I work in logistics. I've always had a fascination with tech, and was leery of all these neato things on offer from big tech, from social media to the cloud.

Found out I could self-host, and got to learning.

I hate listening to my younger brother talk about technology. He is just a sheep in an apple pen, and perfectly happy. I don't get it.

Lol they denied my application. Nice.

Edit: it was my own carelessness. Damn.

Having trouble verifying my email. Gonna see if it works without VPN.

Now you've really piqued my interest. This may be the winner.

That's my next stop after this contract runs out.

Yeah, it was ready for my old AMD machine. My new Nvidia box...nah.

But since I've switched to XFCE, I don't need to worry so much about new-fangled things like Wayland...for now.

I appreciate that.

It is a narcissistic childish presupposition that there is assumed opportunity cost for my vote.

"Of COURSE you would have voted Democrat! Why WOULDN'T you?"

I make a fair bit of money. Like them or not, Republicans are kinder to my income level.

Don't just assume I'd vote Democrat.

World seems to be blocking NordVPN. Recommend another instance?

World and NordVPN. Recommend another instance?

How much lag are we talking here?

I just found out that Lemmy is not allowing (or has rate-limited, or whatever) VPN connections to post or react.

Not a fan of that at all.

Edit: it's my instance being on Cloudflare, not Lemmy as a whole. My mistake.

Good. Internet people are awful at political discussions.

I mean, in Biden we're talking about a political power broker who was invited to be the VP even after he referred to Obama as "articulate and bright and clean." That's...WILD that that was publicly said about a black man in my lifetime.

And the Israel support, and smelling kids' hair, and the epic Popcorn the bully story, and the black kids rubbing his leg hair story...like...grandpa ain't making too much sense sometimes these days.

And then the other side produces a narcissist with a clear personality disorder who isn't doing that well cognitively himself...these are our best and brightest, huh? Wow.

And this argument that a vote for a third party is essentially a vote for Trump...it's not, and I don't know when we made politics into a team sport, but it feels kind of weird to me.

Whichever family of weirdos gets in, they're gonna make a whole bunch of money in legally gray ways, and it ain't gonna enrich you a single penny. So you can put down the foam finger and stop cheering for your "side."

The lack of nuance here has been a little shocking. I had hope that was just a Reddit thing, but it may just be an Internet thing. I have no idea.

I'm not ever going to vote for Trump, because he's terrible. And I'm not ever going to vote for Biden, because he may be less terrible, but he's still terrible.

I may one day vote Dem or Rep again, if either of those parties ever pulls their heads from their asses and produces a quality candidate.

Until then, I'm voting third party. If you can't produce quality, I'll find it elsewhere.

This. Thank you.

It's obvious to see which way the wind blows around here, but the unpopular truth has to be spoken.

Also still there. ;)

I still see them. :)

So I'm a fool, but...okay, got it.

So him calling me a child and utterly pathetic is cool, but...okay, got it.

Hmm. And yet we agree that orange man bad. And underneath your pedantic dig here, you know that Biden isn't a great leader... you're just passively accepting it like a bleating sheep because DEMOCRATS GOOD PUBLICANS BAD.

Sounds very mature of you.

I'm not allowing anything. I'm just voting with my conscience. These two ineffective octogenarians are not suitable leaders, and the two parties simply MUST know that.

So a vote for "not your guy" is a vote for their guy.

Sounds vaguely...fascist. Weird.

It gets a third or fourth party government funding. That's more important than anything to me currently. We need more choices.

So your belief in Biden's ability to win is THAT fragile?

Well, I don't support him in the least. But you think I do, so there's that.

That's your narrative, sure. I won't support a two-party system that produces such TERRIBLE candidates anymore.

I don't support either. Both have abysmal track records.

The one and only objectively best answer, imo.

Welp, good thing I'm voting third party again. Giant Douche vs. Turd Sandwich doesn't need my help.

I almost need that adrenaline rush of being behind to focus me.

Also, this post is making me realize that this could be a feature of my (undiagnosed but 99.9% certain) ADHD.

Oh no, it was everywhere, and I got into some decent arguments with those lovely people who ask you to show them how it's going to have any effect on the fediverse at all, complete with citations.

WeLl hOw Do YoU KnOw?

Who needs therapy when you have pacman?

So anyways, I run Arch on my main gaming computer, and Debian on my servers and laptops.

Me too. Man, this sport can be brutal.

This is just gonna end sadly, isn't it?

For being a complete douche.

What looks good about the economy, out of curiosity.