AbsentBird @ absentbird @lemm.ee

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The attack point has to be something that both sides of the political spectrum finds repulsive. If only right wingers have a problem it makes the lefties look like hypocrites, and if it's something only people on the left care about it's ineffective.

Eyeliner and weak chins/beards aren't things people on the left tend to take issue with, while white nationalism and misogyny aren't things people on the right take issue with.

The military thing could work, but it's not punchy enough, it's too specific and not very funny. The couch fucker jokes are easy laughs.

I think part of it is about making him into a joke to prevent him from gaining the cult following necessary to be another trump. I don't think trump supporters would care about the valid criticisms, but the idea he has sex with couches is provocative and humorous, and seems to have become one of the only things a lot of people know about him.

Our swearing system in modern English revolves around sex, violence and infidelity, but our society is also kinda into those things. Societies are complicated.

Edit: also sometimes people still say shit about bottoms when they curse.

Since studying machine learning I've become a lot less opposed to AI as a concept and specifically opposed to corporate/cloud LLMs.

Like a simple on-device model that helps turn speech to text isn't something to be opposed, it's great for privacy and accessibility. Same for the models used by hospitals for assistive analysis of medical imaging, or to remove background noise from voice calls.

People don't seem to think of that as 'AI' anymore though, it's like these big corporations have colonized the term for their buggy wasteful products. Maybe we need new terminology.

I use my GPU mostly for gaming and computer science. I will say that ROCm from AMD is seriously giving Cuda a run for its money, and it's fully open source. AMD cards also tend to be better per dollar.

Same, I've been using Debian only for the last 15 or so years. I love the stability, and the old software isn't hard to work around when newer versions are needed.

I hate the lack of support from Nvidia. I prefer AMD cards though, and they give zero trouble.

Thank you for that, seriously.

Your external pressure helps encourage more people to rise up. I've seen a ton of Canadian flags at the 50501 protests. We stand in solidarity against this madness.

The glass is also weirdly large considering it looks like it should be at roughly the same distance as the people.

And El Salvador

Under Bukele’s crackdown, the government has been undercounting homicides by as much as 47 percent. This is no bureaucratic or clerical error. Since taking office, Bukele’s administration has been laser-focused on reducing homicide rates and improving perceptions of security.

It's more like 6ml (264172/166100000 gallons), and considering the average man produces between 800 and 2000ml per day, that's like a 0.5% spill rate.

Also it says nothing about the rate being evenly distributed over the days, it could be that the average guy spills a fraction of a liter in one slip up every couple weeks, not 6ml every single day. Plus the young and elderly likely throw off those averages.

Lastly, your assumption that most drops go on the pants ignores the whole point of the new design this article is about: the splashback. They claim most of the urine that misses a urinal splashes out in microdroplets.

Not having a penis: the perfect counter to the fidgit spinner trap

This one is particularly hard to look at too. The inconsistent style, the perspective problems, the weird postures, the unnatural motion, Gate's weird three fingered hand.

You could make a better version of the same thing with Gimp.

I doubt you'd be happy with that long term. I had a friend who did that and it burned him out hard, working long hours for a family he hardly had time with. But maybe you're exceptional.

Regardless, it's not easy to find a job like that in this economy.

Yeah, it's the same price. Right now if you want BOTW on the Switch it costs $60 for the game and $20 for the DLC. On the Switch 2 it will be $70 for the game and $20 for the DLC. If you already own the game on the Switch it's $10 to upgrade (or free with NSO). Basically they're just charging an optional $10 for the enhanced graphics. You can still play the original version on the Switch 2 at no extra cost.

It was a tourist flight to see the city, they cost like $200. This isn't some sort of billionaire with a private helicopter, it was a family on vacation. Are the kids better off dead too? Wtf.

Siemens also makes high speed electric trains and some of the most reliable car chargers.

Getting mad at a company that automates away meneal jobs because capitalism forces people to depend on doing shit work for the rich in order to eat is kinda short sighted imo.

Like yeah, if everything had to be done by hand it would put more money into the hands of the working class, but it would also make it harder for them to afford a decent lifestyle because everything would be more expensive; automation offers the potential for everyone to live better, we're just using it in a system that privatizes the gains into a small pool of wealthy owners.

I was going to say "Copyright is theft" but I see that's basically OPs take, so I'll settle for 'same'.

I guess if you're just looking at one side. To me a close relationship requires mutual commitment, like we used to have with Canada. Our appeasement of Russia isn't closeness, it's obsequiousness.

Our era of close ties with Russia has been over for a damn hot minute. Trump thinks he's friends with Putin, but Putin just wants to cripple the US.