I work in the development office of a very small municipality with very wealthy, powerful residents. My exact role and the nature of the city for which I work are both fairly unique, so I really don’t like going into too much detail. I get Open Records requests from major publications regarding cases I work on fairly frequently, and I’d rather not have one of their web searches find my Lemmy account.

But now the API-based tool i used no longer functions

Yes and no.

When used as an insignia (e.g. military uniforms and vehicles), the stars are often on the right - especially if on the right side of the vehicle/person. The idea is that when moving forward, the air resistance will result in the flag pole leading, and the flag appearing reversed.

It’s sometimes called the “flying flag”

It’s also one reason a lot of flags are symmetrical - so that they appear the same from either side and regardless of direction of movement.

I used a tool to overwrite mine right before the API bullshit went into effect, but searching for my account, it appears they were all restored.

That tiger in SoM is so awful.

The alchemy system is really unique.

Sign up for a free trial of Peacock and cancel it right before the Olympics to fuck NBC’s numbers.

Yeah…

The thing about Lemmy is that it’s not yet large and active enough for me to have a curated community list like I did on reddit, so I end up seeing all kinds of stuff I would not have subbed to.

I’m sure we’ll ruin it soon enough.

The funny thing is I’m generally excellent at reading people, except when it comes to romantic stuff involving me. Reading people is a huge part of my job, and I’m excellent at what I do.

When I was in college, I was pretty into a girl, but was too nervous to ask her out. I’m also famously oblivious.

A few months into this, she texts me saying she needs someone to peer review a paper, and wants me to come over to her place the next night around 10. She also specifically says her roommate will he out and she knows neither of us are seeing anyone, so we’ll both be free to meet up.

So I go over there, and she comes out wearing yoga pants and a sports bra. I figure she’s wanting to go to bed pretty soon.

She asks if I want a drink, and I ask for some water…She grabs it for me and sits next to me on the couch, and I lean in and… ask for the paper.

She’s like, “Oh, yeah.” And she goes and prints it out and brings it to me.

It was pretty rough, and I peer-reviewed the shit out of it. I show her a bunch of mistakes and stuff, tell her she has some work to do, and leave.

I didn’t realize how much of a seemingly-cruel dumbass I was for like a year.

Because the port and the associated internal hardware would take up a huge amount of space.

It’s not much space to a smartphone, but to a device the size of a watch, the USB-C port would end up being the largest internal component.

Wireless charging is the answer for most watches, though it means cases can’t be all metal and glass.

As a percentage, forklifts always way more incidents, and the incidents they can cause are BAD.

An F-150 isn’t gonna make a warehouse’s worth of product domino onto workers because someone leaned on the wrong lever.

You can only say that because he was found liable for sexual assault through the unanimous decision of an impartial jury in a court of law.

They look like earpro. Maybe to keep her from hearing the other kids to make sure their stories align?

I work in government in a city where cameras designed to detect license plates for active warrants, stolen vehicles, and vehicles from Amber/Silver alerts have been deployed. It was crystal-clear from Council that those were the only authorized uses as a condition of their installation.

Within a week, the police were using them to identify cars for other purposes.

That last bit is what people don’t understand.

If you’re an auto manufacturer, and you are given the choice to pay 50%+ tarrifs on your raw materials before selling your car that now has to be much, much more expensive due to the tarrifs. Or you could build the car in Europe, pay none of those tarrifs on parts, and export it to the US where the buyers will pay a 15% tarrif after the recent deal with the EU.

So it’s more profitable for the manufacturers and cheaper for the consumers to shut down US auto plants and move everything to Europe.

Art of the Deal.

Yeah. A lot of people think that giving money to an American-based supplier means that the supplies are sourced in the US.

It’s also a very long campaign with several points that feel like they’re coming up on the ending, only for a lot more game and story to come afterward.

I was there for this exact same thing in 2003.

In 2002, the GOP, for the first time ever, held the Texas House, Senate, and governor’s mansion. Texas had just done redistricting the year before in response to the 2000 Census, but the GOP decided to do it again in 2003 for transparently corrupt reasons. And it worked.

In the 2002 election, the majority of Texas representatives elected to the US House were Democrats. In fact, the majority of Reps from Texas had NEVER been Republican because Texas isn’t actually as red as people think. But after the bullshit in 2003, the 2004 election resulted in the GOP taking 2/3rds of the seats.

The thing to understand about the GOP more than anything else, is that when they get power, they will never give it up.

Nationally, our last line of defense against them from 2017-2019 was the courts. We lost the Courts, but the Blue Wave of 2018 came in time to stop a lot of the harm. Then we had the Biden administration. But this January, MAGA finally fully controlled all 3 branches, and they will not give it up.

Instead, we must take the power back.