Upsidedownturtle

joined 1 year ago
[–] Upsidedownturtle@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Powertoys and fancyzones in particular has been amazing with the proliferation of large monitors. Saves so much time and effort to configure windows. Don't understand why it is an optional utility and not built into the OS.

[–] Upsidedownturtle@lemmy.world -4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Put it a different way: if both candidates are willing to turn a blind eye to genocide, who do you think you'd have a better chance lobbying to change their stance? One support a cease fire and a two state solution. The other doesn't think a two start solution could work, and that Israel needs to do whatever they need to do to get the war over with.

[–] Upsidedownturtle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Of all 59 presidential elections there hasn't ever been a tie. There have been 3 contingent elections where no candidate got a majority of electors in the electoral college:1800, 1824, 1836. The last one being unique because Van Buren got enough electors in the general election but Virginias' electors were faithless and wouldn't vote for him leading to it get shoved to the house where they handedly voted him in.

[–] Upsidedownturtle@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The rumor is that he was going to call Kamala a cunt but the Trump campaign vetoed that, yet approved the badmouthing of Puerto Ricans and black people.

[–] Upsidedownturtle@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd guess that major UI revisions are a big reason for average users. People don't like having to relearn how to do something or find a setting. If M$ implemented a legacy UI setting that by and large mimicked the interface and controls in W10 they'd clear a major hurdle preventing less technologically inclined users from upgrading.

[–] Upsidedownturtle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not entirely. An act of congress is all that is needed to repeal the Reapportionment Act of 1929 and allow more members of the house to be seated. Increase the number of house members from 437 (approx 750,000 citizens per rep) to 1093 (2.5x increase yielding approx 300,000 citizens per rep). This is roughly the same ratio of house reps to citizens when this bill was passed nearly 100 years ago.

A capped house significantly broke the balance between populous states and small states further in the favor of the small states. Ending this imbalance would move both the executive branch and the legislature to more accurately represent the will of the people.

[–] Upsidedownturtle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Nearly every niche community I've joined has essentially died due to not having the critical mass of users to support that community. Hell, even look at the large states like California or Texas: they're communities with only a few hundred active users and maybe a couple thousand joined. Feels like the lemmy is mostly us politics, star trek, Germans, and memes.

[–] Upsidedownturtle@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is also just one man. No parents, siblings, children, spouses like the Bushs or Clintons. No one is getting all uppity about politicians like Glitch McConnell having decades in the senate.

[–] Upsidedownturtle@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It was primarily settled as a farming community at the confluence of two rivers to support nearby gold mines. Prior to that native Americans had a fair amount of canal works to provide irrigation to agriculture in the region. At the time it would have been seen as good fertile land, free from rocks and boulders that was beyond the frost line prime for agriculture if they brought fresh water from the nearby rivers.

[–] Upsidedownturtle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Well, if Biden/Harris let him win in '20 then he wouldn't have had to campaign in' 24 and thus wouldn't have been in an open field vulnerable to nutjobs taking potshots at him.

[–] Upsidedownturtle@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

From my experience, most of those websites that want a specific browser require edge these days. Some streaming sites will only give FHD on edge, and HD streams on other browsers if at all (looking at you Vudu).

[–] Upsidedownturtle@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Unfortunate for the passengers that they couldn't arrest him in Dallas, or wait for the return flight to Houston and pick him up after.

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