In the USA (which was the focus of OP) I would argue there is virtually no left in the first place. Outliers excluded even their left-most people are still centrists, at best. Note that nowhere I said people should stop voting, it’s kind of crazy how that’s always a knee-jerk assumption. Obviously you still ought to choose the lesser evil - but that must come with doing the other parts. Otherwise, again, you’re just choosing evil.

That being said: If you live in the USA and you want that to happen, you need to step up. Not say “nobody else is doing it”. You need to do it. If you already are: Congrats! Next you need to accept that you can do everything right and still lose. That’s just life.

My point is the nay-sayers here say “don’t vote”, but offer no alternatives.

I’m a nay-sayer (to doing no more than perpetually voting for the lesser of two evils), and I’ve offered alternatives. I’m also not alone in this, I’ve seen about as many people, proportionally speaking, advocate for the same things in past posts about this here on Lemmy as there are on Reddit. Might this be a bubble issue on your end?

You say join a union? I say hell yeah, sign me up! Can I join yours?

Feel free to come to Germany and join one of our unions. The one primarily responsible for negotiating the collective agreement currently determining my salary is ver.di.

False dichotomy. There are many things to do between “do nothing but vote for evil” and “revolution”.

I don’t want to write the whole thing again, so I’ll just leave this here.

Prejudice is much too generic imho.

“Races” in racism are (socially constructed, as you said) classes assigned from conception/birth, which racists believe to have class-specific inherited (often behavioural) traits.

The only functional difference between (classical) racism and the (star) racism of astrology is that one claims inheritance via genetics, the other inheritance via “vibes” from star formations.

Star racism is still racism. I don’t make fun of it, I simply reject it as esoteric bigotry.

Now do the same for generic/vacuous travelling pictures in a majority of womens’ dating profiles ;)

What’s there to lay out, other than what anyone can read from the Wikipedia entries?

The Internet is a specific global network of computer nodes that use some version of the Internet Protocol to communicate with each other. There are many different services over on it. The WWW is simply one such service.

Finally someone who at least knows the difference between the WWW and the Internet…

Where do you get that certainty from? Lucasfilm owned all the rights to the Expanded Universe, including all work-for-hire novels. Disney acquired everything Lucasfilm owned, so they shouldn’t have had to pay any further royalties.

Do you have better evidence than this interview, where it was stated that Chewie dying was the reason?

I agree, but I can’t see it happening until they’ve milked this “timeline” dry.

I don’t know, but his death was the primary reason they killed the Expanded Universe. The merchandise aspect is my cynic interpretation, because the stated non-reason why it’d be a problem makes zero sense.

Should’ve just used the Thrawn Trilogy as Episodes VII through IX. But that would’ve eventually lead to

and think how much that would’ve hurt merchandise sales…

Your soul.

Status condition recovery items are even worse, because you have to stock them, just in case there’s ever a fight that you really need them in, but then finish the game without ever having needed even a single one.

Well, I’m assuming the comically timed cold and hot water events aren’t actually part of the curse, but the Manga/Anime format. So, technically not at will; but so far I’ve had virtually 100% control over when I’m submerged in enough water, so that’s why “essentially”.

Ranma 1/2. Being able to switch between male and female body essentially at will would be great.

That already exists? Install GrapheneOS on any recent Pixel Phone.

The only thing I’m aware of in years of using it are Apps requiring full Play Integrity, because Google quite deliberate chooses not to allow this for GrapheneOS, despite all requirements being met. I’m not convinced they’ll make an exception for a competitor’s phone running the same.

• Answer questions (with references) about source code and documentation
• Add clear-bounded features to a pre-existing codebase
• Transpile between programming languages

Stuff I can do myself perfectly well, but the results - after postprocessing - are indistinguishable from me having done so. Even when accounting for everything (including hallucinations) the time savings are real: Renewables-powered electricity is cheaper than my attention. By a lot.

Caveat: This only works if you’re already a domain expert and if you do it exclusively for too long, you might be at risk of ceasing to be such an expert. Don’t use it to try and do the thinking for you.

Proprietary frontier LLMs in companies riddled with highly suspect business practices.

My local LLM setup has absolutely been making the equivalence of positive cashflow for me since gemma 4 and qwen 3.8: I need less total time for several groups of annoying (but necessary) tasks, which means my productivity is up and I can use the rest as my own free time.

Calling “Die Linke” far-left is imho, frankly, insane. Upwards of 80% of their positions are virtually the same ones the SPD had back in the few decades of them being actually moderately left under Willy Brandt. If you want far-left, that’s the MLPD.

Just because every other major party keeps moving further and further to the right doesn’t magically make the only moderate-left wing party far-left.

And for clarification: Left vs right is the political axis of the economic class struggle. It’s neither liberal vs illiberal nor progressive vs conservative.