schnurrito @ schnurrito @discuss.tchncs.de

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The existence of cash is probably the least of one's problems in that scenario. How is food going to be delivered to stores without working gas pumps? How will stores open their electronic doors or process payments without a cash register?

If this is something you are worried about, store enough non-perishable (eg canned) food in your home so you don't starve in that scenario.

Not possible with OsmAnd, if you want to edit geometry you need a full featured editor. For Android one option is Vespucci.

Probably true. https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/ was written before most people cared much about this but certainly applies very strongly to it. I am fortunately not directly affected by it either way (I am neither trans nor a woman nor have any desire to pretend to be trans in order to get access to women's spaces) so it doesn't get my emotions up much to read any side's arguments; I can see why that may be different for others.

When I first became active on reddit, I admired how few sitewide rules they had and how much free speech they allowed.

Now they ban debate about one of the most contentious and multifaceted societal issues of the present. What are online discussion forums there for if not to openly and civilly exchange ideas about issues like this?

IRC still exists. Forums are somewhat hard to host nowadays because lots of governments have passed laws imposing more and more regulation, liability and duties of care on operators of web platforms. We would need to start movements to repeal those laws first, I'm certainly in favor of that! But I think the future of forums is nonetheless ActivityPub; it is a lot better to be able to read about all topics that interest me on one website rather than having to click through many different ones.

Flash games: why do you want those back? Flash is a proprietary platform and it's a good thing we can now do the things we used to do with it directly in the browser with HTML5 and JS. You can still play Flash games with Ruffle, there are still websites out there that host them.

Video sites that aren't YouTube: nowadays videos can be much more easily hosted elsewhere than YouTube than was the case in the 2000s. Many social media platforms allow direct upload of videos and any website operator can easily directly embed a video without needing either YouTube or something based on Flash Player. So I'm not sure what you're nostalgic for when it comes to this topic.

because the UK gave up most of that power in the second half of the 20th century, now the UK is a relatively small country (by area and population) that is increasingly isolating itself from the world (Brexit) rather than attempting to influence global politics a lot more than other countries of comparable size, population, and wealth

But the US is slowly losing influence too. In 1990 its side had won the Cold War, but since then other things have happened: 9/11, Iraq War, George W. Bush, the war on terror, Donald Trump; many geopolitical events of the present can be explained (in part) by the fact that the US is losing influence over the world.

Is this not basically true, that that is how group federation works? Not sure what exactly you are trying to say.

Who is "he"? I think they might mean Donald Trump, who AFAIK is a resident of Florida?

The worst bills in Congress are usually overwhelmingly supported by both parties.

Why do you think Donald Trump has any clue about anything he is doing? Has he not repeatedly demonstrated the opposite?

By participating on it, mainly. The more people notice that using Lemmy is a way to kill boredom and stay informed about things they are interested in, the more people will look here instead of (or in addition to) reddit or Facebook or other places.

Get medication against acne from a doctor. That was the only thing that finally helped me get rid of it.

ok fair point :D

read it again, I quoted a typo by OP, there's not actually a letter "n" in the word "community"

I'm pretty sure "conmunity" does indeed not mean anything and never has.

What place do I get teleported to? If I'm teleported to the same place on Earth, then I just fell down several meters into a swamp and am probably going to die here.

It seems pretty unreasonable to me that laws like that exist in the first place, so my answer to the question how trans people should be counted for such purposes is "neither because such laws shouldn't exist".

Federal government in the UK? The UK isn't a federation, so doesn't have a federal government.

• Firefox ✅
• SMS app from Simple Mobile Apps ✅
• WhatsApp ❌
• stock video recording camera shortcut that came with my phone ❌
• OpenCamera ✅

3/5 and as I was writing this I found out I might be able to get rid of the video recording shortcut because apparently a software update exposed the full video resolution to OpenCamera… although I still have to test that.

It's a possible distinction to make, the main problem is that the article in the OP didn't make that distinction.