I'm very glad to hear that. I think it will long term be good for users and other companies (in that one sense, America going crazy isn't good for anyone). Smaller non American companies will be getting more business and it will make the market more competitive. A lot of these other companies will maybe be more incentivized to prioritize privacy because it's cheap to offer and a good selling point. I also think companies will see that supporting a fascist regime is not actually making them rich and they will be less likely to support far right candidates elsewhere.
MountingSuspicion
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I had a family member call me because they were having difficulty with a light switch. They're not dumb, just set in their ways and can't be bothered to learn something else. Plenty of these people don't like change just because it's different. They got confused when windows started doing the rotating desktop pictures because they didn't realize it was still their desktop. Do I think they could eventually use Linux? Probably. Do I want to deal with even more questions? No. Could they install it themselves? Absolutely not without help.
I'm American and I've told all my friends that if they do not have an up to date passport they need to get one immediately and carry a photocopy with them at all times. It's legitimately frightening. I have travel coming up that was booked before the election and I am extremely concerned about it. I'm a citizen and so were my parents. This is not the sign of a functioning country. Stay very far away. Do not buy our products or support our big businesses.
An ad for what?
If it makes you feel any better, it was mostly about hating people who were different ✨
Like so many things, it really depends on what you're doing. I've worked a lot of different jobs, and some absolutely require a numpad and some I've never touched it. What people really need is programmable keyboards. If you need a numpad you don't have to even move your hands if you program it right. Same with function keys. It's better for you long term. So I'd actually suggest a smaller but programmable keyboard for everyone, even if they don't use the numpad, plenty of great features on these keyboards.
Did you respond to the wrong person?
I don't follow influencers, but I'm not really sure what the problem is here. You're upset that someone has a job? That's like saying: Plumbers engaging with plumbing / plumbers engaging with people who can pay them. Like yea, it's their job to advertise to you. That's why they do things. Plumbers don't do it for the love of the game, and neither do influencers. Everyone needs to eat. If you like their content then you should be ok with ads, unless you're paying them directly.
Honestly, even if you thought it was a Chinese bio weapon, he did a terrible job managing it. If anything it makes him bad at managing public health AND espionage.
Thanks for the link! Really surprising stats including "At case disposition, 65% of persons ages 12 to 17 charged with a felony in adult criminal courts were convicted, compared to 25% of persons charged with a misdemeanor."
Def don't link to your research. It's bad opsec lol. In this case I do feel like mock trials would give a better indication as to the actual effect, seeing as in actual cases there'd be so much to account for. Really sad to hear this is the effect shown even in the research you did with mock trials.
The belief is that one should vote for a person or party because they align with your morals. They voted against their conscience because a whole host of people told them that not to would be to condemn even more. And so they voted to prolong a genocide and now they stand without conviction or protection for their allies they gave up those convictions for. Maybe to you voting is a box you check, but for a lot of people it is a statement of their morals and beliefs. That gun to their head they would not sell out their international comrades for luxuries at home. They sold out their neighbors to protect their family and someone is still coming for their family anyway. Say what you want about "harm reduction" but voting for genocide is voting for genocide. They did so and gained nothing except an inability to say they stood for something. Harris paraded around Liz and promised to be tough on immigration. Who was that for? It certainly was not to reassure leftists that she super secretly didn't want to help murder people abroad.
Clearly we have very different understandings of the world. I've never seen a self proclaimed "proud democrat" at any actual level of organizing. Maybe the women's march admittedly had a lot of democrats show up, but actual organizers that I engage with are self proclaimed leftist who "vote" democrat but do not identify as one. If a nonbinary person checks their assigned gender at birth on a form with just M/F, that doesn't mean they align or self identify with that. It's just the options they were presented with. M4A, the fight for a living wage, and LGBT rights have all been championed by leftists before liberals could get together enough to stop using racial slurs. I've been hearing "lib" from the left since obama was in office, but I checked and urban dictionary has an entry from 2005 attacking them from the left, claiming libs are defined as fake progressives who actually don't care about leftist causes. That's popular usage for at least two decades. Maybe there's an age or geography difference that is the cause of this disconnect, but around me most refugee assistance is organized by anarchists and most food aid is organized by socialists. It's not cliquelike, as there's plenty of crossover, but what I don't see is a large contingent of run of the mill democrats actually helping anyone. If you are so concerned about how leftists vote, go work with them wearing your I'm With Her merch. Let them see some libs actually doing something.
Oh weird. I can't get it to load fully so I can't tell, but I don't doubt it. I was just curious what company would possibly want their product associated with this.