The only way is a data only SIM card.
It won't have a phone number for anyone to call or text.
Of course you can't make calls or texts either. You have to setup some kind of SIP service is you need to.

We're not talking about individual people, but whole corporations and organizations.

For example. Instance.social is shutting down. Now the whole Org needs to migrate 150 accounts to someplace else. Oh and the old posts are being deleted, can't migrate those.

And the support community you created on there, is going away also. Again, can't really migrate all the old posts and comments. But the FAQ documentation we put there when people asked about it, can be manually copied to the new place. So that's something

That's not a situation any company would want to be in. Better to have their own social home, that they control.

The story had feeling of being written by committee. I think that was it's only real problem.

Hard disagree.
Running your own social media server for official accounts, so you're not beholden to the whims of other providers, is kind of an obvious thing to do for online organizations.

That depends on how bad things need to get.

As a stepping stone to an octo-fold phone? Yes.

One of my favorite movies is Josie and the Pussy Cats. Check it out. If you can't see the product placement, you might be literally blind.

And if you watch to the end, you'll understand the product placement is part of the pointof the movie.

Don't forget the RR workers union, and their members. It's not just Biden

Me neither. Just had fun watching a fun movie.

Yes.
No.
Yes.
Yes.

I started buzzing my hair down to an 1/8th inch when I was 14. Then much if it fell out in my 30s also.

I can be mad about more than one thing at a time.

But Biden trying to help some after fucking them over. That's kind of the bare minimum. I'd say I'm only a little disappointed in that.

Yah. Eventually they got a raise, and 4 whole days of paid sick leave. They still work skeleton crews on unsafe trains, with no power over their own schedule.

Again. It's not enough.

Rather than taking another several months it could have taken a few weeks, and they likely could've gotten much more.

Not well. But nobody (including Trump) ever expected him to win, and there was no real plan. Now they have Project 2025. This time things will go real bad if he gets elected.

And that temporary disaster would have forced permanent improvements to pay and working conditions. Some pain now, for gains later. That's how most everything works.

Labor day is a holiday for all the people who died fighting for better working conditions.

I said "enough" not "nothing". The Inflation Reduction Act goes to corpos first. Then whatever they can't manage to skim off for themselves, will go to workers. It's still a corpo first policy.

Replacing the parliamentarian to push through the $15 minimum wage would have been better.

The worse system is the blowing up. When things get bad enough, people will revolt to build a better system. The Jan 6th protesters imagined that's what they were doing. But they were deluded or dumb or both. We're not there yet. I hope we can avoid it.

Yah, it's not smart.

Not surprised. Dems haven't done enough lately for workers. They used to be THE worker party. But since Clinton, they've been nearly as deep into corpo pockets as Republicans.

Even Biden sided with the railroad corpo's over the union.

I've said it before. Many Trump votes, are votes to blow up the system hoping for something new. Because it's not working for the average person anymore.

This idea only comes from people who have never seen what this is like or how it works.
I've done this kind of work, as a direct care staff helping the disabled.

People with disabilities aren't doing normal productive jobs that anyone else would do. They are being paid $1.5/hour to stuff gift bags for kids birthday parties, and the like. And they have direct care staff earning $15 to $20/hour, working right next to them to help out and keep things safe.

These laws sound good. (Accept the carve out for prisoners, not sure what's up with that) But they won't do anything for the disabled, beyond forcing them out of somewhat normal life routine. These jobs aren't productive work. They're a mental health treatment, simulating a job.

Yes that's correct.

All has posts from all the communities the members on that instance subscribe to.

Really‽ Okay then

Cowboys and Aliens doesn't have any superheros.

And you're wrong. It's perfect.

It is

I'm not sure you know what post scarcity means.

Imagine a world where nobody needs to work, but everyone can still have any material desire filled at any time.

Think Star Trek. Unlimited energy resources, combined with replicators which use that endless energy to create unlimited stuff without any labor required.

It really is the most efficient way to manage and trade scarce resources. Going back to a barter system wouldn't be possible with the size and scope of a global economy.

Is the demand low, or were the expectations unrealistic?
Nobody likes to blame their own estimates I guess.

I'm generally not a sit com person.
But that sounds cute. I'd give it a chance.

Sure they ask for a rematch.
Unless they're afraid they'll get humiliated again.

The most profitable league in all of sports...
Is being killed?

I don't think that means what they think it means.

I loged in to my account for the first time in over a year, to ask them about starting their own Fediverse instances for public communications. Specifically Mastodon and Lemmy.

Prettier, sure. But less practical, functionally.

Oh! That's better.
One of the images had a van looking one, the caption said was the electric.

I thinks it's the back one in your image.

Ugly in an iconic way.
Clearly designed for practicality.
They look great to drive with all that visibility.

On the other hand the electric version just looks like a disappointing van.

I looked at both of those.
The first is conflating Sex and Gender. As I said, sex isn't defined by chromosomes and specific genes. It is partially determined by them, and other factors, such as in you temperature dependent example. But again Male and Female are terms used throughout all sexually reproducing lifeforms. Not just Humans. The terms are defined by the reproductive role of the animals gametes; not their genes or anatomy or anything else.

The Beyond XX & XY chart you provided shows a whole host of genetic disorders that can result in a range of outcomes that mix male and female traits in humans. Then it tries to assign genders onto those mixes of traits. But gender isn't determined by genes, or anatomy. It's determined by society and social convention. Do you see what I'm saying?

The statement "She is male" is consistent with a separation of gender from sex. It does leave an open question as to the use of Man and Woman. I'm torn on that one myself. Traditionally Man and Woman are terms of sex, while Masculine and Feminine are terms of gender. My first impulse is to maintain that. But calling her a man, seems different than calling her a male. So I can see changing man and woman to terms of gender, while keeping male and female as terms of sex. I'm not sure we really need a separate word for "human male" anyway. Most of the time there's plenty of context to indicate if we're talking about humans or other animals.

I'm not trying to pick on Harris specifically here. It's just a perfect example of politicians being asked direct yes or no questions, and them giving paragraph long responses that don't actually answer the question.

Do you believe that climate change is largely driven by human activity, including the burning of fossil fuels? If not, is there a different cause you would cite?

Didn't say yes.

Do you believe climate change is making disasters such as hurricanes, wildfires and heat waves more intense?

Almost said yes.

Should climate change be addressed through government action or market forces?

Practically a yes. I award a half credit.

Do you support clean-energy tax credits such as those for electric vehicles?

Again half credit. Not an actual yes.

Biological sex isn't defined by beards or breasts.
It's defined by the reproductive roll of an animals gametes. They apply through all sexualy reproducing species on earth.

You can't in one place, say sex and gender are unrelated; Then another place use them as synonyms.

I'm all in favor of trans rights. And I believe seperating sex and gender is great! But it needs to be consistent. This inconsistent selective misuse of terms is infuriating. And I think it's a big part of the hangups otherwise liberal people have with this movement.

For a narrow definition of law that may be the case.
But it could also be thought of as a set of laws, which specifically govern law-makers.

In this case it's making certain pre-existing statutes illegal, effectively nullifying them.
Why this judge thinks those statues need to be specifically mentioned, I don't understand. As a judge you'd think that would be their job.

That is what we have now. Mostly.
The current vehicle taxes are never close to covering the costs of road maintenance.

I'm not sure I understand why they don't.

I thought bringing chiplets to GPUs, meant they'd be able just add as many CUs and cash dies as they needed to get on top. Even if it's $3.5k and 1000W, they should be able to. They could sell 100K units as some limited edition special thing, and pull mind share away from nVidia by having the undisputed top card.

But they don't. Which is why I think they undervalue having a halo product. They don't think it'll push units further down the product stack. I think they're clearly wrong about that. People buy cards that fit their budgets. But they buy brands they know to be the best.