Pup Biru

that’s it guys! can’t call out people for their negative characteristics any more! positive only from now on! and if you don’t comply you’re ableist! got it? wait… now… is ableist negative? SHIT GUYS SHIT

a helicopter crash in a populated area has a high likelihood of collateral damage

yeah for sure… i get it with apple one because i actively use music, drive, and tv+… certainly wouldn’t subscribe to it on its own, because you’re absolutely right: it’s too much of a hassle

there are many ways to fulfil this “obligation”… i’d argue that he’s increasing alphabet stock price in the short term but long term what the fuck is going to happen when the sources all go out of business?

… oh right they’re going to become a news monopoly… cool cool cool

regardless, i think there’s an argument to be made with all this “we are evil because it’s our legal duty to shareholders” that evil is a bad long-term choice. i think boeing is the prime example: if they weren’t “too big to fail” they’d be fucked because of their short term thinking

it’s a little annoying but i find searching for the article title generally produces the right result in the news app

yeah you can’t have a ballot that someone else can force you to keep to prove how you’ve voted… anonymous, individual, untraceable ballots are essential

though perhaps that’s could be mitigated if you could print as many ballots/receipts as you like so you can submit your real one and keep a fake one… then anyone with no care can keep their real one, and anyone being coerced can keep a fake one

i totally agree this is the way to do it: the machines can even keep tallys for early results reporting, but the paper ballots are the only thing that actually matters. that would make subverting the electronic systems useless. it’d also be a good sanity check on the count

after using it for a bit, i’d say in most cases i agree: bit of a nothing burger in a lot of cases (to the point where a few times i’ve thought it was bugged and reverted to the old UI style… it wasn’t), but it’s pretty great when it comes to apps where the UI is secondary (content etc)… the diffraction in the UI rather than a blur makes the whole UI able to be ignored much easier, and IMO it’s still about as legible in most real scenarios

is it not?… there are several services like this in australia… they even have specialties: we have multiple for queers even

i was thinking i’d hate it, and i can still see there are some readability issues to work out… but actually im finding i love it: it really kinda sinks into the background and lets the main content on the screen shine… the “bending” of the content in the panels rather than a blur is a much more effective middle-ground to making the foreground UI disappear until you need it

is this the way of the future? probably not… it’ll be way harder for anyone to implement than a blur, and that’s without the animations etc that make things way more complex…

but i do think it’s interesting to try new things with how you separate foreground and background in UI: we’ve been just chucking a quick blur and semi transparent colour block on buttons etc for a while, and i think this approach has a lot of up-sides

that’s absolutely true too! there are multiple parties who share the responsibility… as always, the world is complex and rarely are things black and white

but also, spending energy on prevention (the publicity) and then when the thing doesn’t occur saying “i guess we were wrong” is the wrong take i think

same thing with Y2K and plenty of engineering things: people were saying “it was no big deal! yall were saying planes were going to fall out of the sky! we wasted so much time and money!”… yeah; it was a huge and expensive effort that’s why the bad things didn’t happen

the world is larger than north america… walmart does not operate in the vast majority of the world… it doesn’t even operate in the vast majority of western countries

the sooner humanity realises some things you like as an individual others don’t like, the sooner we can all start enjoying life much much more. far too many people don’t have fun because they think it’ll make them look bad, and that’s so sad

do what you want to do, be who you want to be, be proud of being weird - because we are all fucking weird - and don’t worry about what other people think… just be you and enjoy it

that whole time was fucked… our lgbt community experienced drastically higher suicide rates, mental health support services were begging for temporary volunteers to help with the load

and then tony fucking abbot - whose electorate voted the highest yes in the country - abstained from voting