GreyEyedGhost @ GreyEyedGhost @lemmy.ca

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Trump was hard on China until Ivanka got her patents approved. After that, he was remarkably friendly with them. And now Russia is friendly with China. I'm sure those tariffs will disappear once he's been paid.

There has been work to replicate the capabilities in Taiwan on US soil. While it hasn't been going great, it has been progressing. At some point it is quite possible that Taiwan will no longer be as strategic a partner with America as they are now, which doesn't bode well for their continued assistance from America. But if there comes a time that China will take Taiwan you can be guaranteed that everything possible will be done to reduce the risk of technology transfer.

It's fun living in colder climates and having unironic discussions where people are agreeing that -10° C is a nice winter temperature since it's still relatively warm, but you don't have to worry about slushy, frozen roads or high humidity.

Moving fast and breaking things can be a great R&D philosophy...when health and safety aren't a concern or have been addressed.

I've had multiple cats, all trained in one degree or other. Getting a cat to do what you want is kind of hard. Getting them to do something they like to do on command is pretty easy. I had a cat that would play catch, usually with uninflated balloons. I'd try to make her do backflips for the catch. All my cats were trained to stay off the counters and tables (when we were around). But I also recognize that cats don't see us as masters and authorities, so you bet they would go on the counters when we weren't around, for instance.

As a Canadian, this is the first time I heard the term half-staff, while I've heard half-mast numerous times. So I believe it's much more an American thing and not a North American thing.

If I had less morals or more energy, I'd give you a hundred upvotes.

I can only imagine OP is using this as a canary to see if the mods are still alive, because it couldn't be more tangential to technology. Cool pic, tho.

Well, he could have just said bad actors, but then the answer would be a lot higher...

Wow, I had no idea that [the Democrats] actually fixed the problem that [the Republicans] created.

I've given two examples of what nowadays is considered a fairly obvious statement, namely that people shouldn't be enslaved and that women are equal to men. One took a war to change, one didn't. Both took centuries to change. The likeliest reason for one causing a war was the financial factor, which both women's suffrage and trans rights don't have. But good on you for focusing on the least relevant element, which wasn't even a factor for one of those two examples. Frankly, I'm surprised you didn't notice the fact that I implied that slavery still exists in America.

We didn't get to the idea that little things like slavery were a (nearly) universally bad idea within the lifetime of the first person who proposed the radical idea that owning people and having the right to make them work and have the sole benefits of their labor was an abhorrent idea. It didn't even happen in the lifetimes of the founders of groups whose basis was the abolition of slavery, and, frankly, it hasn't yet reached universal acceptance or enforcement in America today. But please, do go on and tell me how these last 8 years of pressure on the Democratic party are equal to the centuries spent reaching that threshold of showing respect for your fellow person.

In political terms, that's known as just starting. As a much broader example, it was only in 1965 that America got (almost) universal suffrage. Depending on the state, that was a problem since 1776.

Oh, then who does own TikTok? Any sources for your assertions?

Here's a link for those who find the previous comment as intriguing as I did. If someone has the fortitude to go on Twitter and get the full text of that post, I'd be interested in seeing it.

And yet he spent a whole lot of effort blocking totally not Muslims from immigrating. Why would you not take him seriously when he said Israel should finish the job?

Just a quick nod to

my sources have all dried up

While this is handy to know, it doesn't negate my point.

If you buy a Steam Deck, or the Lenovo laptop I have for work, the only charging options you have are USB C. Their standard chargers put out at least 60 45 W, and they aren't particularly special. In fact, I'm pretty sure 20 W at 5 V won't be enough to supply these while in use, so you will either be using battery with long charge times in between, using them with battery-assisted power for longer use times until you hit those long charge times, or using the 60 45 W or more at whatever voltage the chargers provide.

Self-doxxing! Makes me wonder how many of the dates would fit.