Binzy_Boi

Binzy_Boi, 26 days ago

Not sure why, but it's not appearing either in the app or on a desktop browser for me. The link you provided leads to a 404.

Binzy_Boi, 26 days ago

Oh thanks! First time adding a new repo to Fdroid. It works now, thanks a million!

Binzy_Boi, 26 days ago

I'm aware, just figured it would be a good idea to prioritize those things first, and also use the information I gain to figure out how arbitrary the dates given are.

For example, while logging my spice cabinet just now with the Food Expirations app, I saw that there were a few that were past due that I'm going to look into with how much longer they'd be good for.

Binzy_Boi, 27 days ago

Neat, I'm personally gonna keep with KeepassDX, but it's good knowing that there's some more variety popping up in the mobile market.

Binzy_Boi, 1 month ago

Holy crap, this is perfect! Thanks a million!

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

Gotta love Hindu nationalism...

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

I still question the intentions of the media and how a lot of outlets immediate ran to claim his actions as mental health related.

Like sure, I can see where that's coming from in a sense since self-immolation is inherently self-harm and you have to question a person's mental health for doing so, but at the same time, I don't know of anybody off-hand who says the same about the Buddhist monks who did the same in Vietnam.

Maybe times have changed and people don't see that action the same way as they used to back then, but if they are going to call this a result of mental health, I really hope they keep consistency with that from here on forward.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

I can see some of them doing this. They did a few interviews with Haley supporters after she dropped out, and though a lot of them said they'd take Biden over Trump, I can also see RFK Jr. taking some votes because of his more right-leaning rhetoric on certain issues compared to Biden.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

Actually a number of them are never-Trumpers. They did a few interviews after she dropped out and found that a number of them stating that though they were registered Republicans that they were going to vote for Biden over Trump.

I think it also helps that she didn't bend the knee and endorse him when dropping out.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

Amazing. Not a single mention of Palestine.

Putting his backing of Netanyahu aside, there's a number of things he could do to up his popularity. Naming two from the top of my head, he could forgive medical debt at the federal level and federally legalize marijuana and remove it as a Schedule 1 drug.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

I'm not familiar with overall demographics, but an important demographic for Democrats is Arab Americans and young people, where Democrats have had a stronghold on them for some time now.

Biden used to have I think it was 60% support among Arab Americans. Then after October 7th that support tanked, and all you have to do is look at Michigan's uncommitted vote in the primaries to see the effect that it's had for his support with them and young voters, especially in communities like Dearborn.

Like at first glance the Michigan polls show that Biden completely dominated the primary, but you also have to keep in mind that the Uncommitted movement was aiming for maybe 20k votes at most. Instead they got over 100k votes.

Back in 2016 Hillary Clinton lost Michigan to Trump by an incredibly small margin. When you add together the Uncommitted votes with the votes for Marianne Williamson and Dean Phillips (who I understand has dropped out and has the same stance as Biden), you get an amount similar to that which Hillary lost by.

Arab Americans and young people have made their voice clear in focus groups that while some of them will not vote for Biden come the federal election, others will if he just simply condemns Israel properly and stop sending them weapons and aid while also calling for a ceasefire. Biden can either lose these crucial votes and possibly lose Michigan to Trump, or he can do what the voters want and regain at least some of their support come November.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

I don't they'll vote for Trump either, it's more likely that they'll vote for an independent or third-party candidate or just stay at home.

I could absolutely be wrong about seeing the primary as an indicator for what could happen in the federal election, but Biden's massive drop in support in polling from Arab Americans and young people has me really concerned, even if Trump isn't picking up that lost support for himself.

Biden and Trump are far from strong candidates. While she performed like crap with Republican primary voters, polling showed that in a general election Nikki Haley would have destroyed Biden in an election. In a similar sense, polls showed Trump losing the general election if facing "a generic Democrat" that wasn't Biden.

Overall, I don't want Biden running, hell I'd have any Democrat take his place. I don't like Kamala, but when compared to Biden, I feel she would have a better chance at beating Trump than he does. However, if Biden's not going to pass the torch to a better-performing Democrat, he can't take these risks losing crucial voters like this in my mind.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

I can say agree to disagree here, but really I guess we'll have to see what happens between now and November. Honestly it's a bit of a relief to have more good-faith discussion here, so can say I definitely appreciate that.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

This should have been done sooner, we've known since basically the beginning of this entire ordeal that the majority of the heads of Hamas relocated to Qatar.

Israel and it's allies could have easily made negotiations with Qatar to hand over the Hamas leaders and accomplished a ceasefire sooner using that as leverage, but instead, because Israel's government has ulterior motives with illegally settling Gaza, they basically erase the existence of the northern portion and have real estate companies advertising new developments on the seafront where Palestinian homes used to be.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

The Quebec injunction makes sense. Not equating the two by any means, but I remember when they started setting a mandatory distance for protests at abortion providers and that made sense seeing how people should feel safe when accessing places.

Protesting at synagogues is incredibly stupid and accomplishes nothing other than create resentment against those protesting for the rights of Palestinians. My only issue with the article is that it doesn't mention what specific antisemitic phrases were said, cause I know there's this thing going around of people equating protestors saying "from the river to the sea" and their intentions with the phrase with the intentions of Hamas when they say they phrase.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

Good.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

This escalation is so fucking stupid. They could literally stop the Red Sea Crisis by just stopping shipments of weapons and all to Israel and the Houthis would call it quits with the ship attacks. They've made this incredibly clear.

But nope, bombing children is so important that we gotta continue this weird proxy war between the US and Iran.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

Ah yes, the old "if they're not a US ally, they must be lying through their teeth" approach.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

They didn't, no. What makes the Israel-Palestine conflict more in the Houthi's interest in comparison to the Russian occupation of Ukraine is their ties and support to Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

Agree with their protest or not, you can't "lock them up" for this. The video clearly shows a peaceful protest with no violence involved. Locking them up would violate their free speech rights.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

Because the right would support Palestine, that's absolutely how this works.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

Was sarcasm.

Also can't see downvotes on my instance. Not sure why.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

Vote for an independent candidate. People have this wild notion that voting for a third-party candidate means you're throwing your vote away.

You're not. You're voting for the candidate that best represents your values. People who say otherwise have fallen for the brainrot talking point that's been around since Ross Perot ran in '96.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

Third party candidates still exist and are legitimate options to vote for despite what everyone wants you to believe.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

I get where you're coming from. I'm definitely in favour of a ranked choice voting approach cause it does a lot more to get rid of the spoiler or dividing vote fallacy.

The entire spoiler or dividing vote hoax is based on this false assumption that the voters carry the responsibility for not voting for a "lesser evil" candidate when that burden of responsibility should instead be on the nominee for not doing enough in their power to win over votes.

With the current election, Biden is being a complete dumbass and is hemorrhaging support from Arab Americans and young people because of his refusal to stop giving weapons and aid to Israel and properly withholding those until a full and permanent ceasefire is reached. He's also losing support from Hispanics, though the reasons there are more to do with how he hasn't been doing enough to better the lives of working-class people.

Arab Americans and young people aren't going to turn around and vote for Trump, or in the off chance he receives a conviction before November, whoever else the Republican nominee will be. They're more likely to vote third-party or independent or not vote at all, and unfortunately with the latter, that's when the burden of responsibility becomes shared.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Ah yes, label me as a Trump sympathizer, cause that definitely helps your cause with the average joe.

Edit: This you calling me a Russian agent?

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

You need to do some critical thinking. Vote for the person who best aligns with your beliefs, not which of the two big names you hate less.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

At what point did they say that? Of course the Republicans are miles worse than the Democrats, but why should people sit there and be like "oh, let me just vote for genocide lite when the other party is genocide standard"

Edit: slight edit since Kbin notifs are weird.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

You know what also helps third parties? Votes.

Without votes what purpose do they have in continuing?

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

Hm, almost as though Democrats should be pressured by voters to abolish the electoral college... wonder what will change their stance on that.

Maybe... if the Democrats saw their support weakening as a result of their terrible policies... hmmmm.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

Huh, thanks for making me aware of this. I'll look into this more. Genuinely appreciate the insight.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

Still with this? Is there anything that they're doing differently from other social media corps based in the US? The user data gets sold regardless.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

Oh wow, that looks gorgeous. Gonna have to figure out how to self-host then.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

I have no coding experience :c

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

I didn't? I'm on a Kbin instance, does it not embed on Lemmy?

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

Oof, I'm sorry. It's just a video of a convo between the Batman and the Joker. You should be able to find the file if you search "Snapinsta.app_video"

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

Ah yes, get two nuclear powers against each other, great fucking idea.

Do people not see how insane this is?

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

perosn

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

I mean, politics aside, good call if it's an outlier. Especially if it skews the average of the polls.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

Ah yes, like how you said we were supposed to have the ceasefire on Monday after you knew the uncommitted vote was coming.

Fuck you.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

...why is the picture the backrooms?

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

The Open Food Facts smooth app is free and open source. It's available both on FDroid and the Playstore, though I personally update my app directly from the github page here.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

I mean, he has been underperforming compared to the margins he was supposed to win by in a number of polls. Can't recall off hand, where it was specifically and which polls, but I think he scored 28 points lower than what the polls anticipated in one area.

Binzy_Boi, 2 months ago

Hey! Just seeing this now, thanks for the update on supermeter!

Personally I made my account on this instance since I was using Lemmy first, and wanted to make a move to something that hosted it's source code away from Github, so that's why I decided to swap to Kbin, and this instance specifically since I was wanting to help support the diversity of the Kbin ecosystem by making an account on a smaller instance.

If there's anything I can do to support the server financially, I'd be more than happy to do so when I have the funds available!