Oof, I might have wooshed there. Totally read that comment as criticizing my inquiry as things a Jr would ask and not as the implementation being “look what I as a Jr can do!”

Cool. Help me learn then by answering my questions.

I, uh, hate that radius calculation. Why does the radius need to be reactive? What do you stand to gain over just setting to like 3 or 4px and moving on with your life?

If you only have 10 minutes left on a break you can save the half hour read till later.

Dude has been breaking all sorts of laws his entire life. Including during his first administration. His policies consistently hurt the majority of his constituents for the sole benefit of himself and his cronies. His behavior and rhetoric have made America even more of a laughing stock on the world stage and his campaign promises have near single handedly strengthened America’s “enemies” and pushed away our “friends.”

Trump did 3 good things in 4 years of office:

• Legalized Hemp
• Banned bump stocks (overturned by the judges he appointed)
• Expedited the covid vaccine production (botched everything else about the pandemic response including vaccine distribution)

Trump has flirted with a presidential run in 1988, 2000, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 under the Republican, Reform, and Democratic party tickets. It was only the republican party that he found bolstered enough support for him to win. He left the Reform party for the Democrats after involvement from David Duke. But later refused to disavow a direct endorsement from David Duke.

What does that tell you about Trump?

It tells me that he shops around looking out only for ways to bolster himself, his wealth, and his power. He doesn’t have a consistent moral and he doesn’t stand for America. He stands for Trump. His next administration is the wealthiest in history and his announced policies will siphon more money from the working class to him and his oligarchs. That’s why I say that Trump’s a RINO–he tried out a bunch of different parties and despite not sharing the traditional beliefs of the Republican platform calls himself a Republican because it serves him.

He’s talked about invading our closest allies which has led directly to an increase in military recruitment not to fight our common enemies but to fight us directly.

He’s talked about blanket tariffs on all foreign goods. These tariffs will be paid by the American public. This will encourage American companies to raise the price of their own goods to: 1) recover the extra cost of imported materials, 2) close the price gap between their own goods and the now more expensive foreign goods. This will also encourage foreign governments to establish retaliatory tariffs on American exports which will also lead to American companies raising prices to make up for lost sales. This won’t just affect things like toys or electronics. American food is imported, lumber for home construction is imported, oil for gasoline is imported, electricity is imported. Literally everything in America will cost more if his tariffs go into effect.

I can afford that–can you?

Trump found a group of people that will blindly follow him and he manipulated and lied to them to convince them to give him power once again–even after getting our spies killed, leaking our nuclear and security secrets to our enemies, attempting a self coup to remain in power, and botching the plan to leave Afghanistan.

Trump supporters are not necessarily stupid people and I don’t think someone is necessarily stupid for supporting him, but they haven’t taken the time to look into and understand the effects of his claims, they were lied to, used, and led astray by a populist strongman who doesn’t care about them and who will actively work to better himself at their expense.

At least in Florida, according to this, you are entitled to complete at least one phone call.

You can use your phone call for whomever, just know it’s not private and you best hope whomever you call will actually help you.

The distinction I was making is that the response to “can you get me a lawyer?” could just be the cops walking out of the room and coming back several hours later and seeing if you’ve changed your mind. The same thing for “I’ll wait till my lawyer is here.”

Don’t ask. Tell them to get you your lawyer.

Honestly, whatever. Biden should just go down Trump’s list of “enemies within” and preemptively pardon all of them if only to protect them in the immediate future. Stop going high and start playing Calvin Ball.

We don’t look down upon anyone. We treat everybody with dignity and respect.

Man who just passed a rule looking down on and disrespecting a single specific person.

I’ve never had problems using terms like “look man,” “oh boy,” or “dude” In “normal” conversion with anyone until recently. I was talking to a trans-woman I know and definitely stopped myself from dropping “hey man” in our conversation because I thought she would not appreciate it. That’s caused some self reflection and while I’ll probably continue to use genderbent language when talking with my wife I’ll probably seek to minimize it elsewhere. I don’t really know how in tune a given woman I’m talking to is with their muliebrity and it seems not my place as a cis man to make that determination for them.

I would say for a lot of people it probably doesn’t matter, but for those that it does it does a lot and it’s no skin off my back to try to be courteous in my speech with whomever.

Probably with running a bunch of independents at the local level. You can’t do what the Greens tried and drag out an asset for the top position every four years with nothing else to show. Start small and get people used to the idea that it’s okay for someone outside of the main parties to hold office. Build results then form a party from the independents once you’ve had some successful incumbents.

It’s a good thing Biden ain’t running then! You should see the other guy though . . . embarrassing and weird.

There’s a lot of “could,” “can,” “might,” and “potential” in that article, but what does it say about our electoral system when a party that does not hold the most popular views continues to amass power via technicalities?

Also there’s not even been 50 presidents yet, every election has a historic first.

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
4. Supremacy of the Military
5. Rampant Sexism
6. Controlled Mass Media
7. Obsession with National Security
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined
9. Corporate Power is Protected
10. Labor Power is Suppressed
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
14. Fraudulent Elections

I can think of 2 former heads of state that that describes.

At some point the electrical signal has to be clear at a hardware level. Companies can make it harder, but if they’re streaming any info to a device in your possession someone will be able to extract that clean electrical signal and reproduce an acceptable feed.

What I mean by “on your computer” is not that it originates on your computer, but that some form of it exists there–namely this is going to be images, text, links, etc that the ad company hosts and a website will normally download temporarily along with the rest of the site’s content. Once your computer has that site’s information you can do anything you want with it. Importantly what exists on your computer is a local copy of what the ad servers host. If you decide to color ads blue on your computer that only affects your copy. The original ad, and everyone else’s copies remain intact.

To put it another way:

• If you want to see something it has to be clear (unencrypted)
• If you want to see something on your computer it has to be on your computer
• You can control your own computer

Therefore, any media that is viewed on your computer is clear, on your computer, in a realm that you control.

This is also why ad blockers work. You can send me ads, or requests to fetch ads and my computer just ignores them.

Companies will never be able to stop this, cause at some point you can always just intercept the data feed at a hardware level and reconstruct the stream.

Realism wasn’t necessarily the end goal of a lot of painting. When you look at old Christian art one thing to notice is that different people can have vastly different sizes. The virgin mother may be most prominent, some patron saint smaller, and the artist themselves or the commissioner may be included as smaller figures. This play of scale was a device to show what was important and being sure to capture and portray that hierarchy was a more important goal than realism.

Probably just used the design labs. It is a previous generation controller though.