ThePowerOfGeek @ ThePowerOfGeek @lemmy.world

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Yeah... A 'slip up'. Suuuuure.

Wouldn't be the first time, won't be the last.

Talk is usually cheap. But to his followers it's all that matters.

I've tried to get away from WhatsApp. I've got the majority of my friends off it (at least when they communicated with me). But some people just will not leave due to familiarity/fear of change. I'm still working on them, but I'm pretty sure it's a lost cause.

You can only go so far. And cutting people off because they won't move away from something like WhatsApp isn't always feasible.

But I agree with you: I don't understand why people still use those platforms. I think it's because they don't keep up on things, or just don't care.

Wow. Finally this administration does something that seems like a good idea.

Nobody tell them they will be following the EU's lead by doing this.

And the globe Earth and the moon landing conspiracies! What about that whole pizzaria blood drinking thing too! Piss all the tax payer money down the drain on stupid shit!

DOGE could report it as money saved and then abruptly remove those line items from their website list.

I've met Mormons who don't consider Catholics to be Christian, which is pretty fucking hilarious.

ETA: Speaking of Catholics who try to cozy up to the right-wing evangelical Protestant movement because they have common causes but don't realize they are being used... The Mormons are even further up the enemies list of the right-wing Protestants than the Catholics. And they too don't seem to be aware of this. Basically if the likes of MTG get their wish to crush gays, trans, feminists, atheists, and liberals under their boot heels, they will turn on themselves. Starting with the non-Christian religions, then the JWs, then the Mormons, then the Catholics. They will go with the lowest hanging fruit.

Is he past the 1 Scaramuchi mark yet?

Link to the list from April 18th here.

Must have been that greasy Samsquatch!

Not if you're willing and able to pay an arbitrary $30 a month extra. That lifts the oh-so essential data cap. Yeah... fuck Comcast, or whatever they are calling themselves this month.

"Rules for thee but not for me!"

Yeah they have a really fucked-up way of looking at autism. There are tons of autistic people out there living great lives and contributing a hell of a lot more to society than many of these antivax ghouls.

I doubt there will be any consequences. Pretty sure that was one of the incentives for their $1m donation to Trump's inauguration fund.

This 100%. More diagnoses doesn't necessarily mean an increase due to some nefarious cause - no matter how much the antivax loonies want that to be true.

MN is another victim of the lunacy inflicted on America by the swathe of red (mostly) welfare states.

Man, that's a blast from the past! I had completely forgotten about that until I saw this post!

I wouldn't say I 'stole' them necessarily. But me and my buddies did used to take them out and hide them near the desks as a prank.

Some thoughts, as someone who has used ancestry.com in the past:

• Do NOT submit your DNA to them! If all your family wants is to trace your family back for several generations, in most cases you can do that with old-school research. Not providing DNA doesn't usually prohibit that. And as others have said, these companies are not trustworthy when it comes to being keepers of genetic information.
• You are right, the free trial on ancestry.com is a hook in to get your subscription, with the hope on their end that you will forget about it and and up paying for months on end while not using their services. It's basically like a gym membership, but for history information.
• That said, it's not that difficult to cancel an ancestry.com subscription. They make you jump through several screens and try to persuade your to keep it going, but it's not insurmountable, and I've cancelled and renewed and then cancelled my subscription with them a few times.
• They do have an exceptional amount of genealogical information on hand, at least for Western researchers. I've found some surprising things about my ancestors on there that I couldn't find elsewhere.
• For libraries and subscription level, it depends on what your needs are. They bundle them into subscription packages. If you think your ancestors have been in America for several generations I would just go with the cheaper American subscription. If you have ancestors who came from Europe a few generations back then you might want to go with a broader subscription plan that covers European sources. If you want to trace ancestors back from Africa or Asia you are going to be SOL regardless, because genealogy sources from those areas are usually very bad.
• One thing to note, in case this is a problem for you: ancestry.com at least used to be owned by or managed by the LDS church (the Mormons). And they have a pretty sordid history when it comes to the exploitation of women and girls, and (like quite a few other religions) have done and continue to do some very sketchy stuff in general.

Hope this helps.

I mean, they shouldn't be buying Boeing jets in general, just from a safety perspective. The tariffs might actually save China some air accidents.

That cartoon depiction looks nothing like Melania Trump.

I've found the same thing.

Whenever I ask an LLM for a pointer, I end up spending just as long (if not longer) refining the question than just figuring it out myself it's doing a search on SO it in other online resources.

But even the IDE integration is getting annoying. I write a class with some functionality baked in, and the whole time it's promoting me with a shit load of irrelevant suggested code. I get the class done, then I go to spin up a unit test. It knows which class I'm trying to create a unit test for, which is cool. But then the suggested code is usually completely wrong or it's much more convoluted than it needs to be. In the latter case, the first several characters of the suggested code is good, but then there's several lines after it of shite. And hitting tab injects all of it in, which then requires me to delete it all. So almost every time I end up hitting escape anyway.

I've heard a few people rave about 'vibe coding' - usually people with no or little programming experience. I have to assume that generated code was either for very simple atomic actions and/or it's spaghettified, inefficient garbage.