No free service is good if you care about privacy.

They are given fewer voting locations for larger populations, leading to long lines, and requiring a lot more effort from the voter to get their ballot cast.

Yeah, I canceled my sub. I have no idea if the CEO of my new email provider is any better, but I know that Yen is abusive to his employees, and that matters to me. I know he’s deep in the throes of AI psychosis, and that makes me not trust him at all. I’m gone.

Love the enthusiasm, but you lose points on feasibility.

“I want to keep losing, so that I can feel pure!”

That’s you.

Liberals need to make the case that some things are not amenable to free market solutions. Healthcare is one: everyone puts an infinite value on their existential health, meaning there is no reason for healthcare providers to not maximize fees, all out of proportion to their own costs. Healthcare, utilities, these need to be regulated by the state, strongly.

It used to be something every ISP gave you access to. Now it’s all but gone. Google Groups sort of absorbed it, and then killed it.

The terrible thing with this is that it’s these Neolib Clinton Dems that piss off the voters, and inspire the “both sides are the same” accusations. That’s where a lot of folks stop.

But if you want to change a party to be on the side of the people, willing to reinvigorate progressive tax laws, you need to vote Dem, and force the Dems to the left. You’re not going to force the GOP to the left, at all. They are absolutely the political arm of the richest. They do not exist as a party without the top 1%.

The Dems used to be more Left, and like to pretend they’re still the same New Deal folks they’ve always been. They’re not, but voters can force them to be again. Let your elected reps know what you expect of them, and threaten to primary them from the left all the time. The party can be moved. It’s definitely in need of fixing, but it can be done. Just like the Tea Party and then MAGA transformed the GOP, so too can the Dems be transformed by passionate progressives. You just have to realize that opting out, and hating the Dems for not already being what they should be, is just saying you want to lose, and to always lose.

It was essentially a text-based, decentralized Lemmy/Reddit prior to the web. Different groups you could belong to, with various discussions.

I miss Usenet. This is as close as there is.