DAVENP0RT

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[–] DAVENP0RT@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Well, that's super neat and very useful for my circumstances. I'm moving outside of the US soon to a place where WhatsApp is dominant, but I still want to use SMS/MMS with family and friends in the US since I doubt they'll make the switch. I've been using WhatsApp for about a year now while coordinating stuff for my soon-to-be home and I've come to the conclusion that WhatsApp is complete garbage.

[–] DAVENP0RT@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So they absolutely can arrest you for being in their presence; the minor caveat is that you have to be ordered to stop first, so you have some warning.

In practice, there won't be warnings. They'll say, out of the blue, "I told you to move away," and then arrest everyone in the vicinity.

Also, how does this bill treat cops approaching you? For example, even if the cops do give warning, what if they continuously walk towards the person warned? I think this law is ripe for abuse by cops, who famously love to abuse.

[–] DAVENP0RT@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My wife was talking about this recently. She used to wake up at 5:30AM everyday, take a shower, blowdry her hair and style it, put on makeup, and prep her lunch by 7AM. Then she'd set out on her 1.5 hour commute to the office.

Once we started working from home, all of that extra time went to sleeping well and relaxing.

[–] DAVENP0RT@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

He took over Tucker Carlson's time slot, so you'll probably hear a lot more of his word vomit make it into headlines in the future. Fortunately, he seems like an idiot; unfortunately, the Fox News viewership is too dumb to notice.

[–] DAVENP0RT@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Just watch that narrative spin around the moment one of them gets elected.

[–] DAVENP0RT@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sometimes, my wife and I will make a comment to each other that makes perfect sense between the two of us, but to outside observers sounds like absolute gibberish. When one of us realizes this, we'll follow it up with, "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra." Then folks get really confused.

[–] DAVENP0RT@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

My wife and I are moving to Central America next year. Once we get there, we're going to be building a partially off-grid house: electricity from solar panels with on-grid fallback, water from a spring on the property, and solar water heating. We're hoping we'll be able to grow most of our own veggies and compost whatever we possibly can.

Unfortunately, we'll need a gas-powered vehicle due to rough terrain and a severe lack of EV charging capabilities in the area. That being said, we don't drive very often at all here in the US and I expect we'll drive even less once we're down there.

[–] DAVENP0RT@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm that dude on my team when it comes to SQL. Everyone on my team (in my whole company, it seems) follows zero formatting standards when writing SQL code. Nothing qualified, no indentation, no query hints or anything to optimize. People just get their sprocs and views into a state of "good enough" and just hit submit.

[–] DAVENP0RT@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, we comment in places where we see issues, leave tasks, and just mark the PR as "needs work." I ain't touching code in a branch that's not owned by me.