news News Where Tim Walz Stands on the Issues
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 1 month ago 100%

    A bullet point list of his policies for those with a short attention span like me.

    • Abortion: Supports abortion rights; signed legislation protecting access in Minnesota.
    • Climate Change: Aims for 100% clean energy by 2040; streamlined renewable energy project permitting, secured EPA grant.
    • Immigration: Backs pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants; expanded state services regardless of status.
    • Israel-Gaza: Aligns with Biden-Harris on two-state solution and humanitarian aid in Gaza; condemned Hamas' actions for Oct. 7th attack.
    • Gun Control: Evolved stance, now supports assault weapons ban, universal background checks, "red flag" law.
    • Economy: Advocated progressive pro-labor legislation; tax cuts for residents with corporate/high earner increases.
    • Paid Leave: Signed bill providing paid family/medical leave up to 12 weeks.
    • Education: Supports free school meals, tuition-free public higher education for eligible low-income students.
    • Marijuana Legalization: Signed legislation legalizing recreational marijuana and expunging/resentencing lower-level convictions.
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  • world World News ‘Stop bullshitting me’: Biden said to scold Netanyahu in call on truce-hostage deal
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 2 months ago 100%

    I agree, but it's all relative. This is coming from Biden who has been a huge supporter of Israel, letting them do pretty much whatever they want to do since forever. This seems like a huge step for the man, given where he's coming from.

    edit: Just realized I wasn't super clear. I was referring to the consequences part and how even if we want that, just Biden saying something as was reported is a pretty big step from where we were. I pretty much agree completely with @mozz@mbin.grits.dev.

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  • politics politics Trump's Crypto Embrace Could Be a Disaster for Bitcoin
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 2 months ago 100%

    Have a good time with your bitcoin and your crypto and everything else that you're playing with, and we're going to make that one of the greatest industries on Earth. Good luck and God bless you all.

    Probably the funniest thing he could have said to them.

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  • usa United States | News & Politics Russia interfering in 2024 election to help Trump, US intelligence officials say
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  • machinelearning Machine Learning New Open-Source AI Image Generator Beats Midjourney, SD3 and Auraflow
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 2 months ago 100%

    Looks like it's really good at text. I'll be interested to see the finetunes that come out for it. I'm worried that it will be too big to fit in the GPU on my AI server though. I only have 12 GB at my disposal.

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  • politics politics New Poll Shows Trump’s Desperate Play for Black Voters Is Failing
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 2 months ago 100%

    Well I'd be really depressed if it was working.

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  • news News Donald Trump falsely questions Kamala Harris' race as he appears at gathering of Black journalists
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 2 months ago 94%

    This whole event was a shit show. Tech problems, no one could hear each other. And of course none of the journalists landed any gotcha moments because it's Trump and he has zero shame.

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  • selfhosted Selfhosted From reddit selfhosted: What do you wish you knew from the start
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 2 months ago 100%

    It is much easier to buy one "hefty" physical machine and run ProxMox with virtual machines for servers than it is to run multiple Raspberry Pis. After living that life for years, I'm a ProxMox shill now. Backups are important (read the other comments), and ProxMox makes backup/restore easy. Because eventually you will fuck a server up beyond repair, you will lose data, and you will feel terrible about it. Learn from my mistakes.

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  • usa United States | News & Politics 'White Dudes for Harris' is the latest in a series of Zoom gatherings backing the vice president
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 2 months ago 100%

    Hell yeah.

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  • world World News North Korean officials seek medicines for Kim's obesity-related health problems, Seoul says
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 2 months ago 95%

    Just imagine being that guy's doctor, having to give him bad news with potentially no cure. That has to be nerve wracking.

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  • politics politics Kamala Harris ‘listening’ to young people on Gaza, says fellow Democrat
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 2 months ago 95%

    supports Israel’s right to defend itself

    Yeah, that's not wrong.

    AND that Israel is killing and starving innocents civilians

    Yeah, also not wrong. Because in this instance Israel isn't defending itself. They're not taking out imminent threats; at least not exclusively. They're using an attack to justify imperialism and genocide. We even have a very recent example of how that's usually a disaster for everyone involved.

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  • degoogle DeGoogle Yourself Google Voice replacement?
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 2 months ago 100%

    wat

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  • minnesota Minnesota Project 2025 is coming for the BWCA
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 2 months ago 100%

    I like the idea of getting private money out of news. Creating a hard doctrine of "fairness" is just not possible. Sometimes there are not two sides to the truth, and we wouldn't want to pin in the media outlets if the truth demands a firm stance.

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  • asklemmy Ask Lemmy Who do you think will be the Dem nominee now and their running mate?
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 2 months ago 100%

    She'll be 35 by inauguration day.

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  • asklemmy Ask Lemmy Who do you think will be the Dem nominee now and their running mate?
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 2 months ago 100%

    Plus wouldn't that be two people from California? Talk about giving the Republicans a conniption fit.

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  • politics politics Peter Thiel is the conservative gay billionaire behind JD Vance's rise to power
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 2 months ago 100%

    Hopefully the rube that gets put in the dictator's position gets the memo. A true believer might get the idea that they're bound by the same religious bullshit as the rest of us.

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  • politics politics Peter Thiel is the conservative gay billionaire behind JD Vance's rise to power
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 2 months ago 100%

    This makes me think that the religious theocracy will all be a farce. Something meant to punish the lower classes while the upper classes get to live in a parallel liberal society. I mean surely these billionaires realize that in a true christofascist state they'd lose all the opulence and hedonism available to them now. Seems like something they wouldn't want to risk.

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  • politics politics Gunshots reportedly fired at Donald Trump rally - as former president rushed off stage
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 2 months ago 100%

    I commented this earlier but I would not be surprised if the people behind him are deceptively far away and only look close at this camera angle.

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  • politics politics Gunshots reportedly fired at Donald Trump rally - as former president rushed off stage
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 2 months ago 100%

    I wouldn't be surprised if those people sitting behind him are deceptively far away.

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  • technology Technology Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 2 months ago 100%

    Oh no, you mean the big "smart" money investors that manage to crash the economy every decade or so and ruin every business they touch are gonna leave generative AI alone? Oh nooo. How will the science progress without Goldman Sachs's guiding hand?

    Good riddance.

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  • technology Technology 4chan Is Using TikTok Owner ByteDance's Hidden AI App to Generate Porn
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 2 months ago 100%

    Porn porn porn porn porn porn porn racism porn. Same as its always been. Maybe more porn now.

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  • politics politics European leader wonders why 'no one is asking about' Trump’s 'bizarre' ramblings: Senate Dem
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 2 months ago 82%

    no one

    I swear to god half the country has been talking about it non-stop for almost a decade now. What do you mean no one is talking about?! We're talking about it! Just because we've started talking about a new thing doesn't mean we stopped talking about the old thing!

    "NO ONE."

    I SWEAR THIS IS GOING TO TURN ME INTO THE JOKER. It makes my brain itch for the whataboutism when we've been talking about it the whole time.

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  • politics politics George Clooney, who hosted major fundraiser for Biden last month, says Democratic Party needs a new nominee | CNN Politics
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 2 months ago 100%

    Yeah, we've heard of it. We've been saying it for like a decade now.

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  • technology Technology Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 2 months ago 14%

    Let's be honest here: they want a human to abuse. They want to be shitty to and verbally assault someone that they view as being "lower" than them. If the AI works well (a different conversation) then people will get over any trepidation they have rather quickly. The people that are legitimately upset will just miss having someone to put down for "only" working customer service.

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  • politics politics Trump lied and Biden got tongue tied at the first debate. So why is the world only focusing on one?
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 2 months ago 78%

    How many people who previously hadn't been paying attention to the race tuned in and saw the same deterioration they've watched in their own parents and grandparents?

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  • politics politics White House spars with press over Parkinson doctor visits, Biden's health
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 2 months ago 66%

    I'm not sure the DNC is as organized a cabal of closed-door wheeler-and-dealers as you imply.

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  • politics politics White House spars with press over Parkinson doctor visits, Biden's health
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 2 months ago 50%

    What we want and what is possible are sadly not the same in this instance.

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  • politics politics White House spars with press over Parkinson doctor visits, Biden's health
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 2 months ago 66%

    Legislation is often spearheaded by the President. He is the leader of the party and has the bully pulpit, so it makes sense that he would lead on the agenda.

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  • politics politics “May have just legalized murder by one individual”: Experts alarmed at “stunning” SCOTUS ruling
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 3 months ago 100%

    The Supreme Court isn't really interested in arguments, it seems. They're starting at conclusions and working backwards. In a sane world, you're probably right with the logic. But in a sane world we wouldn't have made it to this point to begin with.

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  • politics politics To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Board
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 3 months ago 100%

    All men are apes, but not all apes are men.

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  • retrogaming RetroGaming Interview: Digital Eclipse On Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Rita's Rewind
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 3 months ago 100%

    I know it's pandering to my millennial nostalgia, but they're doing it so well.

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  • technology Technology What everyone gets wrong about the 2015 Ashley Madison scandal
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 3 months ago 100%

    Both definitely are true. I don't mean to indicate that one view is right. One feeds into the other. This is just he natural outcome when one sex is a sexual selector and one is not. I don't envy either group online dating, but for different reasons.

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  • technology Technology What everyone gets wrong about the 2015 Ashley Madison scandal
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 3 months ago 94%

    I remember online dating looking more like this from a male perspective.

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  • technology Technology Systemd 256.1 Addresses Complaint That 'systemd-tmpfiles' Could Unexpectedly Delete Your /home Directory
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 3 months ago 100%

    I'm gonna be real. I dont think home directory files should handled by something named tmpfiles.

    But... but... it was in the documentation! /s

    What killed me about the whole thing was how defensive the dev was about the whole thing, basically calling the reporter a moron for running a command without extensive knowledge of the entire system. I don't care how good the documentation is, if open file proceeds to format your hard drive in some circumstances, you done goofed as a dev.

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  • linux Linux Recommendation for a high-quality webcam for Linux
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 3 months ago 100%

    You'll have to forgive me, as I haven't tested this personally on Linux yet, but this webcam is a USB 3 device and doesn't have any special drivers. It should work plug-n-play.

    The reason I bring it to your attention is that it has a nice physical lens for focusing, aperture, and zoom; all separate. It's 4k 30 fps and I can confirm that the picture is really nice.

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  • technology Technology Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's former chief scientist, launches new AI company
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 3 months ago 91%

    His body has put all its resources toward growing neurons. There's simply not enough left for hair. Good trade off, imo.

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  • linuxmemes linuxmemes With GPL, you're programming Freedom. With MIT, you're programming for free.
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 3 months ago 83%

    Because I don't know why it is closed source. Is it a personal project? A private project? A sensitive project? I don't see a moral imperative for any of those to be free and open to all users.

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  • linuxmemes linuxmemes With GPL, you're programming Freedom. With MIT, you're programming for free.
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 3 months ago 86%

    If I release something free of restrictions to the world as a gift, that is my prerogative. And a third party's actions don't affect my ability to do whatever I want with the original code, nor the users of their product's ability to do what they want with my code. And the idea of "property" here is pretty abstract. What is it you own when you purchase software? Certainly not everything. Probably not nothing. But there is a wide swath in between in which reasonable people can disagree.

    If you are an intellectual property abolitionist, I doubt there is much I can say to change your mind.

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  • linuxmemes linuxmemes With GPL, you're programming Freedom. With MIT, you're programming for free.
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  • wagesj45 wagesj45 3 months ago 88%

    I'm not sure what you are referring to about ontologically bad. Has someone said this?

    I'm going by the vibe of the comments of people here who are generally anti-MIT. That the very nature of allowing someone to use your code in a closed-source project without attribution is bad. Phrasing it as "hiding their copyright infringement", for example, implies that it is copyright infringement per se regardless of the license or the spirit in which it was released.

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  • linuxmemes linuxmemes With GPL, you're programming Freedom. With MIT, you're programming for free.
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    Not all of us write code simply for monetary gain and some of us have philosophical differences on what you can and should own as far as the public commons goes. And not all of us view closed derivatives as a ontologically bad.

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    Baltimore bridge collapses after ship strikes it, sending vehicles into water www.ocregister.com

    A large vessel crashed into the bridge, catching on fire before sinking and causing multiple vehicles to fall into the Patapsco River.

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    Baltimore bridge collapses after ship strikes it, sending vehicles into water www.ocregister.com

    A large vessel crashed into the bridge, catching on fire before sinking and causing multiple vehicles to fall into the Patapsco River.

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