paintbucketholder @ paintbucketholder @lemmy.world

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... if you're a fan of Elon boy, white supremacy, the alt-right, homophobia, "anti woke" propaganda, or making excuses for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Otherwise it's shite.

Let the wight people decide.

Did you misread the article?

This is a political push to have chaplains in schools, and it's chaplains who are opposing it.

What are you referring to?

Another way to look at it is: when was the last mid-air collision in the US, or even the world involving TCAS equipped airliners? The only one that comes to mind is the DHL-BAL mid air in 2002, which was a result of the one crew not following the TCAS instruction.

A significant part of the report focused on near collisions on runways.

TCAS doesn't mitigate that, right?

It's crazy that the entire engineering section on Starfleet ships is just right next to the warp core, with absolutely zero structural separation.

The number of times ships had to eject their warp core, or had the warp core go critical, or had other warp core related accidents, you'd think Starfleet would have learned not to exclusively rely on emergency force fields and that they would have simply built two separate sections for engineering and for the warp core.

But no, even after all those experiences, they instead even ditched the isolation doors when they designed the Intrepid class, and basically wrapped the engineering section around the open warp core.

Cause what could possibly go wrong with that approach, eh?

"Market dominance" simply means that a single company has the means to shape the entire market - not that it must have 90+ percent market share.

You're essentially arguing that it's easier for a user to find a third party app in the App Store, install it, create an account in the app, and start messaging than it is to start messaging with the pre-installed first party app.

I don't find that persuasive.

Apples to oranges.

The reason is that messaging services like WhatsApp became popular in Europe because carriers charged exorbitant fees for SMS messaging at a time when no single phone manufacturer absolutely dominated the market. Apps like WhatsApp made it possible to communicate with people, no matter which specific phone or brand or platform they were using.

If the iPhone (with iMessage pre-installed) had been the dominant smartphone and ecosystem at the time, chances are that what's happening in the US would have happened in Europe in exactly the same way.

It's exactly the same argument as with Windows and Internet Explorer: if Windows had been one podunk operating system out of many, nobody would have cared. The whole issue was that Microsoft used the market dominance of Windows to quasi-lock users into Internet Explorer.

Are WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Signal, and such blocked in the US?

Of course they're not blocked.

People just default to the app that comes pre-installed with their phone and sits right there on the first screen, because it's marginally easier than picking a third party app in the App Store, installing it, and creating an account.

It's the exact same argument that Microsoft made when they bundled Internet Explorer with their OS.

LOL.

The Freedom Caucus is the bloc that is trying to pull the GOP further to the right. The Freedom Caucus is where all the Obama hating Tea Party radical agitators ended up. The Freedom Caucus is completely aligned with Trump.

From your own link:

After hardline House conservatives aggravated GOP leaders by halting the chamber floor in protest, the Freedom Caucus — which most of the agitators call home — is growing in numbers.

The Trump-aligned bloc admitted two new members this week

Are you just not familiar with US politics?

There are two very different tables and only one has Nazis sitting at it.

The one with the Nazis sitting at it has 74 million people.

How many Republicans are sitting at the other table, and where can I find that table?

Instead of posting a rant about "short sighted leftists," why don't you explain precisely why it would be so horrible if users were able to install whatever operating system they wanted to install on the devices they've purchased with their own money?

As the saying goes, "If there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis."

I don't care how many Republicans are troubled by Trump's behavior, I don't care how many Republicans think he's a bit too much, I don't care how many Republicans dislike the MAGA movement.

Talk is cheap.

74 million voters decided that they wanted Trump to be president for another term in 2020, decided to give Trump their vote, decided to support Trump.

That makes them Trump supporters.

And it makes the GOP the Party of Trump.

The GOP dies with the Boomers

Looking at all the MAGA rallies over the last years, it looked like most attendants were significantly younger than Boomer age. Same with the guys who fly Trump flags on their pickup trucks. Same with the January 6 crowd. Same with the Proud Boys. Same with Bikers for Trump. Same with Moms for Liberty.

I think it's wishful thinking to believe that the GOP will just disappear when the last Boomer dies. The GOP has already transformed into the party of Trump over the last couple of years, and it will keep on transforming.

It would take significantly more than old people dying fit them GOP to vanish.

This isn't hard to understand at all. Unless you want to throw out the laws that define our society and perscribe to vigilante justice based on feelings, instead of evidence and juries.

A jury of his peers found Trump guilty of being a rapist, but I have yet to see a single "law and order!!! we have to rely on evidence and juries!!!" Trump follower acknowledge that.

I'll absolutely vote against him in the primary.

Who's running against him in the primary?

"But it would be bad for my favorite trillion dollar corporation and for their bottom line!!!!!"

I'll never understand consumers who insist to take the side of the corporation rather than the side of the customer on these issues.

Two ways a carrier can restrict this:

• If you buy the phone from your carrier, they can obviously restrict hardware functions that would otherwise be available on that phone.
• If they analyze your traffic, they can try to distinguish between mobile traffic and other traffic and attempt to block non-mobile traffic.

If weight isn't an issue, then it makes sense to use a system that only costs a fraction of a hydrogen-powered setup.

Trains don't need to fly. Just pack them full of batteries or - arguably even better - just electrify the line wherever possible.

That's just not an option for planes, so hydrogen remains a potentially viable approach.