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TheObviousSolution

@ TheObviousSolution @lemm.ee

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  • Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites

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  • Imagine dreaming to fly to space only to be denied having it because you also cared about the rights of indigenous people.

  • The new Hulu Subscriber agreement just dropped - Don't like ads too bad.

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  • The biggest enabler of these are those bundles you get with cable / Internet providers. Do yourself a favor and buy these individually if at all so you can stop the subscriptions at any time without worries.

  • China urges citizens to trade in 'old lithium e-bikes' for newer lead acid electric bikes

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  • I don't think you realize just how fast lead acid batteries deteriorate when using their smaller charge capacities. In cars and many electronics they are used because they can be shamelessly charged to 100%, and they are supposed to maintain 100% or close to it. They require constant monitoring to be stored properly in a way that lasts. Using them up below 50% will decrease their lifespan significantly. Lithium batteries are quite different, they shouldn't be charged to 100% but in turn they can use a greater amount of their charge while holding more of it without significant deterioration. They have significantly longer lifespans when used properly. Before we had gasoline cars we had electric cars that used lead acid batteries, there's a reason they stopped being used.

    What China wants to do is eliminate the older lithium ebikes because they were built with barely any safety regulation. To do this, they need to offer a cheaper option to their citizens, and the only way they can essentially do this without the original problem persisting is using lead acid batteries, because even a cheap lead acid battery with a cheap charger isn't going to fail spectacularly like the lithium ones. LiFePO4 are far safer than lithium while still having higher energy densities, but you won't see those get promoted because they would be costlier.

  • Mark Zuckerberg starts Meta earnings call by praising Trump administration

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  • So what? Either reason is bad.

  • things are definitely different

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  • Because the alternative is much worse and arguments like yours are so far more deceptive that they are the Hail Mary of autocratic troll factories.

    Just because you don't get the choices you want or should have does not mean you should throw it away, and if what Trump isn't proving that already, then you are either a dumbass or arguing in bad faith. People like you are far more responsible for Trump and as a consequence his actions than the voters you claim to hate.

    It is perfectly possible to try to work to change a system from the outside that cannot be changed from the inside while trying to use whatever influence you have on the inside to prevent the worst aspects of it. Instead you choose play acting and then shaking off responsibility.

  • OpenAI Says DeepSeek Used Its Work Without Permission

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  • There's a name for that. It's called "karma".

  • things are definitely different

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  • Like not spamming the same comment multiple times and like realizing that the only but quite essential power you do have is choosing between the least worse candidate because the much worse candidate will go the complete autocrat route. I can't believe how brainwashed some people continue to be to try to argue they have not just doomed Gaza, helped expand Guantanamo Bay, or have endangered people's right while trying to use examples of how it could have been better as an "argument".

  • Google Forcing Gemini Down Our Throats Feels aLot Like Microsoft and Internet Explorer, But More Insidious

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  • I tried to ask it how I could remove it, Gemini told me that in order for me to help it I needed to active some of the "smart" features I didn't have active on my account, essentially helping do the opposite. It follows the ever increasing practice of trying to shove basically illegal behavior into "it's just the algorithm, bro, there was no intent!"

  • things are definitely different

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  • That's the thing, when most of society laughs at that, the chances of having any sort of democratic process work drop to nothing.

  • things are definitely different

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  • Yeah, because people should vote on excitement and engagement, not truth ... totally doesn't devolve a democratic process into one of reactionary populisms fueled by false promises. If people want to get excited, they should go to a theme park. If they have a shred of civil responsibility, they vote, specially when things were as bad as they were.

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    AI refuse to believe Musk is a Nazi

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  • It is still living in 2023 in regards to the data its operating with. Try going back to 2023 to warn people Felon Musk would not only begin performing Nazi salutes and support the German far right and you would get laughed out the door. They've basically made it so that thinking things through even slightly or looking at the history of the last century is "too woke". They are trying to make the "Twit-ler Youth" a thing again.

  • What is jury nullification and what does it mean for Luigi Mangione’s defense? | CNN

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  • I can't be clearer either. The jury needs to have a sense of what they are participating in it, and "consider whether evidence confirms the defendant performed the acts they are charged with" is just another way of saying they have to determine something but disingenuously acting like it's completely different. Grammar Nazis, people who will argue to oblivion about something, MAGAists, they all have one thing in common, they focus and overextend very limited but convenient interpretations in order to build walls around a context that suits them.

  • jointhefediverse.net - Why was Lemmy removed from the list of fediverse alternatives?

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  • I would think so, given I'm actually replying, something the accounts with significant periods of inactivity or with simply no activity at all making upvotes/downvotes don't seem to be doing.

  • What is jury nullification and what does it mean for Luigi Mangione’s defense? | CNN

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  • "Juries are required to perform determinations based on a system of ethically based laws and justice. That does not require a sense of ethics and justice."

    Try again.

  • Zuckerberg calls for "repopulation" of "cultural elite class"

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  • He could have just said the same thing in one word: imperialism.

  • jointhefediverse.net - Why was Lemmy removed from the list of fediverse alternatives?

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  • I have no idea why that would be surprising or I should care.

  • jointhefediverse.net - Why was Lemmy removed from the list of fediverse alternatives?

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  • Their claims regarding privacy are really not surprising, it's very on-brand for the developer's ideology to eliminate transparency for users in the platform while keeping everything stored and federated in the back end for the ruling elite, which if and when they decide to, become the arbiters of who can and won't see it. They haven't even bothered to provide any form of recourse to contest it, you basically have to go looking for people yourself. At least until mod member lists are made private too.

    I fully agree with their decision, Lemmy is transient at best. They could still include Mbin, but why include a loaded deck? Actually, decided to check, yep, they did, kudos to them, they really did think it through.

    Downvote all you want, still ain't gonna change that jointhefediverse.net decision (based as fuck) 😂

  • If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck...

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  • Just make a post about Kim Jong-un banning hot dogs, they love that!

  • Lol, they locked all the posts for the community

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  • If you satirically make a community about the Earth being a triangle, users who actually believe it will pop up eventually.