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- Comment on X's controversial changes to blocking and AI training saw half a million users leave for rival Bluesky in just a single day 4 weeks ago:
By making it even worse?
- Comment on X's controversial changes to blocking and AI training saw half a million users leave for rival Bluesky in just a single day 4 weeks ago:
That’s how Facebook went for me the last time I tried to use it with a new account… I was immediately swamped with friend requests from people in eastern and central Africa. I accepted some out of curiosity so of course FB decided that’s what I was really into. I’m not sure if these people just send out random requests or why they want to add Americans… I didn’t get hit up for scams or anything, it was just people posting and sharing photos of their lives as normal FB users.
- Comment on had my first bottle explode. have you? 1 month ago:
I think I said the opposite of that? Tempered glass does just suddenly blow up sometimes.
Anyway, I was a glassblower for 15 years and yes, mechanical stress builds up in glass over time as it gets bumped, tapped or knocked around. Small scratches and nicks can significantly weaken older glass too.
- Comment on had my first bottle explode. have you? 1 month ago:
Mechanical stress builds up in glass over time, so like that stupid homemade submarine, it could have been weakened and finally just blew.
- Comment on So…. What’s the worst idea you went through with? 1 month ago:
I assumed this was V8. Well… nothing to report here.
- Comment on Musk’s plan to axe X's block button is a real win for stalkers and abusers. 1 month ago:
Before the musk acquisition I had something like 8,000 people blocked… mostly the inane shit like “Patriot Christina dog mom” or incredible soichebags like “dc_draino”.
- Comment on Nancy Pelosi's husband sold more than $500K in Visa stock ahead of DOJ action 1 month ago:
“Waahhh” huh? What a ridiculous reply.
Okay, how’s Tommy Tuberville? But who cares. I’m not visiting your “x” link but sources I’ve seen don’t even have pelosi in the top 10. Republicans are just obsessed with attacking her even now that she’s not Speaker. Talk about “waahhh”. That’s fine, if you want to engage in massive hypocrisy, wring your hands about imaginary problems and pretend everything bad is democrats, that’s very on brand for conservatives.
Anyway, yes, you should be concerned about ethical lapses of Congress members even if you don’t recognize their names.
- Comment on Nancy Pelosi's husband sold more than $500K in Visa stock ahead of DOJ action 1 month ago:
Republicans are obsessed with pelosi owning stocks as if she’s the only person in Congress who does it. I guess it takes the heat of everyone else… I read a list of the top 10 stock owners and profit makers in Congress, one of course the top ones were republicans.
- Comment on Harris-Walz Ticket Gives Fewest Interviews of Any Candidates in History 1 month ago:
It’s Breitbart. Of course it’s a horrible hit piece.
- Comment on Who exactly is running the country? Certainly appears to be Jill Biden — and not Joe 1 month ago:
Wow, the NY Post is really living up to their reputation of being complete and utter tripe lately.
- Comment on Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy 1 month ago:
Wow… a morning broadcast, apparently? Imagine seeing that with your kids before school. “Dad, what’s a ‘sex toy’?”
- Comment on Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy 1 month ago:
It’s like Elon Musk has managed to make Mark Zuckerberg seem like a good person by comparison. Or Trump was so awful that Democrats look back and think “huh, GWB was a decent president”
- Comment on My Tool phase 1 month ago:
A lot of people believe(d) Eulogy is about Henry Rollins, though nobody knows and theories include L. Ron Hubbard, Jesus, Keenan himself, and Jesus.
- Comment on My Tool phase 1 month ago:
I got into tool with Aenima and it didn’t leave my car cassette player for two months. Thankfully they were more into talking shit about Henry Rollins at the time.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
Not really what the headline is trying to say… AI debates means debates about AI, not AI participating in debates.
- Comment on Illegal immigrant arrested after stabbing of teen girl at Indiana baseball game: police 2 months ago:
where did the “notorious American and social security card-carrying U.S. citizen” part come from? It doesn’t seem like a phrase that would be in an NBC article.
- Comment on Illegal immigrant arrested after stabbing of teen girl at Indiana baseball game: police 2 months ago:
For some reason “immigrant assaults woman” is ‘conservative’ news, but “alabama pastor molests 10 kids” doesn’t garner a mention. I wonder what that means, could it be that it’s an anti-immigrant agenda and nothing to do with protecting innocent people?
- Comment on How is it possible for the IT experts to recover data that was erased from a hard drive when the storage of said hard drive appears empty? 2 months ago:
right, i’m super out of date but you;d want to do shred or some dd dev/random > device thing to securely erase them.
- Comment on How is it possible for the IT experts to recover data that was erased from a hard drive when the storage of said hard drive appears empty? 2 months ago:
Because of how filesystems work. There’s basically an index that tells the OS what files are stored where on the disk. The quickest way of deletion simply removes the entry in that table. The data is still there, though. So a data recovery program would read the entire disk and try to rebuild the file allocation table or whatever by detecting the beginning and ends of files. This worked better on mechanical drives than SSDs.
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 months ago:
A nice illustration is Republican media operatives are trying to attack Harris with “we checked with McDonald’s corporate and they have no record of her working there!”. For one, McD’s is franchisees and I doubt corporate tracks every burger flipper. Next, of course they’re trying to claim she’s dishonest, but what about the greater question: Did fuckin Trump ever come anywhere near McDonald’s? No, he inherited about $400 million, has misconstrued it it repeatedly (‘a small loan of a million dollars’, as if that is relatable either) and has never had any sort of normal job that required discipline or labor, ever.
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 months ago:
I’ve started to wonder if it’s even a real person. They don’t respond with any measure of logic or awareness to anything at all, just “liberals want genocide!!” over and over.
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 months ago:
What he’s saying makes no sense at all, in real life. Voting for candidates who support voting reform at the state level is the way to get more choices on national ballots. Convincing otherwise D voters to vote for 3rd parties helps Trump. Maybe not MAGA scum, maybe just misguided and clueless? Who can tell.
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 months ago:
Best I can tell, the sinister goal of getting Trump elected because this tripe sure isn’t going to help Palestinians.
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 months ago:
There have been people pushing this on Lemmy all year (previously against Biden) and that’s correct. They can never really respond to logic about how their concepts would result in Trump being more likely to win, which would be worse for Palestinians. Or how Trump’s many other horrific policies would be worse for a huge number of other people, such as Central Americans and trans people. Just “genocide bro!!” over and over.
There have been a few pathetic attempts at making logic for it like “I can’t vote to support genocide!” (As in, vote 3rd party? So, convince an other wise D voter to vote 3rd party - who does that help? Huh) or “we need to send the democrats a message so they reform!”. Not by throwing the election to Trump, no. Someone a few months ago was insisting “we’re just not supporting Biden now to pressure him, then of course we’ll vote for him in the general election”. Ah yes, by smearing him all over social media for months, you’re supporting Biden and progressive politics. I totally believe that.
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 months ago:
Seems fitting since you simply ignore the replies and logic that don’t fit your goals, whatever those may be.
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 months ago:
Brilliant, I’ll just vote for a candidate who can’t possibly win. Then I’m all set.
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 months ago:
We’ve been trying to tell this shining intellectual star and friends that for 6 months but somehow they aren’t able to understand those comments.
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 months ago:
I’m pretty doubtful the luminary you replied to lives in or has ever even been to the US.
- Comment on Why are collard greens called greens is it the color? And if so how come there is not a rainbow of different colored collards? 2 months ago:
Makes sense… parsnips are pretty weird.
- Comment on Why are collard greens called greens is it the color? And if so how come there is not a rainbow of different colored collards? 2 months ago:
That’s interesting! I noticed organic carrots often come with them and others don’t, and had heard they’re edible but had no idea what to do with them.