NaibofTabr

How the fuck is this country even still standing at this point with this chicanery and buffoonery at the reigns?

Basically because various parts of the government were pitted against each other, by design. Various organizations and levels of government have their own objectives, interests and resources and operate with varying amounts of independence and interdependence. It’s frankly messy and creates some inefficiency, but it’s sort of like biodiversity - a problem that impacts part of the government doesn’t impact all of it in the same way or at the same time, so it doesn’t completely collapse or grind to a halt.

I’m playing the remake on PS5. I think they did a pretty nice job with the graphics upgrade, and with the new tracks.

Crash Team Racing is the pinnacle of kart racing games. The driving is more skill-based than the leading brand name, and it doesn’t have shitty rubber-band AI.

Star Wars Episode 1 Racer is still great fun, easy to learn but hard to be good at.

Nothing compares to F-Zero GX. The abandonment of the franchise is a travesty, and should be considered abuse of the gaming community.

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Hmm… how does one anonymously pay an internet service provider with cash? Mail it in an unmarked envelope, with just your account name? Roll up to the front door and hand it to the receptionist?

Someone else has mentioned M-Disc and I want to second that. The benefit of using a storage format like this is that the actual storage media is designed to last a long time, and it is separate from the drive mechanism. This is a very important feature - the data is safe from mechanical, electrical and electronic failure because the storage is independent of the drive. If your drive dies, you can replace it with no risk to the data. Every serious form of archival data storage is the same - the storage media is separate from the reading device.

An M-Disc drive is required to write data, but any DVD or BD drive can read the data. It should be possible to acquire a replacement DVD drive to recover the data from secondary markets (eBay) for a very long time if necessary, even after they’re no longer manufactured.

Welcome to human society.

But… But… consider the lobster…

This is probably relevant:

Japan says China airspace incursion ‘serious violation of our sovereignty’

Japan wouldn’t be interested in an increased US military presence if they weren’t feeling threatened by their aggressive neighbor.

I’m not sure what I need an AI assistant for when I’m eating breakfast, but OK.

It’s a bad idea to compare Lemmy to Reddit or expect Lemmy to replace Reddit.

Slow growth is not a problem, it’s actually a benefit.

There is no hurry, and no need to push for high user counts.

Rather than trying to attract more people, focus on making your communities an attractive place to be.

I’m not saying you have to spend time with people you don’t like. If you formed a political party of only people you would personally choose to hang out in a bar with, your party would never have any significance.

We have way bigger things to worry about than what Dick Cheney thinks. Insect counts are down globally, it was the hottest summer on record again, COVID is still with us and becoming more contagious, people are struggling to even buy groceries after all the pandemic price gouging, and the only ideas the Republicans have are to lower taxes on the wealthy again.

Vote with your brain, not your feelings.

OK but… the whole point of democracy is that you figure out how to work with people that you don’t like.

If being on the “same side” with people who you disagree with or personally dislike bothers you… fucking get over it. We can’t build a better society until you do.

Is your counselor a vegan? You could use the session to test out some of your memes!

PenDriveLinux or rufus or balena etcher (frequently just referred to as “etcher”) or just dd.

Absolutely, a single hospital for an entire country would not work. But also, small clinics on every street corner would not work because none of them would be able to support more complex/expensive functions like surgical wards, FMRI or biochem labs. The hospital needs to be scaled so that it can support those things, but then it only makes sense for it to serve a larger community because it’s going to need a large staff and a substantial budget - so it needs to be at least locally centralized.

As you said, there’s a critical size.

Well, no, certainly there could be cooperation. But operating a complex entity like a hospital or a sewage processing plant requires proper organization and a permanent dedicated staff. I don’t see how you could do that in a decentralized way.

The problem is that when you accept the terms of service for smart devices and applications with voice interfaces, you give consent to be recorded.

Well my comment was a response to the comment above, not to the article, and in the context of “Kamala’s Thoughts” it is relevant.

ravhall’s point is good, that if a Democrat tried to share their ideology this way the response would be overwhelmingly negative. But on the other hand, we have “Truth Social” which might as well be labeled “Trump’s Thoughts” because he uses it as his personal soapbox. Political candidates owning social media companies should be illegal.

If Cox is advertising this as a product, it’s because they have a market that will buy it.