Elections in the US aren’t really all that fair TBH.

Researchers at the Brookings Institution agree that the strategic manipulation of our electoral process is largely to blame for the erosion of US democracy in recent years. Brookings says this manipulation takes various forms: the intentional addition of administrative barriers to voting, unfairly drawing electoral maps, the subversion of the election certification and counting process, and the violent coup attempt on January 6, 2021.

https://blog.ucs.org/liza-gordon-rogers/us-elections-arent-as-free-and-fair-as-they-should-be-heres-how-science-can-help/

The United States is experiencing two major forms of democratic erosion in its governing institutions:

• Strategic manipulation of elections. Distinct from “voter fraud,” which is almost non-existent in the United States, election manipulation has become increasingly common and increasingly extreme. Examples include election procedures that make it harder to vote (like inadequate polling facilities) or that reduce the opposing party’s representation (like gerrymandering).
• Executive aggrandizement. Even a legitimately elected leader can undermine democracy if they eliminate governmental “checks and balances” or consolidate power in unaccountable institutions. The United States has seen substantial expansions of executive power and serious efforts to erode the independence of the civil service. In addition, there are serious questions about the impartiality of the judiciary.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/understanding-democratic-decline-in-the-united-states/

Having more beautiful and structured URLs. I suppose for those cases it’s more of a preference, and with the tooling I use (.NET) it’s not too difficult to achieve.

I guess my gripe with your original statement was that I was thinking mostly of state like user login etc. I have to concede it’s not totally garbage for the cases you mentioned.

omg thanks for this

have multiple routes point to the same endpoint, dynamically adding the parameters serverside

I disagree. I definitely prefer REST APIs that use the file path for searches, filters, sorting. You get most if not all benefits from query parameters, and if done correctly it is just as clearly readable as query params.

As a WebDev… URL parameters are definitely not the place to keep state… Were not in the 00’s anymore. They do have legit uses, but we have JS localStorage nowadays.

Fair enough, I haven’t given that too much thought myself until now. After playing around with Firefox’s URL cleaning, I realized there are some parameters I want to keep. So, by clean I mean removing all unnecessary parameters in the URL.

For example, https://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw would become https://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw keeps it’s parameter, because it is necessary.

I guess replicating the logic for deciding which parameters to keep is not trivial, so the easiest solution is probably just manually pasting links into firefox, and just copying them cleanly from there. Thanks for providing some code, though!

ahh well, guess that is my !wooosh@lemmy.world moment of the day

The thing in the middle under the display? I’d assume its a scrolling wheel, kinda like on your mouse but very wide

Same

Thank you for doing the same :)

I’m not looking to argue either, I’m just trying to share how I see things, so this feels more like a discussion to me.

I mean yeah, I don’t think anyone can argue against the convenience of modern technology. I just think we’d be fine without smartphones.

Instead of a boom box or a radio (which weren’t really meant to be portable anyways) you could use an mp3 player, by now they’d probably have Bluetooth as well.

I know some people who carry around dedicated calculators despite having a smartphone, so I think if you need it somewhat regularly, you’d just have it with you. And if you don’t have it with you, your calculations are probably not that important and urgent, so you could do them at home if necessary.

Regarding landlines, there’s barely any situation where I feel the need to contact someone right in that moment, so a landline with a voicemail would be fine most of the time.

Long story short, all I’m trying to say is that smartphones have replaced a lot of things that were fine, not just alarm clocks, and I don’t see why they ‘deserved it the least’. I do understand that I can’t expect a shower thought to go that deep though.

My default android alam let’s you use a Spotify playlist. Sadly not with local music tho

They did one thing and they were fine at it.

so were radios, calculators, landline phones etc

Your art reminds me of yugioh cards for some reason lol

That adventure was oddly specific. You okay bud? Need to get rid of some clown pants or something?

Thanks Nicole!

Ive used the same boxer briefs for almost 10 years now, and after seeing this post, hammock pouches got me intrigued. Thanks for the brand recommendation!

Edit: I don’t see any hammock pouch briefs on their website, do they call them boxer briefs? Because their boxer briefs are also advertised as anti chafe

Congrats. Want a cake?

as someone who never actually went wedding dress shopping, that sounds fairly cheap actually. I thought everything surrounding weddings was stupid expensive, and 1k sounds somewhat reasonable for a well made dress with lots of details, even if it is definitely a huge amount of money for something you’re realistically gonna wear a day or two.

What were the prices of other dresses you were looking at? And were you going for a more modest design or something more opulent?