Yeah what the fuck is with that.

It’s a very twitter centric view of the web. If you’re not on xitter you’re “shutting out a significant portion”.

The thing is, it’s not simply that Musk has an ideology that is disparate from my own, he has an agenda that is egregiously contrary to the stated values of the Debian project.

You’d consult with the community over a new logo or blog layout maybe, but on whether to assist Musk in his far right agenda there’s not really any decision to be made honestly.

I dislike the implication that the most useful apps are not free.

I always feel more comfortable using FOSS software, even if it doesn’t look as nice as the commercial option.

In Australia most retailers discount specific items for “members”. Being a member is free but you need to sign up with your contact details. They will give you a card but no one carries a million cards so cashier’s just ask for your phone number.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority administers phone numbers in Australia and they publish a list of phone numbers which may not be used by telco’s and are reserved for the exclusive use in TV shows, films, and creative works.

I made a note of one of the numbers in my phone, and provide that when asked. Loads of other people are doing this so the number is always registered at every shop.

The conversation usually goes:

• cashier: are you a club member?
• me: yes.
• cashier: what’s your number ?
• me: <ACMA number>
• cashier: oh. wow. there seems to be hundreds of people with this number. what’s your name?
• me: oh really? who’s there?
• cashier: uh, nigel, john, luke…
• me: I’m Luke.

I’ve been doing this on a weekly basis since reading about it in another thread (on reddit) a few years ago. I’ve never encountered a problem and I’ve received thousands of dollars in discounts. I would’ve gotten those discounts anyway but would’ve had to sign up with my personal number in order to receive them.

Mind if I ask what you are basing this on?

The overton window.

If the political opinions are reduced to a spectum running from left to right, then in a two party system the major parties will sit immediately to either side of the mid-way point, because they want to seduce as many swing voters as possible from the other side.

As in, the conservative party may have conservative dreams but their policies need to be far enough to the left to actually win an election, so they will push up against the progressive party.

If suddenly more voters vote progressive (the conservative party loses badly), the conservative party needs to adjust their policy settings further to the left.

As the conservative party’s policies move to the left, the progressive party will start losing voters to them unless they also move further to the left.

God I’m sick of explaining this.

If everyone voted for the left-most party, and the right had no votes, the right would move towards the left, pushing the dems along with them.

Not surprisingly, when the country votes left your politics moves left.

Comments like this are the reason why the dems are not the bastion of leftism you so desire.

There’s a real risk to this belief.

There are elements of lemmy who use votes to manipulate which ideas appear popular, with the intention of manipulating discourse rather than having open discussions.

Almost like the US are acting in their own interests.

It was a shitshow when I looked at it a few weeks ago.

It’s not irrelevant. Why would you connect more things than your PSU can support?

Why would you charge things from your PC?

Thank you. I was getting very confused.

7 ports seems like heaps. How could anyone use that many at once.