It doesn’t restrict Trump, by himself, at all. Trump is the president, i.e. the head of the federal executive branch, which is by itself unaffected. Anything that Trump (or his successor) had the authority to do last week, he still has now and will still have after the new Congress is inaugurated.

What has been changed is the majority in the legislative branch, this means that all new federal statutes in the US will (after January) need to be passed by a majority in that new Congress, in which both houses have a Democratic majority, meaning that the Republicans can no longer pass new legislation all on their own.

Even in places like that, it might cause people to avoid additional, less necessary, car trips.

huh???

I’ve run local models on my work laptop, whose specs I don’t know by heart, but it is a relatively ordinary laptop given out to software developers at a large company. It wasn’t instant, but it did produce some useful results. Look into ollama.

People overall want to have a single website or app where they can access everything interesting to them.

Like, I remember being a teenager 15 years ago and regularly clicking through three, four, five different forums. I don’t have time for that anymore. The Lemmy concept allows us to have the best of both worlds: no single point of failure, but also no need to remember to click through many different websites.

If you don’t show what your website has to offer to logged-out users, why would logged-out users ever start to become interested in it and thus becoming logged-in users?

Commercialized social media was a mistake. It’s time for the public to figure out a real solution to how to fund online communication infrastructure; I don’t want a system where users pay for access (because that excludes poor people, most minors, etc.), but clearly making it funded by advertisers isn’t having desirable results either.

I wonder if social media could be run by governments (similar to public television and radio broadcasting), or by ISPs (like they used to run Usenet servers). Federation could mean we don’t have to choose, we can have a mix of these and other concepts.

Legal questions can’t be answered without information on jurisdiction.

Usually the answer is: yes, you can be sued because you can be sued for anything (suing just means: asking a court to award damages, not actually getting them), doesn’t mean the person suing you will get very far.

And before that, TV.

It tests whether there really are no stupid questions.

because it’s impossible to make general statements about how “people” in general vote; each voter has different motivations for voting

There are enough voters who don’t vote straight-ticket that it occasionally happens that different elections with the same electorate at the same time have different parties winning. For example in 2024, voters in Nevada elected a Democrat to the Senate, but gave the state’s electoral votes to Trump.

Different voters vote differently. This is really testing the limits of the sub IMHO.

Yes, and it’s the US that is unusual. Red is the historical color of social-democratic, socialist and communist parties.

There is a video explaining the history of US party colors here: https://youtu.be/lgz3p4cEXZU

Do they always do that?

I just looked through recent articles on vehicle-related incidents on a major local news website for my city, and that doesn’t seem to be the case at least there.

• https://wien.orf.at/stories/3376060/ doesn’t mention it, though it does have a photo of the car in question
• https://wien.orf.at/stories/3375812/ isn’t directly about a car crash, but is about someone getting assaulted over vehicle-related behavior; doesn’t mention the car model
• https://wien.orf.at/stories/3375778/ doesn’t mention it

I was unable to quickly find a recent story on that site that does mention it, so your premise doesn’t seem to be exactly true; maybe it’s true where you live, but not everywhere in the world.

I mean, every single time travel story ever has contradictions like that. One of the most famous is “Back to the Future”, which when you think about the details of how time travel supposedly works, makes no sense at all.

Not at all, I think Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is absolutely horrible and can’t be justified by anything. I can still point out that things used to be even worse.

No, I’m saying it’s less bad than the USSR, not that it’s not evil. There are different degrees of evil.

The USSR didn’t need to invade Ukraine because Ukraine was already part of the USSR, so not sure what you’re trying to tell me with that.

There was never a reason to hate Russian people, any more than any other humans on Earth. During the Cold War, there was a very good reason to reject the USSR for being communist, not for being Russian.

Now that Russia’s state ideology is no longer communism, that is no longer applicable. It’s still a very authoritarian country that does a lot of bad things, recently more of them than in the 1990s; but still considerably less bad than what the USSR was doing.

The opposite of “tearing our societies apart” would be “uniting our societies”.

I come from a country (Austria) that once tried a political system where all of society was forced to unite behind a strong leader. That didn’t go very well.

So I refuse to think of “tearing our societies apart”, without further qualification, as an inherently bad thing. Better that than enforced unity of all of society where no dissent outside the Overton window is ever allowed.

combined with the algorithm

Agreed that that’s a major problem with today’s Internet. When I started to use it, the main way to publicly communicate online was web forums where threads were sorted by topic and then chronologically by when they were last posted in, i.e. with no recommendation algorithms. At the time, I was a preteen and dreamed of a world where that was a mainstream thing and way more people would be posting on forums like that.

Way more people use the Internet now, but it’s not structured that way at all anymore, and I do not understand what was so wrong with it that it needed to be replaced with algorithmic recommendations. Did that concept just not have a functioning business model, or what?