sushibowl

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (11 children)

The thing is, I always thought that you steer politicians through your vote

To some extent, yes. However the amount of steering you can do this way is rather limited, since a vote only indicates a preference of one candidate over the other.

For example, if you decide to vote Republican out of protest, Democrats might conclude that you like republican policies, and to win your vote back, they need to move even further right. If you decide to stay home and not vote, you don't really give any information to democrats what they actually need to do. They may decide that you are an unlikely voter in any case, and focus towards those folks most likely to turn out (that's generally older white conservative folks).

One option is to vote for some leftist third party. This sends a pretty clear message about what policies you like. The problem is that, apart from the messaging, your vote is almost certainly wasted. You are in effect helping your enemy win in the short term.

The other option is to engage politically outside of just voting. Most people have been convinced by establishment politicians that your only influence is your vote. This is not true. Protests, activism, grassroots movements, local politics are all effective ways to steer your preferred party in your preferred direction. This does require substantially more effort.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Technically there is no Hi syllable in Japanese either. There is ひ, which phonologically is neither "Hi" nor "Fi", but somewhere in between. The exact pronunciation varies depending on surrounding sounds, as well as the speaker's regional accent.

So I wouldn't say they really use WiHi. They write WiFi and they say "ワイハイ" which is the closest you can get to WiFi using Japanese sounds. It will kinda sound like WiHi to an English speaker.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not a US citizen either but isn't this a first amendment violation?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Microsoft and the European Commission agreed to an initial period of five years. That ended in 2014, and the measure was not extended mainly for two reasons:

  1. Data showed the selection screen had had essentially no effect on browser market share whatsoever.
  2. This period was basically the height of browser competition, with Chrome, Safari, IE, and Firefox all showing significant market share.

With competition in the browser market seemingly healthy, and the browser ballot not doing much to affect it, it was seen as pointless to keep requiring Microsoft to display it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The number has some connection to transistor density, in the sense that a lower number means generally higher density. However there is not any physical feature on the chip that is actually 3nm in length.

This has been true since the late 90s probably.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

If this happened it probably wouldn't affect much of anything, but it would definitely get a chuckle out of me.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Telling your tenants what they can and cannot do with their rented property should be some kind of violation of the right to quiet enjoyment of property.

This and the HOA shit is really weird to me. America is all like "we highly value our personal freedom and private property" but then HOA's and landlords come in and want to tell you exactly what you have to do with your yard. What the hell?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Since Skyrim? I'd say their quality has been slowly declining since Morrowind. It wasn't that noticeable at first, since oblivion, fallout 3, and Skyrim were still quite good and fallout 4 was decent. But then fallout 76 was a mess at release, TES blades was shit, and starfield just seems lazy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is also essentially a variation of Monty python's merchant banker skit. Nothing new under the sun.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not British or anything, but I always thought that in the UK the local pub filled this function? A place to gather socially, eat, drink. I understand most people would go and drink beer there but do they not serve coffee? Tea, at least?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Having played a lot of Dwarf fortress in ascii mode as well as with tilesets, I agree with you. It's not especially difficult to make a successful fortress. However the game is definitely obtuse, even more so with the ascii graphics. Just figuring out what is happening on the screen and which combination of buttons to press to do what you want is quite difficult.

The steam release does some work to remedy the situation though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Why is it weird? It's just your butt. Are you scared of your butt?

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