The National Defense Authorization Act passed both the House and Senate in recent weeks after months of negotiating between Democrats and Republicans. One issue in the bill was a measure to ban the military’s insurance Tricare from covering some gender-affirming care treatments. Other issues that were, however, struck from the final bill included restrictions on abortion access and DEI initiatives in the military.

Biden said that he and his administration “strongly opposes” restrictions on gender-affirming care for trans youth in a statement released after he signed the bill.

If I had to guess, this was a tightly negotiated funding package which of course the Republican controlled House shoved down Democrat throats because otherwise it couldn't move through the Senate.

Biden shouldn't have signed it but the Democrats shouldn't have bent over and taken it either.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago

You can have a work profile as well as a private space account. I think the latter is a relatively new feature. Really useful if you want your dating apps or NSFW apps not tied to your personal account.

The only drawback is that the private space cannot use background services so you can't get notifications of hot MILFs in your area.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 12 hours ago

"We don't want to be told what to do. We only want to tell other people what to do."

- every conservative

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 12 hours ago

"Those other people didn't earn it...like us. They are lazy welfare mommas. They need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, like we did."

- your in-laws probably

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 12 hours ago

I had a friend back a few years ago who was an H1B and it's fucking exploitive. They made him work off his visa. And since his visa is tied to his job he couldn't leave it. The place was toxic af.

The company was very much abusing H1B visas but unless someone at the company spoke up, it's just business.

I can count on one hand the number of videos I've seen where "wait until the end" holds true.

The most recent in years is a video of a dog chewing on something. The owner approaches it and the dog lets go of a hose which then sprays the owner.

Was not expecting that.

Religion is what gives these people the excuse.

It's their own prejudices that play into politics.

I can provide a bit more of a qualified answer, backed up by my own observations and my research into running for office as well as my research in elections. It became an obsession after the 2020 election. With that in mind, take this with a grain of salt.

The TL;DR of the below: Democrats fall in love and Republicans Fall in Line

Broadly speaking, the people who consistently vote for Republicans and the people who vote for Democrats (i.e. their respective base) are very different. The Republican base favors control and order whereas the Democrat base favors cooperation and liberty.

Because of this, Republican politicians can get away with shit laws that are oppressive, that restrict rights, and basically allow people to be shitty to people who are different (read: white, cis, hetro people can be assholes to non-white, trans, non-hetro people). Even the most moderate Republican voter who is open-minded will still vote Republican because being "nice" is not a higher value than "order". So even though Marjorie Taylor Greene or Donald Fucking Trump are complete assholes, because they write laws that protect them, they don't have enough motivation to not vote for a Republican.

Contrast this with the Democratic base. For a moment, assume that Donald Trump, is just as disgusting, just as racist, just as misogynistic, but consistently voted progressively. You (assuming you are on the liberal side of the spectrum) would probably either not vote for him or actively vote against him. The Democrat base is also very large in that there are a lot of pockets of people who tend to vote Democrat, but only if you speak to their specific issue.

That's why Democratic candidates often have to run a very tight, very structured, and near perfect campaign whereas Republicans can literally take a candidate who's never been to a donut shop and have a gaff of him ordering a box of "whatever makes sense".

While Republicans have a consistent base that votes, Democrats do not. Democrats have to win the "middle", i.e. people who aren't politically engaged and these people often fall into three categories:

  • people who are just busy either with life, family, school, etc.
  • people who feel their vote doesn't matter
  • people who "don't like politics" and sees "both sides as the same"

There is a common denominator of these people: they are often privileged and have never been on the sharp end of a government action and don't think it will happen to them. So campaigns have to spend time to try to convince them that it's worth voting for them.

So, to answer your question as to why Democrats can't just give zero fucks: they literally can't do that and win elections. Democrats can't keep their base if they do.

The ole cock-thumb.

It's worse than that. Their goal is to throw the legal equivalent to spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. Sometimes they get lucky and then you have a brick to add to historical precedence.

Hell, the age verification porn law is seen as unconstitutional but it's held on.

I've reached the point of absolutely hating rechargable batteries. Between their ghost discharge, and the fact that I don't go through as many batteries like I used, using normal alkaline batteries seems to be the best for me anyway.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 days ago

The problem for MAGAs is that they want public executions for their enemies.

If anyone deserves the death penalty it's Trump. We have proof he sowed sedition and conspired to start an insurrection.

The fact that he's not in a supermax prison is a perversion of justice.

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Which is it?!

This headline came up in my news feed, from a very dubious source so I decided to investigate.

Headline after headline, many from identical sources, about how Walmart and Bank of America are either going to stop taking $1 bills or keep accepting them. The headlines read like a FUD article and I refuse to click through to read the details.

I can't find a reputable news source for this story so I'm assuming it's fake news.

It shouldn't be this easy to manipulate news feeds.

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I've been searching around for a copy of the Resolute Letter that Trump left for Biden. The letters are typically released within a few days of entering office but this was never done because Biden wanted to talk to Trump first before doing so.

It's been almost four years. Surely it's been done by now and I can't seem to find any article with the letter or anything on the official White House website. I'm tempted to submit a FOIA request for it but wasn't sure where to start.

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Good day self-hosters! I'm not exactly sure what to call what I'm looking for besides a "clipboard". Let me describe my problem and what my ideal solution is.

At work, I get a lot of slack DMs that ask for the same information. It's not consistent to the point I would just pin the information in my Windows 11 clipboard. But it's often enough that I'd prefer to give people the same information each time it's asked.

I'm limited in what I can build on my work computer. In an ideal world, I'd do what Gilfoyle did and make and bot but I lack the time and skills for such a task. Right now, I solve this with a very long notepad, which is subject to copy/paste errors. If I don't highlight everything correctly or if I accidentally copy over an existing line. That kind of thing.

What I was thinking was a very simple website where the items I'm copying are in tiles that can be tagged and searched. Once I find what I'm looking for, I can click the button to copy it to my clipboard and then go on with my life.

Due to restrictions on my work computer, I cannot host containers or host a website, though a fully self-contained HTML page with javascript I could do.. Ideally this is something that can be build using Github Pages build with Jekyll but so far, I haven't found a theme that mimics the behavior I'm looking for and I lack the time (though not the skills) to build it.

I'd prefer the github route so that I can share the page with others on my team who get asked similar questions.

I am also able to deploy a website via Github Pages (with .nojekyll).

I have to think something similar to this already exists but I imagine the restrictions on having no backend might be the challenge. Love to hear your thoughts!

Edit: added context for Gilfoyle

Thank you all for the great suggestions. I should have added in this post that my work does not allow software with Copyleft (Don't get me started. I'm a strong copyleft advocate and it annoys me that my company only takes and never gives back to OSS). I'm going to give TiddlyWiki out. License is friendly with my work, seems simple enough to run.

That said, Logseq seems to be pretty interesting as well. Might try this out on my on machine to see if I like it.

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