Curious Canid @ Curious_Canid @lemmy.ca

I am owned by several dogs and cats. I have been playing non-computer rolep

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Blazing Saddles (1974) The Yakuza (1974) Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

All three movies are exceptional in their own right and all three broke a lot of new ground by blending cultural and genre conventions in new ways.

Television Announcer: And now, the penguin on top of your television set will explode. {BOOOM!} Watcher: How'd he know that? Television Announcer: It was an inspired guess.

The multiple layers of cognitive dissonance are wonderful.

That is such a thoughtful expression. Also, adorable.

Even if it's a symbolic gesture, it's one that needs to be made.

People complain all that time that the Democrats are just ignoring this mess. Don't complain too much when a legislator proposes legislation to fix some of it. That is what they're supposed to do.

Pocan is doing his job. By doing it, he is also bringing public attention to a situation that Musk and Trump would much rather didn't get any.

USAID is one of the few cases where the President probably can shut it down, because it was created by an executive order. That is not true of most other agencies that are currently being gutted.

Under the Constitution, the Congress passes laws to create agencies and control the budget. The President is responsible for executing those laws, but does not have the power to remove them or change them. Malicious compliance is a violation of the oath of office. Failing to comply at all is just plain illegal. If Congress were doing its job there would be a quick impeachment and removal from office.

The problem we face is not that the Constitution allows most of what's going on. It is that the checks and balances in the Constitution rely on the majority of Congress and the courts to act in good faith. The founders never imagined a situation where a majority of those people would be so corrupt that they would allow a situation like this.

Those qualities occasionally help people break through to wealth, but mostly the economy rewards already being rich. Having rich parents is how you become rich.

Well, they have almost always circumvented them instead, but that impacts the bottom line too.

Of the two of you, I'm inclined to believe her. She looks trustworthy.

That looks very comfy. For both parties.

"Downplaying the financial strain his policies could impose" translates as "lying". He knew perfectly well what would happen. He also knew that if he told the truth about it he was unlikely to be elected. So he lied. That pretty well describes his entire campaign.

What worries me is that Trump no longer has any reason to care what people think. He doesn't need their votes or their support. And while people keep talking about how he wants to be loved, I don't think that's true. He wants to be important to people, but he can achieve that through fear and intimidation too. Which is what he's doing now.

At this point I don't expect any elected Republicans to stand up to him. Those who had a conscience have been driven out or have put it in storage for the duration. Sadly, our greatest hope is that the ultra-wealthy who financed this mess may turn on him and put pressure on the legislators they own to do something about it.

The Scandanavian countries currently look the safest to me. I think Iceland would be nearly ideal, in a lot of ways. but I worry that they may be annexed by one of the larger powers as things get uglier.

I have never been without friends. There have been a few times when I didn't have any that were close by, but I kept in touch. There is one person who's been a close friend for 45 years now.

I have noticed that it's gotten much harder to find friends over the last few decades. Our society has changed in ways that make it harder to meet people and harder to get to know them. Online can be a good start but it's very difficult to progress from that.

Putting yourself in situations where you meet and interact with people, in person, definitely helps, but that's not easy for introverts like me.

I think you're right that some kind of "menu" button that presents additional options would be best. Eventually there will be other options and it will be necessary..

I think most people will adjust the volume once, but may want to change the octave while playing. If my assumptions are right, the octave change feature should be the most accessible one, replacing the current volume buttons. The volume, and any other features could be handled through the menu button.

My ideal solution would be to provide a menu button and two function buttons. Then have a menu option to configure whether the functions buttons acted as octave up/down, volume up/down, or controls for whatever additional features get added.

I'd also like to put in a pitch to add support for the "scrolling" feature that some watches now have. It could control the opposite feature of whatever is assigned to the function buttons, making it possible to adjust both octave and volume on the fly. It does seem like it should be a lower level priority, since not all watches support that feature.

This looks great! I have a pitch pipe app for my watch, but I like this better.

I do have the inevitable feature request... :-)

I'd love to have some way to change the octave up and down.

You are lucky, in every sense. Give him some pets for me.

I switched from Google Authenticator to Aegis and have had no problems.

If you're vegan for ethical reasons, lab grown meat is fine. If you're vegan because limiting your animal protein has health benefits, lab grown meat is still not okay.

That picture has been "cleaned up" enough that it's beginning to look kind of like Biden.

A lot of people don't seem to get that social media services are almost entirely about their userbases, not their companies. Facebook and Meta are unbelievably terrible, but that is where most of the people you know can be found. Switching to something else is easy, but pointless, if your reason for being there is the people.

I have slowly convinced friends and family to begin using MeWe, but only a small number. And most of them still primarily use Facebook. At least recent events are pushing a few more away from it.

I am American and I would support a ban on American social media in my country.