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I'm seeing the same as Rob wrt bulleted lists and block quotes. Browser is Pale Moon 28.14.0 Linux.

In addition, if I use the quote button, the quoted toot appears above the compose window in a green theme that's quite difficult to read.

[QT: https://qoto.org/@design_RG/105102703219819287]

@2ck We did C for about five weeks, then the language became C++ with some university-specific extensions that made it more like the contract/specification programming model you get in Ada. Basically C was just introduced to show us how lucky we were to work in a language that takes care of those details for us.

@sgryphon Every user has a public RSS feed. "Subscribe" parses that feed and imports it into your timeline. "Follow" fetches the posts using the ActivityPub protocol instead.

If you subscribe to someone, it's invisible to everyone except you:
you will NOT see his follower-only posts
it will NOT increase his follower count or your follow count
he will NOT have to approve your request if his account is private.

A little while ago, QOTO was having a technical issue where following people on other instances was silently failing. Subscribing was handy in that circumstance for those who didn''t care about missing followers-only posts.

@Sphinx very true!

"It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."
–Bahá'u'lláh

@digital_carver some of the guys from the late nineteenth century were super forgettable; I can't believe Taft is less famous than they are.

@digital_carver wait, what? Taft is pretty well-known for not really wanting to be president, but taking the job until he could be appointed Chief Justice. Plus he had an important role in the story of Teddy Roosevelt, who's even better known.

And then there's the reason all the schoolkids remember him: being so fat as to get stuck in the White House bathtub.

@pganssle

Looks like a goldfinch. The juveniles and females are more muted than the yellow males.

@realcaseyrollins in my world that's Java Runtime Environment. Somehow I don't feel that's what you were going for ;)

@valleyforge I don't think voters hold senators responsible for the justice's behaviour, really. If a Senator votes for his party's nominee, nobody gives him a hard time about it - it's only when he shows disloyalty by failing to support somebody that he might give ammunition to a rival in the primary.

For instance, I see a lot of conservatives trashing Chief Justice Roberts lately. But nobody's seriously going back to his confirmation hearings and using that as an excuse to ditch the Senators who approved him (quite a few still hold their position, actually).

@valleyforge As I recall, it was a response to the perceived corruption in that the Senators often ended up being cronies of the state legislators, or at least people to whom the legislators owed some favours. In theory, the Senators were indirectly answerable to the people since a state legislator would be punished by the voters for electing an idiot; in practice, the electorate proved unwilling to hold poor performance of a Senator against the legislature that elected him.

Every day @users posts some reports similar to this one - here are some annotations to help you understand why they have the shape they do.

tagging @freemo since he's mentioned in the image

@SecondJon The main one I (not a member of any political party, but I think I can argue the democrat position well enough) see is that there now exists a strong, recent precedent not to do the thing. That the democrats didn't like the rule last time is less important than that the rule exists. Following the rule only when it benefits you is inconsistent with the integrity citizens expect from their elected leaders.

Principles aside, I think there's a pragmatic justification, too. Looking at the 538 models, the democrats are very likely to retain the lower house, something like 3:1 favourites to win the presidency, and likelier than not to control the senate. If I were the republican senate leadership, I'd offer a deal to the democrat senators: this senate won't consider the nomination, and in return the democrats publicly pledge not to expand the Supreme Court to add more liberal justices during the next administration, should they win. Then:
- refusing the deal would indicate that democrats plan to pack the court, which is close to political suicide in an election year, plus the republicans confirm the conservative justice for a 6-3 majority in the meantime
- accepting the deal would leave the court with a 5-3 conservative majority pending the outcome of the elections, and gives the republicans a serious feat of statesmanship to point to.
If the democrats should accept and then renege on the deal, or refuse it and win the senate anyway, it doesn't really matter - they'd be as happy to expand the court to thirteen and pack it 7-6 as they would be to expand it to eleven and pack it 6-5. So there's not much downside for republicans in making the offer.

@dragfyre Just want to bring to your attention that the IRC bots (SubWatch and BahaiFYIBot) seem to have disappeared from the channel. If you're already aware of this, please disregard.

@freemo To be more specific, *global* air travel reduction is the issue. A lot of that fuel is exported to foreign countries, and their choice to implement a lockdown, not Canada's, reduced their airlines' demand. Even Canada's domestic airlines are more dependent on international travel than American ones - because Canada is on the great circle routes between the eastern USA and Asia, and between the western USA and Europe & the Middle East, a lot of their business is sixth-freedom traffic. Travel restrictions between America and the rest of the world hit Canadian airlines hard, and Canadian lockdown policies were more or less incidental.

@freemo Canada's economy was almost certainly going to nosedive in the pandemic in any case - CAD is a petrocurrency. Lots of segments of industry globally, most severely air travel, cut way back on energy consumption since March. When selling oil is your business and everyone starts buying less oil, the value of your business is going to decline. Forgoing a lockdown can't change that.

Just a reminder to be cautious about interpreting correlation as causation.

@Cristobalite Well I guessed Blue Jackets, given that you said Ohio haha.

@Cristobalite Let's go Jackets

@arteteco I've only had it up to ten or twelve devices attached at once, but it worked admirably under those conditions. (Strictly speaking, we might've had fifteen *people* with a few pairs sharing devices).

I haven't used Teams, but Nextcloud Talk is more comparable to Jitsi Meet than to Skype. In particular, desktop users must use a browser instead of a standalone client, which is fine but means you're out of luck if yours doesn't support WebRTC (notably, Pale Moon).