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You're not alone! This concept is called Liquid Democracy

To be fair, we don't see like reverse engineered printing. Printing is reverse engineered seeing. If we saw like this post is claiming shrimp see, and blue was blue and green was green and yellow was yellow, we wouldn't be able to print by mixing three colours. We'd need one pigment per photoreceptor, same as we do now.

Small extra rant:

I read it a while ago, let's see if I remember...

Hopefully I've hidden this behind a spoiler tag properly, but if not, please don't read this unless you've read the books!

I loved the first one. I liked 7/8th of the second one. It was a tricky puzzle, trying to figure out what is real and what isn't, and what's truly going on. But I trusted the author because of how much I liked the first one.

Then the ending of the book was terrible and made me angry at the entire second book as a result.

But I read the third anyway, just in case. I didn't much care for it. It was okay enough to keep reading. But it was very different in tone from the first two, for plot reasons. I dunno, maybe 6 out of 10?

I know I have to read the 4th for sunk cost reasons, but I'm not excited about it...

Nah, I mean, I was around when George Bush was the guy. I didn't like him, I didn't feel he was a good leader, or fit for the office. I would try to convince people not to support him or the war(s) in the middle east. But he was not a threat to democracy. Except maybe through The Patriot Act...

There was a lot of things I didn't agree with that Mitt Romney believes. I think voting him in would have been regressive and bad for gay people, etc, who I care about. I think he is wrong about things. But he's not a threat to democracy. I belive that he believes the things he claims to believe, and that he believes in his heart that he's doing the right thing. I just disagree with him.

John McCain seemed like an honorable man. Again, I felt that his priorities and mine didn't line up, but he was nowhere near a threat to democracy.

The reason this dude is a threat to democracy is because he has openly and repeatedly disregarded voting and the function of government, which is kinda democracy's whole thing. If the votes don't count, and the results don't follow the will of the voters, then it's not a democratic system. If you systematically choose to make it so some segment of your citizens cannot vote, or their voices are not heard, then it's not a democratic system.

I agree with OP. If there's a puzzle in a game that's clearly some kind of water puzzle, but I can make a boat to solve it in 15 seconds and bypass the obvious intent of the puzzle, maybe I feel a bit clever. But if I can solve every puzzle with effectively the same boat... what's the point of doing the puzzles? I guess because I wanted puzzles? But on the other hand, if I know I can solve every puzzle with a 15 second boat, it feels kinda weird to pretend I don't have an answer and struggle through anyway. Like, the victory is hollow when I know I could have solved it faster the dumb way.

The number of times in that game I thought "oh, maybe I have to jump up through the floor here to get through this door" and then I peeked through the floor and was like "oh, nope. It's the damn final boss room again. Not supposed to be here yet, better go back through the floor and try another way to open this door" felt like I was babysitting the game so as to not entirely ruin the experience... and it kinda ruined the experience...

Well... That's actually probably fair as stated.

BestBuy etc don't sell Apple's products on commission, they bought them from Apple for a wholesale price, they've got them in a warehouse and on shelves right now on their dime, and the only way they make that money back is by selling them.

And the only way Apple makes money from a product being sold at Best Buy is that Best Buy will likely buy more stock to replace the stuff they sold, and they'll buy that from Apple.

So if it was banned everywhere it would be unfair to the retailers that already paid Apple for a product they now can't recoup, and it wouldn't impact Apple at all because they already made their money from Best Buy.

This way the retailers can get their money back, but can't get any more, which means only Apple is impacted.

The only other way that's semi-fair (but would be extreme) would be for Apple to be forced to do a recall or something and reimburse all the retailers the money they had already spent. Doable, and definitely more of a punishment for Apple, but a lot of extra work for everyone if the outcome of this is that Apple settles and then everyone can just go back to ordering more again.

While others have convinced me to just replace the whole gang, this is pretty cool! I'm kinda glad someone is making them, though I am a little curious to know how they'd look all assembled together... I feel like the seams would be pretty noticeable...

You know... I hadn't even noticed that outlet wasn't GFCI... Ha!

Ok, you (and everyone else in thread) are right, the idea of rewiring the whole box wasn't appealing to me, but if I'm being objective it's actually not that much work and is probably less money overall than the smart switch itself.

Thanks folks, for shaking the blinders off me!

Ooh! That's great to hear! A real glowing review... I'll probably snag some before next Christmas!

Has anyone here tried https://tru-tone.com/

The ads make them look like the colours of my youth, but ads can make anything look like anything...

I think that's too much thinking, I'm pretty sure it's simpler than that. North Americans say "December Twelfth" or "May Forth" or "March Fourteenth" rather than "The Fourteenth of March".

So they go "March -> 3", "Fourteenth -> 14", and you get "3/14" that you can read from left to right as "March Fourteenth". That's about it, I'm pretty sure.

And so long as everyone agrees which one comes first it's not ambiguous. Of course, everyone doesn't agree, and there are logical reasons to pick the others, but this one is simply in reading order.

Zulu. It's shorter and cooler

100% you can do it with some good instructional content and a smidge of patience!

A standard lock is disturbingly easy to pick... We used to run a booth at a maker event where we taught members of the public passing by including, like, 5 year olds to pick padlocks.

Unrelated, but BTW there are some jurisdictions if I'm not mistaken where having lock picking tools found on you is considered "criminal intent" or something, but on the other hand if you're already at the point where your bag is being searched you may already be boned...

I've never been a Twitter/microblog user, but here's how I gather it worked, presented in the order in which it was developed.

Do you ever think "oh, that's a funny/interesting thought I had", but there's no one around to tell? Or not enough people and you think it had more potential than that? Microblog. Unlike a forum, you just dump in out into the void as-is. It's a broadcast. Like if every account was a personal /r/showerthoughts.

From there we make it so I can subscribe to my friends. Now when they post their funny thoughts, or even just being like "I feel like tacos tonight, anyone in SF down?" I'll get their post. Now it's kinda like open group texting. Except I don't choose who sees my random thoughts, they self-select. I just broadcast things out there and whoever might be interested might be interested.

That was basically all that microblogs were, at the beginning. A stream of non-topic'd stuff I said, and you can follow me if you want to hear more like it.

But sometimes I'm surrounded by strangers, like at a conference. At these points I want to know what random people I don't follow are all saying about FooCamp. Search already exists so I can see all tweets with the word "cat" in it, but I can't find a way to fit FooCamp organically into every post, so hashtags get invented as a social convention to say "that was my message, but here are some other keywords for search purposes". Later they got linkified and so people started putting them inline, but originally they were just at the end and just for extra categorization.

So now the tool does two things. I can just broadcast out any thought I have without having to care about where to put it, etc. It all goes on my feed and anyone who has chosen to care about me will see it. And I choose who I care to receive broadcasts from because they're cool, and it doesn't matter what they're talking about. But also I can tag a particular message with some categories, and that will allow strangers to see my messages if they happen to be looking for messages in that category, but obviously a single message can be in multiple categories.

Then later famous people and governments showed up, and people followed them because they love go hear what famous people talk about. But if you don't follow them, then you don't hear from them.

That's basically it! So it's kinda like the opposite of a reddit/lemmy/forum/usenet model. Rather than topics that have content posted by people, it's people who post content that sometimes has a topic. Like a large group-chat (among friends or colleagues) where you're not really sure who is in the chat, but you don't have to care. You can prefer one over the other (I know I do), but fundamentally they're not trying to solve the same problem as lemmy, they're just a totally different model for communication. More like a friend group than a discussion group.

This isn't surefire, but sometimes I'll double tap to zoom way too far in, but it'll put me in zooming mode and then I can zoom back out from there.

Yes, I do have a soft spot for Netscape Navigator. It will always be my first...

I used to use Firefox before Chrome came out, because it was better than IE. When Chrome came out it was a breath of fresh air. A real third option! (konqueror didn't really count). And it was faster, cleaner, lighter than Firefox. Just better at everything. So I installed it on all of my family's computers, which they allowed me to do because IE by then was so bad it was an obvious improvement even for the layman.

Then in the intervening years Firefox dwindled to basically no market share and IE died, so now Chrome isn't a third option, it's the only option. And so I switched back to Firefox basically as a political sacrifice, but there's no way I'm going to be able to convince any of my family to switch because Firefox isn't better for them in any perceivable way. It's just different and they don't care. If Firefox had 30% market share I'd almost definitely be using Chromium still myself.

So probably that, but a million times. There was a period where every nerd moved all their associated people to Chrome because it was new, great, and non-dominant. It was hip and indie. And now they're still there and there's no reason for them to move that they care about.

Ok, let me rephrase your rephrase to be what question I think you're trying to ask.

At some point we had decided on a seven day week with week names. That's fine. But we must also have decided at some point that today was Wednesday in this system.

So I think you're asking "what is the first day we all agree was definitely a Sunday, such that all Sundays after were based on that". Or put another way, at what point did the days of the week get locked to the days of our year.

I don't have that answer, but your question confused me, so I've reworded it.