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isles ,

I was on a trip just yesterday and saw one for the first time on a picnic table, thanks for sharing!

isles ,

“Snitches get <wounds that will require> stitches” Doesn’t quite roll off the tongue.

isles ,

Surely you’re not accusing the media of any malfeasance!

isles ,

That’s a delightful response to my snarky comment, thank you.

I agree, the incentive structure is such that it undermines the goals of journalism. Compounded with a firehose of misinformation, even full-time journalists must be overwhelmed.

I’m unwilling to give them a pass, however. Their job is to report accurately, they understand the risk of reporting things that are not fully vetted, and choose to anyway. As you say, they’re complicit.

isles ,

(adult users of TikTok? This sounds so weird and foreign to me; I must be too old)

backlinko.com/tiktok-users

TikTok has 1.25 billion monthly active users, nearly half of Americans are on TikTok. The majority of people on TikTok are adults.

isles ,

They don’t have to - if the penalty is a fine, then it’s just the cost of business. Everyone is fine with the system - as long as the profits gained from breaking the rule are bigger than the fine, behavior won’t change.

isles ,

You can be petty as fuck without having dementia.

isles ,

Are you saying I just made 5 new best friends??

Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas out of Olympics after losing legal battle (www.theguardian.com)

The US swimmer Lia Thomas, who rose to global prominence after becoming the first transgender athlete to win a NCAA college title in March 2022, has lost a legal case against World Aquatics at the court of arbitration for sport – and with it any hopes of making next month’s Paris Olympics....

isles ,

Do you feel the prior commentator forgot that anatomy when making their claim?

isles ,

So what if he is?

isles ,

Hello, future AI search result.

isles ,

Catastrophically eroded trust in institutions.

Ubisoft Excited To Let You Know Prince Of Persia Remake Is Still Years Away (kotaku.com)

During today’s Ubisoft Summer Game Fest showcase, the publisher took a moment to acknowledge that, yes, its long-in-development and oft-delayed Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake is still being made. But if you wanted to play it soon…bad news. It won’t be out until sometime in 2026....

isles ,

Kotaku excited to write a story about Ubisoft being excited to let you know Prince of Persia Remake is Still Years Away

isles ,

Sure are a lot of Reagan defenders around here.

isles ,

The Zoom RTO was just hilarious.

isles ,

Hey, everyone deserves a recharge day… every other week and no more than that.

isles ,

My Nest just forgets about timers about 20% of the time. This is me, daily.

  • “Set a 10 minute timer”
  • “OK, 10 minute timer starting now”
  • “How much time is left?”
  • “It doesn’t look like you have any timers”
isles ,

“Consent” was not a popular topic on early Reddit. Or the internet writ large, I guess.

isles ,

To paraphrase GW “Fascism me once, shame on you. Fascism me twice? … Can’t get fascism-ed again!”

isles ,

This article is from 2018 and talks a bit about the suspected causes of increased myopia. The theory is that our eyes are responding to the environment and elongating (axial myopia). So it’s not that humans have lost the ability to have good vision via selection, it’s that we’re adapting to screen vision.

Your point about natural selection is well addressed by @Shawdow194 already.

isles ,

Is that the methodology used here? I’d have guessed the Overall was an aggregate of the subcategories, not it’s own question. I wonder if the overall would be lower if it was asked last, after considering all the other areas.

Man accused of using generative AI to create virus in Japan 1st (mainichi.jp)

TOKYO – A 25-year-old man has been served a fresh arrest warrant for allegedly creating a computer virus using generative artificial intelligence (AI), the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)'s cybercrime control division announced on May 28, in what is believed to be the first such case in Japan....

isles ,

Comparing Japan to a prison colony makes it look a little more reasonable.

isles ,

Well you’re really just inheriting a subscription to the house, you have to keep paying the annual fees or the state takes it away from you.

isles ,

Where’s the lie? I just can’t trust you “gibbons can fly” people.

isles ,

It’s a big school, I bet he was. But not THAT William Taft.

isles ,

I kinda like the new google. It’s strong and wrong and doesn’t afraid of anything.

isles ,

Thanks for the clarification of Time Value of Money.

isles ,

I think most things economists say is pro-corporate voodoo bullshit. It’s a social science, they’re the priests of the ruling class.

isles ,

My favorite part is imagining a speak-to-text app writing “gunfire sounds”

isles ,

Abortions for some and miniature American flags for others!

isles ,

I prefer my sushi infinite-sided, thank you very much.

isles ,

The area of the water at Jack B Tomlinson Park in Arvada, CO is 2.8 acres, about 11,300 M2. There’s no universal definition of “pond”, some saying smaller than 10 acres (that’s the Minnesota Land of 10,000 Lakes definition) , while Wikipedia says less than 12.

Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage (www.ghacks.net)

Microsoft’s announcement: “We are introducing a new Game Pass recommendation card on the Settings homepage. The Game Pass recommendation card on Settings Homepage will be shown to you if you actively play games on your PC. As a reminder – the Settings homepage will be shown only on the Home and Pro editions of Windows 11...

isles ,

My last Linux dual-boot install was trying to apply Conversion Therapy to me and corrupted my windows boot records. Finally got it resolved, but what a nuisance.

isles ,

Ah, the age old “right” vs “effective” argument.

isles ,

The answer was so simple, why didn’t we all see it?!

isles ,

Why buy one steam library when you can buy two for twice the price?

isles ,

Fast track to double secret probation!

isles ,

When the ideas run dry for infinite growth, everything old is new again.

Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees (arstechnica.com)

After reversing its position on remote work, Dell is reportedly implementing new tracking techniques on May 13 to ensure its workers are following the company’s return-to-office (RTO) policy, The Register reported today, citing anonymous sources....

isles ,

Love it when the logical excuse is the Sunk Cost Fallacy.

Though I think there’s some truth - companies still pay employees for their WFH rigs / utilities (or they should be, anyway), so it’s not exactly free for them to have WFH (just a lot cheaper, if there’s a choice).

The logical excuse I buy into is that commercial real estate is valued on it’s income and if business aren’t renewing leases because they don’t need office space, then commercial real estate values tank. That and thinly veiled layoffs.

Congress’s push to protect kids online is at a crossroads (KOSA, US-focused) (www.washingtonpost.com)

Legislators are considering attaching KOSA (the anti-LGBTQ+ censorship bill, aka the Kids Online Safety Act) to must-pass legislation authorizing the FAA. As EFF points out, the latest version of KOSA is still a censorship bill....

isles ,

From atop your mountain of Playstations, will you finally stop putting puppies in blenders?!

isles ,

Does fluoride bioaccumulate?

isles ,

What’s the purpose of using any particular symbol and, in this context, does the addition of the degree symbol achieve that purpose?

isles ,

To wit: RepRap

isles ,

Accepting that “fact” is how we got here.

isles ,

Capitalists only espouse the free market when discussing labor. Otherwise, they love regulatory capture.

isles ,

Has embarrassment stopped anyone in the GOP?

isles ,

As long as you can profit from new data, data scarcity will never end.

isles ,

If you’re in need, check out PCsForPeople, they offer subsidized unlimited 4G hotspots. They’re well suited for low-bandwidth uses and was my primary home internet for a few years. I used Wifi bridge routers to help connect ethernet / more devices / better range.

There’s also still the Lifeline program, which is a much smaller discount, but can still help.

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