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MisterFrog

@ MisterFrog @lemmy.world

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  • iPhone Pocket: $229.95

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  • Real homies remember that game they had on the palm pilot to learn the handwriting shorthand haha

    Seems I'm a bit younger than you, but for some reason this is in my core memories folder.

  • Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search

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  • Does it really cost what Kagi is charging? I would love to see some research on this if people happen to know where to find such articles.

    Like, in theory to pay for Kagi or a similar service but it's just extrotionately expensive.

    I pay for other service which are offered for free (like email hosting), but those are reasonably priced.

  • iPhone Pocket: $229.95

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  • I know a lot of normies have iPhones because it's a phone and they see it as a good phone. Fair enough (shitty monopolistic behaviour and Americans' - yes, this is not a thing in my country - weird ostracisation of green text bubbles notwithstanding)

    But Apple is also the brand that made phones a "status symbol".

    I can very easily believe this.

    There will be an upsetting number of people that buy this glorified, and much less useful, shoulder bag.

  • We've got it all worked out

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  • Turbulence seems to be to be deterministic chaos, that if we had perfect resolution, and unlimited processing power, we could predict turbulent flow with precision.

  • United argues 'window seat' does not mean 'seat with a window'

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  • Are their no small claims tribunals in the US? This refund would be over so quickly in Australia and no doubt the ACCC would be on their arse.

    We barely do anything about monopolies here these these days, but at least false advertising and right to refunds are rock solid.

    Also, those seat selection fees are crazy. International flights I've seen like $8, maybe $15 if you're getting really crazy.

    Who in the world is paying $100 to select their seat?

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  • Thank you Egyptians! 𓆏𓆏𓆏

  • 'Absolutely Pathetic': Senate Democrats Denounced for Caving to GOP in Shutdown Fight | Common Dreams

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  • Your "left wing" democrats are further right wing than our mainstream conservative party coalition. (The Liberals, and probably the Nationals too, to be honest)

    And that's with an extremely right-wing owned press (Murdoch & Nine Fairfax, Australia).

    Let that sink in.

    And please, for the love of God, actually riot. I don't enjoy the notion of being under the thumb of the US with the fuckwits at the helm.

    It was bad enough with vaugely competent imperialists in charge.

    The No Kings marches are piss-weak given people are ALREADY DYING and more will die because of the Dems capitulation.

    I'm not a revolutionary, but I damned well would be in your country.

    Seriously, and kind regards from the provinces.

  • The heat... I mean the cold... well, it’s palpable!

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  • This is an argument that gets rolled out a lot but the argument is also based on vibes.

    Celcius having zero at freeing is actually useful with weather.

    100 being boiling, is also nice for cooking.

    The rest is arbitrary, and cope from US customary users who can't accept that metric is the same or better in every single way.

  • The heat... I mean the cold... well, it’s palpable!

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  • Found the Americans.

    I kid, but it's °C, not C°

    And K had no degrees at all.

    The other two units are not mentioned in this household.

  • The heat... I mean the cold... well, it’s palpable!

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  • K is obviously pointing at R because Rankine is an abomination in the same vein as pound-mole and thousands of an inch.

    Motherfuckers, metric is right there, get your disgusting units out of here.

    Anyone who uses either of these units in the last 40 or 50 years, I would like to physically fight with you. I have never thrown hands.

  • Terrible idea

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  • You'd have to bury it fairly deep.

    I'm Australia at least, you'd just be warming up your beer.

    Glass bottles at the beach is a big no no though.

  • Live action Nyan Cat

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  • Stealth mode

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  • Royalists are such simps

  • Not dishwasher safe

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  • I hope the customer service representative was granted permission to ask if they required assistance applying to education programs.

  • The GOP expected Democrats to relent on the shutdown by now. That isn't happening.

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  • I'm sorry, but the rules for how your government works are so confusing.

    And requiring budget bills to pass every year or you entire government shuts down is a bug most other democracies patched out last century. (You just make everything roll over by default if you can't pass a budget). The US Government seems to be constantly in shut down. It's kinda dumb folks, it doesn't need to be this way.

    I could have sworn I heard that the 100 person US senate only needs 51 members to pass a bill, but I vaguely heard they don't want to do that because it overrides the option to filibuster?

    What???

    Very lost over here

  • Nudes are overrated

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  • Because I'm a fairly basic Chinese (Mandarin) learner, this gave me a moment of feeling dumb before realising it's Cantonese.

  • Nudes are overrated

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  • Even picking up is a data point which will mean you'll get more spam calls, unfortunately

    But this is a good habit for when you're expecting a call from a doctor's office or something, I'll be using it, many thanks!

  • Tis a silly place

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  • You would not expect a government based on a set of self-serving antidemocratic bureaucrats to result in such benefits

    Sure, there was genuine ideological reasons for the USSRs achievements, but you're moving the goal-posts a bit. The original claim you were disputing was whether the USSR was authoritarian, which many people agree that it was.

    There can be genuine and successful efforts to improve people's lives under any system, including in the USSR.

    What was imperialist about it?

    • The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and occupation of Poland
    • The Winter War against Finnland
    • The East German uprising of 1953

    are the first to come to my mind.

    It would be a lot easier to defend the USSR if they only intervened to allow the proletariat to hold referendums, but we both know this is not what happened on many occasions.

    It seems to me that Russia was continuing in the tradition Russian Empire, just under new management, and was definitely the first among "equals" in the USSR and its sphere of influence.

  • Tis a silly place

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  • As a side note, I've only done very little Wikipedia level reading on anarchocommunism, and as much as I also believe people help each other willingly, I've yet to hear a good defence on how it would be possible with the massive populations we have now, as opposed to pre-history.

    It's all well and good that there are federated groups, with free association, but this is fundamentally ignoring that not all regions are equally blessed in resources.

    If you have money, well then you need a centralised or decentralised way of miniting the money.

    If you don't have money, well, I don't think it's much of a stretch to think that people will want to take care more of the people immediately around them, rather than people on the other side of the world, and since we're not getting together on large scales to make binding decisions, then there's no way to guarantee that everyone has a fair share.

    I'm not saying that more decentralised government wouldn't work, but I do remain thoroughly unconvinced that free association of small groups across the entire world, would lead to much equity at all.

    And as much as we may dream, there WILL be dickheads ruining it for the rest of us. Humans are nice, but humans can also be awful. Pretending otherwise is foolish and doomed to failure.

    I'm a socialist, and am very keen to hear your thoughts :)

  • Tis a silly place

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  • In my point of view calling yourself a socialist and not being able to criticise the blatantly anti-democratic and imperial power the USSR became is weird.

    Socialism (in my view of it) necessarily requires democratic structures at work as well as government.

    Despite the USSR's positives (all countries have them) let's not pretend like they had a good template we should emulate (on governance and voting, that is).

    Without democracy, you're basically hoping the people in charge are benevolent. But then when they're inevitably not at some point, you have no way to peacefully remove them.

    Next minute you'll be telling me China is a democracy just because they elect people the the National People's Congress. (Another country, with many positives, which is not a democracy).

    And please do not confuse my criticism of notionally socialist states (China is definitely not), with implicit praise of the "democracy" in the United States, what they have is barely democracy.