DomeGuy

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[–] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Thats not really what happens, unless you're so toxic that old-twitter would actually ban you.

Bsky has a "nuclear block", that essentially removes you and the target from even existing on the version of the site each other see. If you're ok with just talking to folk who are on your side of a "no, shutup" line, like "trans women are women" or "trans is a mental disorder" you'll be fine.

The issue is that a bunch of folk who abscribe to the second apparently just want to troll the first, so they get blocked by their targets, have no fun, and then complain to reporters still on twitter.

[–] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Nancy Pelosi also said that we have enough votes to take the house.

I'll consider listening to her again if and only if Hakeem Jeffries is Speaker.

[–] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

I think you're underestimating how deep the pay gap goes.

"women's work" jobs are so consistently paid less that mere career choice is a huge part of the pay gap.

[–] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

In common commercial english, i would read that as "this merchant will offer to trade any of the books for an amoumt of currency equal to half the book's cover price plus $1."

Such vagueness also suggests sufficient informality that the merchant may either accept seperate offers or veto the general rule on a case-by-case basis.

[–] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

The elecrelically semi-literate side, obviously.

[–] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I mean, isn't it a usb_c cable that the manufavtuer claims can handle 10 amps of current at once? (which i think may be on the low side)

[–] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

It's not a question of wanting competition or not. Political parties by nature will attempt to get as strong a coalition as they can, until they reach a size large enough that bisecting the party still leaves one half in power and some internal disagreememt triggers the split.

Fringe parties in America, like the Green and Libertarian parties, arent oppressed by some conspiracy between Rs and Ds. Rather, they are left at the fringe because they do not have any power worth pledging to, for the simple fact that in the american single-rep plurality-wins system tbere is no prize for second place.

Voters who like the current office holder work to keep them in power and those who do not work with the opposition to remove the incumbent from power. Anyone not joining one of these sides serves only as a tool for one side against the other, since anything but a vote for the runner up is an effective endorsrment of the eventual winner.

The American system is imperfect and could be a lot better, but fringe parties and vanity campaigns do nothing to actually encourage systemic change.

[–] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I think rhe voting age should be the lower of the minimum age to labor or the age of potential conscription less the age of the longest-term official whoss job includes sending people to war.

In the USA, that would put the voting age all the way down to 12. And having both been 12 myself once and having close family who were recently 12, I'm entirely OK with that.

[–] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

"they" has always been proper, it just used to be incorrectly taught agaist like split infinitives and ending a sentence with a proposition.

Wikipedia dates its first usge as over 500 years ago, and complaints less than 300.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they