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Damn, alright haha, I completely missed that news. Good for them.

So if I already use K-9 Mail, should I bother? Does anything set it apart yet?

Same here! I’m Canadian and, while we may have a snap election at any time given the current situation, our next scheduled federal election isn’t for almost a year.

I still find it so baffling that red states are limiting the number of polling places to make it as inconvenient as possible to vote. Surely that reduces the willingness to vote of their own base too. Given the electoral college, jerrymandering, and voter roll purges, you’d think they’d be satisfied with how things are rigged already without resorting to blatant disenfranchisement.

It would be cool for you guys to have a viable third party, so you should try to make that a reality outside of just voting if you can. I’m sure they would appreciate a donation or another volunteer after the election and local efforts are often more meaningful long-term since they help create the grassroots support that leads to national viability.

“Were you dropped on your head as a child? That would just add to my problems.”

Welcome to Debian! Listen to @[email protected], that’s the easy advice.

My parents (who are nearly 70-year-old computer users, by the way, and threw away their 2010 Apple laptop in 2015 because it essentially stopped functioning) absolutely don’t have the technical knowledge to do something like this. I think you may be vastly overestimating the average user.

It doesn’t appear that that’s the case, because people on my instance have subscribed to the comm in question and the link still didn’t work. When I formatted the link correctly, it worked. Unless there’s an interoperability bug between Lemmy and Mbin, which is certainly possible.

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Your link doesn’t link to the community on my instance, it links to the original instance, so that’s a bit annoying. Maybe that’s why?

Vaguely? I went to look and (since I don’t spend time in racist circles) comment #14 made my mouth actually open in surprise. It’s not vague at all.

You don’t need a switch if you are bypassing it with a knife or other conductive object, that’s what I’m trying to tell you. A toaster has literally no protection - if you complete the circuit in any way (the intended way or not), the entire path becomes electrified.

Respectfully, that’s not the case. The heating elements always have current supplied to them, but the circuit is open until you complete it by pressing the moving segment down. When you use a metal tool and accidentally touch the side, you complete the circuit.

This is also how people can kill themselves by putting a toaster into a bathtub while they are in it.

No. If it’s plugged in, it’s live. Do not use a metal tool. Also this is a bad idea in general.

So, no. I don’t think a rapist cares much if they’re perceived as a rapist. And a lot of (maybe most?) rapists know that they probably won’t be convicted even if caught.

When people tell me about a project and say, “oh, this took me 5 years to do” it just makes me think, “damn, so it’d take me 10 years to get something twice as bad as this?”

It can’t! It’s too busy doing 500 km of burn-in after making it through testing. :(

Never join a robotics startup, lol. You will have to go to standup and it will be useless and annoying basically every time.

Without noticing or without caring? These thugs went to their victims’ job interviews with them and forced them to work over 70 hours per week.

They’re okay, but they mostly taste like Vanilla Coke with a faint whisper of artificial chocolate flavour (think Tootsie Rolls). I really don’t recommend it unless you want to try a novelty flavour for fun.

Hawaii isn’t its own country, it’s a US state (and not a territory like Puerto Rico, for example), so it’s been integrated into the American empire and independence isn’t likely. I don’t know if it could survive as an independent nation or if residents want to try though.