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In the context of basic communications, market share really shouldn't. Phone calls are a standard, SMS is a standard, MMS is a standard. RCS should equally be a standard, along with IMS video calling that has been in the 3GPP spec since Rel99 (that's 1999). Flip phones in the early aughts could do video calls (in Europe) way before FaceTime was a twinkle in Steve Jobs' eye. Every phone right now could do out of box voice call/video call/text/picture messaging regardless of platform, if the cellular standard bodies would grow a pair.

Problem is, companies like Apple and Google became huge, unregulated, and monocultured.

How we humans allowed something as basic as communication to be put behind walled gardens is just a failure of humanity.

There is no technical reason. The carriers/cellular industry gave up on their efforts to push RCS and let Google own it all for the most part, and with it, everyone lost openness.

It's also why Samsung Messages is on a slow burn EOL. The Samsung/Google partnership had Google encourage Samsung to drop their RCS support and just push Google's app, after Google decided to sunset the openness of the messaging API. Third-party SMS apps will all slowly die. Probably also partly why Signal dropped SMS support. It was around the same time.

Android's weird changes are nothing but badness, and will likely get worse. Hopefully the open OS community can start focusing more energy behind alternative mobile OSes that aren't dependent on a corporation.

Somehow, I don't think it's a competition.

They're all in the 2+/-.2 C range, and increasing in frequency.

What's different about the flyover states is they are flat, are running out of water, and all the increased tornadic/hail activity is just going to make them no-mans-land over the next half century, outside of the temperature issues. (And not trying to compete either, it's just weird.)

The amount of larger hail popping out of these storms is crazy too. Homes will need stronger roofs and windows, there will be more risk to aircraft as well with how rapid they seem to be popping off these days. (Secondary issues will be developing as well since the US is slashing weather prediction budget, which is reducing available data.)

Links on what damage to expect, a plane a few years ago that ended up damaged from a hail storm over New Mexico, double-sucks too, the airplane's weather radar is in the nosecone, so they lose their ability to see what they're flying through in that case:

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I knew Harry Vanderspeigle was real!

Almost! Who knew??

Non-sarcasm: Sad thing is, with almost everything this administration says, apply a 1984-esque filter to it. So crap like the "rapists, murderers, and thugs" rhetoric spewed would translate into something like, "workers, families, and refugees". Likewise, the rhetoric is often projection as well.

A full unraveling thusly would be: The administration is actually the rapists, murderers, and thugs, and they are targeting workers, families, and refugees with the Constitutional, Federal, State, and Local crimes they are committing.

Need to build an AI news filter tasked to parse all news articles on these topics so the real words are always used when they say anything. Shoot, probably a find/replace browser plugin could do it, although using an LLM would make it more dynamic.

bu-bu-but, think about how much more WHITE it will be!?!?!?! We'll finally be great! Again! (heavy /s)

At this point, do we do anything right?

I recall this meme from a year or so back with a different joke attached.

At the rate they are going, it will happen. I'm honestly surprised it has taken this long, a testament to the collective hope that it won't be necessary. The first will probably be a right-wing nutjob or agent provocateur they try to illegally kidnap, that they'll then claim is a Democrat. Already saw some footage of people in Tucson, AZ with shields and pepper balls shooting back at the ICE Treasonists.

Hit the range and train up folks. The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi. They're not taking this fucking country. (Still hoping it doesn't come to that. The violence line is a hard one to come back from. Also, this message is not to be construed as a threat of violence. Only a statement of fact. Violence should always be avoided whenever possible, until it is necessary. The world came together to stop Nazis the first time, we may very well have to do it again.)

Thus far, wrinkled-nutsack-face-worm-brain halted the education and training of future FDA employees, but the existing ones that still have a job and still care are likely trying to keep us all from dying. I don't blame them for giving up though. Already have been schooling myself on home chemistry to test food products for what I can.

That's their hope. The administrations of some governments are purposely doing moves to embolden terrorism, embolden racism, embolden hate. Then when someone with the wrong skin color does something terrible, they can say, "see? War were declared." Let the wartime profits rain in!

Jewish people are great, the people of Israel seem to be smart and clever, their engineering seems first-class. Their government? Up there with the USA Federal government on the list of terrible things that need to go away.

But what parties they get to have on their super mega yachts while abusing the people that work for them or are abducted by them! /s