Trump, whose net approval rating in Maine was –32 on Election Day and who lost the state to Kamala Harris in 2022.
Huh? 2022??
Was this article written by hallucinating AI or was there some other vote in 2022? Because 2024 was the election between Trump and Harris.
or never have it to begin with
I didn’t forget to mention avoiding Google Play Services.
But yeah it’s harder to find ROMs without gapps these days, but still possible. MicroG in particular is like stacking a house of cards most of the time. It’s always a trade off on what’s available… makes you want to learn how to cook.
Custom Android ROMs still have some viability, but it’s been getting harder to find ones without gapps these days.
Well there’s your problem. On Android phones you can disable the Google Photos app (or remove it all together, or never have it to begin with) and replace it with a Free and Open Source Software version that doesn’t do any of that crap.
You can also install Firefox (or a secure fork eg IronFox) with ublock origin and block ads.
So it’s not exactly democratic, now, is it? And yet he frequently harps on about his “mandate”.
Don’t get me wrong I like the guy and don’t know of anyone better, but democracy is paramount to me.
It’s shady as fuck that Starmer stepped down for seemingly no reason in particular, and then Burnham takes over with no democratic vote - especially when two leaders ago Labour had Corbyn, who had overwhelming support from the party base but almost no support at all from wealthy elites. With Burnham, the party base has explicitly been denied their say. It doesn’t pass the sniff test and reeks of backroom deals.
The new Prime Minister who has not run an election as leader of the party and was only chosen to lead the party by a handful of senior MP’s who nominated him - because he stood unopposed the party membership were not given any opportunity to vote on him.
He was voted MP by a Manchester constituency who knew him as the mayor, and then he was voted PM by a handful of MP’s - not by the general electorate nor even the party members.
I think the “feasibility” of our representative democracy has lost the point. Why do we need representatives to travel to DC, or whatever central place of government, to have their say on our behalf - especially when they all too often don’t represent their voters? Why can’t we exploit modern communication technology to have our say directly on anything they vote on?
Or if we are to have representatives, to make voting easier, why can’t we align our votes to a party or other group, ad hoc, for them to vote on our behalf? Where we could re-assign our representative based on big issues (with an advanced deadline) or choose to make our own vote directly on matters we find important? Why do we have to lock in a “representative” for 4+ years?
Sack the lot of them and implement a direct democracy. We don’t need “representatives” - at least not ones that we’re periodically stuck with even when they repeatedly vote on our behalf against our interests.
Which lies??
Power hungry mods is one thing, reddit gave us powermods - coordinated moderators who push an agenda. Reddit admin supported powermods in the takeover of many subreddits shortly after they pushed through the API change that killed 3rd party apps.
Allegedly, Ghislaine Maxwell was a powermod in r/worldnews - and it would make sense for Epstein’s associates to be among that number, given that Trump’s main base started in 4chan (on /pol/, created after Epstein met 4chan’s founder) and found its way through to the mainstream via reddit and r/the_donald.
But the solution to powertripping mods is the same here as on reddit: make a new community, with blackjack and hookers. Arguably this is even easier here as you can make the same community name on a different instance.
Surely this will get better with their removal of old reddit.
It will get better with their removal of old reddit… Right?
I’d argue it’s more of an “industry” rather than a “culture”, that sits as the root cause of your distaste of betting. A predatory industry victimises that people to take their wealth. “The house always wins”.
I read this to mean business owners should call their business’ lawyer.
The issue there is that they aren’t being held liable to the cost they’re incurring.
No, they had it right above. It’s fine so long as you can afford to lose it; you lose it all when you go in, and if you’re lucky you get something back.
I’m happy to bet beer money with a friend on a random chance I’m interested in. Just for shits and giggles.
At this point it’s pretty blatant that OpenAI are engaging in price fixing more than they are actually delivering AI datacentres.
Alternate headline: Firefox is now the only browser worth using.
And in any case, lumping Firefox as one browser is disingenuous. There are numerous Firefox forks, just like every other major browser is in fact a Google Chromium fork.
Unfortunately impeachment requires a 2/3 majority in the Senate to be meaningful, which still is very unlikely.
More likely the Trump admin will try to use Hegseth as a scapegoat and fire and replace him.