I also would love to see a culture of voting. And I think getting people to vote is great, what I am specifically trying to critique is giving expressed permission to vote for Trump, I feel it undermines the truth that he is a danger to Democracy and the world by saying you don’t actually care who they vote for.

Don’t vote for Trump, democrats and liberals and progressives need to stop shooting themselves in the foot saying this. Don’t encourage people to vote for Trump for any reason.

The mailing errors are not with the post office, they’re with the county board of elections.

But also, Fuck DeJoy

No, we don’t know how many were not delivered. What we do know is the county is making simple mistakes that’s resulted in a 15 point drop in returns.

Across the state 2/3 of people who’ve requested a mail ballot have recieved and returned them. In this county on 52% have, with known mailing errors.

I’m just concerned. MAGA is going to ratfuck this election, wherever they think they can get away with it, and I’m just concerned that democrats are voting in easy to identify patterns that can be targeted.

Republicans who’ve been mobilizing to challenge ballots and election outcomes for months. Who have for years, been unashamed, to target and diminish democratic voting power. Who seem all but ready to destroy democracy and install Donald Trump as king.

My concern with early voting is it’ll make it easier for them to target democratic voters, especially if the numbers are that skewed.

At what point do we assume Trump ate a dog, he’s all projection. We know several of his political allies have killed dogs, because they could.

I just tried updating my computer to Mint 22 and because I did a lot of tweaking to get VR running well it ended up uninstalling x11. I restored to backup and am now considering just doing a fresh install when 21 loses support instead lol.

Don’t worry. Fema will run out of money before the end of hurricane season and Christian Nationalist Mike Johnson has refused to hold any votes giving it additional funding until after the election.

Democrats need to be pushing this out into the public consciousness hard, so when Fema does run out of money and people in dire need can’t get help, they know who to blame.

I think that’s an unhelpful narrative. I think a better narrative is people who needed help and got it, improved their community.

The residents of Springfield have needed help for a long time and haven’t gotten nearly enough and that’s why things hadn’t gotten better until now. The immigrants who have arrived and improved things are people who got the help they needed.

As someone who’s regularly been to Springfield, oh over the last decade. It’s not a beautiful place, it hasnt been for a long time. Most of downtown had been hollowed out and turned into parking lots, other buildings are deep in disrepair, which is contributing reason why it’s not recovered as quickly as neighboring cities like Dayton, Urbana, and Xenia.

It’s a hard hit rust belt city, long dealing with addiction and other deaths of despair.

I could have sworn at one point Russia claimed to have annexed certain parts of Ukraine due to ethnic Russians, very similar to Hitlers Sudetenland claims.

Correct its not his job and at best case scenario it’s introducing an appearance of impropriety.

Even if he isn’t trying to influence national or state elections, he still has plenty of motive to influence local politics.

“Have” was a decade ago, the correct verb is “are”

I’m increasingly convinced they mean it literally, in the classical sense.

Tell us about your affair!

I don’t know if that’s true, but most of those patents are incredibly iffy, they seem to describe basic functions of how videogames have worked since WoW.

They seem to have tried patenting having a player character that can walk, drive, and fly in a videogame on May 2, 2024.

It’s kinda surprising they didn’t sue over the much less legally grey IP infringements.

Half of those patents read like if they use vague enough language they can justify patenting how computers work.