You’re just repeating the same tired old “Liberals are just as bad” bullshit everyone has heard a thousand times already. Not a single point here is true.

I have zero reason to believe she “blindly supports the military”, though I suppose that depends on what level of support for the military you object to.

She has spoken far more directly about a ceasefire and has been more concerned about Palestinian civilians than most other politicians.

As for the “compromises with fascists” claim, that’s just bullshit, and you know it. Yeah, I know, she’s got the endorsement of many old school Republicans, but Trump isn’t an old school Republican. It makes sense that more intellectually honest Republicans, even if I disagree with them immensely, aren’t interested in another Trump term.

Unless you have something productive and realistic to recommend on how we both stop fascist accelerationism by defeating Trump, and also gain more progressive leadership than Harris, I honestly don’t want to hear what you have to say, because I have friends and family that might not survive a second Trump term. A couple of people close to me didn’t survive the first Trump term…

(And you can leave third parties at the door, because I’ve already made it clear I don’t want another Trump term)

This is 100% on brand for a gun-nut. “Everyone who disagrees with me wants me dead”.

Calm down. Living your life lead entirely by fear must be exhausting.

I don’t know that conceal carry rights are actually in danger, but I can see why conservatives are worried about it

This is such a stupid thing to say. “I know that they are completely wrong, but I understand why they feel they way they do”. Why empathize with liars with violent paranoia?

They’re still fucking wrong. Fuck their fragile, gullible feelings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ah

347 Mbit/s maximum. (But don’t expect that at 9.9 miles…)

The "WiFi HaLow"name itself indicates lower power usage than traditional Wifi, largely because it uses the 900MHz band instead of the 2.4/5/6GHz bands.

Likewise, it isn’t compatible with existing WiFi client devices that don’t operate at those bands.

So you’re saying that we should be concerned with datacenters more than things like factory farming and oil & gas?

I don’t follow. I need a lot more evidence of harm before I become “very concerned” about datacenters specifically.

Between AI and shitcoin mining, these two “technology branches” already consume more power than all the green power added to the grid combined.

I think you would be shocked if you learned what some other things in our world cost in CO2.

The energy costs of cryptocurrency mining are easy to calculate because the system is extremely transparent. AI is a little muddier, but we know how much big tech is expanding data centers, and we know how many enterprise GPUs Nvidia sells, so we get a decent estimate.

But these things don’t actually do as much damage as compared to other things. Imagine how much energy is used for Gaming PCs and consoles. It’s probably up there with Crypto and AI if you consider all running consoles and PCs, plus all the multiplayer infrastructure. But we don’t have numbers because this is hard to calculate.

And then there’s stuff like personal automobiles, that completely blow these other things out-of-the-water.

That’s all newsletters. I promise.

1. Go to “all mail” view.
2. Find the first newsletter.
3. Unsubscribe.
4. Search “from:email@from.newsletter”.
5. Select all and delete.
6. Repeat 1-5 until no newsletters remain.

Now you’ll have a pile of emails you can actually parse, and all the newsletters clogging up your inbox will stop arriving in the future.

Do this every time your emails start to get away from you and you’ll be golden.

Rarely do I think a shitpost is too contrived, but bro, get some sleep.

I see how little time and money my friends with kids have. It’s an easy decision.

I save hundreds of thousands more dollars to spend on myself for the next couple of decades, and significantly more time to spend doing what I want. Time that I can also direct at career-building so I can also earn more money.

I did the math and with just one kid, I don’t know how I’d retire. Without a kid, I am on track to retire early (if the world allows it when I reach that retirement age).

I remember when the FediPact people were saying various fediverse instances needed to defederate from Threads because Meta was going to use it to scrape comments…

My brother in Christ, you’re spewing your comments in a million directions with the ActivityPub protocol. They don’t even have to scrape, and defederating them won’t do shit.

Is the solution to male loneliness ripping your father’s shrieking soul from the depths of the underworld and crudely resurrecting him in defiance of God’s will?

I think a nuanced opinion is possible.

I think that AI is a technological step forward with a lot of future applications that might be successful, but I also think it’s currently over-hyped and getting shoehorned into everything for dubious reasons.

I think it’s problematic how AI companies are enriching themselves with other people’s content, but I also have serious disagreements with Intellectual Property law, and half-agree with those companies on the free use of information. I’m more forgiving of training AIs for research purposes rather than immediately monetizing models trained on other people’s content, likewise I am more supportive of openly licensed models you can download over proprietary models like ChatGPT.

I think that AI generated writing and pictures are boring compared to the things human beings create, but I still find Generative AI software to be intriguing and have found entertainment in playing with various text and image models.

I find AI Evangelists and AI Luddites to be equally annoying, because neither has a rational opinion, usually because neither of these groups actually knows anything technical about AI. The former will tell you that AI is already experiencing basic consciousness, the latter will tell you that AI is merely a buzzword and AIs are nothing but stupid token-guessing machines - the truth is a moving target somewhere in between.

Ask the instance admin?

Or just join another instance and don’t get bent out of shape about a ban?

If that’s the extent of their differences, then they aren’t very different…

Explain how they are different.

This is like when Republicans complain that Biden detained record numbers of border-crossers, and I’m like “Isn’t that what you guys want him to do?”.

Not really the same thing. “Lifetime warranties” have for decades now referred to the lifetime of the product as stated in the warranty, not the lifetime of the consumer.

Any consumer still interpreting “Lifetime” in this context to mean “the rest of my life”, is just being stupid. Read the terms of the agreement before assuming you know what it protects…

“Perpetual licensing” on the other hand, is pretty clearly defined as “pay once, use forever”, so to sunset that agreement and start charging subscription fees is fraudulent.

I suspect that this was something of a test case, with the regulator flexing their censorship muscle, and I’m glad it didn’t work out.

This was a POV stabbing video that people spread around to glorify violence. It’s in the same category as beheading videos.

America may have decided that child porn is the only media exception to free speech, but other more sane countries draw the line a little bit more broadly to include all forms of extremely violent crime filmed to be glorified, including things like murder, attempted murder, torture, and the rape of adults.

If you want to operate a business in places like Australia or New Zealand, you cannot be distributing violent gore videos within their borders.

I hope they revisit this as X users are pretty routinely celebrating things like the Christchurch shooting and other violent extremist incidents. Sometimes censorship makes sense, and when people are antagonistically spreading videos of people being maimed and killed, the “free speech” argument absolutely doesn’t fucking cut it.

Not well versed in bird law, eh?