Much of it was all posted in a short period of time. I ignored him after he picked it up and told me what it was for. I’m just always saddened and frustrated that there seem to always be people jumping to take advantage of any situation, be a middle man.

In the long run, it’s again at least better than wasting it. I don’t have the patience to deal with trying to sell most things. It’s not like I went out and bought the stuff with the intent of giving them away to someone who needs it for free. It just… doesn’t feel as rewarding as knowing it is actually going to help someone besides a middle man.

Skip due process and this is guaranteed to happen.

I was honestly really put off when some old guy nabbed a ton of stuff I had on there so that he could sell it all at his church’s fundraising auctions. Like, I’d rather not throw it away but eww.

He was almost always the first to respond to my posts when I was trying to downsize.

You literally can’t do what ICE has been doing and not also do it to citizens. Due process must happen. If an exception is granted to this, then no one is safe.

First, what do you consider AI?

Algorithms tweaked by ML for a very specific, narrowly scoped task? I have very different feelings on those vs. something like what the tech giants try to insert into every interaction I have with them.

only because friends millionaires are there to leech off them

Seems only fair, since it is virtually impossible to amass millions without leeching off of society as a whole.

I’ll admit there may be a few good millionaires, but that’s only because greedflation has made it so that a million isn’t what it used to be.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/07/white-house-snap-november-court-order

I guess they don’t even have to bother.

Had an issue with Comcast today. They forced me to use their Xfinity app, but what I needed to do wasn’t an apparent option within the app. The only option I saw was a support chatbot. The chatbot listed a link to the option I was looking for. The link opened a webview within the Xfinity app, in which there was a link to download the Xfinity app.

Unnecessary Apps and chat bots. Two of my least favorite things referring me back and forth, forever, in an endless loop.

bet is that there’s video evidence of Trump raping a minor

Just delay until AI video is good enough to claim it’s AI.

No idea. They always take their time, delay, and appeal so I just assume that’ll be the eventual resolution.

Plausible deniability.

Reports of a masked ICE Agent murdering an individual filming an ICE raid, then fleeing the scene. “That wasn’t an actual ICE agent. Don’t worry, it’s… ‘under investigation’ and we’ll never release any information about the incident ever again.”

I think by saying he’ll defy a court order, he’s letting the supreme court know they have to okay whatever bullshit he comes up with. Otherwise, it will become obvious that they can’t do jack shit.

I think escalation and violence from one side or another is happening regardless.

On one hand, if this is the game he will play he can make things worse and worse and just say “but if you react, I get what I want”. Then he ruins programs and gets what he wants. On the other hand he has made things worse and more violent by lying and claiming that there is already a violent response… and he gets what he wants.

Win win for fascism either way.

the hoops… [they]… make you jump through with regard to layering

I played around with a few atomic distros and it seems like rather than layering, running things in containers is the preferred solution.

It won’t be the solution for everything that layering could “fix”, depending on your situation, but it is something that I wasn’t initially aware of when I started playing with Bazzite, Fedora Atomic, and now Aurora.

Basically, if you could just run whatever you need to run in a container, that might be another solution.

It is so much easier and so much more profitable to be the minority party of opposition to evil. You don’t need exciting new ideas, just exciting “back to normal” ideas. …and even “normal” can be made progressively shittier every cycle.

The rich and powerful can handpick their favorite candidates, negotiate a few table scraps in the direction of normal that they’re willing to accept, and call it a win. The campaign industrial complex gets to make a shit load of money.

Most importantly, their ultimate campaign slogan is “Vote for me, or else evil wins.” Easy money all around.

Then when nothing good happens during a Democrats’s turn, they can blame Democrats and then the Republicans they handpick get to ratchet things back in the rich’s direction again.

And Elon sleeps in a bed with his wife?

And how would they be in a position to do any of those things, for good or ill? I reiterate that it’s via the electoral methods I mentioned.

Your view of politics is extremely narrow and simple or you’re continuing to argue in bad faith. Campaigns don’t happen in a vacuum and suddenly you’re handed a ballot.

Holy shit if only someone could have fucking forseen it!

You missed my point entirely. My point is you are beating a dead horse and achieving nothing, save for maybe making yourself feel superior?

And if that discourages people from voting, I don’t know what to tell you.

There’s nothing to say. You listen about as well as you think “those idiots” listen and you appear incapable of empathy or compassion. There’s no point in discussing this any further.

The way the game works is the person with the most electoral college votes wins the presidency and the party that controls Congress controls the country.

That’s not the game they are trying to play. I think you know this and you are, unsurprisingly, arguing in bad faith.

“The game”, in this case, is to influence politics. Perhaps to get the Democrats to take a firm stance on Israel’s genocide, to get them to push for more progressive policies, to get them to be as inclusive as they claim to be, to get them to be more democratic in their selection of leadership, something else, or a combination of some or all of these things.

You want to pretend this was some grand gesture against one particular genocide, go ahead.

It was many things, like frustration about any or all of the things I mentioned above. It was not a grand gesture. It was desperate flailing of a demoralized subset of people.

You sound like you just want to feel superior. You sound like you are rightly upset by the current situation and are looking for answers and someone to blame. It seems counter productive, if you want things to get better.

It’s been a motherfucking year and we’re needed in the voting booths again. Do you want these “idiots” to sit out again or do you want them to back the not-fascists and maybe steer the country a bit toward sanity?

Honestly, I suspect many of you people who won’t fucking get over it are actually just fascists trying to stir shit up and discourage people from voting.

I’m not condoning the game as it currently exists but we do have to live in the aftermath. Given that fact, there are optimal ways to play the game, like voting for the lesser evil when the alternative is clearly much worse.

I don’t think anyone who abstained from voting for Harris in 2024 made the right move, but I empathize with anyone who became fed up with the game and just sat out or tried to use their third party vote or something to send a message. There are ways to improve the game but they are, admittedly, very difficult to pull off and it can be demoralizing when it doesn’t work out, over and over. What I think they don’t understand is that the Dem leadership won’t get the kind of message that people sent in 2024 - leadership is too isolated and the message was too muddled.

Big, organized grassroots movements, like Mamdani’s in NYC are what is needed. The party leadership will need to be dragged kicking and screaming, possibly primaried and ousted, for things to get better. It’s way too easy to be the less-conservative-billionaire-funded minority opposition party and just campaign on that while only marginally pushing for change that the billionaires can agree on.

Weaken and divide the left like screaming Harris supports genocide?

Ah, so not only should they have voted for Harris, they should have been silent about the administration’s support of genocide. Even now, in retrospect, as everyone agrees that the genocide is a fact.

Clearly, someone so morally bankrupt as to feel the need to communicate their disgust at their candidate over such an insignificant issue as genocide should be subjected to, at every opportunity, public shaming, derision, and mocking.

It’s more important than they should feel ashamed now that their taking a stand over genocide had its own, worse consequences. I’m sure that, instead of putting them on the defensive and pushing them away, it will ensure they feel warm and fuzzy feelings for they next milquetoast candidate that refuses to take a stand on genocide. They’ll vote for them now, for sure.

Also, I love how everyone assumes I’m defending myself when I give people shit for being unable to move on. These people aren’t idiots. These people feel betrayed and hopeless. Explaining the way the game works is infinitely more productive than blame and derision.