Fortunately they are currently only equipped with non lethal capabilities. So it’s going to be fun to watch the consequences of someone hacking into them and people to realize how much of a bad idea this was

“Today, at my direction, every member of the joint force, at every rank, is required to take a PT test twice a year, as well as meet height and weight requirements twice a year, every year of service,” he said.

So he’s going to use the BMI to tell whether someone is obese or not. BMI is great for statistics, but terrible for assessing individuals. A lot of military guys do bodybuilding and would be assessed as “obese” by the BMI even though they are fitter than most.

For example: I work out, have no visible fat, can run 10k under 50 minutes and still fall right into the “overweight” category because I lift weights. And I don’t even consider myself particularly big.

What about the fat president?

Those are the guys we keep being told not to call Nazis because it’s “too polarizing”.

Hypocritical corporate virtue signaling at best

People will die. Someone will eventually sue them. They will lose but they don’t care they will have made more money letting people die than what the penalty will be.

I shouldn’t have to adjust my grip on my phone to change the way I swipe to exit the website because that website decided to replace a commonly used functionality to make it different for their website alone. I kid you not I almost didn’t see that button because my thumb was naturally placed in front of it.

There is already a way to make a gesture that navigates “previous” or “next” by swiping left or right. It is by swiping from the center of the screen outwards and it is how that website should have made that gesture work if they didn’t want to interfere with Android navigation gesture users.

It is called Gestures Navigation and replaces the three button navigation. It is an available option in the settings if your Android version supports it. Some people don’t like it, personally I prefer it except for that one time some asshole website tries to take advantage of it.

On many Android phones swiping from the outside edge of the screen inwards either from the left or right edge, it behaves like you tapped the “back” button. It is extremely useful to get out of for example an article that was opened on Lemmy or simply navigating through menus on your phone.

A swipe either left or right from the middle-ish of the screen is what you would expect to take you from the previous or next article. Not from the edge.

The swiping motion that you are describing starts from the center of the screen outwards. I have no problems with that as you have said, it is standard behaviour across most platforms and doesn’t conflict with other gestures.

The problem is that the site is using a swiping from the edge of the screen inwards instead. In most gestures-enabled Android devices this is a powerful gesture that has the same functionality as using the “back” button and its utility and functionality extends well beyond web browsers. It is incompetent design at best to try to make that gesture do something else on your website.

More importantly, I was visiting this page from a Lemmy link and the only way to get out and back to Lemmy when you have gesture enabled (short of force quitting the app entirely and reopening it) is to use that gesture. That website tries to hijack that feature to make you see more ads on their site.

It’s a personal preference. Ever since I tried gesture I never went back to buttons. I don’t even need to adjust my hand position to get out of a page and it’s never been a problem until that site has put a different function exactly where my thumb was going to swipe.

Also, such a function you are suggesting would use a different gesture. You would have to swipe from the center-ish of the screen outwards instead of the other way around.

Apple’s gestures though, I can’t stand.

Since these kinds of people love to shoehorn divine intention into everything, what does that specific case mean?

AI is destroying the company but not for the reason they’re thinking.

Samsung makes shit appliances that are particularly non-repairable anyway.

Some drug traffickers use existing brands to “market” themselves.

Here’s some Afghan heroin seized and destroyed by the international coalition on the Arabian Sea in 2021:

Picking up a few pages out of Elmo’s book I see. He forgot the part where he distracts from the blatant underdelivery with more empty exaggerated promises!

Marge: “Florida, nooo!”

Florida: “What?”

Marge: “Sorry, force of habit. Pensylvania, nooo!”

I can’t wait to see how much of a disaster this will be.

I wonder why

May I ask how you got that patched version and how you can trust it?