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The coastal rainforest and mountains of the west coast of North America are some 40% under normal rainfall and snowpack.

Unless things change dramatically, shit is going to hit the fan this summer. That region supplies water to most of North America’s farms.

Yeah there is.
Fox news isn’t it.

Also I didn’t ever say “factual news”

That’s different. Video game journalism isn’t factual news, it is reviews, which are inherently opinion pieces. I expect to get personal elements there. Not to mention the unique role of games putting the players in the seat of telling the story.

To paraphrase Sir Patrick Stewart:
Video games are a unique entertainment medium because the person playing them creates the story.
In a book, the author writes the story and it comes to life in your head.
In a movie or show, ultimately it’s the director and editor who get to tell the story, the actors doing what they’re told.
In a play or music, the actors/musicians on stage tell the story.
In a video game, the player creates the story.

He was only talking about video games, but the same applies to the modern ttrpgs and more complex board games like “the captain is dead” or “tokaido”

The point of journalism is to get the facts across and inform viewers. I don’t care about the journalist other than them being impartial and reporting on the facts.

In my experience of using the traffic inspection tool fiddler: for https sites you have to have it add its own self signed cert to be able to see traffic.

Firefox, out of the box, detects it immediately and warns you of a security issue, not letting you do anything.

Chrome, and chromium based browsers,
don’t even notice it and happily let you do what needs to be done.

I’ve had the experience of a few sites not working recently in Firefox, one of them explicitly stated an ad server was blocked because of xss settings and refused to load. Chrome didn’t care.

Because Firefox has better XSS detection than Chrome and will block adware sites from injecting tracking that Chrome completely allows.

I am not a lawyer.

He’s absolutely responsible for the jan 6 2021 insurrection. But he’s not actually legally guilty of it yet, no?

I suspect that they might rule that only someone convicted of insurrection can be removed from the ballot; regardless of the actual letter of the law nor requiring that.

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Did some volunteering at some old folks homes and a hospice.

The hospice had people who were literally trapped in their own bodies. Bedridden and unable to move their arms, legs or even speak. They communicated yes/no by monotone grunting(two for yes, one for no.

Person was fully conscious and aware. Just unable to act on the outside world.

(Except it doesn’t work if you’re moving and only works if you are stationary relative to the earth.)

BC is living on borrowed time. The BC Liberals privatized the maintenance and snow removal.
Saskatchewan is notoriously horrible and Alberta, outside of the big freeways is horrendous.

As an example:

Salesforce has been trying to replace developers with “easy to use tools” for a decade now.

They’re no closer than when they started. Yes the new, improved flow builder and omni studio look great initially for the simple little preplanned demos they make. But theyre very slow, unsafe to use and generally are impossible to debug.

As an example: a common use case is: sales guy wants to create an opportunity with a product. They go on how omni studio let’s an admin create a set of independently loading pages that let them:
• create the opportunity record, associating it with an existing account number.
• add a selection of products to it.

But what if the account number doesn’t exist? It fails. It can’t create the account for you, nor prompt you to do it in a modal. The opportunity page only works with the opportunity object.

Also, if the user tries to go back, it doesn’t allow them to delete products already added to the opportunity.

Once we get actual AIs that can do context and planning, then our field is in danger. But so long as we’re going down the glorified chatbot route, that’s not in danger.

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You’d have to generate a blacklist and maintain it, but also avoid bad faith mods and admins

The weird thing is that there are already efficient gesture keyboards. It’s a weird choice by Apple to not use one.

Saw that review.

Social politeness is already an issue. Imagine the chaos of lots of people using those and answering texts in places like doorways and stairs.

Just stopping wherever they are and chicken pecking at an imaginary keyboard(exactly as he does in the review)

Except discrimination of the Irish(at least) was enshrined in law, just not during the Jim Crow era.

They were.

That’s why Ontario became a thing. People who just wanted to live as is were forced to flee for their lives as rednecks conned into rebelling by the rich elites threatened their lives.

Irish and Italian people were brutally oppressed and segregated in the 18th and 19th centuries in the US and Canada.

Hell, there is even a famous movie about it.

Not to mention that the brutally oppressed history of the Slavic people going back over a millenia.

Understand that a lot of the negative stuff about Sparta is propaganda coming from Athens.

And equally, the somewhat golden view of Athens is also propaganda from Athens.

In reality they both yeeted babies they deemed unworthy, except that in Athens, you weren’t respected if you were old and you were marginally worse off than a (male) slave if you were a woman. And you only had voting rights if you owned land and were male.

Also Sparta won the war because they had help from I believe it was Crete, after Athens tried to take over Crete to get a military advantage on Sparta.