Pelicanen

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[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This was literally my second sentence.

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Voter turnout was roughly 64.1% and out of those, 49.8% voted for Trump, bringing the total to about 32% of eligible voters. While one can absolutely make the argument that abstaining from voting implicitly supported Trump as Republicans typically fare better in low-turnout elections, it's not exactly factual to say that the majority of citizens voted for him

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Non-joke answer: Indian Pale Ale, a style of beer popular with a lot of homebrewers and beer enthusiasts.

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 21 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Per capita means it's adjusted for the population. Both China and India are large polluters but they are the two most populated countries in the world.

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

Someone somewhere just started rifling through their shadman archive.

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Once you start remembering where the buttons are you get to the advantageous part which is using the controls without ever having to take your eyes off the road.

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 27 points 7 months ago

What would it look like to start from scratch with a massively simplified standard for specifying UIs, based on all we've learned since html/css was invented?

Probably a lot better. The difficult, and expensive, part is getting everyone to migrate over to this new standard, not because it'd be unfeasible but because companies don't want to spend any time or money on things that they don't think will make them profit.

What we'd need is, for example, the EU realizing that Google's attempted monopoly on the internet is dangerous and requiring a certain standard for private consumer-facing websites to get the ball rolling.

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 16 points 7 months ago

The point is to cause obstruction and attention. Force them to show that they don't respect the rule of law so everyone can see it, people like the idea of "mavericks who don't bend a knee to bureaucracy" but when it's obvious that they can (and will) take your livelihood without leaving you with any legal recourse, a lot of people are less enthusiastic. And if the courts actually put a stop to their efforts every now and then, it undermines their position of authority and shows that the power they claim to wield isn't as far-reaching as they'd like to pretend.

They want people to give in without a fight, they want people to silently just accept their authority. Don't give it to them for free.

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it be "Nåo trit"?

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's probably the next step of this for the alt-right: When nazi symbolism has been normalized, it'll be "Most nazis weren't bad, only the well-known ones".

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

He did. He helped build it.

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