stinerman @ stinerman @midwest.social

I am Stine. Comfort the afflicted. Afflict the comfortable. High School Wre

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That's absolutely true, especially for a paper like the LA Times. I am dubious that there is any appreciable effect when it comes to random blogs and so forth.

In California, it doesn't matter because the results are already known. In other states the calculus is a bit different.

Voting for a minor party in terms of the effect on the outcome is approximately equivalent to not voting.

first past the post voting is a broken system and that main party candidates should make more effort to fix this glaring hole in the voting system.

The Democratic Party would rather lose to the Republican Party than change the rules to allow for a multi-party system.

That aside, the major parties don't want to reform the system they have because it's worked very well for them. Our parties are incredibly old by world standards. The Democrats have been around since the 18th century, and the Republicans have been around since the 1850s.

There was a guy who was in tech support who talked to a customer about who was hot or not in the company. It was actually the customer who started the conversation, but the rep ran with it and used all kinds of unprofessional and disparaging language when describing his female co-workers.

That call happened to have a supervisor listening in, so he was fired immediately after he got off the call. The thing is found out who called in, and the women on the team had to assist him when he called for support.

The Supreme Court did pretty much read out that 3rd section.

I got big time Ferengi vibes from that comment.

It's porn if the state wants to harass you for something.

I think this is not quite correct. You're absolutely right that 6 weeks is basically the same thing as a full ban, but it's based on last period rather than from conception. Which is even worse. They assume that women conceived the day after their period.

A woman could become pregnant late in her menstrual cycle, but the 6 weeks counts from the previous period. So she could really be only a few weeks from conception but closer to 5-6 weeks based on the ban math.

Until people are donating enough money to make maintaining an open source browser doable, this will continue to happen.

I do not. I can give you a link to the one I'm referencing though. I'm sure that something like this would exist in Seattle.

https://www.ideafoundry.com/

I think it's good of them to do this, but yes, releasing a browser that isn't open source in 2024 is pretty ancient thinking.

As far as what engine it's based on, there are really 3. Blink, Webkit, and Gecko. I agree that if you're worried about Google taking over, Blink is the worst one to choose, but it's not like there are a lot of options.

Yeah I read a blog post about why it isn't and the answer was pretty bog-standard answers for why anything is closed-source: "if we make these cool customizations open, then anyone could take it and make a competing product."

https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/

There are maker spaces in some of the larger cities due to this. There is one in Columbus, but it never took off because...most people who live in Columbus have garages.

Most bus systems in American cities are for people to get to work and back home. Trying to take it to, for instance, a friend's house, and you're generally going to spend about 4x the time it'd take to drive there.

I don't know who did it, but there was a list of cities in the US with the amount of space used for car parking. I think Tulsa, OK was something like 2/3rds of their downtown land was devoted to parking.

The average American thinks that if roads are too dangerous for bikers, then bikers shouldn't be allowed to drive on them. This is preferable to reducing the speed limit...that people will ignore anyway.

I live in a suburban area of Columbus, Ohio.

• To the nearest convenience store: 1.5km
• To the nearest chain supermarket: 3.7km
• To the bus stop: 450m (this bus runs once per hour)
• To the nearest park: 1km
• To the nearest library: 5.5km
• To the nearest metro train station: 195km in Cleveland, Ohio (Columbus is the largest city in America by population that has no passenger rail service)
• To the nearest intercity train station (Amtrak): 162km in Sandusky, Ohio (This comes through once per day at around 3 or 4 am)

You also mention you can get somewhere within 10 minutes of walking. A lot of Americans will refuse to walk that far. For many people in the country and the suburbs, the bulk of the outdoor walking they do is to/from their cars and to get the mail.

It's hard for Europeans to understand, but nearly all American cities are built around the concept that everyone has their own car and drives everywhere to get around. Even things that are 5 minute walks, Americans will get in the car and drive to. Mass transit (again in most cities) is coded as "for poor people who can't afford a car", so it's always difficult to use and is much slower than having your own car.

In college (2003ish), I ran a desktop PC without a case. Hell I ran the processor (450MHz P3) without a fan, just a passive heatsink. It ran fine.

I will probably spend a full year doing Not A Damn Thing™. After that, who knows. Volunteer somewhere maybe.