He lets his son run around a lot more than I’d expect from a control freak.
I know. Times were different back then and parents let kids run around on their own, but I remember those days, and even back then, there were controlling parents who never gave their kids any freedom.
True. The Republican incumbent that he’s running against, Tim Burchett, promised to legislate against Flock cameras. While that’s nice, I no longer trust the promises of any Republican.
As far as I’m concerned, we need to replace all Republican politicians. If their opponent is a Democrat, we need to be a little careful not to elect a wolf in sheep’s clothing. But if they’re independents like the guy we’re talking about, I think just about anybody would do. Like an animal or an inanimate object would even be infinitely preferable to a Republican.
It was a lemmy.ml community. I could only see anything because I specifically looked up the user who posted it.
You can try it yourself. If you don’t like the way Lemmy acts, then try making an account on a Piefed instance and see how it’s different. I had heard Piefed was better, so I tried out an account, and decided I liked it better.
When you mentioned this behavior, I actually expected that Piefed would probably handle it in a way that I’d prefer.
And besides, the original Lemmy devs are the ones who run lemmy.ml.
I am sure it depends on what interface you’re using for the content. Like, what app or web UI, and even what are the settings for that UI. For example, I use Voyager on mobile, and there was one build where I blocked a person and could still see and reply to all of their comments. Obviously that was a bug, but it shows that blocking behavior depends on the UI.
At any rate, I double-checked. I used a private window and went to lemmy.ml to find a post there where the OP for that post had also commented, and when I went to that post through piefed’s interface, I was still able to see the post, but it had a message at the top about me blocking the instance, but I was not able to see the comment from the OP under their own post. (Edit: But I could see the other comments, even the one that the OP had responded to.)
So, I can say that, from what I can see, at least in that situation, piefed.social was blocking comments from a person who I didn’t specifically block as an individual, but was a member of an instance that I had blocked.
GOP Senator Admits Blanche Is Pretty Bad as He Votes to Confirm Him
“I know it’s wrong but I’m going to do it anyway,” is what you say when you eat a second slice of pie, not when you put a corrupt man into a position of great power.
We have, what, over 300 million people in this country, but Blanche is worth confirming? There must be literally millions of people who would do a better job. We don’t have to settle for this guy specifically.
You know, when I was a child, I naively believed that politics was about different groups trying to do the right thing, but who disagreed about the best way to do it. Now they’re openly admitting to intentionally doing evil things that harm their own country and its citizens.
we’re all blocking instances and users we don’t like
People commonly think that everybody else sort of thinks and acts the same way that they do. Sometimes it’s that way, but a lot of the time it isn’t. I didn’t block a single instance until I think last week. (It was lemmy.ml, not too coincidentally.) That includes my six months on piefed, as well as the several years before that on lemmy.world. I had considered blocking them in the past, but it was only recently that several accounts from there started behaving super-aggressively to me.
I’m just reluctant to block entire instances because I feel like I’ll miss out on something. But at this point, I think if you’re still on lemmy.ml, then you’re probably not somebody who I want to interact with. But that’s because it’s just famous for being tankies.
Really, anybody who voted for Trump in 2024 is dumb as shit. They literally watched Trump lead a coup attempt against their government. And Trump even said during his campaign that if you voted for him in that election, you’d never have to vote again.
A vote for Trump in 2024 was a vote against your own right to ever vote again in the future. A vote against democracy itself. It’s hard to imagine people voting any dumber than that.
I think the worst thing to come out of this AI thing is how all the conspiracy theorists now have a new target, calling everything AI without even understanding what it means or how to tell what’s AI. Somebody here even posted the contact info, and now the brewer has to deal with that shit.
They have a saying in politics that if you’re explaining, then you’re losing. I’d be surprised if there wasn’t something similar in marketing.
If you’re an unethical participant in some industry, and your competitor has some distinctive-looking artwork on their product, all you have to do is make a few anonymous posts that the artwork is AI, and boy, howdy, that BS is bound to spread itself to all the mainstream sites via conspiracy theorists.
If you think that would work, then you could convict anybody of perjury in the same way. And again, I did say that it could be reviewed by the courts, which is the legal path we have to apply common-sense standards to unusual situations.
Also, I’m pretty big on oaths, so I cannot understand how you can take an oath to tell the truth during your confirmation hearings, and then lie during those same hearings. It feels like it should be automatically disqualifying from confirmation, and if it’s discovered later, then it feels like it’s fraud and they should be removed from their positions.
I think all but one of the conservative justices swore during their confirmation hearings that they would consider Roe v. Wade as precedent, or made other similar statements. If they truly viewed it as “precedent”, then they would never vote to overturn it. So, several conservative justices lied under oath in order to be confirmed. They got their job under false pretenses.
George Santos was expelled from the House for lying about much less important issues, and not under oath.
If any of us lie during a job interview about something important, and it’s discovered later, you can bet we’d be fired before we knew what hit us, and we don’t swear a solemn oath when doing job interviews.
I feel like the moment a justice votes contrary to what they swore to, either during their confirmation hearings, or even as part of their oath of office, it’s absolute proof that they were lying under oath and that they got their job under fraudulent pretenses. That should immediately invalidate their position, only to be reinstated if they can prove in court that their actions don’t constitute a lie.
You cannot give any trust to a person who swears a solemn oath and then breaks that oath (with the exception of a wedding oath, which is an insane oath that cannot be held at face value, imo). I wouldn’t trust an oath breaker to walk my dog if I had a dog.
Wikipedia itself is still one of the best resources on the internet, and they actually make it pretty easy to back up their data, which is why there are so many clones out there.
If Wikimedia foundation died, somebody else would take over, and hopefully the quality wouldn’t decline too much.
Besides, we have seen it work recently. A bunch of local stations took Kimmel off the air, pressuring Disney to cancel his show. So Disney was about to cancel Kimmel, and instead everybody canceled their Hulu/Disney+ memberships, and a couple of days later, Kimmel was back.
Yeah I was gonna say you don’t need github to learn to code, and it’s probably for the best if you don’t use it.
Real America’s Voice host Steve Gruber told Trump during an audio interview Friday, “I made a prediction on this program that before you left office, that Greenland would be under our operational control.”
“You’ll be right. They want to do something,” Trump said. “Greenland is important from our standpoint, not from their standpoint…You should make that bet.”
I honestly try my best not to listen to Trump speak because it seems to hurt my brain and be bad for my soul, so maybe I’m just misinformed here, but I’m surprised that Trump would even acknowledge that he’ll be leaving office.
I get what you’re saying, but it’s still harder to live in space or on Mars than to try to fix Earth. What I’m saying is that SpaceX would have to be run by a complete idiot for them to think they have an incentive to ruin the planet… Wait… It is run by a complete idiot.
If you’re taking it back, you know what would be amazing? Take back the one Trump got and give it to somebody else.
An apple tree growing out of your head would probably be worth more than a million dollars.
Like, how is it possible? An apple tree couldn’t survive on your head, and you probably wouldn’t even be able to hold it up with your normal neck muscles.
If it’s just constantly using magic, then you could probably make a lot of money by allowing people to study the effects of actual magic. Something they’d likely get no other chances to study.
If it’s not constant magic, then either the tree or your body would have to be altered, likely both. And again, I suspect you could make a lot of money letting corporations study you to understand the changes.
Not to say that it was a good wish, though, since he could have wished for billions or trillions of dollars. Or other ways of wielding magic. No, it’s still a shit wish, but you could definitely make more money from it than it would seem at first.
If I was taking over FIFA today and trying to fix its status as being perhaps the most famous example of corruption in the world today, I would actually give out the phoney baloney peace prize a few more times before stopping.
That way, you wouldn’t have the only recipient ever be one who started many wars the next year. And you could say that you plan on giving out five or ten more prizes to try to atone for giant “mistake” with the first one.
Yes. It is possible to luck into a solution if you don’t know a method. But it’s pretty rare, and if you don’t get lucky, the best most people will ever do is to have a mostly solved cube.
To go further requires you to use predefined sequences of moves that at first appear to mess up the parts that were already solved, or to systematically work out those sequences yourself, which would involve some serious effort with extra cubes or with writing down sequences on paper or something similar.
It’s counterintuitive, but at a certain point, if the cube is mostly solved, but the last bits are wrong, the only way a normal person could solve it without these sequences is to completely mix up the cube again and start over, hoping to get luckier the next time.
I don’t know the odds of getting lucky like I’ve said. I used to practice cubing just to pass time, and I’ve probably completed hundreds of cubes, and only once did I luck into a solved cube without using those sequences. And I assume I was lucky even with that.
I don’t know the context for this specific movie or what they mean by AI assisted or whatever, but I have heard that nowadays, even if artists don’t use AI to directly create art, they still use it behind the scenes to do things like compose scenes.
Even if the claim is “no AI”, individual artists will still secretly use it to save time or money. Everything in the graphic art world is now AI assisted and we can’t get away from it. 😞