[-] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 16 hours ago

I'd take a PM who just licks his balls and demands food over one trying to cut welfare.

[-] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 16 hours ago

To be fair the other options was Google just using reddit content without there permission, like every other service, and not getting payed at all.

[-] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com -5 points 1 day ago

One easy solution, just cede ceuta to Morocco, why is that little spit of land spains any way?

[-] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

I feel the opposite, AI allows me to think more about high level tradeoffs and design as opposed to actually coding which is meh.

[-] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nah, the answer to these questions is "that's not ice's job, and they're not doing that"

Investigating and arresting violent criminals is the job of the local police , FBI etc. Ice is Immigration and customs enforcement , they enforce immigration laws, not violent crime laws.

The guy was sort of getting at that by calling illegally crossing a misdemeanor but didn't drive home that that's all they're arresting people for and that all those examples the guy was giving of the horrible crimes of migrants were probably investigated and arrested by local police, not ICE.

[-] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Juice the IPO for Microsoft?

Did you read the article, it's from an independent researcher about AI being an attack vector, not an article from an AI company about using it to aid in attacks. If anything this hurts the credibility of AI

[-] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

There's plenty of competition in the US auto market, both from US, Japanese and European brands.

The difference is these cars are either made in the US or in countries with similar enough wages. Even cars made in mexico are required to have a $16 minimum wage as part of USMCA.

China is on a different level and allowing them to sell cars here without restrictions would cause a race to the bottom for wages in the auto sector, pushing back a lot of wins the UAW has gotten recently.

If they want to sell cars here they should get the same deal as mexico, require a minimum wage and labor standards.

[-] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Fundamentally it all comes down to wages, US workers can't compete with Chinese workers who will do the same job for far less.

Even on the benefits side all of what you listed above and more is common for auto workers in the US because they have an independent union, and even the workers who are not in the union get the same benefits as the manufacturers compete for workers. Meanwhile independent unions are not allowed in China so they're at the mercy of the employers and the CCP. Granted the CCP does seem to care about workers more then the US government, neither care nearly as much as the UAW.

[-] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

UAW and NADA both supported trump

Where are you getting that from?, UAW endorsed Harris and Biden also put a huge tariff on Chinese EVs and harris seems like she would've continued that.

[-] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 days ago

You should probably mix together the dry ingredients before folding them in. So the big blank square in the bottom middle should be "mix" but I guess that ruins the cascading aesthetic and makes it more cluttered, which would've also showed the weakness of this design

Also why would you fold in the dry ingredients, maybe this is just some "lorem ipsum" recipe but unless there's a foam you're trying to keep inflated you don't really need to fold stuff in.

[-] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Not anymore since trump jr invested in it and got an advisory seat.

[-] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago

RFK in particular was an environmental lawyer who spent a lot of time looking into how corporations are poisoning the populace. So he is tuned to see increases in a disease and look for a culprit.

Trumps wealthy donors don't want him going after the extractive industries that are actually causing disease so they sent him on this quest to find the mythical environmental cause for autism.

He's also surrounded and supported by rich white people who think this is the most pressing "epidemic" because it effects them. They don't care about the poor black people getting poisoned in cancer Alley because they never see them, meanwhile they see karen and her autistic son who she's ashamed of every day.

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Context: princess Andromeda of the perseus myth was from Aethiopia, while it doesn't exactly map to modern Ethiopia, it does literally mean burnt (black) face. So yeah Andromeda was black, despite what most modern western depictions would have you believe.

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Alt Text: buff doge on the left representing 1970s america with the caption "I've eradicated all the screw worms in North America by releasing sterile males". Crying doge on the right representing 2020s america with the caption "scary worm back"

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According to independent theme park news blog MiceChat, Disneyland must replace the attraction’s gas-powered mini cars by Feb. 1 with a clean-vehicle alternative or shut it down completely.

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Two top Trump advisers privately pushed back this week on plans to open the long-awaited Gordie Howe International Bridge, according to three sources familiar with the behind-the-scenes discussions.

U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick had been appointed by President Donald Trump to lead discussions with the Canadians about opening the $4.7, six-lane span between Michigan and Ontario, citing “outstanding issues” that require resolution.

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Trump's comments followed the revelation of a meeting between Lutnick and Matthew Moroun, the billionaire owner of the Ambassador Bridge, whose private crossing will face the first competition for lucrative truck traffic in the Ambassador's 97 years of operation.

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In Bolivia, the unions representing miners and peasants have declared an indefinite strike, seeking the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz. They are protesting a new law that undermines peasant and indigenous land rights.

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Sorry for the shit image quality but here's another ad by the same company for a better idea of it

Flew over the may day rally in San Francisco.

They're dabbing on us

/- Matt christman

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How I ranked the Lemmy instance visibility by sort type

I'm building Stakswipe, a mobile Lemmy client with a swipe-to-vote UI. One of the problems I ran into was the anonymous feed — when you're not logged in, you need to pick an instance to connect to upfront, and that choice matters more than most people realise. Rather than just guessing or defaulting to lemmy.world, I wanted to objectively measure which instances give the best view of lemmy for someone browsing without an account. I put together a benchmarking script that tests the top 20 instances by monthly active users and scores them.

It's worth noting that some instances defederate from others or block certain communities, and that's completely fine — it's one of Lemmy's strengths. Communities and instances should be able to self-govern and set their own norms. These rankings aren't a judgment on any instance's moderation choices; they're purely about federation breadth and visibility of all that lemmy has to offer for a general anonymous feed.

What I measured

For each instance × sort combination, I fetched posts anonymously until I hit a quality floor suited to that sort's algorithm:

  • Active (48 hours) — Lemmy's Active sort decays based on the most recent comment time, capped at 48 hours. The script stops when the last post on a page has been quiet for more than two days.
  • Hot (24 hours) — Hot decays based on post publication time using a gravity of 1.8. Anything older than a day is well past its peak rank.
  • New (2 hours) — Purely chronological. I stop at 2 hours to focus on live traffic.
  • Top 6 Hour / 12 Hour / Day — These are ranked by score within a fixed server-side time window, so the feed exhausts naturally. I stop when posts drop below 5, 10, and 20 absolute votes respectively.

How scoring works

Every post has a canonical ActivityPub ID (ap_id). The script builds a universe — the union of all unique posts seen across all instances for a given sort. An instance's ability to surface that universe is what is measured.

Each instance is scored across four metrics, then the scores are normalized against the best performer and combined:

Metric Weight What it captures
Posts visible 40% Federation breadth — how much of the universe this instance sees
Comments visible 35% Federation depth — whether post threads actually federate
Post vote totals 15% Signal quality — are the votes syncing, or just stubs?
Comment vote totals 10% Thread engagement fidelity

The instances with the highest weighted score for each sort type are shown.

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Testing

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You should know this because one of the reasons Trump's been trying to use to justify this war is that Iran never said they wouldn't pursue nuclear weapons.

You could say the fatwa is just talk but there's a strategic argument for Iran to not get nuclear weapons besides the moral case. Iran doesn't want to get nukes and become a pariah state like North Korea and cut itself off from global trade, they're a Petro state they need trade. At the same time they don't want Israel and the US to be able to bomb them with impunity. So their best strategy is to remain close to building a bomb, that way they can get sanctions relief while being able to dash for a bomb and nuclear deterrence in the case of a war.

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It's YouTube music, which is showing popular "podcasts" on its explore page. Must be just because it's popular because nothing in my algo on either youtube or YouTube music would suggest this shit.

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A ship believed to be carrying Russian fuels is on its way to Cuba, putting US President Donald Trump’s sanctions to the test amid the island’s deepening energy crisis.

The vessel Sea Horse, expected to arrive in early March, is carrying much-needed fuels to Cuba, according to data from maritime intelligence firm Kpler Ltd.

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