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He’s certainly never been an actual father to his children. So that’s a pretty sucint description of him.

I was speaking of within the legal profession. I agree with you. But within the legal profession it had previously had an impeccable record.

Remember both Schwartz and Snowden violated laws. Though just because something is a law doesn’t make it good or right. But the legal profession was doing what the legal profession was supposed to at the time. At least in a minimal sense. Even if not an equal application. Now any pretense of them actually doing the job they’re supposed to is gone. They are just a fascist lap dog purely now.

Back in the DOS days and early windows days. They were one of the gold standards for PC audio. Even if you didn’t own a sound blaster card, you likely owned a clone that emulated one. They were the bees knees so to speak when it came to PC gaming.

But by the late 90s the company had spread itself so thin on branding and other things. Sound blaster CDROM drives? Yep. Sound blaster video cards? Yep. Etc Etc Etc. They tried to parlay being a lucky defacto standard into something else. Wanted to be a premium brand. Prices go up, quality goes down. Kinda like Nvidia now. Fake frames, AI slop, shitting on traditional customers.

Turn of the century and a standard set in 97 finally started rolling out on consumer motherboards. No longer when you bought your computer if you wanted it to make anything more than basic beeps boops and buzzes. Did you have to go out and spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to get an ad in card. It was on board. On the motherboard.

The newest computer I own is an early ryzen from the previous Dark Times. Not to be confused with these dark times. So I don’t have first-hand experience. But it is my understanding that Intel integrated Graphics isn’t quite the joke is that it used to be. Just a bastard stepchild that Intel can’t decide if they really want to support of not. And some AMD chips have an APU on it which is similar. But still chokes under anything very intense. It’s getting close. But just not quite. Give us a truly standardized setup with the basic power of a mid 2010s graphics accelerator and vulkan api, most people would be in business.

Honestly I’m hoping something along this line happens and becomes common with risc-v systems. Like Mali with arm.

Previously it did have a really good reputation. But you don’t have to be a legal eagle Watcher to know that that’s long gone and it is a complete joke now. All you had to do was pay attention during sandwich gate. Or watch Janine Piro’s kayak moment.

He’s quite literally and figuratively the aristocrats.

Definitely. I just hope that sooner rather than later it’s possible for them all to move over to local open source models. Supporting wasteful content thieves is not sustainable.

That and that all the GPU manufacturers Etc have their sound blaster moment. These days a lot of socs have quite powerful Graphics accelerators on them. At some point, someone’s going to release a bit of silicon equivalent to the AC 97. May not have been able to compete with sound blaster on the ridiculously high end of the market. But was good enough for 99% of tasks. So that most people don’t even remember sound blaster anymore. Even though they still technically exist.

If he’s still auditing and understanding the code. Something that he’s done as a project manager for decades at this point. I don’t see how it will. If the code is generated by a person or a machine. The auditing isn’t much different.

Obama won one rigged against him. Though to be fair he ran as much more of a vague populist than he turned out to be.

The stuff of fantasy, dreams, and nightmares. Also electoral politics and the state.

Nah, we’re all mad here.

Individuals can be smart. But God people are dumb.

Listen up bud. Most people, for better or worse aren’t overtly political. That they share a belief with liberals doesn’t make them any more “liberals” in any committed or devoted sense. Than myself having anarco communist views makes me a leninist or you a tanky. But you know who runs around calling people they disagree with “liberals” regularly? Tankies. You are legit doing what you are accusing others if doing. Two wrongs don’t make a right either.

If refusing to participate makes the material conditions worse. I can and will point it out all day. If you live in a state that will safely not go Republican if you don’t participate. That is a unique circumstance and a privileged choice that you specifically are afforded. If you run around telling people generally to do that. Not knowing how that will impact anyone. Possibly extremely negatively. Such as getting vulnerable people to abstain or vote for the person that would victimize them more. (Which happened) You should expect criticism. And if you don’t want it. Don’t announce your vote/lack of it to the world. And we won’t care. Everyone is entitled to vote whoever they want or not at all.

I’m also quite well aware of what the United States is. But thanks for the unneeded lecture. I am a tribe member. Officially on the rolls. The United States has persecuted suppressed and slaughtered my people for hundreds of years. Canada too. I don’t have any great sympathy for them. But I did get a chuckle out of this.

I’ve honestly tried to keep our discussion very civil and fact-based. I’m starting to think that was a mistake. But can we at least agree. That we should be trying to make more allies and not enemies. That we shouldn’t rush to Judgment of others even if they rush to Judgment of us. If we go looking for enemies we will find them or make them one way or the other. And neither of us needs that. There are already enough actual enemies.

If that’s the case then. I hope you’re right. However I dislike all national parties. State parties for that matter honestly. And I have significant doubts that just changing out the head got rid of all the systemic rot underneath.

I would love to be surprised. But understand till then till I see it happen. I’m going to be skeptical. But here’s hoping that he is what you say he is. And that Democrats don’t find a way to fuck this up as they always do. There’s one thing I can be sure about Democrats in the last 50 years having watched them. It’s that they are professional losers who love snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

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Well we have the primaries at least. I don’t doubt the DNC will be fingering the scales hard. For all of Obama problems. He is proof their rigging can be subverted. I just hope at least AOC or someone better runs in the primaries. And if there are several. Those trailing behind if there is a clear leader will drop and get behind them. Because we know the establishment will line up behind Newsom or Harris as soon as they can.

And cut the families from being eligible for any benefits

We’ll never know the real number. But you’re not wrong that it will keep going up.

It’s kind of ironic you assuming that people are liberals just because they disagree with you. And being upset that they call you a tanky for disagreeing with them. Something which I’m not doing.

Quite frankly I think we should abolish the state. But unfortunately when it comes to solidarity unless you and I have solid viable alternatives. That will directly impact their material conditions in a positive way. And realistically short of Revolution we don’t. And I don’t see anyone revolting here. Then we are unfortunately left to go with the majority when it comes to things like the national elections. Which again is why we shouldn’t have such wide spread election. Or offices that centralized to require such. But non-participation doesn’t improve the material conditions of anyone.

I avoid bluesky. Not my tastes.

I think newsom is unqualified to hold a door open, let alone public office. Unfortunately you and I are minorities and what we think doesn’t matter much. God forbid he or Harris make it to the general. But if they should. Do you think it better the election go to whatever homunculus Thiel is running? In the general, what other viable option will there be? If you live in a blue state. Absolutely vote your conscience. All I want is for those voting for their material conditions to not be attacked by those who should be allies. Same as you.

This time there will be a primary at least. Unlike the acrimony that corpse Biden unleashed in 24. So there’s a chance they won’t make it. And we have 2 years to make that a reality.

My lemmy.world account will be 4 years old this June. I’ve been active since then pretty regularly.

Generally it’s the people who are against Blue no matter who that are the ones that do the name calling. There’s one down below even. But I’m not going to deny it goes a little bit both ways.

Slogans by the very nature cannot be nuanced manifestos. They must be short, punchy, and easy to remember. But till November 4th, we are in the general. You are just gonna have to accept it. I’d rather have DSA all day, every day too. But they don’t even run here.

But yall need to understand. You might have the privilege of being able to vote for a third party without hurting a national/state Democrats chances of winning your state. But plenty of places have issues with even having a second party running in elections let alone someone other than Democrats. If you don’t atack others for taking advantage of the only viable choices they have. Waving Your Privilege in their face. They won’t attack you for your privilege. Let’s work together to get the best viable options to improve the material conditions of everyone. Agreed?