I vote in a solidly blue state, so for about 20 years before the last election, I voted 3rd party generally as a protest to the platforms of the 2 parties, especially the drug war, mass incarceration, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and climate change.

Over time I think we’ve made considerable progress on these issues, and though we aren’t 100% where I want to be, I have no problem voting Biden in this and last election to show solidarity against Trump.

Even though I really disliked Biden last election I still voted against Trump and after seeing what he accomplished in his first term, which is probably more than any Democrat in my lifetime, I have no qualms about voting for him again. Obviously I don’t like his position on Israel, but it’s the same of every D in my lifetime, and when the alternative is a fascist USA which will likely lead to the loss of Europe also to fascism, I have to suck it up.

But to answer your question, yes I always consider the candidates. I have even registered R before to vote in their primary because I felt it meant more than voting in the D primary.

People who like Tump, by nature, must be easily hypnotized by word salad because there’s no other justification for his existence as a political candidate. I’ve never heard a coherent chain of sentences come out of the man’s mouth.

For movies I will go the extra mile and break out Kodi and go with the big file as I will usually watch it right away and then delete it. For TV, 4k streaming is plenty good enough.

I find 4k streaming to be absolutely good enough for general tv streaming. It’s a bit better on some services than others. Amazon and Netflix do it the best, but it’s generally pretty good on all of the,.

I find it easier to get 4k streaming than to download such large files.

Geographic restrictions. I live in Czechia. I can afford to pay for content and generally do if I can, but there is quite a lot of content I want that is not available via any content service whatsoever here. For that I sail the high seas.

I have a VM running as a seedbox with full time VPN on my synology NAS. I use that synology for lots of other stuff.

OK Tankie.

No they are separate packages. It’s not possible to vote on things separately if they are one package.

The $21b for Israel was a separate vote. Maybe you should go find a thread about that, unless you are a Tankie just trying to make anything that helps Ukraine look bad, in which case carry on in the most obvious way.

That’s not even true. The Ukraine funding was voted on separately from the Israel funding. So in this case I will celebrate the help to end one genocide in this thread while going to the appropriate thread to protest the funding of the other.

So we aren’t allowed to be happy for Ukraine?

Looks like you have a problem with pulling out in time.

I think you are in the wrong thread, friend.

The $61b is for Ukraine.

It was a cross post. Sorry.

None of those will mean much if Russia is allowed to conquer Europe. Every dollar we spend now will save us tens or hundreds later if we didn’t address the problem.

Living in Europe with single payer health care, this sounds crazy. I just go to the doctor, leave, pick up my drugs, etc. It’s all handled by the insurance except maybe a few bucks on some drugs. Worst case I have to show my insurance card but that rarely even happens.

Generally a good idea but they still have many of the biggest communities.

There are also the communities like worldnews@lemmy.ml that seem okay at first but then you realize the mods are tankies.