michel

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[–] michel@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe the broligarchy currently in charge will finally disabuse people of the notion of white male superiority. Maybe…

[–] michel@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Trump didn't even get a majority of the popular vote - you might be thinking of the electoral college, which skewed the result by overweighting sparsely populated deep red states

https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2024presgeresults.pdf

[–] michel@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

The problem is the electoral system. In a system that allows for voting for smaller parties without wasting your vote, the US would probably have 4-5 parties at least. Red state moderates would not be lumped together with progressives, and main street Republicans with the evangelical wing with MAGA

[–] michel@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And apparently the “new” Model Y is even worse than the old one. That’s their bread and butter.

https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-reviews/tesla/model-y-suv/

[–] michel@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only two thirds of the senate

https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/impeachment.htm

And to start the impeachment trial you just need a normal majority in the House

[–] michel@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah. I know Indonesia is cracking down on phone smuggling now by locking carrier access to registered IMEIs

If you bring one back you get a cheaper import fee if you declare it immediately

[–] michel@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Negotiations might not be fruitful but if you know that going in, and it can stave off tariffs for a while it might be worth it really. Just set expectations accordingly - and prepare for the worst. And don’t give actual concessions

[–] michel@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” comes to mind

[–] michel@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm so sorry. And the UK is also increasingly discriminating against trans people too, ugh

[–] michel@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Move to a border state like Washington, get an enhanced driver license and cross into Canada? EDL functions like a passport for land crossings.

Not sure what sort of federal checks are done for issuing those and if it’s still possible, sorry

[–] michel@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good point. Though I wonder how much is due to Hitler being chancellor and Goering the minister president of Prussia.

 

Writing this as procrastination from actually finishing my presentation slides :p

I am a Fedora contributor, though my $dayjob is working for Facebook (luckily my role lets me work on Fedora and other open source technologies).

I am concerned with the direction both the technology sector is taking, and the wider economy in general - the predominance of large companies creating increasing monopolization of many sectors of the economy (especially true in the US), the increasing relegation of end users to be mere operators of their devices, the bloat and wastage and upgrade treadmills...

My ongoing resolution is to gradually achieve what Kashmir Hill famously tried and failed at last year -- reduce the influence of proprietary technology, and non-community-owned companies, in my life, especially those funded by advertising since that is a perverse incentive (monetizing attention span) diametrically opposed to the user's best interest, whether privacy or well-being.

I'm starting #100DaysToOffload soon on my blog, once the Nest with Fedora conference is over, and will be covering my digital detox among other things

  • switching away from Gmail
  • almost entirely cutting out Facebook products (except with contacts that exclusively use it)
  • using a Pine Phone (once mine arrives)
  • using Nextcloud instead of Dropbox and Google Calendar / Contacts
  • using Cryptpad instead of the rest of the Google Suite

You can find me on Matrix at michel-slm:matrix.org and michel:michel-slm.name -- the latter is less active as I use Matrix to bridge to Freenode

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