anindefinitearticle

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[–] anindefinitearticle 10 points 1 month ago

No factory default due to data corruption, so I uninstalled it as bloat. Then I wrote a few of my own to play with, but instead of dynamically assigning at boot I set up hotswapping.

[–] anindefinitearticle 5 points 1 month ago

I mean, why would you want to punch any wall.

But yeah, whoever went through this wall got lucky it wasn't as solid as its facade.

[–] anindefinitearticle 3 points 1 month ago

The "it's complicated" section surprises me.

[–] anindefinitearticle 5 points 1 month ago

Take two pieces of string with wooden knobs at the ends and hang them up together.

Put your arm between them and pull down quickly.

Repeat, and notice how a fraction of the time those wooden knobs may wrap around each other and become tied by a knot held by the downward force of your arm until you pull up which you can't do if you're hanging.

[–] anindefinitearticle 4 points 1 month ago

It's the fourth amendment, Eric, not the first.

[–] anindefinitearticle 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The best part is that when cornell sent out their email admonishing the action, the only example of violence they could cite was an officer's bodycam getting bumped. It was a non-violent act of civil disobedience.

[–] anindefinitearticle 1 points 1 month ago

I don't know if I can just accept that it's not.

I know a lot of people who will be rightfully outraged if Trump wins. If Trump wins, it will be due to election interference and from stopping people from voting. He may win the electoral college, but is unlikely to win the popular vote. There are many reasons to see a Trump victory as illegitimate. If Trump wins there is a very strong chance of a civil war.

If Harris wins, there may be another Jan 6th-like action. Without Trump leading the MAGA movement, all that organized hate becomes a target for a more competent leader to harness. There is a chance that that might spiral into a larger conflict.

[–] anindefinitearticle 38 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Remember when Bernie had a bird fly up to his podium during a speech?

[–] anindefinitearticle 2 points 1 month ago

Thank you, and I plan to.

As I said, I have a handful of strong cases to vote for Harris. I also had this one dissenting voice in me that was screaming to get expressed so I could look back at what I said and analyze it. Thanks for analyzing it with me. Doing this in public and with input from others helps me vet my ideas. I don't have a social network anymore to talk about these things with. So much social cohesion broke down during the Trump years, and it hasn't grown back well at all.

We don't live in a unified country, and we need to be willing to say that we are broken so we can fix ourselves.

[–] anindefinitearticle 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm not an accelerationist, and I'm not calling for civil war.

I just see that it's coming.

[–] anindefinitearticle 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm not an accelerationist. I'm a realist.

America is already dead.

A civil war is coming.

2025 will be another 2020 no matter what happens in November.

I don't want the dead weight of a dead government on the side of democracy. I want the side of democracy to be free to invent something new. I don't want a broken down old democracy fighting against a modern authoritarian. I want the authoritarians to be saddled with the complacency and inertia of the state. I don't want the authoritarians to be free to invent something newer and more powerful that can bring our doddering democracy to its knees. Our government is old and has been stripped by Reagan/Bush/Trump. It is a liability to be running it.

People are about to die. A lot of them. I want democracy to have its best chance of coming out on top. That means that the people have to want it.

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