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“You remind me of my daughter”: Stormy Daniels testifies that Trump compared her to Ivanka

god i fucking love that we have compulsory voting in australia

literally solves so many issues

oh that sounds ideal!

they’ll mug ya for a ciggie all right!

insulate the tube (wrapping towels around it helps), make sure it’s as short as possible for minimal surface area, and properly seal around the window where the interface is : duct tape will work; just make sure there’s no leakage of outside air back in

that should get you an extra ~2-4C of cooling depending on the size of your space and size of the unit

also, check all the seals around exterior windows and doors too. sealing up those with various methods (duct tape, draft protection on the underside of doors, etc) can get you another few degrees

not only does it improve how well the unit works, but it should save you money whenever you heat or cool your house

the struggling to cool above 95F is definitely not a problem with heat pumps… they’re very common in australia (basically everywhere has heat pump cooling - cooling is pretty much a necessity during our summers) and we regularly get to 110F and above with no problem

i’ve always been frustrated by this… i want a heat pump system where you have high and low pressure refrigerant pipes like regular water pipes and have AC, fridge, hot water, and drier all just use the same big compressor outside… drying clothes in the summer with the AC running would be basically free (if you don’t have anywhere outside to hang them), using the fridge in the winter similar

having compressors for all these systems when they’re rarely all used together seems wasteful (plus, 1 big system is often far cheaper - not to mention more efficient - than 4 or 5 small systems)

okay but like there are actual ways of doing gendered spaces in australia… or at least victoria

here in melbourne we have the laird - a gay bar that is a male only space. and australia-wide we have female only gyms. they have an exemptions to the equal opportunity act and are allowed to deny entry based on gender. you have to apply to the state for them

ignoring what you actually think about those examples specially, imo they’d have a pretty good case to get exemptions should they apply for them since it’s art… it’s more a case (imo) of not doing their paperwork and getting the correct permissions… boring? sure… necessary? definitely

though with those exemptions you must strictly adhere to your own gender requirements otherwise you’ll lose it

the actual way to solve “leftist legal crusades” (if they exist): anti-SLAPP laws that punish frivolous lawsuits… but that would hurt them more than “leftists”

that’s an easy solve though…

it’s pretty easy to put a number to how gerrymandered a region is: ungerrymandered means that if you were to look at all the votes in the state without districts that’s your ideal ratio… if you then add districts and that ratio is different, it’s perhaps gerrymandered

so if the goal is to stop gerrymandering, you get a bunch of states to sign some interstate compact that measures gerrymandering across the country and says any state that’s part of the compact will (perhaps in the next election, perhaps based on projections for the current voting maps based on prior voting behaviour) gerrymander to an equal or greater degree to offset or punish gerrymandering overall… ie you can gerrymander your state but at best it’ll mean nothing when it comes to the ratio of votes

either… some apps have just started to do single factor login with just email, profile options can be optional, if there are required fields or terms of service to agree to then that can come after email validation

i think these days the best practice for mobile apps re retention (other than sso or passkey) is to just ask for an email, then from the validate link continue with register

reason being that more steps to register means more ways people are likely to drop out of the flow, and this is basically about as short as it can be

when the user has validated their email, then they’re more invested so they are more likely to complete

that also fits nicely with what we’re talking about with good security

that was certainly in the back of my head the whole time… policy flip flop and lack of long term planning in modern politics is pretty much the norm anyway… but i think to encode that into a kind of standard way of operating is perhaps not a good thing… adding an extra layer that’s hard to undo before fixing the core problem is how the US got to where it is now

as an aussie that has a parliamentary system, and in that system has had a period where we frequently ousted the PM, it’s not that great of an idea

you want governments to be able to plan for the long term. really, even 4y is not great for long term planning because it kinda implies you need to show results before the term is up

we had a bunch of policy flip-flops during that period, which is very inefficient

i guess it doesn’t really matter if you get 2y no matter what: there’s no more after your 2y, but i think that’d lead to leaders doing a bunch of the “fuck it” last term stuff because they have no reason to make a good impression for their potential reelection

that line is from the branding guidelines for kit

whilst it is legitimate, it misrepresents the purpose of both kit and branding guidelines: kit is a feature meant to invoke feelings; not a character having made a decision about its gender

we don’t care about the kits genders but mozilla cares about it being ambiguous because kit is a character meant to increase feelings of personal connection with the user by being able to be interpreted however the user likes (female, male, or non-binary)

in both the intro blog post and the branding guidelines mozilla does bring up the new (complimentary; not replacement) mascots pronouns as explicitly non-binary

the firefox is explicitly (in the case of mozilla firefox) neither fox nor red panda

https://brand.mozilla.com/d/5UkPdpbtt8LS/visual-elements#/-/mascot-1

Our mascot is a Firefox — not a fox, not a red panda. It’s not a real-life animal, it’s Firefox’s own unique creature.

it even: the original source of the non-binary claim is an anti-woke blog post about them removing the old mascot and replacing it with a non-binary mascot, when in fact mozilla had a logo rather than full expression of a mascot, and now they’re a fully formed branding representation of the firefox which includes non-gendered pronouns (as a feature of the characters function; not as an explicit choice about gender representation)

but that was again not about removing the dino as much as as it was about differentiating mozilla from firefox by taking the mozilla identity from firefox because mozilla is more than firefox and behaves differently to firefox, and giving firefox its own identity which is more friendly