bdonvr

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club -1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

No, they really would not have.

At best if you generously count right wing third party voters too (like Robert Kennedy voters) she would've won two more states but that would not have won her the election.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

That's.... Not how US elections work. Otherwise Hillary would've won 2016

Looking at the state results it doesn't appear that any state would've flipped blue if all third party voters excluding Robert Kennedy and Oliveros (libertarian) voters because they definitely would not have gone Harris went Harris. Even if you could the right wing 3rd party ones she only would've won 2 more states and still lost.

If we used the popular vote I definitely would've voted Harris, but as it is Trump was going to win my state by huge margins so I just voted who I really wanted knowing it made no difference. In races other than president I went Dem.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club -1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'm talking about people who otherwise mostly agree with you can we not be obtuse?

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 11 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Even IF that's true it's still terrible. What do you think? You're gonna chastise people into agreeing with you? Is some "holier-than-though" attitude gonna do it?

Really just seems like a circlejerk

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 16 points 1 day ago (19 children)

I swear to God it's the same 5 accounts on Lemmy posting this horse-shit take.

Like - all the third party voters combined would not have kept Trump out of office. Give it up. It's nonsense and frankly pretty sad.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 points 3 days ago

Sure. Looks like on Ubuntu Touch the only thing not working is the fingerprint reader

https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/fp3/

The OS in general isn't ready for daily use though. It's maybe doable if all you need is text, calls, camera, and a browser. And the calls only work in some countries. But it's fun to play with.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 7 points 3 days ago

Puerto Rico? Miami? Texas? All hurricane prone areas with huge Spanish speaking populations. Parts of Miami like Hialeah have over 90% of households speaking Spanish.

This is a bilingual country. We have the second most Spanish speakers in the world only behind Mexico. Learn some Spanish it really won't fucking kill you.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Do you live in the US or Europe? There are some possibilities out there, but it's kinda region dependent.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

It seems like Linux-compatible android handsets stopped around 2021. Except a few bespoke models that are hard to get your hands on outside of Europe.

I have a OnePlus Nord N10 flashed with Ubuntu Touch as a tinker device, unfortunately in the US it's not daily-able because we shut down 3g and 2g networks and they still haven't managed to get VoLTE working on Ubuntu Touch yet (though it may be coming in the next year!) so phone calls don't work.

There's also the Pixel 3a/3a XL which are plentiful and cheap but I like the N10 a bit more because of the additional RAM. Makes it feel a little less old compared to the Pixel.

If you can get your hands on a Fairphone, Pinephone or Volla those are great but hard to get outside the EU.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 34 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

EDIT: see end of comment

If you have any traceable Italian citizenship it is possible to claim Italian citizenship. Even like great-great-great-great-grandparents. But there's a lot of asterisks involved. There are offices that specialize in this that might help (for a fee).

But if you DO qualify and get all the paperwork and get an appointment and approved, you get full citizenship immediately. Italy always considered you a citizen since birth but did not know about you.

EDIT:

Italy put a stop to this like, a few days ago. Damn. Now it's maximum grandparents. https://www.imidaily.com/europe/italy-adopts-decree-restricting-citizenship-by-descent/

Should've figured with all the anti-immigrant sentiment this would be ending soon.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 22 points 4 days ago

Yeah it's really hard. Most won't qualify.

If you're a skilled researcher or tenured professor you have a better shot but it will still not be easy.

 
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