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- Comment on Anon's first job 7 hours ago:
McDonald’s varies wildly across countries and time periods, impossible to say without knowing when and where this happened.
- Comment on Why isn't Putin receiving the same level of hate than people like Trump and Elon are? 7 hours ago:
to some extent I think slatestarcodex.com/…/i-can-tolerate-anything-exce… may be a factor
- Comment on Couldn't governments just remotely disable phones nearby to prevent evidence of police brutality from being recorded? 19 hours ago:
Fair point, but it still wouldn’t stop standalone compact or interchangeable lens cameras or camcorders, those don’t even have a cell modem built in. Most people don’t carry one of these around, so it would reduce the number of cameras, but not to zero. People carrying cameras around wherever they go is a recent phenomenon anyway, it would take us back to around 2000.
- Comment on Couldn't governments just remotely disable phones nearby to prevent evidence of police brutality from being recorded? 19 hours ago:
I mean you’re kinda getting into “Stallman was right” territory here. Obviously computers (including smartphones) should not be disabling any functionality without the owner’s consent, but we do not live in a free software utopia.
How would that backdoor be activated? If over the Internet, it can be trivially avoided by not connecting the phone to the Internet.
And in the end someone is going to bring a standalone camera that can’t even be connected to the Internet.
- Comment on The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election 22 hours ago:
This astralcodexten.com/…/mostly-skeptical-thoughts-on… seems to have been broadly right.
- Comment on Just read an article somebody stole 40k from an atm. How is that possible that an atm carries that much? And is it even possible to get inside an ATM if so? 1 day ago:
40k what? Euros, US dollars, pesos, Czech koruna, Ukrainian hryvnia, rubles, Australian dollars, pound sterling?
In my country (in the eurozone), at most ATMs I see, the limit of what I can withdraw at once is € 400 (and I usually do withdraw that much so I do not have to withdraw very often). So € 40000 is enough for 100 people to withdraw their maximum between refillings. 100 people isn’t a lot, certainly not in busy locations.
Someone else posted a picture of USD 100000 in cash which gives you an idea of the volume.
Euros are approximately equal in value to US dollars for those who do not know this and have an idea what US dollars are worth.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 1 day ago:
Someone who has been president before, for four years, was elected president again.
I cannot think of anything less similar to a “point of no return”.
You may think of him or his policies what you want (I personally have a mostly negative opinion of him too!), but we have all had four years of opportunity to observe what he does when he is president.
If you are thinking that Trump is like Hitler, then please point me to anything similar to:
- a Capitol Fire Decree of 2017 that says several parts of the Bill of Rights are suspended until further notice
- an Enabling Act of 2017 that gives the president full power to make law including law that violates the constitution
- laws on the Coordination of the States with the Federation of 2017 or a Law on the Reconstruction of the Federation of 2018 giving the federal government full legislative and executive power over the states
- a Law Against the Formation of Parties of 2017 declaring that the Republican Party was the only political party in the US and anyone attempting to form another party would be imprisoned
- a Law on the Abolition of the Senate of 2018 doing exactly what the title implies
- a Law on Measures of State Self-Defense of 2018 retroactively legalizing dozens of extrajudicial killings of Trump’s political rivals
Oh, none of those things happened in the late 2010s? Then why exactly are you expecting them to happen in 2025 or 2026? What is different now?
- Comment on At what age do we switch from measuring a human by length to by height? 2 days ago:
they are the same thing, this is just a matter of when they are able to stand up to measure them while standing vs while lying, I think
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 2 days ago:
A US Senator is part of the government.
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 2 days ago:
Fortunately in the US I trust that their First Amendment has some teeth. If that were happening in most other countries, I’d be seriously worried that this senator might succeed with his evil plans.
- Comment on AAAAAAAAAAA 4 days ago:
Wasn’t that entire page, including sidebars and footer and such, only the letter “A” repeated in the mid-to-late 2000s? Wikis really are a declining medium.
- Comment on Is there a way to exclude topics from what I see on Lemmy? 4 days ago:
Look at only communities you’re subscribed to, and unsubscribe from all where talking about the topics you don’t like is allowed.
- Comment on Large language models not fit for real-world use, scientists warn — even slight changes cause their world models to collapse 5 days ago:
In other news, water is wet
- Comment on How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down? 6 days ago:
I use different email accounts on different providers for different purposes. Most purposes, gmail or outlook.com, both of which I’m sure if they do go away, this will be announced well in advance.
- Comment on Do the ultra-rich consume popular media? 6 days ago:
Bill Gates has a list of favorite books. Ronald Reagan watched Back to the Future.
- Comment on why is mexico not treated the same way as canada?? 1 week ago:
absolutely this, here in Austria most of our books are obviously written in German, so many of them have prices for Germany, Austria and sometimes Switzerland on them, but obviously not for other neighboring countries because the books for them are written in Italian, Slovak, etc.
- Comment on In the event you believe a contract killer is in breach of contract, who adjudicates? 1 week ago:
No, you can’t go to real court. You’re actually kinda getting at something more serious: This is true for all crimes. Especially also drug crimes. That is why the prohibition of drugs causes violent crime: the only way to enforce contracts over illegal drugs is through violence.
- Comment on Are there opposing institutions to things like the Heritage Foundation? Are there liberal policy think-tanks? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Which language was spoken in ancient empire armies ? 2 weeks ago:
There’s a Wikipedia section here about one that is not ancient, but relevant to your question about multilingual states: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_Army#Lingu…
- Comment on Is this what every election is like? 2 weeks ago:
US presidential elections have been approximately this way since at least 2016, actually I think this one may have been less crazy than the last two.
- Comment on how would you rate your beehaw username as a minecraft seed? 2 weeks ago:
you do realize that people from other instances than beehaw can post here too? :D
- Comment on I have a very strange question about washers, dryers and the Middle East. 2 weeks ago:
yup, central European here and I do not own a dryer and am not aware of anybody who does, I use a drying rack.
- Comment on Did Trump vote? Could he have? 2 weeks ago:
This wasn’t too hard to find with a web search: edition.cnn.com/2024/11/05/politics/…/index.html
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
Realistically… what do you expect to be radically different this time in comparison to the four years Trump has already been president?
- Comment on do you think lemmy will ever be popular? 2 weeks ago:
How do you define popular? I think it already is reasonably popular, I see enough activity here that it prompts me to comment at least somewhere on most days. I think it’s going to become more popular over time.
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 4 weeks ago:
Neither of those statements is universally true. It is a tendency, but not a universal rule.
Mobile internet is newer, less essential to many people, and I think mostly more costly to operate for the ISP per amount of data transferred, so this is why it tends to be the case. But there are unlimited mobile plans and limited home plans too in the world.
- Comment on The original Facebook was something we’ll never get back 4 weeks ago:
I dislike the whole concept of “social media” in the Facebook sense.
I think the ideal form of “social media”, which was also popular in 2004, was the web forum. I want that back, not something where I have to follow people, but something where I can meet and find people with common interests and discuss those interests with them.
- Comment on draw.io changed license from Apache 2.0 to non-FOSS-license on August 27, 2024 4 weeks ago:
Apache isn’t copyleft, not sure why you thought it was
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- Comment on If I'm stuck in the same area as someone who is clearly sick (runny nose, coughing etc) is there some combo of short/long breaths or nose/mouth breathing that's a better defense against catching it? 5 weeks ago:
I remember learning in school that breathing through the nose is healthier than through the mouth because your nose is capable of filtering the air to some extent, some particles are going to get stuck in your nose rather than travelling further inside your body.