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wulrus

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  • My cats right now

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  • They really make sense; instinctively, cats trust running water more than stale water, for the same reasons I mentioned.

    Often thought about it, but didn't get a chance to try.

  • My cats right now

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  • Hm. Maybe try putting the water away from the food. Some cats don't like it near the food. (Presumably related to clean water sources in nature vs. dead prey.)

    My last cat only ever drank from the running tab. Jumped into the bathtub and meowed until someone turned it on, day or night.

  • US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows

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  • What would happen if someone were to detain a group of marines (with the minimal force necessary), in the wrong assumption - honest mistake - that they were about to execute illegal orders?

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    ‘Please walk away from Harry Potter’: why the stars of HBO’s new TV show are in for decades of social media hell

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  • Never read one completely nor watched a full movie, but it always felt cheap and written from the unenlightened perspective of a simple mind to me.

    The fantasy books of my generation, such as The Neverending Story, Momo, The Hobbit, Jim Knopf were a whole different level. Life experience and a touch of wisdom in a great story for children.

    But I also think that it might be just my perspective, since my mind has been imprinted like that. I'm not judging anyone for being a Harry Potter fan and try to think of it as different, not worse.

  • Zelenskyy: We’re very close to point when Russia can be forced to end this war

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  • I'm no expert, but I would think that the best way for this to work is to go all-in with the first strike. Every following strike will be SO much harder to succeed.

    Could be a "phase 2" like: Expecting all parked trucks and sheds in a 10 km radius of any military airbase to be inspected, so make traps. (Or any other phase 2 that takes advantage of the reaction.)

  • For Trump, This Is a Dress Rehearsal | Ordering the National Guard to deploy in Los Angeles is a warning of what to expect when his hold on power is threatened.

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  • LA is also a good opportunity to say: This and this and this high ranking officer failed and will be replaced (by a loyalist).

  • Europe can sustain Ukraine's war effort without US, German general says

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  • The far right doesn't even need to win directly. Even within conservative parties, such as Germany's CDU, the populists make it to the top. They have good people with real solutions up to a state level, maybe more than any other party, but the new chancellor and most of the ministers from his own party are populists.

    Conservatives with a real vision and plan might soon suffer the same fate as McCain and Romney.

    This has a whole chain of consequences. Problems are not solved and increase, the far right gains.

    Also, the current government coalition of the two formerly major parties didn't even get half of the votes, resulting in less acceptance of the democratic process and legitimacy of the government. Not a big difference to the electoral college problem in the USA.

  • We need a slur for people who blindly copy LLM outputs

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  • Clippy (the old Office assistant)

  • We need a slur for people who blindly copy LLM outputs

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  • Chatbot Shill

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  • Or 50 and 29 - eww

  • What is the meaning of this comic strip ?

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  • Interesting! Do you think you would have gotten out with filter bubbles and Echo Chambers as they are these days?

  • pardons for sale

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  • I would have thought that restitution is not a criminal, but a civil matter and can't be subject to presidential pardon.

  • My journey towards more European, open source, privacy-oriented, and decentralized alternatives

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  • Nice! And here I am, moving just 80 % of my Amazon purchases elsewhere and talking a lot about switching to Linux ...

    I found Mastodon not viable. Here are my experiences with it: https://lemmy.world/post/22012649/13473693 (tl;dr: my instance was shut down, all accounts deleted).

    Followed the BlueSky people eventually. I kept my Twitter account, although unused, but to be honest, any account that I need for vital information is also - or only - on BlueSky. I left one last pinned post on Twitter, urging people to at least mirror whatever they think they must post there to Mastodon or BlueSky, so they don't force others to stay, but I'm afraid those who still believe, after all that happened, that they can do more good than harm there will be hard to convince.

  • No looky for you!

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  • Table top dishwashers usually have a window. My kid considered it a major disadvantage when we got a real dishwasher that the window was missing.

  • Uh oh, somebody's not following best practices, that's a paddlin

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  • Last time I had to implement a feature like that, I stored a substring of the old password's hash. If one User in a million gets a False quotation Mark same Passwort quotation Mark message, I can live with it.

  • Uh oh, somebody's not following best practices, that's a paddlin

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  • One insanity in the following years was how they thought people still wanted their next generation diesel.

    I've been working for them in the 2010s with the department to organise the staff car fleet. We ordered many electric vehicles years ahead from production and planned it all around electric vehicles: Charging stations, operating distance, some hybrids for long distance, software to calculate trips etc.

    Then a few months before we needed them, they said: We overproduced on the latest diesel generation and can't keep up with the demand for electric vehicles, so we have to sell the ones you ordered. You can either go with a Tesla (for official Volkswagen business trips!) or have the diesel for free.

    It felt like there was a hysteria: Decision makers got it in their heads that the "hype" for electric vehicles was ideology-driven and not something people with buying power actually wanted today or in the near future. Bit like the republican administration thinking that "woke" is our main problem. Meanwhile, huge research and development departments did come up with the electric vehicles they sell today (and fully working hydrogen prototypes you won't see in a store, just to be safe) and must have been quite frustrated that so few were produced.

  • What hills are you dying on?

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  • I thought you were referring to Monty Python like op did and I thought: what the heck is he talking about?

  • not all heroes wear capes

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  • Finally someone who appreciates him! I always noticed how his contribution is pretty impressive.