It’s more that the actual leftist party will take votes away from the liberals, but not the full-on nazi party. Meaning that you’d end up with something like 15% new leftist party that nobody dares vote for because it’s new, 40% dems, 45% repugnants and now the 45% is enough for them to win, whereas previously maybe it would’ve been 55% dems.

In fact, to win an election under that system, it would be beneficial to start an even more right-wing party, because that would take votes away from the GOP. But at the end of the day, it takes a couple of election cycles for 2 dominant parties to emerge and the most extremist ones are typically the ones to lose as people unite under the more centrist banners. That’s how you get republican and republican lite, where really a lot of people would prefer a socialist party and a lot of other people would prefer a national-socialistic workers party. They have to meet in the middle and get two parties that are somewhere between the two polar opposites.

Personally, I would pay at least 1000% more to not destroy the world, because not destroying the world is really important to me.

Alrighty then, 11x your food spending and lemme know how that goes for ya.

I mean if I was a rich ethnic Russian in either of those cities, I’d probably love it.

I’m Estonian though, don’t speak any more Russian than yes, no, please, thank you and go fuck yourself. Of course I also understand when being asked for a cigarette - an absolute necessity in Estonia (though these days you’re very unlikely to get attacked for not providing said cigarettes - 20-30 years ago was different, but I wasn’t exactly old enough to smoke then)

But overall I’m glad I don’t live in Russia because I don’t agree with the politics. Even before the current war, I’m sure I would’ve been seen as a dissident. I’m sure the people of Russia are actually mostly very nice. It’s also cheaper than a lot of western countries so working remotely, I’m sure I would’ve been able to live very comfortably before the war. I just wouldn’t ever want to live under Putin rule and I wouldn’t really want to live in a country with so many nationalists (US, if I ever moved there, would be a bit easier, because it’s more about race than nationality and I’m white)

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Had mine at 28, now 30. The kid has been the most affordable thing about my life the last 2 years. It wasn’t the kid that demanded to switch strollers on a weekly basis and it wasn’t the kid who threatened suicide and all kinds of other things when I didn’t buy shit.

I’m making do on 50 hours of work a month, give or take, until I can get my kid to reliably stay at kindergarten for multiple hours per day. My ex is not paying any child support AND is still getting the small monthly national child support payments that every kid gets until the age of 18 or 19 or something. It does help that I have a family home that was empty already so I only need to pay to heat this big old house (not cheap) and I have some support from my mom who occasionally helps out with clothes and other expenses.

When I also had to pay the entire upkeep of my ex and her other child (who, to be fair, also didn’t cost that much to feed and clothe, despite my ex only buying Nike, Guess and other overpriced brands for her), I was working 200+ hours a month AND getting essentially an entire national median salary in parental pay (first 1.5 years after child is born) and still had to keep borrowing more and more money from friends. Would’ve been enough money to COMFORTABLY raise 5-6 children with anyone other than my ex, pretty much. This while my ex didn’t work since BEFORE the pregnancy started. In fact, the pregnancy was her plan to keep me around.

So I’d argue that a lot of people could afford to have kids by 30 as long as they do it with the right partner. A lot of my friends make more money than I ever did, while my own income was a “holy shit” moment for some of my other friends and family when I came clean about everything going on in my life, particularly what my ex did to my finances. Of course my country is more affordable too, I don’t live in the US. Kindergarten is less than 100 EUR a month, kid now eats mostly the same stuff I do (no more special baby foods to spend on, besides formula which is pretty affordable, I use locally made stuff) and grows fairly slowly so I don’t have to buy new clothes every single month. Diapers are still an expense and will be for a few more months at least, but that’s also 50-60 EUR a month, not more.

They also get better parts prices than consumers if they buy bulk.

I’m good as far as amounts are concerned (32 GB; on a DDR4 platform), though I still wanted to upgrade to 64 for the sake of not needing to swap when running a bunch of things at once.

Now I think I’m just going to wait for DDR6 and upgrade my entire setup because it’s going to take a few years and by then the AI bubble should’ve popped already.

So Samsung or SK Hynix. Because there are only 3 real players in the market :/

Might as well become a reseller lol

Ah well, I can’t read the article, I don’t have a Guardian subscription.

Dear Chinese*

Volvo and Polestar are owned by the Chinese.

Lol prebuilts were actually cheaper when GPU prices skyrocketed and it may happen again thanks to RAM prices

My trauma all happened after the API change that prompted the move to Lemmy. If yours happened before that, maybe we have the same ex lol

Somehow the ser vs estar distinction almost makes sense. I don’t like it but I understand it

It’s a voluntary anti-theft measure I believe. Prevents it from being started without the owner’s consent. Which immobilizers are also supposed to do, but we all know how well those work.

If I owned a Porsche in Russia, I would also get something like that tbh. Luckily I don’t live in Russia, nor do I have a Porsche anymore and mine was too old for this kinda shit anyway

Oh you’ve missed so much. Yes, they did. Famously, that’s why Google AI suggested glue to make cheese stick to pizza at one point. Because of a joke on reddit made by user “fucksmith” some 11 years earlier.

Github was always kinda subsidized as a power play on MS’s part

Github existed for like 10 years pre-microsoft. Though they did get an investment from Shitreessen Fuckwitz after a few years. Before that, they actually earned enough money on their own to keep the lights on.

An instance that doesn’t need your donations still needs resources to perpetuate itself from somewhere

I meant more that I’m willing to use an instance after it already has enough recurring donations OR paid users to sustain itself. Because at that point they don’t need to treat you as a product to save their own asses, nor are they likely to go bankrupt. So I meant the ironic part is that I’m willing to pay, but for an instance that’s doing well enough that it doesn’t desperately need my money to keep the lights on.

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You don’t get 3 or more major parties in a fptp system though. The system itself is only capable of supporting two parties at most.

The voting system needs to first be changed on a state level in every state ideally, or at least most of them, so people need to start putting a lot more effort into state elections.

Well, github would provide it for free. Their business model is that just hosting shit is free, but costing them actual server resources means you gotta pay 'em. And that’s a sensible business model IMO, but unfortunately they’re also owned by Microsoft, which I didn’t even like 2 decades ago, let alone now that they’re pushing AI.

Guess what I’m hoping is for Github alternatives, potentially based on Forgejo, to adopt a similar business model (free storage, paid runners beyond a very limited free tier essentially), without the whole using everyone’s code for AI training part.

I also have no problem with a small recurring donation. But the ironic part here is that I wouldn’t want to use a forge that’s so small that it NEEDS the donations. I don’t want it to disappear after a year.