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  • I’d like to request that you please read my posts in full before responding, and don’t skim it and assume you understand the jist of what I’m saying. This method is failing you.

    I think your COVID denialist is showing a bit

    I’m not saying covid was equivalent to the flu, I’m saying that for the vast majority of cases, it didn’t progress to be life threatening. That’s just the data.

    My point is, that makes a big difference when you’re talking about people who ignore data and don’t have empathy outside their in-group. What they see every day matters more than what anyone tells them, or what theoretical people are experiencing. And once the full economic impact of these executive orders becomes felt, it’s going to affect almost everyone far more than a being “out sick” for a couple weeks. They won’t have jobs, they won’t be able to afford food, it’s not something they will be able to ignore.

    If you seriously think the red states…are going to ever come around to acknowledge that they were swindled by this loser and turn on him en masse, I’m not sure what to tell you.

    Again, his core base will buy into his rhetoric for sure, they’ll get grifted to their grave. But his core base didn’t get him elected, people voting against inflation did, and rhetoric won’t put food on their table, that’s why Harris lost.

    Those who voted against inflation are on their last leg as it is. 10 years ago 70% of the US was living paycheck to paycheck, 5 years ago credit card debt began to spike, today the general population holds more debt than our entire GDP. Most people simply don’t have the luxury of being complacent during this term. Protests today won’t fizzle, they’ll progress into civil unrest. And Trump has made it clear by the amount of power he’s consolidating under the executive branch that he has no intention of ceding power in a future election, so he’s going to be the one most people blame for the situation. Not his base, but most people.


  • I don’t agree that covid was a representative “test run” of suffering we’re willing to tolerate, because I think 1% of people with 100% suffering (i.e. death) is not the same as 99% of people with, let’s say 50% suffering (losing jobs, not having enough food, poor healthcare). Like it or not, for most people, covid was a minor inconvenience. For most people it did amount to a flu. But this presidency is poised to be much more impactful to more people, IMO. And I think that will make a huge difference in how red states react.



  • If that were possible, then I think it proves their point that people are overreacting to the “fake news media”.

    But I don’t think that will be possible, because it really seems like there’s no way all of these piss poor executive orders won’t have very tangible repercussions on the working class. It’s already starting with govt workers being laid off, all retail chains telling shareholders that they’ll be raising prices in response to tariffs, grocery prices continuing to rise, and people having loved ones shipped off to Guantanamo.

    IMO, today it’s protests, and in a year if it continues on this course, it will turn into outrage. Many many people are at their breaking point, not politically, but just from the ability to survive. He’s going to say it’s AntiFa, BLM, and Communists trying to stop him from saving the country, but only his core base will continue to accept that. Rhetoric and excuses don’t put food on the table.



  • If you had asked me Q1 a month ago, I would have said yes (and in general, it is a yes, with enough effort). But i run endeavour (arch) and my partner runs mint (which ships with the Cinnamon WM), and a few weeks ago I recommended that she try out KDE Plasma for its wayland support. Turns out, this is not something the mint community supports, you can’t just install it through their software manager, and the mint forums will all tell you to switch to another distro that supports KDE. Meanwhile, on arch, I expect to be able to install it through pacman, choose it from SDDM, and I’m done. Maybe tweak something in my .config, but it’s all downhill from there.

    Just a datapoint. Some distros (and their communities) seem to be more receptive to experimentation than others, which can make trying new things easier/harder.

    I would recommend fedora, debian, or endeavour + KDE/gnome. Good luck!






  • I think Lemmy has the capacity to have even more bots, because moderation is so inconsistent and underfunded. The big sites have the resources to fight bots, but ironically have an incentive to embrace them because it reflects well on DAU. IMO the only thing keeping bots off lemmy is a lack of ROI. Great, you spent how much to influence the views of a minuscule userbase in the corner of the internet no one goes to?

    Still, it does feel sometimes like our share of braindead group think is higher than it should be…





  • I think answering questions in the context of work is different, because then, yeah I agree, your goal isn’t to answer their question, it’s to solve their problem.

    But if someone makes a thread asking “How do I serve a fileshare publicly”, I think it’s better to answer with something like, “Open this config, change these options, open these ports in your network, and restart these services. NOW, why do you want to do this? Because it might be a bad idea…etc.” Assume that their usecase is private info, and that they are asking the question they mean to ask. Because when someone else who knows they need to do X comes searching for this thread later, you won’t be able to ask about their use case.

    I also made this adjustment in another comment, but I think at a minimum, if you’re offering Y because you don’t know how to do X, don’t say “you shouldn’t want to do X”, instead be clear and say “I don’t know how to do X, but Y might be an option for you”. If no one reading the thread actually knows how to do X, then that’s also useful info.



  • Yes, the XY Problem (or in this case, the YX Problem).

    I think it’s still better to abide by the rule as I wrote it, because IMO it is actually more elucidating for someone to be able to explain how to do X as it is written, and then provide Y as a possibly preferable alternative, than for someone who maybe really doesn’t know how to do X just propose Y instead.

    It might even be the case that Y is the solution OP should be asking for, but 10y later when someone else finds that same thread, and Y isn’t an option for them, the thread is much less useful.

    At a bare minimum, don’t say “you shouldn’t want to do X”, either explain how to do X, or be clear about the fact that you don’t know how.