Why not create a GUI interface using visual basic?

I once locked eyes with him at the Austin airport as I walked past the bar where he was passing the time. As soon as the squint of recognition hit my face he stuck his tongue out me, I chuckled and continued on my way.

By at the same time also requiring some form of ranked choice for every election, and to have a “none of the above” option, and if over 50% of the votes have “none of the above” as the #1 choice the election must be redone with all new candidates. Everyone is thus able to truly vote for who and what they believe we have the turnout to never have to discuss the legitimacy of the winner.

Well then get ready for nationalization of the AI companies with whom the military and intelligence agencies have contracts and have failed too big to bail.

Lol so when leftists say “Newsom is shit” what do you think our goal with that is, exactly?

To discourage people from voting for him. Nothing in my reply should have been interpreted as suggesting you don’t speak your mind on the matter.

It’s to encourage people to vote against him in the primaries, quite obviously

It’s not obvious that you’re advocating for people to vote in primaries. You’re using various talking points that are typically associated with not voting in the primaries as protest against the party. That’s why I replied to bring up the primaries explicitly.

this will be enough for the democrat party to manufacture the consent they need to put Newsom or whatever other corporatist they choose forward.

But the super delegate system and the ratfucking tricks they use heavily stack the presidential candidate primaries against leftists.

This is language I mostly see associated with “the primaries are rigged/my vote won’t matter” type of stance from people who do not vote in the Democratic primaries. In case you’re not already aware, though, they changed the convention rules starting with the 2018 convention so that super delegates don’t even get a vote unless the pledged delegates can’t elect a nominee. Also the new DNC chair (elected after the 2024 loss) is the former Minnesota party chair with (as far as I’ve been made aware) a track record of both not meddling in primaries and supporting progressive nominees.

already screaming about purity tests and “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good”

And then those libs will blame the left for not voting for actively evil candidates when they lose the next election to whatever republican fascist hes running against.

These sorts of comments are typically about the general election, not the primaries. They don’t make any sense if they’re said about the primaries. But in context of the general election they’re unfortunately correct. If you don’t vote in the general against the major party nominee who is least aligned with you then you are making easier for them to win by reducing the threshold of votes they need to receive. One of the two major party nominees will win the election whether you participate in it or not (for the vast majority of races, but extremely so for the president). That doesn’t mean I want you to sit down and shut up about a nominees shortcomings (I’m sure some people do mean that, but I don’t). Absolutely speak up. But clearly the party has been shifting to the right when the right wins the general, so the focus for protest voting has to be through the primaries only.

in the primary

Then be sure to vote in the primary.

If more people would fucking go to vote in the primaries then it wouldn’t fucking matter what the DNC/donors want. The DNC didn’t give us House Reps AOC and the rest of The Squad, they didn’t give us Senator Sanders (he won the Democratic primary for Senate in 2008 before running as an Independent in the general), they didn’t give us Mayor Mamdani. The voters came out and told the DNC who the nominee was going to be. We have to abandon the defeatist mentality of what the DNC and Donors will allow. Just fucking rise up and vote. And if there is no primary candidate you like, leave it blank or write in uncommitted. Only 4% of Dem primary votes in 2024 we’re enough to fuel a movement that ended with a sitting president dropping out of the race after securing the presumptive nominee. Our voices have power if we use them.

There was a brief push for people to leave BlueSky right after a few people were banned right after the Charlie Kirk murder, but my observation is many people who flirted with Mastodon (look for the #fuckaas tag and accounts on the fuckaas.space instance) in that time stuck with BlueSky in the long run.

also, a black man was elected president. I think the rural racists without Internet still heard about it.

TIL fark.com is still around

not for organizing resistance to corrupt governments, as it doesn’t have E2EE.

The problem with your comparison is that you’re physically sending your kids off with other people, and there are physical limitations on participation. Of course it’s encumbent on the organization employing those people to make sure they’re trustworthy (same for the adults who are volunteering to be responsible for the children). In the same way, Discord is responsible for making sure that their own employees aren’t abusing and preying on the users. They are expected to investigate any reports of abuse by either their employees, scouts, or adults volunteering. Just as Discord is expected to investigate any such reports, too. There are absolutely things to hold digital platforms accountable for to make things safer. But face scans and uploading government ID doesn’t accomplish that. We hold platforms to account by auditing their response to abuse reports and any failures in their privacy and security controls and if they can’t manage that then they should be dissolved.

Even just since I posted my comment, there’s now this new link making my front page on piefed

https://www.404media.co/free-tool-says-it-can-bypass-discords-age-verification-check-with-a-3d-model/

Residential IPs aren’t static. VPNs exist. Residential ISP proxy services exist. Cloud providers exist from every inhabited continent. Tor exists. Determined predators and bad actors will get on the platforms and can get verified at whatever age group they want.

If we pretend otherwise instead of educating the children on how to recognize predatory behavior then we haven’t protected them at all.

When Roblox rolled this out kids were using AI tools to perform the face scan. Kids have easy access to sneak their parents’ ID to upload in secret. Predators can use the same tactics. So we haven’t gained any security, but some people will be caught up with having their real data made vulnerable.

The only real solution is for the parents/guardians to be engaged and involved in their childrens’ lives. That means I have to occasionally invade their privacy and look at their communications, but more importantly it means I have to tell my children about the predators and what kinds of things predators will say to them. It’s impossible to child-proof the world around us, we have to world-proof the children themselves.

indeed they should not.

Corrupt governments in the past have been toppled thanks to organizing on discord

Matrix, Signal, Proton/Tuta are much better suited to that purpose.

Trying to sign up for days but I have yet to receive a verification email.

And following them … Emma Watson all throughout the Harry Potter series.

Glad to see the space retain its function.

Millions of pounds per hour?