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Supreme Court ruling shields presidents on official acts
  • Democrats aren’t pussies. Democrats are another arm of the ruling class (aka the 0.1%). There’s a reason they act inept on these things. It makes for good theater which people eat up, but it’s all for the rich. That’s the biggest reason they’ve been remiss to move to the left. The only ones fighting for us are ones that are considered “progressive”, which are greatly in the minority. Once you realize this, a lot more of the democratic leadership actions (or lack thereof), makes sense.

  • Chinese Brands Will Sell A Third Of The World's Cars By 2030: Study
  • Except the US will do everything possible to prevent them from being sold domestically, while still pushing their brands globally. This will lead to a further split in what’s available in the US vs ROW.

  • Report shows that AAA games for iPhone and iPad aren’t exactly a hit with users
  • It’s really not that different than a PC just with a slightly tighter cycle. When you upgraded from Windows 7 to 10, some games lost support too. It’s just that PCs have a much longer compatibility window than phones do.

  • Let's Stop Asking "Why Do You Want to Work for Us?" In Interviews
  • I know in my hiring I’ve generally used it as a “did the candidate even do a cursory look at the place?” I don’t care how far off they are (within reason, don’t just make stuff up and lie) or did they not even care.

  • Let's Stop Asking "Why Do You Want to Work for Us?" In Interviews
  • I’ve heard “Besides ‘I need the money’, what’s a reason this company interests you?”. It immediately breaks down the obvious reason and sees if they did any sort of look at the company to understand how their role may interact with it.

  • "Lasso Man 5" by LastPlaceComic
  • So I’ll try to explain what I can

    • Scissor icon - used to cut part of the image. Also killed the bad guy in this case
    • Bad guy had the copy/paste icons so he just created new versions/clones of himself
    • Bad guy also has the “lasso” icon. This is used to select a random area of the image (the dashed lines creating circles, you can then do different things to just the area selected
    • Checkerboard patterns indicate the “canvas” or what the image sits on. So almost null space
    • Though the slice guy killed a clone, the bad guy caught him in part of a selection and basically moved his legs out from him (when you make a selection, you can do anything you want with it, including moving it somewhere else)
    • Generative fill takes a selected area and kind of repeats it (similar to copy/paste)
    • bad guy keeps selecting different sections of space to kill the people
    • wizard uses a feature called magic wand which usually selects an area of similar colors. The tolerance is how similar it is (great for trying to select the outline of a person on a backdrop for example, it’d be a pain to to it by hand, but if they were in front of a green screen it would select all green colors that are touching, by increasing the tolerance you say “green and anything that’s close to it too”)
    • once he’s selected that massively large area, he proceeds to delete it and everyone/everything in it.
  • Does different parts of the world use different standards for water pressure similar to voltages?

    In the US for example the standard is 110V for voltage and 80psi for water. In Europe, voltage is 220V, is water pressure different there too?

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    Tourists (and tourism) are a good thing.

    Quite often you see people saying “tourists need to go home” or “we need less tourists” and there are some valid issues with how people can be, but overall, having tourists is a good thing. It shows that the middle class actually has means of traveling. It also tends to stimulate a local economy with additional revenue and can offset taxes for locals through hotel and other tourism fees. Those that do travel also tend to develop a broader world view then being in their own little sphere.

    A reduction in tourism means that only the rich will end up traveling, and everyone else will be stuck only in the place they’re born, relegated mainly to pictures and videos “of a far off land” and will foster deeper divides of “well that’s just them over there” instead of getting to experience it firsthand.

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    Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml ramble81 @lemm.ee
    How quickly do changes get pushed to the ActivityPub protocol?

    Let’s say I hit submit on a post or reply, and then immediately notice a typo and edit it. Or I accidentally mis-swipe and downvote and then change it to an upvote.

    In both cases, do both actions immediately get posted to the feed, or does the Lemmy instance wait a minute and combine (or overwrite) the actions so that only a single action gets published?

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    People who still wear masks (and aren't immunocompromised)...

    How long do you plan on wearing a mask for? Will it be for the rest of your life? What will change your view?

    This isn’t meant to be inflammatory. There’s someone at work who wears one everyday and I’m too afraid to ask them.

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    askmenover30 @lemm.ee ramble81 @lemm.ee
    Men who shave...

    How often do you shave? How long does it take you? How do you do it?

    Just curious as it feels like a chore for me. I usually do a with the grain shave with a safety razor and no product since I don’t have a lot of time and that gives the least irritation, but it’s not a close shave. I see guys that get stupid close shaves and I often wonder how much time they spend on it.

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    What's with all the "weed" shops popping up?

    Driving around town I’ve noticed quite a few places in San Antonio are offering free weed and are now selling it. Did I miss something being passed? I thought only Delta-8 (and variants) were available and that THC was still banned. Was there a loophole discovered or will the city no longer prosecute?

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    Tsukimichi English Dub Episode 7

    What happened to Monica Rial? She voiced Tomoe for all of the first season and the first six episodes of this season but episode 7 was someone completely different. Did she get sick or did something else happen? (Save past commentary I’m just curious in the current context)

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    What is the best medium for transmitting sound?

    I know that sound doesn’t travel in a vacuum, you can hear it muddled in water, and different temperatures of air transmit better. But which is the “best”. Let’s say you had a speaker and a microphone in an enclosed case filled with whatever you wanted, which would be the best medium to ensure the best sound transmission?

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    Crunchyroll / Funimation

    I’m sure this gets brought up every so often, but does anyone know the status of the merger? It went from “everything from Funimation is moving over!” to “we’re working on it”. It’s been quite a while now and there are still quite a few series I can only find on Funi. Generally they’re older series. I’m wondering if they’re having licensing issues moving things over. The really weird part is I see they’re still adding new content to Funi, a platform that was supposedly going away. I’m keeping my subscription until they’ve fully moved things over.

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    What part of sunlight causes algae to grow?

    I’ve been trying different searches but everything I find just says “sunlight”. Since sunlight consists of multiple parts such as UV, Infrared and the normal visible spectrum, I’m curious which part is actually responsible for photosynthesis to occur? On that note, depending on what part of the light, would it still grow with an LED, black light, etc.?

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    iOS App Store or Web App?

    Hey all, is there any advantage to getting Voyager via the App Store? I originally did that when setting up my phone but keep noticing it’s a version or two behind all the time. Is there any real advantages that getting it via the store offers in terms of functionality or performance?

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    Download Video

    On iPhone, I know with an image, I just click the 3 dots, and select “save image”, however I can’t seem to do that for a mp4. I tried tapping (pauses the video) and long pressing (doesn’t do anything). Do you know how to save a video from Voyager?

    Edit: gifs are fine, it’s mp4s

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    Determine Charging Speed

    Now that the 15 has USB-C, I’d like to see if it correctly supports USB-PD. Is there any way to tell the charging speed when you plug in your phone to charge? With my Android it would say “Charging Slowly”, “Charging” and “Charging Rapidly” or I could use some apps. I haven’t found anything with my iPhone though.

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    Was there anyone who was force "immune"?

    Basically what the title says. There’s always discussions about someone being force sensitive and how they could use the force or not sensitive to it at all, but has anyone ever been completely immune to it? Like if Vader was doing a force choke and the person was just like “why are you holding your hand up like that? What are you trying to do?”

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    How do you deal with...

    How do you deal with someone who has had something happen and they keep talking about "God's plan"? I have a friend who is going through some tough times and it looks like they won't be able to achieve what they wanted but keep placing it on God. I think it's a coping mechanism for them but it still is rubbing me wrong. I am trying to stay supportive which basically just entails me keeping my mouth shut.

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