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I was just genuinely curious what somebody with your set of opinions has in mind for a time frame, because "1/100th the corruption" is too vague for me to quantify in my head.
As for arguing, I generally don't expect to change opinions with comments, especially those of whom I'm engaging with directly, so no worries there.
Yes, we just need to go back to the good ol' days of corruption with decorum
LMAO, etc
Feel free to pretend you have a voice in the ballot box, but you don't in any significant way. You get to decide the color scheme and decide between decorum or crude, but it's the same pile of self-serving shit behind the scenes.
Democrats lost to a gameshow host. Twice. They just had to be better than that, and they couldn't manage. Pathetic. They also created the conditions for his rise. Twice. The bar is so amazingly low, and yet you can't comprehend how they keep fumbling this. Maybe, just maybe, it's a good cop / bad cop arrangement where only capital interests win, and it's a race to the bottom for everybody else. Or maybe that's just a childish, stupid opinion. Who knows!
So definitely not meaningless. It demonstrates increasing amounts of people are tired of pretending our democracy isn't mostly illusory.
New High of 45% in U.S. Identify as Political Independents (January 12, 2026)
https://news.gallup.com/poll/700499/new-high-identify-politi...
One commonly used feature might be HDMI-CEC integration for media centers, but otherwise I agree with you.
I no longer trust that machines won't utter these exact words (nothing personal)
Here's an alternative for those unaware:
This is a good start, but it needs to be more generalized to also cover a related and overarching problem:
Modern Capitalism Is Weirder Than You Think: It also no longer works as advertised
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/03/how-asset-managers-h...
Right, but the distinction is relevant in the context of the original claim:
> People setting up homelab often talk about money saved but never account for the time they have to spend
My point was that many of us do account for this time in the aforementioned ways.
Plus, once it's set up, it practically runs itself if you have a sane backup methodology and are only running upgrades every couple months.
I would call it more of a set of tradeoffs
> a lot of the time is spent on doing menial system admin tasks
This is the refreshening opportunity for us non-admins, and a learning opportunity to automate as much of it as possible.
Other benefits not mentioned include not signing your data or life away to whatever Google's lawyers or marketers have decided is best for them, contributing to FLOSS even if only as an end user, not being a victim of rug-pulls...the list goes on.
Obviously this isn't for everybody, because there's no denying it takes time. The point is that for many, this is a very easy tradeoff to make when factoring in all of the other benefits.
Recent rebuttals to the Swiss model:
https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/
I guess my idea would easily fit into what that article proposes for a solution.
How about a unified social platform that allows people to donate to the authors/artists/creators/projects of their choosing? It could allow feedback similar to goodreads, and also be more longterm focused than the traditional kickstarter, etc. The social aspect would give people a pat on the back for sending money somewhere.
At best, you get an illusion of progress. That's not progress.
Not according to the link above, and the growing array of solvable yet perpetually unsolved problems in other countries.
> I expect the next administration will push through some laws limiting this sort of idiocy.
The problem is that the bar is now so low that basically anybody will win, by design.
They'll pass some surface level bullshit to treat symptoms, like how lakes can or cannot be renamed. But they'll fail to address any root, systemic issues that allowed this BS to unfold in the first place, paving the way for the other half of the Uniparty to resume power 4-8 years later.
Democracy is illusory.
> htmx is closing in on React
> Only 10% of respondents said they regularly use no AI tools for coding, while 58% of AI users use them every day and another 27% several times a week.
> The interfaces are split almost evenly across the browser, the IDE, and the command line, and no tool dominates: Claude Code leads at 35%, with ChatGPT just behind at 33% and GitHub Copilot at 23%.
> And for all the attention on agents, a majority of AI users — 56% — still use it purely for chat and advice.
Agreed, and the first step ought to be a push for demonetized / citizen-owned platforms:
https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/
Note, however, that even with achieving this first step, we'll still have a platform full of profit-motivated actors, because our economies incentivize this behavior whether online or IRL.
Both problems need solving, but the first one is easier, and demonstrating its solution on a large scale could help convince everyone that it's an endeavor worth applying to all domains.