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  • Seagate's fraudulent hard drives scandal deepens as clues point at Chinese Chia mining farms

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  • I had a similar training selling stuff for a remodeling company.

    I quit on the second day of training. It felt gross, and I told them I was really uncomfortable with their tactics and that’s 100% why I was quitting..

    I also don’t watch tv and go out of my way to avoid ads :) pihole on the network, Plex and physical media for media needs.

  • Don't take damage, EZ

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  • Hey candy land is difficult. I mean how can you play after you eat all the candies? Plus hospital tables aren’t ever big enough for the board!

  • Gen Z are over having their work ethic questioned: ‘Most boomers don’t know what it’s like to work 40+ hours a week and still not be able to afford a house’

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  • When I was young we averaged moving every 4.5 years, but for reasons, I got very accustomed to changing environments every year or so, and as an adult I’ve struggled to stay in one place for the clean start it offers, but moving is so expensive now, and I don’t like driving anywhere near enough to be a nomad van dweller type.

    I can maybe do it one more time in the near future, assuming money and housing values don’t tank first, but that’s probably it for the rest of my days. I hope it really scratches the anxious itch for change, cuz if not..

  • The Indonesian Navy continues to amaze me

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  • Probably because a skeleton crew for one of those is an absolute shitload of people (Nimitz-class carriers have a standard compliment of 3,200, not including the air division, so pilots and mechanics and such).. and like sure you could probably get rid of some stuff and cut that in half, but it would still require a lot more staff than a super yacht (20-50 crew), including nuclear technicians/engineers and stuff which would probably be expensive.

    Plus you’d be spending a ton to demilitarize and make the below-decks spaces comfortable, as that’s the vast majority of the ship. But in so doing, you may actually alter the ballast of the ship causing it to float higher and become unstable..

    Why bother when you can get a status symbol custom made for you, you know?

  • Crash tests didn't prepare for this

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  • This must be how Oscar Meyer wienermobiles are made. I mean I don’t see a buncar anywhere, but all the same.

  • MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs

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  • I’d rather not have robot bees. I’ve seen hated in the nation (black mirror episode).

  • Go to wikihow and press on "random article". That is what you die doing. How do you die?

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  • YSK, that on most smartphones, if you press the power button 5 (or more) times in quick succession, you can quickly call emergency services.

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  • My local pd sends someone out even if you tell them it was an accident.

    This may only be for woman-type people, I don’t know, but the couple times I’ve accidentally called they always sent someone by to talk to me just to make sure I really don’t need them.

    Kinda obnoxious, since I would be very unlikely to call the PD even if they were needed (only call the cops if you are ok with the possibility someone innocent will die), but I guess good on them for.. being proactive.. I guess.

  • YSK, that on most smartphones, if you press the power button 5 (or more) times in quick succession, you can quickly call emergency services.

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  • On iOS, 5 quick presses doesn’t call emergency services, it reverts your phone to a pre-login state and gives you emergency options, so you can easily call 911, but it’s not required to use it.

    This is super helpful to know if you have biometrics enabled. So cops can’t hold your phone in front of your face to unlock it if you do this.

    Try it if you have iOS. 5 presses quick, you’ll feel a vibration to let you know it worked so you can do it from your pocket.

  • The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers

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  • I’ve only used genAI once, to re-write my resume. (And I played with image generation to sort of see what it can do and be a muse for me because I’m aphantasic, but I was wiiiiiildly disappointed.)

    It spit out something less good than what I fed into it, hallucinated a ton of skills and experience I don’t have, and it looked like AI slop when it was done. So a lose-lose.

    Might be good for people who don’t know things or who can’t write for shit (so your average first year college student, IME) but.. honestly it’s garbage if you aren’t average or below already. So I’m not surprised it’s ruining people’s ability to function.

    Ai is a tool for dumb people (sorry. not sorry.) to land good jobs that dumb people shouldn’t hold or be hiring for, and that’s about it.

  • ‘It’s like a cult’: Dems not laughing at GOP messaging bills honoring Trump

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  • As long as it’s functional.

    But it needs to be a pit toilet.

  • Diablo 4 lead claims players don’t actually want classic Diablo back as modern gamers are too “consumptive”

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  • What do battle passes even do? Is that the same thing as “season pass” things in other games (not that I know what those do either tbh)?

    I never pay for, and thus don’t look at, any game stuff that’s not included, so I’m totally ootl on this one.

  • Checking in

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  • Hahaha I had the same experience learning Russian. It’s so hard to find simple stuff like dick and Jane, but in another language.

    Interestingly, comic books, especially those which have been translated into multiple languages (marvel, dc, etc) are almost easier. They usually have short, less-complicated sentences, and the context is pictorial. Plus it’s not boring af to read, which is ultra-helpful. Maybe that’s why people like manga and anime so much..? Idk.

  • You're really not turning me against it.

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  • I went to the cannabis fair,

    The cops and hippies were there,

    The guy I was with, started spouting a myth,

    But I really couldn’t care.

    He tried to tell me some junk,

    How it would give me a funk,

    But I blew it off, with a powerful scoff,

    ‘Cuz I don’t care for the bunk, the bunk, the bunk.

    (Sang to a particular recording of an intensely old song “animal fair”, in which “and what became of the monk, the monk, the monk-ey” was the end of the first verse, so this is a very very specific joke)

    Edit- Also, as I’ve been playing with it for a bit now, if someone can tell me how to format this so the line breaks carry through but the extra space line doesn’t, I’d love you forever.

  • GOP-controlled N.C. Supreme Court blocks certification of Democrat as winner of close high court race

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  • Nah, they could be exempt the same way lottery winners could be, since they didn’t do anything shady or anti-social to get it. It’s also unlikely they would have the money long (similarly to lottery winners).

    Unless they turned into assholes and got put on the list. Then yeet the new rich! :)

  • GOP-controlled N.C. Supreme Court blocks certification of Democrat as winner of close high court race

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  • Yeeting the rich sounds fun. Just have to be careful where you do it, like the punkin chukin competitions. You know, to prevent any damage to anything important.

    Make it a sport, whomever (or maybe top 5) yeets their rich person the furthest wins 10% of their net worth, the rest is used for social programs.

  • Good as gold

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  • When I was a kid and would send very stuffed letters, we just left a dollar paper clipped to it, they would leave the change the next day for heavier stuff.

    When I was even younger I used to leave flowers in the mailbox for the mail person, and they got me a little flower statue for xmas and left it in the mailbox for me. That’s a memory I haven’t thought of in a long time so that was pleasant :)

  • Meat baby

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  • Better yet, use some thin sliced ham wrapped around cheese and whatever red sauce (bbq, ketchup, marinara, whatever) to create a gooey cavity in the middle..

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    Canadian Politician Offers to Buy Two U.S. States in Response to Trump’s Takeover

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