bluGill

They are not that hard to make and you can plan in advance to run ‘exercises’. So normally they might not but when they realize a need they can start putting them in rotation.

until curl rewrites in electon and you don’t have enough ram to run it anymore

What I want isn’t even physically possible. I still want it though. I settle for various compromises because I can’t get what I want. This phone might or might not be a step in a better direction.

I want a keyboard, but not one with little keys with small travel. Give me a real keyboard, with real (preferably buckling spring) switches, and good travel. It still needs to fit in my pocket though - which is why I suffer with a touch screen so often. Sure I have a nice 60% Bluetooth keyboard (Cherry switches are not ideal but a large step up from most keyboards) , but it doesn’t fit in my pocket and so I schelp it only when I expect to type a lot.

physical media only paid the bills for a handfull at the peak. The biggest names sold enough to make money - sometimes they even lost money touring. Everyone else made money from touring (much smaller shows - few special effects, nothing expensive). The media was a bonus to fans and a way to get word to the next place that might book you when you are in town.

Upvote-downvote is a great reaction to all the trolls. combined withan algorithm they can surface the good stuff and alert moderators to garbage. Algorithms are wrong in many places, but that is the implementation that is bad not the idea itself

Lemmys culture of downvoting well written things you disagree with is a problem though. So long as nothing is done about that you can’t make a good algorithm. idealy you would have the guts to upvote things you disagree with, but at least we need people to stop using downvote to disagree - respond with reason if you disagree.

I miss UUCP style forums. They had threading that worked and the concept of ‘i’ve alread read this so don’t show it to me again’. Together those made it easy to see well thought out responses weeks latter.

All other forums are worse. They encourage writing something quick - long well thought writing won’t be found because by the time someone gets it down the topic is dead.

though the original trolls were from such forums. It should be no surprise that everyone else has them - they change nothing.

The AI is doing it though. I type “in [tab]” and I get the whole line. Sometimes I don’t even have to type anything.

I’ve never been able to get an AI promt to write useful code though.

I like auto complete because I’m a terrible speller I’d write “int countOfCommplixThang”, but auto complete guesses “int countComplexThing” Sometimes it even comes up with a better name than I would

Got kids? School has millions of parent orginizations that need help. I just got back from the band boosters meeting… not to mention scouts. Great ways to meet people.

parks and rec is always running events of some sort, find something. You can often attend events at any nearby city (suburb) too

Start by diplomatically recognizing Taiwan - Tell both sides that Germany does not recognize the One China policy as something realistic. Then demand the UN bring Taiwan in as a full member (they wouldn’t get Veto rights on the security console, but they should be equal to New Zealand in everything) .

Nobody will of course, but the above is the right thing and has been for at least 50 years. (really it has been right since WWII, but at least in the early years we can pretend like reunification was a serious idea)

The laws are weird. I’ve often been called a jerk, but when I check the laws they are on my side - or so ambiguous that nobody really knows what is right even though everyone thinks they do (whatever helps them against everyone else)

Oh, so you don’t have pay at the pump and so have to wait in line? I remember those days. The station takes more risk of someone driving off without paying but it mostly works for them. Not pleasant for the customer who is waiting in line behind someone who is trying to decide which lottery ticket to buy or whatever they are being slow on.

I would guess that you have the same thing happen there - you just never noticed/looked at the right time to see those charges. Fuel stations don’t want you to fill your tank and then discover you can’t afford the fuel, so they have some sort of arrangement with the credit cards to verify that you can afford the fuel before you put it in.

Pilot is a big truck station. I expect it isn’t unusual for customers to buy $900 worth of diesel in a single fillup.

Again, I’m a clasical liberal. capitalism is a strawman so you can make arguements like the above. In some ways what I support looks like capitalism but only because and where it is a concequense of clasical liberalism.

note that I need to specify clasical liberal above. Modern liberals are different form us in many complev ways

That is why I object to capitalism - it is defined to be whatever socialists want to demean without reguard if that is even what is happening, if it is acceptable because of other benefits. It assumes capitalists are fine with corruption.

When in reality we are liberals who understand rule of law.

Communism did that when starting with fuedelism or other tyranical systems. when starting with clasical liberal societies it doesn’t improve much. There has never been a capitalist society so who knows how that would fare.

You have it backwards. liberalism came first and underlies capitalism.

the difierence is important because we e do capitalism because of liberalism - freedon - and not a devotion to capital.

You have the relation backward. Liberalism underlies capitalism.