* A minor but very useful change made to my Android settings - using the power button to hang up on a call. I have found hanging up an issue if, during a call, I have gone looking for something else on the phone - like a contact number I wanted to pass on. I then have had the fiddly task of finding the "phone" screen again amongst other open apps, and it's a bit of a pain.
But seeing I usually hold the phone in my left hand, I have a finger close to the power button all the time, and using it to hang up is much simpler.
You can thank me later.
* A Democrat/Biden victory on COVID support is a pretty big deal. But in conspiracy land:
The Republicans’ Long War to Roll Back the New Deal Is Finally Over
It starts with this:
The Democratic Party is on the verge of passing an economic-rescue bill twice the size of the one they enacted under Barack Obama. And yet the Republican opposition, which could block any bill by turning just one senator, has invested shockingly little energy in its opposition. While no Republicans seem likely to vote in favor, they have responded with resignation, rather than the paroxysms of outrage they mustered against previous Democratic administrations (and over far more limited measures).
Biden’s relief bill is extremely popular, yes — but this is a result of the GOP’s muted opposition as much as it is a cause. Meanwhile, Republican leaders are assenting to a restoration of earmarks, a budgetary practice they had once flamboyantly banned as a symbol of big government excess.
Many observers in both parties anticipated that the switch to a Democratic president would drive the GOP back to the libertarian purity that it has habitually clung to in opposition. But more than a month in, barely a sign of it can be found. The absence of a renewed anti-government impulse suggests a profound historic change may be afoot: The Republican Party is finally abandoning its crusade to roll back the New Deal.
But go read the rest.
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