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9 days agoA new twist on a classic:
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10·9 days agoIf you ask Americans about socialist policies without mentioning parties or ideology, then they overwhelmingly support them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is pretty much how The Handmaiden’s Tale book goes. “Terrorists” nuke DC and some Christian fundamentalists take over.
There is an interesting question as to what happens if he dies before being sworn in. It’s not clear what succession looks like then, I think…
3·11 days agoYeah in Holland the average work week is less than 30 hours.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-work-week-by-country
Voting by mail is inferior to having a voting booth. The women secretly voting for Kamela have a much lower chance of being able to vote as they want by mail-in ballots. Indeed anyone in an unequal power relationship has the same problem.
There’s a reason we have voting booths, and it’s still important.
So you think that Kamala is destined to be President?
113·12 days agoIf your goal is to act as a deterrent then harsher sentences do not work, at least according to research.
At this point, we think it is fair to say that we know of no reputable criminologist who has looked carefully at the overall body of research literature on “deterrence through sentencing” who believes that crime rates will be reduced, through deterrence, by raising the severity of sentences handed down in criminal courts.
4·15 days agoDon’t you mean 5/7?
I don’t see much negatively. But I use lemmynsfw.
5·19 days agoIn the Netherlands a number of cities were banning fossil fuel for deliveries in the city. It was in planning for years, easing into implementation.
Our new government just scrapped all of those plans because the largest party doesn’t believe in climate change, and another party in the coalition is the “farmer’s movement” party and opposes environmental regulations.
😢
I work at a company big into AI. We build our own models. Our senior management drank the Kool-Aid. We don’t have search on our Intranet any more, just LLM chatbots.
Our TLS certificate expired last week on our main web page. I tried to find the contact details for the team responsible and the thing just hallucinated e-mail addresses.
Needless to say, I’m less excited than you.
Sorry what’s the g-word?
I used this movie as the basis for at least three school assignments in high school. Brilliant.
I mean… if something is illegal but the penalties are low or enforcement nonexistent then it’s more like a recommendation. Fines become a “cost of doing business”.
This is why the fantasy of asking AI to solve global warming will either end up with no benefit (possible) or with us being converted to carbon-neutral paperclips.
There are infinite prime numbers. This has been known for thousands of years. You can find numerous proofs of this online, and go through them until one makes sense to you.
Also, quantum computers are on track to make division-based cryptography useless in the next decade or two. (Note that this only affects public key cryptography, and not shared key cryptography. So your online backups should be safe as long as you have a password for them.)
Jerry: “Aren’t you going to see what the message is?”
George: “Nah.”
Kramer: “Why not? It could be important!”
Jerry: “It’s not like you to ignore a message…”
George: “Okay, okay! I’ll tell you. I was sitting at home.”
Jerry: “Doing what?”
George: “Nothing.”
Kramer: “Oh yeah! I love doing nothing! I love it!”
Jerry: “Nothing? Sounds boring.”
George: “Spoken like an amateur. I have it down to an art.”
Kramer: “We should compare notes!”
Jerry: “Anyway, then what happened?”
George: “I get a text from this girl I had lunch with.”
Jerry: “Lunch? Like a date? A” lunch date?"
George: “I don’t know, I don’t know! How can you know? Who suggests lunch when someone asks them out? I don’t know, but she did!”
Kramer: “Yikes!”
Jerry: “Okay, so you get this text message.”
George: “That’s right.”
Jerry: “From the lunch maybe date maybe not woman.”
George: “That’s right.”
Jerry: “What does it say?”
George: “What are you doing?”
Jerry: “I’m asking what the message said!”
George: “I know! The message said, ‘What are you doing?’”
Jerry: “Ooooo. Okay. And?”
George: “So I sent her a reply, that said ‘nothing’.”
Kramer: “Classic mistake.”
George: “Well I wish I had known! How am I supposed to know?!”
Jerry: “I don’t get it. What’s the mistake?”
George: “After I told her that I wasn’t doing anything, she called me!”
Jerry: “On the phone? What for?”
George: “To talk!”
Jerry: “About what?”
George: “Nothing! I wanted to do nothing, not talk about nothing!”
Kramer: “You got yourself a phone talker.”
George: “A phone talker!”
Jerry: “Seems like it. So what are you going to do?”
George: “What can I do? I’m going to have to tell her talking on the phone causes me migraines. It’s the only way…”
Kramer and George leave. Jerry sees a message from Elaine that says, “What are you doing?” He puts the phone down.
My company switched from WebEx to Teams and while Teams is not great it’s way better than WebEx.
Within my actual team we just use Slack Huddles unless we have to record. For my personal stuff I prefer Jitsi.