Democrat-leaning states are already working towards that.. The idea is that if they have 270 electoral votes worth of states signed up, they will all agree to change their electoral delegates to follow the national popular vote, effectively ending the electoral college. It’s not really a democratic push, but it’s an idea that would only be popular with the party that aligns with the national majority. They currently have 205 EVs committed.

There was a big story about them rejecting an outsider a while back.

30 years ago, the internet was a big, international, scary place. I had several nicknames and didn’t use one too long or in too many places to maintain my anonymity. Now there are literally billions more people on the internet, but social media has made the entire internet feel local. I use my real name on a lot of sites to communicate with colleagues in my profession or people who share my hobbies. The only thing I’m afraid of now are the FAANG megacorps who have me doxxed seven ways to Sunday no matter how much info I try to hide or give up voluntarily.

Erm, the microwave is faster and more efficient at heating water.

I dunno about this newfangled plasma 6 stuff, but I was tiling KDE for a few days using extensions like bismuth. It was rad af, but really just convinced me I needed to make the jump to proper tiling with hyprland.

I love Linux, but you got some weird shit going on with your PC. I’ve got 3 4K monitors hooked up to a moderate-spec PC (Ryzen 9 3900X, 64GB RAM, RTX 3060 12GB) and I never saw white flashes when adjusting windows. Also it only rebooted when I told it to and never made much noise (quiet fans and all solid-state storage). Can’t say I ever used the super-D thing intentionally (I launched programs from the start menu, never used desktop shortcuts).

I run Linux now because it’s sick as tits and it’s the principle of the thing, but windows has been pretty fuckin’ rock-solid since 10. Shit, I had more graphical instability with Linux a few months ago, but that’s just because I insist on using Wayland, and Nvidia drivers had a rough year last year.

My biggest complaint about hyprland is I tried it on a whim last month when I got bored of waiting for Plasma 6 to come out and I fell in love so hard I have zero desire to go back to KDE now even with new stuff on the horizon.

the only thing wrong here

is anything that reminds us of Tim Buckley.

I don’t know what Train AI Tools are, but I’d be ok with them if they had the temperament of Thomas the Train rather than Blain the Mono. How do we know which Train AI is buying our data?

It may have the kernel but it isn’t much GNU in it

Wait, does this mean Alpine Linux is not Linux?

The random-looking black and white “buldings” on each block have some very not random “curves” of contiguous white buildings. When you look at other parts of the image, your peripheral vision may interpret these white curves as the same thing as the perpendicular green “roads”, giving the illusion that the roads are no longer all perpendicular when you look away.

I just don’t understand where a typo comes into play. OP achieves the same result.

Yeah, why would I engage with that sort of disingenuous nonsense. We’re talking about cell coverage. Area matters. Period. Full statewide 5G coverage may be possible in a tiny state, but it starts to get bad and then abysmal as states become larger and are mostly rural.

No, but I know what state I’m in. You’re not in Alaska or Texas or you wouldn’t be making these fantastic claims, so by process of elimination, you do not live in a larger state than I.

What do you think this means?

Yes, my state is far larger than yours, so that may be a difference. We only have 5G coverage in major cities and along interstates.

Well, you’re the one who said you’re shocked at the small numbers of Tmo customers. It may be a shock in your area if they have good coverage, but in my state they are trash. I have TMo and lose signal anywhere outside a city center. I visit my verrrrry rural parents and get zero signal in a 30 mile radius around their house until I get there and connect to their wifi … powered by an att-connected 4g router.

acronym Race inpired car enchantment or something like that

Backronym. It was a racist term in the car community for decades before somebody came up with that in an attempt to whitewash it.

and the intent very much does matter

Citation needed, because every single utterance of “redskins” was racist af, even if the majority of the team’s fans never had a racist thought in their heads about native americans.

Magically, either of those choices is the same. “I am perfectly and equally happy with either of the two serious candidates”. We’ll thank you for your support when our candidate wins.

As far as I understand it, the US invented the internet (possibly through the divine inspiration of Vice President Al Gore), so it makes sense that they can make or break any rules they want.