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- Comment on Tesla Stock Price Reaches 'Death Cross' Status 1 day ago:
By coincidence it recently bottomed out at exactlyv that same level as just before the Trump election.
Then we had last week’s 26.7% bump for the not quite accurate tariff 90 day suspension.
It dropped a little when Trump said not all tariffs will be suspended (most will stay at 10%) and now has stayed steady ever since.
This article is stupid.
- Comment on X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research 1 week ago:
Can you please explain? Is that like the amp prefix or more sinister?
- Comment on Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week. 1 week ago:
Weeks later, the quiet part has been said aloud.
- Comment on Gen Z's safe space - Sick of Musk and Zuckerberg, Gen Zers are flocking to Tumblr 1 week ago:
She/it is the only spammer I have encountered here. Would have thought it would be easy to block because each time is almost an identical message.
- Comment on Gen Z's safe space - Sick of Musk and Zuckerberg, Gen Zers are flocking to Tumblr 1 week ago:
I get spammed on Lemmy each week by “Nicole the Fediverse chic from Poland”. Each time from a different instance.
I hope she isn’t the start of the end.
- Comment on Trump Accused of Using ChatGPT to Create Tariff Plan After AI Leads Users to Same Formula: 'So AI is Running the Country' 1 week ago:
You don’t need Chat GPT for that simple algorithm. The prompt is the algorithm. Seems to me the journalist sexed up the story by shoe-horning an AI reference into it.
- Comment on The Trouble With TikTok Is Getting Old 1 week ago:
Fair call.
- Comment on NJ teen wins fight to put nudify app users in prison, impose fines up to $30K 1 week ago:
Furthermore…
Until recently, if it was in Australia she could have been gagged by the court supposedly for her own protection.
So a court decision could go against her for absurd reasons which ignore facts but nobody would be allowed to talk publicly about such injustice.
Grace “Tame was groomed and repeatedly sexually assaulted by a paedophile teacher, but for years Tasmania’s gag laws meant she was unable to speak out, while her abuser bragged on Facebook.”
- Comment on NJ teen wins fight to put nudify app users in prison, impose fines up to $30K 1 week ago:
Who will pay to run the law suit? And who will pay the legal costs of the other side if she loses?
Hollywood movies of heroic legal battles often ignore this.
- Comment on The Trouble With TikTok Is Getting Old 1 week ago:
While you do get my upvote consider this:
Encyclopedia Brittanica could have been said to be for people who didn’t have the attention span to read broadsheets and history books.
Obviously Brittanica was information while TikTok is lolcats but am curious to hear other not-so-obvious reasons why it is not a fair comparison.
- Comment on The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for looking
- Comment on The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans 3 weeks ago:
Did you find the settings? I can’t see them in the phone app.
- Comment on The man with a mind-reading chip in his brain, thanks to Elon Musk 3 weeks ago:
In Australia the politicians get token board positions at the corporations whom they legislate in favour of.
It requires trust: the corporation has to have a reputation in following through with these very indirect bribes.
Even if Renewables corps wanted to play the same game, they could not cannot compete with oil and coal corps.
- Comment on Mom horrified by Character.AI chatbots posing as son who died by suicide - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
I mistakenly thought you were the actual journalist. But I should always presume the journalist will see my comments and therefore not be so harsh, especially when freeloading.
FWIW I subscribe to an (Australian) online newspaper which is free just like you do. The difference being that I rarely read it since I am on top of those topics largely. Am just glad that it exists for others because it is well researched and presented.
- Comment on The wildest details in the Facebook memoir Meta is trying to bury 4 weeks ago:
I was saying that apart from rounding up there is what this convention.
BC means Before Christ. How do you figure that Jesus Christ was born 4 years before he was born? Or are you saying his birthdate was found to be different from what it was initially thought to be?
- Comment on Mom horrified by Character.AI chatbots posing as son who died by suicide - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
Ars offers free articles while most publications have a paywall, so I imagine funding isn’t as generous as it would have been 30 years ago when such publications would have been in magazine format.
- Comment on Mom horrified by Character.AI chatbots posing as son who died by suicide - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
I removed the insult.
- Comment on Mom horrified by Character.AI chatbots posing as son who died by suicide - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think they contacted the researchers and the linked study does not seem to give the answer (I spent a few minutes looking).
- Comment on Mom horrified by Character.AI chatbots posing as son who died by suicide - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
3% success vs what? 6% sent over the edge? 10% 20% ?
- Comment on Porn on Spotify Is Infiltrating the Platform’s Top Podcast Charts 4 weeks ago:
I think they are all synonyms for archive.today
whether it is .ph, .vn, .is, .md
- Comment on The wildest details in the Facebook memoir Meta is trying to bury 4 weeks ago:
Different cultures count differently. eg Jesus was not born in zero AD but in one AD. His whole first year of life he was considered to be in his first year.
I think some countries count age this way too (hopefully someone can confirm to satisfy my nerdy curiosity).
- Comment on Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week. 4 weeks ago:
The instability is great for inside traders (eg those who knew about the Whitehouse lawn stunt in advance).
- Comment on Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week. 4 weeks ago:
The stocks are merely at pre-election levels and look like they have now stabilized unfortunately.
- Comment on Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week. 4 weeks ago:
It didn’t halt, it was boosted. That is how insider trading works. Same with the yo-yo tariffs.
- Comment on Activists with secret cameras spark slaughterhouse investigation 4 weeks ago:
Thanks, will ponder.
- Comment on Activists with secret cameras spark slaughterhouse investigation 4 weeks ago:
Eyewitness is different law from video and audio recording. And if you began video recording in that scenario after you saw the illegal activity commence that would not be fishing so it is certainly admissable.
Audio recording laws interest me. In Queensland you can record without permission as long as you are one of the parties in the call.
In NSW you always need permission from all parties unless it is to protect your “lawful interests” (a phrase which confuses me).
- Comment on Activists with secret cameras spark slaughterhouse investigation 4 weeks ago:
Interesting that footage obtained while trespassing is admitted as evidence. I bet it is only because of the ABC publicity otherwise the farmers would get away with having the evidence dismissed.
If you know a crime is being committed I am sure it must be admitted as evidence but fishing for crimes does not normally count.
Thank you ABC (and brave activists).
- Comment on Tesla's latest decline could be one for the history books - $795 billion since Dec 17 or 53.7 percent 5 weeks ago:
It is merely back to pre-election levels. However it does look like it will keep declining.
- Comment on Christie's First-Ever AI Art Auction Earns $728,000, Plus Controversy 5 weeks ago:
An artist and a muse. Same as it ever was.
- Comment on Christie's First-Ever AI Art Auction Earns $728,000, Plus Controversy 5 weeks ago:
Depriving DJ’s who are actually talented and live electronic musicians.
The reality is that the audience doesn’t care.