If anything, the interpretation of “official acts” by the Supreme Court explicitly shields him. He cannot be held legally responsible for any decision carried out as president, which is terrifying.

Firefox on my personal devices, Chrome for work.

Sure, but it’s not like it’d weigh more than a desktop + 6 monitors, which would also each need their own constant supply of power.

Well, if you also want to bring 6 monitors with it. I think the point of this is to be highly portable and easy to store.

The flag of the Chinook Nation is one I recall seeing and thinking it was very unique, memorable, and aesthetically pleasing.

I also like the trident on the flag of Barbados.

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There is something about the aesthetics of Greenland’s flag I just really like. It’s simple but pleasing on the eyes. Maybe the way that the circle is offset, rather than centered.

Seems like the sort of thing that might be used to set up like a mobile command station or something. If a disaster occurs and some agency/organization needs to stand up operations at a new location immediately, things like that

Definitely highly situational, but I’m sure some agencies out there are willing to pay a pretty penny for convenience during those types of situations.

Yep, this is generations of slowly gutting public education at work.

The privileged kids get to go to fancy private schools, many of which are ironically now funded by the public (who don’t get to send their kids there). Everyone else goes to underfunded public schools, which have tragically underpaid teachers who run the risk of losing their jobs if they don’t give every student a passing grade. Teachers in struggling school districts are just shoving their students’ deficiencies onto the next grade up, which continues to snowball until you end up with a majority of high school seniors graduating with a 7th grade reading level at best.

In saying that, it’s not all doom and gloom, but it highlights a key disparity that affects some parts of the US more than others. Some US states actually have very good public school systems, up there with high performing countries in Europe and Asia. But when considering how bad the average is in the US, it means that there are a lot of states that are substantially worse than that, where things are just incredibly dire.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the lowest performing states are mostly in the southern US.

I think what makes US-brand nationalism a special kind is the intense superiority complex, the feeling that they’re the greatest country on earth and everyone else doesn’t matter.

You’re spot on, to the extent that there is a concept describing exactly this: American Exceptionalism.

Brigading, supposedly, but really they were just the most prominent alt-right sub on the site and banning them was more of a PR move than anything else. Meanwhile, the users (and bots/astroturfers) who participated in that sub just went elsewhere and kept doing the same heinous shit they were doing before, tacitly supported by the admins as the general politics of the site continued to skew further right.

The kid who blew up a fertility clinic (and himself) in Palm Springs was a moderator of !antinatalism@lemmy.world, for what that’s worth. Not a war, and the only fatality ended up being himself, but definitely an act of violence with an intent to kill that was connected to a specific community on this platform.

I thought the first Guardians of the Galaxy was great, if only because (at the time) it was an unconventional casting choice and made a statement that this Marvel movie was going to be tonally different from the rest.

Following Guardians of the Galaxy, every Marvel movie started to become like Guardians of the Galaxy, and Chris Pratt started to get typecast as “action hero” rather than “hopeless goofball,” which was his original purpose for being in Guardians of the Galaxy in the first place.

Reddit wasn’t big enough back then either, it was only since Spez took over after Ellen Pao that you started to see more corporatization/astroturfing of the platform.

A website full of young 20-something gamers and tech bros just tends to skew a certain way politically.

The worst is when you are looking up a problem, find a thread like that, and the only reply is the same person saying “Nevermind, I figured it out!”

WHAT DID YOU FIGURE OUT???

It would be nice if there was some sort of account handoff process between instances. Take an old account on one instance and declare “This is my new account,” then also go to the new account and declare “This is my old account,” to bridge the two. Import settings, statistics, content, etc. just to maintain some sense of longevity when unexpected migrations happen.

The problem is that it’s hard to negotiate that against the reason a lot of people left Reddit: losing control over their own content. People want to have the ability to delete their stuff.

The only thing that I think should be different is that deleting a post or comment shouldn’t delete everything under it. Comments from other users should remain accessible when the parent is deleted. I’ve had a lot of good discussions on Lemmy that I can’t access anymore because someone chose to delete their content above it, which also deleted mine. It’s still losing control over my own content, but in the opposite way from Reddit.

Hey, men experience disproportionate things, too. Like privilege.

Less alt right stuff here on Lemmy than there was back in 2010, though. Early Reddit was full of libertarian ideals and free speech absolutists, before the consequences of those positions became apparent in the later half of that decade.

It was around Trump’s first presidency that half of Reddit realized the other half of Reddit wasn’t just memeing, the alt right went to their safe spaces, and Reddit began purging itself of all that was not marketable (good and bad).

Yep! And the Outback is in Australia.

They’re thick in the “ads bring us more money than making improvements” phase of corporate bullshit now.

Reddit still can’t make a better app than the ones made by solo developers who just did it as a passion project, but they’ve got enough money to throw around for a Superbowl ad spot and an entire ad campaign on YouTube.