Zak @ Zak @lemmy.world

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“I think he just doesn’t want the clocks to go back and forth.”

A broken clock is right twice a day, and we just found something I agree with Trump about.

Each clock change (yes, in both directions) is followed by a spike in cardiac events and car crashes. I care more about getting rid of the change than which time is made permanent.

I don't know where you live, but it is not normal for prospective employers to ask for your medical history most places, and is legally questionable if not outright banned under the anti-discrimination laws of many countries.

Power corrupts, and concentrations of power attract the corrupt.

It can be subtle, such as business deals just favorable enough an impartial observer would say they're not bribery. The not-bribe leads to a not-favor. The lines become blurred.

I see no reason to believe that it is.

I find it useful when outside the USA to be able to communicate with American luddites who refuse to install messaging apps.

Messages between two Apple devices are safe, and messages between two Android devices are safe, but messages between an Apple device and and Android device are vulnerable.

This is not very accurate. Some Android devices come with Google Messages, which will use Google's encrypted version of RCS if the carrier supports it. People who don't know what all of that means should not assume their messages are encrypted.

What they probably can do is issue an update that lets owners point it at third-party servers, and publish the API. They might even be able to publish the source code, though there's a chance they don't own all of it.

Linux is a kernel which is often bundled with proprietary components. Android, for example uses the Linux kernel. The whole desktop operating system you seem to be thinking of is a Linux distribution.

There have been many Linux distributions with proprietary components over the years. SUSE's YaST configuration tool used to be proprietary, for example. There's probably something current along the same lines, but there's not much demand for semi-proprietary desktop Linux.

Yes. I'd rather not be, but most people I know in person use it, and do not regularly view or share content using anything else in a one-to-many format.

What I won't do is install any of their mobile apps or regularly use their chat. When people try that, I reply hours later using something else.

There's concern about it where the content has utility beyond art, such as academic research and raw datasets.

That's not to day art isn't useful, but much of what people value about it is originality.

Does it count if I already know whiskey is bad for me?

That's comparable to alcohol. I'd be good with that.

The illegality of production and sale makes the drugs far more likely to be adulterated or a concentration other than advertised, which kills people. Prohibition causes black markets, which leads to people resolving disputes through violence since they can't use the courts.

Legalization would make all of that go away, almost instantly.

Robespierre thought killing tens of thousands of people was defense. History has not been kind to that position.

Can you think of anything that happened in the past month or so, perhaps involving US politics, that might have a tendency to radicalize people?

I like small phones and I agree with you.

OP asked for "relatively smaller", which I took as acknowledgment of the current state of the market where nothing is much under 6".

That may be overstating it. Here are 8 recent Android phones with a headphone jack, card shot, and screen no bigger than 6.2".

I didn't check current prices, OS update plans, or camera samples for these.

I think all drugs should be legal. I think using most of them is a bad idea.

I couldn't help but notice Blue Cross rescinded its very dangerous policy placing a time limit on anesthesia the day after the murder.

I don't want a reign of terror, but perhaps just a little bit of terror will have CEOs thinking they could be next when considering especially harmful policies.

Not any more than any other subsidy is.

Actually nullifying a debt a borrower owes to a lender, which the government guaranteed would be paid at the time the loan was issued would be akin to theft. As far as I know, all programs that "cancel" student loan debt are actually the government paying the balance to the issuer.

I run Linux on a Thinkpad P14S III with a Ryzen 6850u. It has been a trouble-free experience, and if there's any way in which it is not optimized, it masks that by being very fast.