I fail to see how making every aspect of that problem exponentially worse by letting Trump come to power will fix it.

no one wants trump to come to power, that’s why we want competent candidate on the other side.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

are you true russian agent, or just useful idiot?

I kinda had a feeling that was where this was going.

that’s what the debate is about since the debate (pun intended), but good on you for having a feeling, you just discovered the true meaning of xmas, detective 😂

Reforming the Democrats so they are not so shit also sounds like a great idea, just unlikely to me to happen in the next few months.

yes, it would be lot of work in short time, that is not the reason not to do it.

But in the meantime, yes. If a bucket of ranch dressing was running as the nominee in November, I would plan to vote for the bucket

problem is that bucket might win, biden will likely lose.

yeah, lets vote for demented grandpa who doesn’t remember his own name, because… checks notes… democracy is so unlikely people should just give up 😆

If you have a credible plan for how to achieve a third result, let’s fuckin have it.

here is the fucking plan: the democratic party leadership and biden administration will stop trying to perpetrate fraud on american voters by intentionally hiding health state of current president (because as of right now it is pretty clear that is what they are doing), will stop acting like a mafia, start acting like a DEMOCRATIC party and organize primaries. how about that?

Also, yes, the debate was a pure horrifying shit show. So is getting convicted of 34 felonies, or electing the guy who wants to kill protestors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

you are welcome

fair point, i seem to have conveniently ignored that i was talking about digital, not physical, archive here…

oh right, i totally ignored the “digital” part, even though i mentioned that in nearby reply. my bad.

as a non-american, that is fun fact to me, but it was just because the texans couldn’t be bothered to vote…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election_in_California

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas

Libraries are safe spaces for minorities

this text was primarily about digital archives, so i don’t think this applies much

can also help struggling young people understand that they are not alone.

this does make sense, ok then.

Another concerns equity and accessibility:

removal of more than 500,000 books from public access is a serious blow to lower-income families, people with disabilities, rural communities, and LGBTQ+ people, among many others.

so low-income people in the argument are pretty obvious

how about people with disabilities or rural communities? why are they there? do they have easier access to libraries than bookstore?

and what the hell are lgbt people doing there? do they read disproportionately more more than average non-lgbt population, or why are they singled out?

seems like this whole paragraph is just “lets throw in some minorities, no one can talk back at that” lame argument

Imagine a restaurant that doesn’t ask you what you want. Instead the chef tells you “This is the best food possible” and just makes what they want.

that is exactly how restaurants work. have you ever been to one? you are offered a choice of meals they designed and if you don’t like it, well, there is about billion other restaurants you may try, they are not going to start crafting custom meal for you.

i am not forgetting anything. using your portable device on network other than your own is your free choice and if you are such control freak that you are afraid of being spied on through dhcp, you probably should not do that.

there is always an option. unless you are pressured by lets say some state authority or your employee, in which case your identity is probably well known and they don’t really need to spy on you through dhcp.

Love the handle, BTW. :)

thank you

I think downloading is against Google’s TOS

maybe, but you are not going to jail for that. at least not today.

Most modern operating systems randomize the MAC.

that doesn’t seem to be uniform behaviour. but i think we agree on the merit. if you are this paranoid, you just don’t use networks where you don’t have control over the local segment.

[admin@MikroTik] > ip arp print 
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, H - DHCP, D - dynamic, P - published, C - complete 
 #    ADDRESS         MAC-ADDRESS       INTERFACE                                                    
 0 DC 192.168.88.160  A2:35:xx:xx:xx:xx bridge                                                       
 1 DC 192.168.88.159  F4:60:xx:xx:xx:xx bridge                                                       
 2 DC 192.168.0.1     44:32:xx:xx:xx:xx ether1                                                       
 3 DC 192.168.88.168  18:3D:xx:xx:xx:xx bridge                                                       
 4 DC 192.168.88.156  70:BB:xx:xx:xx:xx bridge 

Your router always knows your Mac address, no matter how you got your ip assigned. And yes, you can use it to identify the client - that is why it is there. This whole post is nonsense written by someone who doesn’t really understand what dhcp is or how it works. Long story short, don’t look for privacy on local Ethernet segment :D

but unless i am missing some edge case, there isn’t really a reason, downloading video from youtube is perfectly legal, it wouldn’t work otherwise after all

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oh, attention required? i am happy to know that… 😂

he is under no obligation to have a name at hand. that is what primaries are for. not having a name at hand doesn’t make biden best possible candidate, or even passable one.

Ah, there it is.

fuck off (you are on my blocklist now, don’t bother crafting elaborate answer designed to just piss me off)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning