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I think the two peoples have much in common; probably more than many realize.

I think the best web page is a photo with a page of paper of handwriting : several photos if one has a lot to say.

Today’s bandwidth and powerful computers can easily handle it

Nobody will target him.

The USA is very safe for his type to exist.

These people either don’t care they lie or have zero introspection.

Most probably he dealt with it and moved on, unchanged

If progressives had more power than now, it would partially make the above harder to do, but would not stop the cycles every 8 years or so.

The only way to escape the scamming of this country is for progressives to insist on paper ballots everywhere. Or else it’s just superficial wins, not important on the national level.

But progressives in the Democratic Party cannot insist on the use of counting methods used in the majority of countries like in the EU , Japan , Canada etc .

And it is here I find the psychology of the movement darkly fascinating, because it hobbles itself with taboos.

I’ve said it a hundred times. Look at the last 40 years of history where the GOP sabotages the country to increase wealth for a minority. Then later the Dems fix up enough. Then this happens repeatedly.

Look at the polling issues and taletell signs of ballot manipulation in several states. Going back to the 1990s.

Think of the games con artists play as good cop, bad cop, designed to extract wealth from their victims . It takes two actors to play .

I really do expect the Democrats will be allowed to win the midterms next year, and do nothing productive. They will not do tactics a real opposition party would do.

Then a democratic president will be allowed to win again. That president will do nothing particularly helpful other than bandages, so the next iteration will extract more wealth.

When the Dems win, it will silence, yet again, the proponents for paper ballots only.

And the next iteration of the gop in the 2030s will be worse than now.

And that is the most optimistic take on the future I have.

Security through obesity also

That is not their problem, it is ours.

Their problem is the multiple PR disasters which will probably lower campaign contributions.

I think a problem the Democratic Party is facing is that, today, few believe they will

It’s hard to elect a marketing company. However I think this may work

Fascist movements do not end when a leader goes.

And while the gop will be splintered, they will coalesce, eventually, in time to elect someone we will curse in the 2030s

I suppose Newsom may win the presidency in 2028, and then caretake the country while doing the minimum for 4 to 8 years.

Just in time for another gop to win after that, and drive the USA to the brink of ruin even more than Trump

Back and forth. Same pattern the last two decades or more

Worms have mitochondria ; perhaps they are promoting theirs be used to supplement the primate hosts?

If the worms do the mental work, that saves some sugar for the monkeys. Sounds reasonable. I do not know why people are making fun of it. Worms are good; be one of us…

Yes, and the way to solve this is to develop the platforms more. I tend to think of the fediverse as a work in progress, and will be maybe the grandparent of better networks that have less failings. Certainly it is a necessary step.

We can help by both supporting the current iterations: either in funding or programming or just using it. And thinking of the next steps

I do not understand all the changes in tech, so much new happens each day. Some changes each day are good. But like you imply, much bad happens daily. I say daily because millions contribute.

But change is the only constant here. And a state of constant flux, historically, is not helpful to the ruling classes. Its not that helpful to the workers either. But the stage is not set for one to win over the other yet.

We have a few decades before nano technology ensures the wealthy will win. It will be a challenge between that, and climate change. Surely we are in the most decisive moments of human evolution, and world history for life. There are so many ways to fail, and only a few to succeed.

In hindsight this is not surprising at all, I would argue that it is the social duty of all developers to assist with such things.

I was fruitful and multiplied, its hard to organize a large migration of people, some of whom want to stay.

I will travel, but am rather tied to this area, even if I do not see it changing for the better in my lifetime

I agree with mastodon, even though eventually Texas will enact similar legislation forcing me to use a vpn to read it

Exactly, that is why decentralized or federated social media, or its descendants - what it evolves into - is so valuable.