politics politics Just Say It, Democrats: Biden Has Been a Great President
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  • Phantom_Engineer Phantom_Engineer 7 months ago 28%

    His record is meh. The economy has been doing alright, and he has made at least some progress on climate change. He did get a much-needed infrastructure bill passed through Congress. He also did follow through on the withdraw from Afghanistan, and Republican attempts to stir up scandal have been largely for naught, mainly focusing on Hunter instead of him.

    Now for the bad: the signs of mental decline are hard to ignore, and his insistence on running for a second term puts the country at risk of a second Trump term. Fair or not, the honorable thing to do would have been to put the country first and step aside so that the Democrats could have had a proper primary and let some fresh blood in. If Trump is elected, and polls suggest he might, Biden's legacy will be ruined.

    His "human rights based" foreign policy is a joke, with his term marked by support for brutal wars in Gaza and Yemen and the return of the Taliban to rule in Afghanistan. (Though, to be fair, I agree with his decision to withdraw.) I do think his administration is likely responsible for the Nordstream bombing as well. While it could be argued that the bombing was justified due to the Ukraine war, it undermines the idea of a "rules-based" order that the West is supposedly fighting for.

    Most recently, his party's attempt to reform immigration has stalled in Congress, Ukraine aid is at a deadlock, and the possibility of war with Iran hangs on the horizon. All of this remains to be resolved.

    I live in a pretty solid red state, so I might vote third party, but if was a more competitive state I would probably vote to reelect Biden. Unfortunately, I think the best case scenario is that Biden is reelected and either dies or resigns to make way for President Harris. Not ideal, this.

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  • politics politics Biden Stands To Gain Double-Digit Political Support If Marijuana Is Rescheduled, Poll Of Likely Voters Shows
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  • Phantom_Engineer Phantom_Engineer 8 months ago 100%

    Does the +Police vote even care that much about marijuana anymore? I feel that marijuana won the cultural war forever ago, it's just that it takes a long time for political change to follow.

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  • politics politics President Biden Announces Billions to Deliver World-Class High-Speed Rail and Launch New Passenger Rail Corridors Across the Country
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  • Phantom_Engineer Phantom_Engineer 10 months ago 100%

    Believe it or not, the money isn't the hard part. The endless environmental studies, NIMBYism, and debate make it nearly impossible to build projects of any size in the US anymore.

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  • youshouldknow You Should Know YSK that chiropractors are not medical doctors and "Systematic reviews... have found no evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective"
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  • Phantom_Engineer Phantom_Engineer 10 months ago 75%

    More like chiroquacktors! Haha, you get it? Because....

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy You must pick a point in human history before the 1950s to be spend the rest of your life in. What era and place would you choose?
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  • Phantom_Engineer Phantom_Engineer 10 months ago 100%

    Thing is, industrial revolution bleeds into colonialism. Sure, there was colonialism before industrialization, and colonialism would look very different in a time before nation-states as we know them today, but those resources will have to come from somewhere.

    Metallurgy is always where they get you on these things. You can bring stuff like division of labor, assembly lines, and replaceable parts back in time pretty easily, but good luck getting aluminum for your bicycles in any kind of quantity. Not sure how well a bronze bicycle would work, but I bet it could be done.

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  • news News Target CEO says shoppers are pulling back, even on groceries
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  • Phantom_Engineer Phantom_Engineer 11 months ago 100%

    Selection is bad, price is meh. If you have the red card for the extra 5% it helps balance things out some. I go because it's convenient where I live, but I wouldn't go out of my way to buy groceries there.

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  • asklemmy Ask Lemmy What’s your favourite Beatles song?
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  • Phantom_Engineer Phantom_Engineer 1 year ago 100%

    Hard to say. "A Day in the Life," probably. The opposite question is easier for me to answer, with "Tomorrow Never Knows" being my least favorite.

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  • lemmyshitpost Lemmy Shitpost Thank you Sunday Sport, the UKs shit-posting "newspaper"
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  • Phantom_Engineer Phantom_Engineer 1 year ago 0%

    AI poses an existential threat to humanity

    AI:

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    Colorized
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    youshouldknow You Should Know YSK that “neoliberal” refers to a discrete set of economic policies including deregulation, privatization, and so-called “free trade” implemented by both center-right and center-left parties
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  • Phantom_Engineer Phantom_Engineer 1 year ago 80%

    Yeah, and it sucks. Eff the neoliberals. All my homies hate neoliberals.

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  • greentext > Greentext Anon is confident about his math skills
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  • Phantom_Engineer Phantom_Engineer 1 year ago 100%

    Polynomials

    Normie. Should have done a trig sub problem.

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  • memes Memes Finally, we have an explanation.
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  • Phantom_Engineer Phantom_Engineer 1 year ago 100%

    So THAT'S where they were going

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  • cia CIA Lol, yeah. Whatcha gonna do, cry about it?
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  • Phantom_Engineer Phantom_Engineer 1 year ago 100%

    In an ideal state, the corporations would be subservient to the state, which would represent the will of the people and the good of the nation. In practical terms, this would be worker protections and environmental protection among other things.

    As is, our (US) government is weak and subservient to the corporations and the rich, who use it as a tool to maintain their position. While free enterprise is essential to a free society and a planned economy is doomed to inefficiency, business owners must be good stewards of the nation's resources and the state should be unafraid to remove them as necessary. (Health care being a good example of an industry where this should be done).

    On top of that, there should be a floor on how poor you can be and a ceiling on how rich. Oh shit, does this make ME the TANKIE?

    No, because I don't laud the Assad regime. Whew, that was close.

    I mean, me too thanks.

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  • cia CIA Lol, yeah. Whatcha gonna do, cry about it?
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  • Phantom_Engineer Phantom_Engineer 1 year ago 100%

    Not saying it's true, but would overthrowing Putin be such a bad thing? The replacement might not be any better, but if it ends the war it would probably be a net good.

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  • nostupidquestions No Stupid Questions Is Lemmy more likely to succeed than Voat? Why or why not?
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  • Phantom_Engineer Phantom_Engineer 1 year ago 100%

    The thing is, the concern people have with lemmy.world is the same concern we used to have with lemmy.ml. The question of how big an instance ought to be is still unanswered. Maybe lemmy.world is below that level and people will naturally shy away from it once it gets there. On top of that, limited resources on the side of instance owners will drive decentralization. For example, Lemmy.ml shut its doors to new users once it became overloaded. Similar things could happen in the future.

    Even if a major instance did go down, we'd just lose the content. The people, for the most part, would migrate to whatever new instances sprung up to replace it.

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  • nostupidquestions No Stupid Questions Is Lemmy more likely to succeed than Voat? Why or why not?
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  • Phantom_Engineer Phantom_Engineer 1 year ago 100%

    There was one Voat. When the one Voat goes bust, Voat goes bust. Like any enterprise, it's failure can be attributed, at least in part, to poor management.

    There are many Lemmy's. If one Lemmy collapses, another Lemmy can take its place. The individual instances might be less stable than a centralized social media site, like Voat was, but when federated the whole unit is more resilient than centralized social media.

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    android Android I've resurrected lemmur, a beautiful flutter app. Coming soon to an instance near you!
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    Ah, I used to use Lemmur when I first joined Lemmy. Nice to see it revived.

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    asklemmy Asklemmy If Elon Musk was buying Reddit, what would Steve Huffman do?
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  • Phantom_Engineer Phantom_Engineer 1 year ago 100%

    Sell

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    piracy Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ Mates, today without warning, the reddit royal navy attacked. I've been demoded by the admins.
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  • Phantom_Engineer Phantom_Engineer 1 year ago 100%

    Batten down the hatches!

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  • nostupidquestions No Stupid Questions Why does it feel like we're at a point where every social media + other digital media are making shitty decisions and falling apart?
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  • Phantom_Engineer Phantom_Engineer 1 year ago 92%

    The tech bubble is over (kinda, they're trying to spin it back up with AI) and so is the free money party. Rates are rising, and investors aren't content to throw money at companies that still don't know how they're going to make any money. To make money, they've got to squeeze it out of somebody: either users or advertisers.

    In Twitter's case, they squeezed it out of a vain billionaire who they convinced to buy the company. The shareholders got their money, and now making a profit is somebody else's problem. Reddit could've similarly tried to court a buyer, but there's no guarantee they would have found one (maybe Meta?). Instead they're trying to a gin up some revenue either out of third party apps or by pushing third party app users onto the main app so they can advertise to them. I haven't been following Discord and Meta's stuff, but the reasoning is probably similar.

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  • lemmyworld Lemmy.World Announcements Took a peek on Reddit, it really boggles my mind how oblivious and obedient people are.
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  • Phantom_Engineer Phantom_Engineer 1 year ago 100%

    Funny yet sad that it's come to reddit botting their own platform to try and shore up support for themselves.

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  • lemmyworld Lemmy.World Announcements Beehaw defederating effective immediately from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works
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  • Phantom_Engineer Phantom_Engineer 1 year ago 100%

    I think the only way around stuff like this is to have some alts hanging around. This account is an alt to the same-name lemmy.ml account, but now only the lemmy.ml account can see beehaw stuff. It's a shame, because beehaw did seem to have something good going with their more curated communities. They could have put out a call for moderators if that's what they need, but instead they decided to close the gates.

    I wouldn't be afraid to make a bunch of alts. Simply having an alt account doesn't put strain on the servers. It's the using it that does. Until then, it can lie in wait, inactive, without much impact.

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