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Acting like you can't act is difficult. This is spot on.

It says it'll be free for Window 365 users. Ie. 70 bucks and that includes office.

Obviously it's not great, but it's better than adobe.

Windows 95 cost two hundred 30 years ago.

Keep it on the old 1TB hdd and buy a sata to usb cable or usb conversion kit?

Yep. Umberto Eco:

Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak". On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will.

Yeah. He's an obvious troll. The bigger problem is that when I've called him out in the past, a mod here has deleted my comments for misleading reasons. So it's obvious that at least one of the mods does support Russian bs. Of course, there are other mods who do give him the occasional ban so he calms down a bit.

I've said this elsewhere, but if you're angry about what's happening in Gaza, you really don't want 'friends' like that supporting your cause. One spoilt apple ruins the bunch. It's like if you run a children's hospital that accepts donations from Gary Glitter.

This is western Nazi propaganda.

The Russian ministry of defense is reporting that what actually happened is that their refinery succesfully intercepted and eliminated at least two Nazi drones.

AFAIK European law isn't often based on common law, but Napoleonic Code / civil law. Ie. precedent is less relevant.

Also, given Meta's been fined 2.5 billion euros in the past few years, it sounds like they're going after the big guys first.

Also:

1995: Skynet is founded. Its name is a reference to the evil mainframe computer from Terminator Franchise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProximusSkynet

Putinsbutt.com

Obviously don't google this, but IRC one of the terms used was lemon party.

Suspect it depends on where you live, but you're not wrong.

I think I've driven a million kilometres by now, it's all become so fucking boring and second nature, that you start really being sloppy and distracted. Because you gained so much experience, you start to (unconciously) overestimate your skills.

But the two hands thing really is necessary for if you hit something slippy or need to make an unexpected manoeuvre. The risks of driving are incredibly low, but if shit does hit the fan you're in for a world of trouble if you're doing something else.

Lawsuit waiting to happen.

PSA for admins and mods: GDPR fines can go up to 20 million euros per case. To give you an idea, Meta has been fined over 2.5 billion euros in recent years. If you think that's bad, the real worry is Germany's NetzDG.

Depends on the ear ring.

But upvote for the truly unpopular opinion.

Chernobyl and Three Mile aren't irrelevant, because the public perception is that they aren't irrelevant.

See also: crime goes down, people vote as if crime is going up.

Yeah. I have a related degree. The NYT published the full results and methodology here:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/03/us/elections/times-siena-poll-registered-voter-crosstabs.html

At a first glance it doesn't look too shoddy.

Polls are easily, and usually are, skewed or produced in a way to get the desired result. Anyways… This one is garbage, too.

I have a related degree and have done polling in the past.

You're using an ad hominem about the New York Times being secret Catholic Trump supporters, because you don't like the results of the poll, but don't know enough about polling or statistics to attack the poll's methodology. People are upvoting you for the same reasons.

Anyway, the full results and methodology are here:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/03/us/elections/times-siena-poll-registered-voter-crosstabs.html

Here's a website that aggregates polling on Biden's popularity from multiple pollsters:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/03/us/elections/times-siena-poll-registered-voter-crosstabs.html

Of course a group of lgbtq+/women-hating nationalist Christians say the party that is against them is losing votes and doing poorly.

Why would they want to make it seem like a tight race and that Biden might lose? That's likely to increase turnout of voters who don't want that to happen.

If you want to depress turnout of democratic voters, you would produce polls that say Biden's almost certain to win.

Chernobyl and Three Mile Island didn't help, but yes.

https://i.imgflip.com/8horwi.jpg
"Both sides are bad!!! I'm not voting!"

It'd be darkly funny if this bill was sponsored and partially drafted by large corporations, so that they can afford to continue using child labour, affording them a competitive edge over small businesses which can no longer afford to.

Hyperreality:

...because of the compression of perceptions of reality in culture and media, what is generally regarded as real and what is understood as fiction are seamlessly blended together in experiences so that there is no longer any clear distinction between where one ends and the other begins. ... Hyperreality is the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality, especially in technologically advanced societies.

Because the (social-)media simulation of reality is more influential (on voters, society, politics) than actual reality, in practice the simulation is often more 'real' than reality. If crime rises, it only matters if the simulation of reality convinces enough people that crime is rising. In fact, crime is falling across much of the western world, but most people think the opposite thanks to media, so the false reality has more influence on politics than actual reality.