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Visikde , 2 months ago to Politics in Ralph Nader would like to stop having to explain why the spoiler coverage is stupid

An important point:
"The higher level is: What do we do with these big corporations? One is we’ve got to subordinate them constitutionally. So corporations should never have equal rights with real people. Now they’re connecting with AI. You want a deadly cocktail? Connect artificial persons called corporations with AI.
Founders intent was for corporations to be temporary
https://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate-accountability-history-corporations-us/

We have a system designed for 1% of the present population
We have a system designed for information moving at the speed of horse
Founders intent was a representative for 30,000 citizens, presently a representative for 700,000 citizens
We have a system that is completely over whelmed by the number & complexity of decisions to be made
We need more channels for informed feedback
Having a meaningful political opinion has

I lived in California in 2000 & voted for Ralph, knowing Gore had Cali in the bag

Visikde , 3 months ago to AskBeehaw in Former Twitter users, what were your "I'm outta here!" moment?

I'm still a lurker on twitter...
I stopped interacting when Elmo took over & released the trolls

Visikde , 3 months ago to Socialism in News Brief: Media, Billionaires' Attacks on Homeless People May Pay Off Big at Supreme Court --- Citations Needed Podcast

Transcript?

Visikde , 3 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in Image viewer that remembers last visited image (Linux)

Plasma/Dolphin/Gwenview
Offers me 15 recent files through application menu
Clipboard a bunch transactions

Visikde , 3 months ago to Politics in Inside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A ‘National Divorce’

The He-man Woman Hatrz Club
Sacr=teabagger?
The let scrotum & santorum jokes commence

This is just more of the Powell memorandum mode of operation, play the long game. Use that legacy money to cultivate the next generation into the good ol boys swamp

Visikde , 3 months ago to Music in Vinyl vs. CD vs. tapes vs. digital. What's your favourite storage medium for owning your music and why?

Any of it is so much better than listening to an AM radio while I delivered newspapers.
Yesterday I heard a Red Rider song from an album that I had recorded on cassette off FM radio.
I converted whatever music I had into MP3s 20 years ago,
When I was converting LPs to MP3 I did several concept albums which didn't have songs, so I set the length at 6 minutes or less. I was using MP3 Direct Cut which had a bar graph, I could visually chop up albums into songs without actually listening. Over some years I went through my collection & chopped up songs that were too long or have intros longer than 10 seconds, I may or maynot keep the originals. I use the comment field for tags to make it easier include/exclude long, duplicate, alternate versions
I have more than a few copies of music files, including data cd's from 15 years ago, sata hdd, sd cards, nvme. every 6 months or so I renew a couple of the back ups

Visikde , 4 months ago to Socialism in Source Who Revealed How Taxes Steal for the Rich Rewarded With Five Years in Prison

The ever popular
Appearance of Action
Say the magic words [virtue signaling] & do fuqk all, promising eventual incremental change, after the next cycle...

Visikde , 4 months ago to Socialism in The NFL is an Abusive Workplace

When you get paid in fame/legacy the pool of people willing to work for cheap is endless. The problem is widespread