dirthawker0 @ dirthawker0 @lemmy.world

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Robocalling isn't inherently bad. Utilities and such institutions that have your membership (library, gym, health care etc) should be welcome to use robocalling to notify you of useful info like emergencies or changes to their schedules. It's just the political ads, scams, and sales that need to be made illegal and punishable.

The other aspect I believe plays into this is insecurity. They can't accept brown & black people being equal, or LGBTQs being just as human as they. They can't accept that some people don't believe in the same God they do, or have the self confidence not to believe in any god at all. They are frightened by people making choices different from those they would make because it might mean their own choices are wrong. And they react by lashing out, trying to put "those people" back in the closet or into second class citizenship or labeling them as baby killers. They don't have the self confidence to let others have the freedom to make their own decisions, run their own lives.

As in they all had to be euthanized in a very short amount of time, or something like that?

It's far too vague to be reliable. You notice how easily the facial construction became termed a "photo" as in "We have a photo of the suspect." DNA is not going to have info on hair length, facial hair, if the suspect dyed their hair, or weight.

Considering the overload of articles about how Biden is too old, they ought to, if they want to be (unironically) fair and balanced.

Some guy in the UK was allegedly convinced by his chatbot girlfriend to assassinate Queen Elizabeth. He just got sentenced a few months ago. Of course he's been determined to be psychotic, but I could imagine people who would qualify as sane getting too deep and reading too much into what an AI is saying.

I've played with Bard a little, asking it for details in public-domain novels I've read, and 3/4 of the time it is just making shit up. But it's great at solving quadratic equations.

SEO, people trying to game SEO in a hundred different ways, and garbage scammy websites with no clear purpose have pretty much ruined search results. I remember the ancient days of Google when search brought you maybe 3 or 4 pages of results. This is why AI has become necessary, to winnow through the garbage and give you direct, and hopefully correct, answers.

I really prefer self-checkout too. There was an initial year or two when the machines were kinda buggy and did that "unexpected item in bagging area" a lot, but you work around it: just never put your shopping bag on the scale. I scan fast and efficiently, and start bagging my stuff while the payment card is doing its thing. And when I bag my own stuff I can be sure the bread is going to be on top.

The only things I run into trouble with these days: 1. when the backend database doesn't have the right info, like some produce type is entirely missing, or the only option is for organic(=more $ and you know darn well you're not going to select that one). 2. Some stores don't use the barcode on the fruit labels, and you scan the label by accident or out of habit because the other store does use those barcodes. Both situations need a clerk to clear them, and that's 90% of the delay.

I wish I knew why Target is limiting to 10 items. It's pretty annoying. I suspect that theft is what's driving retailers away from it, rather than customers hating it.

buggier than an ActiveX plugin running on IE5

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Well, everyone is in a hurry sometimes; sometimes you suddenly realize you need a certain piece of clothing clean asap. I could see a notification being useful to busy parents with teenagers with a lot of laundry to be done. I've heard of families that do multiple loads every day.

Those divisions already exist. Back in 2007 I met a guy who belonged to some Christian sect and he didn't consider Catholics to be Christian, which blew my mind since Catholics were there first. Even back in the 60s Kennedy broke the mold of those who said the US would never have a Catholic president.

My washer has WiFi but I'm sure as hell not turning it on. It tells me how long the cycle will be a few minutes after it starts and I'll just set a timer on my phone - though most of the time I don't bother because I never have so many loads that time is important.

That'd be нет

You really have to google your disposal service. It is by no means uniform across the country or even your state, but rather it depends on what kind of facilities your local disposal service has. For instance I moved from one county to another, and discovered I was not allowed to put paper milk cartons in the recycle bin. County A's disposal company could recycle them, county B's couldn't.

I don't think they realize they need to consider if they prefer clicks over a free press.

we’re going to prove this one day

In other words after all this time and your people swearing up and down they've seen proof, the pillow guy trying to present garbage as proof, it is still not proven and you actually have nothing, not one piece of concrete evidence.

Oh really? So why hasn't God smote the Democrats already? Why is retribution always an in-the-future threat?

Part of the problem is that you can have a state consisting of 300 neckbeards and it will still have Senators and a Representative in Congress, and thus voting power on legislation. I don't blame people for fleeing, but staying and making states blue will have a bigger effect on change.

Every night ! I listen to a sleep podcast. I recently changed to a phone without a 3.5mm jack and was kinda scrambling to figure out an alternative. I had a splitter for power and headphones, but it didn't work the way I thought it should: I was used to unplugging the headphones from the phone and that would automatically pause the audio, and plugging in would resume. For some reason (perhaps cheapness) the splitter reported the headphones as present whether or not headphones were actually connected. I ended up getting a BT dongle which has a pause button and I can just take it with when I step away from the phone.