Being registered “as a republican/democrat” is weird.

Electoral college is weird AF

One party trying to stop people voting is weird.

Queuing for hours to vote is weird.

Purging voter rolls is weird.

Rallies are weird.

Townhalls are weird.

Flags everywhere is weird.

The orange one is super weird.

This is huge. Of course they shouldn’t have been left trapped there for decades but it’s great to know their situation is improving 👍

Haha yeah but it won’t. It’ll be forgotten by Monday.

I’ve had a Tidal subscription for about a year. It’s recommendation algo is way way better than Spotify and there are none of those spammy 1 minute tracks that Spotify has because ‘artists’ have gamed the system.

They don’t have a Linux app but the PWA works fine. Minimize the window to reduce CPU usage (I know that sounds crazy but it actually works).

ok so the monkeys need to type faster

Anytime someone says “it has to be that way because that’s how federation works” they’re wrong. It can be however we want it to be, it’s just a choice.

Ahh yes, the walled garden trap.

I self-host a copy of FreshRSS which does most of those things. No Android app but the PWA works.

Whether you can read the full text in the app or not usually depends on whether the source provides a feed with the full text in it - changing your reader app won’t make much difference.

I subscribe to ~100 feeds but I have no idea what you’re into so dumping the list on you won’t help.

Instead, check out these directories that list RSS feeds by topic:

https://ooh.directory/

https://github.com/plenaryapp/awesome-rss-feeds

TikTok quantified the precise amount of viewing it takes for someone to form a habit: 260 videos.

Kentucky authorities note that while it might seem a lot, TikTok videos can be just a few seconds long.

“Thus, in under 35 minutes, an average user is likely to become addicted to the platform,” the state investigators concluded.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/12/g-s1-28040/teens-tiktok-addiction-lawsuit-investigation-documents

Most women could not open their own bank accounts or have credit cards until the 1970’s. That’s just about within the lifetimes of nearly half the people here.

In your best actual solution, how do refugees apply for asylum?

I’ve been learning docker over the last few weeks and it’s been very helpful for writing and debugging docker-compose configs. My server how has 9 different services running on it.

I use it for python development sometimes, maybe once per day. I’ll paste in a chunk of code and describe how I want it altered or fixed and that usually goes pretty well. Or if I need a generic function that I know will have been coded a million times before I’ll just ask ChatGPT for it.

It’s far from “useless” and has made me somewhat more productive. I can’t see it replacing anyone’s job though, more of a supplemental tool that increases output.

It’s not so much the hair itself as it being a symptom of god knows what else.

Scalability. Federation adds overhead that increases as the number of instances increases. It is unclear to me when we will hit a wall but it’s probably not far off.

How will we pay the bills. Some instances get enough donations to pay server costs but none get enough to pay for staff or developers.

Both of those are only really problems if the fediverse grows, which it hasn’t for a while now. But that could change at any moment.

https://bimmerlife.com/2020/10/31/study-bmw-drivers-are-the-rudest/

BMW drivers are the worst. It’s science.

The big writing behind him says “TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING”, if anyone is curious. They kept it out of the shot when recording the stage but the writing was visible on the screens of the phones the audience were holding up.

If only there was a source of young keen workers to fill the gaps.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/04/turk-sounds-alarm-escalating-migrant-crisis-central-mediterranean

when used appropriately

…and there’s the rub. Far too often it’s not used appropriately. And people’s ideas of what is appropriate is colored by whether they too were beaten as a child.

My 486. With colour screen and speakers!

I have found ft.com to be very unreliable in the past.