Don’t threaten me with a good time.

Anakin:

That’s the thing: You can’t unless you are already well-informed beforehand.

Yes, it is possible to spot common rhetorical deceptions such as whataboutisms or straw man arguments, but misinformation in general is impossible to debunk in real time unless it defies common sense such as “Immigrants are eating the pets of locals”.

A popular talking point here in Germany when the government was trying to push for installing heat pumps instead of gas or oil based heating solutions was, that installing a heat pump would entail massive renovation costs to make its use viable. This information is semi true because installing a pump in older buildings might indeed require renovations. But exposing this argument as a broad overgeneralization takes so much time and effort that it is impossible to do on the spot, unless you have prepared multiple examples of home configurations and the associated costs of installing a heat pump.

The whole idea behind Steve Bannon’s famous tactic of “flooding the zone” is to flood the discussion with so much misinformation it would take a disproportionately amount of time to debunk it all.

TBH I don’t bother with watching discussions anymore because of this.

What’s the thought in your head that pops up next to your feelings in such a situation?

Mine is usually something along the line of “So that’s it, huh? Doesn’t feel so great after all”.

Not everything that glitters is (Nazi) gold. /s

Bluesky, the decentralized social network […]

Were only one instance exist or did I miss something?

OK, I am going to try arguiung that privacy supersedes food:

To have a right to anything means there is something that I own. Owning something puts a division between me and others who can not own this specific thing: My right is my own, I do not have to diminish it by sharing. The most fundamental form of division is absence. Having a right to privacy is a right to the absence from others. Therefore the right to privacy is a more fundamental one than the right to food.

However, I agree that in practice eating in public beats dying in private any time of the day. 🤷

I am using PassAndroid

Most of the time these ‘Add to X Wallet’ buttons lead you to an .pkpass File which you can import. The app doesn’t look very nice but it does the job for me.

IANAL. It’s the other way around: You do everything as required per your contract. If the company believes you owe them money for June, they will sue you if you don’t pay.

If trouble is on the horizon it is however advisable to contact an actual lawyer in advance to check your paperwork in case you missed anything.

*Der Spiegel

Just for clarity

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

Bro, you can!

Except, no employer will allow you to use your own AI model. Just like you can’t bring your own work equipment (which in many regards even is a good thing) companies will force you to use their specific type of AI for your work.

Uhm, I guess you missed the news when it was revealed that Deepseek had a little more backing than they claimed.

I like Copilot as an auto-complete feature. Its a total waste of energy in every other regard, though.

I.e. Deutsche Telekom tried to stop other companies from using magenta. However, the court ruled that DT can’t hold a patent on magenta as a whole, only their specific hue.

Ritter Sport is a sweets’ manufacturer famous for their square chocolate bars.

IIRC that’s Cloudflares random number generator.

1. It can be viewed as part of your privacy to not be subject to defamation.
2. If it reaches the threshold of defamation it is punishable. Whether its enforcement is feasible is another matter.

Oh shit, I didn’t notice there was one going on and oh shit² that they are quitting.

It is somewhat bewildering to realize that we have come all this way in technology but somewhere something is always turning water into steam to drive a piston of some sort.