No Republican would’ve fought for Amtrak expansion as hard as Biden has.

Unless you have a source this is straight up disinformation. As far as I’m aware and as far as I can tell, Dropbox is an independent company.

Yes, but in Texas you’ll find the interstate speed limit is 85 and in Ohio it was 65, now it’s 70.

There’s not some fundamentally crazy difference between Ohio and Texas roads that results in Texas accepting 20mph higher speed limits than the rate Ohio was using within the last 10 years or so.

There is a history of speed limits for fuel efficiency and scarcity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maximum_Speed_Law. Which is more evidence that speed limits do not inherently correspond to safety. Driving the limit, over the limit, or under the limit doesn’t “magically” make you safer.

Sure, if you’re in an accident two objects traveling faster are going to cause more damage to each other than two objects traveling slower. However, getting into that accident in the first place has little to do with speed and a lot to do with situational awareness and giving yourself enough time to stop in case of emergency (i.e. how close you’re following the car in front of you, how fast you’re passing kids on the sidewalk, etc).

You’ll note speed is always blamed for increasing severity (i.e., it’s a factor in the severity of the accident). Unfortunately the links don’t work anymore to get to the underlying source but https://sites.psu.edu/siowfa15/2015/09/18/is-driving-faster-safer/ states “A study conducted by the Florida Department of Transportation says that accidents that were caused by speeding is actually 2.2%.” The Autobahn is another great example. Speed is very rarely cited as the primary cause … because speed isn’t really the issue.

We should be focusing on issues that actually cause accidents like tailgating, blocking the left lane, failing to signal, etc.

I hate that speed(ing) always gets lumped in whenever “dangerous behavior” comes up. Going faster than an arbitrary road sign says you should isn’t inherently dangerous.

• Going faster than the arbitrary road sign can be dangerous.
• Going the speed the arbitrary road sign says can be dangerous.
• Going slower than the arbitrary road sign can be dangerous.

It’s about the conditions of the road, paying attention, signaling to other drivers what you’re trying to do, and being prepared for people and animals to do something dumb.

• following too closely
• using phones while driving

These things are on a whole other level than speeding or “illegally” passing. But the person who can’t keep their car centered in the lane, wrecks every other winter, doesn’t use their turn signal, doesn’t notice an ambulance right behind them, and drives too close to the car in front of them will say “I’m a GOOD driver because I don’t speed. Shame on all these bad drivers that pass me!”

Even worse some of those “GOOD” non-speeding drivers will try to “police the roads” and prevent people from getting around them which has literally resulted in completely pointless deaths during emergencies.

I mean it could still be a breach of contract. Chances are they won’t pursue you in court though

All individual nodes are centralized. One of those nodes being big doesn’t mean the entire system becomes “centralized.”

Email is decentralized despite Gmail having the major market share by far.

And the sky is still blue? Who cares?

You’re right, I’ve updated my reply… Hopefully someday that will be a generic RCS feature not exclusive to Google and/or Apple and Google will work to make the E2EE work between their two systems.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/apple-iphone-getting-rcs-2024-imessage-news/

Maybe try searching what I said first…?

You definitely shouldn’t invest time in SMS. Without RCS (or some custom messaging protocol support), “texting apps” are pretty much a dead market.

RCS is both more secure and more user friendly than SMS can be by design. Once the iPhone gets RCS support in the coming months/years, this will be especially true.

Not in the US. The estimates I’ve seen are closer to 50-50 which is really saying something about how effective Apple has been.

That’s a really bad way to look at it if that’s really what it boils down to.

Really? And here I thought you were coming off SUPER sympathetic! 🙄

I’m sympathetic to people who voted for the right policies but still live there. Not to the people who can vote but choose not to exercise their rights and then complain about how things are going.

In any case, I think you’re rude and full of shit.

That is an offensive comparison. I’m not touching that, there’s no “winning” in the discussion you’ve set up for either of us.

Oh bull shit. There are way more apathetic people that don’t vote because they don’t want to (because they don’t think it matters or don’t care) than people that are actually not able to vote.

If your “disenfranchisement” in particular boils down to “both sides … my vote doesn’t matter” I have 0 sympathy for you. It very clearly does matter.

Honestly… I get your point and I know people in Texas that don’t agree with Texas politics. However, the largest party in the county is the party of “I don’t vote.” If you actually manage to wake up 10%… 20%… 30%… of those people, plus all the Republican voters that didn’t want it, plus all the Democrats that didn’t want it and/or got lazy with their state votes… Well we might actually see major change in representation from Texas.

On it boss https://youtu.be/HsvyjePPFRs?si=So4iKVWAUPXNjGVe

So about those people that run around saying passphrases are better… 😅

That would limit the practicallity quite a lot, as deskmats and typing style would change the sound of even a common keyboard.

Eh… I don’t know if it would be enough of a change. Also consider mass produced popular laptops (e.g. targeting the MacBook keyboard).

I also notice that I slightly change my typing style between typing normally and entering my password.

I don’t really think that’s normal… But hey, maybe it gives you some protection 🙂

I made a chat app for my Minecraft server back in 2016 that was just a website with push notifications. Worked great for the folks that had an Android device to talk to people on the server, for people with iOS it was useless.

I don’t run that chat app anymore, but… There are use cases for these things that aren’t just “would you like to revive notifications about my blog posts/spam?”