originalfrozenbanana
@originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 2 weeks ago:
Drat. Thanks 😂
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 2 weeks ago:
Does this imply that if I am standing on an object moving at a constant speed in a straight line, and I am lifting and dropping a sufficiently massive object such that I’m causing the object in standing on to accelerate towards the object I’m dropping, that eventually I’ll slow or stop the object I’m standing on?
- Comment on In 4 years, US power grid increased battery storage to the equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors | The Optimist Daily 2 weeks ago:
Ignore them they’re being mildly pedantic
- Comment on How does US "early voting" works logistically speaking ? 3 weeks ago:
In general that would be pretty easy to identify. If the number of votes were large enough to impact an election you’d see voting numbers that are far greater than you expect based on the population and demographics of the area served by a particular voting office. In addition you’d see counts greater than you expect when certain people are working but not for others.
In addition usually you have to check in at a desk or table to get your ballot. An official dishonestly stuffing the ballot box would also have to somehow fabricate real voters checking in at the desk, or else there’d be more ballots than people who checked in and they’d identify the fraud. Where I live you check in with your ID card so unless the official had a bunch of IDs of valid registered voters they’d be caught.
Lastly voting fraud is a crime pretty much everywhere, so getting caught is bad.
A more realistic version of voting fraud is what is being planned in the US: getting supporters of a candidate (in this case Trump) to volunteer at voting locations and having those people fabricate evidence of fraud. This can just be their testimony, but it can be used later in lawsuits to give face value validity to accusations that the election was stolen, and used as justification for violence or a coup. This is what Trump tried, poorly, in 2020. They will try better in 2024.
- Comment on Meta suggests AI Northern Lights pics are as good as the real thing 4 weeks ago:
To the person eating the fruit, maybe, but the person picking it from the tree knows
- Comment on I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. 1 month ago:
But they literally HAVE a fiduciary obligation. I agree with you that people use that as an excuse for heinous shit, but in this case they had a formal, legally binding offer. Musk was in breach of contract and they sued for specific performance or damages. Musk didn’t want to pay the damages. If they didn’t sue, Twitter would forfeit I think $1bn in damages and their stock would tank. Not suing would open the door for hostile investors to come in, pretend to buy, back out when they wanted to and time the stock movements. I get what you’re saying, but this is a case where if the board didn’t sue then Twitters shareholders pay for it.
You and I may agree that they never should have been in that place to begin with but that’s definitionally a fiduciary obligation
- Comment on I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. 1 month ago:
Ok? But that’s not what the Twitter board claimed. I agree with your premise but that isn’t what happened here.
- Comment on I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. 1 month ago:
No, I don’t think that’s true. Twitters board had to sue for specific performance because Musk backed out of a formal offer in the late stages for fabricated reasons. It’s not like it was “sue musk or go to jail” but their job as board members comes with a fiduciary obligation, and musk was paying 38% over the share price. Twitter is FAR from blameless but sueing musk isn’t a failing …harvard.edu/…/twitter-vs-musk-the-complaint/
- Comment on I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. 1 month ago:
Not that they are blameless - far from it - but they had a fiduciary responsibility to pursue the deal because it was good for their shareholders
- Comment on Researchers build AI-powered security systems that predict criminal behavior, claim 82.8% accuracy in predicting felonies with CCTV monitoring 2 months ago:
Guarantee it’s just racist
- Comment on What’s a game you can 100% without hating by the end? 2 months ago:
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
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THE hacker news?
- Comment on I just got out of the shower. what is with the product placement ? 2 months ago:
Hell yeah hang in there, I hope good times come your way soon. You deserve it!
- Comment on I just got out of the shower. what is with the product placement ? 2 months ago:
I love that he is appearing in front of A white house. Not THE White House but his base won’t care. The vibes are right, ya know?
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 2 months ago:
Same
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 2 months ago:
When people say Lemmy is better, they mean the software and the platform are better. You’re talking about the users of the two platforms. Lemmy users are still idiots, just like Reddit users, we just use Linux and don’t use chrome
- Comment on OpenAI has built a text watermarking method to detect chatgpt written content 2 months ago:
They sell the cheating tool and the detection software
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Yeah the argument here should not be “why are they allowed to sue each other at all,” it should be “why did my elected representatives waste our money over this stupid shit?”
Find the resolution at the ballot box if that is viable in your country
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 3 months ago:
Sure till they copystrike their own subs
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 3 months ago:
Everyone knows after any commercial success the best thing you can do is rebrand by announcing the death of the successful product \s
- Comment on Paris Olympics: Italy's Angela Carini abandons fight with Algeria's Imane Khelif, who failed gender test, after 46 seconds 3 months ago:
No you don’t lol. I love when you right fucks try to pretend you care about women or women’s sports all of a sudden. Literally no one buys it. “Aw golly gee I just care about fairness in women’s sports” nah bro you hate trans and nonbinary people. Own it! Be the bigot you really are, loud and proud!
- Comment on Paris Olympics: Italy's Angela Carini abandons fight with Algeria's Imane Khelif, who failed gender test, after 46 seconds 3 months ago:
So wait do you care about biology or the insular rules of various international sporting bodies? It’s hard to keep up with whatever you’re pretending to care about
- Comment on Paris Olympics: Italy's Angela Carini abandons fight with Algeria's Imane Khelif, who failed gender test, after 46 seconds 3 months ago:
She’s not a man. Either you think everyone with XY chromosomes is a man, even if they have female genitals, or you acknowledge that neither genitals nor chromosomes alone are sufficient to define gender and you acknowledge that trans people exist as their identified gender. You don’t get it both ways.
Sorry I forgot for a second where I was and just wasted all that energy typing out something you won’t read because your side doesn’t care about the truth.
- Comment on Paris Olympics: Italy's Angela Carini abandons fight with Algeria's Imane Khelif, who failed gender test, after 46 seconds 3 months ago:
This is what you call silly? You guys are such fucking weirdos. Fascism and theocracy isn’t silly. It’s creepy and weird. Not good weird like Austin in 2004. Bad weird like Epstein or the pope.
- Comment on Paris Olympics: Italy's Angela Carini abandons fight with Algeria's Imane Khelif, who failed gender test, after 46 seconds 3 months ago:
No actually there are medical facts about when a fetus becomes a life form that can live on its own or with assistance. You just don’t care about them.
- Comment on Paris Olympics: Italy's Angela Carini abandons fight with Algeria's Imane Khelif, who failed gender test, after 46 seconds 3 months ago:
Yeah just me and all major scientific and medical establishments over here “disagreeing” with you about medical fact but ok you do you bby
- Comment on Paris Olympics: Italy's Angela Carini abandons fight with Algeria's Imane Khelif, who failed gender test, after 46 seconds 3 months ago:
No I’m just not going to play your game. This is why people think you guys are so weird. You make up these silly little games, then declare yourselves the victors when no one wants to play them.
- Comment on Paris Olympics: Italy's Angela Carini abandons fight with Algeria's Imane Khelif, who failed gender test, after 46 seconds 3 months ago:
Biden cooperated with record requests. Why didn’t Trump? The only reason Biden was investigated was so that your side could use it as a talking point about how they are both the same when they are not.
It is very common for some records to need to be returned during and after a presidency. It is NOT AT ALL common for presidents to refuse those requests. THAT is the difference.
- Comment on Paris Olympics: Italy's Angela Carini abandons fight with Algeria's Imane Khelif, who failed gender test, after 46 seconds 3 months ago:
I’m not here to debate you about your weird plans. I’m here to mock them for being bad. No one has to dance when you start playing music. If you don’t know what’s in your own party’s playbook, go google it instead of asking strangers about what they are.
- Comment on Paris Olympics: Italy's Angela Carini abandons fight with Algeria's Imane Khelif, who failed gender test, after 46 seconds 3 months ago:
You literally just got done eviscerating abortion rights and are in the process of going after IVF and birth control. You get to shut the fuck up about women basically forever. The right has absolutely zero moral credibility here. None. Zilch. Don’t pretend to suddenly care about women in Afghanistan, you ghoul.