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Comment While impressive, is this such a horrible thing? (Score -1) 81

Chrome is open source, the place where new web standard are prototypes, and is supported on most major platforms. Even if I am using Linux or a Mac, I don't need to worry about not being able to open my bank's page.

While I use Firefox as my primary browser, I don't know if there is a use case for different browsing engines like there used to be. I remember when Firefox let you change stylesheets with an icon for a short while... I don't see that kind of experimentation any more.

Comment This is a very American article (Score -1) 72

This article is extremely ethnocentric in that it assumes Europeans have the same priorities. If there are tarrifs I'm sure there will be more incentives to build thier own solutions. I think I'm a similar way to the US being unable to have manufacturing compete with China, without terrifs there will be no European competition.

Comment Re:And we should care because? (Score -1) 201

This has been a tactic on the opposite side of the aisle for decades. At this point why should we care in the slightest?

You're right in that I think this is a non-article.

These are all side effects of people refusing to talk to each other on the other side of the isle. The only way you get both the republican side and democrat side to be all in on the kind of revenge gerrymandering going on is by having your "media" convince you that the other side is unreasonable.

Here is Jordon Kepler interviewing Trump supporters making them look like idiots about the articles they don't receive in right wing media.

Here is Matt Walsh doing something very similar to liberals to make them look like ideas about articles they don't receive.

Combined, these two videos reflect how the US split itself in two when people agree more than you would be lead to believe. If you watch two videos, how can you with any good intent believe that American's are not dehumanizing each other and teaching each other to talk at each other rather than with each other.

TWX, If you actually care about Democracy, and aren't actually paying lip service, you would be reaching out to try to understand what the other half of America ic concerned about, and showing that you yourself are not unreasonable.

I've said it before, but the liberal side of Slashdot believes that posts like mine are for trolling. The way I was modded to Terrible karma reflects how Democrats are doing their part to try to destroy America, silencing and attacking Independents who they need the vote for.

Comment Re: Everyone knows... (Score -1) 173

My general concern for from this remark is that the inability to listen to other people is the reason why elwe have both the Democrats and the Republicans gerrymandering Democracy away.

Even if you think the other side is crazy regardless of your affiliation, ridiculing them, not trying to stand in their shoes, and not trying to understand the two problems is leading to the end of our democracy and elections if Presidents like Trump.

This is where the liberal side of slashdot down views me to the point with my karma that I can't reply using overrated I disagree..

Comment Re: So this is illegal (Score -1) 153

As an independent watching Democrats behavior, I've come to believe more and more that if Trump ran as a Democrat and picked up a few token progressive causes, we would have the Democratic party trying to rationalize the insurrection.

Keep in mind, we aren't that far from defund the police retoric, even if the initial meaning wasn't just to get rid of the police.

If you look up FDR, this isn't the first time that the executive branch. He did the court packing and was the cause for the amendment to restrict two terms.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Procedures_Reform_Bill_of_1937

https://legalclarity.org/how-did-fdr-legally-serve-so-many-terms/

You are part of the reason that the Democrat party and the Republican party members are aggressively doing things like extreme gerrymandering.

If half the country could talk to the other side with good intent, we wouldn't have each party going to extremes trying to destroy democracy. But it is more convenient to say snarky things to the crowd in Slashdot.

When with a post like this, where I am adding references and asking people to talk to the other side I will be rated to overrated -1 so i can reply to anyone that replies to this. Do you understand how this reflects both parties are jointly destroying America?

Comment Youtubere Here (Score -1) 46

Youtube is starting to get some nicer stuff for creators finally. But I always feel like it is a mixed bag that isn't creator or user centric. As an example, I want to be able to localize my videos for English and Japanese. There is new automatic dubbing on Youtube using AI... but you can't choose to use the normal audio as easily as you should. For example, when accessing using a phone to the webpage, the option isn't here.

Youtube is trying things... but they probably should have tried some of these things *before* AI. Then, there would be an appropriate way to choose a language for example...

Comment The more interesting story (Score 1) 21

The more interesting storyus how this is effecting American camera manufactures (today are left.) This story one functions as a"I told you so!" for something obvious.

It's too late for Kodak. They already had to stop making digital cameras. Current American camera companies are Red, GoPro, Blackmagic, and Panavision. But does them outsourcing manufacturing mean they have no price advantage?

The primary literal news pushes these kind of defeatest articles. . There are more facets to this discussion than, "things are more expensive!"

As an independent who had his karma wreaked for asking questions, I unfortunately cannot reply to replies here in most cases because I'm restricted to two messages a day.

My concern for Democracy, including the redistricing battle I'm California vs Texas is it built upon the assumption that the other side is unreasonable. You get an arms race that hurts democracy with excessive gerrymandering.

This article that only looks at raising prices of foreign brands plays into this problem. A problem where people from the left and the right are just talking at each other without listening.

Okay moddees, do you're thing where you mark me overrated to -1 so oeople can't have a conversation an learn from each other.

Reference: https://aperlust.com/which-cam...

Comment When watching the Center news (Score -1) 95

I watch news as it comes through the political spectrum on Ground News. The article, "Teamsters Donating to Republicans Ahead of Midterms in Shift Away From Democrats" is just starting to make it from the right side news papers to the center papers (Politico), and it doesn't appear of the left news yet.

The timing of this and the content make it look like it is trying to draw the news cycle, even if it is tech related. But I may be wrong.

I'm happy to hear other facts. I feel like people nowadays would rather roast an independent rather than try to gain thier vote. My karma proves it, where I can't have s conversation with anyone who replies to me.

Comment One of my concerns on Slashdot (Score -1) 58

Hey all, I've been asking questions on Slashdot to help my understanding of the current political situation in the US. (I've been in Japan for a few years now.)

I'm concerned for democracy. I think people here would rather complain in an echo chamber rather than talk to someone outside their bubble. If you are concerned about Democracy, the best thing your can do is make some friends on the other side of the isle and have good faith conversations. The effect will be much larger than anything you write here. Making fun of and attacking independents asking for faith questions is the way to lose votes and elections.

Modding was used as kudgel to make it so I can only post a few times a day when I sometimes get multiples more in replies. Often these replies say something like, " l be tyou won't even reply to this." They will also often make wierd assumptions on my political leaning. I feel like the karma modding is intentional.

I've shifted more independent in recent years since the Democrats backed far right candidates in primaries with the thought it was a guaranteed win. Yes, this was covered in left side news. Either the Democratic party believed maga is going to destroy democracy and were playing with fire, or they do not believe thier own words.

Since then I have problems taking articles like this as seriously. It looks like a lot of people don't realize that heavily right or left media has a predetermined destination for the conclusion of anything they say. You will not see a pro gun article on cnn. You will not see a pro illrgal immigration article on Fox or whatever they do.

Comment Re:Funny (Score -1) 130

For those who don't know, the parent is referencing Japanese history textbook controversies which draws some similarities to how textbooks in the southern States cover the civil war.

There are no winners in war. Sometimes there are aggressors, and often both sides are doing some pretty terrible things. It's the winners that write the history books and remove the less flattering stuff.

For those who don't know, the parent is referencing Japanese history textbook controversies which draws some similarities to how textbooks in the southern States cover the civil war.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_history_textbook_controversies

Comment Re:This is a gamble (Score -1) 123

I've mentioned that I am an independent and I purposefully have it in a signature. The majority of my media diet is left to center. If you are so angry to try to assume I am someone I am not, it's not going to help anyone. Trump winning has set off a kind of fiery violence that for the safety of my family I had to distance myself from the Democratic party. I can't choose your actions.

I've stated in my original post that Biden and Obama put in work to help manufacturing. You need to tone done your anger and please read what I wrote.

Unions have their place and I have no real intent to try to raise or lower them here. One of the core things with the global economy is that US businesses became unable to compete on price. This price also effects being able to pay union workers. In my opinion, one of the few ways to try to correct that is with tarrifs. The US trade balance is extremely out of whack to a point of ridiculousness because of these price discrepancies. But how much will people be able to tolerate higher prices? And how much will people be able to get out of a decades long mindset of throwing things away?

You might find this CNBC video on bringing manufacturing to the US and how some companies are doing it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This response and the modding I've recieved is exactly the example of why the US is falling apart. People can't talk to each other and slashdot has just become an example of this. I don't really expect you to reply by jacks smirking reven, because I don't really think your reply was in good faith. Thank you.

I'm sorry Jacks, it looks the liberal side of slashdot down-voted me to the point I can't reply to to have a constructive conversation with you. They then upvoted you to create what looks an information media bubble as you would call it. Because of the pure anger of someone trying to dig into details, I can't have a conversation with people who took the time to reply to me. Y'all built a world where you can't see other people outside of your sphere.

Comment Re:Can he do everything by executive order? (Score -1) 149

In American schools you learn that the congress delegates power in different eras and takes it back in others. The Twenty-second Amendment is a bit of an example where congeres took power back to prevent more than two terms for a president. Here is an article on How FDR expanded executive power and shaped the modern presidency by NPR.

My patience is wearing thin on Slashdot however. This question doesn't look like it was real, and the people upvoting it as Insightful likely know nothing about previous presidents either. The replies to this message also appear to be random garbage.

How Slashdot works right now is if you say something that looks like it gives possessive support for a president, it gets modded to oblivion. I also get to have the aggregators make fun of me being handicapped beyond this. This just isn't a good sight to have an intelligent conversation anymore.

Submission + - SPAM: The Problem with the Political Discourse I'm the USA

BitterEpic writes: Hey all, I've been studying the political behavior here in Slashdot to see and understand the state of America. (I don't have a want to create a Facebook or Twitter account...I can only take so much toxicity.)

There were some interesting outcomes and I'll share them here. Some are expected and some are less so.

By far the strangest outcome, as well as the most concerning, is that for the extreme complaints about the safety our democracy, there os no interest in trying to increase collations. There seemed to be predawn conclusions that are used to try to alienate and dehumanize these other Americans as unsavable. "Sinners who can't repent," if you will. "These people who voted # are all #." Or, "They will be the dog that caught the car."

This leads into another interesting finding: It's anyways assumed that catching the car wasn't an intentional outcome or that there may be reasons. I don't see people being able to put themselves into other people's shoes leading to strange anger. It's highly irrational.

The next interesting outcome is that the most angry of these groups are usually repeatedly referencing speculative information or using facts without context. What I mean to say here is, news that tells you how to interpret events is used to create a vacuum with only one correct answer, ignoring other view points and tradeoffs. Also ignoring that there are many cultures in America which is in no way homogenous.

For all of social media we seem to use, we seem to have forgotten basic social skills. You are likely to be pulled into bubbles of our own media and friends, decreasing the ability to emphasize with someone different from us. And if you watch the news, you are likely getting a constant stream of information intended to scare and lock you into listening.

Slashdotters, what do you think is required for Americans to have healthy conversations again? I feel that the current behaviors will just continue to rip the US apart.

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Comment This is a gamble (Score 0, Insightful) 123

If there are not some noticable outcomes before elections, his party is toast. I believe there is a year before midterms and 3 until the next presidential election.

We employ a lot of people in car manufacturing and the country is proud of it. I'm not really sure why the liberal side says that similar manufacturing just can't be done in the US.

I also hear some complaint that it will take decades so we shouldn't even try. If you count the presidencies since Obama, we will soon be hitting 20 years of effort in manufacturing. It sounds like "decades" is a scare term not to try.

Why isn't there deeper discussion on these policies here in slashdot?Everything is always so topical with no critical thinking.

I can't reasonably have a conversation with you if you're threatening me or using deragotory language. That is honestly what I see most of the time.

Comment A technology showcase (Score 0) 93

The icons weren't chosen because they were good UI design, but as a technology showcase for the fidelity. It definitely helped with the retina display transition. The fact the labels in the HD icon are readable is almost silly.

I still like them more than modern design. All of the icons on my phone look the same, making text search the only valid option often enough. Just white symbols surrounded in predefined color blobs that often have overlapping styles..

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