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Ooh in that case I may try using it for typing again. My typing accuracy on Heliboard is abysmal.

What don’t you like about HeliBoard? I have it and FUTO both installed, but I prefer HeliBoard due to its ‘hold space bar to move cursor’ option. Then I use FUTO for the occasional SpeechToText.

While I am not advocating harm against Trump, using force – including violent force – to stop active harm against you or someone else is something we all would probably feel justified in if the situation came up, for instance if a crazy guy was trying to hurt or murder your child. The secret service did it today when they killed the shooter (at least i think they did; that’s the current reporting).

“The file you are trying to download is no longer available.” 🙁

Hey now, Pandora still pays 0.133 cents per play to the artists like they always have!

Surprisingly, it’s more than Deezer pays (0.11 cents).

So on a good month, 10 to 15 cents of my $5.00 subscription will go to the artists.

…I think I just talked myself out of paying for this subscription any longer.

Agent Smith: “Hello, Mr Anderson.”

I’m fairly sure it will end more poorly than I can possibly imagine.

Hi. It’s me. I still burn CDs and print onto them direct as part of a niche art hobby. Unfortunately that means owning an Epson inkjet printer.

That alone is enough to vote for the Democrats this round.

I disagree. Dems have to do better than “vote for our clearly-terrible-but-less-terrible-than-the-other-terrible guy”. Their messaging is bad. The attacking of people who aren’t convinced to vote for Joe Biden is bad. The “shut up and fall in line” attitude is bad.

There isn’t just one alternative. The dems could put up a new nominee. They have 4 months. It’s plenty of time. Biden doesn’t even have to step aside.

and surprise, surprise they’ve set up a gofundme. scum.

Well that feels pretty gross. I get needing a lawyer but damn.

My empathy for them is fading quickly.

The parent(s) did the crime, the toddler did the time. Don’t let the parent(s) own firearms anymore and be done with it. Prison time isn’t going to do anyone any good; the parents had more than enough taken away from them already.

What a sad and unsurprisingly common story this is.

I never thought about it that way but that makes perfect sense.

they have found that going through male puberty gives a person who transition afterwards an advantage over cis women

Did they also find that short women have an advantage over tall women? How about lighter women having an advantage over heavier women? How about women having an advantage for having more muscle mass? How about people with androgen insensitivity syndrome? Or XX male syndrome? Intersex people?

My point is people will always have advantages somewhere (and there’s no clean place to draw the line); no two people are built the same, which means you absolutely can have – and do have – trans women (who went through a male puberty) with no advantage over cis women. The UCI won’t even allow those women on a case-by-case basis, which is absolutely 100% transphobic.

An actual solution is to divide racers up by skill class and stop gender segregating sports, and to stop caring so much about who wins, but that will never happen as long as money is involved.

Everyone cries about “fairness to women” and “fairness in women’s sports” when what they mean is “keeping sports exclusively for cis women”; trans women are women, but almost no one cares about fairness for them.

The UCI is also transphobic and doesn’t let trans women compete with cis women.

Unfortunately North Carolina’s current abortion law is 12 weeks. That’s unacceptable.

Right?? The bank already makes money off the money people put into the bank. Now the bank is saying that their unethical practice of stealing people’s money isn’t as profitable as they want so they are going to unethically steal from everyone a different way that they can’t stop or say no to?

JPMorgan Chase: financial rapists

I think it’s to send a message that many people feel disinterested in the olympics for whatever reason.

For me, I am disgusted that the the olympics have turned into a corporate money making machine. Hosting countries will pick a huge chunk of land to “terraform” into a games site, with little regard to the people who live there or nearby. They’ll displace residents, make people build the infrastructure for low wages and in poor conditions. They’ll spend billions to try and make snow where snow doesn’t naturally occur. The ecological impact alone is massive. There’s also the issue of the housing for the Olympians being substandard and dangerous. I’m not claiming that this happens every time in every country, but it’s certainly a problem and I don’t want to be part of it.

There’s also the issue of banning trans athletes from competing, which continues to be rooted in ignorance and hypocritical disagreements around what we define as fair. (Bring on the downvotes, I don’t care.)

I debated posting this at all because it’s off topic, but the question was asked so I gave my perspective.

These companies are scraping the internet to train their models. Scraping the internet isn’t bad; we scrape the internet constantly for all kinds of data. The free and open exchange of knowledge is what the internet is for. IMO you can’t steal text, audio, or video that someone already put up on the internet to be looked at or listened to. It can be pirated or it can be scraped.

“When a new technology comes along that breaks copyright, it’s always been copyright that must change, not the technology.” - Cory Doctorow

I highly recommend Cory’s now 20-year-old speech on copyright and DRM. You can find it all over the web.

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