Starbuncle

joined 2 weeks ago
[–] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 2 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I see the electoral college itself as illegitimate and with it, the US is not a democracy.

[–] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 2016. Donald Trump was illegitimately placed into power by a corrupt and broken electoral system. That was the real stolen election. Same with Bush v Gore.

[–] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Whaaaat the fuuuuuck? Kind of ironic for a libertarian to be spouting nazi shit. They either don't know what libertarianism is or don't know what fascism is.

[–] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

Neither can I, that's why I think that allowing this feature to be used for free apps is purely a malicious move by Google to push people away from sideloading in general.

[–] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

That's a very legitimate reason! I was talking about free apps, but I failed to mention that in my comment. My bad. Any legit reason for free apps?

[–] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago (4 children)

What legitimate reason would an app developer have for not wanting to let people install their app from sources other than the play store?

[–] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 days ago

Yup. This isn't an anti-piracy thing, it's a fuck-over-people-who-don't-like-google thing.

[–] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago

It's easy on Reddit because they have their own username generator when you sign up, but the usernames being used here are very telling. Random letters is literally the absolute bare minimum effort for randomly generating usernames. A competent software engineer could make something substantially better in an afternoon and I feel like an adversarial nation-state would be using something like a small language model trained solely on large lists of scraped usernames.

[–] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

John F. Kennedy?

[–] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago (8 children)

DRM is to prevent piracy. This does not prevent piracy unless it only applies to apps that cost money.

[–] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

That seems to be untrue.

[–] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 week ago (9 children)

You could probably fit it into the K-12 program without losing any value elsewhere if you cut out things like memorizing maps in regions of the world that are so unstable that those maps won't be valid anymore by the time kids graduate, studying writers like Shakespeare that lived so long ago that what they wrote in could barely be called English, and mandatory electives.

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