JuxtaposedJaguar

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (5 children)

Implying that the NDP wasn’t elected due to their leader being a visible minority is either disingenuous or very misinformed. There are of course bigots in Canada, but most Canadians aren’t bigots.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you saying that Trump fulfilled more of his promises than Dems? He said he'd decrease the cost of living, but it went up. He said he'd bring manufacturing back to the US, but instead he's killing US manufacturers. Look at the fucking stock market. He didn't deliver on the promises that matter.

By your logic, Dems should keep doing what they're doing but make additional promises for random actions. "Well, they might not have fixed healthcare like they promised, but they did eat the 10 club sandwiches they said they would, so at least they're fulfilling most of their promises."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There’s also something called a “line of credit” which is basically a credit card with lower interest and no cash advance fee, but no rewards.

Obviously you don’t want to keep a balance on that either, but if you can’t fully pay off your credit card, you can at least save money by transferring the debt there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The loaner must be getting something out of the exchange. If it’s not interest, then it’s collateral.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Promise things that won't happen and lie about why. Trump could do everything he's doing legally and constitutionally, but it would require changing the law and constitution, which wouldn't happen to the extent he'd need it to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

He's only doing the actions he promised, but not achieving the outcomes he promised; actions are easy, outcomes are hard. He said he'd tariff everyone and he did, but he also said the cost of living would go down and it actually went up. He said he'd mass deport immigrants and he did, but he also said dependence on social programs would decrease and it actually increased.

Trump/Republicans deliver on actions, Democrats deliver on outcomes. Because the outcomes depend on reality, the actions promised by Democrats are a lot less sexy and exciting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It's really easy to make changes if you don't care about whether those changes are positive or legal; you can tariff every other country and deport everyone who looks ethnic, but that isn't actually benefiting the US. Democrats don't make those kinds of promises because their goal is to improve the US. So... Yeah, Democrats could do the kinds of stuff Trump is doing, but most Liberals wouldn't want that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why rewrite the rules when you can just not follow them in the first place?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

That cat is clearly a ninja.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I never said that he didn’t deserve due process, and I specifically said that an incomplete protection order against him was not a justification for deportation.

The “picture” is the non-legal perception of the situation, which is subjective by definition.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Obviously her seeking that order still wouldn't justify deporting him, but that would paint a bit of a different picture if it's true.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1374138

I'm thinking about setting up my own (bare metal) Lemmy instance to play around with it, but it seems to require PostgreSQL. Everything else on my system uses MySQL, and I don't really want to run 2 separate database services. I guess I would also be fine with using an SQLite file, but that's not ideal.

Has anyone managed to set up a Lemmy instance with MySQL instead of PostgreSQL? Are you aware of any PostgreSQL to MySQL or SQLite compatibility layers?

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