TechyDad

He's an anti-vaxxer that echos a lot of Russian propaganda. He even tweeted an image of a woman wearing his campaign merchandise - and then people noticed that the sign on the cafe in the background was in Russian.

If anything, he seems like a right-winger trying to pretend that he's a liberal and hoping that people vote for him based on his famous family name.

As soon as they stop doing things worthy of criticism (and undo what they've already done), then I'll agree that the liberal justices should stop criticizing the court.

I'll admit that I personally like ranked choice voting more because it lets you see how many people choose Candidate A as #1, #2, etc. Still, I get that this can be complicated for some voters and we want to make things as easy as possible for them.

Whether a place goes ranked choice or approval, they're still doing better than if they stayed with First Past The Post.

I love calling it freedom voting because this means that we can claim that any opponents are against "freedom and voting."

Republicans have done this for decades using "freedom," "Patriotism," and other terms. They can try to pass a bill to allow straight white Christians to discriminate against anyone they want and will call it the "Increasing Freedom Bill." Then, they'll say that any Democrats voting against it obviously hate freedom.

Time to give them a little of their own medicine.

The last one is Imposter Syndrome. I struggle with it too. Despite having worked in web development for 25+ years, I'm constantly finding myself thinking that I don't know anything and any day now everyone else will realize it. It's a constant battle to remind myself that I'm actually talented and knowledgeable and not just a huge fraud.

DeSantis is all about performance politics. He does things not because he thinks they are the right thing to do, but because he thinks the performance of him "hurting the right people" will get him more votes.

He doesn't even care if his laws are overturned later. He can either ignore that they were overturned or he can rail against "liberal activist judges" (even if the judge was appointed by Trump).

So I need to wait for BeeHaw to upgrade to 0.18 before I can use Jerboa again?

I can understand not supporting very old versions. If Lemmy was on version 18, I wouldn't expect a client to still support version 1, but not supporting a 0.01 version difference seems like poor design.

Building with LEGO can be fun, but obviously buying tons of sets costs a lot of money and displaying them takes up a lot of space.

A nice alternative is using BrickLink Studio. This software lets you build LEGO creations using a 3D CAD-style software. You can not only build creations, but can generate photorealistic images. Here's a recent virtual build of mine:

You can upload your creations to Rebrickable.com and download other people's creations.

If you really want to build your creation, you can upload the parts list to BrickLink and buy new or used pieces. Obviously, this last part takes real money, but buying used pieces can bring down the cost.

Republicans seem to want to turn back the clock to the 1950's and in one aspect I agree with them. The top tax rate back then was 90%. That should be returned for anyone making over $10 million.

Unlike Republicans, though, I think people should be free to be who they are - whether they're LGBTQ or straight/cisgender, black or white, Christian or Jewish or atheist, or any other group I didn't list. (I didn't list all groups only because I don't want this comment to be novel length.) Basically, as long as your actions affect only yourself and consenting adults, I'm fine with them.

I'm also fine with parents having some control over what their kids do. I'm a parent myself and know that as a parent you need to make judgement calls as to what's best for your child. I wouldn't want someone else questioning my parenting based on their beliefs. However, there are limits. If your child is LGBTQ and you try to force them to be straight/cisgender, you aren't acting in your child's best interests. If your 10 year old child is raped and their life is in danger, but you refuse to allow them to have an abortion because your religion doesn't allow it, then you're harming your child.

Also, a person's "parental rights" shouldn't mean that they get to decide that certain books are banned from everyone reading them. My son actually just finished reading a book because it had been banned and we laughed over how innocuous the "ban triggering passage" was compared to some stuff in the Bible.

Basically, I think I'd call myself a Pragmatic Progressive. I advocate for progressive causes, but I also realize that society can often be slower to adapt than we like. While we would love to be able to pass X and have it be widely adopted immediately, there's often a series of slow moving battles to get X passed and another slow march to get wide acceptance. We can't simply throw in the political towel at the first setback. Neither can we pass up 10% of our goal being within our grasp because we're holding out for 100%. We need to get whatever advancements we can while continually pushing for more.

Birthright citizenship is in the Constitution - the 14th Amendment. DeSantis couldn't just have Congress pass a law repealing it. Now, he could have Congress try to pass a new Amendment removing it. That's possible, but extremely unlikely.

First, he would need to get two thirds of each chamber of Congress on board. Right now, the chambers are basically divided 50-50. DeSantis might get one or two right leaning Democrats to jump on board (Manchin), but there's no way he'd get enough to pass this hurdle.

Let's say he did, though. The Democrats suffer a mass outbreak of temporary insanity and wind up passing this. Now, it would go to the states. DeSantis would need three fourths of the states, or 38, to ratify it. 27 states voted for Trump so lets assume they immediately jump on board. Georgia was close and is run by Republicans so we'll give that to DeSantis also. This still leaves 10 states. He'd quickly run out of swing states and would need to convince some blue states to approve his amendment.

Is it possible that this happens? Yes, but it's also possible that I find a winning lottery ticket on my front lawn tomorrow. I wouldn't count on either one happening though.

They want the First Amendment to only apply to straight, white, Christian men.

Of course, they want all rights to apply only to them and all restrictions to apply only to everyone else. It's why conservatives were very pro-gun control when black groups started marching while legally carrying guns. "We can't have 'those people' using the Second Amendment! It only applies to us!!!"

It's pretty much the playbook of all of DeSantis' "accomplishments."

1. Make a broad law banning or mandating some action.

2. Brag about how great, conservative, and anti-woke you are for passing this law.

3. Law gets struck down for being obviously and egregiously unconstitutional.

4. Either denounce "liberal activist judges who push the woke agenda" (ignoring that the judge was appointed by a Republican) or just ignore the ruling entirely and keep touting the law you passed regardless of the fact that it's been junked.