Does that make people with solar panels “bottom powers” or “power bottoms”?

Yeah, even of the companies don’t pocket the difference, he’s an idiot to suggest that this will cut inflation.

This guy is just not very smart, I think.

Sounds like slavery.

There are at least some Duolingo courses that use AI voices exclusively and they are shit.

On the one hand, having an AI to talk to sounds like something that could be good. Getting a real person to talk to every user would be impossible. I just don’t think the technology is going to meet expectations any time soon.

If you run into an asshole in the morning one instance, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day in every instance, you’re the asshole

Does ChatGPT incorrectly put spaces around the em dash, too? There should be no spaces around an em dash—that’s a clue that implies a human writer.

And, em dashes and en dashes are great—they should be used more often.

Future Shock isn’t about the 70s or any decade being “better.” It’s about the effects of rapidly changing technology not that technology shouldn’t change.

• L7
• Lunachicks
• Veruca Salt
• Bikini Kill
• The Muffs
• Cibbo Mato
• Blonde Redhead
• The Evens
• Shonen Knife

Some of this is more punk or pop-punk.

Yes. I’d have to learn their language first, anyway. I already know bits of modern versions but not much. Then, introduce the warning of invasions and teach them English with the caution that people speaking groups of people speaking will bring death and destruction.

It’s not like they’ll already have a fear of English or any concept of the language before I teach it to them.

Do my best to warn the locals of the coming invasion. Learn their language and teach them English and tell them not to trust any group of strangers who speak it.

Help improve their technology as best I can. I’m not sure how much I’d be able to improve it. At least, teach them to wear masks and wash their hands when around sick people.

Lemmy and Mastodon aren’t centralized. Instances can federate with other instances as they choose. If your instance has, for example, a lot of bigoted communities and users, you can expect the bigger instances to de-federate from yours.

You can always federate with instances that reject “EU norms”—whatever that means—in a bubble of your own.

Orgasm Addict by the Buzzcocks.

Make it dad’s ex-wife to really get to him.

For every day use, I use it. It’s convenient.

If I’m traveling or going to a protest, I’ll turn it off. I also make sure I know the ways to disable it.

They will definitely ask if you purchased anything. You can lie but if you get caught expect little to no leniency.

Can you get away with it? Probably, for some stuff. Is it worth it? You’re rolling some dice, you decide.

It’s almost impossible to tell or coordinate.

What currency is the universal wage in? USD? EUR? CNY?

Is it the same everywhere? Do you adjust for purchasing power? How?

What you’re suggesting requires global cooperation on a scale that is inconceivable today. Nations would have to give up economic power in ways that no one would do today. You’d need a global government. We are nowhere near that and probably won’t ever be unless an extraterrestrial threat exists.

Hope Florida is run by DeSantis’s wife has been involved in shady dealings.

The meeting marked an attempt by the board to provide clarity as House Republicans probe a $10 million donation that Hope Florida, a charity and welfare program spearheaded by First Lady Casey DeSantis, received from a Medicaid settlement in October. Lawmakers are now investigating whether the foundation funneled those millions to political campaigns against the failed ballot referendum to legalize recreational marijuana.

The foundation’s executive director, Erik Dellenback, announced his resignation a day after legislators grilled the foundation’s leaders about the donation funds during a House budget committee meeting.

The Tampa Bay Times reported that Hope Florida split the $10 million evenly between Secure Florida’s Future and Save Our Society from Drugs — organizations that promptly poured a collective $8.5 million into Keep Florida Clean, a political action committee created to defeat Amendment 3 and run by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ then-chief of staff James Uthmeier.

From the Tampa Bay Times article:

Weeks after the DeSantis administration steered $10 million from a Medicaid settlement to a charity spearheaded by the first lady, the Hope Florida Foundation sent $5 million apiece to two separate organizations that gave millions to a political committee waging an anti-marijuana campaign championed by the governor.

Weird how he can have no chin and look like that character.

Stop spending so much time on it.

This isn’t as forward thinking as you’d want it to be.

For as much as they are abused, “IP laws” protect small and individual inventors, writers, composers, etc.

With no patent, copyright or trademark protections the billionaires will own or bury everything.

What is needed is to bring the laws back to their intended purpose.