LEESBURG, Va. — After two days of testimony, the man who shot a 21-year-old YouTuber inside Dulles Town Center on video in April has been found not guilty on two charges of malicious wounding....
A murderous society is as you described. Life isn’t valued. Delivery drivers feel they should be armed. Shooting kids because they annoyed you is permitted. Everybody is on edge. The sin is attempting to murder, not in defense and having the culture so rotting that there’s no guilt in it. Blame whatever you got to. It is what it is. Its a society that’s so far gone that life is devalued that this happens
Not life threatening. Completely reasonable to feel threatened in many safe situations. Which is why walking around armed leads to this negligence and the devaluing of human life to justify it.
Disagree entirely with that. There’s propaganda on all sides and there’s things that we’re all fucked up on. Hate to do the both sides things but I think its realistic that both sides are being driven to extremes and we should fight that and recognize
He’s someone I think who will truly be appreciated when its to late. Like when we’re getting our amazon anal trackers inserted by our yearly google healthcare visit we’ll have a moment that we should have appreciated him morw
I have an issue with advertising. I would rather have an internet with much less services and pages. We all say how much we don’t need social media right. So tear it all down. Remove and create a hostile net to advertising and marketing. Steer it back towards hobbyists and open source nerds making GeoCities pages. What do we lose?
Will I miss out on marketing interns at Marvel trying to force another viral meme using one of their 300 sock puppet accounts.
Am I going to miss out on my data being harvested and giving to anyone trying to sell me starlamps they bulk purchased off ali-baba.
The crux of all the problems we all have with the internet is advertising products. It’s what introduced all the data harvesting. It’s why we have so much censorship. Its why all webpages and content is all the same because they all try to capture the last successful creator that sold ad space. Its why the internet is just one big data harvesting billboard that is now spilling over into the real world. So fucking kill it all. Reject marketing and advertising and lets get back to what the internet should have always been. The internet needs to be Snake Plissken’d
I loved it, but a bunch of book readers seemed split. Seems like its based on the books but not the plot like it takes a whole different direction.
Honestly one of my favorite shows this year. Every character/actor was switched on the entire time.
Also I learned that Jarid Harris is not Charlie Brooker.
I learned this after confidently telling my wife that he’s the guy that made black mirror after I saw him on the screen. She said ‘really’ and I said less confidently ‘I’m not sure’
It was one of the first accounts I saw where the guy made tons of these videos. He’s got others freaking out. One he’s losing it over his mom vacuuming. There’s one where he ends up in a tree screaming. He was my wake up call to how everything online is fake
Every week, the social media hype-train seems to find new ways to sensationalize generative AI tools. Most recently, a new technique that allows users to produce optical illusions went viral, with some describing the results as AI-generated images with “subliminal” messages.
These writers got the same energy as an envious teenage girl
Gotta be honest. Yes blame us. It takes two to tango.
At one point in my life there was this anti consumer movement culturally that got absolutely destroyed and buried. Maybe we’re all just sheep without any free will controlled by Steve jobs of the world. But I feel like we refused to keep certain fires lit and now we’re all freezing. That’s our fault.
Most of it was super obvious too. When ads started invading, some people were pissed. But there was always way more people saying ‘who cares’. But things like ads fuel this consumerism to get people buying and idolizing the tech channels or kardashian lifestyle with all the bling and flash of new. Now we have a generation who probably think anti consumption lifestyle is just flat out crazy talk. Like how do we not have any counter culture anymore to the lavish consumerism culture. Almost every culture has an opposition but that one seems like it’s non existant in a world consumed by ads products
What is %.2f? Why is it not just %f? Is there some additional calculation happening? The half function already does all the calculations including splitting the bill, so I’m not sure what %.2f is. (Btw why is this code not formatting correctly in lemmy?)...
This answer makes me so angry like revisiting trauma from learning programming. I just remember asking questions early on and getting answers more confusing that are even harder to parse
Its not confusion to me, I get what it is. Its the style of answer. Its like if you see a dog, ask what it is and someone answers Canis lupus familiaris.
There’s no grokking that. You either know or you don’t. If they’re asking what .2f then lots of answers here do a good job describing that it formats the value to two decimal places. We can all do something with that at any level.
Saying its a crombopulater sub cablator is much harder to process. It just seems like an answer thats likely to make the person to have to ask more questions or frustrated
Had a sociologist class with one of those dirty communist neo something something professors who asked the class “why do we measure how well the country is doing using unemployment or GDP instead of happiness”.
Crazy thing was that my first instinct was to think how stupid it was to measure happiness. I’m such a fucking brainwashed idiot
That was actually a big part of the lecture. Is measuring happiness actually inconsistent. He put a good argument for it not being inconsistent. That we can not only measure happiness pretty consistently but that we can also measure all the things that contribute to it pretty accurately. One of my favorite lectures in school
Man who shot YouTuber on video at Dulles Town Center found not guilty by jury (www.wusa9.com)
LEESBURG, Va. — After two days of testimony, the man who shot a 21-year-old YouTuber inside Dulles Town Center on video in April has been found not guilty on two charges of malicious wounding....
Your big brain conservtive/capitalist takes will be laughed at (lemmy.world)
Free software pioneer Stallman reveals cancer diagnosis (www.theregister.com)
It seems like the Internet always converges on these things... (lemmy.ml)
Authors Are Furious After Finding Their Works on List of Books Used To Train AI (www.themarysue.com)
Authors using a new tool to search a list of 183,000 books used to train AI are furious to find their works on the list.
Your website can now opt out of training Google's Bard and future AIs (techcrunch.com)
book memes (lemmy.ca)
Not sure this works with the show.
When something i had been meaning to make for years shows up as a viral video, i went ahead and just bought the model (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
Do AI startups build their own AI or something else?
I see a lot of companies with fresh faced 25 year olds that are running all kinds of AI stuff. Everything from NPT, Vision, organization tools....
Han is the man (lemmy.world)
(Title works better if you pronounce ‘Han’ the way Billy Dee Williams does.)
Nothing to see here, right? (lemmy.world)
AI-Generated 'Subliminal Messages' Are Going Viral. Here's What's Really Going On (www.vice.com)
A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades (www.straitstimes.com)
SO. MUCH. THIS.
Lol! So true. (sh.itjust.works)
A luxurious treat (startrek.website)
Its complicated (lemmygrad.ml)
Senior Liberals believe Anthony Rota should step aside, Radio-Canada sources say (www.cbc.ca)
Multiple cabinet ministers say Anthony Rota’s days as House of Commons Speaker are numbered, Radio-Canada has learned.
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What is this format specifier?
What is %.2f? Why is it not just %f? Is there some additional calculation happening? The half function already does all the calculations including splitting the bill, so I’m not sure what %.2f is. (Btw why is this code not formatting correctly in lemmy?)...
US Sees Highest Ever Increase in Poverty (consortiumnews.com)
House Speaker apologizes for honouring Ukrainian who fought in Nazi unit in WW II (www.cbc.ca)