Liz

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[–] Liz@midwest.social 6 points 3 weeks ago

Same thing happened to the Dot Com bubble. The fundamental technology has valid uses, but we're in the stage where some people are convinced it can be used for literally anything.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Nah, the timeline looks like this:

  1. use account on main
  2. create backup
  3. use account on main
  4. account goes missing from main.
  5. check backup, account also missing from backup.

Like, it should be in the backup, I proved it was in the original before and after creating the backup. Heck if I know why they went missing.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Dave Grossman is full of shit. This is independent to the potential trauma from killing people (there's a wide range of reactions to that experience). Dave Grossman is full of shit.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

I used to keep a copy of my kepass file in a free Dropbox account.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I switched from keepass to Bitwarden because individual entries started randomly disappearing. I'm still discovering missing accounts after switching a couple of weeks ago. Sometime to do with how keepass was opening the files, because when an entry went missing it was gone even from backup files I hadn't touched since before the entry disappeared.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago

Nah, some folks got a hold of the wire frames for the sprites from the that version and the previous version and showed most were identical. Of those that weren't, many were only slightly modified, and clearly not generated from scratch.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

Someone is lying and I have a sneaking suspicion of who it is.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago

Probably because most people are too lazy to explain that deflation is a bad thing and incredibly hard to get unstuck. The "ideal" scenario is one where inflation stays low and wages outpace it. A small amount of inflation is a way to stop billionaires from sitting on piles of cash. At least with inflation they're incentivized to spend it on investments, some of which are good for the economy.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 11 points 1 month ago

The two-party system. Regardless of where you live, if it's under a two-party system, you probably agree that it sucks.

Assuming we're starting from "choose one" single-winner elections, you need to first switch your elections to Approval Voting. This would make it always safe to vote for your favorite candidate, and the full support for every losing candidate would be reflected in the vote totals. This will weaken the two party system, but no single-winner system can dismantle it.

After that, switch as many single-winner elections to multi-winner as you can (like city council or a legislative district) and use Sequential Proportional Approval Voting to award seats. This will enable minor party candidates to get into office after the major ones, and the seat totals will look a lot closer to the vote totals.

A few places already use approval (Fargo and St. Louis) and a few places are just begging for SPAV (Cincinnati City council).

[–] Liz@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At this point it's entirely a self-referential joke. People bring it up to reference the stereotype itself, not to actually call the French cowards.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 8 points 1 month ago

For real. Dude is claiming old memes used to be creative while using leek spin as the example.

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