The problems with money (capital) in American politics started long before Trump. Even before Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission opened the doors to unlimited corporate spending in 2010, money was a stronger predictor of election outcomes than early polling and campaign finance laws had been eroding at least as far back as 1976.

Just beacause the person with the most votes is in office doesn’t mean that everything is “just fine” - the process of how candidates are chosen, access to voters, media spin of their campaigns, districting, polling place access, polling station access (hours, location, laws around time off work to vote), early voting and mail-in rules - all affect the eventual outcome and all are completely broken in the US.

Is it still a democracy? Technically yes. But it’s on life support, and it’s the billionaires and major corporate donors that will decide whether and when to pull the plug.

In other words, the entire world. Including the United States, which is part of the Americas, and whose democracy is perfectly healthy and completely uncorrupted by any effects of capitalism. /s

Such as?

I’m sorry for your loss. I also miss my dual power supply rackmount servers, but that hardware is out of reach for most people that don’t have access to datacenter cast-offs, cheap power, and a basement to shield the noise.

Affluenza seems to be the more common term, but either way I don’t think the officials take proposals on Lemmy. You can submit it here for the DSM (US) or here for the ICD (Europe, UK, and a few others) though

Cis people are people whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth. It’s basically anyone that isn’t transgender, nonbinary, or intersex.

It matters in this contect because while transgender people can advocate for their own rights, they don’t have the leverage needed to succeed unless cisgender (cis) people help.

Unless it’s {shudders} Binary Coded Decimal, in which case it’s only 16.

On the other hand, why assume it’s big endian? It could be 26.

Of course, all of that assumes it codes for a number in the first place. It could … I’ll see myself out.

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In the US it is absolutely a tipped position, and has been for decades.

TLDR: the marketing is done by humans, the code isn’t

Thank you!

Care to share?

Theyr’re working on the federation too.

If the recall weren’t such a high bar I’d agree. At 75% though, not being recalled doesn’t represent a mandate from the users. It only means the person hasn’t openly and overwhelmingly offended everybody they’ve interacted with. If that’s going to be the bar, it would be good for the community to have some say up front.

Thinkpads are not what they once were. I finally gave up on them, moved over to a Framework, and haven’t regretted it.

I see you have yet to meetmy old friend Debian, who was supporting i386 until 2 weeks ago, and includes a much broader library of softwate than Microsoft has ever maintained.

The loophole is that while you own the car, you only license the software that allows it to run. They didn’t take the car away, “just” terminated the license 🤬

Daily driver here. Stable for servers, testing for workstations.

Debian Testing isn’t as stable as Stable, but has been far more reliable than anyone else’s desktop releases. I’m also not a fan of Fedora and others’ policy of ending support on the day of a new release.

If for some reason you decide to hold back on an upgrade of Testing, you’ve still got five years of patch support coming. And if I do want to live on the bleeding edge, there’s always Sid (also called Unstable). That’s where you’ll run into the kind of instability you can expect from a rolling release.

My favorite will probably always be Gentoo, but I don’t always have time for that hobby.

Steal? Microsoft and Apple are the bad guys!

Guinea fowl even more so