More I read, the more predictable Israeli politics seems.

The outcome always seems to be "what's most beneficial for Netanyahu's survival."

And in this case, its preserving the status quo since he needs that for a coalition, I guess?

I mean the application could tell by looking at how its encoded, right?

Though I acknowledge how problematic "trusting" the app to do that is.

Well it would be great if more of their models were 'freeware' too.

Microsoft just loves to have their cake, eat it... and not share it.

Lemmy needs a trinary vote system

• Downvote

• Upvote

• Upvote, but you curse out loud as you upvote

Yeah, I feel like people are freaking out and ignoring that Biden (and Trump) are largely the people they surround themselves with, and the policies they push.

They've both been president for years.

Yeah, I mean we're like lobsters being slow boiled.

This whole situation is mad, but it feels plausible because it's been ratcheted up so gradually.

Can you imagine the country's reaction if they say this 2 decades ago?

No, plenty of nonpartisan and even liberal people were yelling this too. I had no illusions of Biden's age.

America is not just two internet echo chambers... even if it feels like it right now.

It's because they use every dirty trick for views.

Stuffing it into your feed unsolicited, autoplaying it, promoting it everywhere because it's an engaging post, spamming push notifications, whatever. Not to speak of a swarm of bots liking it.

It's probably as inflated as can be without being obviously legally negligent.

Webp works fine for me now.

The problem is AVIF. I mean I love AVIF (almost as much as JPEG-XL), but it doesn't work with anything except browser web pages, even after all this time.

Because the election is a popularity contest, and name recognition is everything.

And he's the incumbent. He is president right now.

CNN can't help themselves. They need to compete with social media I guess.

I dunno, that debate just made me sad.

We live in a world where Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho is more electable than the candidates we have.

I figured Idiocracy was prescient, but it's coming true awfully fast.