LesserAbe

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

Tired metric joke

[–] LesserAbe 4 points 1 month ago

I feel like the audience on lemmy is uniquely primed to see "Doctor Who" vs the general public. Also fuck Trump

[–] LesserAbe 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Israel gov is apartheid and fascist. Still, we exist in the world, and someone will be elected president of the United States. A person here can either vote strategically, or they can abstain and potentially help the worst option win.

[–] LesserAbe 6 points 1 month ago

What little canvassing I've done has been using your own device, and that was where I was volunteering for a cause I believed in. If the canvassers are paid and not ideologically motivated you could imagine tablets walking off.

[–] LesserAbe 9 points 1 month ago

I don't know whether Gulen was good or bad, but I do remember thinking it was funny when Erdogan was denouncing him after the coup attempt and wouldn't say his name, instead the release said something like "the Turkish people don't take orders from Allentown" like it was a foreign capital.

[–] LesserAbe 62 points 1 month ago (2 children)

For reciprocal holidays like Christmas, giving cash maybe gets a little too close to exposing the pointlessness. I give you cash, then you give me cash, what are we doing here? And what if I gave you less than you gave me?

A gift card does indicate I thought a little bit about what the recipient might like, even if I know it would be impractical for me to make a choice on the recipient's behalf, or that my gift wouldn't be sufficient to cover a typical purchase in whole. (Thinking like gaming systems, expensive handbags etc)

All that said, I generally agree, I'm not crazy about gift cards.

[–] LesserAbe 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Go Netherlands

[–] LesserAbe 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Uh, oops, I meant to scroll within this app, but instead I've just sent porn to some girl on the bus

Oops, I meant to scroll up but instead I've sent our company's sales figures to our client sitting in this meeting

[–] LesserAbe 1 points 1 month ago

I just switched to Reaper. This was a couple years ago so maybe it's better now, I don't know.

[–] LesserAbe 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Lol spending hours and days is correct but for me it was spent on trying to get the signal from your interface to actually reach the program and then figure out why there's so much latency.

[–] LesserAbe 3 points 1 month ago

Where would we be without kludging stuff

[–] LesserAbe 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Can they make you do the menial/repetitive tasks? I tried following some of the links in the article but didn't see an answer. I get part of it is cultural and not wanting to be ostracized, but seems like if you can browse the web or read or whatever might not be too bad to stretch things out

 

ALEC is a conservative group that writes model legislation in the U.S., and hundreds of their bills have been enacted in different states. Many of them are harmful. But you have to admire the model in some ways because it's working. It saves legislators research, it propagates the "best" policies and implementations from their view rather than relying on individuals to figure it out themselves, and (presumably) avoids some legal challenges by involving experts at the beginning.

Is there a progressive version? I've come across one example, SIX, which doesn't quite seem to fit the description because they only keep a library of legislation from various states, they don't write bills from scratch.

I got to thinking about this because while many of us support various ideas, it's not always clear how to put them into action. Something like universal healthcare: are there ways states (or even municipalities or counties) could start to put this into action? I'm not an expert, and frankly most legislators aren't either. But if we could bring together experts and create model legislation, that would be something we could rally around and demand from our elected officials. This applies to many issues like sustainability, public housing, free higher education, addressing food insecurity, universal basic income, better electoral systems.

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"John Brown's body lies a mouldering in the grave, his soul is marching on!" If ideas can self replicate (like the original conception of a meme), which ones do you want to see marching on?

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