Saudi Arabia, India, South Africa, Thailand, Indonesia, Mexico and the United Arab Emirates,
None of these "attenders" are in the same region as Ukraine.
Probably just better at using AI to write papers
I've been really happy to have Lemmy as a place to get hot topics, funny memes, and wild conspiracy theories.
Lenny.zip promised gaming focused content and it delivers!
Lemmy for good content and discussion. Reddit still has niche fan communities that will probably never migrate over here, but I can always hope.
You forget your place, comrade.
It looks like midnight commander with some upgrades
Keep in mind too these guys are writing and reading in like assembly or some precursor to it.
I can only imagine the number of checks and rechecks they probably go through before they press the "send" button. Especially now.
This is nothing like my loosey goosey programming where I just hit compile or download and just wait to see if my change works the way I expect...
I dunno I think there's probably been one or two "honest" inflations where a vendor has seen her costs increase and has only raised her prices just enough to cover those increases.
But yeah, I bet the majority of inflation has been rooted in avarice by shareholders and owners.
Did those goalposts come with the wheels already on or are they an aftermarket modification?
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You're misrepresenting the meaning of a vote in the general election of a first past the past voting system to select electors who will cast votes later after the result is certified.
If we're being really casual, sure, it's "approval." But what it really is is a selection of the best option out of what is available.
When the votes are tallied and the Electoral College outcome is finalized, it will either be President Biden getting ready for another four years or President Elect Trump getting ready to take office.
So our only choice here is between a bad four more years of Biden doing some good things because he wants to and some when he has no other choice, or a disastrous four years of Trump doing as many terrible things as possible as fast as possible, almost certainly ending our way of government.
We don't have the "luxury" of time but we have to live in the reality of time. Time is something we can't work around. It takes time to organize, time to work within whatever system(s) we're in, time to convince others to join us, ...
Whatever damage we do to the climate becomes more and more difficult to reverse, major and more difficult to adapt to, affects more and more people, as time goes on. But we have to plan for working in that scenario because we still don't have the numbers of people on our side.
I'm not arguing that we should "wait," either. We've seen that Biden can change his mind and change course. We need to work with that, get more progressives and liberals and Democrats elected from medical examiner to dog catcher to school board to state government to federal. And push them left every time. More unions. More corporate regulation. A four day work week with no reduction in pay, or five 6.5-hour days. Universal basic income. Lower the Medicare eligibility age by five years every 2 years until we have Medicare for all. End all fossil fuel subsidies, and transfer 75% of the subsidies to renewables and the other 25% to next gen power research. Give every worker a minimum of 3 weeks paid vacation and 6 months of parental leave. Provide for end of life care. Make abortion legal safe and rare and decided upon by the pregnant person and their doctor. On and on and on.
On foreign policy, basically support actual freedom and oppose oppression. (Not 1960s Cold War "support capitalism" CIA bullshit.)
We can take steps toward that with Joe Biden as president. Not as fast as you or I would want. But we'll get none of that, and probably the opposite of some of it, if Trump is elected.
The Midwest is like the worst part of America but they have so much sway over the rest of the country it's really fucking annoying.
The other regions of America have their drawbacks but in the MW it's 100% drawbacks. Maybe more precisely, anything "good" you can find there you can find the same or better in another region.
And it's absolutely right to compare them to the hobbits, except in the Midwest they're heavily armed and prone to violence.
Ohio, Indiana, rural Michigan, rural Illinois, Wisconsin, all of it just... terrible.
(The Plains states aren't much better but at least they're emptier.)
I know of several large corporations that allow "summer schedules" for their workers. It wouldn't be hard to have four seasonal schedules.
The thing about this argument though is that what time we call the particular position of the Sun in the sky is up to us, and the way we schedule our lives around those times is also up to us.
If what is problematic to you about locking in either DT or ST is the way your work or school schedule interacts with it, change those schedules.
Or put another way if it's more important to you that sunlight time lines up with your arbitrarily imposed schedule is more important to you than the health & safety of your fellow Americans, you're "worse than dead" to us.
they claimed that the maps were to blame, a storyline that conveniently distracted from the thoroughgoing institutional decay of the state Democratic party, which lacks basic organizing and turnout infrastructure.
This right here is why parties lose. It's what happened in Florida. It's happening in New York.
I'm sure the Democrats made maps that are less gerrymandered, but the math on 2022 votes per precinct still works out to a similar 2022 outcome. Because the NY Dems are apparently not running their party very well.
Democrats need to focus on building a party apparatus as formidable as the Republican Party was before Trump. If they don't do that, they will continue to lose.
Can [cars] be ethical? Can [rocking chairs] be ethical? This question is nonsensical. "AI porn" is the output of a production process.
Are we being asked if it can be produced ethically? Or possessed ethically? Distributed ethically? Ethics are things that apply to conscious creatures, not inanimate objects.
No.
That was easy.
Ok sure but if Person U from a large city comes to the city council meeting and asks for help because their neighbor, Person R, is building a new garage on Person U's property, it's understandable that people from around the city - no matter how far afield - might express support for Person U.
At the same time, if Person T or Person I or Person M from far across the city don't express support, so what? What does it matter? Maybe they're afraid of Person R. Maybe they truly don't care. Maybe they hate person U.