For the record, the problem in Norway was that government programs to encourage electric vehicle ownership were too successful and incentivized people to drive instead of use transit. Also, the financial incentives for purchasing electric cars mostly went to people who were already wealthy.

It’s a cult. MAGAts need deprogramming, not negative ads.

And this particular group are not good guys, either.

I guess the reviewer doesn’t care about software updates, because Motorola’s support is abysmal.

My current car is an '07 Yaris. It's totally bare bones, but everyone who has been in it comments on how spacious the interior is.

I've always driven small cars, because they're economical and I've never needed anything larger. I hate that small hatchbacks are so scarce in the US and that our roads are overrun with ludicrously huge pickups and SUVs. We transitioned from land yachts to small cars in the late 1970's and 1980's, we could do it again with the right incentives.

Leopards eating faces is exactly what this is, though. "Muslim who supports Christian Nationalists because they hate gay people shocked that Christian Nationalists also hate Muslims."

Another confirmation here. At my previous job, I was they guy who built Access databases and wrote VBA code. While not ideal, it was a very small business (less than 10 employees) and it was fit for purpose.

When I got a new job at a company with almost 3,000 employees, I was like, "Finally, I'll be working somewhere that has proper IT resources." Ha! I soon find out that my department runs critical business infrastructure with Excel macros. And we have a proper IT department.

As everyone has already said, if IT resources are in short supply (or the wait is too long, or building projects with IT support is a PITA), then people will build systems with the tools they have at hand. And that's often MS Office.

Just a reminder that real people suffered as a result of the Giuliani's contemptible lies. For me, this was the most gut-wrenching testimony from the January 6th hearings.

The Emperor's New Groove is, IMHO, the funniest film Disney has ever made. Most of the films from the Disney revival era are basically musicals with comic relief, but TENG is pure Looney Tunes. It has a great cast and it's laugh-out-loud funny from beginning to end.

I'd like to see right to repair laws expanded to right to unlock. I think you could make a reasonable argument that a working device that's not receiving security updates is just as broken as a device that's experienced a hardware failure.

See, this is the beauty of running Debian stable as your daily driver. I'll be on Gnome 43 for two more years, so by the time I upgrade to Gnome 45+ extensions should be compatible. Only half-joking, I really do avoid a lot of early adopter regressions and breakage.

Every conservative accusation is a confession.

The only strategic thinking that McCarthy seems capable of is, "How can I keep my job today?"

He could have been more bipartisan, he could have made deals across the aisle, he could have reigned in some of the clownshow investigations his side of the aisle have been promoting. He might have been able to put together a centrist coalition that would have neutered the Freedumb Caucus. But McCarthy, like most Congressional Republicans, is incapable of complex thought.

And now he's stuck. If he makes a deal with the Democrats to avert a shutdown he loses his job. If there's an extended government shutdown a lot of Republicans are going to lose their jobs next year. Not to mention the pain a shutdown will cause to ordinary Americans (as if any Republican cared about that).

The entire Freedumb Caucus is still on board. The "shocking" revelation that Biden hasn't committed any impeachable acts isn't going to deter the GQP at all.

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EDIT: Good luck finding any boards in stock. Sorry.

Trump demands a lot of things.

The article addresses that. Because the media doesn't report on Biden supporters, the public gets the impression that no one likes him much. I also think approval ratings are not contextualized well, because you rarely see how many people who disapprove of Biden's presidency are right-wing and how many are leftists.

From a personal perspective, while I was not a reluctant Biden voter (would have never voted for Trump), he was far from the top of my list in the 2020 primary. I think, considering the obstacles he's faced, Joe has been a much better president that I expected. That's in spite of Republicans ratfucking student loan relief and robust electoral reform.

That’s my go-to technique. But I would prefer that Lifehacker was not publicizing it.

There are more than enough people on the planet and the answer to falling birth rates in the developed world isn’t more births, it’s more immigration.

Unfortunately, the xenophobes seem to be winning in most western countries, to everyone’s detriment.

I am a Boomer when it comes to coding

Hey, OP, I think it's cool that you'd like to learn to code. I made my living as a coder for many years and it's a good career path. But I would not say it's an essential life skill and the vast majority of people of all ages get by fine without coding skills.

With that out of the way, I'm going to defend the honor of Boomers here. Boomers (and the Silent Gen before them) built the technology industry as we know it today. For example, here's a list of popular programming languages and their inventors:

• Java: James Gosling (1955) - Boomer

• C: Dennis Ritchie (1941) - Almost a Boomer

• C++: Bjarne Stroustrup (1950) - Boomer

• C#: Anders Hejlsberg (1960) - Boomer

• Python: Guido van Rossum (1956) - Boomer

• PHP: Rasmus Lerdorf (1968) - X Gen

• Perl: Larry Wall (1954) - Boomer

• JavaScript: Brendan Eich (1961) - Boomer

• Ruby: Yukihiro Matsumoto (1965) - Cusp of Boomer/X Gen

• SQL: Raymond Boyce (1946) and Donald Chamberlin (1944) - Boomers

• Go: Robert Griesemer (1964), Rob Pike (1956) and Ken Thompson (1943) - 2 Boomers and an almost-Boomer

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In addition to a large instance being less likely to shut down and (presumably) having more resources, there's an additional advantage to being on a larger instance: you have a more comprehensive "All" feed. Since federation with a remote feed isn't established until (IIRC) someone subscribes to it, an instance with a larger user base should contain more subscriptions to a wider variety of content. Of course, not everyone will like that and you lose out on Beehaw content if you're on the two largest Lemmy instances, but I think it applies in general.

Yep, nothing but the best snake oil for the rubes. Republicans love their crooked businessmen.

Reminds me of Anne Romney trying to relate to ordinary Americans by saying she and Mitt also struggled with living expenses when they were newlyweds. In fact, it got so bad that they were forced to sell some stock to make ends meet.

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What scientist would not want to promote their latest research while wearing a CGI-generated cat head and doing interpretative dance to a base heavy riff by a band autotuned to sound like robotic pre-pubescent Japanese girls?

I get the result you got, but the Emergent Mind response is the second organic result. That's still way too high.

Eastern Sierra Regional Airport in Bishop, California. Currently served by United Airlines CRJ's.

I'm not sure what's being implied here, but the quote from the article is true. ChromeOS is FOSS, was based on Ubuntu (a long time ago) and is now based on Gentoo. Early versions of ChromeOS, which were basically just a full-screen browser, didn't feel very Linuxy. But I think current ChromeOS versions look and feel a lot like using a simplified Linux distro.

I don't have a strong opinion on whether ChromeOS should be grouped with traditional Linux distros for statistical purposes. But it is notable that Google maintains the two most most popular non-server OSs built on the Linux kernel.

Nonsense. It's very unlikely that a party with members as diverse politically as Joe Manchin and AOC would form a monolithic power block in the absence of the GOP. It's far more likely that the Democratic party would fragment.

I'm old enough to remember when shorthand was a required course for women in secretarial schools. I always though it was black magic and very cool.

I'm not surprised at all.

What did you expect the fine people in his district to do, vote for the Democrat?

Fun fact. In the days before high-bypass turbofan engines, water was deliberately injected into jet engines to cool down the combustion chamber and increase thrust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_injection_(engine)#Use_in_aircraft

Here in the US, there are a lot of regional cultures so the "rules" vary a lot from place to place. Using one of your examples, it's very common where I live to greet the driver when you get on a bus and thank them when you leave. But I've been told that would seem weird in other parts of the country.

I would never greet an entire waiting room at a doctor's office. I'd assume most of the people there are anxious and/or not feeling well and not in the mood for social interaction. Excluding organized events (conferences and meetings and the like), I can't think of any circumstance where I would say hello to an entire room of random strangers.

Well, I didn't wake up this morning expecting to see Santa's O face. I guess that's enough internet for the day.

Biden was the poorest (least affluent?) senator for decades. If he was corrupt, he was very bad at it.

It's likely that Hunter was trading on his father's name (as do many children of famous/influential people). But Joe being corrupt just doesn't pass the smell test. And this time, I don't think the Republican smear campaign is going to work, President Biden isn't Hillary Clinton. I mean, it will work with some people, but they're already too deep into the GQP's alt-universe to be reachable.

I commuted 2 1/2 hours a day, mostly highway driving. In a Yaris, with a passenger. For 8 years. I was driving, not stretching out to take a nap.

TBH, I would have preferred a car that was quieter and had a bit more comfortable ride. But a Corolla, Civic, Mazda 3 or Elantra would have been just fine.

Darn it, beat me to it :-).

Sure, why not? Everyone has their own reasons for moving and climate contributes to an area's quality of life.

When I moved from Southern California to the Pacific Northwest, the benign climate here was a factor. Didn't want to live somewhere where it was blazing hot every day for months, where it was a steam bath all summer or where I had to shovel snow every winter.

Now come on, she wasn't actually on her knees in the theater. Unless there's some unpublished photos out there (asking for a friend).

I think this is where Biden's decades of congressional experience shows. He does the same bipartisan dog-and-pony show that Obama did, but Biden has been more effective at actually getting legislation passed.

Fava beans and a nice Chianti. Everyone knows that, so it goes without saying.