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  • Joe Manchin vows ‘unrelenting fight’ against US climate law he helped pass

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  • When Manchin goes, he isn't getting replaced by a more left Dem. He is as left as the state is gonna go for some time. Trump had ~70% of the vote; even the most liberal county, Monongalia, still broke for Trump, and that's where WVU is.

    Anyone who thinks the citizens here will vote for another Dem are delusional. He's staying in power because he was already there, simple as. He was an agreeable Dem because he would talk about coal lovingly and bitch about things people wanted him to bitch about. If/when he swaps to R, he's going further right or the people here will vote a better conservative in.

  • Trump supporters post names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors online.

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  • The problem is, not doing so is tantamount to treason to them. The election was stolen, this isn't the USA anymore. This is some deep state globalist conspiracy. They're so far gone that the only path forward is to threaten war and physical harm to others.

    Imagine. Some deep state conspiracy and the best person they could put in power was Joe fuckin Biden...lmao

  • Really, ….. it's my fault they built a terrible system?

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  • It's a systemic problem they helped setup. The amount of public support they had while going through education and young adult life was wild. Unions were popular, housing was relatively cheap and affordable, same with education. Things didn't start blowing up til the 80s, 90s, 00s, when they were firmly of voting age and able to exert their numbers politically.

    When did corporate and private tax policy change drasrically? The 80s. When did college costs start to increase? 1980 referencing a graph here.. When did housing start to increase (the first time)? In the 2000s, cause banks and the fed (led by boomers; all 5 of the largest financial institution crashes were headed by boomers; Lehman, Merrill, Citi, AIG, and Goldman Sachs), the fed was led By Greenspan prior to '06, but Bernanke afterwards (and he was the one who bailed those fuckers out, same with the GM and Chrysler with Bush, Boomer). Additionally, boomers are the generation most opposed to any climate change policy (along with Gen X, but that's a different conversation), referencing this article.

    I do think it's a systemic issue. I just think boomers have played a large role in it's construction. Their parents before them had strong public works projects for infrastructure strong social safety nets, strong employee protections through growing unionization, lengthy fights for workers rights and de-segregation in many places. Boomers have wanted less of that and have actively worked to get rid of them.

    The system wasn't built by no one, and changed pretty dramatically during a specific time frame.

  • How does multiplayer gaming fit into your life?

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  • I play a LOT of ESO; I have three nights a week that I group with others to do PvP in Cyrodiil. Beyond that, I help out with a large trials Discord that runs ~3-5 trials a week, depending on schedules. I can sign up for those as needed.

    Even with only doing PvP 3 nights a week, we generally only run ~2-3 hours, and there are enough people that if someone misses, it isn't a big deal, and a sub can usually be pulled into the role. If not? We just deal with it. People have lives, they're gonna miss. I routinely take breaks from the scheduled stuff, because I don't like having things planned out. With football and basketball season coming up, I'll likely step away for a bit to do other things I like.

    ESO is nice, in that once you're at level cap, you're done doing that grind. New sets aren't too hard to get once you get sorted, and non-meta builds are viable through most end-game content. Being in the large trials discords makes it really easy to slot in when I want. Additionally, the Discords themselves makes it easy to stay connected without the commitment of the game required.

    As for friends that don't play, anytime I'm playing Rocket League or CoD or whatever other games, I'll send something in the group chat to see if others wanna join. Most the time I don't get any takers, but putting the invite out there is enough. It's hard to stay connected through the years, an invite at least let's friends know you are thinking of them in the moment.

  • Hear what Republican voters have to say after listening to infamous Trump call

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  • Not to mention this wouldn't be nearly as hard of an about face if they didn't make it a primary characteristic of their persona. It's why they get pissy when we say "prosecute Biden if he did anything wrong". We don't have the same level of blind fealty to the guy we voted for. He was just the best option we had. Meanwhile, if they can't/don't get to vote for Trump, then it is clearly a condemnation of the voting system that has worked for decades because they can't "lose" to liberals, they're weak and gay.

    It's astounding the lengths people go to for that fuckin cheeto...

  • Microsoft’s Xbox Series S Parity Demands Are Now Handing Sony Free Wins

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  • Cause 343 is a bad studio. Lmao

    Both things are true tho.

  • OnePlus just fixed a phone screen problem not even Apple or Samsung have solved

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  • My 8Pro is the last 1+ I'll own. Looking longingly at Nothing Phone next year I think, but this phone has been wonky last few days. Keyboards not working, apps not working correctly (and are updated). Could technwbe because I'm still on Android 11, but the 1+ track record for stable Android releases isn't great either.

  • Why is Lemmy World gone now?

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  • Screenshot this and attach it as a request for citizenship exception.

  • Artemis public beta up! Thanks Hariette

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  • People on the app currently are using the artemis.camp kbin instance, presumably just because they want to help test and use the app now. That's what I'll be doing.

  • Is Ukraine's counteroffensive failing? Kyiv and its supporters worry about losing control of the narrative

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  • Democratic-> sovereign isn't a backpedal; it's describing two different things. You wouldn't say that me describing some apples as green, and then saying there are 3 of them is somehow a reduction in the amount of green the apples are simple because I didn't call them green again.

    Sovereign describes the authority to do things on a territory. Ukraine is sovereign; they aren't a territory of Russia, Ukraine answers to Ukraine on its own political matters. That does nothing to describe or rule-out democracy.

    If I say "Ukraine is a democracy, who in 2019 held an election described as fair and free by international observers, in which the citizens elected a president of their own volition", would you realize that me describing Ukraine as sovereign in no way, shape, or form, describes it's elective process?

    Cause if I need to, I will.

  • Is Ukraine's counteroffensive failing? Kyiv and its supporters worry about losing control of the narrative

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  • Sovereign as is the highest authority in the territory. The US is a sovereign nation. European countries are sovereign. In fact, most of the countries on the planet can be described as sovereign nations...

    "Sovereign" does nothing to describe the type of governance the country has? Or do you have some wild insight about how sovereign actually means it's an installed dictatorship?

  • Is Ukraine's counteroffensive failing? Kyiv and its supporters worry about losing control of the narrative

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  • So Putin, who is openly saying that the offensive isn't going as planned, is OK sending tens of thousands of soldiers into the grinder agaisnt better equipment, just to go through surplus? He's choosing to have thousands of Russians killed while sitting on equipment that could keep them safe?

    What a guy. Noble cause he's after, de-nazi-fying a sovereign nation, while also getting his citizens massacred in tank columns and shoddy equipment while he keeps the good stuff at home.

    Unless that isn't what he's doing? But you did just say they were using old stuff on purpose. You wouldn't be wrong, would you?

  • Is Ukraine's counteroffensive failing? Kyiv and its supporters worry about losing control of the narrative

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  • Lmao so what would you describe the massive losses Russia has taken in terms of lives, machinery, and munitions, as well as the open revolt Wagner engaged in? If Ukraine is losing fingers, teeth, and hearing, I imagine Russia has full on lost a limb and has bleeding to stabilize.

    That rebellion was probably part of Put-daddy's plan tho, right?

  • How it feels as an iOS user right now

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  • Think the link is discontinued or something, I can't find it on the Play Store, and they don't have any Android links up rn. I'll just keep waiting patiently...lol

  • How it feels as an iOS user right now

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  • Has he said he's making an app for it?

  • How it feels as an iOS user right now

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  • Artemis was supposed to be coming this week, no word yet.

    You also have to use it from the artemis.camp instance, but that's temporary until the kbin api is finished.

  • They lied about Afghanistan. They lied about Iraq. Now they're lying about Ukraine -Chris Hedges

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  • New, hour old account trolling the comments arguing with everyone who is positing the wholly impossible solution of "Russia just not invading Ukraine". Who could have seen that coming...

    At any rate, seems like this article does a great job of laying blame at the feet of anyone except the man who ordered the invasion in the first place. Clearly the Ukrainian populace is in favor of defending their country; they have been solid in defense and have started an offensive. Clearly the Russians are not united in their action, as they just recently had an extremely public attempted coup by their wonderful Wagner troops. Which side has more strife and indecision behind it? Ukraine or the Russians?

    As for who benefits from this action, it's wild that the author ignores the benefits that Russia would have from this. The large warm water ports in the South, increased access to oil reserves, cobalt, and other mineral reserves. We can just gloss over that, though...

  • Don't overstate 1.5 degrees C threat, new IPCC head says

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  • You're not wrong, I think I had some misconstruing of the point of his statements.

    I think the apathy has started popping up because the onus is being placed on the individual at multiple levels. It's on me to change my habits to the level of environmental conscientiousness which I'm trying to reach; LEDs, efficient appliances, electric vehicle (arguable at this point), recycling efforts across many spectrums, supporting public policy that encourages green practices, etc. But even as a population, that doesn't effect much change when considering corporate practices. Surface level changes to some operations to take advantage of rebates or subsidies, but only so far as it's deemed profitable. Manufacturing and material acquisition still being "dirty", use of international labor to sidestep stricter policies, general obfuscation tactics, lobbyists and generally vast amounts of money actively seeking to stop or reverse policies.

    I as an individual can enact much change in my life and those around me. But it falls well short of what a single company could do if they really wanted to take the leap.

    I could also just have a narrow-sighted perspective on the situation, but that's largely where I fall currently. The focus on individual efforts vs societal (largely meaning the tools at my disposal beyond what I can provide myself) leaves much to be desired.

  • Don't overstate 1.5 degrees C threat, new IPCC head says

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  • I can agree with that

  • Don't overstate 1.5 degrees C threat, new IPCC head says

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  • I have no desire to continue trying to win over those people. There are absolutely still people to discuss these matters with. But we can't abide by the lowest common denominator.