Whenever people start talking about "opsec" and it's not people doing sensitive work I'm just like "what ops?"

It's a crowd that would actually go to a Trump rally in 2026. Don't hinge your faith in humanity on self selected bad people.

I really don't think the average Lemmy user has TikTok.

He'll be dead.

He's telling conservative men to restrain their wives from voting.

The auto strike has a 75% approval rating. That's way bigger than most things in US politics. Not supporting the auto strike is a losing issue.

I mean, I use LibreOffice, but for people not that tech savvy it sucks they won't have a basic rich text tool included with Windows.

I get where this comes from (look up why USA and Canada celebrate Labor Day rather than International Worker's Day) but it's just symbolism, a frivolous issue. Pushing frivolous issues reinforces one of the negative perceptions of the American left common among both centrist Americans and international leftists. People want healthcare, vacation days, material improvements. Not a debate over when a national holiday is.

There are poll headlines I pray are true and ones I pray aren't...but say it with me:

POLLS. DON'T. MATTER!!!

It's because YouTube used to be mostly independent creators, even when people first started making money off it. That was the sales pitch.

Walz and AOC are the candidates worth talking about right now, because they're the ones showing leadership.

Go away, Kamala. And Biden, along with plenty of others.

My recollection was that the game was already down to just iOS or Android by the time this came out. Windows Phone still existed, but it was already being ignored by popular apps like Snapchat.

Plus the people who even knew about this (tech people) didn't like the "everything is a web app" idea when Chrome OS did it, much less a smartphone.

Lemmy is nearly 100% 32 year old edgelords

Self-identified centrists are always well to the right of the actual center

I would never recommend Twitter to normal people, but she's a politician, she has to go where the people are.

I would argue she should be encouraging people to use Mastodon, but the fact is most people currently on Fediverse either already agree with her positions or think she's "lib controlled opposition."

I mean, that is in fact not a US constitutional right

But proclaim the fucking emergency anyway!

They come for the things nobody would be caught dead defending (often even people who privately engage in it) first. Look at how during the thing with payment processors and porn games, some people were saying they didn't mind if it were just the rape games being banned. Those are used as justification for speech restrictions to the public.

(I don't even think KiwiFarms should be legal personally, Chris Chan's story should be considered evidence enough that they're a harassment forum)

I'm agitated that people got the impression "AI" referred specifically to human-level intelligence.

Like, before the LLM boom it was uncontroversial to refer to the bots in video games as "AI." Now it gets comments like this.

It's a war that shouldn't be happening to begin with. Anyone who actually cares about American national security wants green energy. That's the only way we get out of the Middle East.

Not against it on principle, but there's no way I'd get it knowing about the way the corporations that have the resources to make it happen operate.