SpaceCowboy @ SpaceCowboy @lemmy.ca

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They could certainly be replaced by the LLMs they've dumped billions into. A large chunk of middle management too.

Given the latest reports, the current Pope is either going to make a full recovery or died a week ago. We'll probably find out in about a week.

Real currency represents debt. You're paid money that represents what is owed to you for work you've done. Or you're owed something because you handed over a product so you're handed money that represents what you're owed.

Real money is created when money is borrowed. Because real money represents something owed. Interest rates are set to control how how much money is borrowed which impacts the money supply, which impacts it's value.

Crypto "currency" would be terrible to use for loans, as that would be effectively shorting it which as something that's value is determined purely by speculation could result in you owing way more in real value than you originally borrowed. Buying crypto is a gambling the money you put into it. Taking out a loan denominated in crypto currency is gambling an infinite level of liability.

Since it absolutely fails at the primary function of currency (representing debt) crypto "currency" is definitively not a currency. It's only believed to be currency by people who don't understand what currency is.

Yes, completely legit people are well known for having a frontman (or frontwoman) for their operations.

Macron is a smooth operator isn't he?

This is the thought I've had too. This stuff takes a ridiculous amount of energy and energy costs money. Ah but they're going to build big nuclear plants! But thos cost money to build and you have to pay nuclear engineers a lot of money to run them and buy the uranium... it's going to cost a lot of money.

They have to figure out how to get it to 1/1000 of the cost it currently is to make any money off of it. They'll need to cut so many corners that it probably not be much good at anything.

It'll probably just used for big "data driven" corporations to use to analyze our data to try to figure out how to sell products that barely anyone can afford.

Because Trump actually does want to use economic warfare against an ally to at the very least gain control of Canada's resources if not get get political control of Canada. Tariffs are coming next week.

There's a difference between wanting to temporarily move civilians away from a warzone and permanently displacing people to build a resort.

There's a lot Trump regret going on right now... but you may have a lot of uncommitted regret going on that's making you say ridiculous things.

Seems like something the Ninja Turtles would need.

Nah... Netscape Navigator Gold was peak. Netscape Communicator was too bloated and took forever to load. Sure it had an email client, HTML editor, etc. but these should have been separate programs, not all built into a single thing. The original mozilla browser was also this way until Phoenix Firebird Firefox pulled a browser out of the bloated mess.

Uhh... you brought up how it's similar to the Abraham accords without any kind of nuance. I added a small amount of additional detail. But instead of accepting your initial comparison lacked nuance, you're trying to play the uno reverse card which is an immature (and dishonest) style of discussion.

What word describes what you're doing better than cope? You're coping with the embarrassment of what your country's becoming. Which would be fine, but trying to make it be about other countries rather than facing up to it, that just makes you part of the embarrassing state your country is in.

And yeah incumbents losing is a well known thing... here's a link to the first article on the results from a simple search: https://abcnews.go.com/538/democrats-incumbent-parties-lost-elections-world/story?id=115972068

Also here in Canada, the Conservative poll numbers are dropping like a rock. The Conservative are now running a ridiculous number of adds to try to claim Carney is the same as Trudeau because they got nothing other than the incumbent disadvantage that's become the global norm. The US idiocy is serving as a cautionary tale and making people turn away from anything resemblance of it.

Sure but with Wordpad I wouldn't much care if they spam it up with this kind of crap. It's something that doesn't have much use now, because there's notepad for basic text files and Word or Libre Office for actual word processing. So if someone wanted something to type up some notes that get automatic backups, and have AI recommendations (not that it would be me, but who knows?) just put it on there so we still have a simple text editor that's installed by default.

If they're going to enshittify something at least don't enshittify the basic tools of the OS.

In the Thunderbolts Trailer, it shows US Agent (who has a costume similar to Captain America) using a round shield to block gunfire. If that trailer played before the movie he was watching, it's understandable someone that didn't watch Falcon and Winter Soldier would think "oh that guy is Captain America now, I guess? Thought Sam Wilson was going to be Captain America... but ok, I guess." Then the move starts and it actually is Sam Wilson as Captain America.

This is the problem with there being so many entries into the franchise and filmmakers assuming everyone has watched them all. Most people aren't going to know who US Agent is and from the Thunderbolts trailer, they might assume it's a new Captain America.

Hmmm... I'm good at writing regexes that look like they'll work but don't. But there's a website that I can use to make a few adjustments to them and get them working. I suddenly forgot the URL... regex100.com or something like that? Oh well it looks like it'll work, so it's probably good enough...

The cope is strong with this one. "There's other people being dumb too!"

Yup, and the source of this is disinformation from adversaries like Russia, China, and Iran being laundered through US social media companies to made to appear legitimate. Well I guess TikTok isn't American (yet) so I guess China somehow got into the game of laundering disinformation too.

And the trend is actually incumbents losing power, not necessarily a right wing shift. You see the disinformation can be a blunt tool so it just results in people hating their own governments. The UK had an election where the Conservative party lost... as they were the incumbent.

But nowhere has the government been turned over to greedy businessmen to the degree the US has been. Argentina has their President briefly promoting a memecoin, sure, but he may face a lot of repercussions for doing that. Fun Fact: the Argentinian memecoin was launched by the same people that launched $MELANIA, and no one in the US cares about it nor do they care about the $TRUMP memecoin. It's open season for grifting Americans, because it's the gritters that are now in charge of everything in the US.

But go on making excuses for why it's all ok. I'm sure that will result in fixing the problems in your country.

Well Palestinians were involved with negotiating the Oslo accords, and that gave rise to Hamas anyway. Palestine is a fascist society and as you say there isn't much point in having an agreement with fascists unless there's some kind of military force to ensure they follow it. At this point Palestine is just a proxy in Iran's "Axis of Resistance" and it doesn't seem like Iranians much care how many Arabs die so long as it hurts their enemies. It makes sense for Arab countries to work together with Israel against their common adversary of Iran. Trying to keep normalized relations between Iran's adversaries as some kind of motivator in a vain hope that Iran's proxies will suddenly make a peace agreement separate from the country that's funding them is a little naive.

With Ukraine it's the opposite way. It's Russia that's the fascist society and yeah, there needs to be military guarantees that they won't do as Hamas does and just build up their forces and strike when it suits them while ignoring any agreement made.

It's so stupid that they're making these additions to notepad. There is a need to have a basic text editor on an OS that isn't going to try to "help" by giving recommendations, automatically backs up files or whatever other shit they're trying to jam into it.

They had wordpad and if they wanted to add additional features into that, that's completely fine. There are use cases for something that does a bit more than a simple text editor like notepad can do.

My guess is that they tracked that people used notepad more often than wordpad so they removed wordpad. Then started making notepad more like wordpad without considering why people used notepad more frequently.

Well it's hard to know for sure when trying to figure out the motivation of a crazy person, but it's probably a combo of wanting to change things on maps, thinking tariffs are a good replacement for having any kind of taxes on the wealthy, wanting Canadian resources for free, not understanding what a trade deficit is, and of course being obsessed with money. Also he probably has a grudge against Canada because Trudeau made fun of him and he's a small and petty man that's been given power.

There's also wanting to emulate his buddies Putin and Xi.

That would be stupid. When Italians were conscripted to fight against British soldiers in Africa, most of them didn't even like Mussolini. So what did they do? The surrendered and sat the rest of the war out.

That wouldn't have happened if the allies had a policy of mutilating their prisoners.

Fascism is a hate movement, and hatred is self-destructive. You can't defeat an enemy with hatred you'll only destroy yourself.

Offer an out for those that want to sit it out. Those that won't, are targets that need to be eliminated. Not a target of your fucked up torture fantasies.