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flamingo_pinyata,

Everybody thinks they’re chaotic good. Except the lawful good - they are absolutely lawful evil.

flamingo_pinyata,

Coming soon in Germany/Japan cooperation - “helicopter frigate”

What opened your eyes to what's happening in Palestine?

We’re a group of activists in a Western country where most have been brought up with either “Israel = good, Hamas = bad” or “It’s a sad, but unsolvable conflict between two equal sides”. The media heavily skewed to the Israeli perspective, and our politicians want to condemn protests in support of Palestinians....

flamingo_pinyata,

I had the opposite journey. I used to be more sympathetic to Palestinian side until this war started. Most people and media around me are pro-Palestinian.

But it’s not the whole story. This is a situation where no side is clean or innocent. So many Palestinians support Hamas that it’s hard to have sympathy. Yes, they lived under occupation for decades, but learned all the wrong lessons - how to be just as bad as Israel.

The fight is more evenly matched than you suggest. Israel may be winning militarily, but Hamas has the better media presence, and is winning hearts and minds of people around the world. Every dead Palestinian benefits Hamas more than it benefits Israel. They know it, and use it to the fullest extent.

flamingo_pinyata,

haber / a ver

flamingo_pinyata,

Missing all my niche subs, but resisting the temptation to go back.

flamingo_pinyata,

Meaning like you? Yes

flamingo_pinyata,

Well it’s because they are Marxist.
In the Lemmy culture Marxism has a very bad name because almost religious overtones of its adherents.

Which is of ironically very much what Marx was warning against. But that’s how it works right now.

flamingo_pinyata,

Shorts (tiktoks, reels) are designed to do just that, hook you in and keep you scrolling.
It’s like a constant rolling cliffhanger.

Has its good sides - not everything can or should be a long format video. However, I think the scale is tipped too much towards shorts recently. There is not enough time in shorts to formulate a proper statement, so they need to stretch over multiple parts.

My biggest dislike is the separation of context - shorts and longs are completely separate in Youtube even by the same creator, and the most popular platform TikTok, doesn’t even support longer videos.

flamingo_pinyata,

Noticed this already, not so much downvoting, but that people here don’t use emojis. Just a weird subculture norm I guess.
🤷‍♀️

flamingo_pinyata,

Modern terminals can display emojis, typing them is still hard though. But yes, older tech crowd is very conservative regarding graphical interfaces, and emojis kinda count as graphics.

flamingo_pinyata,

My guess: using resources of OpenAI for his other personal crypto project Worldcoin

What's stopping banks from creating FOSS (or atleast open-source) banking solutions (apps)?

Let’s say, I create a bank with the caveat that all of my banking phone apps and webapps are FOSS (or if they depend on non-free components — banks probably do to communicate with each other —, then just OSS). Am I going to be behind the competition by doing this?...

flamingo_pinyata,

As long as the bank has a good API, there’s nothing stopping anyone except money.

There is a cost to making a good app. And banks have no incentive to open source their current apps - if it’s any good it’s a competitive advantage.

For example - I’m currently using a bank because their app is awesomely good (compared to other banks). Why would they open source it - it means customers might go to other banks who do better on interest rates, or fees.

flamingo_pinyata,
  1. Have fun, publicly and obviously
  2. Be clean and dressed not too far out of the norm for the fandom (according to the subculture norms, not familiar with the artist in question)
  3. Don’t approach anyone with any kind of sexual hints, even if ambiguous
  4. Act like you know others will make fun of you for being a creepy old guy, show you own it
flamingo_pinyata,

The biggest issue would be microchips which require some really precise machinery to manufacture.

1930s - complete reverse engineering
By then they had both an understanding of semiconductors and computational theory. Using semi-conductive materials to compute wasn’t yet a thing, but there wouldn’t be much surprise at the concept. Some kind of reproduction is likely, probably not a 5nm manufacturing process like modern chip factories, but they could make it.

1890s - eventual understanding, but not able to manufacture
Measuring devices were sensitive enough by then to measure tiny electrical fluctuations. They would be able to tell the device functions due to processing of electrical signals, even capture those signals. Biggest missing piece is mathematical theory - they wouldn’t immediately understand how those electrical signals produce images and results. Reproduction - no. Maybe the would get an idea what’s needed - refining silicon and introducing other stuff into it, but no way they could do it with equipment of the day.

1830s - electricity goes into a tiny box and does calculations, wow!
This is the age of the first great electrical discoveries. They would be in awe what is possible, and understand on a high level how it’s supposed to work. Absolutely no way to make it themselves.

1730s - magic, burn the witch!

flamingo_pinyata,

Do you really want to spend good cheese on strippers? Nothing against strippers but I’d rather keep the good stuff for myself.

flamingo_pinyata,

“Never buy a new car” - the argument being they depreciate quickly, and newer used models are “just as good”.
Nope, got burned twice in a row and wasted more money than if I’d bought a new one immediately.

flamingo_pinyata,

Ironically that’s exactly what I did.
Dealership inspection was crap didn’t catch obvious issues, and 2. I live in a country where Subaru is only a minor player so not a large service network

flamingo_pinyata,

Yes Henrys are English but Henris are French

flamingo_pinyata,

basically a placeholder

  • New Child 1, New Child 2, New Child 3 … don’t you think this is kinda generic?
  • Agreed. We need more imaginative names for our children. What about Louis?!
  • Great idea! Louis 1, Louis 2, Louis 3 …
flamingo_pinyata,

What is dead may never die

flamingo_pinyata,

The entire plan would be a comedy of errors if people weren’t killed. Or an action thriller. Or both actually.

A couple of naive youngsters dreaming of political freedom swayed by a manipulative schemer to kill a guy who wasn’t really responsible for anything.
Plan failing completely because nobody in the group was even close to competent, until a driver took the wrong turn.

flamingo_pinyata,

Ok, that makes sense. I thought it was about slash fics, but couldn’t make sense about “victim” part.

flamingo_pinyata,

Paywall 12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk…

flamingo_pinyata,

thought he was having a nervous breakdown

Is there really a difference between thinking you’re having a nervous breakdown and actually having one?

Btw, saying this as a huge fan of psychedelics, please don’t take any shrooms and drive. Or fly. Or do anything other than lie peacefully in a quiet place and explore your mind.

flamingo_pinyata,

True. I’ve seen some episodes of the Office (American version, haven’t seen the British one) and found it occasionally funny but not legendary. I’m attributing it to the lack of cultural background. I’m not American and never had dealings with relevant kind of company culture.

The Office is parodying for the lack of better term “small town/regional American office culture from early 2000s”. If you ever worked in such an environment you’d probably find it hilarious.

flamingo_pinyata,

*without previous warning

flamingo_pinyata,

Love the vague meat content … chicken, pork, beef … whatever leftovers we have

flamingo_pinyata,

Like most enterprise “automations”, I’m expecting it to require even more manual work from HR employees.
Now alongside with still doing the work the old way, they will also have to input data into the AI to justify millions paid for the new system.

flamingo_pinyata,

I’m expecting them to support a new “legitimate” government which will turn out to be worse than ISIL and join up with aliens to commit a multidimensional extermination of humans.

flamingo_pinyata,

App based 2FA is even worse. Sure it’s more secure but the likelihood of losing account access is much higher.
And don’t talk about saving recovery codes. Security has to be practical and easy.

flamingo_pinyata,

Your life is valuable as well. And you can live it without hurting anyone.

Step one - stop doing it. If you are hurting someone, move as far away from them as you can. Yes you will lose them, but that’s inevitable.

Step two - create a new life for yourself, away from any people or situations that caused problems before.

18+ [GIANT NSFW] What do we do with evil men?

Let’s say hypothetically a terrorist organization, let’s call them Hamas, attacks a community they hate, let’s say the jews, kill civilians indiscriminately, rape women and then kill them, parade them naked where they live and then spit on their dead bodies. They take hostages and force some women among the hostages into...

flamingo_pinyata,

Being forgotten in a prison is more effective than death.
They want to die as martyrs. Deny them their goal.

flamingo_pinyata,

Add reviews as well. Amazon style 1-5 stars with a comment.

flamingo_pinyata,

Any recommendations for Mastodon/Telegram channels to follow the war in Gaza?

flamingo_pinyata,

Biblical Satan is a role, not a person. I’ve seen it translated as “opponent” or “rival”. Something like a “devil’s advocate” in catholic church - person or entity who tests somebody’s faith.

And Lucifer is again a completely different character, not related to Satan until much later.

flamingo_pinyata,

Christians seem to love the concept. The idea is if you keep believing if seriously challenged, it means you are a true believer.

flamingo_pinyata,

Damn that sucks. 8pm-1am is when I feel good

flamingo_pinyata,

How many times do we need to explain the difference casualty and death in military terms …

flamingo_pinyata,

This. I don’t need anything fancy, just copy the same functionality as in mobile. Even the same layout is ok, with a bit horizontal stretch.

flamingo_pinyata,

It would certainly be an interesting show watching an armed man in a forest coming up to attackers and trying to hug them, telling how much he loves them and making friends.

flamingo_pinyata,

Less than 1%? Did they forget to flip a boolean condition?
Like that’s worse than random, it’s worse than if you intentionally wanted to be wrong.

flamingo_pinyata,

Joke would have been funny if it didn’t refer to her as a “whore”. Making fun of people acting like idiots - fine. Insulting people who like sex - not fine.

flamingo_pinyata,

🥇

flamingo_pinyata,

Oh, all this time I thought they were believing in actual lizard people.

How do they know, like how do racists exchange this information if they never openly mention jews?

flamingo_pinyata,

Must be a really expensive breakfast

flamingo_pinyata,

Quora tried it. Did “wonders” for the quality of content.
Does anyone remember Quora any more?

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