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That's an interesting idea. Maybe also include a current list of trending communities, similar to the daily post in [email protected]?

Since you are looking at revising the search screen, I would also be interested in some sort and filter options for searching communities:

• Sort the results by number of posts, or monthly average users, or by community with the most recent post.

• Exclude communities from dead or defederated instances. For example, when lemmyf.uk shuts down every instance they were federated with will retain local copies of their old communities. There is no reason to refer users to those ghost town communities.

Arizona stays on standard time year-round. Any state could choose to do it tomorrow, easy-peasy.

Several states have passed bills to observe daylight savings time year-round, which for reasons I don't understand requires Congressional action to implement.

I know some people get heated over this, but I'll say it: year-round daylight savings time is dumb. The number on the clock is arbitrary; it's the semiannual change that's problematic. We should leave Congress out of it, stick to standard time, and put this issue to bed already. There's no need to permanently cosplay as the timezone to your east.

In each state you only need >50% of the votes to win all the electoral points for that state. Once you have 50% of the votes in a state, additional votes within that state are essentially worthless. In Hillary's case her supporters were heavily clustered in a handful of states. She won California by a landslide, for example, but then went on to lose in a bunch of other states by narrow margins. If her supporters had been spread out among more states she would have easily won the overall election.

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I'm considering getting some cheap USB-powered lights on eBay to wrap my frame for Christmas and New Year's. I'll run them off of a phone power bank. Will definitely post pictures if I do it.

Something like this:

That is my understanding. And I assume the dot patterns are made by printers worldwide. The article mentions Dutch law enforcement using them, and German researchers studying them.

It's also great excuse to drink while wallowing in dread. I have a bottle of gin set aside for the occasion.

This comic inspired a different post on that exact topic.

https://lemmy.world/post/21479372