bassomitron @ bassomitron @lemmy.world

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To be fair, they controlled both the House and the Senate in 2016, too. They didn't have the courts, yet, but they soon did. And they still barely agreed on anything.

TIL the etymology of goodbye is a contraction of "god be with you."

If kids are dumb today, millennials are on the hook for it, boomers didn't do this one.

The bulk of older teenagers/college kids are from Gen X, not so much from millennials.

We're just now doing phased roll outs of 23H2 at work, so haven't paid any attention to 24H2. What issues is it having that you've noticed?

Yeah, lithium mining and processing is extremely toxic and destructive to the environment. On one hand, it's primarily limited to a smaller area, but on the other hand, is it sustainable long-term unless a highly efficient lithium recycling technology emerges? And yes, I know there are some startups that are trying to solve the recycling problem, some that are promising.

There's probably fish, game, and foraging available. But, yeah, that's probably more surviving than living.

What? How is him trying to help millions of workers a bad thing?

True enough, but toxic toys aren't super common in the US. It certainly happens, but they eventually get detected and recalled. That being said, with Trump's plans for gutting regulatory bodies even further, I'll be much less inclined to order cheap toys from online.

Yeah, wtf? I thought they were sanctioned to the extent that it made it so most US/EU companies literally couldn't continue doing business with Russia?

Tons of people. My wife bought a $7 digital camera off of there for one of our kids and 2 years later, both of our kids still love playing with it and it works perfectly fine. We've bought a couple of other toys off of there without issue. But yeah, the majority of the products on there are typically garbage.

Welp, the GOP will fully control all 3 branches of government in a couple months, so that's not a problem at all. We're going full throttle into corporate conartists turning the country into a fascist dystopia so they can rob the government coffers blind before sailing away on one of their billion dollar yachts.

Think it's supposed to be a pun since John Wick and Wicker Man.

It's not the government that tells the insurance what's cosmetic or medically necessary unless she's on Medicare or Medicaid.

Regardless, there needs to be laws that make it illegal for insurance companies to try and overrule doctors' medical diagnoses and deny coverage. I've straight up had my insurance company argue with my doctors about prescriptions before, requiring them to fill out a bunch of pre-approval forms that they have to renew every year, which then causes me to have to wait an extra few days before I can even get my meds. Luckily, my meds aren't life-or-death. Unfortunately, they pull the same shit for people needing life-or-death medications, too. It's fucking evil and I cannot comprehend how over 220 million US voters aren't rioting to get a better system.

There was another news post earlier today with the same crazy bias, seemingly completely ignoring the bigoted, disrespectful-as-fuck shenanigans by pro-Israeli football hooligans.

No, obviously. The article brings it up and doesn't explain anything beyond "discontent."

Sparking protests? Against what, nature or is the government providing inadequate aid?

Straight representation? Lol, what? Like every major branching choice RPG with romance options offers plenty of hetero choices (Witcher, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Baldurs Gate, Cyberpunk 2077, etc). Even in Veilguard, the first AAA game I've played that offers nonbinary choices, still has plenty of hetero representation. Culture wars are so god damn exhausting and unwinnable.

Police may be leaving phones online in case it continues receiving relevant evidence (texts, emails, etc).

Is this a real screenshot or just an out of context meme? I've never seen this prompt when installing other browsers on any of my PCs running Windows 10 over the last 7+ years of it being out.

Edit: It seems to be real. That is craziness. I also realized that all my licenses are Professional or Enterprise (those only on my work-issued devices), so I'm assuming that's why I've never seen it. Like the other comment pointed out, they had their feet put to the fire over simply bundling Internet Explorer in the late 90s, yet nowadays they get away with this shit.

I think what they're saying, is that there's a sizable chance that Canada isn't far behind the US in sliding towards the same fascist future. It's actually occurring around the world. It turns out that if governments allow unbridled inequality to go unchecked for decades while common folk struggle to keep a roof over their heads and food on their table, it sets an ideal environment for the rise of fascist populism.