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MisterFrog

@ MisterFrog @lemmy.world

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  • Whoops :(

  • Calculatable

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  • Let's be honest, if you are doing serious math, you'll have a graphing calculator to do way more stuff, and the controls are much more like a mini computer (with a backspace key, and being able to delete individual lines of history, or all of the history with menus)

  • Trump’s Horrific Friendship With Jeffrey Epstein Revealed in New Audio

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  • Trump files first election lawsuit in chilling sign of what’s to come

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  • Yeah :( Big sad, both for you as a citizen of the US (I presume), and for me, as someone under the thumb of the US's sphere of influence.

    Stay safe out there next week. I'm presume it's gonna get wild.

  • Trump files first election lawsuit in chilling sign of what’s to come

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  • Y'all need to unify your federal election into an actual federal election. Not 50 separate ones.

    It would be a lot harder to pick and choose battleground states for lawsuits if you 1. Change the voting system yes, but also and importantly 2. Have consistent rules and voting infrastructure across the whole country.

    Having to understand 50 separate election rules makes it way easier to sow doubt.

    I am aware there are also some federal laws on voting, but still.

  • Trump files first election lawsuit in chilling sign of what’s to come

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  • We're seeing in real-time why maintaining a coherent, unified, transparent voting system and communicating how and why it's secure against tampering is so important. It needs to be difficult to sow doubt in the election, and you can only achieve this through simple to understand and explain methods.

    Because if the average person can be convinced it's not secure and legitimate, then it doesn't matter what the reality is.

    This is why I'm so sick of people pointing out the defamation lawsuits from the voting machine companies as some kind of win for the democratic process.

    Voting machines have been just one of the many ways the Republicans have sown doubt over the results. Stop using voting machines, obviously (in my opinion. There's also 2 great videos from Tom Scott on the topic)

    Important things to get right:

    • functioning, reliable postal system. (Trump did a great job on undermining this)
    • unified electoral communication so that every place has the same election, not bloody 50 separate ones with wildly different practices. (Well shit, constitution needs to be amended)
    • a simple voting recording method anyone can understand. (Voting machines are bad, simply because they're too much of a security risk and black box that can have doubt sown very easily)
    • consistent invigilation
    • courts that aren't stacked (good luck with this one, though)

    And obvious move away from FPTP, but everyone is already calling for that.

    Armchair citizen under the American empire, giving you my 2¢.

  • Bernie Sanders: Vote Harris because Gaza is ‘not the only issue’

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  • Here's the link to the actual speech from Sanders: https://youtu.be/Vf5MThSniiY

    I came to the Politics community 9 hours after it was posted to find discussion. Nothing.

    Personally I feel an exception should be made when the news is literally just a video, why wait for a journalist to regurgitate it in written form?

    Anyway

  • my boss hates this one simple trick

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  • HCl is already in your stomach, what's the big deal of a little in the lungs?!?

  • Of course telecom companies are suing the FTC to block the new 'click-to-cancel' rule

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  • Legal layman here, why is it I keep hearing of American companies suing regulators? I can't recall that ever being the case in Australia, unless they're claiming some law/regulation is unconstitutional or something.

    Am I just ill informed? Seems weird.

    Regulator is empowered by the law, law is made by legislators, unless it's against the constitution of your country, surely the answer to any of these cases is: tough shit, company? No? How do they sue a regulator for regulating? Seems weird.

  • Different perspectives on dogs

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  • This is why I enjoy coming on Lemmy, it's at the right size where I feel like I'm watching the same TV show with some friends and we're cracking jokes linking back to the previous episode haha

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  • I would be willing to bet there are more people in the US using Kelvin in their jobs than Rankine.

    Lb-mole? That one I'm not sure.

    To me, these wanna-be scientific units are weird, like, just use metric at that point 😅

    Also 1000th of an inch. Like, come on! You're just teasing us

  • Prevention is the best cure

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  • Hecking trolls these days! Back in my day they were just looking for rage on the internet, now they're trying to influence people not to vote.

  • Prevention is the best cure

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  • Then you are willfully ignoring the powers that your government has.

    You're not wrong to say it's all being influenced to the point of almost total control by the people with the money, but it's not correct to say that both parties are equivalent and will pursue the same policies. Or that voting makes no difference.

    It absolutely does matter, and you're either being disingenuous, or getting high on some copium.

    Please go vote, Jesus

  • Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics

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  • How is this not a warrantless search?

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  • I also really dislike this. Making simple noises is the kind of baby talk I can get behind. And then just using fewer words, simple words you want them to learn first. This and talking in higher pitched voices. I'm cool with all that baby talk.

    But the latter feels like how parents with "fur babies" (who describe themselves as such) talk to their pets, and drives me up the wall.

  • Prevention is the best cure

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  • Yes, and also it's still the case not voting for the candidate you prefer (not like, prefer) over the other, makes it more likely for the other to win.

    The voting system is super-duper flawed, but you don't win by not playing.

  • Extra salty

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  • Wait, this is real? I just assumed it was fake because the thought of Trump actually doing any work whatsoever seems strange.

    He didn't actually serve anyone right? It was just a photo shoot, right?

  • Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four

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  • It's not cursed, it's just a different way of grouping. Nothing about grouping in multiples of 10³ is a more natural grouping, were just more used to it.

    And I'm pointing out how metric prefixes are actually euro-centric, and that's annoying for them. But there's nothing fundamentally worse about breaking digits in groups of 4, rather than 3

    1,000,000,000,000 = 1,0000,0000,0000 (1012) [Meme of black and white muscular arms embracing.]

    Look up the indian system, now that's actually cursed.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system

  • Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four

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  • Absolutely, mm > cm all the way. Other than you putting s at the end of mm, we don't take the Lord's (metric) name in vain around here.

    I do feel kind of sorry for East Asia though, since their languages seperate at intervals of 10⁴, rather than 10³. The giga and mega prefixes just make no sense there. 1 GW = 10,0000,0000 W and 1 MW = 100,0000.

    Language strikes again

    Not sure, but perhaps they would prefer a prefix of 10-4 rather than mm (10-3).