Just switch from Mario Kart to Tux racer and you’ll be OK.

And many of us think they aren’t.

The headline isn’t stupid in a vacuum, but it implies things that are demonstrably false and others that are just known fact.

My takeaway was “why were there vacant seats?” And neither the headline nor the article cover that.

The government is tasked with keeping those seats filled. The reason to keep them vacant is usually to concentrate senate power in a smaller number of individuals who are easier to influence. Filling those seats is a GOOD thing to prevent abuse of elected power, unless there’s provable evidence that the senate is being stacked with hyperpartisan people in a manner that skews to a particular political ideology. That doesn’t appear to be happening here.

The videos are linked from wiki pages dealing with each OS version on apple.fandom.com.

Think of it this way: imagine a slowly moving stream. Anything in the stream will move along with the current and from its perspective will be “stationary” in the current, right?

But then think about the surface of the stream: the air above it isn’t moving, so the stream surface is rubbing along the air interface, creating drag. This means that the air is going to end up moving a little bit in the direction of the stream, and the stream surface is going to be moving a bit slower than the main body of water.

Wrap that in a circle, and that’s what the layers of the earth’s atmosphere are like. So a skydiver is “diving” in an atmosphere that is relatively (but not completely) stationary above a certain spot on the earth.

For an experiment you can try yourself, fill a bucket with water, and then spin around in a circle holding the bucket. All the water stays in the bucket instead of sloshing out one side due to the bucket moving through space. This is a combination of inertia and force acting on the contents of the bucket.

The earth is big enough to have a gravitational force strong enough to resist shear) the rubbing at the interface), and there’s nothing really out there in space for it to rub against. So the air is more impacted by the gravity of the moon and the heat of the sun than it is by friction against space or inertia overcoming gravity to send things flying off the earth at an angle.

The title made me want to avoid reading the link, but I assume an indigenous immigrant is someone local to the area whose ancestors straddled a modern day border. So someone from the Pueblo nation who lived on the Mexican side and moved to the US side, or someone from the Mohawk nation who lived on the Canadian side and moved to the US side.

But I guess it could also refer to someone indigenous to one region (eg, Hawaii) who migrated to another state?

Well… mine does, but I drop content around once every five years, and am slowly working my way up through from the original operating system as released in 1984. So at the rate I’m going, I should be up to Sequoia sometime around 2058.

Or… “To get to know you better, and your response has helped me do that. Thanks!”

Sorry I can’t help, wrong end of the country, but if you have college courses, a bank account and you’re 19, there should be at least some options in your area. The library was an excellent decision.

City name would be helpful. I presume you have no access to money? No bank account in your name etc? Most towns and cities have a place to crash and get at least one meal a day. Salvation Army usually has something if there’s nothing else.

Once we know the city, hopefully someone on here can be of more tangible help.

“We have to punish you because of what those other people are doing to legitimately evade punishment” is only a useful argument if the punished group can somehow cover for those not affected.

New World Order formed sometime around 2013 didn’t they? At least that’s when they dropped their self-named album.

Personally, I’m more a fan of New Order.

Last time I traveled to the US was just before Trump’s last inauguration. Meanwhile I’ve done lots of online shopping in the US and a lot of my groceries are from the US.

Aren’t the tariffs going to result in me shopping less online, buying fewer US exports, and having to physically cross the border to buy stuff not available for reasonable prices anymore in Canada?

I have to say… even with the Elon influence, I didn’t see that one coming. Ulbricht stole capital from the rich and enabled stuff including human trafficking considered evil by the religious right. But I guess he also stuck it to The Man, for which he is being rewarded.

If it isn’t, it really should be, or things will become a mess as the fediverse becomes more political. It needs to be resistant to that sort of thing as well as corporate control.

That only works for a portion of the GOP. The rest are either “I’ve got mine, screw you” or “I’m a closet fascist” types though, neither of which is going to care one way or the other as long as the right people benefit and the right people are punished.

It doesn’t just hit wallets; it hits supply. Suddenly there aren’t enough aluminum cans for all the goods people want to can, and food spoils as a result. That kind of thing. And as a result, the food that does get canned costs 25% more (not just an increase in the can component).

The other thing I can see happening is the EU investing in infrastructure, and then leaning more heavily into how things are conducted in the Fediverse. Right to be forgotten? Applies to all instances that want to federate with EU ones. Someone says something bad about the leader of Turkiye? Their instance is defederated if it doesn’t take it down.

… and an entire continent away.

Ah; I assumed when reading the headline that it was the cryptocurrency holding company that was sued, because it competed with trumpcoin.

No responses? I recall quite a few, including mine?