Shorting isn’t the problem as much as metal against metal bending things. Those contacts are fragile. Plastic or wood and being gentle won’t hurt anything.

I can see from the comments the problem now, but it wasn’t so bad it jumped at me. I was thinking at first it was the fact they were storing the card info online. Which I realize a lot of places do and people are okay with, but that is honestly more unhinged these days than where the address field is.

C-64 -> DOS (at school) -> Unix (at uni) -> Every Windows from 3.1 to Win10 including some NT -> Linux/Win10

That pretty much dates me, with that huge stretch of time.

Messed around with Linux a few times on and off (Mandrake was first), never took the plunge until recently where it’s now my primary. And it’s not Arch.

Magnetism is “just” the ability of some elements to line up their fields so that the effects are felt beyond their electron shells. It’s much more complex than that, but magnetism is in all matter, just some more than others. For it to stop at any rate would be like changing a constant of the universe. I would imagine very quickly things would be very different and we wouldn’t be around to witness it.

Mmm, that iridium goodness!

It’s a version of the age old question on how do you keep someone from stealing your images while still being able to show it. No one can see an image without having downloaded it already. The best you can do is layer in things like watermarks to make cleaning it into a “pure” version not worth the trouble. Same with text, poison it so it’s less valuable without a lot of extra work.

LLMs can’t do math well. Add in the factor of needing to understand the question first before doing the math and it might work better than you think.

Is that why he does it? I’ll be honest, I’m starting to read it okay, just a bit slower than usual.

This timeline they’ve already been through the system and saw our broadcasts. Guess who is on the “Do Not Contact” list for the warp capable group?

Whole milk will go bad very quickly, especially once opened and if not kept below a certain temperature. 2% lasts a lot longer. Also changing the location in the refrigerator makes a huge difference, the door area is the warmest part. If you haven’t had an issue before, then it could be that at some point in handling from the store or you the milk was allowed to warm a bit too much. Again, for whole milk it doesn’t take a lot, and any perishables from Walmart is taking a risk vs. other groceries. Find a store that gets local farm stuff if possible, and try 2%, it’s possible to wean off that sweet whole and buy some time and health.

That last scene with the dying torch… he deserved it, but that was disturbing.

Amazon is its own thing. It’s not really a shipping company. And they’ve had their own layoff issues. Consumers spending less affects everyone.

I saw this movie.

Didn’t anyone tell him he already missed it?

And many/most Republicans. Gerrymandering, limited voting areas, and intimidation at the poll are standard tactics to try and reduce people who might vote against them.

To be fair, Democrats have gerrymandered in history as well. District lines should be an independent determination, not by who is currently in control of a state government.

Being against having many options to let your vote be heard is very anti-American.

Federation and how things are pushed out is complicated. World is pretty big (it was one of the initial places during the first growth spurt from Reddit) but I don’t know the current state of them allowing material from other instances. I think it’s okay, I see a lot of world users in my feed, but I don’t know what THEY see.

The caveat of making other accounts is that they are different accounts, so your posting and history are only there (although there was research on ways to transfer or share, but I don’t know where that is atm). But if another instance is open to new signups, nothing wrong with trying them out, see if you see things differently, end up using that one if it feels more open.

Go visit https://lemmyverse.net/ and see what’s out there. There’s three big “types” now, Lemmy, Mbin, and Piefed. I can’t tell you which is better, as everyone has their own take on things.

Since there’s many different sources (federated) instead of a single one like Reddit, maybe how you’re connected and being fed things is limited, giving you an impression it’s less. It was much worse in the beginnings obviously, until moderators and instances grew and learned how to better pump things out. It still has its issues, depending on where you are.

It’s also not equal to compare a still new network of Lemmy and others to a long established Reddit structure of niche subs for everything. At some point there were none of the subs we now see. Maybe some of them aren’t needed at this time, as setting up a new community is not hard to do (moderating it and growing it is work though).

He should have been in jail long before that, impeached with the help of his party and barred from ever serving as President again. A reminder that Trump is not the sole problem, and is more of a symptom of a bigger issue that has been allowed to grow for decades.

How much power the federal government can wield has been a debate since the founding. The first two political parties were the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans. The optimal version is probably somewhere in between, with lots of checks and balances that can vary through situations and time. We had some of that too through history.

It’s always hardest to see the best direction to take when in the middle of historical change, but it does seem we’ve slid a bit too far at this point to use the system that is broken to fix the system. I’m wondering not only what path we’re going to take to get to the next stage, but how the world is going to act while we do it, given how tangled the US with everything. Some might say to let it burn, ignore it, play isolationism, but that approach never worked out historically, nor did trying to step in and “fix” things.