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I have ad blockers on, so I wouldn't know if it was. The same user also submitted a similar article on the same domain that looks like it's been mangled by an LLM that's a copy of a real article, like this submission. My guess that I put in a comment there was that maybe the aim is to get a bunch of links on link aggregators to the domain to boost its ranking, that the aim is maybe not spamming us but trying to exploit our reputability to spam search engine users down the line. Otherwise, why not have a "news-sounding" domain? Like, this is a domain name you'd choose if you were trying to spam people trying to buy something.
I think that this is some kind of badly AI-processed article, same as another article on the same site that the same user just also submitted:
https://lemmy.world/post/31432127
This appears to be the original article being copied here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2lk55l9wpgo
The submitting user account is a day old.
I'm wondering if the aim might be some kind of SEO spam targeting search engines, getting link aggregators linking to the site a lot of times to boost the domain's ranking.
It's used through the whole article, not a one-off typo.
This appears to be the original BBC article that is being copied:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7808xvv737o
I can only imagine that it's some kind of AI summarizer gone badly wrong. Or maybe the thing got passed through an automatic translator to another language and then back.
The text reads like a kind of mangled version of the original.
In particular, they can't target the plant in Fordow.
I dunno. This came up some time back when I was talking about whether deeper-penetrating bombs were necessary. Current guided bombs can be pretty accurate. I'm not sure that just dropping multiple bombs in the same spot wouldn't work.
kagis
Not just me either:
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/14/iran-nuclear-facilities-fordow-israel-strike
Some experts think Israel could try to replicate the effect of a massive bunker buster by repeatedly bombing the same location.
"Findmystore.one"?
I get the profiling concern, but if someone's that worried about a post being linked to them, they should use a throwaway anyway. I'm sure that someone out there is archiving everything posted anyway, and if they don't, it'll be tied to them there.
I mean, if they fine the kid, realistically the parent is probably paying it anyway.
it's insane that a unit can be a measurement of mass in one case and a measurement of purity in another
The pound is a unit of mass, of force, and of currency.
GNU cat
You mean GNU cat?
I have a tiny, bladeless (so okay with TSA for flying) "pliers"-style multitool that fits on my keychain. I don't think that the manufacturer makes it any more. Searching for "keychain multitool" will turn up various designs on Amazon.
I also have a separate tiny folding knife --- I think a Spyderco Bug, though any tiny knife is gonna be equivalent, and I'm sure that there are more-reasonably-priced tiny knives out there --- that fits on my keychain that I take off when I fly.
For infrequently-used tools, those are large enough to be fine for most things, and it's less of a pain for me to haul around than a full-sized multitool or knife (which I have, in the past, carried).
I don't know if I'd say that it's a game-changer for me, but it is convenient to always have said tools at hand.
Could be following British convention.
https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/british-versus-american-style.html
American style uses double quotes (â) for initial quotations, then single quotes (â) for quotations within the initial quotation.
British style uses single quotes (â) for initial quotations, then double quotes (â) for quotations within the initial quotation.
EDIT: Though if so, he's not doing so later in the article.
Sharing is okay too.
Many of us want to disconnect, but we canât do so alone â not without losing touch with the world around us. Disconnection, today, carries real social and economic costs. Until such time as smartphones and social media can be democratically governed or nationalized â liberated from the imperative to profit off our attention indefinitely â a ban may be the most realistic path to reclaiming our lives.
If the author can't stop using whatever website he's upset about without requiring everyone else to have their smartphones banned, that sounds like a him problem.
Iran's supplied Russia with weapons to use against Ukraine, was caught trying to assassinate Trump, supplied weapons to the Houthis to use against merchant shipping and our warships, and that's before you get to the nuclear weapons issue. Not only do I not expect us to discourage Israel from bombing Iran, but I wouldn't be terribly surprised if we wind up bombing Iran ourselves.
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/30/trump-iran-nuclear-deal-bombing
"If they don't make a deal there will be bombing. It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before," Trump told NBC News' Kristen Welker during a phone interview.
Trump gave Iran a two-month deadline to sign a new nuclear deal or face potential military action in his letter, sent three weeks ago, Axios previously reported.
In recent days, the U.S. military sent several B-2 stealth bombers to the Diego Garcia military base in the Indian Ocean in a deployment a U.S. official said was "not disconnected" from Trump's two-month deadline.
The B-2 bombers can carry huge bunker buster bombs that would be a key element in any possible military action against Iran's underground nuclear facilities.
âTrump Memes are intended to function as an expression of support for, and engagement with, the ideals and beliefs embodied by the symbol â$TRUMPâ and the associated artwork,â warned the GetTrumpMemes.com website. It further stated that the tokens âare not intended to be, or to be the subject of, an investment opportunity, investment contract, or security of any type.â
In short, CIC Digital and Fight Fight Fight bear no legal responsibility for any investor losses.
$TRUMP was explicitly marketed as a proxy for Trumpâs influence, power, resilience, and success. This is how President-elect Trump promoted it on January 17, the day before the meme coin launched: âMy NEW Official Trump Meme is HERE!â he posted on X (formerly Twitter). âItâs time to celebrate everything we stand for: WINNING! Join my very special Trump Community.âÂ
Uh huh.
Weâre gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning. And youâll say, âPlease, please. Itâs too much winning. We canât take it anymore, Mr. President, itâs too much.â And Iâll say, âNo it isnât. We have to keep winning. We have to win more!
--- Donald Trump
I wonder whether people holding that asset have gotten to the "tired of winning" point yet.
EDIT: Oh, sorry, you were referring to Melania's memecoin, rather than Donald's. Same idea, though...
He's got that prosperity gospel woman on staff, Paula White.
Televangelist Paula White told members of the congregation at King Jesus Ministry's Supernatural Ministry School last Friday in Miami that she was able to rise from "trailer trash" to a job in Trump's White House because "God kept opening doors" for her. But according to Mother Jones, White said much of her transformation was owed to tithe-paying churchgoers and TV viewers who put God before their own financial needs. White cautioned congregants not to pay their one-tenth income tithes to their church with "leftovers" from what they didn't have to spend on mortgages, electricity and other mundane bills.
"So let's just say I get paid $1,000 and I pay my mortgage first or I pay, what's the electric company here? FPL. I pay FPL first instead of bringing the first tenth to the house of God every week, which clearly is instructed throughout the word of God," White said last week, referring to the Florida Power & Light Company.
"Then what I'm saying is, 'FPL I just made you chief. I just made you fundamental. I just made you the basis to support all structure. So FPL, heal my child. Find my children that are lost. FPL, open the door for me to get a promotion. FPL, I serve you. I honor you to redeem off of me the curse that is upon all mankind. Because you have just made FPL the first - because you gave the first $100 to pay your electric bill."
I mean, there are people who have dumped their life savings into Trump's stock or memecoins, but I still feel like White is probably extracting more from her crowd as an average percentage basis of their income.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday temporarily blocked a federal judgeâs order that directed President Donald Trump to return control of National Guard troops to California after he deployed them there following protests in Los Angeles over immigration raids.
The court said it would hold a hearing on the matter on Tuesday. The ruling came only hours after a federal judgeâs order was to take effect at noon Friday.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/12/los-angeles-national-guard-troops-marines-morale
At the largest demonstration since Trump first intervened, last Sunday, the national guard was hemmed into a staging area by Los Angeles police cruisers and played almost no role in crowd control. Since then, its service members have been deployed to guard buildings and federal law enforcement convoys conducting immigration sweeps. The marines, who arrived on Wednesday, are expected to play a similar function, with no powers of arrest.
Somewhere, there are a bunch of California National Guardsmen sleeping on the floor of a warehouse and checking their phones to see what's going on, who are probably pretty tired of being used as pawns for political theater and just want to go home.
Sure. For "Landless2029", using a couple models I have on my machine:
Using flux1-dev-fp8:
Using stoiqNewrealityFLUXSD35_f1DAlphaTwo:
Using pixelwave_flux1Dev03:
Looks like the "land" aspect kinda dominates.
You can also use the bot that db0 set up if you want to generate your own: just comment and include the text:
@aihorde@lemmy.dbzer0.com draw for me Landless2090
(Or whatever other text you want, like "avatar for Landless2090" or whatnot) and it'll generate the images and respond with them.
I don't think I've ever seen my grandparents angry in my life.
EDIT: Honestly, my in-person experience with people who are like...70+ is that they've been pretty mellow. Maybe they go off and rage in private or something, but hasn't been where I see it.