That looks like backspace, reaching from the top of the keyboard down. Which is how I post also, so it makes sense.

It's a disservice to pitch this as "easy-peasy, win-win, 10 seconds of work and you save in the end!"

More realistic to say:

• It will take up to 1h to find a way to buy it (and the answer may be "only on Amazon (tm)"
• It will cost more
• Also shipping $$$
• It will take longer (because you're not getting Prime shipping)

For that cost, you get some benefits:

• You get the actual product, not something that Amazon decides is "the same"
• Fuck you Amazon

And most of all

• The extra effort and money will maybe lead you to realize that you don't need to buy yet another thing.
• Or if you do still buy it, maybe you'll decide you might as well get the good version that lasts, instead of the cheap version that breaks in a month.

I played around for a few minutes and I'm somewhat surprised that I like it (because on page-load it looks the same as Excalidraw or Miro or the others).

• Small number of shapes is good. I like that "database" and "server" are there, because I'd be using this for software architecture diagrams and I don't want an overwhelming number of shapes.
• The map in the lower left works quite well. I should try it on something big enough to need it.
• The note is just basic text. All the other apps I've used make the text scale to fill the note and I hate that.
• Some things are sticky (arrows, freehand) while others are not (shapes). This is surprising and I'm not sure how I feel about it, but it may be the correct choice.
• The AI isn't popping up in my god-damn face. I really don't want "help" with drawing.
• Export as Mermaid is very interesting-looking.

The sticky/nonsticky buttons are the only maybe-criticism I've got after a quick peek, but I liked it quite a bit and will try using it for real. The export options are important because they make me feel like I won't lose my work if you get bored or forget to pay a bill. :-)

100%

Also the "it wasn't a fear-based decision, I just rationally opposed all the forced child gender-transitions". It's not possible to roll ones eyes hard enough.

I actually do have empathy for a TERF who'd say, "I uncritically chugged conservative media and become terrified of stories about men 'transitioning' as a way to attach women. Now I see that was all lies and I was a fool who never tried putting myself in others' shoes."

Hatred Enterprise Linux being marketed to the US gov

She absolutely is profiting from it.

When a game is "free" the publisher isn't just donating it for funzies. Either Epic pays them (Epic is spending money to get people to its platform) or the publisher is using the game to advertise other games, which has value to them.

"Why would anyone in Europe care?"

I think the point of it would be to signal to Trump that Europe is his vassal. Trump says it's sad that this guy is dead, therefore Europe is sad. Doesn't really matter who it is or what's up. You're just following the pledge of fealty.

So, I think it's good that the EU decided they're sovereign for now. This sort of thing is always an ongoing project.

To be fair: it's all the Republicans casting the deciding vote. She doesn't have any special powers that makes her vote count more than the rest. The difference is that she's occasionally not-shitty and so she gets a lot of attention as a maybe.

Like: Rick Scott also cast these deciding votes, but everyone already expected that he'd be a shit so he doesn't get any flak for it.

I think the US will be fine as long as we don't repeatedly elect some kind of cabal of pedophile authoritarians.

There's a lot of externalizing of costs going on. The trucks are idling because the drivers are operating at the slimmest possible margin under the assumption that idling doesn't cost anything.

What we actually would want to get to is that idling does have a cost (environmental, health, pleasantness of the area, etc). And that cost ought to be passed up the chain so that the various goods being shipped are more expensive.

But without a more centrally-managed economy, the implementation is to put all the pressure on the truck drivers and leave them responsible for passing that pressure to the next step up the chain. It doesn't work out very well in practice because the drivers need to make a bunch of capital expenses for something like adding a cab AC and adding a batter-powered lift, but they've been operating at low margins so they're not in a position to do it.

Though, do be careful because there are abusive same-sex relationships and sometimes it's even harder to get away because the people around you are telling you "but women can't be abusers!"

As a programmer, DST creates tons of bugs for anything using time and is annoying. But whatever, I guess I get paid either way.

As a parent, DST is miserable. It's miserable as an adult, also, but multiplied misery when you have to get up early to ruin your kid's sleep. And then that night they're not ready to suddenly go to sleep an hour early so you lose an extra hour...

I hope Poland succeeds.