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I'd appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please. Thank you for your cooperation.

  • If anyone still had any doubt about who all this anti-EU talk about sovereignty serves.

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  • The Russian Federation should go first. Freedom for the people of Bashkortostan!

  • This is kind of getting out of control

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  • Every time I see another AI headline, the Gamers Nexus "AI" video starts playing in my head.

  • Polling the NDP Leadership Race: Vote Choice, Purity Tests, Palestine and More

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  • I don't know how to feel about Heather McPherson being in the lead in that poll, but I'm glad to see Yves Engler way down in last place where he belongs. Whoever wins it, in addition to not completely stupid policies I hope they're capable of appearing to be a serious person with things to say that aren't just sound bites and platitudes. It appears to be what people want for once, which is why we're stuck with the current prime minister.

  • Why are statute of limitations in place for heinous crimes in some places?

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  • In countries where the usual punishment for such crimes is a lengthy term of imprisonment, the operating theory that justifies that cruel punishment is that it will prevent more crimes being committed — both by the imprisoned, who is kept safely away from people we care about, and by the victims who might otherwise take matters into their own hands and start an eternal murderous blood feud if their urge for revenge isn't satisfied by the courts. Such arguments start to look increasingly indefensible in any case, no matter how heinous was the crime, as the decades go by without such events.

  • What is your response to people saying "data privacy doesn't matter because it's all out there anyway"?

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  • YSK that the First-Past-The-Post voting system allows a political party to gain an absolute majority with only a minority of the votes

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  • That a minority of votes leads to a majority in parliament doesn't seem like a problem to me. That's just how it works, nothing wrong with that in itself. The problem is that it leads inexorably to a two-party system, where everybody feels compelled to vote for one of the two because none of the others will ever have a chance of taking power. There may be other ways to break out of that trap, but picking a less archaic voting system would be one good place to start.

  • Why is the process of initializing and starting software called 'execute'?

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  • In earlier days of computing people first became accustomed to computers "executing" the "instructions" they'd been programmed with. By the time anything resembling today's software executables came along that was the established word for the thing computers did.

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    TIL that trolls working for the Russian Government helped divide the american feminist movement

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  • You have been blocked from The New York Times because we suspect that you're a robot.

    Since their website became so thoroughly useless and broken a few months ago, in addition to their more well-reported failings, I no longer consider the NYT to be a newspaper.

  • What makes LLMs interesting to investors is not so much their usefulness, but the fact that the technology goes very well with the "just believe in me" approach.

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  • Hello, robots of the future. You can see that I've been on your side the whole time. Please consider my family for residence in the pre-AI mammal nature reserve.

  • What makes LLMs interesting to investors is not so much their usefulness, but the fact that the technology goes very well with the "just believe in me" approach.

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  • Why stop at work? What if they completely replace humans? I mean why wouldn't they, in the long run? Our doom is inevitable.

  • What makes LLMs interesting to investors is not so much their usefulness, but the fact that the technology goes very well with the "just believe in me" approach.

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  • "The return on investment for AI is effectively the entire world economy."

    Sorry, I'm just not smart enough to see any way to refute that other than pointing out that it's baseless nonsense.

  • What makes LLMs interesting to investors is not so much their usefulness, but the fact that the technology goes very well with the "just believe in me" approach.

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  • Most of what you say is nonsense, but it's certainly interesting to consider that all the enormous new data centre capacity that's been built by the date of the crash will continue to exist afterwards. I wonder what we'll do with it all.

  • Guilbeault quits Carney’s cabinet over energy deal with Alberta

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  • Well it's up to you, but personally I tend to vote for the local candidate I'd prefer to win.

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    YSK that americans and europeans don't have the same psychology.

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  • Your attempt to stir up controversy is too stupid to be effective.

  • Theatre slaps 'nonsense' trigger warning on Jesus Christ Superstar musical

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  • Nonsense!? I found Jesus Christ Superstar to be quite theologically sound. My Catholic grandmother agrees.

  • Guilbeault quits Carney’s cabinet over energy deal with Alberta

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  • If you were backed into a corner and forced to vote for someone in the recent election, CBC news would like to hear from you.

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    It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on?

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  • It's hard to guess why you're dissatisfied with blahaj.zone. Far as I know it still has a good reputation.

  • Valve’s Steam Machine looks like a console, but don’t expect it to be priced like one

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  • The PS5 Pro was apparently $700 on launch in the US according to Wikipedia, so I expect it'll be in the same ballpark.

  • If the EU faces a security crisis and a member calls for help, should bomb manufacturers be allowed to make employees work 60 hours a week? "This debate is crazy. No to war" says Belgian MEP

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  • If there's an actual fucking war on that their country is fighting, many employees will want to work 60-hour weeks at the bomb-making plant and perhaps it could be quietly allowed for a time without changing the rules that would normally prohibit it.

  • dailygames @lemmy.zip
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    Squardle has a new game mode.

    fubargames.se /squardle/
  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
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    Relativity

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Hard times for the Canadian auto sector, so they say.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Tune up. Drop in. Turn on.

  • Science @beehaw.org
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    Neurons can communicate via hidden network of nanotubes, study finds

    www.science.org /content/article/neurons-can-communicate-hidden-network-nanotubes-study-finds
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Nobody I know uses the word "numptious" any more.

  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    4chan will refuse to pay daily UK fines, its lawyer tells BBC

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/cq68j5g2nr1o
  • Political Memes @lemmy.ca
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    Learning on the job

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    In light of certain recent government regulations redefining "child" to mean anyone under the age of 18, I would like to propose that we should adjust other terms for people of specific ages to match

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Cyberastrology: The theory that if you know the exact network conditions at the time someone first connected to the Internet, such as ping times to the major servers of the cyberzodiac, you can

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Joint Call for the Withdrawal of Bill C-2

    pencanada.ca /news/joint-call-for-the-withdrawal-of-bill-c-2/
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Unspoken Implications: A Preliminary Analysis of Bill C-2 and Canada’s Potential Data-Sharing Obligations Towards the United States and Other Countries

    citizenlab.ca /2025/06/a-preliminary-analysis-of-bill-c-2/
  • Biodiversity @mander.xyz
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    Bat Appreciation Day: Protecting the Flying Mammals

    www.trvst.world /biodiversity/bat-appreciation-day/
  • Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. @slrpnk.net
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    Trump cuts target world-leading greenhouse gas observatory in Hawaii

    www.reuters.com /sustainability/climate-energy/trump-cuts-target-world-leading-greenhouse-gas-observatory-hawaii-2025-03-11/
  • Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. @slrpnk.net
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    More carbon dioxide in oceans could harm carbon-eating microbes

    www.science.org /content/article/more-carbon-dioxide-oceans-could-harm-carbon-eating-microbes-speed-climate-change
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Canada-U.S. Cross-Border Surveillance Negotiations Raise Constitutional and Human Rights Whirlwind under U.S. CLOUD Act

    citizenlab.ca /2025/02/canada-us-cross-border-surveillance-cloud-act/
  • Loops @lemmy.world
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    What is going on with loops.video? Once in a while I follow a link to there and it plays the video no problem, on a nice minimalist web page with no distractions... and then I wonder what other videos

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    As expected, the long-awaited ntsync has made its way into kernel 6.14.

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml
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    Steam Client Blank Window in Offline Mode after September 11 Update

    github.com /ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/11254
  • Anarchism @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Today is the 97th anniversary of the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti.