So their own membership in the group you spoke for doesn’t matter to the question of weather it’s acceptable to oppose a genocide when faced with violence against oneself?

That’s pretty absurd.

It’s also pretty absurd to imply that a trans person is transphobic because they oppose genocide.

If the democrats need my vote then they can adopt the platforms and policies I vote for.

Simple as.

I swear to god it really seems like you’re doing the most insane mental gymnastics to justify voting for a genocide.

Did you see the piece of paper with their name and the date?

If so do you see what you’ve done? You’ve accepted a priori your assessment that they’re an astroturfing Russian bot and dismissed evidence to the contrary.

What would prove to you that there’s a real person who is who they say they are on the other side?

So if the democrats will always choose to shift to the right as opposed to the left then how is the left spoiling anything?

What you’re suggesting is that the American left should follow the democrats to the right. How’s that worked out in the past?

My psl vote doesn’t help trump win. I know that because it doesn’t get counted for trump.

I would not have voted for the democrats.

I havent voted for a democrat at the national level after Obama 08.

If there was any indication that Harris would have a different policy on Gaza than the Biden administration she’d have a good opportunity to break my streak.

It would probably be a good idea not to make an argument about morality that tries to condemn voting for a candidate opposed to genocide.

I’ve seen a lot of strategic arguments for Harris, but never a moral one.

If the democrats lose because of the spoiler effect you describe, do you think they’ll try to take on the positions of the party that they “lost” the most votes to?

Spoiler effect is fake and made up, but for the purposes of your belief that it’s real, will one or the other major party try to court third party voters in the case that they believe themselves to have been harmed by it?

Oh hey! Nice to see you!

Psl is on the ballot in 20 states, you’re right, and it would be 22 if they weren’t pushed off or invalidated in Georgia and Pennsylvania.

But they’re allowed write in candidates in 23 states and that gives them a possible 464 electoral votes. More than enough to win!

Write in ballots are counted. I know because I’ve worked elections and seen the process where they’re added to a tally.

I will take an inexperienced candidate over one in favor of genocide any day.

De la Cruz has made a commitment to end the genocide which is a fundamental part of the psl platform in 2024 and has a plan to use executive power to end the genocide. Even if I wasn’t a booster of psl already that would go a long way towards earning my vote.

To anyone reading this: feel free to congratulate me, because I just earned your attention!

Are you accusing them of being a bot or suggesting they’re not trans here?

It kinda seems like you’re suggesting that they’re either not human or not trans there at the end.

The only other way I can read it is you calling them liberal as a pejorative (which is a great own to commies by the way) but it’s hard to assume that’s the intent.

Psl is literally a revolutionary party.

It doesn’t get more fundamental than that.

As long as you don’t live in Alaska, Nevada, Montana, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Georgia or Pennsylvania you can signal for psl when you vote!

You: “you’re a degenerate”, “I dont believe you when you say who you are”, “you’re not trans”, “it’s strange you would try so hard to prove who you are to a random stranger online!”

Ladies and gentlemen: liberals!

I voted party for socialism and liberation and you can too!

They’re running Claudia de la Cruz on a platform of Palestinian statehood and an end to arms shipments to israel.

If you never asked Harris to dazzle you, only to show even the smallest sign of intent to end the genocide she’s party to, why not vote for a candidate that has consistently been anti genocide this whole time!

When was the last 4yr window on a computer? I think the ati 2011 15” mbp got dropped fast af but thats the last real short one I remember. I haven’t dealt extensively with the touchbar models though.

The m1 air looks to be another 2012 mbp 12”. It would surprise me if they cut it off at 7 years. Although that decision seems to have been driven by the enterprise install base and who knows if that’s still what it once was.

I think the reason why mobile os support windows are apples thing on computers is because they don’t have a separate business line. Iirc xps used to be dells enthusiast brand and now it’s part of the business line.

Thinking more about it, the core line of processors was a real stumble for intel because they were really good and lasted forever and manufacturers had to start pushing updates to fix realtek and qualcomm chip problems or get blamed for shit not working or being supported.

Also, this is kinda tangential because the op is asking about firmware support and hardware availability and firmware support is not as important on macs and they have incredible second hand hardware markets.

I have one and it works as a drive but all the seagate software doesn’t run in Linux.

It literally doesn’t matter.

There are differences, but for what you’re talking about they don’t matter.

The only thing that should sway you is if you have a person who is willing to help you in person or like over the phone or text or whatever (basically not yelling into the internet void for help) then you should use what they know.

The Apple support window is pretty predictable. You get about seven years from device release to no os updates.

It used to be that they didn’t talk about it and it was kind of a “he who has eyes, let him see” situation.

Of course, we’re talking hardware here so that’s sort of neither here nor there.

The enterprise dell experience is indeed very good all around. I’d even include hp in the pile if I had any experience with em. Their scopes used to be decent.

If it’s like the older vtech educational toys it uses some z80 processor, so you won’t be able to run Linux but you can a few different hobbyist microcomputer operating systems like zeal8bit and fuzix.

Unfortunately no.

I remember the selinux controversy and the nsa trying to slip bad algorithms in.

This is sometimes true, but big brands have the market penetration to make hardware support very easy through second hand and third party parts and to be enticing fruit for third party support (see opencore and the dosdude patchers for apple stuff).

Eh, reading about ranked choice from people living in places that have it makes me think it would change the dynamics of our system but not “fix” it.

I’m not against it and I think it would be better than what we have now, but I’m not going to prioritize it over supporting my party of choice especially in the face of genocide.

I think you’d be right about my support for psl if winning was the only thing that mattered. Losing parties still get funding, ballot access, event presence, media coverage and of course public awareness from their ballot turnout though, so there’s good reason to vote for em even without ranked choice.

To your comment about smugly doing nothing: I’m active politically locally to the degree that I genuinely worry about doxing myself here and will probably fuck off in a year or so. It’s really easy to get involved in local politics if you have the time to go to a meeting once or twice a month. Can’t recommend highly enough the process of attending those meetings and having the burrs rounded off your political self in the tumbler of local activity.