You get a lot of people with a lot of different views some of which are just fucking stupid and they're only there because the other side wants to murder them.

The Republican party is basically composed of three groups. You've got the racists, you've got the religious lunatics and you have the ultra wealthy who want to screw us all over. That makes them a lot more cohesive and it's less obvious when there is corruption because being corrupt doesn't conflict with the goals of any of those three groups.

The Democrat party is everybody else. That's because America has first passed the post winner take all voting and that means you've got two parties because if you don't you just have one party and a bunch of small parties that keep losing elections.

In the Democrat party when the party is in good shape this kind of corruption is irrelevant because it doesn't make it very far. You'll notice that it's the Democrat party machine in San Francisco that's all in but they're not really going to be able to do much of anything at a state level let alone in national level by themselves. The corrupt elements of the democratic party will partner with the entire Republican party to screw you over.

But if you took out the Republican party the corrupt elements of the democratic party would be pretty fucking weak. It is only by crossing the aisle that they become a problem. This is how you get fuckers like Kirsten Sinema and Fetterment. And they are a problem only because so many people vote Republican that the Democrats have weak majorities if they ever get one.

Too long didn't read, stop voting Republican and the problem solves itself

I'm still impressed that the Teams web client can't edit a message with an emoji in it without messing up the keyboard controls and often corrupting the message and losing data. It's had this bug for years. It's literally a messaging app where you can't reliably send messages.

Thank you for sharing this meme, which is completely unsuitable for this case.

In a Free to Play game, customer isn't a product. In-game purchases are the product. To get the customer to the product, customer must first install and play the game.

You have to put up with shitty software for at least 5 or 10 years while your guys catch up.

As crappy as Windows 11 is Teams mostly works now. Microsoft kept getting their asses handed to them by other software companies and because they have limitless money from the office and windows monopolies they can just keep plugging away until they get it which they did.

Other software is still better but teams has finally achieved good enough. And good enough is always good enough.

When you start I new a software package out it is not going to be good enough. So you are the pour money into it until it is or you just force everybody to use it until eventually it gets fixed.

Or you stop using it and you go back to the Monopoly from a nation that is rapidly becoming fascist and hostile to your Nation...

Is this what Claude told you to put in your comment?

What's the use case for this unless you work for the DoD? Even before we talk about horrendous javascript performance (though surprisingly good Acid scores), where it shows Google maps running at around a frame every 2 seconds when moving around the map, the UI doesn't scale so I literally can't read any text on a 4K monitor. I can't even really make out the symbols they used on the buttons.

He said, while failing to understand that it's for controlling our use of our computers. Eyeroll all day.

If the user has no control over it, then it's for the control of the user.

The idea as presented as being in the user's benefit is that the user can control it, but applications cannot.

Is it holding it between the index and middle fingers? "Got your gene! I got your gene!"

This version has a dumber headline, so it's like a whole new story! Three people didn't like it!

I don't know why this is so hard to understand for some people. The wave in Linux numbers is hugely driven by the overwhelming success of the Steam Deck. The usage seems to skyrocket during holiday season precisely because that's a) when people have time, and b) when people travel.

Signed:
Someone who didn't use their own Steam Deck in September, not even once, because he didn't travel anywhere and prefers to play on his PC / PS5 instead. But man I put a lot of hours on it in August while jet setting around the world. Nothing quite like going diving in Indonesia, and then spending a 2 hour surface interval playing Dave the Diver on the Steam Deck :-)

Honestly most Americans would be healthier walking to their letterbox instead of driving to the end of their driveway. I don't think a tiny barely significant change in health is at all relevant for anything other than your desire to push you own personal preference.

Fuck mornings. Let them be dark so I can spend more time enjoying a beer in the afternoon (did the study consider liver damage?)

Everything is always unpopular after it passes. Also mornings are always unpleasant. The question is, do you accept that unpleasantness as a trade-off the mind-blowingly brilliant increase in pleasure that is being able to get home from work and enjoy more a sunny day?

Seriously fuck mornings, whether the sun is up or not. I'd trade every second of sun before work for extra sun after in a heartbeat. I can't sit in outside and enjoy a nice beer before work. My employer does random alcohol testing.

It's not parents. It's society. Schools is just one element of it, but everything we do is somehow interlinked and tied together with common understandings of what constitutes "business hours". The shift is far more difficult than any one subset of people adjusting their schedule, which is why this stuff is fundamentally dealt with at the clock level in the first place.

But one thing is clear: This is *NOT* a problem for a state level. There's nothing worse than dividing clocks further in a country. Yes the timezone may not be ideal for everyone, but there's real benefit into having the largest group of people on a consistent time, especially if you're on a border city.

Fun anecdote 1: It's really fun driving down Tweed Heads in Australia and watching one half of the street suddenly be open while the other isn't because as you cross the road to go from the hairdresser to the cafe you change timezone.

Fun anecdote 2: I found out I lost my job on the news because my brilliant employer released an embargoed press release that was due to be lifted at 10am to coincide with a plant wide meeting taking place at 10am. But they forgot to mention to the media head offices (based in NSW/Victoria) that they were talking about 10am AEST. So at 10am AEDT (9am AEST) I learned that they were closing our plant while drinking a coffee in front of the TV showing breaking news.

Depending on where you live the light before or after work may be a case of not preferencing it before or after, or not having to worry about it at all. The idea that a solution "works best" for people's "natural clocks" is just gas lighting. If it worked best for people there wouldn't be a debate. If it were part of any natural clock we wouldn't have a sudden 1 hour shift.

This won't ever suit everyone. There's only pro and con argument to be made based on people's personal situation and above all: desires.

Me? I say DST year round. Maybe if kids learned there's no scary monster in the dark the next generation wouldn't grow up to be such wimps. And as for the adults? Well I'm not a morning person, fuck those people, let them sit in the dark while I enjoy my evening in the sun :-)

And now let's hear from the morning people.
And the helicopter parents while we're at it.

Or put in basic street lighting while also not raising a bunch of soft little fairy floss wimps?