NateNate60 @ NateNate60 @lemmy.world

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Yeah, okay. But anger doesn't make my life better. If I'm browsing this community I expect tips that can potentially improve the quality of my life, not just finding out about more mud on a dead 20th century dirt bag politician to be angry about.

What are some examples of non-lip-service changes to national policy that the Democratic Party could be making right now?

Like the Republicans wouldn't just get rid of the filibuster the first time it's used against a major Republican policy objective

What policy are the national Democrats intended to be doing with their swanky majorities of -8 in the House of Representatives and -5 in the Senate?

This is part of what the opposition is supposed to do. They criticise, make fun of, offer legislative resistance to, and draw attention to the bad policies of the government.

Why are you posting this in YSK? How does this information improve anyone's life in any way?

There is literally no-one here who doesn't already think Thatcher was a piece of shit.

You're being downvoted because your assertion that hosts are responsible for what users upload is generally false.

(1) Treatment of Publisher or Speaker.—No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

(2) Civil Liability.—No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of—

(A) any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or

(B) any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to material described in [subparagraph (A)].

47 USC § 230c, a.k.a. Communications Decency Act 1996 § 230

Hash matching is really easy to get around. Literally modify 1 bit of the image or just re-encode the video and you've gotten around it.

Saying that firing Musk made the Government more efficient is like doubling the price of a TV then marking it "40% off" for Black Friday

takes over the government

disbands USAID and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

refuses to elaborate

fucks back off to running his Nazi car company

Patent obvious things still need to be said because:

1. Not everything realises/believes the thing is true even if it is patently obvious
2. If it is not said then it allows those who lie about the thing to be unchallenged, and the infamous Nazi propaganda minister Goebbels (edit: putatively) said, if you repeat a lie enough times, people will believe it

Still approaching a decade out of date but here's one from 2017

Maybe instead of the Department of Government Efficiency it should be called the Department of Government Slowness, Hostility, Inefficiency, & Troublemaking. Or DOGSHIT for short.

I think you're overthinking it slightly.

• French flag represents the language called "French"
• Spanish flag represents the language called "Spanish"
• Russian flag represents the language called "Russian"
• German flag represents the language called "German"
• Portuguese flag represents the language called "Portuguese"
• Japanese flag represents the language called "Japanese"
• Korean flag represents the language called "Korean"
• Chinese flag represents the language called "Chinese"
• Italian flag represents the language called "Italian"
• But somehow, the British flag doesn't represent a language called "British", but rather, one called "English", despite there existing an English flag

The actual reason: Gasoline prices in the United States were customarily displayed in cents per US gallon (about 3.8 litres). This means the sign originally read something like "15", which meant $0.15 per gallon. Since the US has also a long history of pricing things in 9 or 99 (due to the psychological effect of such pricing), many service stations appended the extra 9/10 at the end to indicate 9/10 of 1 cent, which was a more meaningful price difference when the price of fuel was 15 or 25 cents and not two or three dollars. Legally, although the smallest cash denomination in the US is one cent, the US dollar can still be nominally divided into 1,000 "mills" for accounting purposes.

Inflation has caused the price of gasoline to rise, and when it passed $1 per gallon, service stations continued the same pricing traditions by just adding a third digit to the number. When digital price displays came on the scene, many of them continued to just display a three-digit number with the traditional 9/10 at the end, i.e. 123 9/10

New displays seem to have gotten rid of this tradition and just display a three-digit decimal number, i.e. 3.45 or 4.56.

Scottish people having to click on a British flag knowing it will display English (there is a perfectly good flag for England that people refuse to use 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

Why am I not surprised?

The presence of far-right politics has really seen an uptick in recent years. It seems to have started in America but has spread to Europe and other countries like a plague. You have the AfD in Germany who claimed second place unseating a centre-left government, the entry of Nigel Farage's far-right Reform UK party into the British parliament (even overtaking the traditional Conservative Party in recent polls), the fourth consecutive election in Portugal where the nationalist Chega party has gained seats, and Canada narrowly avoiding electing Pierre Poilievre the "Maple MAGA".

Surprisingly enough, prior to Donald Trump blowing up the US-Canada alliance, Poilievre was predicted to win in a landslide in Canada with a 90%+ chance of his party getting a majority but somehow it really does seem like everyone who associates with Trump outside the US loses their election. The premiership really shipped right through Poilievre's hands like a lump of dry beach sand. Lol

For some inexplicable reason I am really craving ice cream right now.

Sounds like he can obtain a million dollar settlement, because that's how it works over here right?

Firstly this is surprisingly high-quality coverage. I've never heard of this website but I'm pretty impressed.

Secondly, regarding the lawsuit in general, I think that patent and intellectual property law regarding game mechanics and software processes in general are badly in need of reform. There doesn't seem to have been significant legislative action to address this in any major economy that I know of. The number of bullshit parents being filed, unclear and vague rules as to how copyright/patent law works with respect to software, AI, and game mechanics, is really leading to a lawsuit culture where the only way to find out what the bounds of the law are is to spend millions of dollars on lawyers to litigate it in court, when really, legislatures should be actively writing new and clearer rules to deal with these issues before people need to sue each other to find out.

The Internet of 2025 is just way too different and complex to operate using the copyright rules of the 1990s.

If I were in writing the rules, there'd be separate categories of intellectual property for software libraries, game mechanics, fictional characters, and so on, with clear definitions on what is and is not considered fair use of these sorts of intellectual property. It should not be possible to copyright the design of a widely-used software API or game mechanic. And any such protection on those things should be comparatively short in duration (not more than a decade) so that others can eventually re-implement the design, and probably do so better than the original inventor.