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Some companies do a great job at naming, versioning, model numbering, etc. You can tell those companies care about the customer. However, most places are crap at it. They fall back to the advertising. The ads tell you what the “best” one is to buy (usually the most expensive model at the lowest specs for the MAXIMUM profit). And you damn well better buy the most advertised model or you’re a bad consumer and no one will like you because everyone else bought the model we told them to!! Never believe the advertising, never believe that Brand A is better than Brand R, brands mean almost nothing these days. So many products are made by 1 warehouse and branded for 150 different companies, all the exact same product. The bottom line is, they just want you to buy all their crap, no one cares if you can figure it out or are happy.

Social Media can be a valuable tool. I find that certain platforms attract different groups of people. I stay away from twitter because, well, we know how to find the nazis. Facebook is for people who like to argue and scam people. And instagram is for the utterly shallow and vapid people who think they are famous. Big ego central. There are nice people on any platform, but you do have to put up with a ton of shit depending on the platform. Watching TV does not rot your brain. Playing video games does not make you violent. Smoking pot does not make you a junkie. Kissing does not lead to sex & pregnancy.

Any activity/tool can do harm, but it’s the individual who is responsible for the action.

Twitter is worth 3 Rubles & 6 sheets of toilet paper. Money laundering is happening.

I can’t wait until the rivers glow at night from the nuclear waste dumping.

Nothing says love like preventing your child from having 1 small shot. Why even bother having kids?

My Zune died. I still have a Sansa that works amazingly. Sadly it does not hold much music. I do use my phone though with Musicolet. I never stream, I flac. And crApple products are banned from my realm.

Rule #1 Branding, don’t choose a dumb ass name (tea party? libertarian? WTF!) And don’t use acronyms. Make it short and simple. And look up the damn word to make sure it doesn’t mean something horrid, embarrassing, childish, etc. Choose something new that no other party on Earth has done. Simplicity, that is successful branding.

If you actually intend to have a progressive, liberal party that propels the US forward and cares for it’s citizens, you need to make sure you create a dialogue, a proper relationship where candidates actually listen, and DO what they said they were going to do. Not a bunch of liars who get elected and just get rich.

And the last thing I’d like to add is policy. You need people who will fight for the real needs of Americans. And not constantly settle for a faint shadow of what was expected. Public Healthcare for all citizens, Medicare for all. Affordable medical expenses, with price caps and public lists of costs before you get treated. (No one walks into a restaurant, orders food, and leaves with an $80,000 tab. Wow, denny’s sure got expensive!) Tax corporations, the wealthy and churches. They need to pay their fair share. This is the welfare fraud that is happening, not taking away food benefits from SNAP recipients. Social Security should be a requirement for everyone to pay into, no income cap, no exceptions. Properly staff & fund the CFPB. Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment Pass a non-discrimination and hate-speech bill for all citizens. Everyone deserves the same Human Rights. Never back down on this. Require our Educational system to teach civics again, as well as more science. We need less dumb people. Pass laws preventing criminals from becoming President, or the head of any Federal Agency.

I could go on and on, but the point is, a progressive party needs to actually hold the values of progress. Settling for less is what the Democrats have done. And the GOP is just dead set on making America be run by a bunch of christian nationalists. Stop pandering to religions and start screaming Science. You need reliable information outlets that report facts, not the media monopoly we have now. We need a BBC (UK) or an ABC (AU) so we can actually enjoy normal things. Make PBS or a new network funded by taxes so the news is actually neutral and factual, and required to be that way by law.

That’s my 2 cents for now.

I use mbin or kbin because that ugly rat and the name, lemmy are stupid. That’s just my opinion.

These guys are wrong. They just randomly burst into flames. Bad manufacturing. No one saw anything. It was a short, just like the one in xelons head.

100% correct.

This is a very common thing that is said by too many people, politicians, artists, business people, the news, government. It’s like a virus of denial. America is famous for ramping everything up to 1000. Over the top bullshit. And yes, they are complete idiots.

Slow jazz.

The US is way more racist than you would think. Also extremely uptight. It isn’t the greatest place like people would have you believe, that’s just hype. Something that America does excel at.

Reminder: he was going to let us all die when Covid hit. It was nothing, it was going away in a few days, it’s just a cold. Why would you get on a double decker bus when the driver is drunk as fuck and snorting coke off the horn? People voted for this bus crash.

Cool, now I can report all that religious shit that appears.

Zeus has returned bitches!!!

Came here to say the same thing. Americans are brainwashed from a young age by advertising and classism. They have easily fallen into the advertising that crApple has about some ‘superior lifestyle’. And actually crApple is just an over priced UI that attracts idiots. It’s a mentality.

I was referencing the Wonder Woman of the 70’s TV series (Lynda Carter) who was always fighting against nazis.

Where is Wonder Woman when you need her?

That is exactly what language is. Someone makes a sound and you know what it means. Animals can’t reason the fine details of what the meaning of words or context mean. The understand if A happens it means (action), and they do respond to the tone of your voice. Say the same thing in a different tone and it becomes confusing. An example is, if I angrily yell words in French at you (which you don’t speak), even though those words mean “happy, joy, sunshine”, you think I’m angry. But if I cuss at you in French in a super sweet voice, you think I’m being romantic. Humans, can speak non-native languages and not know how to read or write them.