The idiocy is breathtaking.
"No need to do anything guys, he'll just flip next time he takes a shit. Let's just be cool and see what happens.
Trump has lost more money than any other person since the dawn of time. The biggest lover in the world.
I see it as giving everyone the responsibility to choose a representative. I don't think that's much to ask of citizens in a democracy. It's not like "forcing" a vegan to eat meat.
I like mandatory voting because it makes more people take an interest, and frankly I find it kind of undemocratic to try to suppress votes from people who might be less informed than yourself.
If they really object to voting they can pay the $20 fine as a conscientious objector.
I can't really respond to a made up statistic that you read somewhere. People use how to vote cards to choose preferences.
“I tell my people never use the word ‘coal’ unless you put ‘beautiful clean’ before it. … So we call it beautiful clean coal.”
There's not much I wouldn't give to make some of these fuckers experience the next 80 years the way my kids will.
I think after the most recent fiasco he's realised that he is deeply unpopular.
Could this be a snaps thing?
I despise snaps and left Ubuntu for that reason. I don't remember the specifics but I think even after installing firefox with apt it somehow get's magically switched to a snap.
I daily drive debian on a t490s and it's rock solid. There's just no way anyone could consider this set up unstable.
In recent years I've found most of my problems come from the fancy new packages. In order of reliability I find that it goes apt > .dev > AppImage > flatpak > snap
Honestly compulsory voting is one of the best things about Australian democracy.
Trying to explain it to the yanks is just bonkers.
100% agreed. It just seems so naive.
Things are terrible on this commercial walled garden platform, we should migrate to the new trendy commercial walled garden platform.
I always say in these threads, governments should run their own mastodon instances.
Yeah. There are plenty of evil CEOs and also evil business owners, but most small businesses are just normal people trying to be fair and make their way.
We're doing ok.
I'll def get some time off over the weekend but it feels great to smash out a few jobs over the weekend.
I'm going to keep working.
I'm self employed and if I stop working for any significant period of time I get anxious about how much work I have to get done.
Yes. Is shit.
Nothing wrong with that. I'm a guy and I aspire to live a stress-free leisurely life.
If some sugar-mama would keep me I would take it.
That's not really on the cards, but I certainly don't begrudge anyone living a life of luxury man or woman.
Classic Trump.
I take issue with the "replacing other industries" part.
I know that this is an unpopular opinion among programmers but all professions have roles that range from small skills sets and little cognitive abilities to large skill sets and high level cognitive abilities.
Generative AI is an incremental improvement in automation. In my industry it might make someone 10% more productive. For any role where it could make someone 20% more productive that role could have been made more efficient in some other way, be it training, templates, simple conversion scripts, whatever.
Basically, if someone's job can be replaced by AI then they weren't really producing any value in the first place.
Of course, this means that in a firm with 100 staff, you could get the same output with 91 staff plus Gen AI. So yeah in that context 9 people might be replaced by AI, but that doesn't tend to be how things go in practice.