… Any chance one of you fine folks knows an easy, Linux friendly software so I can make something like this? I just wanna put the crude moving captions/images on gifs etc and make gif meme content but am held back by a complete and utter lack of knowledge.

You might browse the site GoodOnYou. They have a lot of different ethical brands.

I’ve noticed a lot of thr Canadian brands are geared to extreme cold but that doesn’t seem exactly what you’re looking for. If you don’t mind European (hey, it ain’t murica) there’s a wider selection and at the “buying a jacket” price point, they’ll usually deliver for free.

If you don’t mind shelling out a bit, my friend has a Wuxley jacket that’s lasted for awhile and seems pretty great. (Canadian ethical company!)

Good luck!

it’s a more transparent and sensible moderation model?

Certainly more transparent with the modlog though, depending on the domain etc you might come across some interesting moderation (.ml is hilarious for this stuff.)

Regardless, welcome to the fediverse, hope it tickles your fancy!

It’s like the US only realized the cost of trump’s bullshit after the fact.

NATO made European nuclear ambitions less essential and thus helped reduce nuclear proliferation. When the US threatens that alliance and shows itself to be completely unreliable (does anyone expect donald to launch nukes in defence of Europe?) Then Europe is almost forced to get a European nuclear deterrent.

In the meantime, thank fuck for Charles deGaulle.

Oh wow, I haven’t heard autotune the news since they raping everybody in here!

Oh fully agree. I’m in a similar spot though I’m an okay-ish manager, I don’t like it and much prefer my actual job.

I’m not sure how common my experience is as I work in a large non profit and while union, my union group is pretty free wheeling (fewer protections but fewer restrictions.) Anyway, we’ve gotten around the problem by just adding words to or changing words in my title.

This has had the effect of allowing me to do my job, get raises as basically deserved and look like I’m advancing. Admittedly, my manager etc are very understanding and most of the senior leadership knows me, so take from that what you will.

I wouldn’t want the hardest worker to be the automatic promotion. We’ve all worked with someone who means well, works hard but is dumb as a brick. God help us if they get promoted.

Edit: Okay, I guess I’m the only one who has ever been managed by a hard working, well meaning idiot?

I really like their response. Between the lines, it’s basically “the audacity of this whiny little removed…”

What do you mean holding hostage?

The only leverage points, as mentioned earlier, are a government shutdown or refusing to move the debt ceiling. Both of which are just “we are willing to inflict massive pain until our demands are met.” That’s what hostage taking is.

Other than that, the Dems have no political power until they win in the midterms.

had just gutted healthcare and other public services

These are political complaints. You’ve moved from “we have to stop fascism” to “I disagree with these policy choices” which is a vastly different arena. I disagree with the policies but more Americans voted for the administration to enact sweeping policy changes, that’s democracy even when the results are other than what you wish they were.

Because the long term consequences are far more dire?

Like, are you saying Dems holding America hostage will make Republicans realize trump is the actual threat?

I’m not seeing the mechanism from which Democrats inflicting massive pain on American voters somehow removes trump.

What do you see happening?

Edit: a grammar.

Their argument would go something like “you screamed this in 2016, but there were still midterms and a presidential election which removed trump from power, fairly unfascist. There will still be midterms and a presidential election this cycle too.”

Personally, I think it’s too close for comfort but at the same, fair points.

It’s free and using it means I don’t have to support American tech companies.

it’s whether or not politicians and bureaucrats have the political will.

That and the institutions, but sure. So, why on Earth would you think that the Dems threatening to hurt American citizens will somehow change the political will/calculus?

“Those Dems are holding the government hostage… I should probably reconsider my position on trump!”

Lol, okay, now read the other parts there:

29% - Ending Israel’s violence in Gaza 24% - The economy 12% - Medicare and Social Security 11% - Immigration and border security 10% - Healthcare 9% - Abortion policy 5% - Don’t know

In other words, the overwhelming majority of the voters who changed their vote from Biden to someone else were not voting because of Gaza.

An astute reader might note that this lines up pretty closely with what I said way back at the beginning…

Harris lost running on massive inflation, in the same wave that saw almost every incumbent government thrown out by historic margins and still came within only a couple of points of trump.

I’ll also just leave this here for you.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/09/09/issues-and-the-2024-election/

Which of your sources has this 29% figure? I read and double checked the rolling stone one albeit on archive.ie so maybe a graphic’s not coming through?

Or you meant to send a different source?

Hombre, remember this was your original position:

axois’ reporting on the dnc’s attempt to suppress the last election’s post mortem investigation and the yougov polls of pro-biden/anti-harris voters have shown us that harris lost 10 million votes because of gaza.

If you actually look through the Cook political report, the big issue was men of colour moving to the Right. And if you read the sentences right above the young voters bit in the Rolling Stone article, you’ll notice their concerns are not about the perceived silence on Gaza but instead the perception “that Dems cared more about immigrants, trans people and waging war in Ukraine and Gaza than domestic priorities or their daily economic realities.” You could sort of maybe disingenuously twist that into Gaza but really, that’s clearly about the money being spent for military support instead of economic issues at home.

Again, all of this is far cry from your claim that Gaza cost ten million votes.

need I remind that those are short term pains compared to enabling fascism to take over later down the line?

These actions don’t make fascism less likely though.

Fascism thrives on emergencies and suffering, taking away food and medical from millions would do this effectively.

Even worse, if the Democrats messed with the debt ceiling it would fundamentally cripple any future non fascist government’s ability to fix problems.

Good idea, look at South Korea and Brazil. They have been able to do things because the of popular legislation and/or the judiciary, not because a minority party obstructed normal legislation. That’s the exact opposite of what you are proposing. What those examples demonstrate is the importance of winning elections, not about causing havoc as the opposition party.

Buddy, unless I’m missing something it looks like you’re must be misreading these, linking to the wrong articles, hoping no one reads them or just making the wild assumption that everyone who didn’t vote Harris did so because of Gaza.

The Cook political report deep dive literally doesn’t mention Gaza or Israel.

Not mine but one day my buddy’s 6 year old asked “what’s parking tips?” My buddy being a veteran dad gives him some generic parking advice, doesn’t think much of it until later when he hears his kid singing along to the shaboozy song but instead of “everyone at the bar getting tipsy” he’s sing about how everyone getting parking tips.