If Mastodon wanted to be preferred, it should have been better. I moved to Mastodon over a year ago when the Twitter sale first happened. It was not great then and it’s gotten slightly worse since. I created a Bluesky account two days ago and it already offers exactly the experience I missed from Twitter before Elon.
Would it be better if Mastodon was good and the federated FOSS option was superior? Sure, absolutely. But, that scenario isn’t even close to the case we are presented with.
I know posts like those feel good, but the objective fact is that the political conversation and (much more importantly) public policy has moved drastically leftward in both shorter terms (the last decade) as well as more medium-term measurements (the last fifty years).
Arch on my desktop and laptop, Debian stable goes on everything else.
It won’t be. Because: fuck everything
Legal memoranda are not just an interoffice note. They are policy interpretations and internally-governing documents. The memorandum is from the Office of Legal Counsel which is an independent subdepartment — neither Garland or the President himself can overturn the policy.
Because the cause for his appointment no longer exists. The OLC memo regarding the prosecution of sitting Presidents means that Smith's appointment is frustrated at its most basic level of inception.
. I’d say this counts for sure.
Fuck, probably Boromir too.
Dems and Repubs are so entrenched as the 2 primary parties that it would take a miracle to get enough voters to follow a 3rd party
They're not "entrenched;" they're ideally situated for the American electorate. There is not a single issue where a third party could take a position that captures larger vote share than those already taken.
You should look up a lot of things