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  • Anything but metric

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  • In another generation or two they will probably be the ones to spearhead the effort [improve conditions in the United States]

    this was said of the hippie generation (ie boomers) as well

  • Anything but metric

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  • In the 1821, John Quincy Addams (at the time secretary of state) was told to give congress a report on the new metric system. He presented them a very detailed document, making comparisons between the two, but ultimately recommending the metric system.

    ...so detailed, in fact, that none of them bothered to read it and no decision was made. The treasury ended up taking the initiative on their own, and went with what everyone was already using.

    This was barley 30 years after the constitution was ratified, and the report was made by a guy who's dad helped to draft the damn thing. We don't get to blame the Brits for this one. Our stubborn anachronistic measurements are entirely a Yankee phenomenon.

  • Chart Shows How Trump 2.0 Is 'Most Brazenly Self-Enriching' Administration in US History | Common Dreams

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  • It is astounding. If I were in charge of the DNC, I'd absolutely hound him on this the moment they're able. Turn it into a massive spectacle, everyone involved, televised court hearings, the works. The Reality Television President goes out with a reality television bang. I'm a dumbass yet I know he's violated the commerce clause a few dozen times over. In the process, try and get crypto properly regulated as the securities trading boondoggle that it is.

    I'm not, though, and I severely doubt any of this is gonna happen.

  • Chinese Courts Rule Companies Cannot Fire Workers Simply to Replace Them With AI

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  • In practice, I've heard of companies using AI to "replace" large groups of people, then higher back a few of them with expanded responsibilities and worse pay.

    So, they are using it to replace workers, just not in the neat sci-fi sense.

  • China scraps tariffs for all but one African nation

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  • On its own, the zero-tariff policy does not address continent-wide needs for economic restructuring and infrastructure upgrading, adds Jervin Naidoo, a political analyst at Oxford Economics Africa.

    "On its own" is doing some heavy lifting here. Kinda interesting to bring up infrastructure needs and not include something about the Belt and Road Initiative.

  • SNAKE

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  • Entfernt

    Am I crazy not to trust Chinese developed games ?

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  • Keywords: NSA, Edward Snowden, United States v. Moalin

  • Lemmy's political discourse when Republicans gutted the Voting Rights Act yesterday:

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  • There's a clear continuity of ICE policy between Obama, Biden, and Trump. Today's ICE and its severe fascist escalations would not have been possible if Democratic administrations had not poured so much resources into it.

    But I guess bothering to remember anything that happened more than one presidential cycle ago makes one a "low information voter".

  • There was an attempt at scale.

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  • ...are you a bot trying to trick users into pedantically identifying images for your training data? Cus these are not what you claim the are.

  • There was an attempt at scale.

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  • Sure, the bison population is 0.05% of what it once was. And now that we're not actively attempting to extinct them, everything is hunky dory and no more work is needed.

    I don't know how else to interpret this. It sounds like the Bison Society would rather be a society dedicated to literal anything else. The Kick the Can Down the Road Society, perhaps.

  • There was an attempt at scale.

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  • yeah this graphic is terrible

  • Iran and US ‘allowed’ Russian superyacht through blockaded Strait of Hormuz

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  • Staring at this trying to figure out where the straight went. Took an embarrassingly long moment to figure out the water is the white bit and not the grey-blue.

  • Vorgestellt

    Steam Controller page updated: $99 USD, releases May 4th

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  • i think the Steam Controller (2015) incorporated the track pads and had a good aesthetic. Really, all it needed was a real d-pad.

  • STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY Ends with Season 2, Wrapping Known Kurtzman-Era Productions

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  • Now that i've seen and read both, I don't think they dumbed it down all that much. Most of the changes were kind of just good choices for going to a visual medium from a textual one.

    also,

    lets not kid ourselves about how "hard" this sci-fi is. Astrophage is given multiple borderline magical properties just so they actually have the ability to go to another star system and find a solution.

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    Steam Controller page updated: $99 USD, releases May 4th

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  • The old configuration menu was better, the original one before Big Picture got the revamp for the Steam Deck. The new one looks less intimidating at a glance, but is way harder to navigate and requires far more steps to do what the old one could do quite simply.

  • Google DeepMind Paper Argues LLMs Will Never Be Conscious

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  • “I think he [Lerchner][author of paper] arrived at this conclusion on his own and he's reinvented the wheel and he's not well read, especially in philosophical areas and definitely not in biology,” Johannes Jäger, an evolutionary systems biologist and philosopher, told me.

    brutal

  • "cuz, y'know, China bad."

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  • Kinda sounds more like you need other countries' history to be described in the same terms that apply to the United States, so you can dismiss it all as "just the way the world is" without having to examine how that history informs our present.

  • Lindsey Graham needs to do something about the Hagia Sophia

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  • Rupert Murdoch is australian

  • Coyote vs. Acme is finally getting released—with a killer trailer

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  • Ketchup Entertainment bought the film from them in a different tax year (i'm pretty sure), so they'd pay taxes on that income... I think?

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    in the spirit of today's moon launch: A City on Mars

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    a perfect impeachment...

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    thing it never was

    [thing it never was]

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    Silksong main menu glitching?

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