“Brought it to them” is a misnomer. The boy travelled to TX where he was exposed and then he brought it home.

The point of the article shouldn’t be taken with the view of countries and borders, with that view the point is that the Americas (plural with many countries) have lost their disease elimination status.

The better point is that it shows how viruses move and spread. There are multiple take away lessons numbered in the article, however they are also not concrete because the data is not concrete.

Correct. In the US there is no entity that is supporting it. Technically any of our banks could create an app that supports it, but they’re lazy and cheap.

I’m prone to think that one group having rights and another group not having them solely based on who they are is more of a fascist belief than the opposite view.

But I’m not here to argue with you, I was just trying to give a perspective because you asked for an explanation.

If it’s right, it’s right. If it’s wrong, it’s wrong. It doesn’t matter what color state and for what political shift it is trying to achieve.

This is not the first time California (and other states before Texas) have redistricted. Sadly it probably won’t be the last.

But it’s an erroneous stance to say it’s okay because hey other guy did it.

The branches are perfect. They aren’t too busy and actually frame the picture well so the bird is the focus.

Correct. And everyone needs to remember the actual problem, not the symptom. Its like leaving one social media platform for another then when it too goes to crap complaining. Oh how can this happen again!?

If you look at the foundations of the OS the pattern becomes clear. They release a concept of an OS, but its half baked and not implemented well. So they fix it and rebrand it, and that’s the “good” version.

95 became 98

ME became XP

Vista became 7

10 became 10 - they broke pattern by wanting to stay in a perpetual 10 state and keep updating it (which is why it was around 10 years). 10 was not good when it launched and took years to fix it, essentially becoming its own replacement.

I tried out a handful of Lemmy apps and Thunder is what I used for most of it but then switched to Summit. There’s aspects I like about both and aspects I dislike about both, but they don’t have a bad UI.

Oh but the best part about Nest is that if you don’t upgrade it doesn’t go offline. It stays online sending data back to Google. So it’s not like they pulled the plug, they just pulled the plug on service because they wanted to and they’ll still sell your data for profit. Double whammy.

I don’t really fault them when they don’t know there is an alternative. And the alternative isn’t clear cut and/or very good.

I do fault them for when they think that the platform is the solution and don’t expect the same thing to happen.

This is effectively a paywall. They want you to pay with your privacy. No thanks, I’m not buying.

My work around was keeping the phone number but not on my phone so I never lose it like that.

Specifically I ported it to Google voice where its just parked with no monthly cost (there was a 1 time port cost). I’m not logged in to voice ever so the anti-privacy of google doesn’t apply. Any text messages I receive get forwarded to a non google email (but thats few and far between).

I’m sure there are other similar options out there, but I did what I knew and its been fine.

I feel you on that. Even not being on xyz social trend of the day you still get exposed to the mentality of it by the people that are. To some extent that’s fine, but it can get old really quickly.

I don’t want to doom scroll all day and night. I don’t want to socialize on media and follow people or have followers. Random people are not my entertainment. I don’t need my phone in my hand 24/7.

My take is that I will live my life by my culture. If people see me be me and follow my example, great. If people think I’m a weirdo, oh well I’ll just go do my own thing.

I also had no issue on multiple machines. Follow their instructions and terminal commands.

Look at the output as you proceed. Seems like the repository is missing so maybe you got an error and didn’t realize a step failed.

Sized like grapefruits but visually reminds me of pineapple rings (maybe slightly aged for color)

I just responded to another comment about this. I agree that keeping the money we pay to the federal government can be redistributed, but I’m not confident the government has the proper structure to do so.

Basically, they mismanage what they do today, so why should I conclude they can handle additional responsibilities tomorrow? More money doesn’t fix existing problems. Fix the problems first, get your existing budget in line, address the current responsibilities adequately, and that’s evidence you’ll do a good job with more.

That’s a fair point. The FEMA funding can be redirected. However my “characterization” is based on the tone of actual responses so that doesn’t make it inaccurate. But I’ll go with that wording because I think its a good description as well.

My point is, the California budget is in shambles constantly. This fact is emphasized by negatives in the state as well. I do not believe that the state government can adequately create a functioning independent government, even if they get to keep their federal payments. More money doesn’t fix inherent problems. They haven’t proven that they can’t manage what they are doing today, let alone give them more responsibility.

I think its not a very mature outlook to discuss independence when you don’t have your crap together.

You seem to believe that the CA government has good management over everything. I’m OK with that but I disagree. And I think that’s the root of the separation in our thinking and interpretation of things.

I actually think it would be a good serious consideration of breaking from the union, but I’m not sold on it. And I don’t think the state is ready to have that discussion.

Exactly. I’m watching to see what northern TX is getting now wondering how bad it gets.

I was referring to the 2020 fires. And It was both. I say “crying” because literally one week the vocal statement was “we don’t need the federal government” and the next week it was “you need to give us federal aid now”.

Yes, that is what FEMA is for, and California should (and did) get it. But the F is FEMA is Federal. You can’t have it both ways.

Again, I’m not for or against the concept. I’m just saying its very clear California is not able to separate.

The last time this was seriously touted weather hit a few weeks later and the state cried for federal help. Whether its a good idea or a bad idea isn’t the point. The point is the state can’t support itself so independence will fail regardless.