like 35% of the country voted for trump, most Americans disagree with their plans

The numbers can’t really be interpreted that way. The best one could say about those who didn’t vote at all is that they had no preference for the outcome.

Conservative religious beliefs and ignorance often go hand-in-hand.

I agree in theory, but big cities are where things get muddy.

When a single city (e.g. New York City, population ~8 million just to use the biggest example) has a population larger than entire states, how do you “split” the state of New York? If the city itself, excluding any of the surrounding “metro area”, was its own state, it would be the 13th most populous in the US and also the smallest by area.

Do we carve up each of the boroughs as a separate state, and give New York City 10 senators? It would be more proportional representation for the people of NYC, but also their close proximity and interdependence would very much align their priorities and make them a formidable voting bloc. And even then, you could still fit 4 Vermonts worth of people into Brooklyn alone. How much would we need to cut to make it equitable? Or do we work the other way as well and tell Vermont it no longer gets to be its own state because there aren’t enough people?

For states like California, which still have large cities but not quite to the extreme of New York, how do we divide things fairly? Do we take a ruler and cut it into neat thirds, trying to leave some cities as the nucleus of each new state? Or do we end up with the state of California (area mostly unchanged), the state of Los Angeles, and the state of The Bay Area?

Yeah, I think the button is probably mislabeled.

The “permalink” label is also just a holdover from Reddit; with there being two separate link standards on Lemmy, I think it’d be nice if the app differentiated…but that’s a separate topic entirely!

For work in the public domain, that’s one thing, but for work which is still copyright protected, you can actually be sued for (shockingly enough) making copies of it.

Generally, though, most countries only care if you distribute copies of something (even if you’re not making money off of it), but that’s not to say that the concept of “distributing” hasn’t been stretched pretty thin in the past.

Rightsholders have gone after businesses and private individuals just for playing sports events on radio or TV audibly/visibly enough to have an “audience”, thereby infringing on broadcast rights. Even if they’re not charging a thing for it. Feel free to read this and see how far the insanity goes.

If I buy a book and make copies of the pages to takes notes on, that’s usually fine. But if I make a copy and give it to a friend…

Getting a 404 at that page, do you have a mirror?

Guessing not much will happen to the calendar until (well, if) mankind ever settles on other planets. Some universal mode of timekeeping would need to be decided upon for consistency between planets with differing day and year lengths.

The function does exist, just a bit buried (and with different names?)

From a post, press the 3-dot Menu button, press Copy, and then Copy Username.

From a comment, tap the comment to reveal the comment actions, press the 3-dot Menu button, press Copy, and then press the Copy Permalink button that has an icon of a person next to it (I am assuming that is supposed to read as Copy Username like the option from the post)

Doesn’t seem to be any convenient way to copy links for communities though, neither from a post nor from the community page itself. At least none that I can find quickly.

Until they change the name and voice and have a whole fleet of elderly AI chatbots.

Hopefully Germany treads lightly. A simple ban that fails to address why AfD is gaining ground is going to end up creating a martyr complex if left unchecked.

Microsoft had a lineup of games this year?

80’s’n’t

I think Kamala could have been the perfect candidate and she still would’ve lost.

The economy being in the shitter under the Biden-Harris administration killed any possibility of either of them winning another term. The economy ended up being the single biggest issue for American voters. Way bigger than bodily autonomy for women, LGBT+ rights, or Palestine.

Depends on how one frames it. It’s not the Stallman-defined “GNU+Linux” pureblood OS, but it nevertheless is built from a modified version of the Linux kernel.

And like any OS it can be made private and secure with the right components…or it can be cracked open like a data-farming egg without them.

I guess I can just take the low-hanging fruit and invoke Ubuntu as an alternative example, which was once something of a Linux entry point but has become more than fine collecting user data.

Ironically a Linux-derived OS.

It’s always good practice to be careful who you trust with your data. Open =/= private. More choices helps, though.

Glimpse is a much better name, though.

• Why would they remove GNB-identity. This was the thing we’re known for, and it’s not like it hurts anybody but ourselves since we’re invulnerable.

I also think it was fine as is, but there is a reason why the Bene-Superbolide situation became a meme. For any casual content where there is not much communication between the tank and healers, it’s hard to trust that people know what you’re about to do.

If the tank is dying, I can use Benediction, but then they use Superbolide a split second later and my main healing CD has been burned up for nothing. This at least makes it so that if the tank gets bene’d (or any other healer burns all of their resources to get them back up), it’s now only recovery needed from a stable 50% HP rather than 1% HP.

Well you don’t fork a project just to rename it, that’s not why it would have bombed.

Seems more like a backronym to me, they could’ve picked something better.

It is a couple extra presses, but when I receive an inbox message and press it to view the parent comment thread, there is usually a little toast button on the bottom of the screen to view all comments. Do you see that when you click a reply in your inbox?