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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla stock pops 8% in premarket after report Trump wants to relax U.S. self-driving rules⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Corruption right out in the open and we’re powerless to do anything about it.

  America is a fucking joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would be the top ten items in a MAGA starter pack?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How come he didn’t fix any of these problem the first time around?

  Face it, you got tricked. Again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA President term limits⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Supreme Court can’t take back an amendment the way they can strike down laws (I.e. by ruling it unconstitutional for whatever reason), because it IS constitutional by definition.

  Yeah, but the problem is that the Supreme Court are also the arbiters of the interpretation of the document, and there’s nothing to suggest that they can’t simply come out and say “Oh, it means two consecutive terms”, which is exactly what Putin does in Russia with their term limits - some stooge takes over for a term and then Putin wins in yet another landslide.

  I mean, the 22nd Amendment is very clean, IMO. “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice” is pretty unambiguous, but I really can’t put anything past this corrupt administration. A coup is probably more likely, but if Trump can somehow get the law on his side he won’t need to, so I’m sure he would prefer that route.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To return to the main menu, press all of the buttons on your keypad simultaneously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At my company, they used to be a lot more tolerant of it, but we had exactly one person complain about excessive use of coarse language and then HR cracked the whip. They still don’t really care that much about using swear words when just interacting in person with other people, as long as it’s not bothering anybody else, but they heavily police our work chat to make sure that all of our messages are above the board in terms of professional conduct. Which makes sense, I can’t really argue against the logic that the work chat should be a professional setting where you can communicate your thoughts and feelings without having to resort to using profanity. Sometimes people have to be reminded to not use profane language, but they never call anybody out specifically, they just send out “reminder” messages whenever they see it and usually the person who is responsible knows not to keep it up or else there will be a more direct reprimand.

  It would be hard for me to not sometimes utter “fuck” under my breath while I’m at work, but if my bosses were concerned about it, I would just start channeling that into more work-appropriate language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This emoji has two meanings:

  1. the “original” meaning is based on the “shaka sign” from Hawai’ian culture. It’s often paired with the phrase “hang loose”, which generally just means to relax, have a good time, etc.

  2. When mobile telephones first started to become mainstream, they would often have an antenna that extended up and out of the phone chassis and a receiver that flipped down that you would speak directly into, so people picked up this gesture that mimicked the shape of a cell phone. Pressing it against your cheek with the pinky finger in front of your mouth and the thumb covering the opening of your ear would be accompanied by saying or mouthing “call me” was pretty universally understood and was one way to communicate the desire to speak on the phone from a distance where you could still visually see someone but shouting was ineffective or impractical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump cosplaying⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you get hot oil on your hand, glove or no, you’re gonna have a bad time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I could have full conversations with CleverBot a decade ago, but nobody was calling that AI then or even now. People generally recognized it for what it was - a heuristic model chatbot. These LLMs are just overgrown chatbots that still lack the capability of understanding anything it says to you other than how certain words relate to one another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  .com websites didn’t disappear after the dotcom bubble burst either. AI is definitely in a massive bubble right now, but something being in a bubble doesn’t mean it’s going to vanish completely. The AI companies with some substance backing them will weather the upcoming storm.

  Full disclosure: I don’t hate AI, but I hate that management-types are fellating themselves to the idea of it or the things than it can potentially do, rather than something that is providing them some kind of concrete benefit right now. I’m also mad at consumers for being stupid little sheep and paying a premium for anything that companies just happen to slap an “AI-powered” sticker on. It’s like organic produce 2.0 - you have to have it, but we can’t explain why, nor can we elaborate on what it does better than it’s contemporary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So bad it was actually entertaining⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve noticed in most cases on Kitchen Nightmares that either the food is good but one or two problem employees bring the entire restaurant down, or the food sucks ass but the service staff are generally sympathetic and will not mince words about the bad quality. In almost every case, management is in denial despite asking for help.

  I wonder if they stage it that way on purpose, because I can’t imagine getting lucky enough to have Gordon fucking Ramsay come to save my failing restaurant and having my ego stand in the way at the moment of truth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobel Prize 2024⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Generative AI is really causing a negative association with AI in general to the point where a proper rebranding is probably in order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose he could dismiss them, but considering he just had two recent attempts on his life, that would probably be unwise to say the least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The minimum sentence is a hefty fine, but the judge in that very trial already determined that fines do not discourage Trump’s behavior, given the contempt punishment that he ignored, so I don’t think it’s going to be a slap on the wrist for him unless the judge truly is a hypocrite or a coward.

  That being said, even if he gets prison for each of his felony counts, he can serve them all concurrently, a maximum of 3 years per count. So he could theoretically be out of prison right before the next election cycle with a year left to campaign for 2028, that is assuming he truly is sentenced immediately after the election in November and it’s not just pushed back indefinitely due to recount horseshit or Trump crazies doing another insurrection.

  But there are other trials that are far more likely to result in additional prison time, the most important two being the classified documents case and the Jan 6th case. I have faith that the justice system will eventually follow through with punishing Trump, but the system is set up to slow-walk the rich and powerful to accountability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  USSS won’t just let him get on a plane and fly off to Russia. His security is their top priority, so allowing him to secrete himself somewhere without first verifying his itinerary and securing both the mode of transportation and the destination, would be unthinkable. That means they are reporting all of his movements to local law enforcement. Can’t exactly flee the country in secret when every cop in the state will know his exact position and have eyes on him at all times. If the courts think he is a flight risk, someone involved in the process will know what he’s trying to do and prevent him from going anywhere where it will be hard to get him back again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The father of PlayStation" says everyone at Sony thought the PS1 would fail when it was first pitched⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hard to blame them for thinking that at the time. CD-based consoles had a very rough start in that era, but the PS1 was probably the first actual hardware success that used the CD exclusively as it’s medium. Nintendo had pushed cartridges to their absolute limit with the technology they had, so it was only a matter of time before someone ended up succeeding where others failed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Empires fall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There was always a certain ambiance in Circuit City that I found to be appealing. At least on my local one before it closed down. It was like the lights were dimmed way down, but it was still bright enough to see. I guess you would call that “cool temperature” lighting, which is definitely not fashionable anymore. Everything nowadays seems to follow Apple’s store design which is this sterile eggshell white, bathed in neutral or warm temperature lighting. I find it kind of boring, but I understand why they do it that way.

  Plus, I loved how instantly recognizable their old stores were. The big red block turned at an angle for an entrance was brilliant imo. They used it a lot in their television commercials and made it look like a plug end or a battery coming down from the sky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A stopped clock is still correct twice a day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toot toot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit, I’m putting this one on my Steam showcase!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok do a good⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the actual original definition, which lasted all but five minutes in the left-wing social zeitgeist before being co-opted by right wing lunatics to essentially be a catch-all phrase for “anything I don’t like”. It’s a convenient substitute for their old greatest hits album - “Socialism/Communism”, which was starting to get a little tired now that the cold war has been over for over two decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I first signed up for reddit, the upvotes and downvotes were not only separately tallied, but also showed the usernames of people who did them. Then very shortly after that they changed it so that it made votes private by default, and you could override it in the settings, but almost nobody went to check that box back on. Eventually, they completely removed that feature around the time upvotes and downvotes were combined into one. which along with vote fuzzing was one of the worst changes to reddit comments, imo.

  Lemmy feels like old reddit right now, which is a great spot to be in. I don’t think you necessarily need public vote info, but maybe it could be enabled on a per-community basis? I can see some communities like politics not wanting to add additional drama to the equation while other more content driven communities might enjoy knowing who was giving the feedback.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just got out of the shower. what is with the product placement ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually just like the smell of it brewing. Heavenly.

  Tastes like shit, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new report finds Boeing’s rockets are built with an unqualified work force⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, you’ve made some pretty salient points. I’m not too proud to admit that my understanding of the topic is limited. I appreciate you taking the time to educate me more on the subject.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new report finds Boeing’s rockets are built with an unqualified work force⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me know how that interview goes, because if the rocket you developed and spent billions of dollars building explodes at launch, you’re going to be looking for a new line of work.

  I’m sure the next aeronautics company will totally understand. Mondays, am I right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new report finds Boeing’s rockets are built with an unqualified work force⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  but focusing on “blowing up launch pads” tells me you probably know very little about the Space industry or development.

  That wasn’t the focus of my post, but are you suggesting that there is a nonzero number of rocket explosions that would be considered acceptable?

  I don’t need to be Elon Musk, or even know much about the space industry or development to know that the target number should always be zero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new report finds Boeing’s rockets are built with an unqualified work force⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair point, I don’t want to fixate on that one aspect of the colossal technical challenge that is getting spacecraft into orbit, but I’m still of the opinion that a nationalized and fully government-funded space program will always yield better results than a privatized one because there is no profit-taking incentive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new report finds Boeing’s rockets are built with an unqualified work force⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This wouldn’t be a problem if we still had NASA doing the shuttle program, or some continuation of it, rather than outsourcing our spacecraft to the cutthroat lowest-bidder private sector. Is it really any surprise that SpaceX and Boeing are blowing up on the launchpads and having quality control issues when their sole objective is to make money? If we nationalized these initiatives again and cancelled the private contracts with these crooks, there would be no incentive for profiteering and corners would not get cut as often as they do now.

  Sure, it would be a big cost to the taxpayer once again, but I think I’d rather have a reliable space program and like 2% less military budget to fund it, I think we’ll manage somehow without producing more tanks and planes that nobody is asking for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Breaking News: Biden takes big sip of water from “World’s Greatest Dad” mug.

  MBFC: “This source is left-leaning.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m inherently distrustful of anything that tries to tell me if a source is biased or not. Who verifies that the bot isn’t also programmed to have an agenda?

  I think I’ll just stick to plain old critical thinking skills and evaluate things for myself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The politics are better where it is wetter⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Vote Isopod! They will consume the detritus of America and return nutrients to it’s soils!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Musk's pro-Trump/Vance bender, X users report issues following Kamala Harris' accounts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shocking that people are still using Shitter in 2024.