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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨beans 🫘⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Typical teen: “What?? No mom, I just crushed some beans earlier, I swear!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AOL’s dial up internet takes its last bow, marking the end of an era⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably about 1 year’s worth of dial-up per month of Starlink, if not more…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Politics in America has always been dirty. How does trump really stack up?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean I don’t have the amount of time necessary to go into how dirty past presidents have been and I certainly don’t have the knowledge at my fingertips. But also, I think the stuff like Watergate and Monica Lewinski is barely a blip on the chart when you put Trump on it too. Which is not to say I condone the behavior of those presidents or seek to normalize their behavior. Just that from a numerical perspective it barely registers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Politics in America has always been dirty. How does trump really stack up?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like an order of magnitude worse?

  • No sitting president before him has been a convicted felon.
  • No sitting president before him has been involved in the sheer volume of sexual scandals from assault to cheating to being implicated in possible pedophilia.
  • No sitting president before him has refused to return literally boxes and boxes of classified documents as trophies (or possibly as items for sale) while storing them in extremely inappropriate ways. (This is extremely different from Biden, btw, who promptly returned a few accidentally retained documents. Trump was playing shell games with them, repeatedly swearing he had returned them all while doing things like loading them on planes to move to other locations, etc.)
  • No sitting president before him has attempted to overthrow the government when they lost an election.
  • The level of bribery and corruption in his administration is off the charts.
  • The number of lies he tells has always been off the charts. (“I’ve never heard of Project 2025!” while having given a speech to its members and now following its plans to dismantle the federal government.)
  • His department heads have all been picked to dismantle the departments they’re in. (Project 2025 again)

  And then of course there is the christofascism angle, which is extremely disturbing because he definitely plans to never leave power again. He’s currently trying hard to normalize use of military force against US citizens so he can seize control of the elections to make sure they go his way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean… it’s hilarious that people still use Chrome when it has been a known back actor for years and years.

  Likewise, if you set an iPhone to use Advanced Data Protection, it’s probably quite a bit more secure from intrusion than a similar Android phone. (And definitely more secure from subpoena.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you. Glad to know I am not the only one that got triggered, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't these AI data centers build by the ocean?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing I will say is here in the desert, we don’t actually want them either. Water is already an issue. Power costs are already an issue when you’re cooling your house all summer/heating it all winter. Data centers provide minimal jobs for the amount of resources they use in a community and the downsides have been discovered in a number of places around the country all ready (ranging from noise to increased costs to resource shortages). Keep your data centers off our cactii!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck this fucktard. “I’m shocked—shocked!—that people would react negatively to my cheaping out on the entire app and turning it into a random half-assed AI-first spew of gibberish!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean I’ve been using DuoLingo for like a decade (only paid the last 2 years) and it’s been very useful until now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll be looking for a new Spanish app when my subscription expires next year now, alas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some drivers turn off the signal sound so quickly?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It exists because too many idiots turn it on, forget about it and then drive along for another 5 miles signalling a turn they’re never going to make and confusing everyone around them more than just not signalling or not signalling long enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some drivers turn off the signal sound so quickly?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And I think on some cars I’ve had in the past, it was only 2 times even.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify is down for many – here's everything we know so far⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no. Anyway…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The answer it’s, they’re neither thing right now. And the claim has been made that in order to run your own instance that forwarded all traffic generated by the primary instance, you would need equivalent hardware to what BlueSky currently has. Vs Mastdon, which is…

  • not commercially owned
  • has a proven federation capability
  • Running a pretty large number of instances right now
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon Exit Interview⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this seems like a weird use case for Mastodon to me too. Also, the entire point of Mastodon is that no one entity can control it all. Switching to BlueSky is basically just falling straight back into the trap where someone can buy it out and repurpose it as a disinformation machine again. I’m not saying ActivityPub is perfect, mind you. Just that it sucks less (for me) than the alternative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other numbers where the English name for them has that many letters?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but cinco has 5, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just log onto mastodon.social and be done with it. That’s the one that will still be running until the they turn out the lights on the service, I figure. And then go kick in a buck or two a month on Patreon to help defray development and server costs. (Not being the product is worth a donation by itself, I figure.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude is gonna come back at him with the first mention of lead in the bible and say, no this is where God created lead, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation product manager says ads being shown was just a bug⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The community backlash is the bug as far as Sony is concerned. They’re trying to work around it now…