Obama is one of the most popular presidents in my lifetime. Hillary won the popular vote. The problem wasn't being a woman or a person of color, their problem was being shitty candidates that the public doesn't like, running terrible campaigns.

I totally agree, and I never understood how adding a parasitic middle-man is supposed to make things cheaper.

"without it, we would have to pay out of pocket for ad supported services!"

Actually, I don't think we would for a lot of things. The internet existed long before it was advertising funded. Web-pages used to be things that people made because they were passionate about what they put on those pages. Advertising only came later.

Hell, there are still plenty of things that people build and maintain because they like it, not because they make money from it. How many people work for free on things like Wikipedia, FOSS, Fediverse, etc. just because they want to see it succeed?

I'm not familiar with the history of Porgual. Can you explain why that's relevant to this? or possibly link to something that would help explain?

Nah, I'm not giving her a break. She handed the elction to Trump on a silver platter. It should have been a slam dunk election, but she chose genocide, money, and the Cheney's over winning.

No, the pain, suffering loss of rights and death were because the DNC decided that continuing a genocide was more important than winning an election against one of the least popular presidents we've ever had.

Maybe next time they should pick a candidate that the people actually want.

Hillary won the popular vote. While yes, America does have a sexism problem, I don't think being a woman is that big of a problem for the candidates.

Being a terrible candidate who is insanely out of touch with Americans is the problem. They just need to run women who are willing to fight for what Americans want.

This sounds more like the Democrats than it does the "moderate left"

Or maybe their candidates shouldn't support genocide. It'd be much easier to sell the Democrats as a valid party to vote for if they weren't in support of things like genocide.

If the responsibility is being shelled out to "the algorithm", then doesn't that mean they have less responsibility? Shouldn't they be paid less if they have less responsibility?

Something tells me they won't see the logic in that though.

• writing code and code-commits
• generating joke/funny images
• reminding me of code-syntax for infrequently used languages
• sending art project prompts to my artistic friends
• an IRC bot for my friends to talk to
• helping me run a D&D game
• researching information rather than searching (when I don't really care about getting an accurate answer)

I have a self-hosted AI system that works pretty well. I can interact with it via my phone, the shell, my IRC server, and I can verbally talk to it.

But I want to get it to remember things, so I need to start working on RAG or something. Eventually I'd like to be able to have it draft emails for me, and schedule appointments.

I've been using spectrwm for over a decade https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm and have no plans to change