halcyoncmdr

halcyoncmdr , 2 hours ago

Expert editing.

That’s one of the primary functions of the editor. Depending on the outfit though, editorial oversight may not be required or even a thing really. Publishing approval may be from the writer directly, which also likely means no one else read over it after it was completed to find easily avoidable issues from rephrasing and reorganizing sentences.

halcyoncmdr , 1 hour ago

That’s literally what the editing does.

halcyoncmdr , 4 hours ago

You should look at how cheap it is to buy someone in Congress. It’s shockingly low.

halcyoncmdr , 1 day ago

If you’re impacted, it makes YouTube Premium more expensive than Spotify Premium and Apple Music.

I find this particular comparison interesting to bring up. A Youtube Premium subscription also includes a Youtube Music sub (at least in the US, not sure about everywhere else). Which theoretically makes those subscriptions unnecessary as well (ignoring differences in catalog, device availability, etc. of course).

halcyoncmdr , 1 day ago

It’s also worth it to point out that, for people that care about supporting content creators but don’t want to or can’t afford to do so individually through services like Patreon, Youtube Premium views pay creators far more than a regular view.

halcyoncmdr , 2 days ago

You’re talking to a Brit mate. They’re not known for their culinary excursions.

Plus, half of those were invented in the US.

halcyoncmdr , 2 days ago

You guys got no place to talk with some of your creations. And especially some of the oddball names.

This just two otherwise regular foods served together.

halcyoncmdr , 2 days ago

Tbf, I hate all syrup

Ah, so you just can’t taste well. What a shame. Disabilities should never be held against anyone, you can’t help an inability to taste.

halcyoncmdr , 3 days ago

Real talk, nationwide maps like that are useless. They’re just the the population map.

halcyoncmdr , 4 days ago

So, clearly the Montana Secretary of State’s office doesn’t do any testing before making things live.

halcyoncmdr , 4 days ago

The Americans was partially based on real life. We literally traded Russian sleeper agents back in 2010.

halcyoncmdr , 4 days ago

There are literally decades-long proposals, initial R&D and prototyping for big defense contracts.

No, they aren’t taking years to award a new contract for the paper provider, but they are for new weapons and vehicles.

halcyoncmdr , 4 days ago

It’s almost like the two skill sets are not actually equivalent.

halcyoncmdr , 4 days ago

My Pixel 6 never could read my right thumb, maybe 2% of the time. You know, the one used 99% of the time by a right handed person.

My Pixel 9 Pro Fold with the sensor in the power button has worked 99% of the time so far with all registered fingers in all manner of grips. Almost too good honestly, since it unlocks sometimes accidentally when picking it up.

That said, the rear sensor was still the best placement.

halcyoncmdr , 5 days ago

Not just new evidence. There was never any physical evidence linking him to the crime at all, according to the articles I’ve seen so far looking into it.

halcyoncmdr , 5 days ago

They bought it, split it up, and gave a piece to everyone that donated/funded. So like 10,000 individuals. The government can always take it, but it wasn’t intended to prevent that entirely. The intention was to make it time consuming and difficult to build the wall there, which in turn would likely prevent building starting in the first place.

halcyoncmdr , 5 days ago

Build a fence around it, on the land CAH owns, and when they try to get their shit, they can explain why they put it there and handle paying for the illegal land use.

halcyoncmdr , 5 days ago

I think their point was just that he has control of the account. Whether that’s because he knew the password, or used a forgot password link doesn’t really matter, he would have to control the email for that account to reset the password.

halcyoncmdr , 5 days ago

As terrible as the flyers are, personal political and religious beliefs should not be enforced in any way at a workplace.

Functionally this is similar to that county clerk that refused to issue marriage certificates to same sex couples. Can’t be supportive of one and not the other without being hypocritical.

halcyoncmdr , 5 days ago

That one too. Although that was a private business, not a governmental organization.

halcyoncmdr , 5 days ago

Yeah that’s exactly correct. Protestors and counter protestors both have a right to express their views, regardless of what I think of those views. As long as they don’t violate any laws in the process. That is literally one of the pillars the US is built on for instance. I don’t have to agree with you to defend your right to say those things I disagree with. The right to that freedom of expression is literally the 1st Amendment in the US.

I don’t know what the limits are on speech in Canada, but they’re likely similar, just not as extremely biased towards protection. The US defends too much honestly.

That doesn’t mean that your opinions and expressions are immune from controversy or disagreement. And speech is limited in certain circumstances, like direct threats. That’s not what’s happening here though.

halcyoncmdr , 7 days ago

Welcome to Software Patents 101.

halcyoncmdr , 7 days ago

Tariffs in general aren’t new, but Trump’s tariffs were applied haphazardly and poorly determined because he doesn’t understand what they are. Avoiding that uncertainty entirely is a good idea.

halcyoncmdr , 7 days ago

It’s because on the surface it looks like the classic bullshit “both sides” claim. Where one side is clearly worse but they try to make it seem like both are similar.

Not sure if this is different to be honest. The Rs have been trying to undermine the EPA for decades, there’s a long history there that shouldn’t be ignored even if recent D admins haven’t been great.

I don’t have the time to do a deeper dive at the moment, likely others don’t want to even bother, so they just downvote since a good 90% of the time the both sides type responses are disingenuous.

halcyoncmdr , 7 days ago

Supporting oil and fracking isn’t even in the same ballpark as wanting to deregulate and eliminate the EPA entirely.

halcyoncmdr , 8 days ago

STIs have been a massive issue in nursing homes for decades. What’s special about boomers? Just that they’re now the largest generational influx?

halcyoncmdr , 8 days ago

You think that will stop them? They’ll just do it and pay a comparatively small fine to the government in a decade after they get around to investigating it. And that’s the best case scenario. More realistically nothing will ever happen.

halcyoncmdr , 8 days ago

That won’t stop them either. They’ll just use it anyway. These companies never delete anything they might be able to use. At least not willingly.

halcyoncmdr , 8 days ago

We have seen the evidence for the things happening at places like the Chinese Uyghur internment camps directly, it’s not a claim where we have to trust a government without any proof.

halcyoncmdr , 8 days ago

Well we know for a fact that the US doesn’t even care about our own children dying. Why would we care about ones on the other side of the planet?

And we keep trying to reduce medical coverage and public funding for healthcare. Hospitals are being closed all over the US.

To be honest, it’s on brand.

halcyoncmdr , 9 days ago

Only by percentage. When you only have a dataset of 46, each incident is much bigger than something like children killed vs total school children.

halcyoncmdr , 10 days ago

I wonder which way many of these new voters lean. Willing to bet on the general direction of the group as a whole. There’s always outliers, but I’m pretty confident on this one.

halcyoncmdr , 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

It’s complicated, and Congress is taking advantage of that to keep him there. The nine-member United States Postal Service Board of Governors has sole authority to fire, and hire, the Postmaster General. At the moment there are only 7 members, 3 Dems, 3 Reps, 1 Ind. 6 members are required for a quorum.

Biden has 2 pending nominations and a pending reappointment of an existing governor. There are still 2 governors remaining from Trump’s administration at this point. The Senate confirmed 3 seats in July 2021 and 2 seats in May 2022, and nothing since. They seem to be doing the absolute bare minimum to intentionally delay any possible changes.

Note that these are not full time government positions like the Postmaster. They only meet once a month usually.

halcyoncmdr , 13 days ago

Because politics isn’t simple in reality, there are a lot of different reasons things are approved or not that may not even be relevant to the actual issue at hand.

On top of that, the parties are very different on how they handle things. The Republican party generally will fall in line as a group, they treat politics very simply. Seemingly because they all have closets overflowing with skeletons that they’re all hiding for each other and they’ll be exposed if they don’t follow the group. You’re either part of the group and they’ll defend you at all costs, or they tear will you apart.

The Democratic party on the other hand are like herding cats. They might be working towards the same general goal, maybe, but they won’t just fall in line because the group says they should.

halcyoncmdr , 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

Don’t mistake the infighting over something that actually matters, for an inability to bully each other into being an obstruction to anything the Democrats want. Not electing a speaker is just as effective obstruction as well. As long as they don’t actually want to pass anything on their side, it’s arguably even more effective. And that’s their purpose. The current Republican platform is to be the exact opposite of the Dems, and whatever blurts out of Trump’s mouth at the moment.

They don’t like each other, but they stand together being a wall for anything the Dems want to pass, regardless of what it is. At this point they’d probably vote against a nationwide abortion ban at conception with no exceptions if the Dems introduced the bill.

halcyoncmdr , 14 days ago

This has almost nothing to do with Google, it’s a feature that has to be enabled by the app developer. Meaning they want to exclude users getting the APK for their app from elsewhere.

halcyoncmdr , 14 days ago

For all we know it could have been requested years ago by developers who have apps that get pirated but there was no mechanism in place to implement it at the time, and wasn’t a priority.

Just because it’s beneficial to Google maintaining more direct control now, that doesn’t necessarily mean that’s the origin.

halcyoncmdr , 14 days ago

Those systemic issues are there by design. And it’s a design they want.

halcyoncmdr , 14 days ago

Surprised they haven’t implemented the body lottery from Cyberpunk in real life somewhere.

halcyoncmdr , 17 days ago

Because evidence doesn’t matter to his base. They don’t believe anything negative about him, all of it is lies. Likewise they believe everything bad about his enemies.

Their beliefs are not rational. They are based entirely on emotion, not facts or reason. And they hold those beliefs so strongly that they identify as part of themselves. That belief cannot be shaken, because it means that part of them was wrong as well, and that couldn’t possibly be right. They would have to actually self-reflect, and they’re incapable of that.

halcyoncmdr , 18 days ago

As soon as I hear any politician mention faith, I know for a fact whatever they’re trying to do is bullshit and likely immoral. They default to faith when there is no real justification for whatever they’re trying to push. They always try to claim that because of their faith, that it is inherently moral. As if everything is black and white and grey doesn’t exist at all.

But not everything in their chosen book of faith actually applies to every situation, and some can just be ignored now. But never these sections and those ones aren’t important. So this is black and white, but not other things they decide are related to their faith, those can be a grey area when they want them to be.

halcyoncmdr , 18 days ago

That wouldn’t be an issue today if Apple had started supporting RCS, the replacement for the old SMS/MMS system years ago like every Android phone. Instead of trying to strangle it by acting like iMessage on iOS was the only solution.

halcyoncmdr , 18 days ago

Well I’ve been able to RCS with basically everyone on an android phone since 2019 with almost no issues. That’s 5 years now.

I don’t really care how Apple wants to try and justify it. The answer is they don’t want to add support for an alternative to their walled garden proprietary system that no one else can use. They want to force everyone onto an iPhone and iMessage if possible. The only reason they’re even looking at RCS support now is because of regulators starting to look at their glaring lack of support for interoperability.

halcyoncmdr , 18 days ago

And absolutely zero users care about the reasons. They only know that sending messages back and forth is dogshit.

The source of the lack of support across is Apple not wanting to even try because they want everyone to use their proprietary system on their devices instead. Google at least implemented a system to get RCS support to as many devices as they could, even when carriers didn’t do anything to help. Apple instead had to be threatened by regulators before they even began to consider looking at it.

halcyoncmdr , 17 days ago

This isn’t done out of altruism.

I never said or even got close to claiming that it was.

But there is a distinct difference between Google taking a fragmented RCS implementation across carriers and manufacturers on Android devices, and providing a single universally supported option for Android (the operating system that they control, but don’t prevent others from modifying heavily)… and Apple actively trying to avoid RCS support entirely in favor of their own proprietary system that does not support any products they don’t make and sell directly. Verizon had their own RCS app on Android, and Samsung added RCS support to their Messaging app on their devices, among others prior to the Universal Profile and Google adding support directly in Android Messages. That’s not something anyone can do or offer for iPhones other than Apple

Google worked to add support for essentially all Android customers. Apple decided none of their customers should be able to use RCS, whether they want to or not, simply because they had their own thing that only their customers could use and won’t let anyone else use. You can’t possibly be trying to claim that Apple is in any way a good guy here. Comparing the two directly here, Apple is clearly worse with no good reasoning for it, it is entirely for selfish reasons.

halcyoncmdr , 17 days ago

Samsung had support before Google and Jibe… but they have abandoned their own RCS support. Simply because Google’s works on all of their devices and they don’t need to do any development to support it going forwards. Why pay for development and support for a system you don’t have to and get nothing from? No one is buying a Samsung phone for the Samsung Messages RCS capability.

halcyoncmdr , 17 days ago

Eh, no one else is doing anything to provide support apart from Google either. Anyone else could do their own thing, no one is prevented from their own support. But very few companies and carriers even began to develop support for RCS, even after the Universal Profile. That is why Google developed their own support and built that support into the native app.

Verizon had their own RCS support via a proprietary carrier-specific app that never worked with anyone outside Verizon as far as I remember, and they dropped it in favor of Google’s option as soon as that was available. Samsung had their own RCS support in their proprietary Messaging app, also dropped because Google provides the same support on all of their products and Samsung doesn’t have to do anything or support it in any way. Google now provides an option for all Android devices specifically because almost no one was adding support on their own.

Anyone can, no one else will, because they have no reason to. The average user doesn’t care whether it’s Google, their carrier, or the manufacturer providing support for sending high quality photos to their friend’s phone number as long as it works.

halcyoncmdr , 18 days ago

Citizen approved ballot measures should override any existing law, unless that was also from a ballot measure.

These measures are directly approved by the citizens instead of indirectly through elected representatives. The citizens have determined this is something they want, regardless of what politicians may have decided previously.