I’m talking about the unwillingness to even take even a little action now. E.g. “I can’t even be fucked to cancel subscription services, write to my representatives, or attend a protest on my time off.”
I’m saying that someone who can’t even bother to do the bare minimum because it’s slightly uncomfortable and inconvenient deserves everything they’ll get – they’re useless, pathetic cowards.
Organize. Stay pissed off and motivated. Do not capitulate and stay silent.
And for fuck’s sake: we all need to stop buying/paying for shit that funnels money to the fuckers. It’s amazing how much we spend on crap we don’t actually need and that really doesn’t add to our happiness.
Stop using these asshole’s products. If we’re so god damn weak we can’t deal with a little discomfort and inconvenience we deserve no sympathy.
I can tell you my experience from working with them. The common traits:
They’ve never left their bubble of people that look and think like them. Even the ones with college educations only socialized with people like themselves while in schools. They never leave their comfort zone.
They’re emotionally and socially immature. Those aspects of their personality stopped developing in their teens. They still act like teenage bullies and mean girls.
Their “news” consists entirely right wing propaganda. Social media, FOX “news”, etc. They’re addicted to outrage and they lack critical thinking skills.
I wonder how many people don’t realize thermal throttling is likely contributor to their old laptop slowing down.
The occasionally blast of compressed air and replacing the 6 year old dried out thermal paste does wonders.
Wait until you find out there’s a lot of people that like burnt cheap coffee.
They’re over represented in the “previous military service” and “blue collar shift worker” demographics.
Yep, e.g. the McCormick Reaper, which is unsurprisingly is mechanically very similar to the modern grain head on a combine.
Find a few large trucks or tractors and fuck up their emissions systems: i.e. “rolling coal”. Drive up to the air intakes and attach the exhausts to the air intakes.
Their CBRN filters will get destroyed in short order and then they’re screwed.
In defense of pet rocks: the highest they were ever sold for was the modern equivalent of $24 and nobody was pretending they were worth more.
what’s the point when all you need is to literally run a single application that only toggles I/O ports or does a bit of comms with an external integrated circuit via I2C, Serial or SPI?
None, but sometimes you need far more functionality. A micro-controller is cheaper and less power hungry than a full fledged SOC, which is why you find them in things like e-ink tablets.
I’m not saying it’s common, but given the swath of “high end” internet connected adult toys I wouldn’t be shocked if there’s a handful running linux.
Not even the more expensive microcontrollers run Linux.
Linux on microcontrollers was a thing back in 1998.
More modern and capable microcontrollers like the fairly cheap ESP32 can run linux pretty well.
I detest tankies and instance blocked *.ml and hexbear the instant that feature was added to lemmy.
Maduro willingly got on the helicopter because he wanted to leave the country.
… Yeah, no.
There the added difficulty of “real whistle blower, but changed the details so they don’t out themselves”.
I was convinced I wanted to go into a science or engineering from childhood through my early 20s.
Mid 20s was a complete turnaround for me, and I’m a firefighter/medic now. There’s a lot about the job that sucks: but the pay and benefits are decent enough and I’m (mostly) actually helping people without making some sociopath billionaire even richer.
“parental controls”
Yeah … I was the kid that knew how to bypass those and “helped” other kids out in that regard.
Or requiring school busses to have swing out stop signs and making it illegal to pass them when they’re deployed.
Actual “protect children” laws don’t get talked about because absolutely nobody has a problem with them.
The TV Tropes entry for “WTF did I just watch?” endings is named after the studio that made Evangelion.
Since the goal was to make money: I imagine some of the “guardrails” the AI was set up with included emphasizing that it’s exist to make money. I wouldn’t be shocked if the prompt repeatedly mentioned capitalism.
So you emphasize the AI is a capitalist, then point out the most successful capitalists give away free stuff all the time as marketing. So to meet its primary directive it needs to give away a bunch of free stuff with a snappy slogan.
Also used by Garmin InReach SOS/communicators
American whiskey isn’t very popular outside of NA
In 2023 $1.8 billion of whiskey was exported to countries outside North America – that number is second only to the UK. You can look at the numbers (and impacts of tariffs) here
It’s a mixer whisky … JD
Yes, let’s judge every other whisky producing country by the mass produced garbage that makes up the bulk of their exports too.
We use Windows 11 at work. One of the desktops has an error where you can log in but windows displays a notification to the effect of “You’re not logged in, your settings and app preference aren’t available.”
Other than Edge most of the built in programs don’t work. No errors, no notifications – clicking the icon to open them does nothing. Notepad, file explorer, etc.