You can compile the infinity APK yourself with your own free API key and continue to use it. There are guides and automated scripts available that can do this for you.

This is a well known issue for a lot of people and signal has been promising to fix this for years. Using a phone # for verification reduces spam and bot accounts, but like you said it drastically reduces anonymity.

That said, anonymity != privacy. You could anonymously place a note on a car telling the owner to learn to park, but it's not private since anyone walking by could read it. Likewise you can send an encrypted signal message to another user who knows who you are, so it's private, but not anonymous.

You're learning all the right lessons! 👍

That was interesting how they adjusted sizes based on adjacent letters. Good idea

Here's a video of that .exe running:

https://www.youtube.com/...

The LED should be expected to outlast the rest of the phone by a large margin. That said, given enough units out there, it's statistically inevitable to get a couple with some issue that die earlier.

What you have to understand is that often a conversation is not really about whatever the topic is. Conversation is like a game and the goal isn't to win, but rather to play a good game with other people. If you keep blabbing on and on about the topic without letting other people play then you're ruining the game.

But those envelopes are tasty...

All language is metaphor.

"Reddit refugee" is a metaphor that conceptually makes a lot of sense and sounds good to the ear. No one using this term is making a political statement about asylum seekers.

Assume there are 200 people in a room; half are Democrats and half are Republicans. Assume 24% of the Republicans approve of this result. Assume 85% of the Democrats approve of this result.

(85 + 24) / 200 people = ~54%

To be fair, it has already been years

I believe you uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types"

What about the past 250,000 years of lost music?

He also writes he "did attend in 2019 a private religious Christian Identity Cross lighting ceremony falsely described as a cross burning."

The article does a decent job of going into some of the nuance about the different ways the apartheid label might or might not fit things that are thing on. But in the end who cares if we can fit a class of actions into the apartheid label?

Why don't we just look at the actual actions that are taking place and discuss them for what they are. If Israel levels half of Gaza in intense bombing campaigns that kill tens of thousands of people, then we can see that and discuss what to do about it. Who cares if it doesn't fit the apartheid label.

I see similar arguments every day now where people are arguing if it's genocide or ethnic cleansing or apartheid or whatever. What does it change if you're able to cognitively classify a set of actions with the correct label?

Maybe if you justify your favorite label then you can condemn Israel/Hamas harder, but this doesn't actually change anything and it doesn't lead to greater understanding. I'd actually argue that settling on your preferred label actually leads to less understanding. That's because once you've categorized something to your satisfaction, you tend to become more blind to contradictory evidence.

For example, let's say we all agree that Israel is an "apartheid state". That label comes with a lot of baggage that's going to color our views of future actions. We might miss out on changes in Israeli laws or courts or political leadership that contradicts the apartheid label.

Better instead to try and see things clearly as they are instead of trying to force labels onto things. This takes more effort because labels serve as cognitive shortcuts, but the result is a better understanding of what's actually going on.

That's a great idea! You can check your salt levels while at work or on vacation. You could even have your salt shaker automatically order more salt from Amazon when the level got too low. Or how about you program your maximum daily salt intake so it closes up when it's reached.

So much potential!

Israel does this all the time. Prisoner / hostage swap is pretty much standard operating procedure. It's why Hamas took hostages in the first place. Israel already traded back 240 Palestinian prisoners during the first truce back in November.

https://en.wikipedia.org/...

What's going on now is negotiations. How many prisoners, exactly which ones, etc. The specific prisoners is likely the more salient point because Israel has effectively an inexhaustible source of Palestinian prisoners. It's a renewable resource. Meanwhile Hamas needs decades to plan a border raid so it can get a few hundred hostages to trade away.

That's because the leaders of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Belarus, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, etc don't speak any languages

It's certainly possible to do this. Just beware that building furniture and woodworking is a very different skill than running a business.

Running a business means endless sales and marketing and customer service and follow ups and dealing with vendors and stocking supplies, managing inventory, doing taxes, handling finances, managing partners and employees, renting space, maintenance, payroll, etc.

Just be realistic about how much of the job is actually building things and how much of it is going to be about... everything else.

As I understand it, canal locks don't pump water at all.

When you're going downhill, you allow the higher water to slowly drain out of the lock, thus lowering you to the lower level

When you're going uphill, you allow the higher water to slowly drain into the lock, thus raising you to the higher level.

In both directions the water is always flowing from high to low.