That’s just a side benefit. The real purpose is money and control.

Of course that’s what they would do if they actually wanted to stop migrant workers from coming here. They don’t, obviously. No coincidence that the industries who hire the most undocumented migrant workers happen to be owned and staffed mainly by conservatives. Anti-immigrant rhetoric is used as a political tool because it fits the racism and nationalism of the conservative public, but the real goal is to marginalize immigrants so they will accept poor working conditions and can be more easily exploited. It’s the Republican dream - workers who will accept below minimum wage, be afraid to report employers to OSHA, no medical compensation for injuries, no overtime, fire at will, no unemployment. And then it also drives down wages and conditions for legal workers because they know the employer can hire immigrants for cheaper.

When republicans have tried to actually reduce immigrants by targeting employers, it hasn’t gone well for them. DeSantis did so and the big businesses in Florida were basically wtf, dude? Do you not understand this game?

I hated when Instagram started emphasizing videos and then stories and I guess now it’s “reels”. I was on there to have a photography gallery. I also wasn’t there to watch other peoples’ videos. It’s all gotten even worse with the current TikTok video culture. It also annoys me when I’m looking to learn to do something, like say, change a battery in a car where it’s complex, and the only info available is in YouTube videos. I also never got learning to program from watching a video. I’d much rather just read the information.

There’s the trend of restaurants having “mocktails”, which is cool, but they often charge for them based on their price for alcoholic beverages. I don’t really want a special lemonade for $14.

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Art and music. If you act like you have some sort of cache and community respect, it’s easier to socially hop with other artists and some customers also assume you’re a big shot they haven’t heard about yet. I was always pretty low-key but saw a few people use this as a path to success.

From what I gather the iPhone 15 was kind of flaky. I have an older one and don’t really have any problems with it at all. Probably varies between manufacturers for Android, I’d guess, since there are a dozen.

Fascism includes various types of oppression not present in other ideologies, such as sexism and manipulation/fear about minority groups as ‘the enemy’.

Okay, but that doesn’t make a leftist system fascist. That’s what authoritarian means in an economic sense. There are many other aspects of fascism.

…machine learning? (Not really)

This is correct. They draw a distinction between economic left and social left. Mainly, US liberals are vaguely socialist and definitely not communist, but mainly, they embrace ID politics. People who call themselves leftists may hold the same opinions about equality, but consider the economic system and classes much more important.

That’s not what fascist means. Fascism is specific a right wing ideology, because it involves close cooperation between the government and capitalist monopolies. Mussolini praised “capitalist production, captains of industries, modern entrepreneurs”. You seem to mean authoritarian.

Yeah, games are CPU bound to say the least.

Nope. The only time the GPU gets over 40-50% is when rendering AI images.

I have a 2nd gen I5 and a 3070. Great combo. It was my brother’s old system and I hadn’t had a desktop in 10 years, so I added the video card… guess I’ll be upgrading sometime soon!

My system doesn’t have UEFI support, so there’s that.

The partition is there. It’s just that Windows overwrites the MBR as if no other operating systems could possibly exist.

Also while they claim to oppose the government, somehow the military and police don’t count. Plus how most veterans vote for the party that routinely wants to reduce benefits for veterans.