DarkCloud
@DarkCloud@lemmy.world
- Comment on California lawmakers to begin special session to 'Trump-proof' state laws 2 days ago:
They should also consider creating networks of sub unions and commonwealths that pool different kinds of resources that are beyond the clutches of The Federal Government. Perhaps holding them in trusts which are obligated to share them as forms of mutual aid under specific rules and conditions.
Distributing parallel forms of government might be a way to keep Trump’s power in check. If certain networks or interstate agreement/trusts/commonwealths get large enough, they might even develop internationally recognized travel documents, and welfare systems.
The point would be to try to remain stealthy though, and avoid conflicts or the appearance of competing with the Federal government. So all Federal obligations would still have to be met.
A new European Union might be a model to follow, it would just be…an American States Union.
…a distributed American States Union. DASU, rather than USA.
- Comment on Microsoft gets community note on Twitter for saying Snapdragon Copilot+ PCs are the fastest Windows devices, saying Snapdragon CPUs can't game and have "less computing power” than Intel and AMD chips 4 days ago:
Gab.
- Comment on Elizabeth Warren wants to investigate whether VeriSign is ripping off customers and violating antitrust laws. 1 week ago:
Better get the whole investigation done before Jan 20th, when Trump is installed.
- Comment on Sniffin Poop 1 week ago:
Scatology is a legitimate area of scientific research. They’re the ones who tell us what dinosaurs ate.
- Comment on EU disease agency considers quitting Elon Musk’s X over disinfo 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think the people still on X are going to be listening to the EU disease agency account.
They should (as you say) go where the people are… Which is threads and BlueSky. Follow the crowd.
- Comment on Has Bluesky’s moment arrived? 2 weeks ago:
I get the feeling the BlueSky vs Threads thing will take a while to resolve.
- Comment on Creamy Cartilage 3 weeks ago:
“Spine” being the most abnormal to have.
- Comment on Little dude ATP 3 weeks ago:
Is that saying it still needs food and is just what’s going on as the food is digested?
- Comment on Little dude ATP 3 weeks ago:
Ao why tha fuck we be eating then.
- Comment on How funny, right? 4 weeks ago:
No, that’s not what this is about.
It’s commenting on the fact that sometimes abuse survivors share traumatic stories as if they’re normal or even fun, when compared to a normal upbringing they’re actually incredibly depressing or traumatic stories/memories. Because to them, those stories were the normal seeming parts.
So sometines they’ll do this with no sense that it’s a traumatic story - because it’s far from the worst things they experienced.
When this happens, it has the mood of the two characters in this gif. So hope that explains it for you.
- Comment on Heeeeeere's Luce 5 weeks ago:
Luce/Lucy means the bringer of light.
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 5 weeks ago:
Or rather than soak them, you can manually separate them, oil and salt them, then cook them on a lower setting until they start to go golden brown.
- Comment on Waterboy 5 weeks ago:
So one for Johnny Knoxvilles The Ringer.
- Comment on Apple teases “week of announcements” about the Mac starting on Monday 5 weeks ago:
*qualirty
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- Comment on ‘Beyond failure’: WA teen loses legs at school-based work program. 1 month ago:
So Trump Republicans have been quite successful in bringing Child Labor back then.
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 1 month ago:
No it’s a huge one, because it’s the most likely application of AI, AI site moderation will be the start of AI digital policing a field which risks growing larger and larger until it manifests as actual legal policing.
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 1 month ago:
The part where they were saying they don’t like the current AIs they know about.
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 1 month ago:
Try Venice Ai, free to use, won’t try to censor your topics. Still just a chat bot though (although I think it does image generation too).
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 1 month ago:
I think less restrictive AI that are free, like Venice AI will be around for longer than ones that went with restrictive subscription models, and that eventually those other ones will become niche.
New technology always propagates further the freer it is to use and experiment with, and ChatGPT and OpenAI are quite restrictive and money hungry.
- Comment on Ouch my texicles 1 month ago:
Oh! They’re pickles, not testicles!
- Comment on Nahh 1 month ago:
Triops (tadpole shrimp) have been around longer, they’re the oldest living fossil (360 million years), and they only live for three months at a time, and are still around today.
- Comment on Just So 1 month ago:
Blame Jung.
- Comment on It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word 1 month ago:
It’s time to take CEO’s money away!
- Comment on People who use firefox how do you see what website you visit on a specific date? (say on september 12) for me it just shows like this 1 month ago:
The problem is you have to know the approximate timeframe of your last visit - eg. If it was in the past week it may not be searchable in other categories such as *more than 3 months ago".
… likewise, if you can still find it by going to a currently open tab and hitting"back" enough times, it may not have been addded to history yet.
Firefox’s history is a little idiosyncratic. One of the less polished parts of the browser.
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 1 month ago:
I downloaded Librewolf today - the privacy oriented fork of Firefox!
Good to see there are browser variants that aren’t just Chrome.
- Comment on The Conspiracy Unmasked 2 months ago:
I identify as a Soviet era attack heli-KoptoR
- Comment on Authorities hack cryptocurrency seed phrase 2 months ago:
nah, they just told him who had hits out on him, and that he’d be fed to the wolves if he didn’t help.
The protective punishment of the state is probably a lot lighter than the street justice of global networks of criminal gangs.
- Comment on DOOM can now run on a quantum computer with Quandoom port — seminal FPS blood and gore mixed with spooky action 2 months ago:
…are we accidentally going to open a portal to hell by trying to get doom running on something it shouldn’t? Is that how it finally happens?
That would be the Ultimate Doom. Real Doom too.
- Comment on Make a wsh 2 months ago:
The letter i doesn’t exist in the comic after the wish. “I with ‘i’ didn’t exist”.