Yup. He does a great job “selling” ideas that simply aren’t grounded in reality.

Like that wall that Mexico was going to pay for. What an idiot. Did his base think the United States would just send Mexico a bill for work completed and expect them to pay it? You couldn’t make this buffoonery up!

Offer them a life that’s better than the one leading them down that path.

My dude, Democrats actually do offer a life that’s better for everyone, but that’s the problem.

These people don’t want other people to live better lives, they only want a better life for themselves. And the only way to get there is to quite literally either kill other people or make their lives unlivable.

Someone who’s willing to die or be put in jail “to stop the jews” or whatever bullshit they subscribe to, doesn’t give a damn about universal healthcare or a woman’s reproductive rights.

On the flip side, they aren’t voting for a guy who will improve their lives (not in the way you and I would view as an improved life). They are voting for a guy who will make OTHER PEOPLE’S LIVES miserable. Because that’s how their world view works.

Unless you want Democrats to do the same, they are on completely different wavelengths.

I wish I was wrong.

This is probably what Trump thinks, too.

100%. If he isn’t reading it from a script that someone else wrote, he knows nothing about the topics he’s talking about.

He even boasts about “knowing more than anyone about XYZ”, yet, it can’t expand on the subject, can’t answer questions about it, is vague, and reminds me of how really bad LLMs answer questions.

It will.

Unfortunately, it will also hurt those who wanted nothing to do with Trump’s lies.

Everyone, except the rich, will suffer. Thanks for voting! /s

How do you “appeal” to future domestic terrorists when they believe it’s their calling to tear down everything good in society?

I’m not trying to be sarcastic or dramatic, but they are drawn to Trump because he embodies all the horrible things they aspire to become.

How can a political party that speaks of equality and justice even possibly make a connection with them? It sounds nice, but how would it happen without making your current base feel like you only want to help the worst behaved?

And honeybees even often outcompete native pollinators, which is bad for biodiversity.

Of course, Texas has to incentivize this type of destruction:

"In Texas, the law qualifies people who own between five and 20 acres of land for tax breaks if they rear bees for five years. "

This is actually not a good thing.

For one, Honeybees disrupt the structure and functionality of plant-pollinator networks, and they are nowhere near the type of pollinator we actually need (i.e. native, wild pollinators that thrive outside artificial colonies created to benefit humans).

There’s no balance if we only increase populations of honeybees. “Raising nonnatives does not “save the bees”—and may harm them.”

The article (the Yahoo one linked in the OP) does cover the detriments of these domestic bee colonies, but right at the end of the article…

The David Suzuki Foundation has a write-up on this topic, if anyone’s interested.

I’ve been very happy with FreshRSS (docker install) running on my Synology NAS.

You can run this right from Windows: https://jan.ai/

You’ll need a lot of RAM, and processing is decently fast, even on a basic laptop.

edit: holy hell. Grammar.

It makes me wonder how people can travel like one timezone over and not have crippling issues because of it.

It’s likely not the change with the DST that messes people, but the obsession with worrying about it that does.

The number one thing that most of these don’t do well for me is the connection with banks.

A bit of an anecdote, but i was a long-time user of Mint, which integrated with all my banks and credit cards, which was nice.

When I decided to selfhost, I was disappointed that bank syncing wasn’t a thing, or it had these roundabout ways of working, or they simply didn’t support the banks and credit cards i use.

So… I ended up wity Money Manager EX.

Once i did the initial importing of my records, everything since has been manually entered.

Now, this might seem tedious depending on how many transactions and accounts you manage, but it’s really not.

Depending on how often you update your records, you can do an easy export/import of your transactions from your bank (usually a csv export). Doing this once a month isn’t terrible.

I just manually enter all my transactions. Yes, more work, but also less frustration and it makes me feel more in touch with my spending.

Even not having to worry about the hassle of syncing not working, or having to fix things like that is a huge weight off my shoulders.

Anyway, just wanted to share my experience because bank syncing shouldn’t be a make-or-break thing.

Rich coming from the party of voter suppression…

Just wait until everyone is forced to wear screens on their faces 24/7, because that’s the way tech companies want us to live. I’m not being sarcastic, either.

There’s a reason why so many people consciously choose to “disconnect” when they want a mental break. If we are no longer able to, how healthy do you think our society will be?

Argh. Was it always like that, or is this recent?

I do, but in reality, It doesn’t seem to matter what cyclists do or wear. If someone driving a car (or large SUV) isn’t paying attention, they won’t see you.

In countries where cycling is taken seriously, their lights are not bright (to meet standards) and you don’t see anyone in high-viz gear.

Blaming cyclists for something a motorist failed to do seems to be a uniquely North American thing. Even the way our news gets reported seems to always word things in a way that puts the cyclist (the victim) in the wrong.

What you describe is really common, and it uses “jaywalking” as a weapon to target minorities and those in low-income neighbourhoods.

On the podcast “The War on Cars”, this topic came up with examples showing how jaywalking becomes an excuse to target blacks.

The history of “jaywalking” is pretty interesting.

Basically, it’s a made-up thing designed to blame pedestrians for motorists being dangerous.

Kind of like when motorists “can’t see” cyclists while looking down at their phones, because it’s up to the cyclist to have on enough high-viz clothing, reflectors, bright lights, and a billboard saying “I’M HERE!!!”.

In most places, even when people think that jaywalking is illegal, it’s actually not.

The biggest problem is that most of those rely on older phones or phones that aren’t necessarily top-tier.

At some point, support for all newer phones will likely be very limited, so what’s the community going to do then? Keep using old phones?

I’m realizing that. The enshittifcation of smartphones has been rapidly developing, and there’s no going back to how it used to be. I’ve been a smartphone/PDA user from way back when black and white Palm Pilots were a thing… even before that when you had calculators that basically stored addresses, notes, etc.

Those were truly tools back then. No time wasted on the device, and no distractions when using them.

Now? Companies can give away their phones and still make millions off the data harvesting. The marketing of “AI” just makes it easier for them to get users to share even more data.

Technically, sure. But no warranty, and parts would be a nightmare to get, which would defeat the purpose of a repairable phone. 😮‍💨