rbhfd @ rbhfd @lemmy.world

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They basically did this with Salazar, the Portugese dictator.

He was officially replaced while in a coma. He came out of it and lived for almost 2 years more. No one ever told him he was no longer in power.

When the call is coming from inside the (white) house...

(Edit: to be clear, back in 2020)

I chose to believe it's a but using Musk's LLM.

Which does make for a fun game:

Grok bot or Crack pot?

While I would agree under normal circumstances, that would just be abused in the current political atmosphere.

Republicans are now already trying to impeach Biden for some made up reason while knowing it will never stick in the senate. Can you imagine how much more effort they'd spent in it if it would prevent Biden from running for reelection.

Everything Trump has done should be enough to make him unelectable in the eyes of the voters, even if it doesn't legally prevent him from running.

The reason there is a difference in how much light is reflected, is because the moon is in a different position. During a new moon, it's on the day side of the earth (so in between the sun and the earth) while during a full moon, it's on the night side.

So there could theoretically be a gravitational effect, although I don't think it would impact anyone's sleep.

If anyone is noticing a difference in sleep quality, it's most likely indeed to do with the amount of light.

And miss out on stuff like this?!

Most played artist on Spotify and Time's person of the year 2023 vs... who? Someone whose name I recognise in the context of being a right-wing nut. Whether they're a politician, musician, actor, podcast host,... I wouldn't be able to say.

This is essentially a pro freedom of speech legislation.

It's not though. It doesn't just protect employers to call anyone whatever pronoun they want, it mandates that the preferred pronoun for trans people (and others) are not used.

It doesn't just protect bigotry, it requires it.

I'm as pragmatic as they get and always trying to understand why people vote the way they do. But if you're a "moderate republican" and think Trump is still better than Biden/Pelosi, you're out of touch with reality, brainwashed, or not as moderate as you think.

Is this Grok output?

bc they haven't had as terrible of a racist past as the US

You do know the Holocaust happened in Europe right?

Other than that, I do agree with you. Europe is still very racist but we like to think we're not. Just because it's less talked about, doesn't mean it's not there.

It's an easy rule, yes. It's also an easy one to overlook if you're not paying attention.

"Word je blij?", but also "wordt je moeder blij?".

It's not like people don't understand the rule. No native Dutch speaker would say "Loopt jij?"

I think the main errors happen with "voltooide deelwoorden" (past participle). Then you need mnemonic devices like "'t kofschip" to know whether it's t or d (or determine it using what you would say in the past time of the verb). It doesn't help that e.g., "gebeurt" and "gebeurd" both are correct depending on the tense used.

Also the fact that the t drops when the verb is inversed in the 2nd person singular present tense, and not e.g., past tense ("Je wordt" but "Word je") is a weird rule.

It's not thát complicated and if you pay attention, you should be able to get it all right. That's why I think such mistakes are more a sign of carelessness and not of stupidity.

Imagine being brainwashed bombarded on a daily basis with messages of how leftist will take over your country and how Trump will save them

No, it proves me right. People are still willing to pay for the service despite the price hike. So it must mean that people think this non-essential service, for which there are alternatives, is worth the money.

Unfortunately, this is users allowing for this kind of behaviour.

The original comment was that voting with your wallet doesn't work. I'm saying that it's a problem with enough people voting with their wallet. If you are the only person that cares about something and stop buying from a particular company, they will not even notice it.

On the other hand, look what happened when bud light had this thing with a trans influencer and conservatives got ridiculously upset with this, as they do. ABInbev is still feeling the effects of that.

1% might have 50% of the wealth, they do not account for 50% of the spending. Especially not at Taco Bell.

Pure capitalism is broken af, but companies like this will feel it if 10% of costumers stops going there. The increase in price can recover some of it, but only to a certain extent. It's a simple supply and demand issue.

That being said, I'm not from the US, so take my opinion on local issues with a grain of salth. And I definitely don't mean to imply that wealth inequality is not an issue. On the contrary.

Do you think farmers should not use any tractors and pick their crops using manual labour?

That would also create a lot of jobs.

Now I want to see a video game where every other NPC you talk to, complains about all the NPCs.

A big enough hit if 42% of Chrome users switch to a different browser.

However, I wouldn't be surprised to see that people with adblock are more likely to use something other than Chrome. And some people will stay with Chrome and deal with the lack of adblock.

You can also do that with Firefox on your computer.

It's not in settings, but you can easily google the instructions.