[-] stinerman@midwest.social 12 points 1 week ago

One thing that I think non-USians don't understand is that our elections are not ran by some non-partisan agency that has a goal of running an efficient, fair election. Our elections in general (although it varies by state) are ran by partisan actors who know which areas vote for their party and which ones don't. They intentionally try to make it easy for their supporters and hard for their detractors to vote.

I live in Ohio if you couldn't tell, and our chief elections officer (the Secretary of State) is not afraid to tell people that he wants Donald Trump to win the election. He is not neutral. That's just the way it is here.

[-] stinerman@midwest.social 13 points 1 month ago

My brother in christ, I'm not talking about the pretext the government used to attack Iraq. I'm talking about the fact that the two things had nothing to do with each other.

Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. The fact that the government used that as a pretext doesn't magically link the two things.

[-] stinerman@midwest.social 12 points 3 months ago

If Biden wins the election, but dies before the electoral college votes, it’s a free-for-all. The electoral college can vote for whoever they want.

This is unclear. Some states have laws that say that electors must vote for who they're pledged to vote for.

[-] stinerman@midwest.social 12 points 3 months ago

Most people have already pointed it out, but I must say, I don't recall the last time I ordered pizza and didn't use a coupon.

[-] stinerman@midwest.social 12 points 5 months ago

This is a really good point. If someone did violate your copyright, you have to enforce it. Almost no one is going to do that, so it's effectively not copyrighted.

There's a lot of "you couldn't have been murdered because that's illegal" thinking that somehow putting up a license on your posts stops these AI companies from scraping.

[-] stinerman@midwest.social 13 points 5 months ago

He (Linus Torvalds) made Linux as a hobby during his time in college/university to teach him about operating system design. Because it was the part of the operating system called the kernel that the GNU project didn't have yet (more on this in a moment), it became very popular. Richard Stallman created the GNU project because he believed that every person should have the right to study and share the software that runs on their computer.

There is nothing specifically anti-corporate in either of their motivations.

[-] stinerman@midwest.social 12 points 6 months ago

Better than 30-50 feral hogs.

[-] stinerman@midwest.social 12 points 6 months ago

If someone texted me, the reply was "these cost me $0.25, so i'll talk to you on AIM when I get home"

[-] stinerman@midwest.social 12 points 6 months ago

The "undermine the security, safety, and privacy of Oregonians by forcing device manufacturers to allow the use of parts of unknown origin in consumer devices" line is the same reasoning used by AT&T back in the old days as to why you couldn't buy your own phone or use a dial-up modem.

[-] stinerman@midwest.social 12 points 6 months ago

I can't really say, but I graduated in 2007 and it was still unusual to see someone taking notes (even in tech classes) using a laptop. Maybe that will help.

[-] stinerman@midwest.social 12 points 9 months ago

This is like that time that I won like $800 betting that Trump would lose the election after he lost the election.

[-] stinerman@midwest.social 12 points 10 months ago

It's fine if you think the Pope is full of shit but then why are you Catholic?

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