Donald Trump has been in a New York court today to defend himself against charges of longtime financial fraud, but during a recess in the proceedings, he targeted the judge hearing his case with a livid, deluded eight-minute rant....
The one good thing about this trial is that America is realizing how chronically inadequate its laws are for expecting people in political office (or campaigning for) to behave within the law. Everyone is human and bound to abuse and the law should set clear boundaries to prevent that abuse.
The root cause that all comments here in Lemmy miss is the Chinese approach to tax funding, which is entirely built on cities and provinces being expected to generate tax income through land sales to property developers, and then public officials competency and rise inside the party being measured by the size of that tax income generated trough land sale.
China needs to adopt a western style of income and consumption taxation if they don’t have one but I understand that internal enforcements is very lax (to prevent popular protests) and corruption (that ends up siphoning off any revenue raised through taxes).
In short, that housing stock will remain unused and, without maintenance and continued use, will only deteriorate over time, leaving cities with a terrible burdensome legacy
The fleet’s mission-capable rate — or the percentage of time a plane can perform one of its assigned missions — was 55 per cent as of March 2023, far below the Pentagon’s goal of 85 per cent to 90 per cent, the Government Accountability Office said on Thursday....
Canada under Trudeau has been a magnet of international friction - first with China and Hong Kong with that Huawei thing, then India with the Sikhs. Maybe Canada should focus more on prevention instead of punishment?
China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas.
The German tech company KLEO Connect aims to establish its own network of satellites in low Earth orbit that can provide internet to remote locations, hoping to rival Starlink.
California, the biggest state in the US when it comes to both population and the sheer volume of tech companies squeezed into its borders, has just passed the country's most extreme right to repair bill in the US (via Ars Technica). It's the third state to pass such a bill, but goes further than either Minnesota or New York in...
As more and more states pass laws targeting "pornographic material" in books and online, they are repeatedly running up against a problem: The Bible has not just a few passages that could be considered indecent
Not denying that Biden is very old and that any vote for him carries a material probability that it also elects the VP for president, the vast majority of politicians are very old in the USA
Zoom, the videoconferencing platform that profited substantially from remote work during the pandemic, is now asking employees to return to the office. Its CEO, Eric Yuan, claims Zoom meetings don’t let people build trust or be innovative....
People say that way of thinking is cynical, but I have worked in the system implementation and system consulting arms of EDS, IBM, and Accenture and that assumption (that the whole thing can be maintained by junior devs one the initial build is complete) is actually how middle managers within client companies have to budget their transition from “build” into “business as usual” stage so that senior managers approve the system implementation/migration.
While the concept that it takes specialized knowledge and experience is true, not having means to retain experience means that it will be chaos some six months down the road when some manager wants to do an enhancement as none of the juniors will understand why certain design choices were made and the implications on the rest of the architecture
On a federated server system layout, that search would be tremendously computationally/network intensive as it would require somehow finding out all instances and communities within each instance and repolling the servers to get that info periodically to ensure the list is updated. A better approach would be an app (on your mobile or hosted somewhere) that would maintain a list of servers and would do that query outside of the servers that handle conversations.
Maybe all this is on purpose so he can blame the factory workers on why the product never materialize and he can avoid the shame of having unsold inventory as people realize the car is fugly
Brazil “eu caguei e andei” (I shat and walked). Functionally equivalent to “I don’t give a shit” but in Portuguese one actually shits but doesn’t care to wipe and walks away or walks at the same as is shitting.
In a way the US will always attract immigrants - qualified or not - and they will make up for lost local fertility. So it kinda makes sense the US does not care for its own people
On the other hand that low fertility may help reduce the youth unemployment rate in 20 years from now. The same rate that the Chinese government decided to give up computing…
The deal to bring Sam Altman back to OpenAI has fallen apart, Former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear will now take over as interim CEO (www.theverge.com)
In today’s OpenAI clown show news
Gabe Newell on why game delays are okay: 'Late is just for a little while. Suck is forever.' (www.pcgamer.com)
Planuts (startrek.website)
Microsoft to remove Windows 11 Tips app, following Cortana's demise (www.xda-developers.com)
never liked it anyway
Man Gets 100 Years for Accidentally Killing His 8-Year-Old Daughter While Trying to Shoot His 18-Year-Old Son (people.com)
Linux is amazing on my old Thinkpad
I have an old ThinkPad SL-400 with a Core 2 Duo processor and 4 gigabytes of RAM....
I never understood why Americans treat their Constitution like some holy book (files.catbox.moe)
link to toot
A livid Donald Trump rants against judge hearing his New York fraud case (www.dailykos.com)
Donald Trump has been in a New York court today to defend himself against charges of longtime financial fraud, but during a recess in the proceedings, he targeted the judge hearing his case with a livid, deluded eight-minute rant....
Richard Stallman Reveals He has Cancer at GNU 40 year anniversary conference (www.youtube.com)
I wish Richard Stallmann all the best and many many more years to come....
China's 1.4 billion population isn't enough to fill the country's empty homes, former official says (www.businessinsider.com)
EU does not want to decouple from China but must protect itself, says EU trade chief (www.cnbc.com)
Reflecting on Canada's F-35 decision: F-35 fighter jets can only fly 55% of the time (www.ft.com)
The fleet’s mission-capable rate — or the percentage of time a plane can perform one of its assigned missions — was 55 per cent as of March 2023, far below the Pentagon’s goal of 85 per cent to 90 per cent, the Government Accountability Office said on Thursday....
Another country has called Xi a 'dictator' and China is not happy with that description (edition.cnn.com)
China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas.
Germany blocks full Chinese takeover of satellite startup on national security grounds (techxplore.com)
The German tech company KLEO Connect aims to establish its own network of satellites in low Earth orbit that can provide internet to remote locations, hoping to rival Starlink.
Games consoles are infuriatingly exempt from California's otherwise important new right to repair bill (www.pcgamer.com)
California, the biggest state in the US when it comes to both population and the sheer volume of tech companies squeezed into its borders, has just passed the country's most extreme right to repair bill in the US (via Ars Technica). It's the third state to pass such a bill, but goes further than either Minnesota or New York in...
Neo-Nazis Gloat as Florida Becomes a Magnet for Hate (www.rollingstone.com)
As white supremacists from as far as Canada revel in intimidating Sunshine State residents, critics blast DeSantis for his silence
Unity rushes to clarify price increase plan, as game developers fume (www.axios.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/5186904...
Intel announces Thunderbolt 5 with double the bandwidth (40 Gbps to 80 Gbps) (www.macworld.com)
Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Japanese newspaper Gigazine goes over the slow decline of technological freedom up to today. (archive.ph)
The original japanese article....
Death trap toilet. (feddit.uk)
Reddit users are reporting Christian websites for violating Virginia's new porn identification law, citing vulgar passages in the Bible (www.insider.com)
As more and more states pass laws targeting "pornographic material" in books and online, they are repeatedly running up against a problem: The Bible has not just a few passages that could be considered indecent
I'd like to interject for a moment... (lemmy.ml)
Taken from the CompTIA IT Fundamentals Exam Guide book (2nd edition, published 2021). I’m not sure if they fixed this in newer versions, if at all.
Zoom CEO says Zoom meetings hinder innovation and debate, wants employees back in the office (www.zdnet.com)
Zoom, the videoconferencing platform that profited substantially from remote work during the pandemic, is now asking employees to return to the office. Its CEO, Eric Yuan, claims Zoom meetings don’t let people build trust or be innovative....
The German Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament has ditched X (Twitter) in favour of open-source decentralised Mastodon (gadgeteer.co.za)
Leaked Email Shows Elon Musk Demanding "Sub 10 Micron Accuracy” Cybertruck Parts (jalopnik.com)
Tesla is facing issues with the bare metal construction of the Cybertruck, which Elon Musk warned was as tricky to do as making Lego bricks
Fukushima: The fishy business of China's outrage over Japan's release (www.bbc.com)
In China, there is alarm over the nuclear plant's water but its seafood ban isn't rooted in science.
Trump's mug shot (lemmy.world)
Trump replaces top Georgia lawyer ahead of surrender (www.cnn.com)
Former President Donald Trump has replaced his top Georgia lawyer ahead of his surrender Thursday evening, sources tell CNN....
Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale (www.404media.co)
Each of these reads like an extremely horny and angry man yelling their basest desires at Pornhub’s search function.
I’ve found it! The pinnacle of 1970s “chic” (feddit.uk)
The carpet, the jacuzzi, the steps, the mirrors above the bed… and I’d put money on that being a waterbed! Glorious.
What is your favorite insult in your native language that doesn't exist or cant be directly translated in English?
Ill start:...
TIL the US is the only rich country offering no national paid parental leave (www.bbc.com)
Today in "Things that exist instead of a new Castlevania game" (lemmy.world)
There is a reason why Linux is my main operating system of choice -- and it's not because of the freedom. (lemmy.world)
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Ist Donald Trump ein Sexmonster? (lemmygrad.ml)
China's fertility rate drops to record low 1.09 in 2022 (www.reuters.com)
Britain warns of possible terrorist attacks in Sweden (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1462388...
It would appear lemmy.world has blocked this community (sh.itjust.works)
!piracy has also been blocked from lemmy.world....