I’m a fan and catch YT recaps of topics he covers that I find interesting.

I will say though that he, as a political influencer, is beholden to his target demographic in the same way that Fox News captivates/gets held captive by its more fervent supporters. It’s a crude analogy, but my understanding is that the ideals of journalism is to follow the news, while influencers follow the engagement.

It is interesting getting his insights and hearing a knowledgeable person speak on the issues, but it isn’t the same as getting news from a true blue journalist imo

I agree 100%. Liberals retweeting how Elon is losing money is actually making him money

There’s an irony seeing Redditors creating threads and complaining about it as if they did anything during the API-gate saga

Yes. Widespread nihilism certainly will not have any negative consequences

I see what you did there

OTA antennae for sports.

For streaming, I usually watch it on my laptop so that I can have easier options to skip and replay.

My desktop is connected via HDMI so I have that as an option but I rarely take advantage of it.

I live by myself so I don’t have as much pushback as you likely would FYI

Earlier this month I finally disconnected the wifi for my 7 year old Roku TV. I miss being able to turn it on w/ voice activation but I’ll trade that in for my privacy

what’s the min-sys requirements for a good experience?

I use it. I think it was a hardening recommendation from lynis IIRC.

I definitely experienced a lot more freezing on my laptop after installing it (it’s a memory hog) so I upped my swap and things are back to normal.

Any rando lofi channel on YouTube/Spotify/Online Radio Stations

Probably not for me as I’m not interested in a summarizing tool, but I’m not against AI in general.

OAN, I think over time, the community will see that AI was a bubble, but in the same way that the internet was a bubble back in the day.

Probably because you can pay for a month and download all the wallpapers and cancel.

Their current userbase is not their target userbase. They are trying to reach a more mainstream audience but all of their attempts to monetize are seen as useless by their current userbase.

• They want to increase revenue w/ ads - A loud swath of FF users are tech savvy and have adblocking enabled
• They want to pivot towards AI - A loud swath of FF users see AI as gimmicky

Repeat ad-nauseum

In addition to being in the wrong section, this also shows that Firefox usage was in a steep decline long before the pay took off in 2016.

Internet points since they’re of equal value.

This is literally part of Kamala Harris’ campaign? Are you not-American or just not-informed? https://portside.org/2024-08-23/kamala-harris-5-trillion-tax-plan

I rarely downvote, but this is one of the few comments that are truly unproductive and meaningless. You earned it.

I just want to point out that, reading between the lines, the solutions that would make a difference to change immigration are:

• Solve climate change
• Undo the compounding effects of a war that destroyed a country
• Jail people who hire undocumented immigrants

Your first solution requires Republicans to believe in climate change (and Independents like Joe Manchin not to get in the way and water down the bill that passed). Your second solution requires investing billions in developing countries to right our wrongs and your third sounds like a Republican talking point.

This is why I push back on the narrative that oversimplifies immigrataion as Republicans and Dems equally don’t care about immigration.

Does AOC need to visit a border to talk immigration when migrants are being bused into NYC daily? Curious if you live in a place where migrants are being bussed or not, because I do, and the reason no one is talking about migrant camps at the border is because they have migrant populations within the neighborhoods in a way that they didn’t pre-covid. There’s two migrants w/ toddlers less than two blocks from my apartment that panhandle daily. There’s migrants panhandling outside of the places I grocery shop and the bars that I frequent downtown. Immigration is tangible in a way that it wasn’t pre-Covid

I think that, irrespective of party, Americans across the board have become more concerned about immigration, partially due to fear-mongering by Republicans for sure, but also due to Democratic strongholds getting a steady flow of immigrants (bussed in by Republicans, fwiw, but a level of immigration that they were not prepared for) and the conflicts for city resources and care have had an outsized impact on perspective/policy and expectations by the population as a whole. It isn’t that Democrats suddenly changed their perspective while everyone else remained the same. Every group of individuals polled increasingly became concerned about migration.

It’s easy to frame it as ‘Dems don’t care’, and I’m not sure what you identify as, but looking at the data, people who identify as Dems actually care more than Republicans and Independents.

I do not want to say that I am happy with the Dems accepting Republican-backed immigration policy positions but I do acknowledge just how unpopular immigration has become within Democratic circles let alone Republicans (and Independents who as a whole are historically more conservative than Democrats).

Curious what would you suggest as a tenable immigration solution in 2024 that you think would likely get backing from Republicans and Democrats?

Did you take advantage of the $9.99 sale as well?

I took a breather after dying a few times fighting the first boss 2-3 weeks ago. I’ve forgotten the control already, yet when I decide to pick it back up I’m going to have to kill a boss smh lol