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  • You don't. You're asking how to do free labor for a multitrillion-dollar company. Google chooses to be lax enough to constantly let this garbage through in their ads etc. and makes gargantuan profits from it; they brought this on themselves and don't deserve a bailout. Migrate to a platform that hasn't enshittified like Google has if you're still using them (I know that won't let you escape websites they host), tell your friends and family about it, and let Google wallow in the shithole they've created for themselves.

  • Of some note is that the market was only allowed to tumble for two of those five days following the announcement of the tariffs. That almost assuredly makes a difference here.

  • This exactly. You need a reliable source of fuel for the baseline, which is where nuclear energy can supplant fossil fuels instead of or in addition to relying on batteries.

  • Huh? Modern nuclear power plants automatically stop the reaction. In addition to other safety features monitoring things like temperature, radiation, etc. for automatic shutoff, the rods are held in place via electromagnetism. In the event of a power loss, the reaction will stop because the rods fall out of place. (This may just be one type; other modern reactors have ways of automatically stopping the reaction in the event of a power loss.)

  • I hope this pressure leads to just getting rid of algorithms altogether.

    And other things spoken by someone who never learned what an algorithm is.

  • Scratch a neoliberal...

    In all seriousness, capitalism is exactly why we're here right now. (That said, technocrit is an idiot with some of the dumbest takes on this site. They blanket basically everything as fascist/fascism-adjacent, and I'm not going to say The Economist promoted this, because they didn't.)

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  • Not only that, but we make it goddamn trivial for not just Wikipedia but for other Wikimedia projects. Doing this is just stealing without attribution and share-alike like the CC BY-SA 4.0 license demands and then on top of that kicking down the ladder for people who actually want to use Wikimedia and not the hallucinatory slop they're trying to supplant it with. LLM companies have caused incalculable damage to critical thinking, the open web, the copyleft movement, and the climate.

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  • Lmao what? The Nazi Party publicly and loudly identified with religion and persecuted and purged the Jews who had been treated awfully by Christians in Europe for centuries. Sure Hitler wanted to see the end of Christianity, but he was quite religious himself per the Goebbels Diaries: "The Führer is deeply religious, though completely anti-Christian. He views Christianity as a symptom of decay. Rightly so. It is a branch of the Jewish race. This can be seen in the similarity of their religious rites. Both (Judaism and Christianity) have no point of contact to the animal element, and thus, in the end they will be destroyed." So privately Hitler was religious, and publicly the Nazis were religious, and one of the most sickening, widespread, and prominent atrocities they committed was the persecution and genocide of a religious minority.

  • so you dont have to manually manage memory

    Not sure how this got upvoted with this glaring mistake. You have to manage memory. The point is that the compiler catches it if you make a memory management mistake, making things like data races, uses after frees, etc. literally impossible (short of intentionally using the unsafe tag).

  • I used to watch TYT in the early 2010s and typically liked what they did (edit: except for when I later found out Cenk denied the Armenian genocide). What's happened to them?

  • I don't actually watch wrestling, but I wanted to appeal to a specific audience instead of going for the easy Dateline NBC joke. (Here you go btw)

  • It's also just dumb that imagery taken from a street isn't doing anything privacy-invading or illegal yet they still feel the need to coddle paranoid NIMBYs. Street View can sometimes be useful for OSM, since you might've been there but forgotten to document something, are too far away, etc. Street View as a concept works to the public's benefit, although Google owning it and it being proprietary isn't good. I can see this removal feature being a good thing by probably one out of every thousand times it's actually used, namely in the case that you have some kind of stalker (even then, though, satellite view 99% of the time would give you a concerning amount of info compared to Street View).

  • Oh shit, the tone police are here. I'm not under the impression the person I'm responding to is going to change their behavior after this has already been widely talked about to death for years, and so I really don't care what tone I use. This person is helping make the lives of real, actual, perfectly innocent trans people (and especially the lives of trans women) hell because they a) don't care about those people or somehow more pathetically b) do care but can't restrain themselves from buying themselves a children's toy to that end.

  • Is someone upset they can't fork over more money to the rabidly transphobic piece of shit and the media conglomerate megacorp?

  • Duels? No clue, honestly. They definitely happened, but their frequency could definitely be overstated. As for meeting at noon? I think it sounds like the most reasonable time and would've been common if duels were common. This is pure, complete speculation on my part, so don't repeat it without doing your own research, but I think the existing facts support my conclusion:

    • Home clocks at the time were only seen among rich folks, often as a status symbol.
    • Even if you did have one of these, they often lost quite a few minutes per day.
    • Towns often had a clock for the church.
    • This clock would've been more accurate than a home clock.
    • This clock often rang at noon.
    • Noon is (approximately) pretty easily verifiable by the position of the Sun being the highest in the sky.
    • Noon means that neither party should have an advantage based on where the Sun is facing if you line up east–west.
    • Noon is around a time most people are most likely to be the most awake.