foggenbooty @ foggenbooty @lemmy.world

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What's an LED laser?

I just like knowing I could fly a Canadian flag again, or have it's likeness displayed without being confused for a trucker convoy supporter, vaccine denier, or racist.

He can if the GOP decides to do nothing, and it seems that the game plan. They're all in on downplaying his actions and not ruffling any feathers because to speak out is to be cast out. If they play along, they might just get to keep some power when this is all over.

They've always been scum, but this is a new low. Dried scum crusted onto the bottom of wherever scum normally resides.

Divinity Original Sin. Currently playing it docked with two Xbox controllers and it runs great at 1080p.

In Canada we see both. It says "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)".

That future is now. Most modern cars have the dashboard computer completely integrated and you can't remove it without crippling the vehicle.

This again? It's not going to happen.

Dude, I feel this. We had these nice NEC AccuSync CRTs that could so 1280x1024 @ 85Hz or 1024x768 @ 100Hz. Guess what they were all set to? 800x600 @ 60Hz. Not only could you not see a damn thing, but the flicker from the slow refresh rate would give you a headache. Teacher said it was normal and the flicker was in my head.

We weren't allowed to use USB flash drives because they we're an up and coming technology that they figured would give them viruses, but we were encouraged to have our own floppy disks to save our work on. Not only does this not make any sense, but now your homework could just corrupt on a whim. Anyway, I had a special floppy disk that I loaded with utilities that could bypass the lockouts and allow me to change the resolution to something sensible.

They also had an HP Laserjet with an IR port and in my last year I was one of the first students to have my own laptop (very lucky). I would take notes in class on it and then print them in the computer lab. One day a teacher caught me and I was lectured because it was against policy to plug personal things into their network. I explained that there was no networking involved, it was a local device to device print job, but she wouldn't have it. Viruses you know. The next day they had covered the IR port of the printer with whiteout to protect it.

So my options were buy and carry a USB floppy drive, write to floppy, log into a school computer, print from there or... put a tiny little scratch in the whiteout. Which do you think I did?

All in all it was fine. The good old days of early computers where everyone was just figuring things out. Tech was a lot more interesting then and I don't fault the teachers for not knowing and trying to protect their systems. It was just annoying when you knew more but still had to follow their nonsensical rules.

It's not that they've better when I say them, it's that they're true but ultimately unimportant.

I'm not refuting its harder to protest in the US, but I am saying that it needs to be done regardless. It's unfortunately not fair, but it is what it is.

If westerners don't learn to overcome the obstacles in place and organize then we're done for.

You are simply making excuses. There are sacrifices to peoples time and energy to attend a protest, that is true. They may even be a bit higher in the US.

This big problem is culture. North Americans lack the culture of protest. We're all too wrapped up in our lives with little thought for the collective at large. We live in urban sprawls where we feel disconnected. We need to get together to change this culture or we're going to get trampled.

That was because OKC had long form quizzes and in depth bios. It has been Tinderized and is no longer recognizable.

Yes you can, I do that with mine a lot. The one caveat though that is a real bummer is I haven't been able to get surround sound working on it. Something limits it to stereo output. There should be some way around it, but I haven't found it.

Sure commercial eggs aren't, but they're supposed to be. Egg laying takes a toll on the hens and the conditions they're kept in are deplorable.

Still, thank you for adding clarification. Education is never bad.

Yup, my understanding is that Mexico's "deal" was the same. They'd already made those commitments very early on in the "negotiations".

This whole ease off of tarrifs has just been Trump backing down and announcing the things he already had. You can never lose when every loss is a win.

The problem with cable was it was not on demand and contained ads.

I would never, ever pay for cable even in today's world if it was $10 a month because of the overwhelming amount of ads.

I will say that I'm also vegan and don't agree with the approach they made. On high moral shaming doesn't get us anywhere. My mom constantly telling me to clean my room did not make me a tidy person as an adult.

We need understanding, conversation, and education otherwise it's just a pissy exchange like this and no one is better from it.

I would never be foolish enough to say that nutrition isn't important, but most people who are becoming frail in the western world are doing so because they lack exercise, not sources of protein.

Fancy processed meat replacements are insanely expensive. Vegan diets? Man that's the cheapest shit there is. Most of the world lives off a similar diet due to poverty.

They were literally asked how many he eats. What should they have done, just ignore the question?

A little advice: You're not going to gain any ground with him by saying what he eats isn't food. Try a more understanding approach. That said, I think history is going to side with your son.