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  • Ward@sopuli.xyztoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhy do people dislike California?
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    1 year ago

    I think this is mostly due to the highly polarized political climate. California is the most populous state and it’s policies frequently end up spreading to other states and therefore is frequently focused on because if it’s major influence. This is similar to how Texas and Florida are in the news a lot for their more conservative policies. While there are people out there who take the time to inform themselves and make their own decisions most people are only able to parrot back talking points they hear from the news or their friends. I suspect your coworker is one of those people and probably leans conservative so all he hears all day is how California’s policies are making housing too expensive and it’s too “woke” etc.


  • It has federation so you can talk with people or rooms on other servers. There is also voice and video chat supported by matrix but I’m not sure if conduit has that yet. Also smaller things like picture and emoji support. Irc is a much simpler protocol so you give up a lot of functionally over matrix. In the end just pick whichever one has the people you want to speak to or set up a matrix bridge to irc and speak to people on both if you don’t mind self hosting












  • I’m glad I’m not the only one. This is the one thing keeping me from being able to browse one handed. I also have an issue with it closing the PWA when I go back when I’m on the main page. This may be desirable for done people but I don’t like losing my place in the feed when I accidentally swipe back on the main feed page (or misswipe when trying to upvote).





  • For those of you who thought the $9000/kwh was a random number. This actually happened for a short time in Texas after a winter storm took down most of the grid in 2021.

    I’m all for dynamic pricing and other financial incentives to encourage more efficient use of power but there definitely needs to be some sort of insurance against black swan events taking peoples life savings while they try not to freeze .