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Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year
  • Powertoys and fancyzones in particular has been amazing with the proliferation of large monitors. Saves so much time and effort to configure windows. Don't understand why it is an optional utility and not built into the OS.

  • Bernie Sanders: Vote Harris because Gaza is ‘not the only issue’
  • Put it a different way: if both candidates are willing to turn a blind eye to genocide, who do you think you'd have a better chance lobbying to change their stance? One support a cease fire and a two state solution. The other doesn't think a two start solution could work, and that Israel needs to do whatever they need to do to get the war over with.

  • What happens if there’s a tie in 2024? Be ready for a ‘contingent election’
  • Of all 59 presidential elections there hasn't ever been a tie. There have been 3 contingent elections where no candidate got a majority of electors in the electoral college:1800, 1824, 1836. The last one being unique because Van Buren got enough electors in the general election but Virginias' electors were faithless and wouldn't vote for him leading to it get shoved to the house where they handedly voted him in.

  • Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it
  • I'd guess that major UI revisions are a big reason for average users. People don't like having to relearn how to do something or find a setting. If M$ implemented a legacy UI setting that by and large mimicked the interface and controls in W10 they'd clear a major hurdle preventing less technologically inclined users from upgrading.

  • No country still uses an electoral college − except the US
  • Not entirely. An act of congress is all that is needed to repeal the Reapportionment Act of 1929 and allow more members of the house to be seated. Increase the number of house members from 437 (approx 750,000 citizens per rep) to 1093 (2.5x increase yielding approx 300,000 citizens per rep). This is roughly the same ratio of house reps to citizens when this bill was passed nearly 100 years ago.

    A capped house significantly broke the balance between populous states and small states further in the favor of the small states. Ending this imbalance would move both the executive branch and the legislature to more accurately represent the will of the people.

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  • Nearly every niche community I've joined has essentially died due to not having the critical mass of users to support that community. Hell, even look at the large states like California or Texas: they're communities with only a few hundred active users and maybe a couple thousand joined. Feels like the lemmy is mostly us politics, star trek, Germans, and memes.

  • Trump would make the US economy weaker, less competitive and less equal | Joseph Stiglitz
  • Even without looking at any specific policy you could make this statement with high certainty of accuracy. Democratic presidents have significantly higher job creation, GDP growth, and larger decreases in unemployment. Real household income gains are higher under Democrat presidents. Republicans have had 9 of the last 10 recessions start under their leadership, only one being under Carter. The deficit grows by larger margins under republican presidents. The stock market gains more under democrats presidents. The only metric in which Republicans do better on is inflation.

    Then looking at the specifics of policy proposals we would see trump would destroy the only factor in which the republicans lead on with massive tarrifs, isolationism, and expansions of trade wars.

  • Phoenix, Arizona, hits its 100th consecutive day of 100F weather
  • It was primarily settled as a farming community at the confluence of two rivers to support nearby gold mines. Prior to that native Americans had a fair amount of canal works to provide irrigation to agriculture in the region. At the time it would have been seen as good fertile land, free from rocks and boulders that was beyond the frost line prime for agriculture if they brought fresh water from the nearby rivers.

  • Have you seen this cat?
  • All the cats in the domestic cat branch of felid tree have slit shaped eyes. Domestic cats, wildcats, sand cats, black footed cats, and jungle cats all share this trait. They are all small cat species.

    Pallas cats belong to the leopard cat branch, and share similar eyes with the larger cats despite their other physical characteristics. It is interesting that they've kept the round eyes, because small cats tend to hunt via stealth during low light periods such as dawn/dusk where slit shaped eyes are an advantage.

    This is a trait a nearly universal eye shape in small cat species. Even those in the leopard cat branch (rusty spotted cat, flat headed cat) and other branches related to other large cats (pampas cat in the ocelot branch, marbled cat in the bay cat branch, bobcats in the lynx branch, serval in the caracal branch, etc).

  • Retired Conservative Judge Becomes Latest Republican to Endorse Harris
  • It's self selecting. You speak out against trump/Maga and a further right candidate primaries you and may win. Or you get so sick of associating with trump/Maga you quit because you know the primary with put you out.

  • Donald Trump says Kamala Harris' nomination "not fair"
  • He just can't get over Biden not running anymore because his entire campaign strategy has been look how old and frail Biden is. Without that comparison people see how low energy he is and the very real signs of dementia. I wonder if the rumor is true and he will replace his campaign strategists this close to the election.

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