Agreed, with the caveat that we don’t need anger. Anger is fine, of course, but we need a sense of purpose. The realization that the DNC is a force for corporate greed, that we cannot support it or expect it to save us, and the determination to go in a different direction.

IMO he was weak the first time, too. Center-right Democrats are plague on the country.

If he’s bitter, just imagine how the rest of us feel, watching him disappoint us as we expected he would but hoped he wouldn’t.

I think they’ll keep backing their corporate funders until the people bail on them and all move to a different political organization. Someday.

That is true, if you ignore voter suppression, winner take all, the electoral college, disenfranchising felons, redistricting, and all the other bullshit.

Of course Americans still need to step up and solve the problems, but if all you can do is blame the victims … to put it nicely … it tells us a lot about your personality.

What you been smoking, my friend?

Maybe you didn’t read that comment? I think you got it backwards.

Why? Because we can identify propaganda like this very easily. You should consider the following basic questions when you are consuming news. What’s the publisher? Are they reliable? Do they have incentive to lie about this issue? Can we confirm anything that they claim in this article? Who are their sources? Do we know the names of their sources? Do we have any good reason to believe their sources?

In other words, this article doesn’t pass the five second test for reliability.

There is no point. There are billions of points, because there are billions of people, and that’s the point.

You know that there are hundreds or thousands of reasonable uses of generative AI, whether it’s customer support or template generation or brainstorming or the list goes on and on. Obviously you know that. So I’m not sure that you’re asking a meaningful question. People are using a tool to solve various problems, but you don’t see the point in that?

If your position is that they should use other tools to solve their problems, that’s certainly a legitimate view and you could argue for it. But that’s not what you wrote and I don’t think that’s what you feel.

From an advertising perspective, it’s important to think about who you’re targeting. Who are your likely customers? Certainly there are some based on the strengths that you raised.

However, some people are definitely not a good target audience, and some people is actually a very large group of people. There are a lot of current and potential users who essentially want the standard major applications to work, and they’re not going to touch the root partition, and they want things to be very simple. For people like that, Debian or Ubuntu or Fedora already do what they want. And these major operating systems have been around for so long that people will naturally be more confident using them, because they were their friends have experience, or because they think the organization has more stability because of its experience.

Of course a lot of things depend on how you define words, but to me the above paragraph describes the mainstream audience, and I don’t think you’re going to have much luck reaching them, because I don’t think the thing you’re trying to sell gives them extra value. In other words, it’s not solving a problem for them, so why should they care.

If you make a “no felons can be president” then you give state and local DAs the power to destroy someone’s election chances. That’s a dangerous proposition and I don’t support it, because you know Texas would start fucking with every decent future left-wing candidate.

On the other hand, if you’re suggesting that he should be behind bars already, and therefore ineligible for president on account of “he’s locked the fuck up right now”, I agree.

We did long ago. All of the prosecution for four years ago should have started 3.9 years ago, and it didn’t, and that was an active choice by DOJ leadership and Joe Biden.

(And screw them for doing that.)

I wasn’t trying to show her anything. Why would I? Why would anyone? You have really strange views on how people choose who to vote for.

$20 is not worth the time to plan anything, let alone create it. Just consider the hourly.

P.S. … and don’t go to McDonald’s later. Stick with Burger King or Arby’s.

Making the existence of the switch public is often something you don’t want. It allows others to do troubleshooting in advance. It also destroys your reputation with many people who might otherwise work with you.

If you are content to keep things secret, share the documents with several different friends or law firms in several different countries along with conditions for release. Don’t tell them or everyone who all has the documents. That sounds relatively simple.

Everything relies on someone caring, in this context.

Many of the bosses are also racist sexist assholes. It is not only caving.

They don’t know anything special.

We don’t need campaign insiders to tell us anything. We watched her do all the wrong things, just as any corporate democrat candidate would. It’s not like anything was a secret. If she wanted workers’ votes, all she had to do was actually push some decent policies.