HeyListenWatchOut

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Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: June 16th, 2023
  • HeyListenWatchOut@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•An ad giant wants to control your next TV’s OSEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    Not good enough. Any OTA updates your TV can get over the web will eventually be trying to circumvent your IP blacklists to shove in any ad-riddled garbage they can.

    Literally just blacklist your TV’s MAC address, and use a dedicated set top box of some kind to avoid this shit. My current choice is my NVIDIA Shield Pro 2019, which I installed a 3rd party WOLF launcher (there’s also F-Launcher) and turned off auto-updates so I could avoid NVIDIA and Google doing the same.

    At some point, I will probably need to switch to a NUC or other HTPC with some flavor of Linux on it, as eventually the Shield may succumb to this shit as well.

  • HeyListenWatchOut@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•After Democrats lost the working class, union leaders say it's time to 'reconstruct the Democratic Party'English
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    4 days ago

    The Dems began bleeding the working class after Carter.

    The problem is that - outside of Obama in 2008 (who campaigned as left of Clinton), and Sanders in 2016 and 2020 - there have been almost ZERO efforts to court the increasingly jaded and apathetic working class voters who have to work harder and harder every cycle only to be disappointed by the candidate they believed in not following through with decreasingly attractive policy proposals.

    Again, she wasn’t TERRIBLE, and no matter how disconnected she was, she would have been > than 🍊… but her team had her trotting out LIZ CHENEY over allowing a Palestinian to speak on stage at the DNC.

    This idea that there was NOTHING she could have done to win over the small percentage of apathetic voters to push her over the edge is simply not true.

    The enthusiasm from the Democratic base disappeared shortly after the campaign backed off the sort of initial good decisions they started off with (like choosing Walz and letting him call Rs weird).

    …And then the overpaid completely disconnected party consultants just kept pushing her to move all the way to the right as much as she possibly could under the delusion that THIS time (like Clinton tried) we could get the R cultists to come out and vote for her… I mean they had a literal billionaire Mark Cuban excited for their candidacy.

  • HeyListenWatchOut@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Her daughter was killed in the Robb Elementary shooting. Now she's running for mayor of UvaldeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I know that plays a bit in the role, but I will add that cultural, racial, and ethnic minorities do exist in rural areas and interact with those who live there (I grew up in that sort of area and still have friends and family in those places) and I really believe the primary reason is the relative ease at which the rural areas really feel “disconnected” from the bigger society that people who live near or in bigger cities have.

    It’s why European places with really robust aspects of public transit for example lean left politically - even when in remote locales. Places with a real tangible “connection” to the rest of the world see the benefits of major legislative projects.

    We don’t really have that anymore it seems.

    I would bet that things like Roosevelt’s “Rural Electrification Act” and park conservation employment projects were probably far more important and impactful to Democratic strength in rural areas than posturing on wedge and cultural issues that - while important - are far less tangibly impactful than projects that had a “felt” effect upon the people there.

    If someone shows up and hooks up electricity at your house because a Democrat was elected, that means more to you than someone pandering a supposed personal alignment with a rural majority’s supposed ingrained cultural values.