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  • Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder

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  • BTW you can/should install an alternative YT frontend on smart TVs, if you want to watch YT and are forced to use a smart TV. Even something semi-suitable like Pipepipe will do, but there are also frontends more suited for TV use, e.g. SmartTube

  • Brilliant, innit?

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  • There are jurisdictions where a price tag in the store is almost always assumed to be an offer (a.k.a "public offer") and the company is legally required to honor it. In some circumstances the employees who screwed up and put the incorrect price tag will bear most the financial responsibility which sucks. That's why you shouldn't do it if you get the chance - it's not a legal loophole to stick it to a corpo, you're just ruining the life of some poor overworked retail employee who misplaced the price tag.

    And yeah, the good faith part is also really important. If the person has asked a couple of questions to a chatbot, got recommended some products, asked if there's a discount available and then got an 80% discount out of the blue, got excited and made the deposit, it would probably be enforceable. If the customer knowingly "tricked" an LLM into giving out a bogus discount code, it would be very dubious at best.

  • 😔😔😔

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  • That last one could get him killed if the tribe knew who he is (inshallah)

  • 😔😔😔

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  • In context of his conversations with Epstein which came to light recently, it seems like by "happiness" he means "raping children"?

    Like, even with all his money he couldn't get invited to those disgusting pedo "parties".

  • I wrote an article about Luddism and Linux.

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  • To expand on the other comment, Luddites were not necessarily against technological progress. Rather they used destruction of certain types of machinery as a political tool: to temporarily extend their power as skilled laborers, and to intimidate the factory owners into recognizing their unions or getting certain laws passed.

  • this is not a spiral

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  • I actually saw them as concentric circles first, and the spiral effect is subtle but I can get it if I stare at the very center of the image. My vision is really bad on one eye, so I guess that might have something to do with it.

  • What a French class of students thinks of the UK/Canada/USA/Ireland/Australia

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  • English countries

    Ireland

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    Bait and switch, Tovarich

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  • Conflating jews and israelis is antisemitism pushed by zionists.

    It doesn't matter much who was behind Epstein's operation, it was primarily funded and sustained by US billionaire elite themselves, stop shifting blame away from a bunch of rapist oligarchs.

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    Rent is theft

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  • If you're paying a mortgage, you get to live there for the duration of it, and then you get to own the place at the end.

    If you're paying rent, you get to live there for the duration of it, and at the end you own nothing.

    If we're going to compare it with food, it's like cooking your own food vs. going out to eat. If you cook on your own, you'll need to pay a bit more upfront for the equipment, but you own that equipment until it breaks and can make food for much cheaper from then on. If you go out to eat every day, at the end you're left with nothing.

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    Rent is theft

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  • The problem is that in your original comment, you are presenting a false trichotomy: people need to pay rent, or own a house, or be homeless. There is indeed a fourth option of providing social housing, free at the point of use.

    Not many people are calling for the end of homeownership.

    It depends on what precisely is meant by "ownership", but maybe I am.

    Personally I'm in favor of some modified version of the chinese system where almost everyone "owns" a home, but their children can't inherit it. I think technically the state owns all the housing, and provides people with a cheap/free lifetime lease of some kind. There should also be a limit on how many properties a single person can own, and renting those places out should be banned.

    And then as a compliment there should also be some excess state-owned social housing. There are edge-cases where for one reason or another you can't/don't want to own.

    So yeah in general I think we need to abolish the concept of homeownership as it exists in the west.

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  • Even if you misinterpret the argument that way, social housing could be provided for free at the point of use, with no rent to be paid. The main distinction is whether the housing is owned and controlled by private or public entities; the former will necessarily demand a profit to be made, the latter can operate at net zero spending or even "at a loss" by spending taxpayer funds as a social service.

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    Rent is theft

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  • Generally yes, because you are also building up equity that way. Renting is just money wasted down the drain.

  • Someone got tired of hallucinated reports

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  • you will get errors on your errors.

    Python3: hold my beer

     
        
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

  • Oddly specific

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  • Why not? Not everyone has the money or knowledge/tools/time to fix it, and that's ok. Sometimes fixing it costs more than the car itself (e.g. when Prius gets its factory cat stolen).

    Also, what if the person doesn't have a car at all?

  • YSK that every single thing Donald Trump is doing was predicted in this article published right before the election

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  • Who are the "good guys"? The only remotely non-evil person who had a serious bid for president is Sanders, the rest are straight up pieces of shit who bankroll genocides, bomb civilians, and empower their billionaire donors. Even then, Sanders is ineffective, somewhat zionist, and old, and I don't see a viable young replacement even for someone like him.

    In the US, the political mainstream isn't "good guys vs bad guys", it's 80% hitler vs 100% hitler.

  • This is America

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    No wonder Reddit has turned to shit

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  • The benefit of the fediverse is that it's trivially "forkable". If lemmy.world and other big instances get overwhelmed with bullshit, I fully expect that many smaller chill/focused instances will defederate and keep on doing their own things, chatting only with each other - no need to jump any ships. Perhaps there would also be some in-between, instances which are federated with both worlds, and where you can get a combination of tons of niche information/entertainment but with bots, and a small amount of genuine human interaction. I hope if that ever happens, lemmy-the-software gets sorting algorithms to deal with these situations.

  • It sure looks like JK Rowling was a personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein, AFTER he was already convicted

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  • I wouldn't be surprised, but also I'm not sure if this is good enough evidence.

    Jx is a really short string, it is probably used as a signature by dozens or hundreds of women.

    The broadway thing could also have been arranged through some other channel, I'm sure epstein had plenty of connections there outside of rowling.

    She's a PoS as it is, no need to drag near-conspiracy theories into it. Same reason why it's counterproductive to dig up wild stories about trump from the files, he's a pedo piece of shit but those stories are clearly and obviously made up and discredit everyone who brings them up.

  • How accurate is this?

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  • TBH like a half of those questions is something I could ask when I was younger, and the other half might have been asked by my friends when they were high. I hope I didn't upset the retail workers too much...

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