@dessalines@lemmy.ml or the other lemmy devs might be willing to discuss accessibility improvements to the web UI, assuming you are also willing to do that

the DNC is more concerned about goddamned identity politics

They don’t actually care about identity politics, this is a flimsy pretext to protect corrupt dems who are elected in deep blue territory

Makes sense. How can we expect our troops to drop bombs on middle-eastern children if they can’t get it up?

The gall of a country with 5% of the total population but 20% of the incarcerated population lecturing the rest of the world on freedom.

I feel like most of tech had already sold out by 2014. Really by the late aughts it seemed to be all gone; that was when apple and its philosophy had taken hold. Not that apple was the only force in that direction, it just felt like the apotheosis of the greedy and controlling mentality. MS had plenty of greed, but they were willing (in some circumstances) to play ball. Google seemed to love interoperability in the early-to-mid aughts, but look at it now.

I feel like Kurt Cobain would think this was hilarious

Go find a successful and ambitious person to fall in love with, marry, and be a happy male housewife.

Fun fact: the word husband comes from house-bond, i.e. homeowner. So “house-husband” is in a sense redundant.

Alternatively, find a job you are at least decent at and can tolerate. You don’t need to love your job and be passionate about it to be happy.

I was only half joking. They campaigned with Liz Cheney after all

How long until democrats are campaigning with him

Trailer Queen

Can we not? Why take a dig at poor people to make fun of a rich person?

It’s unclear to me how they even could save taxpayers anything. It’s not like when they fire a government employee, the money shows up in people’s tax returns. I suppose they could fire the entire IRS so you just don’t have to pay taxes at all, but then I guess you aren’t a “taxpayer”, and thus not worthy of consideration.

I feel much better now that I’m reminded of my insignificance, ty

https://massgrave.dev/ works just fine with ltsc as well and https://www.pcrf.net/ can always use more money

Those were decisions to change the specific names of specific places, not a decision to handle country names in the general way OP was describing.

why did they decide

Nobody sat down and made a decision to handle country names the way we do. It organically happened the way it did for no particular reason other than it works well enough.

why don’t we change everything back to how the countries’ place names are pronounced by their citizens out of respect

Nobody cares enough to undertake this. I don’t particularly care that people call the US by different names in their languages. People in Turkey aren’t asking us to pronounce their country’s name the same way they do. Most people are happy to apply the inverse golden rule on this, i.e., I don’t pronounce your country’s name the way you do, so I’m not going to expect you to pronounce my country’s name the way I do.

Would it make things harder or would it allow us to grow?

Yes, but I think it would be a lot of work for not much growth. You don’t learn a lot about a place by just pronouncing its name differently.

Al Franken is accused of more than just posing for a crass joke picture:

In the days that followed, seven additional women came forward with allegations of inappropriate behavior during photo ops. Lindsay Menz accused Franken of touching her clothed “upper” buttocks while they posed for a photo at the Minnesota State Fair in 2010. Two anonymous women made similar complaints related to events during political events. Franken apologized, saying, “I’ve met tens of thousands of people and taken thousands of photographs, often in crowded and chaotic situations. I’m a warm person; I hug people. I’ve learned from recent stories that in some of those encounters, I crossed a line for some women—and I know that any number is too many.” Another anonymous woman said that after she was a guest on Franken’s radio show in 2006, Franken leaned in toward her face during a handshake and gave her “a wet, open-mouthed kiss” on the cheek when she turned her face aside. The same day, Stephanie Kemplin, an army veteran, told CNN that Franken held the side of her breast for 5 to 10 seconds “and never moved his hand” while posing for a photograph with her during a 2003 USO tour in Iraq.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Franken#Sexual_misconduct_allegations

It’s very funny to take this tack when you are basically claiming to be the smartest person in the country, the only one to see the plain truth of the situation

I can’t think of Reagan’s shooter’s name, either. That isn’t proof it was staged.

Love that straight up QAnon level shit is getting the majority of upvotes here. Good sign, the future is bright

I mean, they are doing their job. It’s just that their job is to keep the left down, not to win.

Please can we stop referencing Idiocracy? It’s propaganda for eugenics