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In the past i switched to Firefox for a few days, and the memory usage of google (gmail, calendar) was enough to make me switch back.

This time i did thunderbird too. The memory usage is still bad, but i was able to stay... for now.

In return? Dems have always been for genocide. Joe Biden has been terrible for Israel Paleatine.

Dems are better on this issue than they ever have been (Biden excluded) due to activist pressure, no thanks to Greens.

Pelosi actuall said in March that we should limit sales to Israel. I don't think people realize how incredible that is.

Also just following the green party a bit and educating your self about them... you learn that the green party is as focused on selfish personal horse race politics that deals with power plays, as the dem party (though on a smaller scale) instead of actual change.

This political cycle, Green party had a chance to radically push the Dems on palestine, by putting up a candidate that would drop out if Dems changed their position on support for Israel.

Jill Stein rejected it.

Just the fact they rejected it shows to me that they're not serious about actual political change. They just want to be a spoiler. They continue to only run in general elections instead ofnpushing in states.

So I guess i have no home party, but Ill vote for the lesser of two evils still.

But thats fine, because horses dont run on sequestered carbon.

I'm not saying I want us to switch to horses. I would rather we switch to bikes, but we really dont conceptualize the full cost of cars.

Well, youre mostly right about cars, but mostly because we decided to ignore certain costs (climate change).

Yeah. Good point.

I guess a thought I had is that instead of school busses, what if we used a public transit option for everyone? But then everyone would need to use it and we're not there.

School busses are def better than everyone driving their own students to school and back. So that was something I missed in my initial post.

Im just over the whole "ev revolution" but taking that out on busses is silly.

Evs are nice, but not a solution. Walkable bikable cities are the way we get out of this climate mess.

Primary them in!

Edit: too late for this election.

Big same :(

We can do both. I see what you mean in so far as "washing" like pretending that we fixed something when we really didnt, but I dont see it as a big deal, I mean, like I said elsewhere, I'll try to switch.

Its sometimes little things in your vocab that cause you to stop and realize how ingrained certain aspects of our culture is.

But yeah, its not a solution. Theres a lot of things like it that you just do because its easy and you can.

I understand, but we can also gradually transition to friendlier terms so that our very white very male tech bro culture can include some diversith.

I'm going to try to make new git branches with "main" instead of "master", now, and just not worry about it where I can't change it.