Attempting to unsubscribe from a newsletter results in me being "temporarily blocked"
One good day I wound up with a subscription to a site named Schwans, and I was receiving purchase orders from a guy named "John D." for some reason. So, naturally, I tried to unsubscribe. I got an error message saying:
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Odd thing, so I go into the main website and unsubscribe manually. All fine and dandy until I start getting these emails AGAIN because Schwans decided to rebrand as Yelloh and that apparently reset their unsubscriptions and back to the same shenanigans we go!
(Wikipedia) Totalitarianism is a form of government and a political system that prohibits all opposition parties, outlaws individual and group opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high if not complete degree of control and regulation over public and private life. It is regarded as the most extreme...
I can imagine an alternative, but the reality is that such an alternative has never arisen.
The imaginary ‘good’ version of totalitarianism, I assume, is one where there’s a ‘good’ dictator who is also so intelligent they’re able to run everything very efficiently, where everyone enjoys or at least accepts the dictatorship because everything gets better for everyone. But that’s a very odd utopian daydream. In reality, being a dictator and being good are mutually incompatible.
EDIT: Read this back and realised I’m describing the plot of Red Son!
In our hyper connected world with nest door bells, web cams and motion detectors everywhere the odds always were astronomically against this guy. I’m amazed he managed to stay on the lam for as long as he did, even more amazed he survived his capture.
My guess is the graph of number of successful escapes is pointing down over time.
My point is that this description literally applies just as much to humans. Humans are also trained on vast quantities of things they've seen before and meanings associated with them.
it’s a collage of other art
This is genuinely a misunderstanding of how these programs work.
when AI is used for art it takes jobs from artists and prevents the craft from advancing.
Because the only art anyone has ever done is when someone else paid them for it? There are a lot of art forms that generally aren't commercially viable, and it's very odd to insist that commercial viability is what advances an art form.
I do actually get regularly paid for a kind of work that is threatened by these things (although in my case it's LLMs, not images). For the time being I can out-perform ChatGPT and the like, but I don't expect that that will last forever. Either I'll end up incorporating it or I'll need to find something else to do. But I'm not going to stop doing my hobby versions of it.
Technology kills jobs all the time. We don't have many human calculators these days. If the work has value beyond the financial, people will keep doing it.
What I meant is a retiree crisis. You have been working for 40/50 odd years, and all of a sudden you loose the one thing that gave structure to your life.
Correct, but using it, or not, the cable heats up. It’s only when using it that the cable is put under additional strains and stresses. Often times people rest the cable on their palm, bending it at odd angles, not intentionally but absentmindedly. These are stresses on the cable that wouldn’t exist if it were simply sitting and charging. The usage doesn’t draw more power, it just increases the likelihood of miss handling the cable. Now, if a cable is built out of materials that are less biodegradable, or contains certain chemicals that are bad for the environment, they are less likely to break down under similar circumstances. It’s kind of a catch 22. You can make cables that do not contain harmful chemicals, but breakdown easily, or you can make cables that don’t break down easily, but potentially contain harmful chemicals. The real issue is, no matter what, e-waste is being created with disposable cables.
I don’t use my phone while plugged in (mostly because my battery life and usage habits don’t require it), and actually don’t typically plug in at all because I charge wirelessly overnight. But I do have an every pack-in lightning cable I’ve received with an iPhone since they started using lightning, and none of them are broken.
Mulberries are awesome; they’re tasty and they’re an excellent source of dietary iron, too.
They have two things going against them, though: as fruits they’re pretty fragile, even more so than other berries; and when they’re flowering, they’re highly allergenic for a lot of people. Lots of cities actually ban growing mulberry trees within city limits because of the allergy problem.
Of stuff that grows right in my neighborhood in the Bay Area, California, I’d point out passionfruit and prickly-pears as somewhat unusual fruit.
Passionfruit vines like to grow on fences; they make trippy-looking flowers that mature into lemon-sized fruits full of tasty gooey arils around their seeds.
Prickly-pears are Opuntia cactus, which seem to do oddly well here in even rough and windy coastal areas. The same species can also be harvested for the young cactus pads, which are nopales in Spanish; skin 'em and fry 'em up and put 'em in vegetarian tacos.
Stopped watching shows, only torrenting old stuff and the odd cartoon here or there. Picked up comics recently though, lots of stuff coming out but it’s oddly different, it feels more like record collecting.
Growing up in the years before and during Cable television, I am positive television was the most talked about topic over any and all aside from basic hello.
And if you didn’t have cable, well you’d get filled in on whatever, but were oddly OK with it.
Now that you say that, it’s really an odd, surreal experience. Were my fellow children unique, and just did not grow up, and made a blend of their childhood and what should be adult pursuits, or were people in the past just as fucked up, but all they had to make porn of was Charles Dickens and Dante and such?
Think tanks are paid a lot to figure out how to dupe every generation and make fools of us. Should be obvious, but a lot of young “leftist” or “progressive” democrats are… maybe happier to tow the party line than they let on. And oddly support Israel, full-stop. Maybe we will vote in a “leftist” raegan democrat or something. The path to hell is paved with good intentions.
You basically have to buy if you can afford it, only thing worse than paying a mortgage is paying someone else’s. I’m closing in on my mortgage in my 30s which I never expected. Going to a trade college allowed me to save down payment and never be jobless, and buying a shitty townhome during the crash in what became a highly desirable area, allowed me to move to a huge country property before the market caught up here. Odd but very fortunate set of circumstances.
Apple forced to ditch iPhone lightning charger::Apple confirms new iPhone 15 will have a common USB-C charging port after EU forces it into the change.
Maybe I’m a lightweight, but pseudoephedrine makes me feel weird. I can’t put my finger on it, but maybe a bit jittery and kind of cold. Also hyper - like I’ll want to do chores when I take it
Works better than anything else for my colds, but it also makes me feel odd so I avoid it unless I’m feeling super trash.
One Dev have already pointed out that they have a Unity based game due next year they’ve already contracted to game pass, so that’s 20 million odd subs who’ll have access to try the game, where as they didn’t negotiate with MS on the price knowing this clause was coming.
Xinyu Wen traveled to Thailand in June, planning a two-week vacation around Bangkok’s Pride parade. But the 28-year-old ended up staying a month and a half, soaking up the Thai capital’s thriving LBGTQ+ community.
You’ll get protection if discrimination passes a certain point, but it’s really more of a “hey you shouldn’t treat people that way” and not a “hey you shouldn’t treat gay people that way.”
A lot of older Chinese people just feel that the Western LGBT environment is rather odd: the rampant sexualization and PDA is at odds with the traditionally conservative culture. If the LGBT movement had adopted a more traditional protest scheme rather than the flair of flamboyance it has today, it would have seen much more support in China imo.
Also, a lot of Chinese TV has homoerotic undertones, idk what you’re watching.
I like portal 1 quite a bit more than portal 2. Portal 1 felt like this dark mystery with occasional bits of humor. It felt very connected to Half Life, not necessarily in story, but definitely in atmosphere. Portal 2 was missing a lot of that. It oddly felt less lonely than Portal 1, and was missing a lot of that Half Life atmosphere.
Additionally I love the implications that Portal 1 has if you play Half Life. Outside is absolute hell, and you don’t know if you’d rather be outside the facility or inside it.
What I mean by this, is instead of when you fail and are met with a game over, the game finds some way to keep it going. Instead of being forced to reset to a previous save or an autosave checkpoint, the game’s story continues in an interesting path. Are there any games like this?...
Odd Giants is based on the old MMO Glitch, and in that, when your character succumbs to empty stamina, you go to the underworld to recover. It’s a truly special game.
gas furnance that was somehow under-dimensioned – the idea is that in the real cold days you’d still have the good ole fireplace
Oddly enough I’ve never encountered that in Germany, I only ever see catastrophically oversized furnaces that start cycling in March… Seems to me plumbers never really worry too much about correct dimensioning, they just put the same 20 kW furnace that they know and love to install in every apartment and single family home. For some it will be somewhat adequate, for some it’ll be oversized, who cares, customers never complain when the furnace cycles, but when it’s too cold, you’ve got a problem. Same as they’re never too worried about finding suitable supply water temps. Just set it to 80 and you’re good, it’s the customer who pays horrendous gas bills, not you lmao. That’s also why everyone thinks their Altbau has to have 80°+ supply water when they have never really tried anything lower to see if it maybe suffices. My parents had their oil-furnace on 80C supply for the past 40 years and last winter when everybody was trying to save as much energy as possible they figured out you can set it to 55 as well.
Totalitarianism. What are the good things about it?
(Wikipedia) Totalitarianism is a form of government and a political system that prohibits all opposition parties, outlaws individual and group opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high if not complete degree of control and regulation over public and private life. It is regarded as the most extreme...
He looks very polite (lemmy.world)
Escaped Pennsylvania killer captured after nearly 2 weeks on the run (www.nbcnews.com)
US rejects AI copyright for famous state fair-winning Midjourney art (arstechnica.com)
Controversial AI art piece from 2022 lacks human authorship required for registration.
Purism Announce New 11-Inch Linux Tablet (www.omglinux.com)
Pentagon-Funded Study Warns Dementia Among U.S. Officials Poses National Security Threat (theintercept.com)
Watch: Billionaire CEO says unemployment 'has to jump' to put 'arrogant' workers in their place (www.rawstory.com)
Apple’s new USB-C iPhone cables and dongles are predictably expensive (www.theverge.com)
The switch to USB-C is good! Except for all the dongles you’ll need to get there.
Can you tell me about any lesser-known local fruits or vegetables in your area that you think more people should discover?
I gotta give it to mulberries, don’t get enough attention!...
The agony of indecision (i.imgur.com)
I don’t watch shows anymore I just watch serpadesign feed his frogs on YouTube x
I’ll fight anyone who shits on Gen Z (i.imgur.com)
Apple forced to ditch iPhone lightning charger (www.bbc.com)
Apple forced to ditch iPhone lightning charger::Apple confirms new iPhone 15 will have a common USB-C charging port after EU forces it into the change.
iOS 17 to Launch on September 18, Featuring StandBy Mode, NameDrop, Interactive Widgets (www.macrumors.com)
Oh honey (sh.itjust.works)
FDA says common over the counter decongestant phenylephrine does not work in oral form (www.nbcnews.com)
Unity introducing new fee attached to game installs (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Thailand's LGBTQ+ community draws tourists from China looking to be themselves (apnews.com)
Xinyu Wen traveled to Thailand in June, planning a two-week vacation around Bangkok’s Pride parade. But the 28-year-old ended up staying a month and a half, soaking up the Thai capital’s thriving LBGTQ+ community.
Happy Birthday to Steam as it turned 20 today (www.gamingonlinux.com)
What are some games that "spin" failure states?
What I mean by this, is instead of when you fail and are met with a game over, the game finds some way to keep it going. Instead of being forced to reset to a previous save or an autosave checkpoint, the game’s story continues in an interesting path. Are there any games like this?...
Heat pumps twice as efficient as fossil fuel systems in cold weather, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
www.cell.com/joule/…/S2542-4351(23)00351-3
WhatsApp will soon be your one-stop solution for all your chat apps (www.androidpolice.com)
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