The issue with that in his situation is 911 does not take kindly to “Hey, can you call my dad and tell him I ran out of gas?”

If it’s not a true emergency that they are expected to handle, emergency services frown on calling them.

His father’s argument is legitimate regarding needing a cellular carrier unless the poster would never unexpectedly need to contact family for help.

I found this on a Reddit thread, hopefully this gets you on the right track:

“I think checking for the GOG sp. z o.o signature is good enough but checking with AV can also be good. If the exe file has been tampered with, then the digital signature would be invalidated. If the bin files have been tampered with, then running the untampered exe will give the error: https://imgur.com/a/9e5lIZ7. They should be legit as long as it has the legit GOG digital signature. GOG has different signatures for older and newer games btw. You can use https://github.com/hippie68/gogcheck to check the games.”

The manufacturers make what’s needed to meet demand. If demand is smaller, they make less.

I’m guessing EU-specific models. There’s no way the manufacturers would willingly pass the ability to prolong the life of the phones to countries they didn’t have to do that for.

“I didn’t say protesting was dumb, I said protesting this was dumb”.

Got it.

What a great advertisement.

Your argument is “protesting is dumb because it’s going to happen anyway” which, historically, has been a bad position to hold.

I don’t know the nuances in the situation but if AI were learning on artists work then putting those artists out of business, I can understand why they might want some regulation or restriction in place.

Reels can be blocked with FB Purity addon, if anyone wants the capability.

I’m sorry but due to lack of formatting and verbosity, it’s hard to tell. Was there a question? Is it just “how to stop wanting physical touch?”

I see. If they don’t answer(unless they’re just terribly overrun with contact), I would say it leans toward removing something that doesn’t fit their agenda.

Perhaps you should ask them.

Markdown is super useful, but this aspect of it is not intuitive at all.

Thank you very much for the tip, I’ve grown accustomed to the cut/paste of piefed and keep forgetting to check the formatting on the lemmy side.

I miss his hats.

I know it’s very popular for the doomsayers to propose but time will tell and I’m guessing we’ll have another election or two. Perhaps even three.

Four’s not out of the question.

I guess the meme creator had problems estimating the cost of a local protest attendee waking up, grabbing a cardboard protest sign they made from an old Amazon shipping box, heading downtown for a couple hours then going home to eat dinner.

I suspect you’re going to get mostly sarcasm and mockery tropes but there have always been countries that have allied themselves with American interests. When you say “when help when needed”, if you’re thinking of an actual war on home turf, invasion or something similar, that’s unlikely to ever happen due to our geographical position. If you mean financial help, we take loans from a lot of different countries. If you’re asking about assistance when we engage in war elsewhere, again, that would be all the allied nations.

Militarily speaking, the US is still one of the superpowers just because of the mind-boggling amount of money we spend on it. There’s not many countries that can compete with just the sheer number of US things that are designed to go boom.

Things like goodwill and assistance are currently in a downward transitional trend due to the current administration. It seems a lot of countries feel ostracized by the US due to Trump’s constant foolish and often hostile actions towards them but these types of things follow an ebb and flow, the next administration to reside in office will begin the process of patching things up and relationships will improve.

Is carrying a second phone logged into a junk account an option for you?

Lemmy is just like a less popular Reddit. Some people are inherently nice and some people are inherently not.

I can’t speak to the minutia but when I use Lemmy it just feels like a less popular Reddit to me. For me, that’s not a bad thing, just the vibe I get.

No but mine is 23 and I feel it’s too late to tell her.