If more of you would have voted for Jill Stein, we wouldn't be in this mess!
/s in case that wasn't obvious
teawrecks
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So, I guess this means smart, ethical, and charismatic. I feel like this is one of those cases where I get to pick ~~two~~ one of those traits, and it has to be charismatic.
That seems to accurately describe where we find ourselves. To quote Men in Black, "A person is smart, people are dumb."
I think we don't get out of this situation by thinking real hard and convincing people to vote based on a theoretical future; people will only change their behaviour in the face of an actual failure. I'm not a historian, but I have to assume the appeal of fascism was alive and well in the US during the great depression. We just had the opportunity to learn from Germany and Italy's mistakes before we went down the same road. Now WE are the example that will hopefully sway other countries' democratic behaviors.
Ex. the conservative party was heavily favored to win the Canadian election after Trudeau stepped down, but ever since Trump took office, the polls have completely reversed. Still unclear where it will land, but I think Canada's voters are getting that much needed opportunity to learn from our failures.
I feel like this question is as useful as asking "when is it ok to downvote someone?" You can theorize about how a downvote should only be used when someone is not contributing to the discussion honestly, and how you should never downvote someone just because you disagree with them....but at the end of the day, people are gonna downvote others for whatever random reason they feel like.
Similarly, is it useful to ask what a vote "means" in a democracy? Or is it a waste of time to try and apply reason to, or derive reason from, the behavior of a hivemind? Unlike individuals who can learn from hypothetical failures, I personally believe hiveminds (groups/societies/whatever word you'd like to use) can only learn from actual failures.
The people could elect a perfect model citizen who will represent the people's best interests, but if what's best for the people in the long term comes with too much discomfort in the near term, the people will happily vote against their own interests.
Hah very different themes I'd say.
On the Beach is about all the people who thought it'd be a good idea to move to Australia in case all the nukes drop during the Cold War, and then the nukes drop and everyone in the northern hemisphere dies and they survive, but then they realize they're just waiting for the natural wind patterns to bring all the radiation over to them to kill them too. The only way to win is not to play.
So similar in that they're both very dismal.
Don't say Linux then. If they already barely know windows, that's an ideal situation, it's going to be similarly confusing either way.
If your concern is that you think they would run into more stability issues when using a linux-based OS vs Windows, that's a reasonable concern. But if we're comparing against a sufficiently stable distro release, I don't think it's well founded.
Well at least the physical key works for the doors. What year is that?
Yeah, I wish there was a company that made a fully dumb electric car, but there's just no incentive to do that. I have a 2014 gas car with a normal physical key that you use to turn start it, but I don't think I've ever seen an electric car where you have to use the physical key to start the car.
has a real physical key that has to be in the cabin to drive
🤨 the way you say "has to be in the cabin" makes me think it's not a real physical key, and is actually a wireless smart key that you leave in your pocket when starting the car.
It did really take off about 5 years ago.
Ever read the book On the Beach?
And don't forget, we also gotta get our children involved. It's outrageous that government regulations are preventing their small fingers from taking advantage of lucrative opportunitues. They yern for the mines!
How does it compare to fzf?
Also, fd already means "file descriptor".
Please, elaborate...