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That SELECT and WHERE are all caps, but from is not is bugging me.

I don't care if you choose to uppercase keywords or lowercase, but consistency please.

Also, great, love it.

I did watch the state of the union address, and Biden did a wonderful job overall.

There were a few word stumbles, and his stutter came out at a point; but I know I couldn't give an hour long plus speech, and not stumble several times. There was one spot he stopped mid-sentence to respond to a heckle, which will probably be clipped, but I cant remember the exact words.

Republicans need to learn to just shut up during his speeches and not heckle. He is on the ball, and at his best when responding to their heckling, it makes him look good, and he gets concessions out of them every time.

Gaza was probably the toughest segment he tackled in the SOTU; primarily that he repeated several things I've heard to be false, but may well be stuff that either stuck in his memory hard, or the US intelligence community has more information than the media I've seen, and could be accurate.

Overall, he did look energetic, intelligent, and delivered on a lot of the messaging for what his office had helped accomplish, that people generally don't hear about.

If your issue with Biden is his age, or you think his office hasn't done much of anything, I suggest you watch. If your issue with him is Gaza... likely nothing he does is going to placate you, and this address won't change that. He clearly is for a two state system, and not anti-Palestinian, but also is anti-Hamas, and is well aware of Hamas tactics of blending in with civilians, and using them as a shield (which isn't new, it has been how they operate for a long time prior to the current conflict).

This only makes me favor copyright reform more. Should really cut that down to 25 years or less; anything from before the 21st century should be public domain by now.

All companies that plan to have dynamic pricing, please let me know.

I've already stopped going to Wendy's; I'd love to add you to the list of places never to patron again.

My latest concern these car stories have brought on, is that Ring, Nest, Eufy, other smart home camera systems, are selling data.

No evidence to it atm, but Ring used to provide access to police; not a huge leap to selling collected data to data brokers and insurance companies.

Currently, insurance companies are deploying drones to check out properties, and terminate and/or non-renew home owners insurance based on the footage. It's not a huge leap for smart camera providers to provide snapshots for this same purpose. It would be a huge betrayal of trust, and tank the brand, especially since many people set cameras up inside their home, but extracting pennies now, in exchange for losing several dollars per month subscription fees and hardware purchases, sounds just like something a lot of these companies would do.

... Are there people out there expecting more than a private/incognito session not saving your session data when you end it?

That is the sole reason I use private mode, because I don't want it to save cookies/cached/temp files/history locally for whatever I'm visiting.

I just switched to FastMail a few weeks ago with my own domains to move away from Google, to prevent this vary possibility.

I realize how screwed I am if my email carrier arbitrarily decides to cut me off. Haven't changed every account, but I started with my bank/financial accounts, and basically intend to change them over time; every time I log into an account for something, I plan to change it.

Edit: Of course, not an advert for FastMail. They are simply who I choose; I own the domains, so I can easily switch to another provider in the future if I so choose without cutting off my accounts. I know more privacy focused people tend to prefer Proton Mail or Tuta Mail. I'm fine with the choices fastmail makes in comparison to the other providers, for the specific features they are able to offer for giving up E2E encryption, a reasonably price family plan, and some more generous offering for value/price.

If someone requires the extra privacy, for sure go for another provider.

Also, she is the VP of the incumbent administration. Any complaints people have about Biden, other than his personal age, also can be applied to her. Economy? Immigration? Isreal/Gaza? All Harris' administration. Doesn't matter that she has little input or control of any of those, she is the VP, Trump and Conservatives will blame her all the way until election day, and Fox/Conservative media will be there to parrot and distribute the word.

A reminder to people that during Trump's term, his nominee to run NOAA was a member of the family that owned the private weather forecasting company AccuWeather, and a strong proponent for dismantling NOAA in favor of privatization/commercialization. The only reason that didn't happen, is because he withdrew the nomination after it going nowhere for a couple years in the Senate, in large part due to the clear conflict of interest.

For easy research for anyone interested, his name was "Barry Myers", but suffice to say, Trump and company already tried this during his last administration. It's not MAGA exclusive, it is an overall Conservative goal, and they will try again next time they either hold the executive branch, or have full control of the legislative branch; in the meantime, they have to rely on the Supreme Court to weaken government agencies.

I'm not really worried about Biden's age, only about his ability to win.

I am voting AGAINST Trump and his administration. Trump is not fit for office for a number of reasons.

Biden returned us to a level of normalcy in the executive branch; he's performed his duties better than I actually expected, despite the GOP controlling the house and doing almost nothing legislatively for the 2nd half of his term. If Biden kicks the bucket after getting elected, that is fine; his administration will be in place, the VP will take over to serve out the remainder of his term, and in four years we will have a chance at someone else. Biden will have served his country well in that.

Fact of the matter is, Biden isn't going to step down, stop buggering out about his age. Six months ago to a year ago, his mental fitness was fine. Now he is finally starting to show his age in that regard, but he still cares about this country, and holds American democracy as a truth in his heart. If I hear one more old person in their 70's (Schumer) and 80's (Pelosi) call for Biden to step down, I will expect for people to also call for those old farts to step down, before they get Feinsteined.

For anyone that is voting against Trump, it is simple: If Biden doesn't step down, vote for Biden. If Biden steps down, you vote for whoever steps up in his place.

If someone is actually fine with Trump winning, then this message isn't for you.

That is clearly whataboutism.

It's not a story about the USA, and there are other countries affected, including all of Europe, some middle eastern countries, and most of Asia (and many countries that do not have an adversarial relationship with China, such as lendees of the BRI).

You're free to criticize the USA. US News outlets are also free to do so, and do it all the time; they also don't, or may honor or not honor a request from the white house to publish or hold back a story. They are publishers and allowed to do that (NPR included).

This story is specifically about an accusation of the Chinese government influencing articles seen (not moderation of ToS breaking, or illegal content) on the U.S. version of TikTok.

NCRI said in its report that “our findings, which, while not definitive proof of state orchestration, present compelling and strong circumstantial evidence of TikTok’s covert content manipulation.”

TikTok has repeatedly said the Chinese government has no influence over its U.S. app, and proving otherwise would be difficult — something that the Department of Justice has acknowledged in discussions over a law that could ban the app.

Meta is another story; they are free to moderate/censor content, but if they start curating content, and not letting an algorithm decide what to show users based on their behavior, then that is another story. It is still legal for them to do, but they may also be determined to be responsible as a publisher.

If Meta advertised themselves to users as a curation of 'conservative news', or 'US propaganda', and that's what their users are signing up for, then that is fine. They advertise themselves as social media, with what people see being based on user behavior and posted content. If Meta was US Government owned, or funded, then they are welcome to do that in other nations as well, as long as they follow that nation's laws regarding the matter, otherwise foreign governments are welcome to act on it in their nation has appropriate. (Meta is not US government owned, they actually have quite a few legal battles and inquiries by the US government, and are a self-interested greedy corporation).

The same applies of TikTok. If they advertised themselves as a Chinese propaganda source and registered as a foreign agent (as is necessary when a foreign government has content control of the medium in question in the US for political purposes), then that would be fine; they explicitly denied that though, and push the value of their algorithm, and that they are social media.

The US famously does have foreign state funding TV networks, and US Citizens are allowed to watch it if they so choose, just that they need to register as such:

The Justice Department announced the registration just hours after RT’s chief editor said the company had complied with the U.S. demand that it register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The move doesn’t restrict the channel’s content, but the network is required to publicly disclose details about its funding and operations as well as mark certain content distributed in the U.S. with labels.

Source: https://apnews.com/article/69e84148c8a44512bdc648b1bcac4f34

China has also had such TV Networks in the US since the 1990s.

Before Oct 7th..... ummm... the economic pain for bankers caused by forgiving student loans? Inflation did suck for a while, but the Biden admin walked a tightrope with almost guaranteed recession below, and managed a soft landing to avoid recession (which honestly, everyone was expecting a recession). The Biden admin has a long list of things they actually have done, just their PR sucks (Biden tends to quietly work to accomplish stuff in the background, and not throw a victory parade for every little thing they do. Not that I want him to do that, I consider it tacky, but Trump does it constantly and gets all the media attention, so hopefully that changes for the duration of the elections).

Even with what is happening in Gaza, Biden and the Biden administration are not 'pro-murder Palestinians'.

Bibi isn't going to listen to anyone unless made to, this is an ambition of his.

What I would say the Biden admin, AND CONGRESS, are guilty of, is not being heavy handed with Bibi and Israel. They have no actual power to stop it, but they do have the power of influence by enforcing our standard policies for military aid; ie: condition continued aid on not murdering Palestinian civilians/make (and show) great effort to specifically target Hamas... if not, stop selling weapons/providing aid to Israel (beyond maybe the Iron Dome).

I do want someone younger for President, but if it's Biden v. Trump, I'm voting Biden. The Gaza situation sucks, Israel has gone too far, and is rightfully being viewed as the villain here, but not being able to control the leader of a foreign nation isn't reason to be ANTI-Biden, and let fascists/authoritarians come into power.

The world suddenly acting like Biden should have ultimate control over foreign leaders is a weird new twist I did not expect. Israel has long been an important ally and partner; we do need to be firmer/heavier handed, but not so much as to turn a partner/ally into an enemy, unless absolutely necessary. Ideally, Israelis would take care of removing Bibi from power on their own.

Not surprised at all it is something the Trump administration was doing considering his rhetoric on the pandemic in general, and China. Awful all around.

Glad to hear it. I wasn't super particular, but I wanted someone with a military background as her VP.

The unwelcoming post title aside (I assume in jest)...

A single takeaway of my personal opinion from this series of polls is that Gen Z is comfortable with themselves, don't feel the need to hide, and the older generations are following suit and/or the long fought battle for social change from the older generations have finally yielded an environment that people can just be themselves.

I'm 100% straight millennial (and thus didn't have to deal with this struggle personally), but I can for sure say the general culture today, I would feel comfortable being out in, but in 2012.... I would not have been. Still dealing with people I thought were accepting people falling for the the Prop 8 BS from.. what was that, 2008?

Proud for having a generally more accepting and welcoming culture/society.

I've seen the news story since, but my first thought when I heard about it yesterday from someone was 'what is with conservatives weird obsession with little girls'.

Now I know they are freaking out about the law being for all bathrooms, not just girls bathrooms. Trans panic aside, I can easily see a girl telling her boyfriend "the bathroom is out of tampons/pads, can you get me one from the boys bathroom?".

If you are an adult, and clearly an adult, then it's probably too old.

I'll still give you candy if I answer the door, but that is probably where you might creep some people out, or they give creeper vibes and don't trust answering the door.

That said, in my own experience, you are too old to trick or treat once you pass about 5'6" (~165 cm).

I remember finding out I was too old. After an event, some friends wanted to go trick or treating. I was in high school still, but just shy of 6 feet. Female friend the same age was just over 5', and another female friend that was a few years older was about 4'9".

Anyways, they trick or treated fine, and I got stares, and clearly treated differently. Clearly trick or treating is not about age, but perceived age. (and effort. If you're short and all covered up in your costume, no one will know or care... long as your voice isn't boss baby)

"In early 2019, ConcernedApe formed a small development team to continue updating the game. The 1.4 update of the game was developed by ConcernedApe, Arthur Lee (a.k.a. Mr. Podunkian), and Alex Erlandson (a.k.a. zillix). The 1.5 update of the game was developed by ConcernedApe and Arthur Lee. See Stardew Valley for more info about the game's development. "

https://stardewvalleywiki.com/ConcernedApe

So he worked on 1.4 and 1.5 with ConcernedApe. Technically a former Stardew Valley developer, but title is just click bait to get attention. Up to 1.3 was a one man show, and by that point, who could blame ConcernedApe for hiring some help; the game was successful, and had the funds to do it, and help with his vision (possibly with things outside his expertise).

Indeed. Need to vote all democrat down the ticket (hopefully with good choices in primaries) for the moment to preserve American democracy and freedom. Once the current fascist/authoritarian push is in the rear view mirror, then we can work on better choices.

This is Biden's last chance at a second term, he will not try again if he loses to Trump. Trump on the other hand will probably keep trying until he is dead, in prison, or his health in old age drags him down; Here's hoping Biden wins this one, and by 2028 Trump's health will be in decline/prevent him from running.

I've been against Biden stepping down, it's just so late in the process, and a heavy push for Kamala Harris to take his place in the media soured that; I have nothing against her personally, but she is the 'establishment' currently, as the VP of the current administration, and I don't feel she is particularly strong against Trump, other than a "I'd vote for anyone with a D next to their name over Trump" kind of way. That said, the hit to Biden's elect-ability between the debate, media coverage, and high name recognition members of his own party requesting him step down, has been large, and has damaged his ability to win.

A large part of the reason I feel he could successfully step down at this point, is if a good candidate is already in place to step up. The Dem and anti-Trump base will have no problem switching their vote. It's having someone to appeal to the people that could be persuaded either way, or may not even vote.

Personally, that would be Gavin Newsom from my perspective; he is well known, has been going head to head with Florida's DeSantis already, has been in the media in a way that already seems like he is gunning for the presidency, and was Biden's media spin room representative at the debate; but he has his drawbacks as well.

I've seen Whitmer floated, and I don't think she's an awful choice, but also feel she is needed in the roll she is currently in, and is doing an awesome job there.

Josh Shapiro... I know nothing about, may be a fine candidate, but my mind immediately turns to Turning Point USA's Ben Shapiro, and it is probably an unfortunate name recognition issue to the average person. Have to keep in mind, this is elevating mostly people with state level recognition to a national stage of people unfamiliar with them (in that way, maybe a swing state Dem would be a good pick).

The other people I've seen floated, I have no opposition to, but the main issue is, are the funds there to run an effective campaign to elevate someone who hasn't been running on the national stage, in only a few months time. 3+ months is plenty of time for an election in a state, or your average European sized country, I feel; but the US is massive, with a lot of states the size of a European country. It may be fine for the majority of people, but I worry about penetration into the swing states, particularly those that don't generally pay attention to elections, or the media.

Obviously stay away from anyone that is retirement age though, as the push to out Biden is specifically about his age, and perceived age related mental health, and have a preference to keep them under 70 by the end of 8 years in office, so they can do a double term without perceived age issues, so about 35 - 62.

If it's going to happen, Biden needs to step down in the next few days, and immediately come up with another viable candidate; Otherwise dems will need to stay the course with Biden.

But... it's a Non-commercial Attribution license. /s/ns

I'm joking, but on a more serious note for those that don't know, not all Creative Commons licenses allow you to monetize, and be sure to actually read which version of license is used if you plan to use a CC work for anything other than personal use.

A few years ago, wasn't there a company (maybe it was uber?) that was being overwhelmed by arbitration fee's for a large number of arbitration cases? I forget the outcome, but it may be due to their agreement stipulating they would cover arbitration fees. Either way, forced arbitration needs to go.

knowing anything about women’s health because it’s “yucky”

Can we just rename Tampons for them, to "Jesus Sticks", and when they have to have an uncomfortable conversation, they can just pull one out and say "You need Jesus"? Or when asking someone for one, someone can proudly proclaim "I need Jesus" to their friends.

I've gotten the seriousness out in other comments; I just had the thought, and had to share it somehow, somewhere.

They've done a good job making menstruation 'yucky'; the majority of women I know have at some point apologized to me after periods come up in group or private conversations. It's just a period, nothing to be ashamed of.

I feel like Little Bobby Tables has grown up, and should now be Robert'); DROP TABLE loans;--

Incumbent President almost always runs unopposed. That being said, he ran as the adult in the room to get us back from the right, and was NOT expected to run for reelection.

True enough, but I also don't think during the 2020 election, anybody thought that if Trump lost, at practically 80 years old, he would be the R candidate in the 2024 election as well.

I honestly wish the right wasn't so regressive, crazy, and having such a hold on half the country. I'd love to vote for someone else for president, but the risk of the right winning is just too damaging.

This is a message to people in generally, not specifically the top level comment:

If your instance, or app/frontend offers a keyword filter/block, I would suggest adding Chappelle to the list.

Politicians, or words of violence can also be added if you generally want a joyful experience on Lemmy; staying up to date the news and politics can be important, but some people get plenty of that from outside of Lemmy, and may want this to be a space to relax, chill, or experience their interests and hobbies, or something important to them on a personal level.

If you search for "home owner insurance non-renewal drone", you should find tons of stories about it.

They may be hiring third parties, or doing it themselves, but regardless, it is happening.

Once again, to clarify, the smart camera thing has just been sitting in the back of my mind, not an accusation, just a concern as a possibility. Would probably be a fun investigation for an investigative journalist. Or just someone scouring those fun terms of service policies for language that might indicate such things.

Edit: Would actually be fun to get all of those companies to publicly state on the record that they do not, and will not ever do such a thing, your data is private, and will not be shared with anyone other than law enforcement, and/or without a warrant (or other legal court order).

I feel like I wasted 60 seconds... now 120 seconds of my life reading and typing up this reply.

Who is abbreviating Firefox? Who capitalizes FireFox this way, and why would it really matter to anyone.

And who made the decision to abbreviate it Fx... that's a horrible decision.

JavaFx is what first comes to mind to me, but it's such a common abbreviation, as others have pointed out.

While I'd love for the country to implement it, I will settle for my state implementing single payer as a starting point. You'd think it'd be easier at the local level, but seems almost as impossible.

... I had an IT tech from our old MSP tell me her knowledge/recommendation of ABP is what got her the job.

I knew her boss, and doubt that was the reason (probably more because she was cheap entry level labor), but that some people have that take in a professional setting shocked me. I don't think your ad-blocker recommendation will ever be what lands you a job, but I do think it's possible for it to be the reason you don't get a job.

Yeah, I don't know what his family is doing. He should be under a conservatorship. He is in Florida, if one of his family members doesn't do it, maybe a Florida judge should designate Ron DeSantis or one of his cronies as Trump's conservator /s

Seriously, conservatorship is a major problem in Florida: https://cbs12.com/news/cbs12-news-i-team/florida-lawyer-guardianship-brian-oconnell-catholic-charities-palm-beach-county-center-for-estate-administration-reform-11-3-2023. It's basically the thing Brittany Spears was in.

Anyone can make a complaint and ruin a life in Florida I believe. It won't happen to Trump, because the attorneys and judges would be too scared to take Trump on, but in theory they could do it.

Carter told his son Chip this week, “I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris.”

And I don't think he normally gets involved in politics. That he said he's trying to make it to to vote for Harris as a target, not make it to his 100th birthday which comes a month earlier, I think goes to show how important he considers every vote to defeat Trump. I can't imagine making voting for a specific politician in an election as my goal to live to do.

Is that an economist url?... yeah, no, not clicking that.

Typically the "financial type media", are full of political opinion instead of focusing on finance. Very often bad takes, and over the years, I've learned they just aren't worth a click, and my time.

Phages are pretty cool, but bacteria do develop phage resistance as well. Phages also can evolve to evade those resistances, in a co-evolutionary battle, but also Phages can still be seen as antigens to our own body.

A recent case-study: https://www.upmc.com/media/news/021424-phage-therapy

To avoid reading the whole article: Antibiotics no-longer worked for a patient in 2020 that developed an infection after needing immunosuppression for treatment of an autoimmune condition, so they tried phage therapy.

quote from the phage treatment section:

Within 24 hours of receiving phage therapy, the patient’s blood infection had resolved and she could go home, where she continued the phage and antibiotic combination. She developed a few short-lived breakthrough infections, which indicated the bacteria was getting around the therapy, so the researchers found an additional phage that targeted her bacteria.

With the addition of the new phage, the patient was blood infection-free for four months and able to travel out of state for a for a family beach vacation.

However, just over six months after starting phage therapy, the blood infection returned, and the phage-antibiotic combination was thought to be no longer effective. The patient died in 2022.

In order to learn why the infections recurred despite the combination being previously effective, laboratory testing revealed that the patient’s immune system had likely activated in a way that blocked the phages from attacking the bacteria.

I'm not disagreeing with the benefits of Phage Therapy, just that it isn't likely a magic solution all on it's own, and can still suffer similar resistance issues as antibiotics have. I'm a fan of multipronged attack vectors, to reduce the chance of developing progressive resistances (ie. wipe out the whole colony), and the more tools we have for that, the better.

I would not recommend working on two GUI's at once, but if you build it in a way you can use different frameworks for it, the maker of Rich also makes a nice TUI framework API called Textual.

Here's some projects made with it for a sample of what it's usage can look like: https://www.textualize.io/projects/

I believe it does not use curses at all.

Just show up for the Sept 10th debate you already agreed to. ABC, don't cave to any of his weird demands/temper tantrum; just do the debate as agreed, and if he doesn't show, that's fine too.

People aren't going to want to watch three debates of your dumb ass in a single month. One debate is sufficient in September. If you both agree on it, one in October to keep it fresh in people's minds are also fine, though not necessary. Everyone knows Trump already, this is really just a chance for undecideds, or wall sitters to get to know Harris.

Thank goodness, hope it stays dead. I'm in figurative pain from agreeing with Rand Paul.

For compliance with EU's GDPR and CA's CPRA, they should have some tools to remove information.

Whether those are available to you will depend on where you live, and the companies policy.

I use Voyager, but am assuming this isn't an app feature, but a Lemmy feature.

Under Blocks & Filters, there is a Keyword filter.

I would suggest anyone trying to avoid the topic add related keywords to your filter. If something comes up after that, examine it, determine why it made it past your filter, and add necessary additional words if needed.

Of course it is major world news, so if you want to see updated news about it in your feed, that's not doable, but people don't have to read the comment thread.

I am an Apollo Reddit migrate, and to allow my wife to function, I had an extensive keyword filter in place for her, anything relating to violence (shootings, sexual assault), politics (mentions of certain politicians, or political topics), horror stuff, sexual content, and words she finds generally offensive. It really made such a difference for her, whereas she could never function in such a social platform (without affecting her mental well being) without those filters.

The key feature I am waiting for is the ability of users to block/filter whole instances/servers on their own, as that would allow participating in more difficult nuanced topics like this, while mass filtering communities whose user base one finds to behave badly, or be generally offensive/trollish.

I get that there are a lot of novel are cool distros out there, but I just stick with Debian (or one of the other well known distros that have been around for decades).

I do it because from a security standpoint, they have my trust. Maybe in 10-20 years with a good reputation and history, but it's not there.