lengau

You know what else would be awesome? "Update, reboot, and (just this once) automatically login"

It would be super useful for when I'm alone at home working but want to do updates over my lunch break.

Already ahead of you on that as an active member of my state's ranked choice voting initiative.

The vote is necessary, but not sufficient. My vote is a short term strategy for harm reduction. Working towards actual electoral reform is my long term strategy for fixing things.

Well thanks for that I guess. Voting Harris and protesting against the genocide still seem like the most effective combination of actions with my very minimal power.

So what do you suggest we do about it?

I mean... It probably is. It's accessing the copyrighted content outside of the terms of the license provided by the copyright owner.

But that shows more how broken the copyright system is than anything when piracy has such a low bar.

Fundamentally what YouTube is doing is an unprofitable model. Google bought them when they were in their "we can solve internet unprofitability with scale and more efficient data centres!" phase, but that has never really gone as planned for YouTube.

For a while I was very hopeful that YouTube Premium would solve that, but as they started removing features and making it an overall worse experience it became no longer worth the money. I don't have an answer to this. If I did I could probably make a lot of money on that answer. What I do know, however, is that Google's answer isn't the right one.

The current situation still has the Democrats with a less evil perspective. Evil? Yes. But less evil than the Republicans. And moreover, as you've yourself said, the Democrats are movable on the topic. Third parties are not a viable alternative, and 2016 showed how easily voting third-party can lead to a worse alternative. You don't have to like it. You can and should protest against Harris's current stance. But Harris is also the only electoral option that gives us a chance of getting better policies.

So, going back to that poem: voting for the Democrats is the most effective electoral way to speak out for both the Palestinians and the LGBTQ+ community (along with many other groups the Republicans would target). Voting is necessary, but not sufficient.

BTW, on a different topic... those are some interesting hours you keep. What time zone is that? GMT+3?

Voting third party is also worse for the Palestinian people given that it gives Donald "finish the job" Trump a better chance at the White House. This has already been established - it's not my fault you're ignoring facts that are inconvenient to your pre-selected conclusion.

It's not so that people can play holier than thou while completely missing the point, but you can continue to do that despite the author's intent.

Encourages people to vote in a way that'll make a genocide of LGBTQ+ folks more likely

Posts that poem

Voting for third parties is tied for the second most effective way to increase harm. Without changes to the electoral system (changes I personally do believe are possible, despite your defeatist attitude), third party votes will always be spoiler votes. The only way to more effectively increase harm is to vote Republican.

Voting for Democrats isn't a good long term strategy, but it's the only strategy that has any hope of actually keeping my trans friends around so they can see the long term, and it's the least bad of all the options right now. Voting third party, or not voting, is effectively a 1 vote swing away from the Democrats to the Republicans, whose policies are pretty clearly to make the genocide in Gaza worse and to start other genocides and forms of suffering. Voting Republican is a 2 vote swing towards that.

So I'm choosing the least bad option, and the option most likely to open up better options down the line. You're choosing an ineffective option and then pretending to have the moral high ground even though what you're choosing is ineffective virtue signaling.