@BananaTrifleViolin@dukemirage a huge proportion of the stuff people watch on Netflix/listen to on Spotify is really old media you could get second hand on CD/DVD for pennies. I mean how much is a Friends box set going for nowadays
@sugarinyourtea@BarneyPiccolo especially in a language as widely used as English with regional nuance that an NLP could never distinguish. When I say "quite" is it an American "quite" or a British "quite"? Same for "rather"? What does it mean if we're tabling this thing in the agenda? When/for how long is something happening, momentarily? Neither the speaker nor the program will have a clue how these things are being interpreted, and likely will not even realise there are differences.
@FreedomAdvocate if I were law enforcement I probably could establish whether you had a driver's licence, but who's making me do it? If I tried to put you in jail for driving without a licence, even though you had a licence that I didn't check, what's your recourse?
@FreedomAdvocate What's the process to make sure those get checked before you get punished for being there? I say "you" on purpose - if I said "freedom advocate is here illegally! Take them!" and they believed me and threw you in the back of a van, what would you expect to happen at that point? Who would you speak to? How? How would you make sure they did what needed to be done to establish your legality? How would you make them check your papers?
@MutilationWave@chronicledmonocle fun fact: old printers didn't have it in their font sets so they used to use a Y which is why "Ye" exists as an old-fashioned "the"
@core@RestrictedAccount like watching the modern American equivalent of the British right-wing press in action. The Daily Mail was openly fascist until WWII started. Say what you want people to think while it's profitable, but if the worm turns, find a new opinion...It's a good thing. He's not as bright as he thinks and has few morals to speak of, but he's a good bellwether.
@TheGrandNagus@Cosmonauticus i can see a very dull future of filling in individual details for all minor-brand/non-US/homemade items in your fridge because the fridge doesn't have the details in its catalogue. Or the company changes the size but leaves the branding intact (hi, shrinkflation) so the fridge gets confused...
@TheGrandNagus@Cosmonauticus how would a smart fridge know whether a box of something or a carton of something was full or empty? Weight-sensitive shelves? Would you have to show it everything you put in or took out to make sure it registered? Seems like a faff.
@Jason2357@funkajunk I mean that was the initial selling point for Gmail wasn't it? Don't worry about deleting or archiving anything, ever, you can just search for it... Basic file management skills sidelined.
@grrgyle yeah you can follow Lemmy topics on Mastodon - every comment in this one is auto-boosted by @politics and I can click in to see the whole conversation.
@freebee@tunetardis regarding centre of mass - the bike, itself, is heavier than the scooter too. And "sit-up-and-beg" positioned shopper-style town bikes move your mass even further back - little chance of catapulting forward on one of those. The centre of mass is far lower on a bike.
@boatswain@egrets same as firing staff only to use more expensive contractors to do the same job, or selling a building you own only to rent the same building from someone else. It doesn't come from the same budget line, because it's lower risk, in the sense that you could in theory just stop paying the money if your strategy/situation changes, and you won't have ongoing expenses just from "owning" the thing. In reality you're usually still locked in, just paying more.
@BananaTrifleViolin @dukemirage a huge proportion of the stuff people watch on Netflix/listen to on Spotify is really old media you could get second hand on CD/DVD for pennies. I mean how much is a Friends box set going for nowadays