I don’t think you’ve got it here bub. All effort does deserve praise. If your kid tried their best in an audition and is a tree and they continue to try despite it not being what they want either, then you praise them for trying so hard to be an awesome tree.

If your kid isn’t trying, you aren’t praising effort anyway.

Maybe there’s 5 kids that excel at drama in their 1st grade class. Who knows why. But if they tried and are a tree, so be it.

Yeah… but fuck that rapist, fascist creep.

I’ve also never heard of clothing shelves being referred to as load bearing.

We call them drywall anchors in the US.

100% not true in the US.

Unlikely to be prosecuted or sued, but not true.

What country are you from?

WTO governs a lot of global copyright issues. I would be surprised the fair use exception allows you to download copyrighted content except for a few limited fair use purposes, ie education. And with very specific guidelines as to what qualifies as fair use.

That is certainly not true. It is illegal. It is often civil, but can be criminal copyright infringement based on specific criteria.

Holy shit that’s insane.

Go look at the graphs of the electorate before and after 2008. It is not wildly different.

A majority of people did not vote because of race.

You’re drawing very sweeping conclusions from one and a half data points.

The supermajority of all voters are white.

The majority of Obama voters were white.

Conservatives in 2008 were almost exclusively white.

Race for sure played a factor, it always does. But it absolutely does not outweigh ideology.

I know no one here will want to hear this. But that’s lazy thinking and revisionist history. He got elected twice. The same folks calling him Muslim and asking for his birth certificate are now chanting Let’s go Brandon and doing other horrible stuff.

I’m sure a percentage of people think he’s extra bad for being black, but they were going to hate him just as much for being liberal.

Well, it’s also annoying for those of us that paid for it to not be able to use the TestFlight version anymore (I bought it in the AppStore version and then went back to TestFlight… and then I can no longer use the pro version).

RCS is basically proprietary RCS.

It is not open, it is controlled by the telcos, and google has been pushing their own proprietary version of RCS to the telcos.

It’s no better than iMessage. This isn’t a problem in the rest of the world, they just all use WhatsApp.

This is a legacy of the US being out in front of adoption of SMS, and it still being ingrained. It’s largely only a US problem. And it’s not even really a problem.

I love iMessage, but I have WhatsApp and signal and like 19 other apps that offer messaging for people who prefer it.

That was from 2013.

The 2,500 Haitians killed so far this year might think otherwise.

Get some anger management help.

Breaking the locking mechanism while doing no damage to the plastic fender is an amazing feat.

https://ohmyz.sh/

That’s quite an indictment.

lol. This thread is about people mad that google is doing it, and you’re saying so what if a nation state does it?

The answer is the same either way - to either sell the data to a party who want to manipulate you into doing or thinking what they want or by directly manipulating you into doing or thinking what they want.

Same with Reddit and lemmy. It doesn’t take a whole lot of investment (on a state level actor basis) to manipulate small and large communities or individuals into thinking something is normal or mainstream. Or convincing them that everyone loves this product or it’s so popular or whatever.

The CCP censors their entire internet for their people and collects all sorts of information to root out dissidents. What good thing do you think is going to come from them having that data?

This is it. The weakest part of most doors is the door. A sledge hammer will go through a door or window regardless of the lock.

Smart locks are way more convenient and the ability to grant timed access and unique access controls probably makes them more secure.

Wow, cool, thanks. That’s insanely compact.