Bassman1805 @ Bassman1805 @lemmy.world

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US voter turnout is abysmal, so half of the voters means like 30% of the people.

His routine was loaded into the teleprompter. It was explicitly approved.

Never feel bad for pulling insane shenanigans in munchkin. That's liberally what it's for.

Dude, just use th.

State espionage agencies are going to try to hack both presidential parties. Trump has a record of ignoring security advice so he's gotta be really easy to hack. Vance might be a little better at the security thing, but his proximity to a weak link like Trump is still an exploitable vulnerability.

I hadn't played in years and started a new world a few weeks ago. I just started setting up a raill system when the update hit and now the whole thing is fucked. Gotta tear up a bunch of diagonal sections and re-do them noe that the new track angles lead to different accessible grid points. I literally cannot connect new rails to the old rails on the diagonal section 🙃

It's literally a poem in the original language.

Don't underestimate Colorado. Though it's largely the recent Denver transplants keeping up that stereotype, whereas it's the long-term Texans.

There's a cool thing where pyrex, Pyrex, and PYREX are all different kinds of glass, age only one of them is the really good scientific-grade glass.

Hey look! Someone who only read the headline!

Interesting legal problem, but I object to the chess metaphor: knights more than any other chess piece do not occupy any intermediary spaces between where they start and land.

"One order for fried ice, Don!"

This is like, technically a weapon. It's a tool for destroying enemy missiles in the air before they impact their target. It's about as purely defensive of a weapon as you can get.

The US soldiers are operating the missile defense system, so there's not room for Israel to "creatively" repurpose them. They aren't assisting in any missions in Palestine, they're purely defending against Iranian missiles.

Scottish talk radio sounds like a trip.

Those also use a combination of many different sensors to see the road around them, while Tesla stubbornly refuses to use anything except vision because that's how humans do it. Nevermind that even with our best AI models, we've never even approximated how the human brain works.

On a related note...

Full Self Driving coming next year? Or the year after that? Or after that?

Sure, I agree. But the CEOs of McDonalds and Wendy's don't want to miss a single day of profits and their wealth gives them a lot more political power than I have.

It's not satire, it's 100% the reasoning that would be used in this argument. That's the train of thought that we took towards covid.

Why does a language have different words for different concepts?

It's an abbreviation.

Not all abbreviations are acronyms, only the ones that take the first letter from each word. Lego takes two letters from each word, so it's not an acronym.

On a similar note, some but not all acronyms are initialisms, if they're spoken as the letters rather than the "word" they create.

FYI, DIY, PS are all initialisms, and also acronyms, and also abbreviations. ASAP, SCUBA, and LASER are acronyms and abbreviations, but not initialisms. Lego, appt, and st are all abbreviations but neither acronyms nor initialisms.