Just got a good(-enough) news notification on my phone (and yes I do like staying a littttle plugged in high level, deeper diving when really curious). sigh of relief

Some days, it’s too many important & awful stories, though.

Imagine an app that gets copies of all your notifications, analyzes their sentiment locally, and pushes good news stories from the day/month accordingly. (Or more doably, push good news notifications based on how many awful stories major new publishers have written that day.)

Maybe more effective than just following a positive-news-only source, since the biggest-impact good news could be saved up for the darkest days.

Via the comments, it's been retconed.

Usually id do at least another 5-15 minutes of research but I have to go to work and I thought this was funny. So Just Post it is.

Where I stole this from https://rdx.overdevs.com/comments.html?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2FTopCharacterTropes%2Fcomments%2F1lub0ai%2Fhated_trope_that_kind_of_autistic_character%2F

They won't be able to see the 3D effect. They have only one eye.

Why?

1. we blow up tons of shit anyway

2. we need to show fascists they don't own the monopoly on violence

3. Look up operation blazing sword- LGBTQ and BIPOC folks need to arm themselves these days. It doesn't necessarily mean owning a firearm in your home, but having knowledge of firearms and a local place to organize your community to defend against y'all-qaeda sounds like an okay idea nowadays

4. I fired a pistol for the first time two days ago and honestly it was fun

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I also asked him:

• can we play soccer with the electric shopping carts in the lot after we close
• can i could put googly eyes on the trash cart
• can we get a mariachi band to follow a grandma in an electric cart to play Mario cart music and when she gets painkillers we play the super star music
• can I get roller blades and run around the parking lot bringing carts back inside?
• could I bring my cat to work?
• did you know slugs and snails REALLY love the smell of beer? So the next time we get a damaged case of beer you should give it to me to go catch snails

he said no to all of them. He hates to see a queen slay 🪱

In the sweltering summer of 1911, while most children ran through fields and played carefree games, nine-year-old Nan de Gallant was already burdened with adult responsibilities. Living at 4 Clark Street in Eastport, Maine, Nan would rise early each day and head to Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #2, where she worked as a cartoner—sealing tin cans filled with fish. Hour after hour, she placed lids with practiced precision, her small hands sore from handling cold brine and sharp tin. Sometimes her mother was by her side. Often, she worked alone, enveloped by the hiss of machinery and the sharp scent of salt and fish. Nan’s story was far from unique. Her entire family, including her mother, sisters, and even her brother, worked in the factory. One sister once packed a whole crate of “Arie Hasit” brand fish during a shift that ran from 7 a.m. to midnight during the hectic rush season—no extra pay, no rest. Her brother hauled heavy loads from the boats, also caught in the same punishing cycle. Originally from Perry, Maine, the family migrated to Eastport each summer in search of whatever seasonal work they could find. The labor was grueling and the pay meager—but it meant survival. An old photograph of Nan still exists—her young face framed by a stoic expression, her eyes reflecting the quiet resolve of a child who had learned to endure far too early. There are no tears in her eyes. No smile. Just the haunting resilience of a girl who traded childhood for hard-earned strength.

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My choice ? IDK Pizza+ranch pretty gꝏd together , never had (milkshake|apple pie) one , so definitely picking hot dog one !

Watched this on Ryan hall’s live stream and couldn’t believe it.

I started really noticing it more and more. NPR is one of the organizations guilty of this. They would sometimes title their articles in a pretty non-descriptive way. Sometimes I find out about their articles on social media when someone post it with a title that expose the main interesting points in their title or excerpt.

I started to feel that some random organization out there might have released the most detailed and ground-breaking report in the whole year, but they had chosen a weird title that does not say what the report is talking about and that is why no one know about it.

The worst of them all is the organizations that give their articles 2-3 words title. It kind of defeats the purpose of titles as a whole. How the hell is anyone supposed to understand and read that excellent article if it has a name like "Cold Morning" with no subtitle.

Overall, I really hope organizations start to at least have a deeper titles (Long or short) that actually describe what I am about to read.

Edit:

to solidify my point here is a original article from NPR: A popular climate website will be hobbled, after Trump administration eliminates entire staff

Here is the title I posted with and that in my opinion describes what is happening: Climate.gov will stop publishing new content on July 1.

This is not the best title here, but it's a huge improvement over the original article.

Edit 2: A Knock at the Door

Sigh...

1. 🇺🇦 Ukraine VS 🇷🇺 Russia.
2. 🇨🇳 China VS 🇹🇼 Taiwan.
3. 🇮🇳 India VS 🇵🇰 Pakistan.
4. 🇮🇱 Israel & 🇺🇸 USA VS 🇮🇷 Iran.
5. 🇮🇱 Israel VS 🇵🇸 Palestine.
6. 🇮🇱 Israel VS 🇱🇧 Lebanon.
7. 🇸🇩 Sudan VS 🇸🇩 Sudan.
8. 🇲🇲 Myanmar vs 🇲🇲Myanmar.

in this study we demonstrate the pressing matter of exploring a possibledecrease in learning skills based on the preliminary results of our study.

A lot of news publications had been discussing this study as if they did not read it. Matter of fact let me put here a quotation from the FAQs of the study page:

Is it safe to say that LLMs are, in essence, making us "dumber"?

No! Please do not use the words like “stupid”, “dumb”, “brain rot”, "harm", "damage", and so on. It does a huge disservice to this work, as we did not use this vocabulary in the paper, especially if you are a journalist reporting on it.

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/30028880

See the stickied comment below for an explanation and statement of our purpose, based on simple back-of-the-napkin math

E: if someone could please link this community to r/aspen and r/roaringforkvalley I would greatly appreciate it. I’ve been IP banned by the all powerful AI mod monster, like many folks on Lemmy

I'm feeling out of touch with how the world, society or whatever is trying to function.

I wanted a cake some time ago. Just a little something to celebrate a special moment. So I decided to stop at a local bakery that makes cakes on order.

Now let me underline the following: I wanted a cake. Something sweet to share.

However...

Once I say what I wanted, they call the "cake designer" to come sit with me to go over the details of the cake.

I wanted a plain old cake, rectangular in shape, light fluffy sponge, double layered, with strawberry jam filling, with vanilla scented cream cover and a single word on it, written in dark chocolate.

I could see the disdain mountain on the "cake designers" eyes as I described what I wanted. Followed by their soul leaving their body as I refused every single alternative or change to what I wanted.

Order settled, I asked to pay in advance, against an invoice. Some hesitation but it did happen.

Then, as I was about to leave, I was asked to add the bakery in Instagram, to which I asked why. It was for them to tag me in the photo of the cake, so I was alerted it was ready for delivery. But I don't have Instagram. Nor FB. Nor Whatsapp.

I literally live 50 meters away from the store. I said I could just stop by the next day and pick up the cake. It was like explaining an alien concept.

I'm going insane. It has to be that.

The cake was fine. But I won't risk going there again.