ctkatz

joined 8 months ago
[–] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

EVERYONE out pizzas the hut.

pizza hut is bad chain pizza.

this has been my opinion since the early 90s and nothing during that time has changed my opinion.

meanwhile domino's has gotten markedly better since 2000. if I'm traveling and don't want to think about what to eat, I'm getting domino's because I know they're everywhere. them or papa johns depending on what deal is going on at the time.

[–] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago (17 children)

part of me shitting on third parties is the fact they enable the bad stuff they want to happen, see the elections of 2000 and 2016. but it also needs to be pointed out, repeatedly, loudly, this other point you just nade:

IT IS STATISTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR A THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE TO WIN ENOUGH ELECTORAL VOTES TO BECOME PRESIDENT.

they don't have an answer for that. if they do respond they never address that specific point only saying well enough people just have to vote third party.

none of these people have any clue how our government or elections or voting works. I'll bet some of them are convinced that because the cheneys endorsed harris it means she's an even bigger genocider even though they both have said they don't agree with her politics except for the politics that preserve the constitution. they're dead enders man.

[–] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

it's all about party purity for them.

I'll be honest here. I'm not a registered democrat. never have been. I find myself aligning mostly with the greens on a lot of issues. but I'm never voting for a green. because I know that if I want stuff that I favor to happen, voting for a party that never campaigns, never organizes, and never puts up credible people who have done the public service work isn't just a fool's errand it's political idiocy. that's why I vote for democrats.

I know they aren't perfect. but I also know they know how to organize and get shit done politically, even if they water down their own legislation to appeal to their conservative wing and water it down even more to appeal to republican who will never vote for it but I digress.

the point of elections is to set the government at whatever level to go in the direction you want. and voting for the option that will only win in a microscopic probability but is more likely to make it easier for the party and candidate I vehemently disagree with to win is beyond stupid, it's purposefully destructive. to what end? it makes no sense.

[–] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

I still have my note 9. i have 2 other devices that are my dailies so it's in semi retirement as a nightstand clock. I haven't had a need to do stuff with it since for all intent and purposes it's a clock now but I may give lineage a try since I probably won't do anything else with it.

the only reason I haven't rooted it is because I had heard rooting breaks nfc payments. I'm trying not to pull my physical wallet out if I can help it and payment is important to me otherwise it would have been done long before now.

[–] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 days ago (56 children)

I don't think that you need any more proof that all of these pop up third party efforts are simply republicans funding some of the most ostentatious left wingers out there in order to ratfuck democratic presidential efforts. none of these people can win 270 electoral votes because they aren't on enough ballots to get there. FACT.

anyone who tells you that they can still win is a political idiot who doesn't know what they're talking about and should be ignored or someone with a vested interest in making sure that democrats get fewer votes than they should letting the only other viable party option win. left wingers included.

if there were a real serious third party looking at real electoral victories they should start organizing at the local level with a real long term strategy of growth and do it for all years, not just the ones divisible by 4. by not doing anything except in a presidential election year they are only reinforcing and perpetuating the "corrupt duopoly" they hate so much.

[–] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 27 points 5 days ago (8 children)

i had to login for some functions at work. i believe the minimums were 8 characters, 1 caapitol, 1 number. and we all hated it, because the passwords had to be changed every 90 days, and you couldn't reuse passwords. eventually you are going to run out of things you can reasonably use that you could remember and then would be forced to use some sort of password manager. but OOPSIE you couldn't install any software on the office computer so you would have to resort to writing them down somewhere. it was a mess.

fortunately corporate decided to just change the entire system adopting most of these rules, min 15 characters, no special character, no hints, no forced changing passwords unless you think you have been compromised or just want to change it. we do have to use 2fa to access some things if you aren't sitting at the office computer but other than that people are much happier about passwords now.

[–] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

my guess: they'll ignore it, just like they ignore what the gazan and west bank people say who they want as president.

it's not about genocide or gaza for them.

it was never about genocide or gaza for them. just look at them scramble when you point out how their champion said nothing about what happened in ukraine and syria and those genocides (relevant since their champion was a known supporter of putin and assad).

it was only about disrupting the "corrupt duopoly" and having the ability to smugly declare their purity in not compromising their values on the ballot, the consequences of that vote which would affect all of us be damned.

[–] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

really it only makes sense.

the obvious glaring problem with all of these people who say they support the plight of the gazan people was that if they actually cared for and listened to what the gazan people were telling anyone who would actually listen to them, when it came to who the next american president should be they overwhelmingly said kamala harris.

these online activists were in effect doing the exact same thing that trump was doing with the border. they didn't care or cared very little about gazans other than using them as a tool to try to affect the kind of political revolution they jerk off to every night destroying the "corrupt duopoly" as their only real political goal.

it's good that a leading muslim organization a) listened to what gazans were saying b) considered all consequences of electing either candidate, not just the consequences regarfing gaza and c) knows that there is no such thing as a perfect political party or candidate and that demanding purity on an issue important to them is much likely to get them less influence.

hopefully this news shuts these people up for the next few weeks.

[–] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

you told on yourself when you called it the "democrat party". why should i listen to a chaos agent?

[–] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

to be honest, the 114 time race winner ditched him first.

[–] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago (5 children)

biden won by almost 8 million(?) votes lst time. is that not overwhelming enough? just because most of the votes were concentrated in heavily democratic states will not change the fact that it's still going to be and always was going to be a battle in swing states, and there is not a ronald reagan 49 state win candidate out there.

how about you future senator schiff not contribute to the biden must step down media ushed bullshit story and do what the rest of the base of the party is doing and back your candidate?

[–] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

how is the uk's prisoner rehab program? because i know that policy in the us would never work because our prisons are primarily for punishment and retribution and when people are let out they are left hanging in the wind in a society who treats them less than human waste.

 

this whole investigation was a textbook definition of a witch hunt. and now it's come to light that the entire basis of investigating hunter was from an fbi informant with close ties to russian counterintel. the same people who talked with rudy and the laptop.

hunter has a real good shot at winning a defamation suit against smirnov and rudy imo but I'm not a law talkin guy.

 

... in other words gaetz and company are admitting (knowingly or unwittingly) that

  • trump is an insurrecionist
  • trump is very likely to lose at the supreme court in his colorado 14th amendment appeal hearing
  • that the plain text reading of section 3 of the 14th amendment says congress can waive the condition (but only if 2/3 of both houses agree to waive the condition)

the funny thing is how when this passes the house, it won't be anywhere close to the 290 they need but they'll try to act as though it's binding. and they're doing this before the hearing, where the plaintiff's attorney and/or the colorado solicitor general can point out that since the house and senate have initiated resolutions declaring trump not an insurrectionist that the colorado supreme court ruling should hold since the congress has started the process of returning trump to the ballot.

and if I a non law talkin guy could see this and figure it out then so should the supreme court. especially if someone points that out to them.

 

I've actually got 2 questions, one about l.w and one about lemmy in general.

  1. I signed up yesterday and got an email to confirm my address but it's not working. I've used the user I created, my email, and the user that was in my email and it's not working. is it me or is it the server here at issue?

  2. I've also got a mastodon account. how do I create a post on any sub straight from there and not through a lemmy instance?

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