Lemmy is nowhere near close to diverting developer resources to that.

Probably nothing, since Putin wants to encourage future defectors.

The market is to optimize for max human eyesight, which is a horizontal aspect ratio. For edge cases, a monitor can be converted to a vertical aspect ratio easily.

There really isn’t a large market to go square. If anything, monitors have gotten wider over time.

Sister wanted to get a job doing art and ended up getting an offer to work as an illustrator for a publishing company. One of her parents was all in in this. The other parent asked me to look out over to see if it was real or not. Turns out it was a scam I found out from 5 minutes of web searching. I had to be the one to break the news and the parent who was all in on the idea didn’t seem fazed that this was likely a scam since “there was a chance it was real”.

Nothing was signed, but I had to take the hit of standing in the way of the sister’s success.

I don’t trust public wired charging ports to anything other my mobile battery.

Since I can’t verify if a weird charging port won’t upload malware on site, I’d use wireless charging instead.

I thought the last scene was a bit of a cop out.

That’s an entirely different situation all together now.

Eat some good barbeque.

Long term, Americans have been bad at making idiots feel shame for their idiocy. There is less of a societal push to make people conform to societal pressure. On one end, this leads to great creative freedom for artists. On the other end, it creates the born again movement.

Medium term, LBJ oversaw the collapse of economic leftism as he was trying to include civil rights legislation and the Vietnam War. This lead to the stagnation of American salaries, but it took a while for people to notice that quality of life wasn’t improving for everyone. Also, conservatives realized they could create parallel media in a way to control public sentiment.

Short term, the Great Recession and COVID made it clear that quality of life wasn’t as bulletproof as people thought. As a response, some people want to bring back “the good old days”, not realizing/remembering that the good old days had a lot of bad to it that was covered up.

It depends on the systems of alliances and international commitments against a first strike. For instance, the Iran-Iraq War went on for several years and included the deployment of chemical weapons. I’m pretty sure that a nuclear exchange would be tolerated.

While Rogue looks normal, her superpower is somewhat disabling. If she touches anyone, she will cause them harm.

X3 highlights this.

It depends on how the standard was made, with the decisions generally made to fit specific reasons and no overarching standard.

There are also clothes that use more than one number. A lot of mens pants use two numbers; the same with formal mens shirts.

I use it a lot.

Only if the wreckage of World War III can do so.

The Batman incorporates a lot of working class struggles into the narrative. Batman is constantly called out for not knowing things that are obvious to working people, but not to upper class people like himself.

Yeah. I’m just speaking to how China would implement this law.

When doing snot techniques, 2 studs = 5 plates.

Likely, they won’t enforce it unless it is problematic content. Once the content becomes problematic, they can get rid of it.

Yeah.

There is always that cycle that includes “Democrats didn’t do everything they promised so they deserve to suffer”, which brings in Republicans that cause far more damage.

And given the number of election cycles, you would think there would be some organization by now for overall leftist causes, but there isn’t. There is no party or organization out there that can pose an electoral threat. The right produced the TEA party, which morphed to MAGA. Leftists have nothing.

A combination of Lemmy and The Economist.

The Economist is very anti-Russian, but I find they don’t pull punches regarding how economic policy will fuck with the working class in Western countries.