Ah yes another prime example of them working with those who were willing to work with them. That's what they said, right?

"Mein Führer" and "my boss" mean the same thing. My boss definitely won't mind if I use those interchangeably. Arguing otherwise is just semantics. /s

I'm curious how big of a dip there was with macOS when they fully dropped 32 bit support. I'm just one person but a lot of the games I played through steam were older 32 bit games. I don't think I've opened steam on my Mac since that update.

Anytime I see an announcement about voting on a bill that seems even remotely desirable, I just assume it won't pass. I'm basically always right and it saves some grief.

I like this question, although I don't think it could work. Someone who campaigns really well, does not necessarily mean they will fulfill their office well. It also penalizes when there are two good candidates running against each other.

I could see it being more viable if the upper term limit is still along the lines of what we have today. Perhaps a presidential candidate winning an election by landslide could get a maximum term of 8 years, whereas someone just barely winning would have a shortened term of 1-2 years. I would definitely still be concerned about the negative ramifications of potentially more and more dirty campaigning to try and capture the highest portion of votes that others have mentioned.

Diminishing returns!

RiF is Fun for Lemmy

Yeah I have the feeling a lot of them are as bad or in some cases worse than bicycles upfitted with gas engines.

Google's messaging app actually has a desktop browser based client that you can use to send messages from your computer. So that might actually be a good solution for you. I use it regularly and have no complaints about either the phone app or the web app.

Do you still have the tick? The best thing to do is Google search for a service that you can mail in or drop off the tick. They will identify the type of tick, as well as test for the diseases that ticks carry. If everything is negative then you're good to go, but if it tests positive for something you can take that to your doctor.

I just went through this process a couple months ago. Found a tick that had definitely been attached for a few days which is easily long enough for a disease to be transmitted. Mailed the tick in, got the results in an email a few days later that everything was negative.

Are they truly able though? I'll readily admit I'm not very knowledgeable on this, but radio towers have a limited range, right? Satellites have the ability to provide internet and communications to truly remote areas where it may be logistically challenging or impractical to build radio towers.

Here's the actual headline from the article which contains important detail and is less click-baity:

Nepal makes history as first South Asian country to recognise same-sex marriage

Many English speaking countries use the comma to separate groups of three whole number digits and the period to notate the partial number digits. Most non English-speaking countries do the opposite.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator

Posthumous Michael Jackson activated

Lisa Laporte tweeted about it here: https://twitter.com/lisadlaporte/status/1673037899045171206

In a nutshell, it seems like the show got cut because viewership had drastically declined and wasn't worth continuing to produce. If there's additional drama behind the scenes, I haven't heard any indication of it yet.

Honestly I'm kind of surprised the twit network is still around at all. Their overall product has seemed really dated to me for a long time and it seems like the podcast advertising realm is a real shit show right now.

Is there something tangible? Slack's logo is a symbol that suggests clockwise rotation while the version of the swastika that the Nazis used is a symbol that suggests counterclockwise rotation.

Especially given that the Nazis appropriated one version of a symbol that had many other versions/uses/meanings in different cultures, do we really need to equate every symbol or logo that has remote similarities to the swastika with Nazism?

How is any of the information random? The OP title says vague things like "makes history" and "ruling". While you can guess that the ruling is positive based on it saying that it makes history, the headline on the article is unambiguous and much better in my opinion.

First South Asian country

This describes the manner in which this ruling was historical.

Recognize same-sex marriage.

This describes what the actual ruling is.

To use a hyperbole to illustrate a point, the OP title could just as well describe a situation where Nepal had ruled that same sex couples who marry must be banished to outer space. Hypothetically, It's just as much a historical ruling as what actually happened.

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I'm not sure how reliable eBay in Europe is, but I would suggest finding one available from a highly rated seller on eBay.

One of the reasons the Hollywood strikes have the potential of working is because of the strong unions where the union workers are not even allowed to do any acting or writing related work at all while they're striking. The music industry does not have that. Thousands of people could join a music "strike" and it wouldn't remotely move the needle since there's nothing stopping everyone else from just continuing on. I think your point about the atomized nature of the justice business makes it nearly impossible.

Practically there needs to be an organizer. Maybe it could be as simple as a top musician leading the charge by saying they will pull their music off of all streaming platforms until those platforms offer a base pay of X per stream. It would have to be really public and they then would need to get as many others on board as they can. If a large movement of people comes out of that pulling their music from streaming, maybe that could move the needle.

Another issue is that streaming platforms allowed the general public to spend significantly less on music. Instead of buying one album for $10-15, you now can spend that per month for access to basically all the music you need. I don't think the streaming services would be able to just straight up start paying musicians a whole lot more without that completely breaking their model. Film and TV studios started paying less residuals, but to my knowledge they didn't make significantly less money on the top end as well. With music it's a much more delicate ecosystem where if the streaming services charge more so they can pay more, they'll start losing subscribers. And if they charge the amounts they would need for musicians to make a decent living, they would lose a LOT of subscribers.

In essence, the music industry is completely fucked right now and I don't see a way out of it any time soon.

It's pronounced NOOK-YOU-LERRR

I'm curious to see how streaming services are going to be affected by the strikes. Theoretically down the road they'll reach a point for a while where they have very little new content to release and will be fighting each other for the rights to existing content.

My local store had numerous room temp superconductors right next to the perpetual motion machines.

Same. I cancelled my Netflix a couple years ago and haven't looked back. They don't have a lot of content that I'm interested in watching anymore, and when they do it's easy to find elsewhere. I host my own Plex server now which makes it even more of a seamless transition.

I guess my question is how does Lemmy solve this problem in particular? Maybe I don't understand it fully, but is there anything stopping an instance from shutting down and losing all the content associated with that instance? Users still have the ability to delete their posts and comments, don't they? I do think there are many benefits to the decentralized system, but in these specific ways I'm not seeing a tangible benefit.

TIL what a Cane Corso is.

You make a great point here. It's so common to boil one view down to a label, and then people use that label to extrapolate a whole set of views, many of which the individual may not ascribe to. Example: he's anti vax which is an alt right viewpoint, therefore he is alt right. You tell someone that he is alt right and then that person thinks he is bigoted toward LGBTQ+, donates to the NRA, pickets outside of abortion clinics, etc.

I'm not saying any of this in support of RFK Jr at all, just that this concept is detrimental to all rational discourse. Labels are a helpful part of language in categorizing things, but they can also be really dangerous when you default to using them in every situation even if they don't fit.