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You've drastically altered the reality of US history. Violence and guns were a huge part of it. Labor unions had actual shoot outs with union busting officers, Malcolm X was absolutely using guns (King also had them), some draft protests were intentionally violent. If you really look, almost every "peaceful" movement had violent parts or another similar movement that was violent.

Perhaps the greatest example is the race riots, specifically LA where the police completely abandoned areas and local shop keepers used their own weapons to protect their livelihood.

Furthermore, the right to bear arms is heavily limited, automatic weapons have been banned for around 50 years at this point, getting any gun is subject to background checks in basically every case, age limits are also in place, "dangerous" things like suppressors require additional fees and paperwork in order to own.

That's like 90% or more of programming jobs is just making different APIs talk to each other. Just because you may not like doesn't make it bad.

There's maybe 3 fantastic indie games per year and millions of garbage ones. It's also full of clones of the popular games that aren't quite as good or downright terrible. The reason indie games seem to be better is the massive work other people have put in to actually find the good ones in a sea of crap, and most "indie" games that are popular are borderline mainstream production companies.

Exactly, we see this almost every year when a southern state gets a light dusting of snow.

It's been a while, but I'm not convinced there is a truly accessible date picker out there. Allowing manual typing of the date seems like the best and only viable option.

Something I've started mentioning, is the US immigration and customs is also pretty rude to their own citizens. Coming back to the US has been the far more stressful border crossing in my experience.

I don't think being opinionated helps. TFS is extremely opinionated, and has gotten more so, but I can't say it's better. It's just as easy to make a convoluted mess that doesn't mean anything. It's only real advantage is if you use the full stack of MS stuff the integration between all the parts is really good, where Jira seems like a totally separate entity from your source control and build system. Both have their advantages though.

I'm pretty sure it was a configuration issue at my last company, but I would constantly get massive >90% packet loss for audio, on my laptop but could call in through wifi calling just fine. Others also had issues with audio or video randomly dropping, roboting, or acting poorly. Screen share also seemed to be extremely slow to start and sometimes desynced. Teams also ate a ton of memory which got annoying every now and then.

There are some awesome features with teams that other apps lack, meeting chat being integrated into the rest of teams, and getting notifications for when recordings are available. the key features leave a lot to be desired though.

You better be ok with building your own car then, because every major player is adding subscriptions for various features. Remote start and remote lock/unlock are the most common, along with satellite radio.

Yes. if a non-profit receives most of its finding to end homelessness for example, the last thing they want to actually do is end homelessness, because their funding then goes away. What they want is homelessness to remain somewhat constant and claim reduction in growth, or appearance as a success.

Pretty sure the UK already ran into this problem when the North Sea had low wind for a prolonged period. This year wildfire smoke would have cut into the valuable days for many solar installations in the northern US/Canada, many hazy periods were close to a week. The intermittency problem is only going to get worse as the amount the grid relies on grows, it's easy to cover the occasional 5% loss grid wide, but a 25% loss is a big problem.

Most movies seem to be "written" as a collection of scenes that the directors and producers want to see and then they tell the writers to make those fit together in a story.

What surprised me is the number of companies that declined free money from Netflix and decided that the cost to actually make a streaming service was negligible. They could just 2 or 3x that money in a year or two with massive subscriber numbers, because those roughly 5 shows in 40 years of back catalog were just that good.

The big thing is childcare from stay at home parents. That counts as 0 GDP, but put them in daycare and give the parent a job that's a net loss financially to the family and GDP has grown considerably.

5-10 years after the US is serious about wanting them.

That search engine would return the same 10 sites for any search.

I doubt their manual review actually does much of anything. There are already tons of "games" that don't actually function that are just pre-built engine assets shoved together.

It's still not an absurdly profitable venture even if you drop head count to 300-500 which is likely a reasonable number. A lot of people could have good careers in that smaller reddit, but it's not a multi-billion dollar unicorn.

Students have little incentive, but the point is to have some measure of teacher success. The tests can also identify kids that may need intervention, which is some incentive to kids that don't need it to still do well on the test.

RIF had a revenue sharing agreement that was canceled years ago with no attempt to replace it with something reasonable.

I'd say the notable drop in quality and activity in open subs that aren't protesting is a good indicator that there is some truth to that assertion.

There's a handful of apps that exist for phones, I use Jerboa at the moment. It's easy enough to get a feed of all subscribed communities, but subscribing is a bit of a pain every way I've tried, and most communities aren't active enough to get a good feed like you can with Reddit. Part of the problem is that most the popular instances of Lemmy are getting bombarded with traffic and availability isn't great. Just hitting subscribe doesn't always work, which is likely related to server health as many instances haven't let people log in or sign up periodically.

There's also some defederation issues, so you may need several accounts and then stich them all into one feed to truly get everything you want, but I've not attempted that.

I don't think federation is a good solution without a way to also centralize those communities. Discoverability and overlapping communities leads to way too much balkanization.

If you don't need the shape there are muffin/egg trays you can use to simply crack eggs into and have 0 issue with shells.

BTC is consumed when someone forgets their password.

The successful companies get bought out by the giants after the make something popular eg. Mojang and Minecraft.

No one does Uber for busses because it would be way too expensive. Fares don't even come close to covering the cost of running busses. If a company wasn't just burning money VC money, they would have to charge at least taxi rates to get on the bus and it would be significantly less convenient. Uber for cars is barely profitable now, and they get to be extremely cheap with driver labor.

having worked in government the amount of time wasted to ensure that money wasn't wasted is itself quite wasteful.

Going longer than two weeks for a sprint just makes the lies happen at different place. There are approximately 0 teams that can accurately state all the work they will need to do four weeks in advance, even two is a stretch. Planning and retro per sprint become a burden though, on less than two week sprints.

In the US this varies widely by state, My state requires non-married fathers to take additional legal action in signing an additional document declaring parentage before they are allowed on a birth certificate in the first place.