Lemmy is nowhere near close to diverting developer resources to that.

Probably nothing, since Putin wants to encourage future defectors.

The market is to optimize for max human eyesight, which is a horizontal aspect ratio. For edge cases, a monitor can be converted to a vertical aspect ratio easily.

There really isn’t a large market to go square. If anything, monitors have gotten wider over time.

Sister wanted to get a job doing art and ended up getting an offer to work as an illustrator for a publishing company. One of her parents was all in in this. The other parent asked me to look out over to see if it was real or not. Turns out it was a scam I found out from 5 minutes of web searching. I had to be the one to break the news and the parent who was all in on the idea didn’t seem fazed that this was likely a scam since “there was a chance it was real”.

Nothing was signed, but I had to take the hit of standing in the way of the sister’s success.

I don’t trust public wired charging ports to anything other my mobile battery.

Since I can’t verify if a weird charging port won’t upload malware on site, I’d use wireless charging instead.

I thought the last scene was a bit of a cop out.

That’s an entirely different situation all together now.

Old school Republicans were fine with a Republican President having this power, just not Trump.

That’s going to go well for the TSA.

Eat some good barbeque.

The program was started because of the Korean War.

People don’t fully understand what FEMA really does.

A lot of what FEMA does is bring money and resources to help states respond to emergencies. FEMA is never the government agency in charge of responding to a natural disaster, it is the state.

Blackwater/Xi isn’t going to replace the sacks of cash. At best, it could provide security, but that function is filled by the National Guard. What’s going to happen to some places is like what happened to New Orleans after Katrina; rebuilding efforts aren’t going to bring region back up to the level it was at before and it is going to cause major issues to the local economy.

The problem is that right wing populists vote in all elections.

The difference here is that the federal government doesn’t run elections, states do. Obviously, Trump is trying to set up a way to invalidate future elections, but Trump doesn’t have power on who can vote.

Thanks leftists for not showing up to town hall meetings to push for universal coverage, choosing to cede the discussion to the Tea Party.

That’s not even remotely legal. The Federal Government doesn’t set limits on who can vote, states do.

I think about that in regards to World War II.

As bad as the destruction of World War II was, it could have been a lot worse if technology had developed an additional decade. Hell, having nuclear weapons first deployed as a weapon of mass destruction helped keep it from being deployed in later wars.

Maybe the USA was going to go fascist no matter what, so time travelers picked the most incompetent fascist.

Long term, Americans have been bad at making idiots feel shame for their idiocy. There is less of a societal push to make people conform to societal pressure. On one end, this leads to great creative freedom for artists. On the other end, it creates the born again movement.

Medium term, LBJ oversaw the collapse of economic leftism as he was trying to include civil rights legislation and the Vietnam War. This lead to the stagnation of American salaries, but it took a while for people to notice that quality of life wasn’t improving for everyone. Also, conservatives realized they could create parallel media in a way to control public sentiment.

Short term, the Great Recession and COVID made it clear that quality of life wasn’t as bulletproof as people thought. As a response, some people want to bring back “the good old days”, not realizing/remembering that the good old days had a lot of bad to it that was covered up.

I was expecting Ye.

Android is open source except for Google Play Services. Other major companies attempted to gain market share in Android but couldn’t because of the power of Google’s monopoly.

I don’t see how a consortium fixes this.