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At one point my dad got into the habit of sending me “interesting little facts” every morning via text. I think he had installed some interesting facts app and he was just forwarding them onto me.

The Apple summaries those were interesting. One of them got summarized as “there is a dead body in your house” and the interesting fact was " in England there are many lost graveyards, oftentimes during construction bodies will be uncovered and the police get called, only to find that it’s a medieval grave site".

It’s basically only like six people who are actually to blame. I don’t see why the rest of us need to be tared by the same brush.

I’ve never trained an AI on anything. I don’t know how to, or care to.

I always think this is funny because it reminds me of my grandfather’s diary. It mostly consists of various girl’s names and their address, then every now and then “get haircut”.

That’s not much of a whistleblower. Everyone already assumed that was the case I suppose it’s nice to have confirmation.

I imagine they went to the news trying to get this published and everyone was like, “well yeah”. That’s why the story is being broken by this absolute juggernaut of a media outlet

People keep saying that and although he’s abhorrent and probably a threat to democracy in the US I don’t think he’s going to start a war. He lacks a convenient victim that he can use to justify a war, and honestly I don’t think he’s smart enough to come up with one.

Anyway a war wouldn’t achieve anything for him other than getting a target on his back.

Right up until an EMP wipes out all our data. I still maintain that we should be storing all our data on vinyl, doing it physically is the only guarantee.

I don’t know that sounds like a reasonable size for the new GTA.

At least part of the problem for me is that the app I am using to access Lemmy isn’t really very good. I can block based on keywords in the title but not keywords in the post.

If I really wanted to I could probably find an app with better blocking abilities and try then to see if it’s possible to completely block out the US politics, but I’m not massively incentivized to do so. Not being American I don’t really get massively riled up about it, I get more upset about my own country’s politicians, which most Americans probably have never even heard of.

The greater problem is simply the fact that US content in general seems to get over emphasized in lieu of everything else. There’s a whole world of stuff going on out there and all we ever hear about is America. Even when the US has moderately sane leaders that is the case.

I really shouldn’t know who the congressman for Texas is, there’s no reason I should know that, yet I do. California catches fire, world news, massive flooding in Australia, barely mentioned.

It was such a weird argument to block it as well. The justification given was that they were concerned that they would be held legally responsible if users saw piracy content on their website.

It was such a bizarre argument. It seemed more like they had decided on personal grounds that they wanted to block it, and then tried to come up with some kind of external justification. It was the lack of intellectual honesty that pissed me off more than the fact that they’d done it.

I have blocked any mention of trump and musk, and yet I still know every single stupid thing they do. It’s impossible to avoid it.

They’re already are multiple alternatives to GPS. GPS is the American navigation system, but there’s also GNSS which is mostly used in Europe and Scandinavia. There are other systems for other parts of the world, even the North and South pole now.

Everyone just uses GPS universally though.

I seriously question the mental stability of Tesla shareholders. Why on Earth does that man still have a job?

I’m not even talking about this recent stuff, I’m talking about all the things he’s been doing for the last few years. It would get any normal person fired.

People always say things like that as if that some kind of argument in its favor.

Being stabbed is better than being shot, but I wouldn’t consider either them to be particularly good for your health.

What was the actual reason they gave when they blocked your account. Because I had one of my accounts banned, but not for any logical reason, and they just gave me a made-up reason of I was being aggressive (I wasn’t being aggressive I was just pointing out to someone that he was gatekeeping, which he was).

For contacts the guy was trying to suggest that the only people who should be allowed to be employed in the software development industry are people with a relevant university level qualification, which was obviously stupid because it would block pretty much all of the current tech billionaires from their own companies.

It’s a feature that can be turned on the confidential documents but I don’t think it’s actually on by default.

You can check for it anyway, just print a document then attempt to scan it, if it’s got the track marks it will refuse to scan because one of the things the track marks do is block scanning, although you can still take a photo of it because the camera probably won’t be able to see the track marks so it’s not 100% secure. In fact it’s largely considered an obsolete security method these days, along with pink flimsies.

I mean technically it’s not the company’s responsibility. If you’ve ordered something and they’ve sent it in a reasonable time frame and it just gets charged extra on entry. It’s not the company putting the price up, it’s your own government, so you don’t really have a recourse.

There’s only one thing businesses hate more than tariffs and that’s uncertainty. They would be happier with the tariffs being definite, than this maybe existing and maybe not existing on a almost daily basis.

Because even if he gets rid of the tariffs, he’ll try this again in a few weeks once he’s forgotten about all of the push back and has randomly decided that Canada is still shipping drugs into the US. Because fentanyl can’t be made in the US, everyone knows that.

How do they define “an item”, because couldn’t a bunch of people get together and order stuff from outside the US and then just have it all delivered in one big box? Are they going to open every box to make sure that there’s only one item in it, how do they know it’s not just one big item?

For example if I order one washing machine then that’s one item but if I order various parts for a washing machine then that’s lots of items, but technically the washing machine already contained those parts that were considered one item

Yeah but that’s the logic that the climate change denies also used.

“Global warming can’t be real, as it snowed yesterday”

Plus of course people are more likely to be trying to buy used cars (of any brand) or not buying any cars at all given the current economic situation. Which of course is also elon’s fault, at least partly.