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…so now I have a permanently poopy-smelling trash bin that receives weekly deposits.

I understand and sympathize with your frustration but did no one ever explain that you’re supposed to wash those things out occasionally? 60 seconds with the hose on a semi-regular basis solves the problem. If that doesn’t work then you can use can liners to prevent it.

It’s not fair that you have to go through extra work or expense to solve a problem that someone else is creating but its better to take action than it is to sit there and stew over it.

If they show up I hand out the candy and I’ve been doing it that way for decades. No telling some kid or teens situation in life and there’s no need in making it harder on them.

It is a law in my state that all students must stand and all teachers must recite.

That law has been unenforceable since 1943.

I didn’t know about Canada and after thinking about it for a minute the United States does something similar for the States with .gov. Many, if not all, States have their own subdomain such as wyo.gov, montana.gov, and nebraska.gov.

Honestly it’s always seemed wrong and somewhat confusing that non-country specific TLDs, such as .gov, are dedicated to the United States.

What data does this app have that isn’t freely available somewhere else?

I’m assuming .io just stands for Indian Ocean in this case

British Indian Ocean Territory, it was just shortened to .io so it would fit into the naming scheme.

That’s a great question and the answer can be found in the wikipedia entry for the .uk domain.

In a nutshell the volunteer “Naming Committee” setup back in 1985 established a rule that entities needed to register into specific subdomains based on entity type such as .co, where the .co part stood for “Company”. They did this to make managing registrations easier and to provide an “at a glance” way to see what kind of website you were visiting (commercial, government, charity, etc). The “Naming Committee” was extremely strict about ensuring that domains were registered to a specific entity and in the correct subdomain.

By the mid-90s the volunteer “Naming Committee” was entirely overwhelmed by the sheer volume of domains being registered so that volunteer group was replaced by Nominet UK. Nominet didn’t open the .uk TLD to registration until 2014 and by then the subdomain thing (.co.uk) was so embedded into the United Kingdom’s internet structure that it had become tradition and NOT using was confusing to many people.

There’s more subdomains than just .co as well and both wikipedia articles I linked list them.

tl;dr .uk absolutely exists in the UK, it’s just used differently than almost anywhere else in the world.

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Dammit! Why did I mistype that?

Obviously it should be RHPS. Sigh.

If you ever decide you want to see it please for the love of Tim Curry don’t watch it on TV.

The only way to experience the RHPS is at a theater, movie or stage, with a floor show. Without the floor show you will not get what makes RHPS an adored Cult Classic. Seriously, the floor show is what makes (or breaks) the experience.

If you walk into the show and you’re not surrounded by people in costumes spouting weird lines, or if you don’t see them in the aisles within the first 90 seconds of the show starting then you may as well get up and leave.

Edit: Fixed my typo’s as pointed out by @shiny_idea@aussie.zone

I was a Freshman in High School when I found my parents sex library and I read every damn one of those things, including “The Joy of Sex”, at least twice. While others were still fumbling around trying to figure out basic mechanics I was busy getting busy…very busy.

Edit: I tracked down the “Joy of Lesbian Sex” early in my Junior year of High School. That knowledge was amazingly useful until I graduated College and got married.

Parents who don’t educate their kids on Sex, and adults who never bother educating themselves about Sex are making a huge mistake.

Of all the “Feature Phones” I ever had, and I had a bunch, the Alias and it’s successor the Alias II were my easily my favorites.

I miss my Samsung Alias and Alias 2. They were good times.

We have the electoral college, the senate, and gerrymandering.

The outsized effect of the EC and Gerrymandering have a very simple fix. I wonder why Democrats never talk about it?

It’s sad you have no third strong grassroots movement,

One of the few things that both Democrats and Republicans work together on is making sure that there are no viable third parties. They make it extraordinarily difficult to get ballot access at any level whenever possible and on the odd occasion that a 3rd party candidate does make it into office they pull out all the stops to make sure they lose the next election.

Okay that I’m aware of but I’ve never heard of it referred to as “bootstrapping”.

My internet being bootstrapped by ISP…

Seriously, what does “bootstrapped” mean in this context?

Edit: if you are going to downvote at least explain if you got a counter point, otherwise it seems y’all just butthurt haha

Okay.

How is this different from US ISP bootstrapping peasant grade internet?

1. Whatabout-ism is annoying AF.
2. How is nationwide re-configuring of DNS to enable censorship different than “bootstrapping peasant grade internet” is a dumb question on it’s face.
3. I’m sitting in the middle of Wyoming sending this comment via a 2Gb/s fiber optic connection. This is not “peasant grade”.

So basically you are getting downvoted because your comment is irrelevant 'Murica bashing.

Now you know.

It’s expensive AF to operate which is why Israel has been working hard on “Iron Beam”, which uses lasers instead of missiles, to supplement it and reduce the cost of operation. Iron Beam is supposed to become active in 2025.

Ukraine doesn’t have Iron Dome because of cost and scale. Israel is 22,145 square kilometers while Ukraine is 603,628 square kilometers. It probably cost 10 Billion to build an Israel sized Iron Dome so a Ukraine sized one would cost upwards of $300 Billion and operating the thing would like be a billion dollars a month for active combat.

As an aside the United States also has ground based directed energy weapons. There’s even a 50KW mobile version built on the Stryker platform called DE M-SHORAD. 100KW+ versions are supposed to be rolling out next year.

My opinion on this is that they’re already getting money from ads

Are they? With so many people, especially here on Lemmy, willing to go hard to adblock plus a steadfast refusal to pay for YT Premium I’d guess that most smaller YT Content Creators are getting very little ad revenue. Without Merch sales and Patreon how are they supposed to get any money to support themselves?

I understand your point about being a walking billboard and I feel the same way but these days it just feels like no one wants to contribute in any way to help support small time creators.

Because too many mods are power tripping assholes and I say that as someone whose been a mod in various corners of the Internet since at least 2000.

The best mods, and admins, are nearly invisible and as close to drama free as possible.