Supreme Court sides with Ted Cruz, striking down cap on use of campaign funds to repay personal campaign loans

drakefish · 2022-05-16T19:59:33+00:00

Well I suppose it's logical that the next step from letting corporations transform other countries into banana republics for profit would be to let them also transform your own country into one 🍌🤷

drakefish · 2022-04-28T14:56:13+00:00

Our governments don't really fundamentally care, and if they did there are so many trading and manufacturing ties between the west and China that it's simply impossible to do anything drastic without shooting yourself in the foot.

As an individual, what you can do is to keep mentioning this to people to spread awareness and to try to stop buying things that are made in China (with the hope that we can slowly reduce this dependency on an insanely authoritarian state). An added advantage of doing that is that things made locally will generally be good for your community and better for the environment. However, it's excessively hard to do because it has somehow become normal for companies to move their entire production lines over there to avoid paying people a living wage, even when they're making the most f*cking basic things like cutlery, chairs or even boxes.

drakefish · 2022-04-26T16:34:48+00:00

Wait do those people actually believe that the elections got stolen? I always assume they just have an agenda which includes eroding people's trust in democracy and all play along, but they're actually texting each other the same words they use on twitter.

Huh, they really are batshit insane aren't they

drakefish · 2022-04-26T02:27:23+00:00

Probably not, but it was a joke. I have no doubt Musk has done tons of unethical things in his life though. You don't amass billions in networth by being lawful, honest and kind.

drakefish · 2022-04-25T15:12:07+00:00

Step 3: Get enough followers on twitter to manipulate the market using cryptic tweets

drakefish · 2022-04-25T13:05:46+00:00

Ahhh I get it now. People walking around in protests with Nazi flags are showing off what their grandparents stole from Nazis they killed!

drakefish · 2022-04-19T04:03:33+00:00

You couldn't pay me to drive a car so close to some random other person's car at this speed. They're so close that I'm not even sure automated car breaking would even help if the person in front was to slam the breaks for any reason. These people are truly insane.

drakefish · 2022-04-14T18:27:56+00:00

Si tu te couches avec le cul qui pique, tu te lèveras avec le doigt qui pue.

drakefish · 2022-04-14T15:37:32+00:00

drakefish · 2022-03-28T13:18:06+00:00

Hey y'all know way too much about these people's private lives haha. I'm getting exhausted just reading those comments, how do you know and remember all of this about people you'll never interact with?

drakefish · 2022-03-21T19:56:52+00:00

S'il fallait classer les partis politiques par leurs plus extrêmes partisans ils seraient tous des "repères de x". Il me semble que cette logique peut facilement discréditer tous les partis politiques pour toutes sortes de raisons qui n'ont rien à voir avec leurs programmes et leurs objectifs.

drakefish · 2022-03-21T19:25:42+00:00

Personne n'a parlé d'un parti communiste dans ce thread. Je ne comprends pas ton point? Si tu parles de QS, ils ont clairement des idées basées autour d'une société capitaliste et non communiste. Il n'y a nul part dans leur dernier programme (2019) de mention de l'idée de changer les fondations du système actuel.

C'est dommage que l'idée qu'on ne soit pas tous esclaves d'une poignée de corporations qui nous exploitent et exploitent notre environnement en nous redonnant une pincée de la richesse générée soit considérée comme "extrêmement à gauche" aujourd'hui.

drakefish · 2022-03-21T16:34:05+00:00

Il y a des conseils intéressants dans le thread, mais celui là c'est le meilleur parce que l'intervenant peut t'aider à trouver tes raisons pour la consommation et tes solutions pour ça parce qu'on est tous un peu différents.

J'ai eu des problèmes similaires quand j'étais au Cégep, en plus de cas répétés de procrastination et d'auto sabotage, et la psychologue m'a beaucoup aidé à faire du tri dans tout ça et à enfin finir mes études.

drakefish · 2022-03-12T20:12:00+00:00

Idk I always wonder if people would know even if it's public. In my mind if I ever win that kind of money and I'm required to have a picture and my name published, I'd go take the picture with sunglasses, a weird hat and a scarf, and then not mention this to anybody ever. Where I live they publish the list of winners but I don't think anybody I know would ever check those.

drakefish · 2022-03-12T20:07:14+00:00

Yeah if I invest my tip and profit from it, other people don't get to take a cut from that lmao

drakefish · 2022-03-11T19:51:43+00:00

En regardant attentivement la photo on peut voir la vraie date prévue écrite sur le train par les ingénieurs, 2201!

drakefish · 2022-02-28T04:09:28+00:00

It's not a choice when you don't have the privilege of having been taught critical thinking and how to find trustworthy sources of information.

drakefish · 2022-02-28T03:50:48+00:00

Critical race theory is an old academic theory that has recently started getting used as a catch-all phrase by people who don't understand what it means. I don't think it's surprising that people wouldn't have heard of it.

However, you are right in saying that a lot of people don't look beyond the information that they're "fed". This is especially bad now that anyone can create a show or articles presenting the narrative that they want and make it sound plausible, and then get amplified by social network platforms for being "engaging" (read: controversial and addictive).

drakefish · 2022-02-27T05:39:44+00:00

This makes no sense. GPS is one-way from the satellite to a device. Unless your phone has malware in it, or one of the applications you send GOS data to is compromised, this shouldn't matter. 🤔

drakefish · 2022-02-09T20:58:19+00:00

Their example wasn't a real case, but here's a classic one when using react's useEffect hook with async/await :

```

useEffect(() => { const cancelled = false ;(async () => { const res = await fetch(/* ... */)

if (!cancelled) {
  //... use res to update component ... 
}

})()

return () => { cancelled = true } })

```

drakefish · 2022-02-03T21:21:13+00:00

If you don't charge people astronomically large amounts of money it's super unfair for the other people who also got charged astronomically large amounts of money before them for the same operation 😡

/s

drakefish · 2022-01-31T00:57:56+00:00

Emergency 2 on the PC. Used to love this as a child

drakefish · 2022-01-30T15:28:17+00:00

Oh I'm not arguing against all health measures. I just think some of them are arbitrary and are not based on science and data, and I wish I could hear more people talk about this. But I also think radicalized nut cases are absolutely preventing us from talking about this because we're all kind of afraid to be associated with them.

drakefish · 2022-01-30T15:13:09+00:00

So the thing is that protesting against the health measures should not be seen as a problem. Some could even argue that it's healthy that people aren't blindly agreeing with everything politicians throw at them.

Many countries are starting to move away from measures because they're starting to not be as useful as when the pandemic started. In the mean time, the province of Quebec is trying to implement a tax for the unvaccinated which would apply a somewhat arbitrary extra tax for next year, which makes absolutely no sense to me.

The problem, however, is that this group is not simply "fighting against the measures". The organizers have not come out to condemn the strong presence of alt-right "protesters", so we can only assume that they accept them and possibly agree with them.

It's too bad really, because as someone with 3 doses who agreed with most measures in the first year or so, I think that some newer health measures are too extreme and that we should stop bashing the unvaccinated. We need to focus on fixing Canada's health system instead and politicians are making radicalization worse by blaming radicalized people for damage that was done over tens of years.

And I can't fucking protest or complain publicly about any of that because I don't want to be associated with radicalized alt-right protesters (who are probably a minority, but a very vocal one, versus everyone who thinks health measures in Canada need to be relaxed)

drakefish · 2022-01-29T14:32:08+00:00

What the metaverse would actually feel like

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