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Ashelyn

@ Ashelyn @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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  • Foreign language rule

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  • Specifically, Friday in Japanese translates to Gold Day, which also has a lot of cultural connotations with it being the lucky day of the week

  • Artifical Intelligence

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  • Without scarcity, artificial or not, the ruling class loses their grip on power. Capital will manufacture scarcity to whatever degree it is capable of, because without it there's even less justification for owners to exist at the top of this neat little hierarchy they desperately cling to. They need to have their gated fortresses and their toys, cleanly separated from the rest of us undesirables.

    They'll use AI to bolster the security of their bunkers while drying up the rivers to run them. The whole while, they'll blame any economic decline on the claim that "nobody wants to work anymore" after having automated all the jobs and offering no replacements.

    I'd like to believe an alternative is possible. Perhaps we can come together and push for a better future, but that doesn't seem to be the way things are going currently.

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    License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of More Than Just Cars

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  • I've heard there are hyper-reflective stickers you can put on/near the plate that basically blind a traffic camera's view when trying to read it

  • rule

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  • I believe the wording is "drinks which burn the throat" which naturally means:

    • ❌ Coffee
    • ❌ Alcoholic drinks
    • ❌ Coca Cola
    • ❌ Hot tea
    • ❌ Chai lattes
    • ✅ Sprite, other non-caffeinated soft drinks
    • ✅ Hot Chocolate
    • ✅ Kombucha
    • ✅ Energy drinks???
    • ✅ Herbal Tea (even while hot, but mostly if you're sick as a home remedy)

    Most of the focus is interpreted as "contains caffeine and/or alcohol" but the wording is vague enough that it leaves for a lot of weird wiggle room people try to argue (based on convenience usually). It's quite silly

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  • Advertising is like the Kudzu vine: neat and potentially useful if maintained responsibly, but beyond capable of growing out of control and strangling the very landscape if you don't constantly keep it in check. I think, for instance, that a podcast or over-the-air show running an ad-read with an affiliate link is fine for the most part, as long as it's relatively unobtrusive and doesn't put limitations on what the content would otherwise go over.

    The problem is that there needs to be a reset of advertiser expectations. Right now, they expect the return on investment that comes from hyper-specific and invasive data, and I don't think you can get that same level of effectiveness without it. The current advertising model is entrenched, and the parasitic roots have eroded the foundation. Those roots will always be parasitic because that's the nature of advertising, and the profit motive in general when unchecked.

  • Problems

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  • Also, legality doesn't change the odds of some old white dude taking pot shots from his porch at strange noises, because of precisely the same popular myth

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  • Here's an article with a graph. Given that the figures are measured per 100,000 live births, one would need to find how many births occurred in the state of Texas in the years graphed. I was able to find that exact figure for 2022 in a document from the CDC (on page 8) which comes out to 389,533. Since the overall Texas maternal mortality rate was about 28.5 per 100k births for that year (per the news article), the total number of mortalities would have been about 110.

    If you want I could go find the figure for earlier years as well, but this should serve as a general ballpark the numbers are in. Keep in mind that the maternal mortality rate only factors in live births, so does not include any pregnancy complications involving an unviable fetus.

  • Toxic Masculinity rule

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  • Babe, wake up! New feminization technique just dropped

  • NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules

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  • Years back, I had that happen on PayPal of all websites. Their account creation and reset pages silently and automatically truncated my password to 16 chars or something before hashing, but the actual login page didn't, so the password didn't work at all unless I backspaced it to the character limit. I forgot how I even found that out but it was a very frustrating few hours.

  • Thoughts on parental controls?

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  • Radical unschooling?

  • Top Chinese economist disappears after criticising Xi Jinping

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  • Paywalled article

  • Limerick

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  • This limerick has to be forced to have a decent flow. Who emphasizes the first syllable in "assured"? Lines 3 and/or 4 would probably flow better with an extra syllable, but are otherwise ok and have consistent feet.

    Final verdict: 5/10, needs work

    Also, the little logo at the bottom is trying way too hard

  • If you were the boss of a group of intergalactic explorers, what would you use as the "North" on the space compasses?

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  • We could assign it to any point within a recognizable region in the Cosmic Microwave Background, which would probably be the most universally-applicable reference available. One just needs to be able to filter out the noise from surrounding celestial bodies. The CMB does slowly change over time, but so too does the position of stars within galaxies and galaxies relative to one another.

  • Republicans love DEI

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  • You're telling me that the solution to systemic voter suppression is a massive urban exodus to spread out the voting population until it's homogenous?

    That's the solution, instead of I dunno, forcing the Texas government to stop suppressing voters?

  • Why is UI design backsliding?

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  • Complete side note, I saw your pfp and checked your profile to confirm my suspicions. Thank you for your work on OpenRGB! It's been a great tool for managing the LEDs on my computer.

  • Republicans love DEI

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  • Texas is gerrymandered to shit, and employs pretty nasty voter suppression tactics in populous (see: blue) counties by having very few polling stations per capita in those areas and making it a crime to give water/food to people waiting in line to vote. Big Texas cities are blue for the most part (maybe a few exceptions in the DFW area)

    If you look at pretty much any of the cities within Texas on the latest map, you can see that they consolidate the core of the city into one or two solid blobs, then split the rest out to be diluted by rural areas. See Dallas/Tarrant County, Travis County, Bexar County, and Harris County for the most obvious cases of these.

    https://redistricting.capitol.texas.gov/docs/88th_Senate_Tabloid_2024_05_20.pdf

    On a population level, Texas is basically a blue state held hostage by a red state administration.

  • About that...

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  • Life is suffering. Once you accept that fact wholly, you may ascend

  • Scientists just figured out how many chemicals enter our bodies from food packaging

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  • Oh yeah, it's pretty terrible. Sometimes you can order meat from a deli/butcher counter and get it wrapped in wax paper but there's the extra time spent to order it that way, and there's a possibility that the wax is actually just plastic lining anyways.

    Regardless, if you can find an alternative that works for you, any reduction in plastic is a good thing. It all exists on a sliding scale.

  • Scientists just figured out how many chemicals enter our bodies from food packaging

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  • A lot of times, matters such as these should be seen as more risk management/reduction than risk elimination. A plastic lid has much less contact area than a whole plastic bottle, and single use bottles tend to shed more microplastics than reusable ones.