Also, the stupid name chosen by mid-1990s edgelords trying to be funny is still stupid.

I am looking way forward to posting images with alt text! They brought that in for 0.19.4 and it’s the one thing that I’ve been really feeling the lack of on here since the start.

Me too! I love my Steam Deck.

That stamp knows what it did.

I bid seventy cents, two peanut shells, and a cancelled postage stamp.

Ha ha ha and, may I add, ha!

For those interested, here’s the link to that news story from last June: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c722gne7qngo

The ones in jail didn’t have the brilliant idea to bury the granting of explicit legal permission to steal one’s data in a horrendously long user agreement the victim is forced to click “yes” on before their computer works at all.

THEY’RE IN MY EYES!!

Supertoys last all summer long.

Who do you feel you’re “showing” anything with a protest vote?

Protesting in the street works by showing the people in view that you’re there in protest of a thing. However the viewer feels about you, the issue, or the concept of protesting, the fact that you’re there doing it in that moment is public and undeniable. Protest votes, on the other hand, are a blip of mostly-invisible data that just get silently decoupled from the process and filed away once their irrelevance to the result is established. The election system, fucked and in need of reform as it is, has that built-in mechanism for quietly doing nothing in real life with your protest vote, and the system is certainly not going to be subverted or reformed at all by your having done it.

If that protest vote is the only means by which you’re hoping to accomplish anything on Election Day, I’m still not sure I understand why one would bother.

I’m asking you how, specifically, a protest vote and a strategic vote are any different in terms of perpetuating the shitty system currently in place.

This thread, specifically this comment, is telling you you should vote for alternative parties at state and local levels. The idea is to build up that third party’s actual presence in government from the ground up, which is a far superior strategy to splitting a critical presidential race and feeling like you’ve accomplished anything good.

How does a strategic practical vote within the current system perpetuate it any more or less than a throwaway protest vote?

You know that’s not how elections work, but if you’re genuinely interested here are some lists of third-party candidates in the US:

• Green Party
• Working Families Party
• Libertarian Party

You can find comparable lists on the sites of many more non-frivolous political third parties in which you may be interested, which can probably be found from their Wikipedia entries.

The fault lies with the system, not with me.

The fuckery inherent in the current system being not your fault does not absolve you from voting responsibly in context of the current system. If you are going to throw in a protest vote you are asserting your portion of responsibility for the practical end result of that vote.

My favorite bit of OS/2 snark from back then was “OS/2 = half an operating system”

There’s little to no British content on BBC America.

Tor Browser is this kid wearing many layers of different masks and hoodies, and changing them randomly whenever the mood strikes.