I have a tablet that came with a C to 3.5 adapter and it worked well enough for a bit but soon enough it was only intermittently allowing the headphone connection to work, with a message about the port being dirty or something. Yet I could go right from unplugging that and putting the charger in and it worked fine.

There’s just no substitute for a dedicated port, especially when it barely takes up any room

People are complex, some would vote alt-right because they are fascists, but other would not.

Yeah, I get that not everyone has time, energy, or even intelligence to look into all the political positions of a party, but some cases are so blatant that it feels like the most extreme type of willful ignorance to discount everything. I don’t know about your vox party, but like ok, the GOP has always been the party of hypocritical pieces of garbage, but maybe you never quite thought about how (for example) your single issue voting about fetus rights stopped immediately after birth, because fuck poor kids amirite? At least they’ve got the excuse that Faxist News paints every single person on welfare as lazy pieces of shit, and you don’t look further into that because why would the news lie to you about how lazy all those welfare queens are?

Maybe the first term I could see how idiots could be hoodwinked, but anyone who voted for Dump 2 is either stupid as fuck (severe cases of cognitive dissonance can fall into this category as well), or a rich amoral piece of shit, and I don’t think I’ll ever be convinced otherwise. Christians ignore all his rape convictions (because dozens of women are all lying jezebel whores, right?), or the fact that he’s never been seen at a church except for funerals or PR stunts (not that I think that going to church is moral, but they do). Poor people ignore the fact that he cheated countless blue collar contractors, was a slumlord, and hawked shit and sham products, all while shitting in gold toilets. Legal immigrants ignore his long and storied history of racism, and either don’t know or don’t care that he’s never shown an ounce of support for anyone non-white.

So basically it comes down to his voters being evil or not interested in facts, and they may not be outright fascist themselves, but I don’t really want either of those kinds of people in my life.

If politics is not a priority on your life it won’t really have much an impact on their relationship.

This can ostensibly be true for stuff like what economic spending to prioritize, but once the country is deciding between fascist and non-fascist you can’t really not have politics impact people’s lives on a daily basis. If you live in a country where you don’t have to decide whether the political party criminalizes marginalized groups that’s all well and good, but it’s not the reality for everyone.

I’m just surprised squeaky tank birthday pissboy didn’t elbow his way to the center of this photo like he used to do during his first term. He must be tired from being old as fuck.

Yeah I mean I’ve been commuting 2 hrs a day in Japan for almost 10 years now-- you’d think I would’ve seen these brake lights by now

If Japan introduced that they never caught on, unless it’s specific to an area or model of car.

Maybe the pope can hide him along with the rest of the priest rapists

He’s not a complete idiot, but he has very little knowledge, which in many situations is almost the same thing. However, I wouldn’t underestimate his daddy issues. Even a highly intelligent person (which he definitely is not) can fall to inner biases, and I wouldn’t put it past dictators to fit neatly into the hole in his heart from never receiving papa’s love.

While the revisions to the family registry act do not ban kanji – Chinese-based characters in written Japanese – parents are required to inform local authorities of their phonetic reading

Well this is fucking crazy to me. Almost every single form you ever have to write your name on in Japan also has a section that you have to write the phonetic reading of it as well. The fact that it doesn’t exist on the family register is absolutely bonkers. I know Japan hates updating things, but even back in the day there were multiple readings for the same kanji characters, and the government being ok with ambiguity on official documents is blowing my mind.

Even before the shiny names the article is talking about the names could be wildly different. We’re not talking about not knowing if Ashleigh is pronounced Ash-lee or Ash-lay, it’s like 里香 being commonly read as either Rika or Satoko.

It’s like watching nothing but cam copies except half the time the files won’t load.

I dunno what sites you tried but this hasn’t been my experience, especially if I’m just going through whatever current season of show XYZ is running. Even recent movies don’t generally have cam quality unless you’re trying to watch them very close to the release date.

Sometimes you get broken links or stop and start with load times and in those cases I’ll take the time to fire up TPB, but mostly it’s been no problem finding decent quality streams that load right away, and that’s been true for me for at least 15 years since using shit like icefilms back then.

a phenomenal misreading of their demographic

There was a recent yt vid about how much data they have about their customers, including that one story from years ago about how their data showed that one of their customers was pregnant so they sent her coupons for maternity stuff-- turned out it was a teen who hadn’t told her parents and it blew up. Misreading their customer base with so much data was a fuckup of epic proportions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPVSj9rcK-E

edit: looks like this already got linked earlier in this thread

What elections are in March?

Japan loves doing shit like this. I watch sumo and the sumo association has gotten so many youtube streams shut down, even when there was no official way to watch outside the country

I don’t have ios but I ran across this at some point trying to find a yt app for a friend. Been awhile since the last update so I’m not sure if it’s still effective and I can’t test it

https://ihax.io/youtube/

I just hope there are enough people working in the section tasked with inspecting the plane who hate Dump’s fucking guts, so the schedule gets drawn out indefinitely. “Oh yes sir boss man, we made good progress today on that plane. Got at least 3 screws checked for structural soundness! Maybe tomorrow we’ll have time to check out like 5 more.”

Wow that’s fucking horrendous. I feel terrible for little kids growing up on this shit that will start to feel like normal art for them.

That video in particular is particularly grating because the source material-- a Bradbury short story– is so beautiful on its own.

Interesting, looks like it’s visible from almost all other instances, although I did find a couple where it’s not. I can’t see any differences due to lemmy version either (most instances are 19.11, where the edit is visible, but midwest.social is also on .11 and it’s not visible-- whereas lemmy.nz is on .10 and it’s also not there). Maybe I’ll shoot a message over to admin like you suggested.

Thx for posting the screenshots

Oh–I can’t see an edit or a spoiler, but I appreciate the screenshots.

Kind of like how they fucked up and let zoom become the pandemic program everyone used despite skype being so established it had already become a verb like google? M$ really racking up those wins recently

The obit got pulled already