To anyone curious how it sounds, I found this ABC segment about the sounds. Rather underwhelming, but cute. Sounds start like halfway in.

Make use of that second link.

I get that participation is important, but why does it feel like google is outsourcing good, sane management decisions?

I agree about the liability part. My interest was piqued during the so called Twitter files, when reporting was something like the bosses of twitter, Facebook and Wikipedia sat in a weekly (or was it monthly?) meeting, where they were told what controversial topics to “tamp down” on. I found it very weird, especially since I cannot imagine how one “tamps down” on a wikipedia article?

I think the much harder part is how would you go about democratising a website?

Look at postmarket OS. Unless you are really lucky, texting, calling, wifi, etc is not or barely working.

I do not think they are dumbasses. They understand very well that “pumping the brakes” can start negotiations with people who have infinite deep pockets and are willing to let them have a little extra so the infinitely deep pockets stay that way.

Self-enrichment is a powerful motivator.

Like Nixon, when he helped privatize healthcare. Playing Dumb (and a little crazy) has been a schtick for republicans for 60 years. I wish there was a website with all the crazy shit republicans said and did in public, maybe I need to start one…

The problem is we haven’t figured out a mechanism to properly punish the asshole, because queue jumping almost always works in their favor.

I use drip on android. Did not know they had an ios version.

Thank you, now I’m not the only one who thought this was terrifying.

The fact that they apparently taught martial arts to a robot much faster than any human is the stuff of nightmares.

Seeing that CFAA charges almost always lead to convictions (proving a minor TOS violation seems pretty easy) pleading guilty often looks like the best way.

Not going to dispute you, allegedly deleting the whole backbone of a company is not a “minor workplace dispute”. But Police conduct seems weird, too. Not unusual, just weird and a tad too many coincidences. Not sure we are seeing the whole picture.

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I’ll tell you a story. In the Nazi Years my great-uncle was in the upper echelon of the German Reich. As in, he should have been in Nuremberg. And should have been hanged. He escaped judgement day with lies. “I’m just very conservative. What else could a conservative who loves his country have done. There was no alternative to beeing a Nazi. I am just a conservative.”

Well. It was a lie. After the war he went right back to where he was and was an active Nazi right til the day he died. That despicable cunt loved, absolutely loved deception. He always had an explanation ready why the things he did weren’t Nazi things.

This whole spiel just for lulz, nihilism or internet points smells like the same deception my uncle used.

Especially if you see who applauds and supports these assholes.

vegetarians

So secretions from alien udders are still a thing?

Well the plaatics industry now sells plastic bags that break down into microplastics pretty fast (and are therefore by legal definition “compostable”). Just FYI, had missed that development too… I now use doggy bags made from corn starch, they are better than the ones I used a few years ago, but I do not know if they have environmental problems, too.

TIL,Thank you for dumping obscure biological knowledge!

I felt the same when I found out roughly 90-99 % of serotonin (predecessor) is produced by a certain type of gut bacteria. For some reason, finding the research was (is? Haven’t checked for a few years) for some reason non-obvious and difficult.

Now that I think about it, is there a wiki or something where we can share this knowledge? Your artefact would have helped a friend a few years ago…

Isn’t it a thing to put the words “placeholder” or “lorem ipsum” somewhere in the photos? This seems like a really bad process…

As someone sufficiently allergic to thiomersal and someone getting the shot regularly for a long time, all I have to add is you just talk to your health professional. They are competent and choose the right Vaccine for you.

Never met someone in the field who acts as stupid as RFKjr, I so sorry for the U.s.-ian people.

Well wait a second, they found out what caused the pharaohs curse? That’s awesome!

Well I guess I’m one of the lucky 10.000 then.

I agree. While the main article is goes deep into obscure (albeit interesting) machinations, your article is very on point. It starts with

if you’re expecting a sexy story about Elon Musk messing with vote-counting software from outer space, sorry, you won’t get that here.

And then lays down the numbers:

— 4,776,706 voters were wrongly purged from voter rolls according to US Elections Assistance Commission data.

— By August of 2024, for the first time since 1946, self-proclaimed “vigilante” voter-fraud hunters challenged the rights of 317,886 voters. The NAACP of Georgia estimates that by Election Day, the challenges exceeded 200,000 in Georgia alone.

— No fewer than 2,121,000 mail-in ballots were disqualified for minor clerical errors (e.g. postage due).

— At least 585,000 ballots cast in-precinct were also disqualified.

— 1,216,000 “provisional” ballots were rejected, not counted.

— 3.24 million new registrations were rejected or not entered on the rolls in time to vote.

It continues listing concrete things people can directly influence. I liked the article, thank you soo much. Very insightful.

Just from personal experience: there seems to be an undercurrent of opinion that sarcasm and irony lead us into narcissistic dystopia fast.

As witnessed by the many ironic Redditches that turned bloody fast: There are just too many Psychopaths willing to take over and use it to lure the apparently plentiful masses of stupid people in (Biden-Bro and The-Donald come to mind).

I know certainly myself have tried to make this place less toxic by beeing less sarcastic. It’s not about getting it and more of a conscious choice for me. As a side effect, I feel less bitter or disconnected from my life, so that is a net win.

Do I miss beeing an ironic, sarcastic ass sometimes? Absolutely. But it is not the good place I want to hang out at.

I would call that a collapse of communication, but I understand what you mean. I agree that stopping to work on oneself and/or disassociating from your partner in a relationship is a huge betrayal and all around shitty behavior. Thanks for clarifying. I’m totally with you on that.

BTW I once woke someone up to their behavior during a screaming match where I shouted “Why are you like this, we a supposed to be on the same side! Both of us against the problem, not whatever you’re doing.” Well at least I think these were my words, there might have been a lot more swear words … But that was successful only one time, so …