Didn’t they state that their next game would not be a totk sequel?

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But not having books on your shelves is not a green flag, it just might not be a red flag.

He might be federally barred from office. On March 4, 2024, his insurrection trial will start and if he is found guilty it would be very difficult for any legal system to state he can still hold federal office.

Federal courts might call this a non-justiciable political question. Individual states might bar him from the ballot, but good luck getting a lot of red states to do that.

Liberals: I learned my lesson making predictions in November 2020.

You mean 2016.

oh fuuuuckkk

well, I’m on f-droid, so I guess my only issue is that I’m going to stop getting updates… but I’ll need a new gallery eventually, what are people switching to?

Edit: it seems fossify is forking smt:

https://github.com/FossifyOrg

Koler was very pretty, but there’s no way to get back into a call once you switch out of it. This is really bad, partly because it makes it impossible to hang up without restarting your phone. Huge, glaring bug they never fixed.

I’m absolutely with you on Contacts.

I hate Google Photos for a number of reasons, I think my current app is just simple gallery.

Android has an easy remote backup system built in. You can save a file to any location, including cloud locations, as long as the cloud service provider plugs into the API. Signal actively disables this feature because they would rather spite users than risk even the shadow of a chance that a user upload an encrytped backup to an internet service that could theoretically then be hacked and hypothetically maybe one day decrypted.

Matrix doesn’t have this issue, it just stores encrypted messages on servers.

in other words: the default messaging protocol is imessage, unless that’s impossible, in which case it falls back to sms.

Apple’s biggest crimes here are creating a proprietary platform with an exclusive protocol and making it the default messaging protocol on their devices. None of this is really new, though. All that shit is common. We need Signal or Matrix to improve in user-friendliness and even do some marketing to the point where they become viable solutions.

insurance is part of health plans. There is a deductible and an out-of-pocket max, which are both designed to protect you from those catastrophic risks. But because those catastrophic risks are best addressed by preventative care, and regular checkups, and freakin’ gym memberships, so the economics of insuring health becomes the economics of health incentivization, fucking around to figure out what it takes to get people to take care of themselves in advance rather than waiting but not getting people to go to doctors for frivolous issues.

health insurance isn’t really insurance either.

it’s like a health services subscription plan with a million convoluted rules.

So… Updates to Google messages, updates to WearOS, an update to AndroidTV, a few updates to Google proprietary apps, and one or two updates to the actual Android operating system.

there’s an “RCS Test App” in AOSP that nobody has managed to transform into a practical piece of software…

I agree that opening up an RCS API would be great but I don’t think that’s what the original comment was getting at

I think the original comment was implying that nobody, anywhere, would be using a locked-down Google-controlled messaging client in 2023 if it wasn’t preinstalled on their phones as the main messaging app. This little reaction gimmick doesn’t mean anything towards the end of freeing people from backwards-ass proprietary messaging services that don’t respect our damn privacy or freedom, it’s just another monopoloid trap.

Hamas’s goal is not to make you think they’re the good guys, their goal is to eradicate Israel and the Jewish people, and/or to die trying. They’ve been turning sentiment in their favor.

Plenty of people argue that Hamas is not a terrorist organization.

Israel is relatively popular in the US, but younger Americans and many circles within academia are rabid antizionists, as I think you’ve seen. Many are calling to “globalize the intifada.”

Hamas has not succeeded in making the average westerner think terrorism is good, but they have succeeded in normalizing terrorism, making more people think that “terrorism” is an Islamophobic term, making more people think that Israel does not have the right to exist, and emboldening antisemites on the right and left. Younger generations are more and more aggressively antizionist as time goes on.

Settler expansion is a problem that’s more complicated and less exciting to people than the war. It makes sense that antizionists want us to focus on the war and just use settler expansion for color.

This study from the GWU Program on Extremism is an important read on the topic of Hamas’s presence in the US over time.

My electric toothbrush works in four 30-second increments. Each 30 seconds is plenty of time for me to cover a quadrant. I slowly go over the outside, inside, top/bottom, gums in each quadrant. Maybe if I was meticulously brushing each tooth one by one, I could see the issue, but that’s not necessary, is it?

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