smnwcj

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[–] smnwcj@fedia.io 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The value of holding av real primary. Sadly that boat sailed. Having delegates hand pick a candidate without any voter input opens the process to undue influence from party politics.

Kamala was at least chosen by the people as a VP. Can't say the same for most of the randos throwing their hat in

[–] smnwcj@fedia.io 38 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Ages ago someone wrote a bash script that would calculate your "stallman score", essentially checking the license of every package in your system.

[–] smnwcj@fedia.io 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'm a random person but my understanding was that legally the funds belong to the Biden/Harris campaign, now owned by Harris. I think moving that money between campaign funds is not permitted. Maybe some unprecedented swap where Harris remains VP would work.

Edit: i actually researched this, LegalEagle has a good video on it.

In short donations to DNC are safe, but the campaign committee for B/H would need to go into a super PAC and would face litigation risks

[–] smnwcj@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago

To nitpick, Win10 looks like KDE :). Kde has been pretty consistent for a while

[–] smnwcj@fedia.io 20 points 3 months ago

We need her in the legislature. Presidents fuck off after 4-8 years, we can't spend one of our progressives so early

[–] smnwcj@fedia.io 4 points 3 months ago

Too late to find the best candidate, that would be settled in a primary. Kamila is marginally better than Biden, and has the war chest they've fundraised. At best we get an exciting new VP

[–] smnwcj@fedia.io 6 points 3 months ago

They'd need to be in the same page for his replacement, or it'd be a shit show. A failed attempt would also look awful

[–] smnwcj@fedia.io 0 points 3 months ago

He knows Trump will win, it's a safe bet to win some favor.

[–] smnwcj@fedia.io 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Unfortunately this financing requires a populace widely adopting cryptocurrency...making it a pipe dream for mainstream use.

Tips are generally a bad model as well, which creates an incentive for rapid and pandering work (like ad supported content).

Patreon had frankly built all of YouTube that is worth watching. I think a simple payment system using real banks can be integrated into smaller hosting services.

It's all academic though, YouTube is unrivaled in ad revenue and helping you expand an audience.

[–] smnwcj@fedia.io 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Biden could, according to SCOTUS.

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