Tlaloc_Temporal

joined 1 year ago
[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Did you know my profile picture is a Windows Vista background? I didn't until a few months ago.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

BD stands for "Bandes dessinées" or "Drawn strips". Apparently it's a separate culture to American Comics, popular in France and Belgium. The Adventures of Tintin, Asterix, and The Smurfs are all BDs you may have heard of.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

This exactly. I don't speak latin and don't want to.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

You don't need giant EMS vehicles is cities. I bet 95% of EMS vehicles in large cities never leave city limits. Even if absolute units of EMS vehicles are somehow necessary for rural service (I doubt that), smaller, safer vehicles could easily service urban areas.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

There's still miles of countryside between cities in the Netherlands, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, and Denmark. Many of Canada's cities have fantastically walkable neighborhoods and light train services, and Canada has even more unreachable rural areas than the Sates. Urban solutions are almost completely unaffected by the size of the rural areas.

These solutions can all happen in individual cities and even towns. How many hours of car driving away the next urban center is doesn't affect where parking is placed, or zoning density, or where the highways are routed, or how fast the busses are, or whether a light train could be viable.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

It would be really nice on less powerful hardware too. One picture gallery can eat all my RAM real fast.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

One of the arguments for the electoral college was that news travels by horseback and a new development needed a representative at Washington to accout for it.

These representatives (electors) must therefore be able to vote differently that how they were asked to if they deem the situation requires it. Say it's uncovered that one candidate was plotting treason, or has a heart attack.

Because we can communicate instantaneously now, electors are not needed to vote for people or states anymore; a direct vote is easily accomplished.

The unfair allocation of those votes is a different aspect of the Electoral College, but also a reason to be rid of it.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Racism. The Jays in jaywalking where probably immigrants with weird hats.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

1mm? Dude, the scale is in the image, that's 150μm, one tenth that size. That viola is only 50μm long.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

I have an app that does that on my S8, but it's definitely not official support.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

And the alternative to doing that is what? This whole story was started because of windows and windows antivirus being inflexible.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah the pointer is handled differently so the old packages don't work, and I couldn't find an updated package possibly because no one has bothered to write one yet. It's perfectly understandable and not an issue whatsoever.

Trackpads are handled much better though.

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