[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 9 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

39% of Repubs don't think they could beat Trump? And 28% failed to answer Y/N? That's amazing. I expected more ego.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Yep, it's presently a hard ultracapitalist oligopoly dominated by four companies, with the last two presidents impeached, the first of the two was groomed by a cult.

But this is the Sixth Korean Republic. After the initial US military dictatorship, there have been many cases of SK military dictatorship, the most recent one being 1979-1987 I believe.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

IDK, this post says “GPT-5.3-min” which is not an open-weight model AFAIK.

They claim it's not being used, it's really using a local model, which is inline with their anarchist ethos so I'm leaning towards believing that, and that the GPT reference is an in-joke. I do think it's unprofessional to write something like that, even as a joke, but it's not the first time I've seen unpaid mods make dumb mistakes like that.

Specifically asking for political classification is a little bit weird though.

Out of context, yes.

In context, dbzer0 is an explicitly anarchist instance - the users of the instance have shared political values, and their instance rules ban certain politics (such as fascism) - so it's a legitimate part of the moderators' job there to assess politics and ban any which break their rules. Their users don't want to see certain politics.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

In between the posts.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago

On top of what's already been said:

plus bizarre slang

I can't think of a single dialect which doesn't have that.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

given that we could be producing it at home at-cost in quantities large enough to saturate the population for next to nothing

I say this out of complete ignorance: what's stopping people? Regulation laws? Cost of initial equipment?

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah I read it as Operating System too.

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Let's say, I sit down in a mall, open my laptop and connect to a secured mobile hotspot. Then I do it again next week after a reboot. What information would a nearby shop or a passive malicious hacker be able to find about my device? Does my device send out identifying information before joining, like a MAC address? Is this persistent, or randomized?

I intentionally haven't specified a distro, so if something only applies to some network managers, give some details.

Bonus points: what about Android phones?

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by comfy@lemmy.ml to c/slop@hexbear.net

I'm not pointing at the post this links to, or the reply I've linked to, but the surrounding context, including replies from the moderators telling them they're not welcome.

But seriously, I haven't seen this problem (since Wolfballs died), and it's probably because I rarely look at All instances or scroll to the bottom of huge threads. Or maybe .ml has blocked where these bigots hang out? I really don't know, just guessing here.-

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I recently discovered the Banana Ball exhibition baseball games, and their custom ruleset, featuring limitations, crowd participation mechanics and special roles among other things.

This reminded me of (and it's an derivative game rather than an alternate ruleset) Three-Sided Football, which, among other things, is a Situationist, philosophical and sociological rabbit-hole.

I also recall dark chess, a chess variant with line-of-sight mechanics, to emulate the fog of war. There are thousands of chess variants stretching back a thousand years, this is just one of the first I learned of which really interested me.

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Even the patches of liberalism are below standard background radiation levels.

I believe that videos like this could be a valuable tool as they'd be more acceptable to the Americans who need to hear it, compared to videos made by those they might dismiss as progressives.

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Full 30 min film: A Welcome to Britain, 1943

After being reminded of incidents where US soldiers started riots in allied countries due to racism (UK, Aus, NZ), I wondered if there were any surviving videos briefing soldiers on race relations outside the US.

This pub clip is not about race at all, but I found it interesting, and as someone who has seen many a stereotypical "loud American" tourist, relatable.

(For an example of a racial diversity training, see that full film link, starting from 25:19

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This post already has more views than that entire page.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by comfy@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Most of us are familiar with what (your local equivalent of) $10 USD is worth, or $100 or perhaps even $1,000,000.

But larger amounts soon become unrelatable. And with the huge wealth inequality at play, it's easy to come across stories where something worth hundreds of millions was wasted.


  • How much money would it take, under our current systems, to solve various societal problems? (e.g. food shortages, infrastructure fixes, public health efforts, new transport)
  • How much did the achievements of various organizations cost?
  • What could individuals spend such money on? (luxuries, marketing)

And make sure to give evidence for your answers!

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Yes, this instance is definitely the wrong place to ask, but maybe I'll be surprised.

I hate commercial ads. I consider them intolerable and violating. I'm far from alone in this perspective (see: famous Banksy quote, and subvertising + related cultures). It's one of the rawest forms of exploitative manipulation.

So surely you can understand my confusion whenever I see people just watching ads on their phone until they finish, or even watching ads on television until their show starts again. Come on, just do something else for 4 minutes (most channels run two 4 minute segments per half hour, that why your downloaded TV episodes are 22 minutes each instead of 30)

Is there a more meaningful answer than "laziness"?

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I have a new note-taking system and I want to add some deboonks in there that I can quickdraw on a lib, any day, any time.

I don't want some self-satisfying /r/breadtube rot, I want the links you've actually sent to people when they say something silly.

Shoutout to the copypastas that Davel, Dessalines and Cowbee have developed.

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[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 116 points 9 months ago

hey i want to be your mayor but ill just fuken leave the whole state if that other guy wins

What a dedicated and loyal representative of the people!

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 143 points 1 year ago

I hope some of you actually skimmed the article and got to the "disengaging" part.

As Electrek points out, Autopilot has a well-documented tendency to disengage right before a crash. Regulators have previously found that the advanced driver assistance software shuts off a fraction of a second before making impact.

It's a highly questionable approach that has raised concerns over Tesla trying to evade guilt by automatically turning off any possibly incriminating driver assistance features before a crash.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 130 points 1 year ago

Headlines are being headlines, I get it, but Fry was repeating a joke:

“I heard a very good joke yesterday,” the QI host, 67, told Stig Abell on Times Radio on Thursday.

“Someone said, ‘Musk is not a Nazi... Nazis made really good cars,’” he went on, before bursting out laughing.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 93 points 2 years ago

IMO, the worst thing about "Minetest" is that it sounded like it was just a test creation, a prototype or experiment. It's certainly well beyond that now. The announcement introduction mentions people associate it with being a Minecraft clone or alpha release, but even further, to me the name initially gave me the impression it was [still] someone's small hobby project. 'Luanti' is much better.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 150 points 2 years ago

pls no more punchlines in the title!

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