It was legitimate in the same way that a dictator’s rule over their people is legitimate or hangings for blasphemy are legitimate. It may be technically written on a piece of paper somewhere, but someone who got less votes becoming president over someone who got more is not representative of a genuinely legitimate democracy.

Donald Trump lost the popular vote and was illegitimately placed into power by the broken electoral college system.

As long as they’re not shitty mobile games brainwashing the kids with inappropriate and intensely manipulative ads. If you have kids that are playing lots of mobile games, consider keeping them safe from predatory advertisers by installing DNS-level ad-blocking. RethinkDNS is very easy to set up on Android, and while NextDNS is a bit more complicated, it should work on any platform that allows you to set a custom DNS.

That could work in that specific case, but telling the LLM to write code to answer random questions probably wouldn’t work very well in general.

They’re not a troll, they’re just being sarcastic.

That would definitely help a lot. It wouldn’t be perfect, but at least some people’s votes wouldn’t be worth 3x more than others.

Who’s Dessalines? The name sounds familiar, but I can’t remember much else.

It’s absolutely insane that we have to talk about winning swing states instead of just having everyone’s voice matter and vote count equally. Trump lost the popular vote in 2016 and his presidency was illegitimate. We will never have a functioning democracy as long as we have the electoral college.

Friendly reminder that Donald Trump LOST the popular vote in 2016 and was illegitimately put into power by the rogue electoral college. His presidency should never have happened.

It literally happened in the US with period tracker app data getting subpoenaed in a state with an abortion ban.

Thanks, you have saved me the time of trying it again.

Does KDE connect actually work with SMS on Windows now? Last time I used it, I couldn’t text people, only reply using the notification if they texted me and I happened to click on it quickly enough. Pretty useless.

If Microsoft was a smaller company, this would completely ruin them and the next headline would be them declaring bankruptcy after failing to fight off 50,000 lawsuits. Fortunately for them, laws don’t apply to companies their size.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m voting whoever I have to to vote against Trump. I’m just not super optimistic about the future even with a Democrat winning the 2024 election.

Until it actually happens, I’m very cynical. It sounds great, but so many things sound great and then just never go anywhere. It doesn’t mean anything at all if it doesn’t actually happen.

The issue then is that all the investors that have already bought a ton of places can still leave them empty.

Haha true. That’s kind of also self-inflicted.

Most of the visitors on those awful sites come from google and are people who don’t have accounts.

It really depends on the content being served. Even with JS, a website is just a bunch of text on its own and should be pretty cheap to serve, but a website with just text and no media is out of the ordinary and very limiting. You expect wikis to have a fair few pictures and some sites even have legitimate reasons to be serving videos. The sites that autoplay some random bullshit video when you open them absolutely are bringing those costs on themselves, though.

Firefox can open PDFs and I’m not sure about the desktop versions, but the Android version is 117MB.