I can't believe the Democratic Party of the US is heading into another catastrophic election season without working out a better plan for Gaza.
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@evan pretty simple plan this time: arms embargo on Israel, authorize use of military force to protect a humanitarian mission in Gaza, and push a Palestinian state.
@mcnado it's honestly what we'd do anywhere else without a second thought.
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@evan I'd prefer a better position from many elected Dems, but I don't think a lack of one hurts them in the house elections. Someone could maybe make the case for harm in specific Senate races. They can run on anti-Trump sentiment do well.
https://polls.decisiondeskhq.com/averages/generic-ballot/national/lv-rv-adults
@weyoun6 how'd that go in 2024?
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@evan Based on the analysis I've read, Gaza didn't split the party last time, at least not in a way that made a difference. In terms of vote counts, Democratic candidates did well in swing states, comparable to 2020, but Republican turnout was significantly higher than usual. Not a defense of the Democratic party or platform though.
@elplatt and Democrats stayed home.
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It's interesting to see men of South Asian descent involved in progressive politics in the USA. There's probably a lot of conflation of ethnic backgrounds in voters' minds.
If pushed, I'd estimate that a double-digit percentage of the New York electorate believes mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is Arab.
Maybe that will happen with Chakrabarti also.
@evan He's African-American, no?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/nyregion/mamdani-columbia-black-application.html
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@elplatt and Democrats stayed home.
@evan It's just not true. Look at the swing states. A comparable number of Democrats voted in 2020 and 2024.
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@evan He's African-American, no?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/nyregion/mamdani-columbia-black-application.html
@mpjgregoire he is!
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@evan It's just not true. Look at the swing states. A comparable number of Democrats voted in 2020 and 2024.
@elplatt about half a million fewer in swing states with raw numbers.
https://al-shabaka.org/briefs/depressing-the-vote-genocide-and-2024-us-presidential-race/
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@evan If the democratic party wants to fracture over foreign policy...while a fascist movement is gaining strength, they deserve the pain.
@ethanOS I agree. We have to concentrate on our shared values, like democracy, multiculturalism and fundamental human rights.
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@mpjgregoire he is!
@mpjgregoire I think a lot of people scoffed at this when it came up. A lot of the rest of us know that identity is something that doesn't always fit into an easy slot on a form. Having to deny part of your identity to fit into a specific box is dehumanising. I like that Mamdani found a way to connect to his heritage on the form.
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@mpjgregoire I think a lot of people scoffed at this when it came up. A lot of the rest of us know that identity is something that doesn't always fit into an easy slot on a form. Having to deny part of your identity to fit into a specific box is dehumanising. I like that Mamdani found a way to connect to his heritage on the form.
@evan Maybe. Sure, identities are complex. But if the purpose of that question on the form was to make it easier for Black applicants to get into Columbia, then it would be unfair for him to benefit.
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“Memorie cantate”, sabato 27 settembre l’iniziativa dell’ANPI “17 aprile” di Nocera Umbra
@giornalismo
articolo21.org/2025/09/memorie…
Non solo il ricordo della guerra e della Resistenza nell’Appennino nel 1944, ma anche uno sguardo alle guerre di oggi.
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M$ really wants to kill its Xbox consoles, right? Man, it's so sad to me. It's like Sega all over again.
Only gold can stay...
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@drakonic fun fact: different kinds of bags have different genders in Italian. Borsone is male, but valigia is female
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just loving the C++20 change in return type for std::filesystem::path::u8string()
That's two breaks in one week.
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@sans_serif_girl CHICAGO PSIUP
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@lymenzies ack, the cx3 prices are very good. however, if you want somewhere between 6-8 ConnectX-3 VPI (ie: they do 40G IB and 10G IPoIB) which are like-new in boxes with their cable sets, for free — just cover USPS priority shipping cost (~$15 approx, continental USA).
I learned a lot with used hardware, and really wouldn't have had the opportunity to get to where I am now without that approach. so to spread the sharing-is-caring ethical approach, you are welcome to own them! right now they're hanging out in my hardware stockpile inventory with no intended use. originally I had two of those Mellanox switches for a mini cluster, but I left them at my desk at Fastly just before covid — then they disappeared. cute little blue boxes, very loud fans.
in similar news, I am also giving away other hardware, so if you need other stuff just let me know. if you want low latency more so than RDMA protocols, I have a triple box of Solarflare 10G (see attached), which are formerly very popular with the HFT and distributed computing architectures where PTP time-code syncing is critical for transaction processing without collisions.
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@GIFS_of_Puppets I've never seen Eraserhead but the two shots of it I saw looked exactly like this
