politics politics Shocker: Republicans Admit in Private That They Killed a Good Deal
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    7 months ago 100%

    This is such a low effort response that showcases US apathy for it's own poverty conditions. Of the $75.4 billion sent to Ukraine alone, only $26.4 billion was financial (loans, funds, other financial support), and on top of that only $2.7 billion is used for humanitarian purposes like food, healthcare, etc). The remaining $46.3 billion is reflected as military spending towards weapons and equipment, security training, grants and loans for weapons, etc, all of which is covered from our $800 billion dollar "defense" budget.

    So now that we've addressed your concerns about how tax dollars fund military spending, I ask again, do you honestly believe that there is a higher priority to spend large sums of money in the form of aid to other countries rather than focusing on the material issues we face as a nation?

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  • politics politics Shocker: Republicans Admit in Private That They Killed a Good Deal
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    7 months ago 55%

    Why should we send 74 billion in aid to Israel and Ukraine when 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, we are the only OECD nation without some form of universal healthcare, and over 650,000 Americans are homeless (a 12 percent increase during 2023). Do you honestly believe that there is a higher priority to send obscenely large sums of money in the form of aid to other countries rather than focusing on the material issues we face as a nation?

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  • usa United States | News & Politics Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action at colleges
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    1 year ago 100%

    Affirmative action was a bandaid slapped on an open wound. It was an imperfect solution that ignored the root cause of systemic inequality and instead tried to mitigate the symptoms of disenfranchised minority communities. It was better than nothing, but now we have nothing.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Would you rather fight 100 horse sized autistic kids or 1 naked polar bear with a gun?
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    sysadmin Sysadmin TIL in 1997, a Reply All storm took down all of Microsoft's internal Exchange system
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    1 year ago 100%

    Not all vets have seen combat, even if they have deployed. But aside from that most of these vets were early 20s that did one enlistment and are fresh out of active, so their life experience up until that point was high school to military to college. Not all of them, but a significant amount. That being said, even at the time I would've found the absurd response funny, except it meant more work for me that week to draft communication on behalf of the office.

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  • sysadmin Sysadmin TIL in 1997, a Reply All storm took down all of Microsoft's internal Exchange system
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    1 year ago 100%

    I love this story. We have preventive measures in place because of chaos like this. Back in the early 2010s I was doing a VA internship at my college's Veterans Affairs office. We would help other veteran students manage their GI Bill and other VA benefits as well as communicate events for our student vet community. The school used a student veteran distribution list just like this story but for a much smaller group of users.

    One day the college's VA office sent out an email that a prominent anti war vet was coming to speak at the college which sparked a lot of controversy apparently with a good portion of the members of that DL. So much so that a reply all chain began and my student email inbox was blowing up from all the outrage. If I remember correctly, the event was ultimately canceled because so many student veterans were complaining.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Are there benefits to hosting your own personal lemmy?
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    1 year ago 100%

    It's not possible at the moment. Lemmy devs acknowledged it was a widely requested feature but last I read, they were focused on maintaining the performance of Lemmy during the spike of users during the great Reddit migration.

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  • privacy Privacy what phones are you all using?
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    1 year ago 100%

    Pixel 4XL with Lineage OS. It works mostly. The only issue I've had was saving DC metro cards to my wallet which requires Google wallet and didn't work with this rom

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  • overwatch2 Overwatch 2 thoughts on the mei changes?
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    1 year ago 100%
    • Primary fire DPS reduced to 55 (was 100)
    • Primary fire slow now ramps from 30% to 50% (was 40%).
    • Primary fire impacts now build up to a slowing effect for 1.5s that slows for 75%.
    • Secondary fire impacts can detonate the 75% slow for an extra 40 damage.

    Dev comments: These changes are intended to bring back Mei's old gameplay without introducing the hard CC of a full stun.

    I haven't had the chance to play her since the changes yet, but detonating the slow effects with secondary fire while having reduced primary damage just sounds like it will take forever to get kills

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy How are you sorting Lemmy posts to see fresh content?
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    Triage8420
    1 year ago 100%

    On desktop, I made a shortcut to my subscribed communities sorted by new. I did the same with Firefox Android

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    nhl Triage8420 1 year ago 100%
    The Vegas Golden Knights have won the Stanley Cup (2023) https://mstdn.social/@NHL@sportsbots.xyz/110540320285768800
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    shittyasklemmy Shitty Ask Lemmy Now that I've become one of the lemmies, what can I buy with all the reddit karma I've amassed?
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    1 year ago 100%

    Noone will be chasing Karma.

    That's actually a good benefit of Lemmy I hadn't considered. Without incentived karma farming, the content will be more organic.I genuinely don't care about reddit karma personally, but I do look forward to seeing higher quality posts rather than multiple duplicate posts rushing to accumulate fake internet points, and the same regurgitated jokes in the comments.

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    Shitty Ask Lemmy Triage8420 1 year ago 100%
    Now that I've become one of the lemmies, what can I buy with all the reddit karma I've amassed?

    ** not a real question, but wouldn't it be cool to sell it back like unspent PTO 😎

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    technology Technology what would Reddit need to do to get you to go back
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    1 year ago 100%

    Pay off all my debt. And take me out to a fancy dinner. Wine and dine me, Spez. Then I'll use reddit again. (I would still use lemmy secretly on the side)

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  • gaming Gaming Desktop GPU Sales Lowest in Decades: Report
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    1 year ago 100%

    Still rocking my 1070ti. I mostly play overwatch 2 and Minecraft so it works ok for me now. Also I'm broke and can't afford the upgrade.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy what videogame do you have the most hours in?
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    1 year ago 100%

    I easily have thousands of hours in call of duty 1 for PC. I played scrims a lot through mIRC. My xfire profile tracked most of that, although that doesn't exist anymore. Runner up would probably be Guild Wars 1 with a few thousand hours. Life before responsibilities was a wild time

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  • lemmy Lemmy Which subreddits would you most like to see on Lemmy?
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    1 year ago 100%

    I'm really into Overwatch 2 now and I didn't see an active community for it, so I made !overwatch2@lemmy.ml . I hope it catches on because I'd like to see more ow2 content on here

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  • lemmy Lemmy Which subreddits would you most like to see on Lemmy?
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    1 year ago 100%

    Sort of off topic, but I like to use Serializd and Letterboxd for tracking shows/movies, maintaining my watchlist, rating my favorites to get suggested results with similar vibes, and to follow people that are into the same stuff I'm into, especially if they make lists for every year, so no matter what I always have something to check out.

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  • gaming Gaming *Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago 100%

    Chrono Trigger was my childhood rpg and just pulls me in with the story, the music, it's definitely one of my favorite games. I loved playing through the Dragon Age and Mass Effect games as well. I was a huge fan of the Telltale Walking Dead games during college and got to meet some of the voice actors at PAX East. I probably have like 10k hours in multiplayer games like Call of Duty 1, 2, and 4 on PC, but games like that are built around the community so kind of hard to recreate that experience now

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  • piracy Piracy RARBG clone launches: NQ-RARBG
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    1 year ago 100%

    Probably people with a NAS running stash app with libraries of over 20tb of full length 4k videos sorted by actors, studios, and tags. If I had to guess.

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  • gaming Gaming As lemmy grows what games are you hoping for webs of?
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    Linux Gaming Triage8420 1 year ago 97%
    help me choose my next distro

    I'm resetting windows 10 on my Thinkpad T580 for work but would like to create a partition for linux. It's an older laptop and really chugs through games like Minecraft or RuneScape but I enjoy playing relaxing games while I listen to audiobooks at night. I grew up using windows which is why I've mostly used Ubuntu and ZorinOS in the past but I'd like to expand my horizons to something like kubuntu. I value good UI/UX design and something lightweight for my old potato. Any recommendations on Linux distros? ** Thanks for all the input! I tried Fedora first but it felt kind of clunky to me. Then I tried out Mint xfce and it's right up my alley! I can run a separate Firefox profile right off the task bar that runs outside of my VPN which is perfect for Netflix and other sites that have issues. So far loving how customizable it is. Minecraft runs ok off GDLauncher, and lutris is really cool. I forgot I had a boat load of old GOG games that are perfect for this laptop. I really fucking love Linux 😆

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