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fizzle

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  • Where my iT’s A fEaTuRe homeys at?

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  • Someone said in another comment it's designed to cam out, not necessarily strip, in order to prevent over-tightening. Someone else replied that wikipedia says there's no evidence of that though.

    https://lemmy.zip/comment/27597829

  • Where my iT’s A fEaTuRe homeys at?

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  • You absolute legend.

  • Where my iT’s A fEaTuRe homeys at?

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  • I've seen these in Australia but they're not popular. Until a moment ago I thought they were for some specific arcane application.

  • Where my iT’s A fEaTuRe homeys at?

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  • I've found a couple that just didn't seem to be snug enough from the start. Like 6 hex screws on this bike trailer thing. 5 of them fit a 6mm hex wrench perfectly, but on one it just spins and the next size up was too big. Either it wasn't to spec or it warped at some point or something. I think other fastner heads would be more forgiving in this regard.

  • Mitch McConnell provides proof of life, reveals fall led to hospitalization after weeks of silence

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  • If it was AI he would've been standing, probably at home.

    I think government AI manipulation is probably 10 years or so ahead of civilian capabilities.

    I doubt that very much. In Bond films in the 60s in might have been plausible that spooky government agencies had the resources to develop secret spy stuff using tech that wasn't really accessible to the public. However, in the current era the government really only has access to the same kind of industrial capabilities everyone else does. So, they could drop $1m on having a special effects agency make something, but they don't have abilities beyond what we see in movies for example.

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    How the fuck is Mitch McConnell actually alive?

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  • Yeah - those are my thoughts. I feel like I'm beating a dead horse here but ... there's more afoot than they're letting on.

    They're saying he was unconscious for a few minutes, several weeks ago.

    It doesn't matter how great your health care insurance is and how nice your hospital is, no one would be hanging around 3 weeks later. Even really nice hospitals are not nice places to spend any length of time. It's noisy, disruptive, you can't do any of the things you like to do, and there's a lot of contagion risks and so on.

    If it was just a matter of doing some tests they would have sent him home.

    They're monitoring something.

    Edit: not only why is he still in hospital, but he can't even stand up ?

  • Mitch McConnell provides proof of life, reveals fall led to hospitalization after weeks of silence

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  • I'm not a mod and my opinion does not carry any authority, but I think there's an argument to be made against editorialising titles under any circumstances.

    If you allow editing titles so long as it doesn't change the meaning, then that opens a whole subjective debate about what changes change the meaning.

    If it doesn't change the meaning, then what's the point of the change?

  • Republican leaders seek to quell Mitch McConnell speculation as rebellion grows

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  • This is the dumbest thing. Anyone with a pulse has to assume he's dead or near to it. Shameless.

  • DOGE Officially Shuts Down as Trump Administration Ends Government Efficiency Office

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  • This looks great, but it seems it's part owned by bezos? No thanks.

  • just realized whoogle is dead now

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  • Kagi.

    Searxng too much effort.

  • The gas is cheap. The Trump administration isn’t saying who’s paying for it.

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  • ... but some of us are more correct than others.

  • The gas is cheap. The Trump administration isn’t saying who’s paying for it.

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  • Is that how the reserve works though?

    Here in Australia the reserve isn't a bunch of big tanks owned by the government. Its a legislative mechanism requiring fuel retailers to hold a reserve.

    It wouldn't make sense for the government to own or manage a reserve because it needs to be cycled constantly (petrol deteriorates quickly, diesel too but less so), and they'd need to replicate skills from the fuel industry.

    That being the case I don't think there's a big tank of fuel owned by the government.

    Edit: ok it seems I'm absolutely wrong about this.

    The federally-owned oil stocks are stored in huge underground salt caverns at four sites along the coastline of the Gulf of America. The sheer size of the SPR (authorized storage capacity of 714 million barrels) makes it a significant deterrent to oil import cutoffs and a key tool in foreign policy.

    https://www.energy.gov/hgeo/opr/strategic-petroleum-reserve

    Sorry Americans.

    As an aside, I don't understand how this works because it's certainly true that fuel doesn't last forever. Maybe you can store raw unprocessed oil indefinitely but not fuel.

  • The gas is cheap. The Trump administration isn’t saying who’s paying for it.

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  • No we don't. We call it authoritarian corruption and price fixing.

  • The gas is cheap. The Trump administration isn’t saying who’s paying for it.

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  • My theory is, some domestic fuel producer has done the math and decided that a dem majority in the mid terms will cost them more than providing this discount on fuel for the next 4 months.

    Hopefully, they pay for the discount and face a dem majority after the mid terms.

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    Ah, the joys of being a woman in her early thirties!

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  • I agree with literally everyone here that this is not normal aging and stimulants are not the solution.

    How many 31 year olds do you know that had to start taking adderall to stay awake after sleeping 10 hours?

  • OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027 — analyst paints grim picture after examining the company's finances

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  • That's not true.

    It can feel that way when you think as shares as numbers on a computer but they represent a share in the ownership of a country and presumably that ownership is actually worth something.

    If no one wants to invest because of the vibe, then you can buy the shares for a bargain.

    Maybe it's a bit like buying a house where someone was murdered. If you don't care about the vibe then the reduced demand means you can get a bargain.

    You can argue the shares are grossly overvalued, and that may be true, but my point is that shares have an intrinsic value and if demand reduces it increases the appeal to other investors.

  • OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027 — analyst paints grim picture after examining the company's finances

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  • Nah.

    The more people divest the more appealing these investments are.

  • Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act

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  • Pretty predictable.

    They're trying everything they can for the mid terms. This is one of many measures. Americans have become very complacent.

  • Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%

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  • This is pretty much my perspective on the major problem represented by AI: cognitive atrophy.

    I'm 40 something, masters degree, desk based professional consultant for 20 years now.

    I don't really recall the content of the courses I studied at university, although they do come back to me with a little revision. What has stuck with me, is everything you just described: how to collate information and understand problems, and how to communicate. I've had 30 odd years of practice at doing that.

    My point is, had I been using AI during that time, I would not have had that practice.