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Like everything else, it's only a matter of time before capital gets its way. Democracy is illusory in case you haven't noticed.

If they wanted to do that, they'd pick stronger arguments for starters. But either way, social media updoots and shares aren't going to change anything with capital's plans, so it'd be weird for a foreign power to think that it would.

Social media fosters that kind of behavior. Plus, people usually don't look into issues before deciding which "side" to be on, and more importantly don't examine if the sides are a manufactured false dichotomy, as they often are.

I've long suspected that monied interests are seeding social media with weak arguments about water as a distraction, and people mindlessly re-share that as part of their identity. Then the other half can come along and "correct" them while the main issue of power is forgotten. Social media gets engagement, and capital gets its data centers.

It's the same tired distraction pattern we've seen for a long time now in politics, and they keep rolling it out because it works.

Grocery prices at Aldi, Walmart, Costco are amazingly low, especially when accounting for the freshness, quality, and variety of foods today vs. 30 years ago.

Many prices at those places have doubled in the last ten years or less.

And as my parent comment says, voting for complicit Dems is a future vote for him.

Treating a corrupt system as legitimate is what perpetuates it. Only one of the three options marks it as illegitimate.

Collectively admitting the problem is a prerequisite to fixing it.

You might as well say neither side are perfect (which no one disagrees with).

Maybe if you want to manufacture consent for the broken system which continues to make lives worse with each passing year instead of confront it.

If you're trying to find agreement, maybe say both sides are responsible for widespread misery, and corruption/exploitable systems and perpetual settling for lesser-evils among "voters" is what keeps us on this path.

And before anybody tries to blame the non-voters, abstaining from voting in a broken system is indeed a vote.

We're going to take the "both sides bad" intellectual dishonesty

The intellectual dishonesty is pretending that not calling out both sides will lead to any kind of long term solution.

But hey! Kamala would've done the same.

Saying both sides are bad is not saying they're the same. They take on different forms but are both fundamentally broken and part of the same uniparty of capital interests. The blue/red parties offer an illusion of democracy, but really they just play good cop/bad cop while ultimately serving the wants of elites instead of needs/wants of the vast majority.

But elections appear close, so people think they still have a democracy while they argue about which flavor of shit to install in the control booth. Installing the subjectively "less bad" flavor only guarantees the other one will soon take over in a collective race to the bottom. Dems elevated Trump from meme tier gameshow host to serious contender thanks to their pied piper strategy, and all they could manage was to get mad at wikileaks for exposing them.

They don't need any more incentive or backing from monied interests

Because they are the monied interests.

What they don't want is for the conversation to turn from people blindly rejecting data centers (for any reason) to people saying wait a minute, let's embrace technology/AI but let users benefit from every aspect instead of being capital's bitch every second the day.

Power though? Still a problem.

I've long suspected that monied interests are seeding social media with weak arguments about water as a distraction, and people mindlessly re-share that as part of their identity. Then the other half can come along and "correct" them while the main issue of power is forgotten. Social media gets engagement, and capital gets its data centers.

It's the same tired pattern we've seen for a long time now in politics, and they keep rolling it out because it works.

False dichotomy. There's no reason it couldn't impact software as well as other things. Also, it's obviously not the only acting force.

How does impaired human memory and increased risk taking relate to software stability?

Another elephant in the room is the widespread impact of neverending COVID re-infections of people who don't wear N95s in public (most people). Vaccines don't prevent transmission, which leaves everyone open to acquiring long COVID. Long COVID is very likely underdiagnosed due to widespread ignorance, and not helping matters is that 40% of infections are asymptomatic during the acute phase.

Long COVID can include issues with memory and risk taking.

https://www.camh.ca/en/camh-news-and-stories/rsch-new-study-...

I don't think software is the only field impacted by this, but it's undoubtedly one of them considering how few people take proper precautions via regular N95 usage.

COVID in general is also heavily politicized (as seen in the silent downvotes), and the back-to-normal agenda was forced by capital interests, including tactics like mass disinformation campaigns.

I love Zettlr for this!

I still do mine at home, though I mostly only build one-offs with older style thru-hole components where tolerances are not as sensitive.

Usually I can get away with using a simple Sharpie marker mask, though I've also had good luck in the past with the toner transfer method for more intricate designs:

https://www.thompdale.com/pcb_etch/gotee_board_production/Ea...

In a limited fashion, yes. But ebooks mean you can search highlights, categorize them, see summaries of them, etc if using calibre, zotero, or similar.

Personally I like to highlight certain passages (non-fiction) for future reference, and this only works on ebooks.

Those are facts, not insults. HN isn't known for sugar-coating facts. If they offend you, consider asking yourself why.

The levels that capital interests stooped to, and it worked. Nobody was given an alternative, nor the facts that would motivate searching for one.

Ya, everything is a conspiracy.

No conspiracy required. It's just corporations acting like one would expect. In fact, it'd be very strange if they didn't.

It's fundamentally a design problem (or for elites, a solution).

Why didn’t these folks file this petition sometime during the 12 years since then where it likely would’ve gotten a more favorable reception?

Because then The Uniparty would look bad.

Instead, we can prop up the illusion of democracy and point fingers at "the other side" of good cop / bad cop while elites poison everybody more. We wouldn't want people living too far beyond their working years, after all.

A - masks don't protect you, they protect others

This is flat wrong, but also a demonstration of how far the Back To Normal propaganda propagated, because it's a common misconception. They protect both; especially at an N95 level of filtration.

B - what % of the population leaves the house when they feel sick enough that they should wear a mask?

For starters, ~40% of COVID infections are asymptomatic (and still carry the same aforementioned long-term risks).

If you look into the effects, they're two separate categories of damage. Also, considering COVID keeps mutating, it's much harder to control.

Anybody curious might consider scanning the sticky posts on /r/zerocovidcommunity for more information and links to external sources.

how many people come out of the wood work to make disparaging comments about people who use cannabis

It's actually not even just HN. I've noticed this with many people in real life (US).

It's especially strong with the subset of Boomers who never used it. They make it part of their personality to have not used it, while often fully embracing alcohol and ignoring all of the personal and societal risks it brings. Surely they pass this mentality onto their kids with a 50% success rate.

Maybe it's some kind of inferiority/superiority compensation mechanism for not being a hippy like their rival sibling was, etc.

If people are this concerned about heart health, they'd be wise to continue a zero-covid lifestyle into 2026 and beyond, since each re-infection (which vaccines don't prevent) increases the risk of severe health outcomes, including heart-related issues among lots of others.

Yet I only see about .5-1% of the population in my area these days wearing any kind of mask/N95 respirator in public.

lazy pothead

But not all potheads are lazy, and many non-potheads are.

Media tropes sure are great at propagating myths and generating false stigma, which creates a chilling effect for ever correcting the former.

https://thereitis.org/mr-x-by-carl-sagan

It's not even limited to tech workers. Propaganda runs deep.

Can we get rid of the chlormequat while we're at it?

https://www.earth.com/news/banned-chemical-chlormequat-found...

This should be the absolutely only thing that Democrats talk about.

Democrats are half of the uniparty of capital interests. They only exist to prop up the illusion of a functioning democracy.

"Look guys, the election was so close! Democracy is still alive! We just need to vote harder [for the lesser of two evils] next time!"

They make breakout boards that mate with the main ATX motherboard connector on the PSU. Bonus that some of them even include fuses.

And at that point, why not just chop up an old ATX case to house everything, assuming there's clearance.