In Stephenson’s “Diamond Age” novel, even the super poor had basic access to in-home replicators. They were limited to pretty basic items, but they were available.

With everyone having access to basic goods, the rich people would go to villages of artisans that would hand make items to get unique, one of a kind things, as most crafts were now basically lost skills to most of society.

Throughout the story, the tech is explored and eventually hacked to upend society by removing limits on what can be generated by the replicator.

Not OP, but I found this for a quick summary, and this more detailed paper from Privacy International here.

A data mining community bought it in 2022.

It made a lot of users upset and they moved on. I still us it. I paid for it, it did everything I want, and it’s sent a whole 25kb of data so far this year. I haven’t seen any actually evidence they’re doing anything nefarious with it.

I got to try it last year (in Wash. DC, not Georgia) and really liked it. They brought it out all pretty like in your picture, but then table side they stirred up all the egg and cheese to make a more homogeneous filling. Good stuff!

We got the twin cams, and with the vehicle we put it in, everything tucked nicely right under the trim. The initial plan was to hardwire it to get images while parked as well, but now the car doesn’t go to the sketchier area it did then so we never got around to it.

I believe this is the same one we have. App is kinda slow but works, and for most stuff we’ll just put the sd card in the computer at home.

Front and back cams have been very clear during day and night. Watched a lot of comparison videos beforehand, and viofo was better than most expensive ones and reviews were all mainly positive. We’ve had it for over 2 years now.

Republican judges have shut down Trump before and will hopefully continue to do so at least some of the time.

Republicans have a slim Senate majority, and if any Rs decide to become their party’s Manchin or Sinema, things can still be blocked. There’s also bound to be infighting among Rs after conflicting things.

The ACLU and other groups are filing lawsuits. If they win or not will be seen, but they will keep trying.

One thing I feel I don’t see talked about enough on here though, is what we can do as individuals. Are you getting involved anywhere? If not, why?

Every community has groups looking out for the poor/homeless, discriminated groups, the environment, immigrants, labor unions, etc. If you don’t trust your leaders to solve things, that leaves us all to step up to fill those holes.

I’ve already applied for one volunteer service, and am looking into others depending how the first one goes. We can’t just sit and wait to see what happens. We need to get involved and take personal responsibility.

There is method to my madness! 🤪

Also just works well when putting my phone down random places or near someone else’s phone. I can always spot it much faster with a louder color case. Then I have the dark one for when a neon color phone would look too out of place or just draw unwanted attention like an event or nice dinner.

It just adds a layer of flexibility that I find worth the price of a cheap case.

Agreed. I wouldn’t call it flush, but it is 99% of the way there. A little bezel around the lens is probably helpful to limit getting a scratch that being totally flush anyway.

I have a few cheapy cases. I have a dark one for when I need to look nicer so the phone doesnt stand out. I’ve got a clear one (white phone) and I’ve got a bright red one as well. The red one is extra grippy and the brightest color and I use that one when I’ll be in the woods or taking a lot of pics so I don’t drop it, and if I do it will stand out. All cases around $10 and have kept my phone looking nice. I’ve also printed out cool backgrounds like a Samauri Jack one that I threw under the clear case on my old phone, but the ink eventually stained the case.

It is closed source. People keep asking if it will be made open source, and the dev doesn’t necessarily seem opposed to it. I don’t recall the reasons they gave, nor would I likely understand them as someone who is not a developer, but there are threads on it on !summit@lemmy.world. They are generally very open to discussing things if you might have solutions for them.

Summit is severely overlooked. Dev fixes many bug reports same/next day as well.

Thank you!

No one was posting in communities I cared about and many posts anywhere had 0 or 1 comments, so I started posting at least 1 thing every day and looking for threads with no comments where I could start the conversation. I couldn’t wait forever for someone else to do it.

Now I have a ton of posts and comments, and I feel I have some good Lemmy pals and people tell me all the time they look forward to my posts, and it’s just become something natural for me to do now.

Reddit could only afford a 5 second Superbowl ad, so maybe I can get a single frame slipped in next year. Get us some subliminal advertising!

Article 2: Impeachment from the House, conviction by 2/3 of the Senate and the Chief Justice.

14th Amendment: Removal for insurrection or rebellion against the Constitution. As it stands so far, would only prevent someone from running again. If someone has the means to have that tried now since he was convicted before the election, that’d be uncharted territory.

25th Amendment: VP and top 15 cabinet members declare the president unable to serve.

Other options of hand would be a coup by the military or citizens, a takeover from another country, censored from natural causes or otherwise, states could leave the union. I’m sure there’s other things I’m missing.

If any of those options are possible or better than what we have now, I can’t say. I feel things aren’t bad enough yet for any of the less civil options to come off as the morally right option. Until he starts getting some more cases brought against him to see what type of laws do or don’t apply to him, civil methods of resistance are still probably the best. If either side goes non-civil, it’s going to make things way worse for everyone long before it makes it better, should the side you fall on be victorious. Lose, and it will probably be much, much worse.

Not publicly advocating any of these things, but I’m a hypothetical scenario, these would be my thoughts. 😇

Ah, I understand now. My original intent was to say blahaj as a whole has been less alienating when compared to Beehaw. They have a pretty similar mission, but Beehaw has gotten itself pretty walled off from a good portion of the Fediverse to the point where they were talking about taking it somewhere else entirely.

Blahaj has done some things that people haven’t liked, but its actions have been more in line with its existence in a federated environment.

No instance is going to be perfect, but instance admins are always going to set the house rules. I’m not going to say any more on the matter than I have only had good interactions with drag. I’m not trans, so I can’t speak to his effect on other trans people, but I believe the blahaj admins are. Even trans people aren’t going to always agree on everything, and that’s when it’s up to the admin to define what that line is with an issue.

While their decision doubtlessly pushed many away, I’m also sure they put a lot of thought into their decision on what they felt was good for their instance as a whole, and right or wrong, it’s their decision to make. Some people I’m sure love them more for the choice they made.

I listened to both sides and I think I see where both groups are coming from. I think blahaj did right based on what I understand their goals to be. Drag is one individual and anyone who didn’t like them could have simply blocked them and moved in with their lives, but so many had to confront them every time they popped up, which seemed like it violated their rules of respecting everyone.

No offense to the other replies, but I don’t feel they’re answering your question. While the ideal answer is to be yourself and not chasing trends, many people still want to look nice.

I think one of the perks of being male is that there is so much great style that is considered timeless. I’m not very fashionable, but I try to buy things that won’t look dated anytime soon.

I found this article that could be of help to you. It looks at 30 men from different decades that show off classic style, and even many of the older ones, if you borrowed aspects of their looks, you would still be stylish today.

30 Icons of Timeless Men’s Style: The film stars, musicians, athletes and cultural figures who have left an indelible mark on the world of style

I took a moment to scroll Beehaw a bit after bringing it up. It’s largely how I remember it, but the place feels much more tense than before, but I can’t really fault them for that with the massive uptick in hate around much of the world.

If one wants a place like Beehaw, I agree there probably isn’t a much better one out there.