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frayedpickles

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  • Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old

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  • The federal government does or at least did have a decent in-house open source dev team (legally, work done by the us government has a copyright which belongs to the people, making it roughly open source). The us government is also filled with people who believe that any failure to extract profit is a failure at life, so the government also outsources a bunch of work to priv companies which do retain their copyrights, but it's not required.

  • Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old

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  • How do you think amber alerts work in general? The telecoms lease frequency from government, but they go through the corporate telephone system.

    The problem here isn't corporate or not, it's a specific police department making decisions that don't make sense, namely sending out data on a specific corpo platform without a legally binding agreement that this information will reach people.

    In contrast, my county for example also contracts through a corporation, but that corporation is purpose built to provide municipalities with guaranteed (as much as this is possible) delivery.

  • Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old

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  • He definitely didn't do that in 1990, a lot of people are saying that was Glenn beck.

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  • Not remotely the point

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  • Ok facts 😆

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  • What I find interesting about this comment is that despite living in a fairly dense area, I don't hear these complaints from pedestrians. Not that there aren't deaths, to be clear, it's just that with pedestrians I hear "slower speeds", "traffic calming", "better visibility".

    From bicyclists I hear "fuck, you want me to put a light on my bike? why don't you put a light on your car motherfucker?" (Actual lemmy thread from 1-2 months ago, paraphrased to represent the actual vitriol involved).

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  • Pretty sure the car would absorb the shrapnel far better than your neon spandex though

  • Shitting on Windows built-in media player if you didn't know

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  • Mpc is literally designed to look like the media player from windows 98....just with actual functionality.

    VLC doesn't need to be new it needs to be good. How about a nice forward=next in folder backward=back in folder? How about a nice click-anywhere-to-pause. How about being able to move the video player around without grabbing exactly the right piece of chrome? What about sane fucking volume normalization instead of letting you accidentally crank the volume to 200%? These are all things mpc does right.

    Given your description I'm assuming Linux. Mpc is one of the things I find impossible to replace on Linux because all of the options are VLC or yet-another-half-baked-mpv-wrapper authored by lickmydragonballz93 on GitHub. On the other hand VLC has the strong half-baked UI vibes that Linux is known for, so maybe you're used to it?

  • Too dumb to understand where the gas tank opening is

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  • Oh hey a response. I don't really get what your response has to do with anything, but you used words so good for you!

    Your entire point, in the context of my message, is "sometimes life isn't perfect"?

    For my part, I sincerely hope you never reach the mental state where you think you can drive a car but in fact can't align two objects within 8 feet of each other. Because that's sad, and deserving of compassion from people who care about you.

  • United Healthcare denies claim of woman in coma

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  • Your point seems to contradict your earlier point

  • United Healthcare denies claim of woman in coma

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  • You're gross and you enable grosser people

  • United Healthcare denies claim of woman in coma

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  • Always more castles

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    Bernie was our compromise

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  • There was a poll posted indicating 70% of those surveyed view united health care's CEO as "kind of asking for it", not that uncommon.

  • Shitting on Windows built-in media player if you didn't know

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  • Mpc is significantly better than VLC. Occasionally I need VLC to play a file but we're now talking every 1-2 years. VLCs UI is baaad.

  • You think?

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  • It was an umbrella term for stuff we didn't have yet..then marketing teams remembered it existed. So now it's either a nonsense term (like a PID is AI now) or it means large language models. Since that is clearly both what mcd's used and what the follow up message is referring to, I don't think you need to gatekeep this message. Take that cape off, hero of AI-term-correctness. Flip the dictionary-signal off and turn in to bed.