Remember JD Vance said that childless individuals “should not have as much of a voice.”

So the reasoning behind this is probably “childless individuals don’t have to think about the future as much”.

The natural extension of that reasoning is that older people should have their voting/political power diminished (since they won’t be around as long)

I gotta say, a part of me sees the latter as being worth the former… I know it goes against many principles of government, etc. etc. but it certainly is tempting. Any armchair political scientists want to chime in?

Shout-out to framework laptops for repairable, upgradeable, and reusable components.

Where’s rusty shackleford work?

Oh we’re definitely both in agreement that they’re being dicks. My issue is that the original comment I replied to is essentially victim blaming folks by saying “all you need to do is not consent, boom, problem instantly solved”.

Based on everyone else’s input (notably OP neglected to reply), it’s clear that the best you can do is not go to the venue and hope that results in systemic change.

I wouldn’t bet on that solution.

Okay, so what’s the instant solution here? Apparently it’s as easy as not consenting.

In my experience many venues do not let you bring your own water

Doesn’t sound very instant to me

When you get one, look up adapters that let you connect it to refillable co2

Wait hold on, so someone buys tickets to an event, show up, and have to buy canned water.

What, in your imagination, should be the next steps so they “don’t consent to being abused”?

Right??? I send strangers pictures of mine all the time!!

Non human origin matters because it’s easy to flood the field with this stuff.

If finding quality videos becomes a needle in a haystack amidst ai generated bullshit, each looking to passively earn a few bucks, overall quality of life will suffer as the ouroboros eats its tail.

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It is about not wanting to be federated with instances with transphobic admins.

I might be missing something, but I believe an admin being potentially transphobic only matters if they do not moderate transphobic content that leaks out to other instances. I don’t think I’ve seen transphobic content leak out of programming.dev.

That said, I’ve read some of Adas comments on the intention behind defederation, and blahaj. What I’ve learned is that Blahaj wans set up as a safe space, so 0 tolerance is understandable, and is well within their rights to establish and enforce.

Coming from someone who is just looking to Lemmy as a reddit alternative, it’s simultaneously cool that communities can do this, and a little unfortunate that with Lemmy being as small as it is (compared to reddit), we are defederating over single comment threads. Again, blahaj was intended to be a safe space and has no obligation to be a part of the “reddit replacement” I’m looking for, so if they deem it necessary then good on them.

As someone who only recently migrated to programing.dev, it feels like I’m building on shifting sand.

I’m just sitting here really confused at the choice to defederate based on a single chat.

Most folks at programming.dev, myself included, are there because it’s related to their profession. That’s what drew us there.

It baffles me to think that the entire instance has been judged and deemed unworthy because of a single comment chain that had disagreements.

You can block users you don’t want to interact with. Some instances breed a potentially nasty sentiment or attitude, and when there are too many users from that instance to block, that’s when I’d consider defederation. But a single conversation thread, involving a single person?

I’ve got no say in how another instance is ran. Just makes me a little sad about a much more fragmented future of Lemmy.

MUST BE THE LIBRUL AGENDA

Don’t forget that trump wished for his political enemies to “rot in hell” as part of his Merry Christmas message, , and he also shared a word cloud that prominently featured “revenge” and “dictatorship” with no context.

People who say “I’m not Trump” is not good enough of a reason to vote for a candidate are being petulant children. Trump has said he’d pardon all January 6th convicts if elected day 1. This will embolden political violence like none other, because if “your guy” gets in, you will face no consequences, so the amount of lying, cheating, and stealing when it comes to elections will go through the goddamn roof.

This man is on a hateful warpath. He will abuse the hell out of the office because of his ego. And people like the state secretary mentioned here will be in power while cheering him on.

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What executive level policies would you like to see enacted?

Ah, gotcha, sorry I thought you were talking about your works software development priorities