Honestly, I just use the internet less. I’m never going to pay. I can’t be bothered with the loopholes anymore. If it bugs me to pay or subscribe, I leave. I’m fine with them not wanting me as a user, and I hope they’re fine with me not wanting them as a supplier. They don’t have anything that I actually need that badly.
Oddly enough I probably use the internet more than ever. It’s just not that internet.
My current setup includes two 1440p monitors and a 4K TV . In the evening I use a script to switch off the monitors and use the TV. Due to the different resolutions, scaling is a problem. Both X11 and Wayland have their own problems....
Three migrants, a woman and two children, drowned Saturday in the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas – very recently the epicenter of the migrant crisis – just days after state authorities blocked the US Border Patrol from accessing miles of the US-Mexico border, according to a post on X by Rep. Henry Cuellar....
Your assumptions aren't true at all. It looks like it's heading that way part-way through the film, when Barbie and Ken are at odds with each other. And then it goes ahead and empowers all the men as well. It's certainly critical of toxic masculinity but I think it's empowering for both men and women overall. Obviously your Ben Shapiro types were offended by it because it's not trying to appeal to incels, and it is woke, but not in a bad, inauthentic way.
I don't think it's really supposed to re-popularise the line of toys either. Sure, people who liked the toys when they were young will probably find details they appreciate, but it's not meant to sell the toys. It's not aimed at the demographic (young girls, typically) who would want to buy dolls. It's not an R-rated film, of course, but I'd say anyone under 12 probably isn't going to get much out of it, and it's probably much more enjoyable for adults overall. It's pretty philosophical and thoughtful, and has quite a lot of metaphors and symbolism that would be lost on younger viewers.
Rather than aiming to sell toys, the film is the product; it's a way to make money with the Barbie brand from audiences outside of the toy-buying demographic. And it achieved that (by being a good film).
It says 2tb limit for SSDs which is odd? Maybe I am misunderstanding that.
I’m interested in hearing what folks who are interested had planned for this. It seems like it would be an overkill pfsense box. Could be a proxmox host for high IO vms but at rh same time kinda limited in terms of storage.
That seems to be the case with the majority of the streams I’ve seen, just folks havin fun with a few friends showing up now and then. I do like to check out the odd streamer I’ve never seen especially if it’s a game I know really well. What games have you been streaming lately?
Tesla Gets a $94 Billion Reality Check as EV Winter Sets In::Tesla Inc. had a blockbuster 2023, as its shares more than doubled in 12 months. But 2024 is starting on a different note, with Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker off to its worst start to any year — ever.
www.bloomberg.com Tesla Gets a $94 Billion Reality Check as EV Winter Sets In Esha Dey 5 - 7 minutes
Tesla Inc. had a blockbuster 2023, as its shares more than doubled in 12 months. But 2024 is starting on a different note, with Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker off to its worst start to any year.
The company has lost more than $94 billion in market valuation in just the first two weeks of 2024. It’s not hard to figure out why, as the Austin, Texas-based EV maker has been pounded by a barrage of negative news: an about-face on EVs from the car rental giant Hertz Global Holdings Inc., yet another price cut for its cars made in China, and signs of rising labor costs.
All of this comes in the face of slowing growth in demand for EVs, especially in the US.
“Investors’ main concern on Tesla is stagnating growth,” Cowen analyst Jeffrey Osborne said in an interview. The price cuts in China only fan those concerns, because it is starting to look like “a race to the bottom for the EV industry given intense competition in that market.”
Read more: Tesla Analysts Turn More Cautious on 2024 as EV Slowdown Looms
The hit to Tesla’s market capitalization to start the year is the biggest the company has seen over a similar period since it went public in 2010. In percentage terms, Tesla’s 12% drop since the start of January is the worst since 2016, when the stock fell 14% over the first nine trading days of the year.
To make matters worse, the odds of an imminent turnaround for the EV maker don’t look good.
Tesla has been cutting prices on its cars aggressively since early 2023 in an effort to boost demand. But the result has been a steady erosion of its once-hefty profit margin. Tesla’s automotive gross margin ex-regulatory credits for the third quarter fell to 16.3% from 27.9% a year ago. And the pressure is only mounting, now that production workers at Tesla’s US plants are getting pay raises.
“We are going through a cyclical downturn for EVs, but competitive dynamics are exacerbating the cyclical pressures,” Ivana Delevska, chief investment officer at Spear Invest, said in an interview. “Price cuts and plummeting margins are all a function of these unfavorable competitive dynamics.”
Adding to the woes, Tesla has had to re-route shipments destined for its Berlin plant after Western military actions and security concerns in the Red Sea, and is suspending most production at its plant near Berlin from Jan. 29 to Feb. 11, according to a person familiar with the matter. Not Strong Enough
Tesla first warned about the deceleration in EV demand during its October third-quarter earnings report. Almost immediately after, automakers and suppliers across the globe chimed in with their own downbeat forecasts. Many carmakers dialed back their plans for expansion.
Then, earlier this month, Tesla reported its fourth-quarter delivery numbers. While they were better than what analysts expected, they put the company behind China’s BYD Co. in global electric-car sales.
The result has been a rude awakening for Tesla investors. Last year, the stock was the eighth best performer in the S&P 500. So far this year, it’s the eighth worst.
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Naturally, Musk is taking a big hit personally. The world’s richest person, who gained more wealth in 2023 than anyone else on the planet, has seen his net worth shrink by $23 billion so far this year, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Musk regained the top spot on Bloomberg’s wealth index last year, overtaking Bernard Arnault, but now Jeff Bezos is rapidly closing in, with $179 billion to Musk’s $206 billion as of Friday’s close.
The bulk of Musk’s net worth comes from his 13% stake in Tesla and about 304 million exercisable stock options. He also owns about 42% of SpaceX, which is valued at about $53 billion, according to Bloomberg’s wealth index. Still The One
With all that being said, Tesla remains a key player in the global transition from gas-powered vehicles to largely electric ones. The reason: It’s so far ahead of its potential rivals. China’s BYD may have surpassed Tesla in the number of units sold, but it still lags in revenue and profits. And BYD doesn’t sell cars in the US, where Tesla remains the market leader.
Read more: Tesla Is Investors’ Standout Bet in a Hazardous EV Landscape
In many ways, Tesla’s biggest problem may be its past success and the hope it generated. As investors piled into the stock, Tesla’s market capitalization ballooned, making it way larger than any other car company in the world. However, with the shares priced for perfection, that also made them highly vulnerable to big reactions to any negative news.
That’s why so many Tesla proponents argue that it shouldn’t be compared to regular car companies. To them, the ultimate true value of the company rests in the future and it’s hope to develop the first truly self-driving vehicles. The only problem is Tesla has been promising this for years, and most experts say the technology is still years, maybe even decades, away.
“Tesla has not been able to deliver on fully autonomous driving and AI promises, which are already embedded in the valuation,” Spear’s Delevska said. “Being simply another automotive manufacturer is not going to cut it for a $750 billion valuation.”
The best performing diet that has published research demonstrating its success is low carbohydrate also known as keto.
That means avoiding high sugar and high starch foods like bread, pasta, potato, fruit, juices, processed food
The best description I have seen is nothing made of wheat, rice, grain, no vegetables that grow underground, no pumpkin, no fruit, as much meat, seafood, fat as you like.
The current health advice is to avoid canola and vegetable oils as they do specific metabolic damage. The safe plant based fats are coconut and avocado. All animal fats are safe.
The odd thing about this diet is you can eat fat and get thin, but it makes sense in that it trains your body to burn fat, which is what you want!
Dr Ken Berry on YouTube has good advice about starting such a diet.
We won’t, we are having problems deciding which flavor of genocide we would like to support.
Oddly enough, very few people actually seem to want no genocide as an option. We did good for most of 23, but decided we really really wanted to help kill a bunch of innocent children.
Stole this image from someone who stole this image, and I'm stealing the question, too:
WHAT FILM MADE YOU GO 'WTF DID I JUST WATCH'?
Off the top of my head:
Mother! definitely. Also Society, The Outwaters, Final Prayer (aka The Borderlands), Dead Alive (aka Brain Dead), Skinamarink, The Human Centipede, Infinity Pool, Antichrist, Hausu, Secretary. And I love them all.
@stina_marie@horror I recently watched "Malatesta's Carnival of Blood" and that's pretty odd. In tone and quality it's almost like a spiritual sequel to "Manos the Hands of Fate."
In an interview with the Guardian from his home base in Burlington, Vermont, Sanders urged the Democratic president to inject more urgency into his bid for re-election. He said that unless the president was more direct in recognising the many crises faced by working-class families his Republican rival would win....
Nope. You aren’t looking at the bigger picture. The unions that were holding out were doing so to the detriment of the rest of organized labor. Had they continued to be allowed to do so, the economic consequences would have been a devastating PR blow to organized labor, as would the political consequences.
I have to wonder how many of you naysayers are actually involved in organized labor activism, given how out of touch you appear to be with how unions are actually thinking about the railroad strike. We, meaning organized labor, aren’t on the same page as you at all, and while we don’t doubt that you have the best intentions, at this point you’re basically making yourself the enemy by elevating the odds that Trump wins reelection, which would be devastating to organized labor.
I fully expect to be downvoted by Lemmy’s purist zealots, as frequently happens when I don’t toe their extremist line or pretend to be who they think I should be as a union organizer and activist. But I’m the one down here on the front lines, not you fucking privileged cry-babies who are going to flip the table over if you don’t have everything your way.
It’s bullshit. With friends like you, working people don’t even need enemies.
Removing filter variants of inserters sounds super nice. It always felt odd to me that filters were a part of a completely different type of inserter, and needing to carry both non-filter and filter variants of inserters took up a lot of inventory space it felt like.
How do you know if it’s open source? Well if it’s called something like “huggingface” or “redpajama” there’s a very good chance it’s made by people who have no marketing department. So good odds it’s free.
Oh the fuck well, that’s the price you pay for living in a society. All societies require their sacrificial lambs in order to prop themselves up because no legal system is perfect nor capable of being so, but we still have to put the well-being of our community above those who threaten or wrong it whether we make mistakes or not. And we give the state the benefit of the doubt in such circumstances because we accept that it’s the only way a community can be functional and work without even WORSE sacrifices.
You’re gonna tell me that we can’t give life back to those we take it from knowing that’s just as true with people wrongfully convicted and thrown in prison for life – the people who you sentence to be raped, tortured, enslaved, and STILL murdered anyway because your selfish, entitled ass thinks your opinions are better than others. And you absolve yourself of responsibility for the extreme cruelty and suffering you cause by telling yourself, “Well at least they’re alive,” which is a cop-out.
It’s far more humane to execute someone quickly after a trial because it minimizes the convicted’s suffering, it’s far better for the safety of the community because you are getting rid of a known offender even if the odds they’re actually guilty aren’t 100% perfect, it’s much more morally conscionable than expecting the community and victims to live in fear of offenders and ultimately is the better, more moral way.
But you don’t understand that because you’re not emphasizing with anyone else, you only care about how you feel about death personally and that is 100% a you problem.
I originally signed up for lemmy about six months ago due to becoming outraged over reddit’s continual coddling of hard right and fascist powermods that use their authority to harass....
Just a heads up - beehaw are liberals at best (with the whole "faux civility" bs, and from my experience, an odd tolerance for tankies), not leftists.
I agree with others that blahaj is a good bet, I'm on kbin myself, and have not had problems with the instance (individual users sure, but I just report where I can and block), so maybe give it a look too (kbin also has other instances like lemmy does, but I've not looked in to any of them yet)
I still don’t understand the West’s reluctance to let their donated long range missiles to strike infrastructure in Russian territory. The Russians have shown zero restraint in targeting critical civilian infrastructure in Ukraine. Allow them to even the odds.
I’m a software engineer, so I spend the majority of my day inside. I tend to do more outdoorsy type stuff when off work or on weekends like 4-wheeling, snowmobiling, hunting/fishing, photography, exploring, etc. When I am indoors, I tend to play video games, sometimes learn new programming tech, and more recently reading.
Tons of odd little things too, but that’s a good majority of what I tend to do.
Israel waged 15 wars against Gaza in the last 75 years, and all failed to resolve the core issues, says former French diplomat Jean-Pierre Filiu, professor of Middle East Studies at Sciences Po....
DW (Deutsche Welle) is pretty good. It’s funded by the German government, but I haven’t found any faults with the reporting yet. Unlike with Qatar’s state media, there is a law preventing the German government from directly influencing the reporting. At worst, their English voice overs can be a bit clumsy at times and some of their English language stories are of relatively little relevance to an international audience.
It is worth noting that their Arabic-language team has come under fire for antisemitism in the past (similar to a recent scandal at the BBC), so even they are unfortunately not perfect.
As for Al-Jazeera (edit: and sorry for writing such a long comment, this wasn’t originally planned), there have been a number of occasions of their journalists cutting off citizens in Gaza the moment they started to criticize Hamas and/or Qatar. Two examples:
Earlier in this war, when a rocket from a Hamas-aligned group struck the parking lot of a hospital, Al-Jazeera spread the lie that it was an Israeli air strike, even though the breakup of the rocket launched from Gaza could be seen on their live stream. They later switched to a questionable analysis that claimed the Iron Dome had intercepted the rocket over Gaza, even though that’s impossible, since the Iron Dome neither extends over the strip nor intercepts rockets during their boost phase.
This kind of reporting has consequences. Al-Jazeera’s Arabic language content in particular - which is far different in tone compared to the more moderate English-language edition - has an enormous reach in the Middle East. In this case, the misleading at best reporting resulted in riots and antisemitic pogroms in several Middle Eastern and North African countries, including the torching of a synagogue.
Israel has also accused several of their journalists of working directly for Hamas. While they have presented evidence, these accusations have been met with heavy criticism, although notably primarily by people and organizations already critical of the Israeli government.
The fact that at the funeral of this journalist, Saleh Aljafarawi, a man known for his many roles and clear connection with Hamas was front and center does support the IDF claim though (first from the left kneeling down):
I’m not saying that every journalist killed by the IDF is automatically a terrorist or that the company any of them keep, in life and death, is evidence of wrongdoing, but the whole thing is definitely odd.
Al Jazeera though has been dubious at best for decades already. I recall that even all the way back in the early 2000s, they were being regularly criticized for uncritically broadcasting terrorist propaganda.
Everyone can agree on VLC being the best video player, right? Game developers can agree on it too, since it is a great utility for playing multimedia in games, and/or have a video player included. However, disaster struck; Unity has now banned VLC from the Unity Store, seemingly due to it being under the LGPL license which is a...
You sound like a bully when you presume to ad-hom someone who actually overcame impossible odds because you don’t want to admit I’m right and that you’re actually going to have to save yourself since you’ll never get the validation and rescue from your community that you want.
You are 100% at fault for your own suffering because you won’t take responsibility and act to save yourself, and you have no one to blame for your plight but yourself. It’s as simple as that.
I already know what you’re going to do though; you’re just going to keep whining, feeling sorry for yourself and playing victim while Unity apathetically locks you out of your life’s work and hides it behind a paywall, and the only one who’s going to suffer from that is you. 🤷
Like half of posts have headline that gets repeated in mid summary and then longer summary below. I’ve posted this protest, but admins didn’t like. Where is best place to affect change?
I haven’t made a post on Lemmy yet so I don’t know what the form you fill in looks like. Sounds like a design flaw at first glance, to me. I have noticed the same odd thing though, indeed.
Al Jazeera’s Samer Abudaqa was ‘targeted’, left to bleed by Israel (www.aljazeera.com)
I'm really getting over the enshitification of the internet. (lemmy.world)
Wayland/X11 problems with 4K HDMI TV
My current setup includes two 1440p monitors and a 4K TV . In the evening I use a script to switch off the monitors and use the TV. Due to the different resolutions, scaling is a problem. Both X11 and Wayland have their own problems....
What's some amazing technology they have in Japan that's very normal but as a blow your mind here
3 migrants, including 2 kids, drowned in Eagle Pass days after Texas blocked Border Patrol from area, congressman says (www.cnn.com)
Three migrants, a woman and two children, drowned Saturday in the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas – very recently the epicenter of the migrant crisis – just days after state authorities blocked the US Border Patrol from accessing miles of the US-Mexico border, according to a post on X by Rep. Henry Cuellar....
Margot Robbie Is Taking a Break From Acting After Barbie in Case People Are Sick of Her (www.ign.com)
Minisforum MS-01 announced. 2x10g sfp+, 2x2.5gbe, pci slot, 3xm2 slots. 2xUSB4 40g. What do we think? (store.minisforum.com)
This looks like an amazing little box that can do almost anything. I’m wondering how people feel about the pricepoint...
More streamers are using #linux on twitch now. What are your favorite games to watch? (www.twitch.tv)
There’s a 5% chance of AI causing humans to go extinct, say scientists (www.newscientist.com)
Tesla Gets a $94 Billion Reality Check as EV Winter Sets In (www.bloomberg.com)
Tesla Gets a $94 Billion Reality Check as EV Winter Sets In::Tesla Inc. had a blockbuster 2023, as its shares more than doubled in 12 months. But 2024 is starting on a different note, with Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker off to its worst start to any year — ever.
How to burn belly fat if I have a cervical spondylosis and scoliosis?
UK's Sunak, in Kyiv, Unveils ‘Unprecedented’ Aid Package for Ukraine (www.kyivpost.com)
Sanders warns Biden: address working-class fears or risk losing to demogogue (www.theguardian.com)
In an interview with the Guardian from his home base in Burlington, Vermont, Sanders urged the Democratic president to inject more urgency into his bid for re-election. He said that unless the president was more direct in recognising the many crises faced by working-class families his Republican rival would win....
Factorio Friday Facts #393 - Putting things on top of other things (factorio.com)
And the Factorio devs just continue to add more quality of life and interest to the game mechanics....
13 Best Open Source ChatGPT Alternatives (itsfoss.com)
Prosecutors to seek death penalty for white supremacist who killed 10 at Buffalo supermarket (apnews.com)
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for the white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket.
Looking for an actual left leaning Lemmy instance
I originally signed up for lemmy about six months ago due to becoming outraged over reddit’s continual coddling of hard right and fascist powermods that use their authority to harass....
New strategy how to conquer Russia: just let Russians freeze this time. (sh.itjust.works)
What do you like to do in your free time?
French historian: Israel destroyed 4,000-year-old culture in Gaza - (video, 24 min) (www.aljazeera.com)
Israel waged 15 wars against Gaza in the last 75 years, and all failed to resolve the core issues, says former French diplomat Jean-Pierre Filiu, professor of Middle East Studies at Sciences Po....
Unity bans VLC from Unity Store. (mfkl.github.io)
Everyone can agree on VLC being the best video player, right? Game developers can agree on it too, since it is a great utility for playing multimedia in games, and/or have a video player included. However, disaster struck; Unity has now banned VLC from the Unity Store, seemingly due to it being under the LGPL license which is a...
Lemmy posts redundant
Like half of posts have headline that gets repeated in mid summary and then longer summary below. I’ve posted this protest, but admins didn’t like. Where is best place to affect change?