Right, he may have not deserved it, but he actively campaigned on the idea that deaths like his were acceptable losses.

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One format to rule them all, One format to find them, One format to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them; In the Land of the Bay Area where the shadows lie.

Solid choice by Mamdani but I fully expect ABC to fill the town hall slot with Cuomo now instead.

Maybe if web pages weren’t also loading like 25mb of javascript it wouldn’t be such a big deal to load 5mb of uncompressed images.

Hey now don’t underestimate how completely idiotic they are, too! This administration is filled with so many slackjawed fools that I don’t put it past them to genuinely not know Tylenol is just a name brand.

Fascist politics always boil down to “I know what you are but what am I?”

You mean like Joe and Eileen Bailey, the literally made up and imaginary couple that he created and claims are accurate representations of his constituents which he has referenced hundreds of times as justification for his positions?

I shit you not this is a real thing he does. Instead of listening to actual constituents he just makes ones up.

Also, they regularly try to sidestep the W3C web standards commission or use their market position to influence W3C standards to push for their own standards over competing standards. I feel this point cannot be understated that their attempts to dictate web standards to their benefit directly undermines user choice and truly free standards that aren’t open to undue influence from one company with market dominance.

Google literally has a long history of promoting open formats to eventually close those open formats and make them less open.

GoogleTalk originally supported XMPP and then XMPP support was dropped when they changed it to “Google Hangouts.”

Android was originally open source and still largely is, but now they’re not publishing the device information for Pixel devices, putting actually open operating systems like LineageOS and GraphiteOS in the position of having to reverse engineer drivers to be able to move forward.

Chrome was originally a lot more open as well, but as Google gained market share dominance with their web browser, they made it slowly more and more closed off with only Chromium being really open, and they also used that market position to start to push their own solutions as web standards (what they’ve done with WEBP, actually) instead of having community input from the W3C.

Everyone: “Stop using stuff made by Google that they make with intent of owning the web!”

Also everyone: “Don’t you understand why WEBP is the best format??”

I mean, pretty obvious, sadly.

No, because on the Fediverse you always have the option of making your own instance and your own community (with blackjack and hookers) if you don’t like how the one you’re on is being run. Literally no point in complaining because unlike reddit you are always free to make your own with your own rules elsewhere whenever you want.

Honestly this whole comment section with people proposing to dogpile this user for how they feel seems a lot more “reddit” than anything else.

EDIT: 12 hours later and now we’ve moved into people making shitposts about it. Definitely reddit-style beating a dead horse and basically choosing to harass a person when all they have to do is ignore them.

I literally don’t talk to a lot of people in real life about my COVID vaccinations because I don’t want to hear any dumbfucks blame my very common prior to COVID cancer on me having gotten the COVID vaccine. I just don’t have the energy for such stupidity in my life.

I have a sinking feeling he will outlive me despite being twice my age but that’s because I expect that the new Medicaid work requirements that kick in in January 2027 will end with me kicked off Medicaid and unable to afford my cancer medications.

I have cancer and medications are $18k a month without insurance. They are covered under Medicaid, but I have to be underneath Medicaid income limits to continue to get Medicaid, which by definition means I need to stay in poverty to have the cost of these meds actually covered.

more like a years rent, god, he’s fucking insufferable

it’s so fucking wild that the entire conservative movement boils down to “bullying is good actually, so long as we get to be the bullies.”

Not true, because a fuckton of those stupid people erroneously believe they’re smarter than everyone else in the world. The number of times I have heard “if I were in charge, everything would be straightened out” from these troglodytes is too damn high. I’m actually smart enough to know how insanely demanding “being in charge” and “doing things right” actually fucking is so I god damned know I am not up for the challenge so, yeah, actually they’re still actually fucking stupid. Sorry, not sorry.

Chupacabra alarm system.