Shdwdrgn @ Shdwdrgn @mander.xyz

A person with way too many hobbies, but I still continue to learn new thing

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I'm sure that's the case for a lot of people, however my particular locations has actually been getting more temperate -- cooler in the Summer and warmer in the Winter. I mean it's not by much, but we're lucky to not be getting these massive heat waves the rest of the country has been seeing.

Ugh I bet.

Oh I agree it can be a friggin' furnace. My complaint was that I'd never had that happen before so why is it happening now? And if I can't keep my driving glasses in my vehicle, where am I supposed to keep them? Maybe keep them at my desk just in case my monitor suddenly gets really far away?

Just an FYI, I had that happen to my driving glasses a couple years back. My optometrist said that because you cannot leave glasses in a hot car as the heat destroys the coating... OK thanks for telling me AFTER the fact, where do you THINK I am keeping a pair of glasses that you designed specifically for my driving vision? And by the way, I've been wearing glasses for over 35 years and always had the anti-glare coating for night driving, what did you change that is suddenly making them self-destruct when they are stored where I need them???

Yeah they had no answers for me. But OP, if you left your glasses in your car, that's probably what happened to the coating.

Read it again, in context. What they said is perfectly valid.

If it's an automated system, wouldn't it be written to just look at the original post date, and if the comment was changed (say a month or a year) later, then the script restores the original post? I mean you could get fancy and have the script check if a user is changing all of their comments to the same message, but that seems like overkill. On the other hand, I've been running into quite a few posts lately where it's obvious a single person has simply deleted all of their comments, and I don't think those are getting reverted?

I was never sure what triggered reddit's archive of a post. I mean even just this year I had someone send me a reply and I had no idea what they were talking about. Looked up the post, it was over three years old! And when I asked them about it, they said they knew it was old but chose to reply anyway. Some people just have really boring lives I guess.

Nearly all of the search options sort your front page by activity, so removing old communities won't make active ones stand out any more. If you're searching for new communities and fail to notice the last message was 3 years before you posted your 900-page essay, that's on you. Even if you make the background of stagnant communities bright red, there's still going to be someone who complains that they somehow "didn't get any warning".

Retaining old content has value, you wouldn't believe how many answers I've found on 10+ year old reddit posts that have long since been archived. Information is valuable, it should never be removed unless someone is being harmed by it.

It's not a simple question, I would have to know the circumstances that lead to such a drastic situation, who was running against her, and what realistic chance any 3rd-party candidate had of getting the votes from others. The reality is that it's not something that is ever going to occur because even Trump isn't senile enough to forget that such an action would incur the wrath of other NATO members. You can play what-if games all day long, but unless you create an entire imaginary world to go with your implausible scenario, you're not going to get any legitimate answers.

That's not really a valid question since it would never happen. Like Trump specifically, the US will always try to keep its hands clean of such actions. Yeah we'll send them nukes all day long, but we're not "responsible" because we didn't actually launch them. However Harris sanctioning a strike on Gaza is nothing different than Trump has already stated, so a vote for either candidate wouldn't change that outcome. On the other hand, Trump absolutely has done far more damage domestically, and promised to do even worse if he gets elected again, so I'm still in the party of "anyone but Trump".

The closest thing I have is Ghostery, which is just an inspector. I don't use any extensions to modify the code of a page, so yeah I'm not sure either. I also use Firefox, just checked this at work and I'm seeing the same results. And the dev tools here agree with your findings -- both normal and

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What's your solution for the problem? Voting for someone who doesn't have any chance of getting elected? Or would you rather vote for Trump, who is encouraging complete annihilation of the Gaza strip by Israel to end the conflict overnight, while also vowing to end all support for Ukraine and back Russia in a second genocide? Personally I'm going to cast my vote for a candidate who can prevent Trump from getting back in office again, where there might be a slight chance of pressuring some change in Israeli policy. Unless you can somehow convince 300million Americans to vote 3rd party in the next three months, no other choice has any possibility of helping anyone, and fewer votes against Trump risks a much larger number of people being killed directly by US policy.

Where do YOU draw the line when there's no way to win no matter how you vote? I draw the line at trying to reduce the number of casualties first through my vote, and then seeing if there's any way to move forward to make things better.

One thing I gotta say... here we are, two people of different backgrounds and very different opinions, but we're still both interested in finding the best way to help people we probably don't even know, while arguing the topic in a civilized manner. Imagine what could be done if the corrupt politicians in DC started acting more like adults and less like petulant children... Ah well, it was a nice thought anyway.

I feel like you're misunderstanding my view here. What I'm trying to say is that I believe if Trump gets the position then we'll be so busy fighting things at home that we won't have time to think about foreign affairs. If anybody else gets into the white house then we at least have a chance that further protests could make an impact on Washington. This isn't a both-sides thing, I really feel there could be a real difference to what happens in Palestine depending on who gets elected. Plus we already know that Trump has pledged support to Russia and vowed to immediately stop all aid to Ukraine, so supporting him just means double the genocide. Somebody is losing no matter how we vote, I'm just hoping we can make it so fewer people lose. Hoping for anything more at this point just feels unrealistic?

Is pot really the same as voting reform

Dude, it was just a casual observation that sometimes things can change even when the whole government seems to be working against you. I'm not saying we're going to topple the two-party chokehold easily, but every little bit that we can chip away at it is a win. Colorado is probably the exception to the rule, we have enough influential people here who actually care about these things, and our state constitution demands that anything voted for on a ballot must be put into law. We had a right-leaning governor when the marijuana vote came through, he was hard against this but he didn't have a choice and had to find a way to legalize it. The RCV option is another thing that was solidly voted for recently, so they have to implement it. And yes, the current governor is slow-walking it but he does have some good reasons -- there are a lot of eyes on this and if we do it wrong then everyone else will just point at us and say it can't possibly work anywhere else either. Case in point -- we recently tried to have a vote on state-sponsored medical coverage, and all the objections against it were that another state tried this (poorly) and it failed. As I said, there are some influential people here keeping an eye on things, they won't let anyone just forget about the RCV mandate, and I'm happy to wait a few years if they can make sure we don't just become another bad example of a failed experiment. When something gets done right, people in other states put pressure on their officials, which comes back to my MJ example again, and now we have at least 29 states with some form of acceptance even while most people in politics are still fighting against it.

I guess my point here is that the government in general likes to steamroll citizens with slow, incremental changes so we hardly notice. Some of our issues (like telling Israel to fuck off) require immediate action, even if it's just picking the lesser of two evils so we can keep some doors open that might allow us to demand a change in policies. However other issues, like the way we vote, can be changed incrementally. Yes they're going to notice that they are starting to lose power, but once that ball starts rolling it's hard to stop it (although they could do something drastic like inciting a civil war and declaring martial law). It might happen, it might not, but the ball has at least started rolling in the right direction.

Yeah I think at the time it was a known issue that this software wouldn't run properly in wine and I just never tried again in the last 14 years. I'm not worried about bricking the ECU, I actually have a spare sitting on the shelf, and even if it did get bad enough that I couldn't fix it, I could probably take it to the dealer and have them re-flash it for me. Funny thing is, after going the rounds with their service guy trying to get the programming corrected from changing my gear ratio (I ended up giving them a VIN of another vehicle that came with those gears), they weren't able to change the programming to my own VIN but the truck still ran. No worries, because my software CAN change the VIN, so once I got that squared away it's been perfectly happy with all the new programming. I have to admit, there's a satisfaction in telling the dealer THIS is how you fix the problem, and when you're done with it I'll fix the rest of the stuff you can't do.

Not to change the subject, but your italicized "are" made me realize that Lemmy uses a different font for italic content (see the letter A). There's another message down below deleted by creator which has the same style. I know, it's a weird thing to notice, but there was a blog I saw this week mentioning that scammers are using websites with a (I think?) Cyrillic 'a' that looks just like the italic one here to fool people into thinking they're visiting a legitimate site, so that little discrepancy stood out to me today. At least now I know I'm paying attention! 😆

I can almost say the say thing, but I actually have a small Windows laptop dedicated to some software used for reprogramming the computer in my truck. I've never tried to run it under wine, so I might not need the laptop, but I very rarely use it anyway. Everything else in the house, from our android phones and tablets, to the entertainment system running from a raspberry pi, up to our laptops, desktops, and my stack of servers all run linux exclusively. Funny how they all run smoothly for years at a time.

Sure, lines must be drawn. The problem is that one of the candidates is openly friendly with white-supremists and likes to encourage them to take action without getting his own hands dirty. If this election opens the doors for openly killing anyone of color (you know, even more so than it is now), then we're really taking a big step backwards and have no hope at all of pressuring our government to start making things right in other countries too. From my perspective, both parties are going to continue this genocide in Pakistan for as long as they can, and if we open the doors to domestic terrorism then none of us have any hope of trying to encourage foreign policy changes.

Unfortunately both parties listen to him. It's all rather disgusting.

I agree that it's an alarmist stance, and no I don't really believe democracy will end if Trump gets elected, but consider this... In 2016 we were all saying we're sick of the same old shit so let's just burn it all down and let Trump win, what's the worst he can do? And here we are eight years later and we're STILL finding out just how badly he fucked us. Even without Biden continuing some of Trump's polices, look what SCOTUS has done to this country. We've all seen Project 2025 by now, and we all know Trump and his cronies are behind it despite his attempts to distance himself from the project, but I have honest concerns that Trump isn't fully in control of himself any longer and could easily be manipulated into thinking he thought of this plan himself, and then tries to push it forward. It has been a long time since he had any rational ability to step back and look at what he's doing, and that does scare me. I'm not so much worried about Trump in the next term, but rather the people he surrounds himself with. However if Trump is soundly beaten in this election, it might just make Conservatives realize that nobody is willing to put up with this extremist reality-tv style showmanship that they've been cultivating over the last eight years, and perhaps they will consider putting up a more rational candidate for the next election.

OK, I understand the goal of bargaining power, and maybe it might work, I'm just worried that this isn't the election to try making a power move when the alternative could literally see harm coming to their families. Do you remember after 9/11 when everyone was ready to round up and shoot anyone that appeared middle-eastern even if they were generational American citizens? Trump's style of encouraging the skinheads to take matters into their own hands means anyone who isn't pale white could see even more harassment than today, and that worries me. And for the record, I am a white guy, but I'm really tired of all the brutality that POC suffer and Trump's term really did make things worse.

Have you seen that a few states are working out the details to implement RCV? I live in Colorado, one of the places which are trying to evaluate it. Yes it's going slow, but our government is actually taking it seriously with plans to try and have it in place by the 2028 election, so I do have some hope. We all know the government moves at the speed of a slug in a salt mine but this seems at least somewhat encouraging. And hey, they said marijuana would never be accepted either, but look at us now. Still not universally legal but progress is being made.