CoderKat

If they design the online menu well, I'm all for it. In theory, an online only menu should improve the quality of the menu, by making it much easier to keep it up to date (eg, there should never be an "ask your server what the soup of the day is" in an online menu -- update that you lazy schmucks) and it's also easier for them to have pictures.

The fact that not every food item has pictures drives me crazy. Show me what the dang food looks like. Unless it's something you never sell, it's so dang easy to get a picture when someone orders it. I don't want a fake picture anyway; I want the pictures to be representative of how it will really look. With physical menus, it's understandable because printing is so expensive and pictures would make the menu extra long. Online menus don't have that issue or excuse.

But yeah, if their online menu is gonna be a mediocre PDF copy of their former print menus clearly designed for 8x11 or whatever, it's a downright worse experience using a digital menu. That's the case for a shocking number of restaurants I've been at. You'd think mobile devices are some new fangled fad or something, cause they sure don't think mobile is something someone will view their menu on.

Yes. But the fact that the law even exists, that the guy got charged, and that the charges didn't get dismissed before this point is extremely concerning. There were multiple points of failure before we even got to this point.

Lawmakers never should have created such a shitty law. Police never had to issue tickets. Prosecutors never had to charge him. The judge could have dismissed the charges as utterly ridiculous. But no, all went through and we had to depend a jury to stop this bullshit.

Also, the article has the quote:

The city of Houston said it will continue to “vigorously pursue violations of its ordinance relating to feeding of the homeless,” according to a statement released to news outlets.

So despite all of this, the city of Houston is determined to still be evil little fucks. People tell me Houston is supposed to be progressive, but I'm not seeing it. Houston folks, what the hell?

Especially since PornHub has an excellent point. Even though they theoretically could do an ID check, the sketchier porn sites simply wouldn't. All these laws would do is push minors to use more dangerous porn sites. They're not going to not watch porn just because the big, law abiding site checks IDs.

What kinda adult would care about your ISP knowing you watch porn?

VPNs are often over blown. Their ads will make it seem like they're some critical privacy thing, but these days virtually every website is encrypted (HTTPS). Your ISP can know the IP address you're visiting (and thus typically the site), but pretty much everything else, including what page you're viewing on the site, is known only to you and the site in question. VPNs had a lot more merit before HTTPS was ubiquitous.

They're still useful if you're visiting illegal sites or using peer to peer technology (most particularly illegal torrents), but that's not the case for many and certainly not for just viewing normal porn.

Senate passed the bill by unanimous consent, although several senators stated later that they would have objected if they had known that the bill could pass. No iteration of the bill has passed the House.

WTF? Why the heck would those people have wanted it to fail and why would they vote for it if they did?

And since it got unanimous consent in the Senate, why the heck didn't it go to the house? It's the rare case of a bill that I think everyone likes.

Yeah, I think those go hand in hand. The kind of leadership that would push RTO is the kind that frequently would also do other bad things (or let their managers).

Woah, too far. They shouldn't have to die for being dumb. Just have them row to the edge and once they find it, they can come back.

Going in blind is the best. Unfortunately, it's probably pretty difficult to do, since spoilers are extremely rampant. I don't even know how I managed to do it. But it really is magical if you go in blind.

Since you didn't mention how they usually work, for OP, they literally just plug in to any power outlet. That's it. They cost like $50 CAD. They're just about the size of a smoke detector. They'll display a number and beep if CO levels are dangerous (upon which you should immediately leave the house and call the fire department).

Honestly 2 days is entirely understandable to forget.

When I change such an important password (which is very, very rarely), I keep a hidden hard copy for a short while, until I'm confident I have it memorized (usually a couple of weeks). While this has some risks, obviously so does losing access to your data. It depends on your living situation and threat model.

Within Lemmy, I think active is most used as it's the current default for most instances. I'm not sure how it's implemented, but based off my observations, I suspect it has some massive drop off after 2 days, because I regularly see posts up to 2 days old and never any older.

Though OP mentions just one day and I don't have a good explanation for that. Personally, I don't like to comment on anything older than a day and often self censor accordingly. I consider "within the last day" to be the sweet spot for engagement. Beyond that, it often doesn't feel worth my time to comment because fewer people will see it and be able to respond.

I'm impatiently awaiting a "best" algorithm and will switch to it as soon as it's available. I dislike literally all the sorting algorithm choices. I just dislike active the least because comments are what I'm here for. Sure would be nice to see smaller subs too, though.

Yeah, I don't think it's impossible to fix the US. Or frankly anything else. But possible and practical are very different things. It's possible, but it would take a massive amount of time, money, and political will that would have to basically come out of nowhere. It's not practical to expect that in the foreseeable future.

But just because we can't "fix" it doesn't mean we can't at least make improvements. Fixing isn't really a binary. Even if we can't do much for existing suburbs with their massive sprawl and absolutely nothing you can walk to, we can make city centers more walkable and expand public transit within them. We can avoid building more suburban sprawl. We can make walkability an important criteria for new neighborhoods. Even if we can't fix things for everyone, we can at least improve things for a significant number of people and that's absolutely doable.

My Canadian city has been improving in recent years. We got an LRT in the past 5 years or so and it's amazing if you're on its corridor (and that has prompted more and better development along it). We've added a bunch of bike lanes (proper ones with concrete barriers), removing car lanes in some cases. In our downtown, the sidewalks got expanded and street even closed to vehicles to be pedestrian only (and part of it is full of picnic tables and stalls for festivals). We still have a long way to go and the city still down have a bunch of suburban sprawl, but it is getting better and we should not give up on improving it.