Just in time for Grijalva to be sworn in

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/12/nx-s1-5606350/adelita-grijalva-swearing-in

I know a lot of hockey fans would be mad at me, but I would ban hockey fights. I’m not really a sports guy, but I can enjoy hockey and its socially useful to follow at least one sport. But hockey fights just make my eyes roll.

That experiment has been pretty thoroughly discredited.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

I am also not a frontend dev, but you got me curious, so I did a little digging. Sounds like if you think you may ever turn it into a mobile app, choose React. Otherwise flip a coin between Vue or Svelte.

Modern replicas of many of these historical weapons are often twice as heavy as the real thing. A field Zweihander would have been somewhere around 5 lbs.

Finally got my last PC switched off Windows. It feels good.

I think there may be more opportunity for success here than your argument seems to suggest.

I agree with the focus on inequality. The sense that society is fundamentally unfair has a corrosive and a radicalising effect on politics. People can react to it in very different ways, from redistribution to out-group scapegoating, but the underlying motivation is that people see that there is vast wealth available in our society and they’re still struggling.

Where I may disagree is that most people are non-ideological. Not everyone, but a healthy majority. They aren’t focused on the philosophical roots of a candidate’s policies. They care that the candidate

1. Sees, likes, and cares about themselves and their group
2. Has a vision that gives them hope for something better

Many people can find that in candidates with a variety of ideological positions. The overlap between people who supported Bernie after the great recession, and went on to support Trump is bigger than one would expect.

So the equation is much less zero sum. You don’t lose one reactionary for every radical you bring into your camp. There really aren’t that many committed radicals and reactionaries.

The most toxic message today is the economic moderate. “Hey, it’s not so bad. Things could be a lot worse.” This is the zero sum relationship. You can’t keep both the people who are doing well and like how things work, and the people who are struggling and want the life they deserve. The material difference isn’t left vs right, it’s status quo versus change. There’s a lot more room for flexibility in the change camp.

Fucking cool, and also remember to leave your phone at home, or at least on airplane mode.

Pretty sure they’re typically publicly owned. Maybe some places lease them. Couldn’t find a national survey, but here’s at least one example of a county that bought some machines and a service contract.

https://fm.kuac.org/elections/2025-03-10/assembly-fails-voting-machine-contract-may-force-change-to-hand-counting-ballots

Maybe a car fleet is a good example. Ford designs and builds the cars. Counties buy them, and often buy service and maintenance contracts to keep them running. The counties still own the cars.

I suppose counties could receive the source code, have it audited, and then compile and load it themselves.

I thought about this for a second, and I don’t actually think being open source would do any good. It’s not like we can compile and run our own voting booths. There’s no way to know what’s actually running in the machine at your polling place.

And voting machines are publicly owned, but perhaps you meant designed and manufactured by the government?

Exactly. They’re trying to scare us off. A little courage now may spare us the need for really scary things later.

It would be interesting to learn something about the demographics on Lemmy.

I usually liken the bad vibes on Lemmy to being stuck with a bunch of cynical teenagers. Nothing is ever good enough, nothing good can happen. They know this with absolute certainty.

I am also probably older than average here.

Rage bait?

I try to stay skeptical about conspiracy theories, but I have yet to see an explanation for why this guy had so much money and connections. To talk about “science” and “money markets”? At Bill Clinton’s request? None of that makes sense to me.

Looking forward to more vindictive prosecution findings.

Recognizing that the physical can affect the mental, and vice versa, isn’t really the end of the dualism argument. Dualists have incorporated that simple observation from the beginning.

From your quote, the key word is “purely.” Is consciousness purely physical, or is some other substance involved, that’s the question.

You can take either side of the argument, but physical-mental interactions only suggest that mental phenomena are not purely separate. It does not indicate that there are no non-physical elements of consciousness. In other words, that mental states are purely physical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind–body_dualism

If you want to read through some of the arguments for and against.

Are you objecting to him being described as a refugee?

In 1922?

Last I heard Trump was cold calling world leaders to beg for Nobel peace prize nominations.

I’m not really qualified to evaluate the merits here, but as a science-interested layman, I’d be glad to see an alternative to dark matter and energy. Setting aside the technical arguments, the dark matter and energy approach smells like questioning the observations when your theory doesn’t match observations.

I skimmed the paper for testable predictions, and nothing stood out to me. Fitting existing observations is a good place to start, but if the only prediction is that nobody will find dark matter or energy, things may remain undecided forever.