jeremyparker

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[–] jeremyparker 12 points 9 months ago

Tbf reddit used to be a lot more lefty. Back when Shit Reddit Says was the dominant subculture it was a lot of fun... But then Steve Bannon wanted Trump to be president and SRS lost the war against red hats and bots.

[–] jeremyparker 2 points 10 months ago

The 8gb ram MacBook works great for [...] writing resumes...

Um I'm not sure where you heard that but ChatGPT requires a shit ton of memory

(Sorry, I'll show myself out)

[–] jeremyparker 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The enumeration on the losing side of that debate is probably correct. But as a person who was in my early 20s in 2000, I'd like to offer what I will characterize as The Historical Context and Definitive Conclusion to This Debate.

No one actually gave a shit about that debate. Sure, it came up, but it did not alter anyone's party planning. We weren't actually celebrating the changing of the millennium, we were celebrating because we had a permission slip to do so. Any attempt to withdraw that permission was unwelcome.

In Paris on December 31st, 1999, at around 11pm local time, someone threw themselves in front of a metro. The trains were free that night (because it was the 100 year anniversary of their opening iirc), but because of that suicide, at least one of the train lines was substantially delayed. The streets from the center of the city to the north side were crowded well toward dawn as everyone chose to walk home instead of wait indefinitely in a stinky train station.

That person, who chose to end their life on the tracks that night, holds the core truth of the debate within his death: it's a ridiculous debate and those who would fight for it should just stay the hell home and let the rest of us drink a lot and dance.

[–] jeremyparker 2 points 10 months ago

I still get block messages in Vivaldi, but not Firefox.

[–] jeremyparker 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Copy designs you like, and keep a couple of CSS files +/- web components that you can carry along with you from project to project. Tweak then as you go.

Like everything else, getting good at making designs that you like will take time and effort, so if you want you get good at it, do it! I find it fun, and my designs aren't to everyone's taste (I too like black tshirts), but whatever.

Plus, getting good at making designs that i like has made me better at making designs clients/projects will like, so, win/win.

[–] jeremyparker 5 points 10 months ago

Chicagoan here, chiming in: I saw this guy like 4 times on my way to work this morning.

[–] jeremyparker 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Literally a children's hospital in my city had their shit locked up by "hackers" -- they were using pen and paper to schedule appointments for weeks, using handwritten notes to pass health details from ER to ICU, etc. It could still be down for all i know, I haven't checked in a while.

I don't know exactly how much pain and suffering this has caused kids, or how many died because of it, but i know how hard it was when my son was in the hospital for months when he was little, and that was with a fully functional hospital.

It's fucking disgusting. And I'm like kinda pro-crime a lot of the time...

[–] jeremyparker 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately an economic system is only as useful as its buy-in, and that's the hard part. If you want you fight financial hegemony, don't give wealthy people another lever of control.

[–] jeremyparker 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's hard enough to get people on board with social movements that directly help them and have no downsides; you're going to have a hard time promulgating a financial system that undermines the wealth of the people who dominate the standard financial system, especially when the more wealth you've accumulated (in the standard system) is directly proportional to your ability to spread propaganda to support your wealth.

There are better, more winnable, battles to fight than the global financial system.

While i agree that a victory there would be huge, part of the reason it would be so huge is because of how very, very unwinnable it is.

That said, if you're super stuck on finance as the issue you want you be involved with, imo, the best thing you can do is communicate the questions -- the problems with contemporary finance, of which there are so very many -- and don't waste your time offering solutions.

(Even if we had a solution that could work, it would surely be obsolete by the time it could be meaningfully implemented. Cryptos of all kinds, at this point, can only provide their benefits to people with disposable wealth, who can afford to take the risk, and those are exactly the people who don't need you to fight for their interests. Or anyone -- but you're not anyone, you are you; your energy is finite, spend it where it can help the people who need it most.)

[–] jeremyparker 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Installed, pretty cool, thank you! But how do I enable swipe typing? In another Lemmy thread someone mentioned that you have to add a non-foss library for it or something -- but I can't find that thread anymore.

What can I do to enable it, and where might I find the appropriate library?

[–] jeremyparker 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Trump took a LOT of money in gifts from China while in office so I would guess they like him

Edit to add source. There are lots more articles, this is far from the only one

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/us/politics/trump-hotels-foreign-business-report.html

[–] jeremyparker 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So like uh I'm not trying to out myself as a boomer but how do they use Tiktok nefariously? I used it for about 5 minutes once, the whole experience was just not for me. Do they just take people's videos and put captions on them?

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