ilinamorato @ ilinamorato @lemmy.world

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My parents are generally pretty good with tech. But where I end up pulling my hair out is when I look at my mom's notifications. She lets any app notify her, and she has lots of apps. The other day when I looked she had two different weather apps reporting the temperature as a non-dismissable notification, and neither one of them was right.

I honestly don't know how we're related.

The other thing is when my mom says "but you told me to use this!" I got her to switch to Chrome from Internet Explorer, a dozen years ago. Now when I want to switch her over to Firefox (not even Waterfox!) she says, "but you told me this was the one to use!" Yeah, it was, during the Obama Administration. Same story with LastPass and Bitwarden. Sometimes the best tool changes, mom.

Those are cool old buildings, I'd prefer not to see them destroyed...

Yeah, having grown up in a very deep-red area of a deep-red state, and the moving to a blue dot in that state, I have seen this in both majority and minority positions: and where it's the minority, I will say that the conservatives are much quieter about needing to "win." Maybe they're quietly seething, but they aren't shouting as often.

But there's something even more insidious that's cropped up more recently, which wasn't there when I was a kid: not only do "they" have to win, but someone else has to lose. It went from the assertion that the world was a zero-sum game to the almost-gleeful insistence that it be one. In your youth sports example, you can see it in the fact that they're still shouting at the refs even when their team is winning handily. "It's not just our right to win, but they have to lose and be stomped into the dirt." Basically, the bullies got older, were told that they were actually being bullied, and became MAGAs.

Almost all of the "classical" Republicans have already resigned. The best case scenario for the GOP at this point would be enough infighting due to purity tests that everyone who's left rips each other apart.

The Declaration would be one thing, but the real win would be getting him to read the Constitution.

It will have to get really bad before people actually say it out loud. There are probably already a significant number of people who are thinking it, but to actually admit they were wrong or shortsighted?

The American conservative machine is built on always doubling down, never admitting you're wrong, never conceding, and never expressing doubts. Admitting you're wrong is "losing." They might vote in accordance with the belief that they were wrong (though more likely they'll just stay home), but they won't say it out loud.

I mean, the only question at this point is really whether he was one before he ran the first time or if that happened later.

I'm aware of the feature, it's been around since before I left. I'm saying that it looks functionally like they coded it to be nothing more than a subreddit named for you, in which you're the only one allowed to post. They may have put some sort of flashy nonsense over the top of it, but that's pretty much what it is.

I hope you're right, at least to a point. Carter was following up the absolute disaster that was the Nixon administration by removing significant amounts of power from the executive, codifying norms that Nixon had flouted, and showing a conciliatory, less-combative presence on the world stage within a fairly flammable geopolitical context. All of that is exactly, to the letter, what we need from the 48th president.

Now, sure, Carter lost to Reagan. But I get the feeling that Walz wouldn't suffer such a fool.

I've been saying this for ages. Even as someone who's more-or-less against the current implementation of AI, I think people who truly believe in AI should be fighting the hardest against bad uses of it. It gives AI a worse black eye every time something like this happens.

And then because he said "nuclear" without "family," he goes off on nuclear missile silos for a while, before "nuclear missile" falls out of his context window as well, and he starts talking about grain silos and farmers. He's a walking frequency analysis.

This is actually a feature in Reddit for those unaware.

It looks to me like that's functionally just posting in a subreddit created with your name, in which you're the only one allowed to post. So creating a community on Lemmy with your name and you as the only authorized poster would serve the same function.

The best explanation I've heard is that Game Freak just flat out refuses to ever hire new people.

He's literally a Markov chain. The word he says next depends solely on the word that was just said. There's no context retained, no previous information referenced, and if he goes for too many tokens, the first ones start falling out of his head.

Yeah that outer edge is called the firmament.

I mean, it's not the worst name for the CMB.

Yeah sorry, this meme struck me as very steeped in current American politics (not sure if this same nonsense is happening elsewhere) so I didn't think about other constitutions.

Looks like "not exactly," but it's cool nonetheless:

https://davidbowles.medium.com/pre-invasion-nahuas-and-the-gulf-of-mexico-22f30c515724

He melted down in a deranged rant against the governor of Maine, too. The surest sign of weakness is a hairtrigger temper.

I'm pretty sure the science says it's more like 20-30. I know personally, if I try to work more than about 40-ish hours in a week, the time comes out of the following week without me even trying. A task that took two hours in a 45-hour "crunch" week will end up taking three when I don't have to crunch. And if I keep up the crunch for too long, I start making a lot of mistakes.

"We the people..."