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- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 16 minutes ago:
They don’t need to give a reason but if a company fires someone who is organizing a strike and that person has been a decent employee then the labor board is going to side with the person, not the company since it’s obvious why they were fired. Amazon keeps getting in trouble for this exact thing. Which is why amazon et al are trying to get the NLRB dismantled.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 43 minutes ago:
That’s highly illegal if we’re going by the NLRA.
Now whether those companies get a wrist slap for firing people in today’s political climate? That’s a different question entirely but firing someone for striking or organizing a strike has been illegal for almost a century.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 1 hour ago:
You realize most people live paycheck to paycheck?
Yes, that’s why it takes months to organize a normal strike, let alone a general strike. A one day strike isn’t a stike, it’s a protest.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 2 hours ago:
Just edit the ddg entry instead of adding a new one. It’s super easy to change the url for the search in settings.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 2 hours ago:
That’s not the concern. A 24 hour strike isn’t a strike. That’s a protest. Most strike last for days or weeks because you want to get something out of the strike.
- Comment on Gonna be here a while 11 hours ago:
Since you seem to want to downvote me instead of go read an article to learn how wrong you are, here is the simple wikipedia page on hawking radiation:
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation
Nothing about heat of the universe because that isn’t a factor in Hawking radiation. You can go read the full page if you like but that also doesn’t mention heat of the universe.
Maybe don’t post so authoritatively on something you aren’t sure about. Spreading misinformation isn’t a good thing.
- Comment on Gonna be here a while 13 hours ago:
That’s not how hawking radiation works. Basically some particle pairs will always form near the event horizon. Some halves of the pair fall inwards others escape the black hole. The escaping ones are lost mass for the black hole. This happens for all sized black holes at all times just that for small black holes it happens really quickly but bigger black holes it happens incredibly slowly.
It will takes trillions of years to evaporate any stellar sized black hole but all black holes evaporate all the time.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 16 hours ago:
I’m all for protesting in any way possible but a general strike in three days seems really ambitious. Most strikes take months to arrange since people will need to stock up on food and household items or they risk the strike ending before the strikers get their demands.
- Comment on A matter of patience 21 hours ago:
Something like $30 million to replace them all. They put some plastic covers over the new ones to try and prevent it from happening again.
- Comment on California governor Gavin Newsom accuses TikTok of suppressing content critical of the current US president Donald Trump 22 hours ago:
And now because trump et al have been screaming for years that other tech companies have been suppressing right wing content the conservatives will claim turnabout is fair play or some other bullshit.
Also almost 1 in 3 americans is using that brain rot? We’re fucked.
- Comment on world of warcraft orc house 1 day ago:
Lok’tar ogar!
- Comment on A matter of patience 1 day ago:
It was a giant cascade of implosions. More than half of the tubes (7000+ tubes) imploded in a cascade. One popped which caused a shockwave which in turn imploded its neighbors which popped and set off their neighbors…
- Comment on My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer. 1 day ago:
What does that have to do with the price of tea in china?
My original comment said gravity knives are considered switchblades in many jurisdictions. Politicians being morons doesn’t change that fact.
- Comment on My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer. 1 day ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchblade
A switchblade (also known as switch knife, automatic knife, pushbutton knife, ejector knife, flick knife, gravity knife , flick blade, or spring knife)
Like I said, many jurisdictions consider gravity knives to be switchblades.
- Comment on My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer. 1 day ago:
Gravity knives are considered switchblades in many jurisdictions.They aren’t spring assisted switchblades. They are gravity assisted hence the name. Switchblade just means any knife you open with a switch or button. Don’t take my word for it though, go read the first line of the wikipedia page on switchblades.
In any case, they’re no more dangerous than your standard folding knives of the same general proportions.
Often they are less dangerous since they can fail to deploy (especially an OTF spring assisted switchblade). I had a sweet benchmade switchblade when I was in the army but alas it got lost at some point. That knife was the best for one handed box cutting.
- Comment on My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer. 1 day ago:
Often even unassisted switchblades are illegal. They’re called gravity knives.
- Comment on Science teachers from Queensland Open Brethren schools told to teach students about vegetarian dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark 3 days ago:
Why wouldn’t they just say noah and his kids went fishing for food the carnivores? It’s always funny when christians come up with weird answers when a more logical one is right there. Pt that i think noah or his boat existed just that if i was on a boat with hungry meat eaters i’d probably go fishing.
- Comment on New research finds that ChatGPT systematically favours wealthier, Western regions in response to questions ranging from 'Where are people more beautiful?' to 'Which country is safer?' 5 days ago:
How large is the corpus of training data in english?
How large is the corpus of training data in all other languages?
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Everything else must be proven.
- Comment on To independently invent the concept of writing in which sounds are encoded into symbols from which an infinite number of words can be assembled, you must be a genius 1 week ago:
Yes, most of those writing systems were developed independently.
Downvoting someone for asking you a question is pretty childish.
- Comment on To independently invent the concept of writing in which sounds are encoded into symbols from which an infinite number of words can be assembled, you must be a genius 1 week ago:
So few? There are hundreds of forms of writing.
- Comment on 'What the f***': Modding arch-sorcerer casually invents Minecraft x Hytale crossplay, defies laws of god and man alike 1 week ago:
That picture of Henry makes him look 60. The kid is 16 or so, lol.
- Comment on White House tech chief slams EU AI Act, champions Trump's approach as Davos begins 1 week ago:
Thiel gets regular blood infusions from his son’s blood. That’s why people call him a vampire.
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 1 week ago:
Or vault 81. One side had a full community to be tested on and observed, the other side had scientists watching the experiment.
It’s just a shame hardly any scientists showed up. They’d have had some great tv to watch after starting their molerat experiments.
- Comment on My petty gripe: a large flat white is an oxymoron – a bastardisation of the drink Australia gave the world 1 week ago:
In colombia, a huge coffee growing region, they almost exclusively drink instant. Coffee snobs are crazy if they think it’s that much different then regular brewed coffee. Maybe they just need better instant?
- Comment on The singular they is actually such a natural part of the English language, the people complaining about it almost certainly use it without noticing 2 weeks ago:
This is one area where spanish is better. They have tu, vos, and usted (depending on formality) for singular you and they have ustedes and vosotros for you guys.
- Comment on Google removes some AI health summaries after investigation finds “dangerous” flaws 2 weeks ago:
Playing whack a mole with incorrect AI diagnoses seems counter productive to having an AI think for you but what do i know.
- Comment on Fed's fight with DOJ could hurt prospects for more interest rate cuts 2 weeks ago:
Future currency:
Image - Comment on Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete 2 weeks ago:
Who wants to bet they won’t track where your gaze is looking and sell that data to the highest bidder?
- Comment on US frackers were already facing a global oil supply glut. Trump’s Venezuelan dream could make it worse 2 weeks ago:
Trump and his ilk making ill advised not well thought out decisions that fuck over his voters. Name a more iconic duo.
