What is Russia’s motivation for confirming this?

Yup, I always tell people I’m biased about WI because I left. I’m sure OH has a lot of similar reasons.

Welcome to the resistance… Dick Cheney?

Hubris. They were up in the polls at the time and didn’t think they needed to expand their appeal, so they caved and took Thiel’s guy.

There are private/paywalled Discord servers and forums out there, too, so this could replace some of those. I think the Reddit format is better than a lot of alternatives, so I don’t actually hate this idea.

I’m not really into the idea of moving everything to a baby Google, even if they’re currently good about privacy. They just added an AI tool to email and a crypto wallet, which could be either awful or great signs depending on your perspective.

Ron Desantis’s “Weekend at Bernie’s president” joke at the RNC, like every other accusation from the GOP, was just more projection.

So is his diaper

A DA will be a nice foil to the convicted felon.

Regarding ballot eligibility- I think part of timing for this is that the Dems are about to have their “roll call” in the next week or two to officially nominate a candidate to get on ballots before the official full convention.

So does Valve?

I was kind of hoping for Impulse Space, but they’re probably too unproven.

One of Starship’s engines on the lowest setting would tear the station apart. Regardless of whether they make this based on Starship instead of something more reasonably sized like a Dragon or Falcon 2nd stage, it’ll still need either a new engine design or a big cluster of Dracos. It’ll be something custom.

Regarding their Artemis work- the payments are milestone based, so they get money as they pass milestones. Engine relights and ship to ship prop transfer are some of the next ones.

Regarding their other customers- the Starship manifest includes another moon cruise, several satellite launches, and a lot of Starlinks.

Serious answer- SpaceX is building the deorbit vehicle then turning it over to NASA, who will have full control over it.

There’s no way Russia builds a new station. The timeline for them getting Nauka to orbit basically proves that it’s impossible. They’ve been trying to buddy up with China to visit theirs, though.

I expected nothing and I’m still disappointed

And it will hallucinate and give wrong answers

Because it’s the only realistic option on a federal level until we have ranked choice voting.

For the rest of us who aren’t in states with the trial this year, I’ve been using Freetaxusa for a few years. Free federal, $15 state.

Wirecutter and RTINGS both do a lot of testing and reviews, including for headphones.

The mass application boom is so annoying. Seeing a sankey diagram of someone who applied to hundreds of jobs always bothers me.

They also elected Ron Johnson

I set my phone to auto download playlists and podcasts on WiFi, so it isn’t really a problem. I think there was one month when I had to buy extra data so far, and that still ends up being cheaper than being on a plan with more data.

Getting paid for on-call hours would be cool. If only.

I got mine a little over 4 years ago and am still on the original toner. It gives low toner warnings but just keeps on printing.

Twitch having 1400ish employees before the layoffs doesn’t seem too crazy, right? Cutting 35% is insane, though.

This feels like a good spot to remind folks that you can get free at-home covid tests from covid.gov.

If you haven’t gotten one in a bit, covid vaccines are also free in the US, either through your health insurance or through the Bridge Access Program.

George Galloway was on Big Brother, so he must not really mind the surveillance and abuse.

I used Edge a bit at work because it feels like Office365 stuff runs better on it, but that might be placebo.

Same. The tab sync from desktop to mobile is also really cool.

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I didn’t mean it as whataboutism to justify China’s situation, just as a tangent about the US also having work to do. I agree, now that you said it, that it looks like whataboutism.

Hopefully the drop in the US over the past two years turns into a longer trend.

Gini above 0.4 bears a high risk for social unrest

The US in 2022 has a GINI of 0.488. Not great.

This is kind of tangential, but white noise backup alarms are neat.

Tab groups?

Maybe this is a better question for degoogle@lemmy.ml, but:

What’s a good way to get off Google Photos and Drive on my phone? It looks like Proton seems like the right fit, but compared to Google One for $20/year, Proton for $120 seems like a bit much. I guess you’re paying to not be the product? Although, shoot, my VPN auto-renewed for $100 a year, so I guess I’m already paying $120…

I liked Deep Rock. I started playing it during the pandemic with some friends instead of doing in-person board games (and Jackbox and boardgame simulators got old). I definitely ended up playing more single player than multiplayer. Buuut I probably haven’t played it in a year? It just got really samey after getting through a lot of leveling up and unlocks.

“Security as a Service”

Are you talking about protesting by not voting or wasting a vote on a 3rd party? Without ranked choice voting, the only good spot for that is primaries and small local elections. The lesser of two evils is still the lesser of two evils. Life will be a hell of a lot worse for tons of people if the former guy wins again.

I’ve brought up other services with some of my active groupchats, but nobody else cares or wants to switch. Soooo I’m stuck in Messenger+Whatsapp, Discord, Groupme (Microsoft), and Slack (Salesforce). At least I got out of Snapchat?

I sprained my foot and had to stay in this weekend, so I got back to TOTK for the first time in like a month. I’m about 25hrs in and had a slightly different start? I did the Water Temple basically first, THEN got sidetracked, wandered around doing shrines and side quests.