You're free to hold your own model, but I'd question some of yours.

I’d say we haven’t so much turned around as veered off to skirt along the edge until we’re about to hit the next one. There is a real chance we’re going to end up not being able to diverge and actually go over the edge.

That's a different edge in a different direction. There's certainly an element of inertia to large, extinction level events, but not all extinction level events share that same inertia. As an example, nuclear war and climate change don't share the same path of humanities destruction.

If it when that will happen is impossible to predict before it’s too late though.

Humanity is pretty good and being able to predict things which will negatively effect us. We're just not great at stopping doing those things that cause those negative things.

As a child in the 70s, I was sure we were going to wipe ourselves out in global thermal nuclear war. The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty instead took the nuclear cores from thousands of American and Russian missiles and consumed it in civilian nuclear power plants for electricity. If you had told my 10 year old self my game console would be running on decommissioned Russian nukes, I wouldn't have believed you.

The rapid technological advancement of green technologies (especially them being financially cheaper than fossil fuels) gives me hope humanity (and most of the species of Earth) will survive climate change.

So, yes, we might indeed still wipe ourselves out, but we have on many occasions, as a species, stopped at the brink and turned around to go back to safety.

Is just the existing immigration system expanded to more people.

If you don't think trump's real desired version isn't worse, I'd question your imagination.

Trump doesn’t want to eliminate our carceral state. He’s quite happy with the function of the government and simply wants to expand it.

trump hates getting stopped or at least slowed by our courts and what few legislative efforts exist to combat him. He would love for all of those to be gone.

To “wipe the board”, we’re talking about tearing up the last century of immigration criminalization.

I understand that is your end goal (and my desire as well). The power to do what we want is also the power to make it the horrible trump's version.

That’s all there under The Patriot Act of '01 and The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of '96 and the Fair Labor Standards Act of '38 (amended under Carter in '77 to criminalize illegal migrant employment).

We today, can see the results of all of those and what didn't work and know that a better solution should not include those failed efforts.

What Trump has done is to tear out all the little legislatively outlined exemptions and dispensations, such that criminalization rules are more explicitly in the hands of the executive branch.

I agree. And he's taken that approach because the slow machinery of government doesn't let him simply wipe the slate clean and put his own wholly horrible fascist version of what he wants with full criminalization of any immigrant (even even those born here of immigrant lineage).

The exceptions and workarounds you're citing as the problem are evidence that no one from either side has the ability for fully implement their own version of immigration policy in the USA. Even if we want the power of a a unilateral overhaul decriminalization immigration right now, trump would use that power right now to do the exact opposite.

I agree. But when the low-tech paper system is compromised, you need to move to something else everybody has. And in this day and age, that’s a cellphone with an internet connection.

This is an exceedingly bad idea.

That would drastically increase the attack surface for voter fraud. I can just see the Russian Malware now that shows you on your cell phone screen that your votes were cast for your candidates while the malware voted for its candidates instead. You'd never even know your vote was stolen.

It all fucking sucks. And - in a better world - we’d have a party enthusiastic about wiping the whole board and laying a new universal foundation for human rights both at home and abroad. We won’t. But moments like this illustrate why we should.

This is the rub and a "be careful what you wish for" moment. There is a party now enthusiastic about wiping the slate clean and in power right now. Most of us are really against the draconian version that party wants to write on that slate to replace the current piecemeal approach.

The house drug is called "Emerald Vapor" and will leave you feeling post-orgasmic and speaking with a Scottish accent.

Pegnate?!

Isn't this just ragebait? Scrolling up on the page shows the explanation:

It looks like "My Doctor" is a third party service, and this bank is simply including a subscription to this third party service for the bank's card holders for this specific card. There are likely ways to subscribe to this "My Doctor" service completely unrelated to holding a specific bank's credit card.

Banks are always looking for value add services to entice customers to sign up for their bank card over competitors. I got a Visa card recently that has a card holder benefit of offering free cell phone data in foreign countries. What does cell phone data have to do with Visa? Nothing, but its something the bank is bundling in with being a cardholder.

I want a retro computer with new Herdware in it.

You're in luck! It was their first product of this reborn company. They sell that right here: https://commodore.net/computer/

I already have almost a dozen original and remake Commodore 64s. Also Plus/4, C128, and so on.

We're similar then. I am a long time user of VICE, built parallel port (IEEE 1284) to 1541 interfaces to read my old floppies onto PC in the 90s, and even bought one of the c64 Minis when it came out. I also have 3 original C64s (in various states of function).

All of the "modern" c64s have always been just a bit off from the legacy hardware experience. I still love them, but they don't compare to the experience on the original hardware.

I don’t know who the target market of the new Commodore is

Well, me, I suppose. I bought one of the new Commodore Ultimate units (breadbin model). There are absolutely hardware limitations to the legacy c64 experience using in with modern computing in 2026. Sure there are workarounds for most of them, but those workarounds add up in cost, and even then aren't always the best solutions. Even then SID chips were never all identical, and many continue to fail with age. Certain revs of original hardware have specific bugs (which sometimes are beneficial) so having the option to use or avoid those would mean owning multiple original hardware in working order. That still won't get you HDMI, Ethernet, USB or flash storage access without lots of extra addon hardware.

The Commodore Ultimate has on that baked in. Currently I'm still using my original hardware more because of some projects I'm working on that require the TTL signals of the USER Port, but more regular use I am glad to have the Ultimate for better interoperability and maximum compatibility to the original 6510 CPU and SID (from its FPGA).

The new slimline Ultimate units are actually made from the original CBM case molds which were found in a warehouse!

, but it doesn’t feel like its me.

Thats certainly fine. This is a hobby after all, and there's no requirement to buy something you don't find interesting.

Yeah it was always lies.

It wasn't always lies. The game changed when the other side started electing their extremists, but worse, those more in the center have done fuck-all with what power they do have to act as a check on those other elected extremists.

I think the reason progressives are winning now is that voters have nothing to lose. Far right extremists will fuck them. Most of those closest to the center won't help them, and there's now a precedent of voting in extremists (currently far right) into high office.

If anything I think the elected far right extremists were the best argument for voting for those farther left. There's also the Overton window. 2008's Obama championing the ACA and the 2015 Supreme Court's Obergefell decision looks quite progressive compared to today's centerists.

Compared to trump? Absolutely.

But picking one specific even to try to define an administration isn't very helpful. By your same measure you could define Carter as a right wing extremist for overthrowing the democratically elected leader of Iran in 1979.

Why would I want a card I can’t even use because lots of places won’t accept the extra fees?

American Express has a history of better protection for its cardholders in transaction disputes.

Amex also has much higher standards for which merchants it will allow to accept its card as payment. Lots of legally questionable service don't accept Amex because Amex won't do business with payment processors that are sketchy or have a history of bad behavior (law bending or breaking) in the payment processing space. Visa and Mastercard are carried by banks directly so if you are a merchant with bad behavior you can nearly always find a sketchy bank to process your sketchy credit card transactions under Visa or Mastercard.

The context of the protections I'm talking about aren't targeting food and drinks. I'm not worried about having to ask for a chargeback on a candy bar purchase at a corner store.

It’s hardly crack dens either

Lots of online sellers are not far off from the equal legitimacy of a crack den.

If I'm at a merchant and I'm concerned about their charging practices doesn't accept the card, I can choose to not do business with that merchant. This is more applicable to online retail sales or perhaps travel/accommodations.

Please stop sending traffic to CBS. They cancelled Colbert and are actively sabotaging 60 Minutes trying to turn it into a state propaganda machine.

To this point, I was wondering does anyone know a way in Lemmy so simply auto-block any stories posted from CBS news at the user level? I'm not asking for a community wide ban as we should each be able to make our own choices, but I'm personally not interested in giving CBS any traffic.

Bicycle built for (a very uncomfortable) two.

in addition to concerns for her safety because she claimed the tester did not identity herself.

I can understand not trusting someone that doesn't identify themselves as official staff. Any rando could just show up at your door making the demand of you.

test attempt at her home at around 8 p.m. on 3 December 2025” and that she instead signed a refusal form.

Wait, if you didn't believe they were official staff, why would you sign something they put in front of you?

I'm not following you. Are you saying Bill Clinton was a left extremist?

"act more boldly" to pressure Vladimir Putin to enter peace talks.