ECB

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[–] ECB@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The issue is that most people in despair are inclined to vote for a massive change. They just want anything different than the current status quo.

At the moment in the USA, only the right is offering substantial, systematic change. As awful as it sounds to centrists and the left (I.e. the majority of the population), they don't offer any substantial alternative.

We're basically at a point where the current status quo/political center WILL be replaced by something else. Centrists need to realise that the only alternative to right wing change is left wing change...

[–] ECB@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

It's a classic example of the Paradox of Tolerance...

[–] ECB@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

I went on a whim to hear him speak back in 2008 and was so impressed ended up voting for him.

Granted, this was in Vermont, so it was already 100% clear that Obama was going to win the state.

[–] ECB@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

I'm not Italian, but I am moving back to the EU in the next few months.

Life isn't perfect anywhere, but (at least for my wife and I) we decided that it's much better for us elsewhere.

Biggest things are the cost of living and the unwillingness for anyone in politics to talk constructively about solutions.

We basically realised that we could be paid similarly but have our CoL cut in half, while living somewhere we find nicer than London. It shouldn't have to be this way, but the current situation is outrageous.

[–] ECB@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

I use it to run the Sky App to stream football.

The only options are a windows app or an android app (since you can't watch in the browser) and I couldn't get the windows app to work with WINE.

The android app runs fairly well with waydroid, although it occasionally runs into some hiccups.

[–] ECB@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

I think they mean "reign supreme" in the sense that, given the choice, most people these days would choose the bluetooth anyways.

Its just so nice to not have a cord...

[–] ECB@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

My most recent issue with Bluez is that it's been very inconsistent about letting me disable auto-switching to HSP/HFP (headset mode) when joining any sort of call.

It's working now, but it feels like every few months I need to try a different solution.

[–] ECB@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I loved the books and found the netflix series to be a pretty enjoyable westernization of them.

There were a few changes/choices that were a bit strange or missed the point, but overall it's worth watching

[–] ECB@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

That's such a good point. I really appreciated how it wasn't scared to let viewers figure things out.

[–] ECB@feddit.de 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When they say something like "60 days battery life" what they mean is using the device for half an hour everyday for 60 days.

OP is arguing that it would make more sense to just say the continuous use battery life, which in the above example would be 30 hours (60 × 0.5)

[–] ECB@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Hi fellow Ami learning German!

It took me a number of years to get to fluency but the biggest things that helped me were the following:

  1. uses classes/tools to learn the basic grammar so that you can recognize more or less what is going on (even if you don't always understand the individual words)

  2. switch as much media consumption as possible to be exclusively German. I spent 6 months watch exclusively German shows/TV, reading German news, listening to German music. Eventually I kind of trained myself to switch my inner-monologue to German whenever I wanted.

After that it's just practice practice practice. Also it helped me a ton to stop worrying about getting everything "right" when speaking. Better to speak fluently while occasionally fucking up the der/die/das than to stumble because I'm stressing over every sentence!

[–] ECB@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

That's true for the US but not everywhere else

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