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I'd appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please. Thank you for your cooperation.

  • Greece to ban anonymity on social media

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  • For real? That's quite a "flee the country now while you still can" kind of headline. Come to think of it I guess "panopticon" does sound like a Greek word.

  • [Mantella, a] Skyrim mod that makes NPCs AI chatterboxes [with the option to use local ML processing] just got a massive overhaul

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  • This mod is under moderation review (since 28 Apr 2026, 12:05PM )

    It's an idea that sounded sort of cool before I realized just how fucking stupid today's AI chatbots tend to be, and saw the hideous results of someone else trying it with a different mod.

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    What to Do if a Baboon Throws Poop at You

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    1. Links to news stories from...
    2. ...credible sources, with...
    3. ...their original headlines, that...
    4. ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

    Given what passes for "news" some of the time I suppose you might find some better-conceived piece about poo-flinging in e.g. The Guardian, but personally I think rule 2 is where we run into real problems here.

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    What to Do if a Baboon Throws Poop at You

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  • There's some small chance that this is not machine-generated slop, but it's still not Not The Onion material.

  • [Video] Green party leader Zack Polanski gives a masterclass in destroying media framing on Good Morning Britain

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  • That's one way to celebrate Ed Balls Day. With any luck I won't see his face again for at least another year.

  • Do you fulfill a lot of stereotypes?

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  • Sometimes I wonder about which stereotypes I'm resembling, for example when I'm wearing a plaid shirt and cutting down trees with an axe. But that normally only happens two or three times a year.

  • Is it necessary to bring in the paramilitary to carry out a democratic election ?

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  • He's probably including the mass of the land.

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    Does lemmy.world have a zionist admin?

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  • It's possible to read your comment as an attempt to perpetuate the bullshit while pretending to counter it. Be careful about over-generalizing and holding up the worst members of a group and claiming that they're typical of everyone in that group — whether it's Israeli people, Jewish people, or leftists on Lemmy.

  • Electric car sales soar 51% in mainland Europe as Iran war drives up fuel prices

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  • Okay but it doesn't really matter how much EV sales are up. Tell me how much fossil fuel car sales are down.

  • Poilievre demands Carney cap federal deficit at $31B ahead of spring economic update

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  • the high-speed rail, the gun buyback program, external consultants, the federal bureaucracy, and foreign aid

    If we vote hard enough can we get an opposition leader who attacks the government for the stupidly wasteful things they do — i.e. the gun buyback and consultants — and doesn't just reject every single normal Canadian thing including building trains and funding the CBC?

  • EU road fatalities decrease by 2.2% in 2024 - News articles - Eurostat

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  • Screaming, huh? It seems an odd interpretation. To me it still looks only like a casual observation, of the kind one might be expected to make in a discussion thread about a news article on the Internet. It did not seem out of place or even all that remarkable. I did not feel moved to attempt the kind of more in-depth consideration and analysis that would justify the effort of directing a message specifically to the official statistics agency of Europe about it.

    Anyway, to the extent that the message about being careful in interpreting statistics is important and needs to be heard, readers need to hear it as much as reporters.

  • EU road fatalities decrease by 2.2% in 2024 - News articles - Eurostat

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  • Some people do indeed write on paper in a journal and keep it under the bed. Some scrawl their words in pencil on the bathroom walls. Some write letters to their members of parliament. Some type stuff into the handy text box on Lemmy. To each their own, I guess.

  • EU road fatalities decrease by 2.2% in 2024 - News articles - Eurostat

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  • Yes, I saw the links to more data. I cared precisely enough to read the article, and not enough to follow those links to discover the real story on my own. I sometimes take a moment to point out the obvious flaws in pieces such as this one due to a vain hope that someone responsible for reporting on things involving numbers will one day see such complaints and be inspired to do better.

  • Metric system? Pffft....

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  • Some people are just more comfortable with good old familiar units like baby elephants per corgi. What do they even use for that in the metric system? Millihectares per decilitre or something? Whatever.

  • EU road fatalities decrease by 2.2% in 2024 - News articles - Eurostat

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  • Well this is marginally better than the reporting we usually see on anything that involves numbers, in that they mention that there is an ongoing declining trend and they give just enough context that we can be pretty sure this year's number is fully consistent with that trend. Of course they do not actually tell us the variance, they do still pretend that one year's number is more significant than it is in reality (e.g. "second year in a row with a decline") and we have no idea how cherry-picked that 2014 date for comparison might or might not be. But still, not bad Europe. A time series chart would've been a very easy way to improve it.

  • Are cheap Chinese EVs worth the moral cost? Witness stunned by questions ơn forced labour in China - (video, 4 min)

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  • You know, I hear there are several things other than electric cars that Canada also imports from China. Enough so that all the focus on EVs looks a little sus.

  • The idea of sending humans to other planets is ridiculous until we solve core problems here on Earth first

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  • Before we resort to messing with the ocean chemistry to compensate for some of the damage we've done by messing with the atmospheric chemistry, first let's try not burning fossil fuels.

  • Manitoba to ban social media, AI chatbots for youth, premier says

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  • It's Wab Kinew so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that his intentions are noble and good. Presumably he acts out of ignorance, led to a policy he doesn't understand by people he shouldn't have trusted. He probably thinks the only consequences will be that children aren't allowed to use social media and AI any more.

  • What’s the youngest and oldest you’d date?

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  • Youngest: A mayfly, born this morning and destined to die this evening, which landed on my nose.

    Oldest: A mountain with ancient bones, eroded by the aeons to a mere hill with sides of crumbling rock.

    Oh you mean humans? Well, anyone between the ages of 47 and 52 I guess.

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Bicycle Day (psychedelic holiday)

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bicycle_Day_(psychedelic_holiday)
  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world
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    I just did 20 minutes of vigorous aerobic exercise per day for 8 weeks.

  • New Democratic Party @lemmy.ca
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    Pluralistic: Austerity creates fascism (13 Apr 2026)

    pluralistic.net /2026/04/12/always-great/
  • Science @beehaw.org
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    Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real

    www.nature.com /articles/d41586-026-01100-y
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    After many years, at last I have become sufficiently cantankerous that one egregiously stupid post to c/showerthoughts is enough to make me block someone.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    When you stop to think about it, puns are actually pretty neat.

  • Skyrim Mods @lemmy.world
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    Best mod added to my 2026 Skyrim: A compass that looks like an actual compass.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    I'm so old I remember when people would read the newspaper.

  • AMD @lemmy.zip
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    Gamers Nexus

    AMD: WTF?

  • CanadaPolitics @lemmy.ca
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    "We are not looking for sneaky ways to surveil Canadians" says minister, as he introduces a bill that allows him to demand that any web service they choose to victimize must assist them in the

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Carney backs U.S. air strikes on Iran

    www.theglobeandmail.com /politics/article-anand-urges-canadians-to-leave-israel-palestine-and-lebanon-as/
  • Skyrim Mods @lemmy.world
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    Atahbah was yearning for the moon sugar.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    The main reason not to drive in the snow is the way other people drive in the snow.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    In terms of popular baby names, how long before "Rudolph" makes a comeback?

  • Skyrim @lemmy.world
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    It's getting pretty close to Saturalia in this year's playthrough of Skyrim

  • Rust @programming.dev
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    estimated audit backlog: 67560 lines

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Butter

  • dailygames @lemmy.zip
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    Squardle has a new game mode.

    fubargames.se /squardle/
  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
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    Relativity

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Hard times for the Canadian auto sector, so they say.