Are you trying to illustrate the point?

It wasn't 200, it was 2000.

And while most did not carry guns, they brought other weapons and armor, and used improvised devices as weapons. And some did bring guns. Source: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/07/28/politics/armed-insurrection-january-6-guns-fact-check/index.html

Thank God they were poorly organized and that the capitol police resisted...but it's a complete lie to say it was 200 unarmed people.

This is all on video! This isn't a matter of opinion!

Do they?

When Republicans are in power they never actually cut spending.

Some people say there’s no malware for macOS and that’s obviously not true.

But others say macOS has malware so it’s no better than Windows in that regard, but I don’t think that’s true either.

Look at this example. It only works if it tricks users into downloading and running an unsigned executable, bypassing sometimes multiple warnings.

Here's the difference.

The Democrats are diverse. You've got some true believers who want universal basic income and free medicare for all. You've got right-leaning centrists who want lower taxes and less regulation, but they're not as socially conservative as Republicans. You've got some who vote their conscience, and others who are corrupt. It's difficult to get them all to agree, but when they find common ground, their ideas are generally pretty popular with the people (Obamacare, the Infrastructure deal, etc.).

The Republicans have no platform. They have no plan. They have no consistent views. They have no desire to govern constructively whatsoever. The very few things they can agree on and get done, like conservative judges and banning abortion, are extremely unpopular and set the country back.

You really think there's no difference between the two parties? The difference has never been larger, ever.

Some of the many things that surprised me:

• They want to try all 19 at once
• They want the trial within 6 months

This may be the most significant indictment, because the president can't pardon a state crime.

I have a hard time reconciling that with my observations in Europe:

• People travel significantly faster than in the U.S., for example on the autobahn
• Taxi drivers routinely do things I consider crazy in order to get around old European cities, like driving up on sidewalks, passing on narrow two-lane roads
• There are a lot of narrow mountain roads and people seem to drive way too fast to be safe

I've never felt like European drivers were "more safe".

The only differences I can think of that are positive for Europe:

• Less drunk driving
• Traffic circles instead of stop signs

It's also just an open file format. Anyone could implement it, and in fact I found dozens of completely independent implementations of webp decoders on GitHub in various languages.

There really is no secret ulterior motive in this case.

Man, when things get tough, you need someone you can really count on to do the right thing.

Someone who won't let you down.

A Rock.

Rotten Tomatoes has both a critic score and an audience score.

If your pick has a low critic score but high audience score, that means it was formulaic or unoriginal but probably lots of fun.

Movies with a high critic score and low audience score are usually more artsy, film-festival stuff.

My prediction: verified video will start to become a thing.

Phones will be able to encode a digital signature with a video that certifies the date, time, and location where the video was captured. Modifying the video in any way will invalidate it.

Same for photos.

People will stop believing photos and video that don't have a verifiable signature. Social networks and news organizations will automatically verify the signatures of all photos and videos they display.

Technically this is already possible today, it just needs to become mainstream and the default.

I've switched to Lemmy for random browsing of memes, pop culture, and tech news.

I'm hoping Lemmy will soon be large enough that major world news events will pop up there, too.

I still go to Reddit for just a couple of niche communities. Lemmy isn't large enough for there to be active communities about every TV show and every hobby, yet. Looking forward to when we hit that size.

Also: no rush. We're early adopters. Lemmy has gotten a LOT better in the last month, so I'm glad that everyone didn't rush to join it right away. I'd rather that when small communities consider migrating, they can do so and have a great experience.

Lemmy is more like Reddit, Mastodon is more like Twitter.

In other words: Lemmy has communities (subreddits) and hierarchical comments for each post. Mastodon doesn't have either of those things, but it has following users and following hashtags.

Despite being different, they have some interoperability because they use the same federation protocol.