[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I carry around PowerPoint presentations that contain huge loops of satellite data. I love my 1TB USB stick.

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Not enough capslock

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

They currently live in the US. So, whether they properly answered your prompt seems to depend on your definition of "your country".

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

The problem is that Republicans are being told that there is proof. That the fraud is rampant and everyone knows it. It's just that "they" keep removing and hiding the information.

My mom seriously believes that there is mountains of proof and that she has seen it in the past, but can't find it anymore because it has been deleted from the internet.

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago
[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

And the statewide margin was still a 14 point margin. Too much to overcome with 12 stolen ballots.

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

You're right, it is. In 2020 not a single race in Mesa County was competitive. Likewise, none of the state-wide races were competitive enough to have their results changed even if everyone in Mesa County voted the same way.

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

You're probably right but I don't really get it. Mesa County is so red that Trump won by 28 points in 2020. What was this person trying to achieve? For that matter, what was Tina Peters was trying to achieve? I just don't understand how either of them could have made a difference when, in 2020, Trump won by over 25K votes out of a total of 91K votes cast and 107K registered voters.

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

You're probably right there. Looking up the onky quoted I've been able to find from Musk on the topic, I think he's been careful not to incriminate himself directly. Either that or he's been lucky in his phrasing...

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

... or imprisoned not more than 5 years ...

That said, your point isn't wrong. $10,000 is nothing in this context. Criminal fines should be in direct proportion to a person's income. Also, statutes, when they mention monetary value, should peg that value to invlation, income, or some other metric that scales with time. We have SOOOOO many laws on the books that use ridiculous numbers by modern standards but were reasonable at the time they were enacted.

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It's so dumb that you're getting downvoted for telling people the truth that they don't want to hear. Of course you can't just "prosecute the board". Individually, they may or may not be complicit.

It does seem that Musk could be seen as obviously complicit, though, since he is the one out there making the pitch. DOJ should be able to go after him, criminally, if the activity continues, right?

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago

If I had to guess, the reason for the lack of a phone requirement is that, if the army required everyone to have phones, the army would need to pay for them, too. I'm sure the army loves spending money on things like that.

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I'm a white guy from a fairly non-diverse city. I was at a grocery store today where a cashier opened up their line to serve me and, I thought, the person behind me. As they were serving me, though, they put up their lane closed sign right in front of the black man behind me. The buy was just trying to purchase some tuna, bread, and peanut butter.

The cashier basically decided to serve me, a middle class white man, but refused to serve the black man behind me. I was so shocked that I didn't say anything. It is possible that I misunderstood the situation but it seemed so blatant.

What should I have done in this situation? Should I have spoken up? Would that have just been more embarrassing for the man who was being discriminated against?

Honestly, I'm still just in shock to see someone treated so poorly when they were simply trying to buy food for themselves. I recognize that means that I'm sheltered but I also feel like I should be able to use my unearned privilege to help others who are being discriminated against.

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I keep running into issues where I'm unsure of which account I'm currently using. It would be nice if it were more obvious at all times. Two things that would help me are:

  • always display the current user somewhere, regardless of what content is being viewed.
  • allow setting different color themes for different users.
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I use Podcast Addict and have recently noticed location-based ads in my podcasts. Adds that are local to my large town / small city. The app doesn't have location permissions, so how are the podcasts embedding localized ads?

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