herrcaptain @ herrcaptain @lemmy.ca

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With our current handling of the planet, probably not much.

Yeah, it's a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine.

Hey now, AI transformed him into a tool who goes onstage to talk about AI. That's transformative.

Don't worry - there's a documentary about when this happened last time. We can fix it again.

The Core

But if all dogs are as big as dinosaurs, then Clifford is no longer special. He's no longer Clifford the Big Red Dog. He's then just Clifford the Normal Sized Red Dog. I just don't think he'd be as big of a deal in that universe.

I guess he's still got the red thing going for him?

Suuuuure, just a quick little adjustment. Nothing more. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I can't read any of the text, but the one on the left has the vibe of something that would get someone investigated for posting on the War Thunder forums to win an argument.

I'd go as far as to argue that running a nation has almost nothing in common with running a business.

A business literally exists to make a profit for its shareholders. The owners can try to do good things like pay high wages or give back to their community, but at the end of the day their goal is to make more money than they spend.

A government, on the other hand, should exist to protect and provide opportunities for its citizens to thrive. Generating a profit is largely at odds with that goal. People should have the same access to opportunities regardless of where in the country they live, and that's going to sometimes mean that functions of the government are never profitable. That should be seen as okay, but people have been brainwashed to think that taxes are inherently bad, and that businesses are somehow naturally more efficient. I can say, as someone who has worked in business all his life, that that last bit is particularly a giant crock of shit. Businesses are no more naturally streamlined than any other organization. Hell, I'm currently personally leading a task force at my work to try to reduce all the egregious inefficiencies I've uncovered when trying to figure out why we're not making nearly as much money as we should be.

The point is, providing government services doesn't need to be "efficient". If you can make that happen and save the taxpayers money, that's great and you should do it. If that means letting any member of your society slip through the cracks, then efficiency be damned. The government shouldn't be in the business of making money.

And, no, privatizing "inefficient" government services is never the answer. All you're doing there is introducing new inefficiencies - the need for the business entity to make a profit, and the corners they'll inevitably cut to make that happen.

Anyway, I hope I don't come across as jumping on your comment. It sounds like I agree with you - just wanted to tack on this wall of thoughts.

God, this is so infuriatingly true. A few months ago I searched for info on types of spiders in my province, because I wanted to learn more about my many housemates. All of the top links were SEO blog spam that were clearly duplicate pages rebranded for different keywords (something that Google's algorithm used to penalize but apparently no longer gives a shit about). I know this because, no, black widows are not fucking native to Manitoba, Canada.

Not to mention that goddamn annoying way of writing that SEO blog spam uses where they are so obviously reaching for long tail keywords. My job used to involve some of this stuff back when the search engines pretended to care about good content - when you were at least nominally rewarded with page rank for content that read like it was written by a person with a soul. Now it's just a wasteland of mechanical prose. There's still good stuff being said out there, but good like finding it with a search engine.

Absolute poetry:

I know you want to be the next Steve Jobs, and this requires you to get on stages and talk about your innovative prowess, but none of this will allow you to pull off a turtle neck, and even if it did, you would need to replace your sweaters with fullplate to survive my onslaught.

Yup, but politicians are always trying to play the game. They probably have some internal metric causing them to believe that making a show of looking into this might win them a few voters while retaining their base. Maybe they're right, but I still don't like it. Either way they'll have my vote as they're the only non-Conservative party with even a remote possibility of winning my riding. (Plus I've sworn off the Liberals for a good while after their broken promise on electoral reform.)

Yeah, I'm sure I'll eventually get over my disappointment at what the showrunners did to the original and will be in the right headspace to watch other GoT content, but not yet. I still can't believe what they did to that formerly-beloved show. 😉

Anyway, I just saw your other comment. I'll subscribe right away and will start the new season this week a so as to contribute to the discussion. Thanks for doing that!

Well if you do start one for The Boys I'll prioritize watching the new season asap so I can contribute to the discussions. It looks like it's already started last week, actually.

As for HotD, I can't help ya there. After the last couple seasons of GoT I lost interest in that world. A shame, as I loved it while they still had books to follow.

It's really not possible unless Lemmy gets a much larger community, but the thing I miss most about Reddit are episode discussions for TV shows. For almost any show, I could be pretty confident that I'd be able to find a post-watch episode discussion. Those are great for seeing how people felt about the episode or to learn things I may have overlooked.

I actually very recently tried it. I'm sure it's great but something about the UI or maybe general paradigm switch versus apps like Notion really confused me. It looks great though, so I'm sure I'll give it another go sometime when I have a bit more time to really learn it. Nonetheless, I appreciate the recommendation!

The legislation doesn't specify how websites should verify a user's age, but options include establishing a digital ID system or services that can estimate an individual's age based on a visual scan of their face.

Yeah, that's a greeeeat idea. People will obviously be totally on board with their computer taking their picture while they're gearing up to do that.

Regardless, all laws like this do are sell VPN subscriptions or push people to the real shady sites. As a consistent NDP voter (not that my vote matters in my Conservative riding) I sincerely hope they're making a show of reviewing this bill before dismissing it. We saw what happens when the NDP tries to move right of the Liberals under Mulcair - it's a bad move.

Buddy, it's a sand crawler - there's plenty of room to live in it. Just park it outside. Zero commute.

#hermitcrablife

Anyone got the source on this? I've seen it before and love it, so I'd like to check out the author's other stuff.

I see some signatures in the panels but there's too much jpeg to read them.

Oh, I didn't realize it was Make Insane Proclamations Day. In that case, I could become the richest person in the world if everyone else would just give me $1000.

Using the hotline won't get you fired, but somehow - for totally unrelated reasons - after using it you'll end up on a PIP with untenable goals, and that will get you fired.