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wulrus

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  • my smart hot air fryer, every single time

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  • PHILIPS HD9880/90 Airfryer Combi XXL. I can select a recipe in the app and send it, so the settings are perfect for that.

    But the downside is that it goes off like a smoke detector and blocks all controls and display until I rate the recipe or select "skip", on the air fryer display.

  • This is real

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  • But if it's voluntary, it's not smart to sound like "you are an idiot and I don't like you". Especially people with mental or legal problems might avoid a situation where they are being confronted about their faults.

  • Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago

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  • I didn't doubt it; it was just so odd.

  • Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago

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  • Why does it look like previous generation generative AI, where everybody looked the same?

  • Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

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  • I'm a huge fan of Amazon's user experience, how well the product selection, checkout and everything works. For some people with ADHD, seniors, the impatient etc. it's particularly tempting.

    As things got worse, in terms of politics and workers' rights, I checked out alternatives more. And in many cases, it was about just as convenient. Even small shops, such as buying directly from the manufacturer, often have a simple PayPal or similar checkout which is equally convenient, and it's not rare that it's cheaper. Even if they don't have that, browser support to enter the address and credit card details makes a 1-time purchase less of a hassle than it used to be.

    The big national alternatives, e. g. in Germany Otto, Alternate, Thalia for books ... are more often than not pretty good too, as they had Amazon as a competitor for years and survived.

  • We can beat Trump together — but there's only one way to do it

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  • Not sure what kind of "together" we can have. Working with anti-MAGA conservatives is supposedly wrong, working with (even anti Netanyahu) Israel supporters is supposedly wrong - won't get a majority that way.

  • Something about incentives

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  • The image is really misleading into exactly that.

  • 'I'm not suicidal': MTG hints at threats from 'powerful people' over Epstein files

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  • No divisiveness!

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  • I thought: Certainly referring to terrorists, not immigrants in general?

    It seems that the original post has been deleted for violating the TOS of X (quite an achievement!). Screenshots of it show "This is cheaper than deportation", which I can't verify, since it's not on archive.org. If true, this post would be correct.

    She reposted later with the text: "This is cheaper than deportation. Public executions for rapists and murderers." and a slightly different picture from the same set.

    Which is not true; death penalty is really expensive. Could only make it cheaper than deportation without due process, possibly implying that intentionally.

  • Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speeds | Tom's Hardware

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  • Well, probably not this thing specifically; it's highly inefficient on so many levels to use several POTS landlines in one household.

    But the home computer waste is so insane in general. In 2012, I bought a state-of-the-art system for a little over 2k, because my old one had gotten too slow for professional backend development. It was very nice, and, well, I still have it to this day. Right now I'm doing stick-boots to try if I can run Linux with a mix of Nvidia and Radeon GPUs after Win10 support ends.

    I think that the computer game industry is a scam, and only retro-gaming makes sense. Why? It diverts the question. The actual question is: Are newer games more fun? And I think the answer is no, not just for myself, but for pretty much everyone. Did the people playing vanilla WoW have less fun, or the people playing PS-1...Wii with their friends? I doubt it. Why not? Because the fun does not increase even one bit when the graphics is more realistic. We already have realistic graphics in the real world, or we can look at a photograph, watch a show; there is 0 gain from having it also in our games. It's just a 1-time "woa Dude" effect. Advertisement creates an artificial need which cleverly checks several boxes. Just to name a few: Gaming PC / Console as a symbol of status, working towards a goal and then attaining it. And the ones who see through it are pulled in anyway, because their online games are being abandoned.

  • Unbelievable. Our bed for a three day river tour in Borneo to see the orangatans.

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  • Also depends on the community. Some would be like: OMG, obviously, the mattress cover has not been ironed!

  • 'The Bear' writer arrested on train after complaint from white woman

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  • Seemed odd about his own testimony, as quoted in this article, that he keeps avoiding to mention HOW he was sitting and whether he complied when told to stop it. Makes me picture one of these assholes who put their dirty shoes on a second seat in a full train.

    His odd avoidance of the core of the issue made me search for other sources. Not surprising that a quick search supports most of this. Also, he refused to stop doing that, which he also does not deny as far as the quotes from this article go.

    Then, he tries to use his celebrity status to order cops to harass an elderly woman, whose statement is irrelevant because apparently there are plenty of witnesses, including the train personnel and his own confession.

    Then, he seriously tries to pull the race card.

    And this is the hero of Lemmy?

    Hat off the elderly woman and the police, though! Wish this kind of justice would happen when I'm on the train.

    This has become a cesspool of disinformation. All the out of context Kirk quotes from the past few days (was still somewhere between nonsense and disgusting in context, but an entirely different statement), and another post claims that every day 0.25 % of the US population gets shot, and this lie somehow supports the trans agenda.

    Disclaimer: Judging the situation as presented in available articles, as I don't know what really happened.

  • 100% genuine posting.exe

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  • It was a shock, and my faith in the internet will be lost entirely if it turns out that your name is not actually Killgrind.

    (Her supposed real name was Julia Goethe Gothe, in case anyone wants to know. Former Twitter handle @JuleStinkesocke.)

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  • I've also fallen for and followed a fake account before. It was some neckbeard pretending to be a female disabled doctor. Apparently, he actually was some kind of advocate for the disabled, possibly started with the self-justification to "help".

    Oh wow, apparently it was a bigger deal than I thought back then: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jule_Stinkesocke

    Is the one about Kirk unbelievable? Some parts, yes, such as the immediate registration as Republican (not shown in screenshots), but in general, there are favorable non-Republican responses, such as "Shoe on Head". I'm also upset about quotes out of context, that part seems to be real, and so it builds a bridge from reality to fiction. It's just that I wouldn't turn full MAGA because Stephen King smeared a conservative.

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  • The spam detection works, though!

    (As intended - on the ones criticising these posts.)

  • Oh lord won't you buy me a mercedes Benz..

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  • I can really seen Gen V struggling. They wanted to make something shocking, dystopic, but as things develop, all they can do is be like: Oh, that thing, right, we got that too in our show!

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  • Sad thing is that in this day and age, they'd hardly need to lift a finger to have this rephrased 100 times. But they know they don't have to. People eat up the garbage from their feed, people (often the same) know that a lot of it is Russian bots.

    p. s: Still surprised how poorly ChatGPT-5 Thinking handled this. A lot of obvious bot content, such as "weeks of uncut videos and policy dives" by a Democrat, "attended a live event" etc.

  • Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds

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  • 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst

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  • I agree, but it is nearly impossible for a normal investor to be certain that the current stock price ISN'T the lowest it'll ever be. The bullshitters have an incentive to keep up the lies a few years longer, just look at the housing bubble, and when it burst, it might burst down to the current level or even higher, if that happens in a couple of years.

    I was right once when I sold my ETFs before the Ukraine crisis unfolded, but I realise now that I was stupid-lucky-right. Will never do that again.

    Also, I fully expect that some AI usage will withstand a critical review, and will prevail, just like the dot-com.

    Then, there is the risk that the unexpected breakthrough DOES come, and the ai-super-senior can fix all the vibe-coded nonsense. I don't see it in the next 5 years, but both unexpected breakthroughs as well as unexpected plateaus have happened in the past.