This is the time to reach out to these new or revalidated officials and tell them this is the time to take power back.

I’ve sent emails to my new senator and house rep, but things like 5calls.org are probably useful too. The calls require (people like me) to be a little more prepared with what we want to talk about, but the time is NOW. Also set a reminder for 1/21 and remind them this was, in fact, a mandate to make things different.

If you’ve been disappointed with milquetoast dems… call them right now. Email them at the least.

Drown them in the proof that we demand accountability for the current regime and progress on the issues that we all want.

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I feel old reading that text, but I completely agree with the content. I prefer to use words… but sometimes images can express the intention better than the words can.

(funny thought - Ideograms might be peak language since they can have temporal/cultural “intonation” baked in… Emoji is just western cultures catching up with Chinese/Korean/Japanese Kanji)

I might be too late for this to see any traction, but I support storage in the front of a vehicle being called a chest, and storage in the back being a trunk… I think this beats frunk/trunk/brunk.

A bus or plane, where cargo is beneath the passengers and accessed from the side is clearly, then, the holster.

Canteen goes on the trunk, gun in the holster, and bandolier on the chest. Western.

My dog has no clue. She still wants a walk and will not be denied. Human timekeeping be damned.

I saw the ad, but I forgot most of it immediately… and I don’t want to revisit it. so forgive me if that last line isn’t quite correct.

Political ads:

✅️> Here’s what I want to do

✅️> Here’s what I believe

➖️> My opponent said or did something I think you’ll disagree with

❌️> My opponent alleges they were assaulted, but I don’t think they were so they are a liar

Corporate support can be a big deal.

In a previous life, I routinely blocked anything from a free cloud host or cert provider. There was rarely a business justification for accessing a site or service hosted on DigitalOcean or signed by LetsEncrypt. Sure, get an SSL cert and host for your personal project - so I wasn’t mad at the services - but it was a signal that the endpoint was not trustworthy beyond the TCP packets.

I suspect that AWS/GCP/Azure has made that much harder.

That’s pretty cool. Gets the point across - and the reason and results of why it matters to report instead of ignore. Kudos to your team.

Hah. Neat!

For pedantry…

My understanding was that en-dash was a range, and em-dash was a change in topic or a parenthetical, so I’ve been using the wrong one but for the right reason. This may be an American style distinction, though. Time to jump into a new rabbit hole.

I wonder how many em dashes are real vs interpreted.

I love an em-dash, but I have never typed one on purpose; they are all just two minus in a row and I use them wrong – with a space around (*inspect source to see that lemmy translates for me). I abuse them like I abuse semicolons. They are a typographical tick that indicates a pause or pivot when I translate my thoughts to text.

I can imagine a human manuscript editor turning punctuation like a comma into an em-dash when it makes sense, but I can’t imagine a developer ever specifically typing out one – with the need to either know or look up the unicode for it. The only relevant place would be a comment, but even then IDE’s are not generally known for their tendency to replace typed characters with something else.

Maybe some tool in the pretty-print/code-formatter ecosystem added that as a feature? But var-- is so common that I can’t imagine that’d be a good idea, even in a comment.

I fully believe there’s a huge amount of money and effort in making a studio – but it seems like killing off a known brand wholesale like this just should result in a new brand that is the successor.

‘Friendship ended with Bioware, Now OrganicWare is my best friend’ kind of energy. We were never there for EA’s involvement. We wanted These People*.

*First link I found, you get the point, but it might not be accurate for the whole team.

Gaming is getting harder with economy and silicon prices – but that means we can just take the stories we want to tell and do so without 4A graphics.

And bigots.

You needed three more syllables.

I’d encourage that the voting is the first step for some people.

Voting in the midterms is a fairly minor portion of the population; which is frightening. Get more people voting here means more people involved.

The vast, vast majority of people are just normal folks who want to be able to live. The more people voting on either “side” of the spectrum, the better the choices will become.

Do more than vote: Go join your local precinct - red or blue or green - and ensure the people who go to district and then to state and national have your values. There are dozens of votes a year, not just in November on even years.

While I want to be clear that I agree with you, this is where the more… aggressive… left is already at.

They think the Democrats will never be willing/able to do anything about it. I disagree, but think we have an engagement problem.

My personal goal is to encourage people to get involved more locally. If you only care about President races, or Senator races, you are ceding the choice to other people. Go get involved with your city council, be in your precinct. Help make the choice more in line with normal people and not just the people who are wealthy and have time to spare to attend a meeting. It’s worth the effort.

a federal crime

I think most of us here know this, but the dmca broke the free market. Anyone who isn’t or has folks that aren’t (read time, 3 hours, including rabbit holes):

https://www.eff.org/pages/unintended-consequences-fifteen-years-under-dmca

This impacts the ability to fix or modify your own stuff, see Fulu, extend or enhance tools you already own, and repurpose items for things they can do but are not in the best interest of the company that sold them. Making it illegal to use a computer is akin to making it illegal to use a screwdriver.

This is why every car has a screen now. They were able to lock out any unauthorized customization, repair, replacement, etc because there was a “digital lock” somewhere in the process and use that to force first-party parts, service and software and get a reliable post-market revenue stream. Don’t want your car advertising to you on startup? Too bad - disabling that is a crime.

Especially as we head into an election moment in the US - reach out to candidates and ensure they are aware and know we are aware.

Right? Don’t like the rules?

It’s not impossible that enough people in the neighborhood like Bruce either. It’ll be some effort to oust him, and you might end up with the duties – but then you can make the rules minimal interference.

Cuts both ways, though. Not enough people involved could allow Bruce to take over.

My dad’s HOA had a Bruce.

Adding to this. Step back a moment and notice that this is, in part, the same playbook being used everywhere else: California vs Florida, Red vs Blue; US vs Ukraine vs Russia.

These are distractions. We need to eat the rich. They are the problem and we outnumber them.

My front-load washer had a panel on the bottom that exposed the filter. It got clogged with a hair tie and pet hair - the washer wouldn’t drain and I had to do it manually. Was quite a pain.

I found this article showing common places, but also TIL that maybe not all washing machines will have one.

As someone who never reads manuals. This.

That dishwasher isn’t designed to be self-cleaning – it needs help. Clean the filter regularly. Maybe every other load depending on how you pre-wash.

Same vibe for a lint filter in your washing machine. I think many people check the dryer lint trap, but the washer also has one. And the dryer vent hose will collect lint.

There are air filters in your furnace, probably, that need to be checked too, not just the intakes in a few rooms; and the AC drain line needs to be cleaned occasionally or it will back up and make a water mess.

There are just a thousand maintenance tasks that we are presumably supposed to just know, but no one told us, and can become serious problems when they are ignored. As the world becomes more complicated, there are only more of these.

I read this comment and it took me several minutes for it to process.

11/10 amazing pun

And there’s my wife with the #1, but also a sweater. I don’t know how she can feel that cold when she’s that warm(I call her the furnace) and I can’t even sleep under a blanket. Her body just wildly flings heat energy into the universe.