Nollij @ Nollij @sopuli.xyz

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It's going to be important to save your strength for when it matters, and to pick and choose your battles. Protesting his inauguration is, at best, a symbolic move.

Considering he is promising to round up people and send them to concentration camps (and there's evidence that it will happen) as his first official act, it's going to be a very grueling 4/∞ years.

The instant acceleration thing is a feature of all EVs. Even the cheapest are surprisingly fast off the line.

If you want something with more sustained acceleration, there are plenty of high performance EVs that will end your Tesla envy.

That's.... Not how this works.

The powers that be only look at a few charts, and a few data points on each.

The big one is sales over time, possibly broken down to gross vs net revenue (i.e. profit)

The next will be the amount that customers use AI. Could be a binary "interacted at all", measured in interactions, or by time.

The final MIGHT be % of interactions that led to a sale.

The ONLY way to fight AI (or anything else that corporations do that you object to) is to stop or reduce buying from places that use it.

90s middle school: same urban legend, except it was 1 gallon from Gwen Stefani.

Van Halen's road crew confirmed that. They also confirmed that, without exception, if the M&Ms were wrong, there were other major problems. And when I say major, it's on the level of "people would have died" if they had continued with the show.

There's only a single decent quality video of the first plane on 9/11. Because in a city of millions of people, only 1 person in the area was recording at the time.

I can't even imagine how many videos there would be if it happened today.

The only reason that Nixon resigned was because he was informed, in no uncertain terms, that he would be impeached and formally removed from office. The House and Senate had secured the votes. He was prepared to be impeached if he could've stayed in office.

I agree with you about respectful dissent. I have found that Lemmy, far moreso than other platforms, is afraid of hearing anything that challenges their beliefs and assumptions.

That said, their statement didn't even cover that. I would describe the need to be comments that are made in good faith, to better drive the conversation/understanding in a community.

Flat earthers rarely post in good faith. They are overwhelmingly trolls attempting to derail a conversation.

But someone that posts to a vegan community about a new study about the health effects of eating meat is sometimes acting in good faith. Articles like this can drive genuine conversation. It all depends on context.

Same for politics. Look at how badly posts were down voted for showing (valid) polls with Trump winning.

Hell, look at the various technology communities. If you don't have the approach of "Windows bad! Linux good!", you will be down voted or moderated.

Even in communities/topics loaded with trolls (climate change, LGBT, anything politics), there's still room for dissent in good faith.

While technically true, this really doesn't change the question. Life is a complex series of chemical reactions; death is what happens when these reactions stop.

Let's say you die of heart failure. Your heart stops pumping blood. Then the brain stops getting oxygen, due to the lack of blood. Then rigor mortis, and so on. If these aren't all fixed, you would also re-die immediately (actually, without the brain function being fixed, you would never really be alive again).

The premise assumes that all of that has been addressed by them coming back to life. Adding a few external factors doesn't change that. If it did, the simple fact that most people are buried and would suffocate would render the point moot. Same for decomposition.

Although cremation would be awfully hard to tackle...

These have their place, though. The obvious example is public charging cables, which at least have had PoC for exploits.

There's something that everyone should keep in mind with this announcement. Due to the nature of federation and the fediverse, it can ONLY apply to lemmy.world. Users and communities on other instances can, do, and will continue to have their own policies on the matter.

Expect the tankie and fascist instances to keep doing tankie and fascist shit, and very little has changed in that regard. They still have the same risk of defederation, even if the chances have inched up slightly.

That also implies that there is more to get excited about. It's entirely possible that the leaks have completely stolen the thunder of their big reveal.

I also suspect that when they say "not official", what they really mean is "not final". i.e. These are prototypes, and could change by the time it's officially announced. They could also be contractually limited from statements, in a "we can neither confirm nor deny" kind of way.

I do agree with your larger point that their press release left something to be desired.

This entire conversation is solving a problem that's already been mostly solved.

If you don't like an existing community, whether because of the mods or whatever, you just create a new one. This was common on Reddit (e.g. GameOfThrones vs FreeFolk vs ASOIAF), and extends further. If you don't like !Linux@lemmy.world, you can create !Linux@lemmy.ml, @programming.dev, @lemm.ee, or hundreds of others.

The community will respond accordingly. If you run a better ship, people will find it and respond accordingly. The only real hurdle is fighting inertia. The mods of the existing community will probably not take kindly to anyone mentioning any alternatives.

That's really not as big a deal as it sounds.

The security of voting machines has been an issue for as long as they've been around. Bev Harris and BlackBoxVoting made a big deal about this 20 years ago, with a number of demonstrated exploits. A security model would be absolutely insane to rely on keeping all units out of the hands of bad actors. Besides, every polling location has multiple volunteers that will put hands on identical models, every single election.

Any of them could be lackeys, including locations where ALL of them are lackeys. There's remarkable little verification of loyalties. In Ohio, I could be "The Republican" for any/all actions requiring a member of both parties. The only thing I had to do (and the only thing I did) to get this designation was vote in the Republican primary. It's also true in reverse. Any of them could've easily gotten access to any of the software.

Most states have a verification process to ensure the machines function as expected, with a security and audit process around it. This usually includes running a fake election first, multiple times, and in a way that the machine cannot tell whether it's the real election or not.

Besides, Occam's Razor applies. It's not like the entire country was thrilled to be rid of him. Most polls put them in a dead heat. Then the results came in, and he outperformed his polls for the third time in a row. But he outperformed at a lower rate than both previous campaigns. Him winning wasn't exactly a surprise that no one saw coming.

The bullet ballots thing is interesting, but far from (pardon the pun) a smoking gun.

This is also the reason why you frequently see the phrases "These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA" and "Not intended to "diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease"

Dude, there is always something else going on.

Relationships are not 1-dimension concepts formed on appearances. They are complex, with many facets and details that go into it.

Have you ever seen a couple and wondered "why is someone so hot with someone that ugly?" That's because it's not built in looks alone. Maybe he's confident, or rich, or a good listener, or he's good with kids, or any of a thousand other good qualities. Realistically it's a combination of them all, because these don't exist in isolation. And it applies in both directions. What changes are the criteria (e g. Men aren't expected to have perfect skin, women aren't expected to be confident. Generally)

I can tell you that they wouldn't have included it if it didn't serve a purpose. However, that purpose might be for a feature you don't use, or possibly even one that doesn't exist for your board (e.g. if there's a similar model with features added/removed, they may simply leave components off the lesser SKUs. For instance, you sometimes see solder points for 4 RAM slots, when only 2 are installed)

While I'm a fan of using things until they truly break, you have to consider what this could mean. If they are for voltage regulation, you could end up with rich, chunky volts to your CPU, RAM, GPU, etc.

If they are for thermal cutoff, things could melt or even catch fire. It might even happen when you aren't home.

And if they are for RGB controls, you could end up with no lights, and that would just be too boring to accept. (/s)

You have posted enough questions on related topics that I recognize your name.

I say this with all the kindness in the world, I think it's time for you to speak with a therapist. This is about more than just your career progression.

Your mistake is thinking these are particularly special. The only thing noteworthy is that one particular design caught on.

Anyone can make a sticker, or a T-shirt, or a shot glass. If your favorite YouTuber sells it as merch, it's easy to get. You can get an order made of (nearly) whatever design you want, and pretty cheap. There might be a minimum order size (say 1000 stickers), but otherwise the only requirement is an image.

In fact, if you Google for "Trump Putin sticker", you'll find a number on Etsy that seem to fit your desire.

I had one of those power bank cases, and it was absolutely awesome for extended battery life. It was always there with the phone, it was just a bulky case (which did not bother me), it tripled or quadrupled my battery life, and it was about $20.

Sorely missing that it's not available for my current phone (Pixel 8a).