally started as an AI company)

[–] LesserAbe 3 points 1 month ago

I'm not familiar with all his policies, but he's been good on gerrymandering which is my pet issue, and which I think is key to making progress on pretty much every other issue.

[–] LesserAbe 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd say it's been over a decade since I've had an issue where windows task manager didn't work. Maybe I'm not using exciting enough programs.

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A fish out of water (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by LesserAbe to c/comicstrips
 
 

I think budgeting and practical finances should be taught at multiple stages throughout a student's life. I thought I knew the general idea but didn't appreciate how much neglecting it would set me back.

What is your process for budgeting? As a starting point this article lists a few methods.

I use zero based budgeting where every dollar is assigned a purpose. I don't end up sticking exactly to the plan, but I do keep a spreadsheet which lists my current balances and all expected expenses, so I can see my future balance and avoid going in the red. A couple times a month I cross off expenses which have been paid and update the balance. This is especially helpful to me because a big portion of my income is irregular month to month.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by LesserAbe to c/asklemmy
 

Ripping off a post I just saw in the Isaac Arthur subreddit. Imagining we work out the technical ability. Examples they suggested were:

  • No periods
  • No balding
  • No nausea
  • No body odor
  • Resistance to obesity and muscle wasting
 

This site has these sorts of stats for each state.

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Scalable (lemmy.world)
 
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