I actually love the name "techno mechanicus". The others are just weird, but I find that one laugh out loud hilarious.
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Well he is term limited as governor, Tate is perfectly aligned with republican values (raped countless women) and he's famous.
You might be on to something!
And what does that get me other than making a statement? It’s only because of people like you that I have to worry about driving it anywhere.
I'd get a "Fire Elon" sticker or something, maybe overlaid on the image of him doing a seig heil, right next to the Tesla logo.
This is very wrong. Teslas are electric vehicles, and for a long time people who actually believe in science would buy or aspire to buy a Tesla as a personal way to combat climate change. Even when they had a ton of problems, people would be willing to pay a premium for them (a lot of people also just bought them because they were cool, but it's unlikely many were Nazis). That really only started to change when autopilot started killing people and Musk began to show his true colors.
Being able to just replace your car on a whim is a luxury for wealthy people. Plus, think about what happens if you sell your Tesla; who will buy it? Probably a Nazi, or an opportunist looking to flip them if the value rebounds. It's not going to accomplish anything but potentially financially hurt the person selling it. It definitely won't do shit to the stock price, because stock prices are rarely grounded in rationality, and the people invested in Tesla all have their own theories that make them believe it's a good investment despite current events.
And also, you don't hurt billionaires by attacking regular people.
Btw, I fully support slapping swastika stickers onto Teslas no matter who owns them. That's non-violent and non-destructive, and it helps remind people what Tesla represents now.
Taxes can get extremely complicated depending on your situation. In my relatively simple case as a contractor, I'm on the hook for calculating and paying taxes quarterly (since my employer(s) don't do it for me). The exact amount I'm meant to pay is
yearly income/4, which means I need to predict how much I'll earn throughout the entire year, which is impossible without a crystal ball.So I just pay what I think I'll earn, and at the end of the year calculate the difference from what I actually earned, and either send or receive a payment from the government. From the IRS point of view, whatever interest they end up paying me is probably less than the cost of government having a cashflow issue throughout the year without those quarterly payments.
It's very hard to find the motivation to pay taxes to a federal government that doesn't represent me. "No taxation without representation" drove the revolution against our original king after all...
But then voting is competing against the time-honored American tradition of sitting on your ass.
Republicans should be worried about which sub-group of theirs will become the next target of this bully's wrath if the democratic party really does dissolve. The only thing this guy has ever done policy-wise is organize hate around groups of people. He's not just going to turn into a positive and productive president if the country goes fully red. When inflation reaches the point of no return, and there are no democrats to point the finger at, who will he target next?
I use MXRoute, which is a similar tiny/one-person email service. Also great so far. I use it for personal stuff + a client's professional business emails, and haven't had any issues with either.
Supporting small businesses like these feels great!
Also the Android TV app is AWESOME!
What do you run Android TV on? Raspberry Pi? My cheapo solution has been to use an old Android phone that supports DP alt mode (USB-C to HDMI adapter) combined with a USB hub + generic air mouse/remote + customized launcher.
It actually works surprisingly well. I installed FCast on it, so it even works like a Chromecast. If I'm watching a video on my phone using Grayjay, I can just cast it to the phone and it will start playing automatically. The only thing stopping it from being perfect is that it can't turn the TV on automatically. As a plus, since the phone has a battery, it's always powered on so I don't have to wait for stuff to boot, and it uses relatively little power.
... but overall it's janky and finicky, and the OEM bloatware is probably spying on me, so I've been looking for alternatives that can match the good parts of this setup.
I don't like Raspberry Pis for this because they're overpriced. I have a couple that I could use for this, but I'm hoping to find a cheaper solution, and one that I can recommend to friends/family when they ask. (the Android phone I'm using cost me a total of $15 on ebay)
Wdym? It literally says the podcast name is "The MeidasTouch Podcast" in the first sentence.
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For that side of reddit, you're right.
But for the uniquely useful side of reddit, federation won't help. If I post a question like "how do I get this obscure game to run well on this obscure Linux distro?", nobody is going to repost that for me, and if I don't maximize the amount of eyeballs on it, it's unlikely I'll get an answer. My best choice is to post it on reddit, either in /r/linux_gaming or in the specific game's subreddit.
I assume that most users who post anything at all on reddit do it to ask questions like that.
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The reddit concept of subreddits also doesn't work well with federation IMO (at least no Lemmy's implementation).
Want to talk about video games? Well, there's no /r/games, instead there are bunch of different /c/games on different servers with varying amounts of activity. You basically gotta make the "pick a server" decision again whenever you post something. If you make the wrong choice, your post might not get seen by anyone, and even if you post to the biggest sub, you'll be missing out on eyeballs from people on other servers who aren't subscribed to that instance for whatever reason.
For example, lemmy.ml/c/linux_gaming and lemmy.world/c/linux_gaming have around the same number of subscribers. Should I post to both? Maybe the same people subscribe to both, so that's pointless? Or maybe I'll miss out on a lot of discussion if I post only to one? There's no way for me to know.
For me, it makes Lemmy less useful than reddit for asking really niche questions and getting useful answers. For posting comments on whatever pops up in my feed though, it works great.
I don't have any good solutions to this, and I'm sure it has been considered already. When I first joined, I remembered seeing people bring this same issue up, but it doesn't seem like it went anywhere? (Or maybe it did?)
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As a software engineer who started programming when he was 11, I get what you mean about "ladder climbers" feeling alien (my elitist term for them is "9-to-5ers" or "pedestrians").
However, I think this question is dumb at least so far as it won't work to weed out the people you think it will. I don't read fiction often, and the only scifi books I remember reading are Dune and Prey, but that's very out of character for me. It's pretty much luck that I read those, and more a factor of me just being an old fart (I'm almost 30, and that's a lot of time to stumble upon at least one scifi book). Ask me this question a few years earlier and I'd draw a blank.
Both were good books, but nothing that would consider a "favorite". Dune is memorable to me just because it very clearly was based on Lawrence of Arabia, which I found neat. As for Prey, I only vaguely remember something about killer nanomachines, and that it was a fun read.
But if you're specifically looking to hire someone you can talk scifi novels with, then it's a very good question (as long as you're mature enough to hire someone who says their favorite book is one that you hate).
Literally nothing. A corporation, especially a publicly traded one like that, can't do much but maximize (ideally long-term, but usually short-term) shareholder returns.
The Activision-Microsoft merger is a good recent example of this. During the anti trust trial, the CEO of Activision literally came out and said that he believes it's a bad idea that will be bad for the industry and bad for the company in the long term, using the impact of consolidation in Hollywood as an example, but he has to side with the board. He's basically legally obligated to.
I'm not saying it's unjust or a bad system (and I'm definitely not trying to paint Bobby Kotick as a good guy), I just want to point out that corporations are very simple in their purpose, and nobody should be expecting anything more from them. If you're disappointed that Google made this 180, that's on you for falling in love with a corporation. They're useful tools for producing goods and services, but terrible as a political tool for democracy.
But for some reason, it became popular to fetishize tech companies, and that spawned megalomaniacs like Elon, Zuckerberg, Horowitz, Thiel, etc who feel like they should be the supreme rulers of our civilization.
To my knowledge Musk is gambling with his own money, not hedge fund capital or something.
Well, he had to get financing from multiple banks to purchase Twitter
gun ownership is support of child murder.
It is, and you're a limp dick loser for owning them. Its a hobby that routinely leads to school shootings and mass murders, and defending it means you're either a selfish moron, or a truly evil person.
...But the democratic party hasn't disarmed anyone. No serious effort to do so ever goes anywhere, and any attempts to regulate guns usually fail or are ineffective. Even when they had a majority, they didn't ban guns. To think this is something they were ever seriously interested in is silly, and probably a sign you've been spending too much time on internet gun communities (which are pretty much all far right conspiracy shit holes)
Calculators made mental math obsolete. GPS apps made people forget how to navigate on their own.
Maybe those are good innovations or not. Arguments can be made both ways, I guess.
But if AI causes critical thinking skills to atrophy, I think it's hard to argue that that's a good thing for humanity. Maybe the end game is that AI achieves sentience and takes over the world, but is benevolent, and takes care of us like beloved pets (humans are AI's best friend). Is that good? Idk
Or maybe this isn't a real issue and the study is flawed, or more realistically, my interpretation of the study is wrong because I only read the headline of this article and not the study itself?
Who knows?
There's so much misinfo spreading about this, and while I don't blame you for buying it, I do blame you for spreading it. "It sounds legit" is not how you should decide to trust what you read. Many people think the earth is flat because the conspiracy theories sound legit to them.
DeepSeek probably did lie about a lot of things, but their results are not disputed. R1 is competitive with leading models, it's smaller, and it's cheaper. The good results are definitely not from "sheer chip volume and energy used", and American AI companies could have saved a lot of money if they had used those same techniques.
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