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  • Which sports team am I supposed to root for with this map? Do you expect me to make a careful analysis of team history and current lineup? Or do I pick the one in the state I was born in like a normal person?

  • US to withdraw from NATO under Republican bill
  • It was a talking point that Trump had in his first term. He tends not to let go of bad ideas once they get into his head.

    At the time, people didn't take it seriously. With the Ukraine War, Europe feels like it has to now. But it's going to be domestic production, not paying US MIC companies like Trump was thinking.

  • US to withdraw from NATO under Republican bill
  • Cause and effect are a little twisted here. Trump was already undermining NATO during is first term by saying European members should spend more. They didn't agree at the time, but the Ukraine War proved that Europe really did need a more domestic MIC, and now they are.

    Trump wasn't saying it in the first place because he thought it would help NATO.

  • The Harbinger of the Dystopia
  • Discovery Zone, man. I actually feel bad for the kids that never got to experience Discovery Zone. Lasted for like 2 years. It apparently failed because they had a mountain of debt (all those plastic tubes are capital intensive buildouts) and adults had to sit around while their kids played.

    I feel like if you made it work like a gym membership for your kids, and had something for adults to do off to the side, you might be able to make the numbers work.

  • Trump, 79, explodes in F-word meltdown as his ceasefire unravels
  • You've been experiencing a cult of an idea. The Republican party has transformed into a cult of personality with no clear successor.

    There are cults of personality that have successfully transformed into a cult of ideas. Mormons and Scientology are examples. However, in each case, the person at the center fostered a clear successor, and that successor was able to make it last in the long run by centering around ideas. Scientology still has that successor around (David Miscavige), but there isn't really a specific person in charge of the LDS. Not in the same way. Their leadership is now interchangeable, but replacing their ideas is a harder sell.

    Trump has no successor, and isn't interested in fostering one. It's not JD Vance; nobody respects him, including Trump. It's not Musk; he made the mistake of trying to be more popular than the boss, and he's not a natural-born citizen, anyway. It's not Peter Thiel; he prefers to be the power behind the throne. It's not any of Trump's adult children; they're nothing but spoiled rich kids. It's not any of the people in his cabinet; they're all plebes using booze and cocaine to get through the day. It's not Tucker or Matt Walsh or any of the other right-wing commentators; they'd just eat each other trying to get on top.

  • Trump, 79, explodes in F-word meltdown as his ceasefire unravels
  • Oh, no, they'll devolve into infighting. There won't be enough shared ideals and actions to sustain Republicans as a political force. There will be fringe groups that linger on for a while. After almost three centuries, there are still two people left claiming the Shaker tradition; that's a group that forbids sexual relations even for procreation, so you can see how they'd have trouble gaining new members. But they're not a religious group that anyone really cares about, either. That's how MAGA will go eventually.

    See also, Knitting Cat Lady, who is a former member of the Children of God cult, then the US Army, and then got a masters in organizational psychology around cults.

  • Can anyone in America confirm?
  • Cooking for two people, I do half a pound of thick cut bacon, and when it's done and the bacon off to the side, put in 6 eggs scrambled up right into the grease. I've found this is the perfect ratio of bacon grease to eggs.

  • Trump, 79, explodes in F-word meltdown as his ceasefire unravels
  • Channels aren't doing that because they want to. YouTube has a lot of rules, some of which are written down. They do it because YouTube has flagged them in the past for demonetization on the issue, and they can't afford to do that too many times. It can also impact your ability to do livestreams.

    It's on top of a pile of issues that's making YouTube content creation non-viable for everyone.

  • After six years of hardware ray tracing, the best examples of it are modified old games, like Quake and Minecraft.

    There might be a good reason for this. Raster effects were already really good in newer games, and ray tracing could only improve on that high bar. It's filling in details that are barely noticeable, but creap ever so slightly closer to photorealism.

    Old games start from a low bar, so ray tracing has dramatic improvement.

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    Link broken in app

    Not 100% sure if this is a Summit issue or something in Lemmy more generally. Here's the post in question:

    https://midwest.social/post/10123989

    The link to the blog works on my instance for the desktop. Several other users were reporting the link being broken, and it does break for me on Summit, as well.

    When I hit the link on Summit, the requests on the server are GET /api/v3/post?id=2024 and GET /api/v3/comment/list?max_depth=6&post_id=2024&sort=Top&type_=All. It looks like it parsed out the "2024" from the original link and tried to use that in a Lemmy API call.

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    Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml frezik @midwest.social
    Post link sometimes goes to the wrong place

    Here's the post in question: https://midwest.social/post/10123989

    Which linked to my blog here: https://wumpus-cave.net/post/2024/03/2024-03-20-moores-law-is-dead/index.html

    On my instance (midwest.social), this works fine. However, some other users were reporting a broken link, and I also see a broken link when using my mobile app (Summit). When it breaks, I see these calls in the server logs:

    • GET /api/v3/post?id=2024
    • GET /api/v3/comment/list?max_depth=6&post_id=2024&sort=Top&type_=All

    Which appear to be Lemmy API calls with some of the actual link data built in.

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