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amio

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  • Having grown up on sci-fi I always knew there would be people who reject robots and AI on a visceral level. I just thought it wouldn't be me.

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  • Same, I guess. But then I also didn't really expect the "AI" to be a bunch of overhyped nonsense snake oil bullshit, with tremendous practical and ethical problems... so I've got to say I feel pretty comfy with the stance.

  • Why does postal voting favour the American Democratic Party?

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  • Access to voting is the foundation of democracy. Sane systems try to minimize any "pressure" to not vote, for any reason, because any such pressure is very likely to hit some demographics harder than others. The Republicans in particular rather blatantly rely on weaponizing this as a way of subverting democratic principles, by making it disproportionately hard to vote if you're working, or poor, or young, or a minority of pretty much any kind.

    Therefore, anything that increases access to voting, and levels the playing field, is worse for the GOP than being able to keep up the status quo of voter suppression. Hence their extremely shrill opposition to mail, and also the ("hilarious") claims of "fraud" - painting the picture of your democracy being subverted is a handy talking point while you're busy subverting your democracy.

    So the boring answer is that your question is sort of back-to-front: it's not that the mail ballots are skewed as such, it's that access to in-person voting is. Mail ballots favor the Democrats because it is their voter base that's (in this case, anyway) being suppressed.

  • OH GOD YES

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    Snowy owl with babies

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  • They're beautiful. But it also looks like the photographer just said something grossly inappropriate at dinner

  • Why Games Like ‘Highguard’ And ‘Concord’ Are Spontaneously Combusting

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  • You know a fad genre is well and truly dead when Forbes is reporting on it

  • Windows Is Falling Apart, And Microsoft Is Panicking

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  • Exactly. Vista was rushed and buggy but that's, y'know, par for the course really. I think there was a time in the 00's where they really wanted to be extremely optimistic about Moore's law-style performance gains, and for some reason they thought they could aim ahead of the curve. Cue Vista actually running like dogshit even aside from outright crashes and such.

  • Windows Is Falling Apart, And Microsoft Is Panicking

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  • You simply cannot vibe code a good operating system.

    Hell, they weren't doing too well before that, either. The whole creepy "we know better" vibe was pretty noticeable before the advent of LLMs too - although of course it's made it a ton worse. But they were always inept and douchy to boot.

    As the joke goes, "Do you think Microsoft understands consent? Yes / Maybe yes later"

    (Personally I think 11 is way worse than Vista - in isolation, relative to the previous one, morally, somehow UX wise, pretty much any metric you want.)

  • YSK you can poison your personal data to fight against surveillance capitalism.

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  • True, just thought it was funny.

  • YSK you can poison your personal data to fight against surveillance capitalism.

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  • The irony in this being a youtube link though

  • Would it theoretically be possible for a planet to stay at the same place in an "orbit" of its parent body?

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  • No, not really - if in geosynchronous orbit you could choose your frame of reference so it rotates with the parent body, making the satellite appear stationary, but that feels like trickery. In terms of mechanics, the satellite will be moving roughly parallel to the surface; if you took a satellite and magically stopped all its momentum, it'd drop in a straight line towards the parent. Changing the speed means changing the trajectory, probably flinging the satellite off into space or putting it on collision course with its parent.

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    A lot of weird shit has happened to me in the last three years. I've told the story many times and almost no one believes me

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  • Work on your reading comprehension, mate. Edit: oh, it's you. Actually don't bother lmao

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    A lot of weird shit has happened to me in the last three years. I've told the story many times and almost no one believes me

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  • Shame then, since even if you were right it'd be pretty fucking difficult to empathize with in any way.

  • Could have been a prule

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  • Kind of a disgusting sentiment, not gonna lie.

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    A lot of weird shit has happened to me in the last three years. I've told the story many times and almost no one believes me

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  • while in many cases people take things too seriously, avoiding "the N word with a hard R" at all seems relatively easy

  • Europeans asking for a reddit alternative

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  • The tankie stuff turns out to still remain a hard sell, who could've imagined... (block lemmyml if you can, if you can't, switch platforms and then block .ml)

    One unfortunate limitation of the fediverse is that blocking undesired categories of content is harder than on reddit: when you block a subreddit, it doesn't exist on 50 other instances. None of the fediverse stuff handles that gracefully, the "subreddit" approach was just not a good choice for this kind of thing.

  • Founder Admits His "AI Transcription" Startup Was Just Him Joining People's Meetings and Taking Notes by Hand

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  • That way maybe some of it will be accurate.

  • At school were you on the "gifted and pleasure to teach" end or "would do well if applied self and stopped getting distracted"?

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  • First one, then depression kicked in and I was neither

  • Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions?

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  • They don't.

  • Ich😢iel

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  • Grave of the Fireflies? Ach Scheiße.