Ultimately, my biggest worry is that Trump’s absolute piss-poor understanding and implementation of tariffs has very likely ‘poisoned the well’ to the point that they could probably never be successfully implemented in our lifetime by an actual competent Government

Well, it's not as if they had much chance of happening anyway, given the neoliberal status quo for decades before that, so... 🤷

I'm not a fan of Cybertrucks, and I fucking hate Elon Musk. That said, I'm also generally not a fan of threads like this one because I feel like piling on the truck hate risks tacitly absolving non-trucks and thus misses the point of the community.

Remember, any car is going to be bad news for a deer (or pedestrian) if it hits it at 75 mph, whether it's a pickup truck or not. The only difference between the worst truck and the vehicle with the best pedestrian safety performance is that the latter becomes deadly to pedestrians at a somewhat higher speed.

The real solution to pedestrian safety isn't chipping at the margins of the problem with "safer" vehicle front ends, it's designing streets appropriately to slow vehicles down or keep them away from pedestrians to begin with.

By the way, I can confirm: the Cybertruck does indeed bear a striking resemblance to my kid's first attempt at a Pinewood Derby car, LOL!

Sure, but that reasonable and nuanced idea has nothing to do with what Trump's position on tariffs has always been. He's just a dipshit that doesn't understand the difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics, or that the entire economy of of a country that controls its own currency (and especially one that controls the world's reserve currency) doesn't work the same way as an individual household or business.

Tariffs have been the one major actual policy position rattling around in Trump's empty skull since at least 1988. He fucking loves the idea of tariffs, for some reason.

I was initially confused by it too, but got used to it. I think the moderator functions ought to be accessed by an icon separate from the edit ellipsis, but I agree that it shouldn't be a green shield like that.

That's what I'm mostly interested in as well. I recommend checking out makertube.net. It doesn't have the content yet, but I have high hopes for it in the long run.

On a possibly-related note, I couldn't remember the URL so I tried to look it up. DDG gave results for the Mastodon and Patreon accounts, but the makertube.net Peertube site itself wasn't in the first page of results at all. Or the second page, or the third page (I didn't check beyond that). I was down in the weeds of random German blog posts talking about it without finding the actual site. That's a capital-P problem, and the more conspiratorial side of me is suspicious about it.

EDIT: Also, I think that’s the first Houthi kill of an F-18.

In that case, we should bill the Israelis for the cost, since they're who the Houthis are pissed off at.

The USS Harry S. Truman has been operating in the Red Sea since last September when it was deployed to help protect commercial ships against near-constant attacks by Houthi rebels in Yemen.

In other words, this incident would never have happened in the first place if the US weren't supporting Israel's genocide of the Palestinians (because that's why the Houthis are attacking commercial shipping).

I see this posted a lot as if this is an issue with capitalism. No, this is what happens when you have to deal with maintaining the power grid using capitalism as a tool.

The framing of it as the problem being that the price is going down rather than that excess power is feeding into the grid is what makes it an issue with capitalism. The thing you should be questioning is why MIT Technology Review is talking about some consequence of the problem that only exists because of capitalism instead of talking about the problem itself.

And before you downvote/object with some knee-jerk reaction that I'm being pedantic, consider this alternative way of framing it:

The opportunity is that solar panels create lots of electricity in the middle of sunny days, frequently more than what's currently required, so it is necessary to develop new flexible sources of demand so that the excess energy doesn't damage the power grid.

That's pretty vastly different, isn't it?

Why am I seeing headlines about the MAGA reaction to the thing instead of the thing itself?

I'm just pointing out that I'm kinda abusing my mod privilege because something this tangential would ordinarily get removed. I couldn't resist this one-time exception, but I intend not to make a habit of it.

Yeah, it's another layer, and so there definitely is an https://xkcd.com/927/ aspect to it... but (at least in theory) only having problems getting Docker (1 program) to run is better than having problems getting N problems to run, right?

(I'm pretty ambivalent about Docker myself, BTW.)

I'm aware of that, but OP requested "explain like I'm stupid" so I omitted that detail.

None, because I get almost all my apps from F-Droid and the repository maintainers themselves will quit making updated versions available if the app enshittifies.

Also, I cannot imagine accepting that shit from Samsung or Xiaomi in the first place. Believe it or not, instant boycott.

There are many many people for which a mobile phone or tablet is their only computer.

That's it's own kind of disaster, TBH. As proprietary as Windows is, at least it's mostly not DRM'd and has the right sort of interface for creating things instead of just consuming content.

Windows 11 isn't even on the top 3 worst iterations of Windows.

In terms of spyware and enshittification it sure as Hell is!

And that's the measure that matters here: not mistakes, but deliberate abuse of the user.

A program isn't just a program: in order to work properly, the context in which it runs — system libraries, configuration files, other programs it might need to help it such as databases or web servers, etc. — needs to be correct. Getting that stuff figured out well enough that end users can easily get it working on random different Linux distributions with arbitrary other software installed is hard, so developers eventually resorted to getting it working on their one (virtual) machine and then just (virtually) shipping that whole machine.

I could be wrong, but my very limited experience with bread makers is that they're basically for making loaves more conveniently, since they can mix, knead and bake all in one device. If you've got to remove the dough and form it into buns to bake on a sheet pan anyway, I'm not sure a bread machine has any advantage over a normal stand mixer.

2017 for me!

(I had been using Linux on some systems since 2002 and first tried it in the late '90s, but 2017 was the year in which I ditched Windows even on my gaming machine, permanently.)

This is pretty much off-topic, but I'm too pleased about my advocacy interests converging to care.