Hi, I am from a country also undergoing protests right now, but a person very close to me is visiting the US. They joined the No Kings protest yesterday in NYC. And they told me there was no young people at all. The contrast with my country is kind of weird, young people mobilise all the time.

I’m ofc not pretending that yesterday’s NYC protest is an accurate characterisation of mobilisation in the entire country. But from photos I see it does seem a trend that the no kings mainly has middle aged and older people in it. I’m curious. Why?

Just a disclaimer here, this is a question about violence. Now, I'm known as what might be considered an established pacifist. I do not exclude violence from the list of things that intrude on peoples' boundaries. That is to say I don't support it, which, in ultra layman's terms, is acknowledged to be because it's a form of escalation and often has no possible form of compensation. And I look at everything I see with what people actually do get away with, and I want to know why.

We live in a society trying to put in more effort to maintain what it sees as a kind of righteous balance. If an artist, writer, singer, etc. says something, the even the art is not exempt. If JK Rowling blasts her mouth off again, her stocks have been known to plummet. If Elon Musk tries to appeal to the wrong people, his own stocks have been known to plummet. The people are speaking, as many say. However, one area of what one might call controversy that I notice the people never speak on is terrorism (and anything related to death, if it's random and not related to a specific group of people). And I was thinking about this while reading Mistborn, where the heroes get away with some nasty stuff and one of the messages amounts to the whole "the ends justify the means" vibe. But if the way they think is par for the course, why even put this thing some people call "cancel culture" on a high altar? Once in a while, it's common to have to answer to some misunderstanding, but I notice violence (if nothing else is attached) is often just an "unconventional view". And that kind of thing is all we see in the news on some days, and nobody feels like it, I don't know, misrepresents anything? Bottom line, why is general violence treated so differently?

In US restaurants, do cooks receive tips like the waiters ? Is there a sharing between waiters and cooks ?

I intend to print some checks and cannot do MICR toner. Since archive.org is down right now, about half the Internet is down for me because so many enshitified websites are access restricted and I rely heavily on archive.org.

What is the risk for submitting a non-MICR check to pay a credit card bill? Slower processing, sure, fine with me. However, this page mentions returned check fees. My knee-jerk thought is: WTF, it would be a valid check, so would some lazy motherfucker whose check reader has no optical cabability really be able to legally justify hitting me with a returned check fee as a consequence of them being too lazy to do a manual entry?

The law apparently makes it clear that a non-MICR check would not comply with ANSI standards. Fair enough; but really the question is whether a non-standard check can be treated as invalid to the point of levying penalties when in fact the information presented is both valid and usable? It’s all down to what lazy motherfuckers will do with their discretion, correct?

I happen to know that the credit card company does not process checks like normal. They do an ARC conversion. They use the info on the check to generate an “electronic check” and then they pull the money electronically. They probably do that to move the money faster. So is it safe to say there is no chance of my bank rejecting the check -- that the only possible rejection would be by the credit card company?

A credit card company would obviously be processing copious checks. So it stands to reason that they would use a modern reader that is both magnetic and optical. So IMO it should work. But they could still be dicks. The reader could read the info optically but send a “dodgy check” flag due to the lack of magnetism and maybe they are just happy to have an excuse to collect an arbitrary penalty.

Anyone test this?

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/51315327

I saw an HP pavilion 17-f048nb at a street market and cannot find the specs for this. I simply want to know if the CPU is AMD, and if so which AMD. It’s such a shitshow on HP’s website. Considering the same HP model can sometimes have either intel or AMD, do I have any way to find out?

Sometimes you can get /some/ details based on the serial number at https://partsurfer.hp.com/ but not the CPU.

A slightly different model (17-f048ca) reportedly has an amd chip. But what do the last two letters mean? Is that a country code for where it is deployed?

AskUSA: how in the US would you extract this secret information from HP, who presumably has their corp HQ in California?

Mexico is a country south of the United States, and many US immigrants are Mexicans, yet saying the word "Mexico" and calling something "Mexico" has become derogatory in California, so when and how did that happen?

A miser is someone who is infatuated with the past, and is grumpy about the present, (compared to depressive, or someone who is infatuated with the future, and depressed about the present), so when did it come to mean someone who is a cheapskate and stingy over money?

What would be the right’s reaction to that?

Ubisoft was an American company, with the name standing for Uber Software, where Uber means super in online English. The reason it's not named Ubersoft is because Ubisoft flows-off-the-tongue better. When did Ubisoft become a French company? Thank you for your interest.

Assuming it’s one of those Green, Libertarian, Socialist campaigns where it’s just someone running for President and no real party presence down ballot.

Let’s say they get enough votes to win. How would a third party candidate govern with a split congress made up of their party opposition? Do they cave into one side? Fight them for four years?

If a nation reaches the point where millions of its citizens no longer trust the media, elections, courts, universities, police, science, or even each other, is it still one country or just 330 million people sharing the same borders?

We have pro AI vs anti AI

We have free speech vs police speech

We have pro 2A vs gun control

We have white supremacy vs multi-racial coalitions that can’t even agree on LGBT issues.

How are we as a society supposed to create standards to follow like in the past, when so many issues sharply divide us? One side has to win these elections, and one side is gonna go for it and implement their agenda that MILLIONS disagree with. Is that still a democracy? If Americans no longer believe the system is legitimate unless their side wins, has democracy already begun to fail?

I don’t live in Maine, so I have no say in that senate election. But I know it must be really hard for left of center Maine voters right now. But what’s even harder to deal with it, was the consistent victim blaming I’ve seen from the left for the last 6 months or so.

If this was 2015-2022. We wouldn’t have tolerated this type of behavior on the left. But I guess that was the “woke” era, and now we have to be just as sociopathic and dirtbag as MAGA. So many left leaning influencers have lost credibility with their attacks on his accusers. Saying that one of them is a Republican, dosent really hurt her argument because Platner dated her KNOWING she was a Republican.

Before these latest developments. I’ve said I’d still vote for Platner despite his scandals. Even the one about black people tipping which pissed me off. We went through an entire MeToo Movement, and preached to believe victims, but here we are. I guess Trump 2.0 really has done damage to social awareness in politics.

TLDR: How did we allow victim blaming like this to happen on the left?

This might sound silly but I'm trying to find the best route. This spring I had to drive from Tucson to Northeast Missouri and we ended up driving through Las Cruces all the way up 54 to Kansas. And let me tell you that is a desolate stretch of road. I've looked at the map several times but can someone tell me if there's a better way to travel other than through New Mexico? I know I can go down through Texas but that adds like 2 hrs onto the trip

I’m going to Spain next week and it has me thinking what do I need to be prepared for when re entering the states. I am planning on deleting signal and my Lemmy clients to start, anything else I should be aware of?

Update: I had zero issues getting through customs, no extra searches nothing. I will also tell people to download the MPC app because I waltzed past a huge line when I got to customs in Atlanta.

Pictured is the goddess Ēostre, where the name Easter probably comes from.

I myself am from the USA but I really can't think of anything. I do know of some right-wingers from my old high school who liked leftist stuff but I can't think of what they are off the top of my head. Maybe Star Trek, does that count?

Putting it into perspective: the Swiss Franc is backed by mutual trust which is something money can't buy (investors have confidence on economic stability during times of crisis) since it's not pegged to another currency or gold despite them having gold reserves. They even have a 1000 CHF bill ($1,269) so it's a strong currency in that sense, they barely circulate it outside.

Do YOU consider the US Dollar a safe haven currency? If it were: it would've received the same status as the Swiss Franc. The reason why CHF is strong is due their trust & confidence alongside a stable economical & political system, put it in comparison: how many Americans have confidence in their own currency? Does the USA have a "truly" stable political system?

The thing is: Switzerland is neutral, meaning they have no incentive whatsoever on becoming belligerents in foreign wars (something the USA can't stay away from since they spend a LOT of money on the military). Their national debt is lower than it is in USA (140m CHF / ~$179m) while in comparison: America's debt has ballooned to around $38,200,000,000,000 if I recall.

It's also tied to their monetary policy (which is highly trusted) hence why they managed to keep inflation relatively low but inflation in America is a joke (no need to say how bad it is). Their interest rate is 0% (can't be said for US Federal Reserve: 3.75%) as Switzerland's goal is to ensure price stability long term while the USA is more on promoting maximum employment.

I've encountered this sort of point before, you'll likely find many examples right on Lemmy. Does the US "not have culture"? Does it have lots of different cultures? Has it just been so good at spreading culture that everything feels American?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr8ljRgcJNM

Post picture is something that feels uniquely US, for better or worse

I’m torn between Citizen’s United and the one that rolled back Roe v. Wade.

I'm watching Veep and everyone pronounces it "Ne-vaugh-da" (which is how I pronounce it) but Kent insists on correcting everyone with "Ne-VA-duh".

Who's correct? Is the show trying to correct a common mis-pronounciation or is Kent just full of shit?

Hey from Philly

Outside center city, in a I guess "suburb"...

Like my neighborhood is like 20% white, 20% black, 20% Asian, 30% hispanic, rest is mixed or "other". Seems kinda diverse

How about your area?