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The loophole that seems to be being exploited is that they're allowed to redefine existing federal lands as military bases thus side stepping posse comitatis act. I don't think they can just declare any land (E.G. state owned or privately owned land) part of a military base and there's likely knock on effects from that as well. For instance I'd be surprised if there aren't various laws about who and how you're allowed to access "military bases" and therefore they can't just slap one in the middle of a campus at least not without opening a giant can of worms.

Sounds like this is less about weakening the US, Trump has that well in hand all by himself, and more about strengthening China and Russia.

Maybe it's time for the DNC to get their own version of Trump. Pick one of the "not here to win, just here for the optics" candidates and dog pile them into the general election. Remember Trump wasn't actually a serious candidate during his primary, he was just there to gain leverage for his TV show contract negotiation. Would do a lot of good to show the DNC it's the voters who get to decide not them.

They're being overly sensitive, in most contexts guys is considered a gender neutral term these days. English is just dealing with the slow loss of gender from the language and it's reached the point where there are so few instances of gendered words left that the ones that are stick out and feel a little awkward. Or like in the case of the parent post where people fixate on the linguistic fossils left in the language and decide to take offense by intentionally interpreting phrases in anachronistic ways rather than modern usage.

It's the same in the US as well.

I think part of the problem is that "good" UX isn't a single thing but a continuum. It's very dependent on the skill level of the user. Often what makes a good UX for a newbie is a bad UX for a power user and vice versa. OSS tends to attract power users and particularly the ones working on some software in a particular area tend to be domain experts. That in turn can lead to designs optimized for very advanced use cases that end up being frustratingly opaque to an "average" user or even worse a newbie.

Blender is an excellent example of this. It's regarded as one of the best 3D programs out there but it's far from a simple piece of software to pick up. What saves it is that all the commercial alternatives are just as obtuse as it is and so the ground level expectation is that it's going to be complicated.

Likewise many OSS and Linux tools expect or even require CLI usage which while great for power users putting together scripts and pipelines are often opaque and unintuitive to someone who is still learning the domain.

This focus on power users leads to turning newbies away and funneling them towards the commercial offerings where they then get used to their quirks and limitations of those apps so that when they do eventually become power users the quirks and limitations of the OSS alternatives feel strange and off-putting to them.

The argument they're also making is that by allowing US citizens in to extract the resources there will be an implicit safety guarantee because then Putin wouldn't dare attack locations US citizens might be located out of fear of the US actively participating in the war. Whether that claim holds water or not that's at least the rational they're pushing.

If Democrats take a majority in both houses and win the presidency they can roll back everything Trump has changed. It won't undo the damage to foreign relations and US soft power, but at least it will stop the hemorrhaging. There's going to be a deep hole to climb out of, but with Republicans out of the picture we can stop digging deeper.

Exactly how long that takes will depend on how the next couple elections go. Certainly nothing is improving while the Cheeto is in office.

File format standards certainly, and OSS generally embraces those (at least if they're non-proprietary), but UI doesn't have to be standardized. On the other hand though not everything needs to be a unique snowflake. UIs should take the things that work well and experiment with what doesn't.

Lets also not pretend that proprietary apps don't screw around with UI design just as much. I can't count how many times now Microsoft has redesigned the UI of something that was perfectly fine and didn't need redesigning only to end up making it worse.

What about Krita? Not sure exactly what Adobe product it would be an alternative for though. I know a lot of what people use it for used to be done with Photoshop, but I think Photoshops core demographic is a slightly different use case. Also Inkscape as an Illustrator alternative?

Today it looks like the answer is technically none of them. The FAQ on bookshop.org claims they're working with Kobo to add support "later this year".

I don't think that's a harness I think it's a chalk bag. You can see the bag just behind his hand.

Republicans have spent decades building up a party that values loyalty to the party line above all else and that regularly uses propaganda and outright lies to the public to manufacture support. Democrats have spent decades carefully crafting their political stance to be as mild and non-threatening to the rich and powerful as they possibly can.

Republicans won't oppose him because disloyalty is political poison to them, and Democrats only provide token resistance because Trump still has rich donors backing him.

All the US checks and balances are predicated on the idea that no one party could take control of all three branches of government, and even if they did that the people in those positions would hold their duty to the law above party loyalty. Trump has successfully proven both ideas invalid, and his only opposition is entirely too milquetoast to do a god damn thing about it.

Essentially Congress got tired of having to do actual work because it was taking time away from them soliciting bribes from corporations, which is the profitable part of the job, so they abdicated most of their responsibilities to the president.

Constitutionally the President doesn't really get to do much except work out the administrative details of everything Congress has ordered him to do. Since Congress abandoned that responsibility the president has a lot more control.

Trump still doesn't actually have the authority to do most of what he's doing, but he's abusing emergency war time regulations as justification despite this not actually being an emergency or war time. Everybody is just too chicken shit to call him on his bullshit though because then they'd have to own up to all the times previous presidents over the last few decades abused the same loopholes.

Wait you mean the thing everybody with more than two brain cells to rub together has been saying since Trump started talking about tariffs? No way!

Once again the entirely predictable outcome has come to pass and MAGA are shocked that reality continues to ignore their fervent delusions.

This is interesting in a "how far can you launch a pumpkin using an air canon" way, not a "you only need to cool this down to -40C to make it super conduct" way. It's a fun experiment with nearly zero practical purpose outside of some very niche edge cases. Wearable computing is probably the only realistic one at the moment for a CPU that you can stretch a little and runs incredibly slow.

Ah, so homegrown scum. I kind of lump them under the mega corporation header though as the goal for them is to eliminate regulations and oversight so they can pillage to their hearts content. Really trying to speed run that late stage capitalism dystopia.

Going to be real interesting to see where that money is coming from. My bet is some combination of the worst of the US political "thinktanks" like the federalist society, Russian assets, and mega corporations like Amazon.

But this doesn't answer the most important question, is it a didgeriphone or a saxodoo?