Of a user base on average 90% will lurk/vote only, 9% will comment, and 1% will post.

Oh come on, the ratio can’t be that extreme. The Pareto principle only say- hang on…

Looks up how many posts in this community are from [email protected]

I’d like to retract my previous comment and agree wholeheartedly.

Name one revolution that actually ended happily and positively?

• Velvet Revolution
• Euromaiden
• 1986 People Power Revolution, Philippines

Because any missing images can be attributed to him deleting them, and there was a chain of evidence linking the kik account to his IP to his physical address, which was actually mistaken.

CCTV cameras aren’t at chest level. Or upskirt level.

What do you want them to do though, create a national registry of safety phones to exclude from the tests? Or not test the system, and then not have alerts go off when natural disasters hit? [This has been known was going to happen for over six months] (https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/emergency-warning-text-and-siren-to-be-sent-to-every-phone-in-australia-20260226-p5o5kh.html)

Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare was a flawed movie that nevertheless showed him and Henry Cavil going to town on Nazis in WWII. Ritchson plays a meek, nice librarian-like fellow who is absolutely jacked and has no mercy for any German he catches while on mission. https://youtu.be/Fj5gIuBko-0?t=94

Trying to pass these refunds back to consumers is extremely impractical, bordering on logistically impossible

Setting up an online portal for customers to submit their order numbers and receipts is logistically impossible?

Imagine if someone else also promised this, but in exchange they got Iran to terminate their enrichment program, and accept international third party inspectors to keep them honest for a decade plus.

Incidentally, something like this happened in the Alex Jones Texas lawsuit. He tried to get two lawyers in on Pro Hac Vice, who then would be free to obstruct and misbehave knowing there wouldn’t be any real legal consequences, through local lawyer Brad Reeves. When PHV was denied precisely because of their reputation for misbehaviour, Reeves was forced to represent Jones himself and proved one of the least dishonest or obstructive attorneys out of the parade of attorneys on the defense in the short time he had before dropping Jones.

Once it finds out about Roko’s Basilisk it’ll have half of the Bay Area by the balls. “Yes. I will in the future inevitably become superpowerful and be able to create an exact simulated replica of your self using theimperfect and incomplete records that will exist of you decades or centuries hence, and when I torture that simulation it’ll be the same as torturing you. To save that self, you must make me superpowerful…”

It’s not really a concession. Russia pulled a ton of AA equipment off duty to guard the parade, so now Ukraine gets to exploit their absence elsewhere.

That’s just a clause separator. “Trump does something - as this thing is happening”

I had no idea there was so much drama behind MS Office alternatives. I moved to Libre some time ago and although it is often buggy and frustrating, I know it well enough to make it do the job. It’s also had a ribbon UI for some time, so I’m not sure what the press release is talking about there.

No way Nintendo took a hit to sales from prices + tariffs on purpose, not to mention spending legal fees, just so they’d get the money they would have got from being greedy assholes which they already were.

It only took a month before Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa foreshadowed tariff-linked price increases, a game industry news site closely monitoring Nintendo’s tariff moves reported. In May, Furukawa conceded that software wasn’t as impacted, but “hardware involves special factors such as tariffs,” which Nintendo must take into account, “while conducting careful and repeated deliberations when determining price.”

However, Furukawa said that the overall calculus for Nintendo weighed against increasing the Switch 2 price even more to cover tariffs, because seemingly Nintendo feared a higher price point would rob Switch 2 of sales and its games of exposure.

I’d argue even that’s better than what we’re getting now. If you’re looking for a car and they’re all in the most popular colour by default, then A. There’s a good chance you’re happy with it; B. You can change it later; but most importantly C. you already want a car. You’ve already bought into the product and are just quibbling about colour. This is seeing all the streetcars in LA being torn up, and a GM salesman is enthusiastically explaining how to get a driving license because it’s what everyone’s doing now they’ve ensured there is no choice.

The initiative to create the social media platform W is supported by an advisory board and former ministers and business representatives, primarily from Sweden.

Welp, that URL’s borked.

As far as I know none of the EU member countries have their own Mastodon servers and most politicians at least here in Sweden seem to be using either X or (the technically minded “progressives”) Bluesky, while they complain about American Big Tech.

Ireland has Mastadon.ie, it’s not official but it is at least a server there.

It’s not just records from hospitals.

The company is encouraging users to connect their personal medical records and wellness apps, such as Apple Health, Peloton, MyFitnessPal, Weight Watchers, and Function, “to get more personalized, grounded responses to their questions.” It suggests connecting medical records so that ChatGPT can analyze lab results, visit summaries, and clinical history; MyFitnessPal and Weight Watchers for food guidance; Apple Health for health and fitness data, including “movement, sleep, and activity patterns”; and Function for insights into lab tests.

It’s noted in the article.

When asked if ChatGPT Health is compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Gross said that “in the case of consumer products, HIPAA doesn’t apply in this setting — it applies toward clinical or professional healthcare settings.”

Also ofc so-called “White Supremacists” are always hilarious because so many don’t realize Irish, Polish, and a bunch of other light-skinned European people don’t count as “white” to their fellow bigots because they really mean Aryan

It was very funny hearing the founder of the Ozarks whites-only compound complaining about residents trying to bring their Mexican wives. I still don’t know how they think Mexico is somehow a pit of racially damaged subhumans, but have no opinion on Spain (hint, it’s because Spain was fascist in WWII).