Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit before joining the Threadiverse as well.
And unfortunately due to the prevalence of American media it “leaks” into other cultures as well. I’m Canadian and it’s not uncommon to hear about people being arrested or whatever and claiming that their “first amendment” rights were being violated, or “taking the fifth” (ie, the fifth amendment’s right to remain silent). We actually do have somewhat analogous laws for those things but of course they only know about the American ones and often get the details wrong as a result.
Ah yes. I was still awake after midnight on the 2nd when I saw the news, so it went down on that date in my mind.
Yes, we see it, you can stop demonstrating the annoying behaviour now.
They did the shooting in Venezuela that day.
Alright, here’s another one. Americans bragging about their democracy until all of a sudden it’s more convenient to blame the politicians for bad behaviour rather than the electorate that put them in power.
Take some responsibility for your government, does it represent you or not?
Alright then, the fake friendliness that their employers require. Especially in customer service.
We’re not talking to you in this thread, we’re talking about you. You don’t need to jump in with “but that’s not annoying!” After people answer the question OP posed, that’s not useful.
This is ironically another annoying behaviour.
The assumption that the American legal, political, and cultural context is the “default.” They say “X is illegal” without specifying jurisdiction. They assume a “right wing” or “left wing” party must be like their Republicans or Democrats. And so forth.
There are multiple mass shootings per day in the United States. This page keeps track as they come in.
“Is it art?” Is a question that’s been asked over and over throughout history.
It changes from person to person and from time to time. Cubism, photography, found art, aleatoricism, algorithmic art, interpretive dance, it’s all gone through “it’s not art” at some point. A banana taped to a wall. An “invisible” sculpture. A tin of the artist’s poop. Jackson Pollock’s dribbles.
The answer doesn’t really matter. It’s right, it’s wrong, who cares?
And yet I don’t see any of that. Lots of people complain about “the algorithm” but it seems to be working well for me.
Trump, personally?
He has never been loved. He desperately wants to be loved. But he has absolutely no idea what that means, and so nothing he does is working or can ever work. He thinks adulation from adoring fans is love. He thinks money is love. He thinks being powerful means people will love him, and that hurting other people makes him powerful. The “there are only winners and losers in life and to be a winner you need to make other people losers” thing he learned from his terrible father.
But since none of that is true he’s got a gaping black hole inside him that never gets filled no matter how much he tries to cram these things into it.
If he were younger I’d have some vague slight hope that he might someday be able to recover from this. But it’s far too late now, he’s a broken husk of a human being that does nothing but hurt everyone around him. I hope he dies immediately, if not sooner.
Ixnay on the roboscispay in front of the umanshay!
I think the Internet is still a good thing, it’s just become so pervasive and ubiquitous that it’s easy to ignore when it’s not a bad thing. Humans are really good at noticing bad things, which makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. They stand out more starkly against a neutral background.
You can use mbin if you want out of the Lemmy codebase, it’s a separate codebase that does the same thing.
I mean, it’s pretty obvious. They release good open-weight models. Western companies did that a little at first, but they’ve basically stopped doing that any more. It’s really easy to win a competition when one of the competitors isn’t actually competing.
It’s important to say the “20” prefix so that viewers will know that we’re set in “the future.”
I don’t know how you’re measuring efficiency, but a heat pump with greater than 100% efficiency lets you build a perpetual motion machine. That’s not possible.
There are some cities that do things a third way; they have a centralized facility that burns the gas (or other fuels) to generate electricity, and then also pipe the heat out to the city in the form of heated water or steam running through insulated underground pipes. Buildings tap into those pipes and run it through radiators. That has the potential to be even more efficient because you’re using what would otherwise be “waste” heat, but it depends on a relatively compact city to avoid losing too much heat while sending it through the pipes. I understand this is not uncommon in Eastern European and Russian cities. I’m not familiar with the details, though, so if you want to know more about this I’d recommend Googling around a bit.
And now I expect we’ll see another League of Nations fiasco soon, Trump has already denied visas to world leaders that he doesn’t like so that they theoretically can’t come to the UN. The treaty the US signed regarding the UN means they don’t need visas for that, but we all know how Trump loves to follow agreements.
Maybe the UN can survive in some form by relocating, IIRC they do have a secondary office in Geneva already.