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Cake day: January 13th, 2025

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  • A lot of people are decrying this number as being too low because it’s been common knowledge for a while that about 10% of the general population is LGBTQ. I think that’s a really negative way to look at the poll. Instead, realize that we’re finally at a point where nearly every LGBTQ American is comfortable enough with their sexual identity to report it on a poll. That’s a huge milestone for de-stigmatizing the LGBTQ community! Shame it’s happening at such a scary time, and I hope these rates don’t decrease as things become worse.



  • As much as it pains me, same. Lots of Americans are going to die, but at this point we deserve it. We’ve been sleepwalking into fascism for over 40 years, and have ignored every single warning we were given. I used to care about us being united, because I know what the fate of red states will be if Balkanization happens, but now? Fuck 'em. Let’s just split apart so we no longer have to support all these MAGA welfare queens in Alabama and Mississippi. Let corporate interests swoop in and go full classical colonialism on their weak economies. If they really want to work in sweatshops for nickels, fuckin let them. My blue state is strong enough to stand alone, I know most other blue states are, so what’s the point in defending the people a collapse will hurt the most when they voted for it?




  • You should have had that nervous eye twitch for the last 40 years, the U.S. was doing plenty of fucked up shit even when we were projecting calm security. The first Trump presidency was the wake-up call to the rest of the world to start cutting ties with us, it actually blows my mind how little there was in place internationally for when he won again. Sanctions should have been placed on us, trade agreements dissolved, we should be getting isolated right now. I’m sure we’ll get there eventually, but it might be too late by then.




  • It someone creates a program for Windows, that program will likely still work 10 years from now

    I was with you all the way until here. This statement is absolutely laughable to anyone who has messed around with older videogames. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, running it in compatibility mode with the version of Windows the game was made for will work, but oftentimes you’re reliant on fan patches or long installation guides showing you the exact configuration of settings necessary to stop the game from constantly crashing. At that point, getting the older game to run on Windows is just as tedious as getting it to run on Linux, potentially less.

    You still are getting more of a guarantee from Microsoft, because Windows versions have typically had long lifecycles and were pretty averse to risky-changes within an OS release, but even that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore with Windows 11.






  • It’s really weird to strike at my job, because I work at a non-profit who genuinely does great work to help students go to college and university. Probably the worst part about our program is that some of the companies we take money from are shitty, but it’s hard to be mad spending evil money on educating students. They also give me an incredibly generous PTO program, meaning even if I don’t come into work for a day to strike, I’ll still get paid for the day, which seems antithetical to the purpose.

    I’m still not gonna come into work on March 14th, and maybe if I can get all my coworkers to do the same it’ll still feel like a strike, but it’s just a weird situation.





  • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule :(
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    3 days ago

    I think a unified UBI is a lot more efficient than segmenting aid between housing assistance, bill assistance, and food stamps, and I think if somebody really wants to waste their small monthly UBI stipend on drugs and booze, they should be allowed to. It’ll be a pretty small fraction of a percentage of the program participants that would do such a thing, and in a morbid sense it’s a problem that sorts itself out.


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    3 days ago

    People really just don’t understand how fucked the U.S education system is. The idiots all had kids, and some of those kids became teachers, who continue to pass down their culture of ignorance. Meanwhile, teaching is such a dogshit job that nobody in the U.S. wants to do it, so hiring standards have gotten lower and lower.

    It’s like a perfect storm taking us to a situation where people at a 7th grade reading level are teaching U.S. History to 10th graders.