A Florida Republican lawmaker's bill declares showing support for LGBTQ people is a "political viewpoint," despite the existence of LGBTQ Democrats, Republicans, independents, and entirely unaffiliated and non-political LGBTQ people.The goal of GOP State Rep. David Borrero's legislation is to ban al...
Does Florida not understand what the first amendment is for? Because I'm pretty sure that this is EXACTLY the sort of overreach that it was written to prevent.
It's not one or the other though, we're both right. It's a problem they they're trying to make pride political, along with banning of speech that causes no harm to anyone. B
ut at least this is so blatantly unconstitutional and subject to be turned around and used against them if it stands that there's no way it will survive a constitutional review.
Other right-wing accounts variously reacted by describing the move as Orwellian, lamenting the death of free speech and even contemplating leaving Canada for good....
How can the government just overstep on Canadians' first amendment rights? Don't they know what the US founding fathers stood for? The right of Canadians to say whatever they want to whomever they want without fear of any consequences!!!1!
Damn, Dyson Sphere Program just updated Friday, and I can't even load the game with just BepInEx. Can't even test the mods that have been recently updated, and neither Thunderstone or r2modman can even launch the game without getting an error that causes it to never load. Anyone else seeing this/have a fix?
Wow, I like the one guy farther down who claims Likud is awful but it's Hamas propaganda that the IDF kills kids.... like the massive dead civilian and kid numbers are just all propaganda to make a genocidal ethnistate look bad.
A German foundation has said it will no longer be awarding a prize for political thinking to a leading Russian-American journalist after criticizing as “unacceptable” a recent essay by the writer in which they made a comparison between Gaza and a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe.
My manager didn't honor the employee discount after I was gone, either.
They never do. I had a manager try that shit on me when I was working food service, and I turned it around on him and made him get one of his toadies to clean it up after talking a bunch about "not being trained for biohazard cleanup" and "OSHA regs" which got him to back down, and I told all my coworkers the same so they'd tell him to fuck off too.
Still wish I could have been there when the feds showed up and escorted him out of the building.
Sure, though it isn't super exciting. The assistant store manager, Lucio (fuck you Lucio, you fucking piece of shit) was an illegal immigrant who managed to fake his way through the verification steps, and INS showed up one day and vanned him while I was away going to college.
I wasn't sad to see that fucker go, because he had a number of Mexican kids that he let do whatever they wanted, including Edgar who sexually harassed multiple girls out of the store and Lucio wouldn't do shit because "why would I fire him when we're already losing one employee". Never mind that wed already lost 4 girls at that point and one of them was pregnant at the time. I'm honestly surprised he and I never came to blows because I didn't hide that I fucking hate him.
Jumping a turnstile and taking a physical, actually scarce resource is not comparable to duplicating a digital, artificially scarce resource.
The train requires ongoing maintenance and can only hold a finite amount of people. Taking the train seat for free takes away something from another person. Downloading media does not use any ongoing resources, and does not take anything away from another consumer.
Comparing the morality of physical goods to digital goods are not really a good comparison specifically because of the artificial scarcity brought on by making something digital to try to make it more expensive doesn't map to the real scarcity of physical goods.
and a bunch of it is code generation to test out how we need to modify our CS curriculum in light of these new tools.
I'm curious if you've gotten anything decent out of them. I've tried to use it for tech/code questions, and it's been nothing but disappointment after disappointment. I've tried to use it to get help with new concepts, but it hallucinates like crazy and always give me bad results, some of the time it's so bad that it gives me answers I've already told it we're wrong.
I've used gpt 3/3.5, bing, bard and copilot, and I'm not super stoked. Copilot gave me PS DSC items that don't actually exist, which was my most recent attempt at using a LLM.
I might see about figuring out if it can hook into my vs code instance so it's a bit smarter at some point.
They can't go after your opinions because that racist fuck is too stupid to do anything more than use Judaism as a shield for objectively horrible people and actions.
I mean, look at them defend the Forrest Gump of war crimes right along side a massive financial criminal and a well known sex pest just because of their religion. It's the same reason they've cheered while hospitals get bombed because there's no wrong that can be committed by Israel.
Starfield is a Bethesda style open world game like the Transmorphers movies are transformers style movies. It's in the style yes, but it's nothing compared to the original.
I'm honestly impressed that Bethesda managed to Asylum-knockoff their own games.
Having a member state veto today is approaching being as ludicrous as if each US state had a veto on national legislation - it allows small countries with extremist governments (of which there is always likely to be one in office somewhere) to clog up the gears of the entire union.
I hate to tell you this, but that's actually how our stupid Senate works. Each state sends 2 idiots to washington, and either one of those idiots can tank legislation with a fucking email.
Lol, free speech isn't dead just because people criticize your opinions. You're not being silenced because people argue with you, and no one is arresting you for your opinions. Climb down off your cross.
When will be your “this is the last fucking time I’m voting for the ‘lesser of two evils’, then I don’t care after that, let this country burn to the ground”? For me, this is basically it. This is last election I’m going for that " lesser of two evils" bullshit. After that I’m done. It’s just pointless. Let’s...
2016 was my year, and that election pretty much slapped me in the face for doing so.
Until the fascist part stops being fascists, I feel morally obligated to vote for the same party for the continued benefit (and rights) of the LGBT+ members of my family.
When my wife was pregnant, a buddy gave her an old cast iron pan and told her to heat applesauce in it. Said it should help her iron deficiency, too bad we're to add to have remembered....
Not the person you replied to, but one of my partners is mildly OCD and has to check all sorts of things before leaving, and she stresses tf out if I don't let her do her thing on the way out.
Yeah, I wouldn't want to play with benzos at the best of times, but I know they have their place. It's just unfortunate how zombified they get when they have to take one when a panic attack truly sets in...
Standing in front of a massive state flag on Saturday, Claver Kamau-Imani outlined his utopian vision of a Nation of Texas that he believes is just on the horizon....
I've got both a fire extinguisher and a fire blanket, and I've only ever needed the blanket so far. $26 for a 5' square fiberglass blanket that did the trick immediately the first time it was needed.
How do those compare to fiberglass blankets? I do firecupping and appreciate having the protection of the blanket, but don't want to worry about shards making my partners itchy. But I'll deal with the itch if it means no fire worries...
This is difficult to explain. I can’t figure out a rule of thumb for spending, the prices of things fluctuate so quickly it’s confusing. Here are some examples...
If you're looking at 300k @ 8%, youre not going to be paying anything similar to your current rent. I got a place for 190k @ 6%, and I'm paying about 200/mo less for my mortgage than you do for rent. At that rate, I'd be surprised if you got out under 2500/mo.
Sure, if you ignore all kinds of other factors like additional closing costs added to your mortgage, as well as stuff like insurance and property taxes and the interest on the loan itself. But yeah, simple arithmetic....
I wish it was as easy as just a percentage of the mortgage every month
Yes, as stated below that includes property taxes and insurance, things that this person likely isn't thinking about and isn't figuring into their monthly payment. I hope I'm wrong, but I've watched friends crash and burn doing something similar.
Odd, I have plenty of social interaction and haven't had facebook in over a decade. I even moved states and made an entirely new friend group, all without having a facebook.
Your problem is you lied to someone you were trying to create a relationship with. What did you expect? That she wouldn't see through a hasty attempt to make it look like you actually used the account instead of just being a dead account? For all she knows, you're going to leave her in a ditch somewhere and you're just hiding your tracks...
Just be honest, and if someone's not going to want to hang because you don't have a particular social network already, they're doing you a favor by not wasting your time.Find better friends that you'll actually enjoy spending time with and communicating. Get a hobby or something...
Backbreaking is the best way to describe working construction. We did general framing/siding/roofing, and my body hurt every day after I was done. I went into IT specifically for the mental challenge, and because I saw how my uncle and grandfather's bodies were broken by a lifetime of construction and didn't want to deal with it for myself.
I'll gladly take learning new skills constantly over breaking my body.
Fucking communist countries have killed how many millions of their own citizens?
Bruh, centuries of capitalist exploitation of its citizens and treating them like a disposable commodity would like to have a word on the whole 'citizens killed by their own country' topic.
How many thousands or millions of citizens die yearly because they can't afford to live in this fucked up system?
None? People don’t starve to death in western countries. And where they do the issue is lack of infrastructure.
"This thing doesn't happen, and when it does, it's not the fault of capitalism itself" is a monumentally stupid argument. Especially when talking about the homeless population, which absolutely does have people that starve.
A communist government couldn’t conjure the resources needed to build that out of thin air either.
And the capitalist economy chose not to build it because it wasn't profitable, or after it was built, it was too expensive to be used.
What's he going to do, other than confirm people are abandoning his shit platform, and whine to his ball garglers about how he's had to face the consequences of his own actions?
If you run on a window system, there is a setting deep in your sound device's advanced options that will allow you to suppress those loud sounds as well. It seems to cut the dynamic range and makes most media much more tolerable in that respect.
As much as I'd love to chat and give you more advice, I'm loathe to give out my discord publicly (been an issue in the past). It doesn't look like I can PM you, so if you want to send me yours, that's cool, otherwise we can chat here if you have more questions.
Bill banning Pride flag would make showing support for LGBTQ a ‘political viewpoint' (www.rawstory.com)
A Florida Republican lawmaker's bill declares showing support for LGBTQ people is a "political viewpoint," despite the existence of LGBTQ Democrats, Republicans, independents, and entirely unaffiliated and non-political LGBTQ people.The goal of GOP State Rep. David Borrero's legislation is to ban al...
Right-Wing Trolls Are Freaking Out After Learning They Can Get Sued For Calling People 'Groomers' On The Internet (pressprogress.ca)
Other right-wing accounts variously reacted by describing the move as Orwellian, lamenting the death of free speech and even contemplating leaving Canada for good....
Israel-Gaza war live: Israeli hostages mistakenly killed by IDF in Gaza were holding makeshift white flag, official says (www.theguardian.com)
Birthday - Sarah's Scribbles (Sarah Andersen) (64.media.tumblr.com)
Sources:...
Award ceremony suspended after writer compares Gaza to Nazi-era Jewish ghettos (www.theguardian.com)
A German foundation has said it will no longer be awarding a prize for political thinking to a leading Russian-American journalist after criticizing as “unacceptable” a recent essay by the writer in which they made a comparison between Gaza and a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe.
Lemmy, what are some of your "oh shit" work stories?
Lesbian couple flees Italy as government strips them of parental rights (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Pluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing” (pluralistic.net)
Popular gay YouTuber deletes online presence after video accuses him of rampant plagiarism (www.lgbtqnation.com)
James Somerset was making $170,000 a year with nearly 6 million views and 267,000 subscribers on YouTube, until...
I'm pretty sure my nine second video is less than 20 terabytes. (lemmy.world)
At this point I’m convinced that Facebook actively hates its mobile site.
A new fragrance for introverts (lemmy.world)
An AI Singer-Songwriter Just Debuted Her Original Song—And The Responses Are Just Brutal (www.comicsands.com)
AI singer-songwriter ‘Anna Indiana’ debuted her first single ‘Betrayed by this Town’ on X, formerly Twitter—and listeners were not too impressed.
Google removes app that helps people boycott pro-Israel companies (www.newsweek.com)
Bethesda are individually rebutting Starfield Steam reviewers, defending the loading breaks and "empty" worlds (web.archive.org)
European Parliament votes to abolish member states’ veto | Cyprus Mail (cyprus-mail.com)
"Political Nuance" by PervisTime (lemmy.world)
www.extrafabulouscomics.com...
What are you looking forward to in 2024?
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Seriously spends $80 to drive 20km.. (lemmy.ca)
Japan is on its own wavelength. (lemmy.world)
when will be your last time to vote for the "lesser of two evils"?
When will be your “this is the last fucking time I’m voting for the ‘lesser of two evils’, then I don’t care after that, let this country burn to the ground”? For me, this is basically it. This is last election I’m going for that " lesser of two evils" bullshit. After that I’m done. It’s just pointless. Let’s...
Can licking an iron bar get you the daily recommended amount of iron?
How many licks would it take? Can the iron in bars even be processed by the body? Can you do this for other minerals?
Ethernet is Still Going Strong After 50 Years - IEEE Spectrum (spectrum.ieee.org)
Milestone-Proposal:Ethernet Local Area Network (LAN), 1973-1985
Anon is in a relationship (sh.itjust.works)
Texas secessionists feel more emboldened than ever (www.texastribune.org)
Standing in front of a massive state flag on Saturday, Claver Kamau-Imani outlined his utopian vision of a Nation of Texas that he believes is just on the horizon....
Do you have a fire extinguisher on hand?
This is going to be more of a life pro tip, but trying to reach the largest audience here....
Why does the value of things in dollars not make sense?
This is difficult to explain. I can’t figure out a rule of thumb for spending, the prices of things fluctuate so quickly it’s confusing. Here are some examples...
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Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but it's not happening (lemmy.world)
Communist Filth/Capitalist Filth (lemmy.ml)
Elon Musk "Looking Into" PlayStation And Xbox (NB: also Blizzard) Removing Twitter/X Support (www.gamespot.com)
"The Sound and the Fury" by J. L. Westover (files.mastodon.social)
@MrLovenstein (toot)...
Investigation disproves Israel claim of Hamas tunnel under Gaza hospital (www.aljazeera.com)
What something you wish you had done during your 20's? (kbin.social)