vividspecter

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[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 27 points 9 months ago

They don’t seem particularly bright but it seems they’ve done well for themselves in life.

This is such a dangerous combination. Success combined with stupidity seems to breed arrogant people that have never had a deep thought in their entire lives (nor do they believe they need to, given their success). Usually these types defer to some sort of homespun "common sense" no matter the topic at hand.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 37 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Disgusting, and a difficult read.

For the nearly ten years they were operating, none of the centres ever met minimum quality ratings.

Are these ratings public? Not that it would make it okay, but at least gives people half a chance of avoiding scum like this.

Anyway, once again the issue with relying on private companies that only care about money to manage something so important reveals itself.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

I edited it in seconds. Must have federated the original.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)
[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

There's also an election coming up in Australia and the position of the conservative opposition is to give Trump whatever he wants. So contarianism is alive and well there.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Thought it read "Honor Obama" and was a bit confused for a moment.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It's a good idea in general to have more universal public transport, but it's much more efficient to build up rather than out. And you're still putting limited construction resources into massive single family homes, when it could instead go into duplexes, fourplexes, and small apartment buildings.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Besides, if the million kids currently in private education suddenly turned up at their local schools tomorrow to enroll in the public system, they would totally break it.

You phase it out gradually, not immediately cut it in one go. That is of course challenging, because changing a system isn't just about the end goal, but how you get there. Ultimately though, the abolishment of private education, childcare, and healthcare should be the end goal, as they are all essential services that shouldn't be left to the whims of the market.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (11 children)

That's a wasted vote, and not an option in the federal elections. It's just as important to keep the extreme right-wing Liberal and National parties from power, as it is to preference the better minor parties (make sure to investigate as some minors and independents are extreme right-wing nutbags).

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

AMDGPU virtio native context is somewhat of an equivalent to the other options, although the pieces are not all available yet. Linux guest only as well.

And there's Venus but that's for Vulkan only (but a lot can be done with that alone on Linux guests).

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Only thing I'm missing is the ability to only download a subset of videos from a channel. There is a workaround by making a playlist but I believe that requires a Google account.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

  • Lyndon B. Johnson
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