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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So it's him against Eric Adams now. Shouldn't be all that hard, and I wish him the best.

Long time supporter of incremental change and centrist policies here. Saw the way the Democratic party crumbled to dust after the election, saw the way Schumer and Jeffries went AWOL. It's time for change. Not just generational, but also political, social, and philosophical.

Let Mamdani win, and let him turn New York into a better, more humane place.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Completed task successfully! For future readers, the process seems to have slightly changed. Now you go to Okular preferences, Annotations, Add annotation, call it Signature, etc. You can even resize the signature, which is really useful when the resolution of the PDF varies.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

The hardware identifiers like IMEI and serial number are the same, which means previous use of the phone can be linked to you.

[–] [email protected] 162 points 2 months ago (3 children)

WE understand that. Someone deluded themselves into thinking that a couple bombs would magically produce peace. This is not a Harry Potter movie, so Explosio Nocturna did not work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I heard something similar. And that any "blue" or "neutral" comment is followed by an immediate suspension or outright ban. I haven't witnessed it myself, though, since I haven't been active on Reddit in over a year now.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

How very Ender's Game of them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

OMG you are an absolute legend of a life saver! Thank you so much, I am going to try it out as soon as I get to a computer!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Okular is absolutely fantastic. The only thing I am missing is image import, to place my signature on PDF forms, and then it's perfect.

Does anyone know if it has that feature and I'm just too dumb to find it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Like many who responded, I don't think it's hardcore to not be on Reddit. I was for a long time, then my local forum in Denver was crushed by Reddit admins overreacting to the API rebellion, then the hobby forums started being taken over by AI, and finally the tone on other subs became absolutely toxic, with no variant of the prevailing opinion allowed. Hello, /r/Summit!

The only thing missing from Lemmy is depth, and that will fill in automatically as more people join. For a change, I am delighted to be on a platform that isn't beholden to a small group that makes all the decisions regardless of user input. In fact, I started out on KBin until that flaked out massively (back to normal, now) and was excited that I could just switch to Lemmy and see the exact same things.

Now I am on piefed because I like Python and would like to contribute. But I love all the people at Lemmy <3.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

There is one good thing about "Abundance:" it makes for much better messaging than the traditional leftist framing.

Traditionally, leftists focused on taking from one side (the rich, owners, capital class) to give to the other (the poor, workers). That makes it appear like this is a zero-sum game and focuses the conversation on givers and takers, and engenders in some/many people fear as the primary response.

I don't think leftists emphasize enough that this is in fact not a zero-sum game: by taking from the rich and giving to the poor, you are not just being fair, you are also automatically generating growth. Capitalist economies are giant machines that suck money from the poor to the rich, and if the poor have nothing, then the rich also eventually starve.

I fully agree with the criticism in the article: Abundance tells a story without villain, and following its recommendations leads to nowhere because the problem is much bigger than what Abundance says it is. At the same time, Abundance focuses on the more. While "more" is not automatically "better," focusing on the former probably reaches a lot more people on an emotional level.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I am pretty sure Christian faith and scriptures don't object to rainbow flags, so they must object to what it stands for, the people they do not condemn. Allegedly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

My mother used to do that, too. I asked her about it, and she said, "You don't know how scary it is for a woman to walk a long distance in a parking lot."

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