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mohKohn ,

in the bay? you're hilarious.

‘We are burned out’: UAW ready to take on automakers in contract negotiations (www.theguardian.com)

"The forced overtime – we are working to death. We are working 12-hour shifts, seven days a week, every day, week after week, month after month, year after year. We are burned out,” added Ferdinandsen. “These companies are profiting the way that they are and trying to convince the American people that they’re hurting,...

mohKohn ,

UAW wasa fucking shitshow of corruption until a couple of years ago. looks like its back on its feet!

Do political assassinations generally help or harm the cause of the person that was assassinated?

I mean, it’s usually used to undermine a cause by killing their leaders, but their death can also cause them to become a martyr and get even more support. Which is generally true for the majority of assassinations?...

mohKohn ,

the assassination of Alexander the second backfired completely.

mohKohn ,

many other places bury their wires and or do proper maintenance

mohKohn ,

my bike.

mohKohn ,

weird grammar to say someone made it up?

mohKohn ,

wow, I was assuming metropolis. it just screams dystopia to me, but I guess they had to get that aesthetic from somewhere

mohKohn ,

There's a distinction to be made between things that "look" dystopian, and actual dystopias. I think a lot of our current visual language of dystopia was taken from fascist/communist design choices which were in many respects independent of all the oppression they perpetrated. this example really drove that home for me, since the media it inspired came to mind before the reality.

In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black (www.businessinsider.com)

Was this AI trained on an unbalanced data set? (Only black folks?) Or has it only been used to identify photos of black people? I have so many questions: some technical, some on media sensationalism

mohKohn ,

12 people. we're talking about 12 people, so any conclusions are suspect. that being said, facial recognition struggling with black faces from insufficient data is an extremely common problem, so it'd be unsurprising

mohKohn ,

or at least no rhetorical questions looking for a circle -jerk

mohKohn ,

every can survive in Florida. unfortunately, most things are actually parasites.

mohKohn ,

and yet there are still plenty of maniac drivers on the road

mohKohn ,

the word you're looking for is deranged. that dragon looks fucking deranged.

mohKohn ,

came here to post this. has been legit helpful for work. also adorable

mohKohn ,

it didn't take off because micro payments are hard. still a better vision than the advertising hellscape we got

mohKohn ,

I mean, as much as I think gates/bezos have abhorrent business practices, they do both have fairly large charitable foundations, and iirc, both have actually built literal hospitals with their money.

mohKohn ,

Now this right here is worthy of McMansion hell

mohKohn ,

well, you certainly live up to your name

mohKohn ,

just … bring them to a library or thrift store… they're better at figuring out what's actually valuable

mohKohn ,

this is a very rimworld meme

mohKohn ,

good bot!

TIL that honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3000 years old and still perfectly edible. (beemission.com)

Where was the world’s oldest honey found? We thought it would be fun to look at the three oldest known honey finds in the world as of September 2019. Just think, these honeys can still be eaten today because antimicrobial honey never goes bad. The world’s oldest known references to collecting honey are from the 8,000 y

mohKohn ,

too much of anything is bad for life. Sugar water has much the same problem, or extremely salty water. The problem is osmotic pressure.

Roughly, the natural state of things is spread evenly, so all that sugar outside the cell finds its way inside (unless the cell pumps it out). But too much inside the cell can disrupt the other processes of the cell, or even rupture the cell walls.

Iirc,Osmosis, with water rather than sugar, is also the effect that makes your hands prune when they're in water for too long.

mohKohn ,

You know chrome is basically the only actual browser, right? everything but Firefox is a chrome skin.

mohKohn ,

thanks for dredging up the stats. also til Samsung has a browser. and I guess brave is a rounding error

TIL of The Business Plot of 1933, a failed attempt to overthrow FDR and install a dictator. Led by a covertly bankrolled Wall Street coalition of affluent businessmen (explorethearchive.com)

In 1933, a coalition of businessmen dissatisfied with FDR’s economic policies surreptitiously planned a coup. The failed Business Plot aimed to depose FDR and install a dictator.

mohKohn ,

Going to take a moment to plug a great biography of him I read, Gangsters of Capitalism Butler was a very complicated person, much like the rest of the Quakers.

I do feel like saying they would've gotten away with it is perhaps a tad overstating their chances

mohKohn ,

What I'd love is a list of all subreddits where the mods have migrated. Not sure if that's empty or not though.

mohKohn ,

yes exactly, thanks!

mohKohn ,

being extremely lazy, you can use Thunderbird

mohKohn ,

This... isn't world news... Are we going to have to make anime_tiddies all over again?

mohKohn ,

It's first and foremost American news. The normal reason world news subreddits get made (since any news is technically world news) is because American news tends to dominate if you don't specifically rule it out.

mohKohn ,

Also see Rule 10

Rule 10: No US-internal News: Articles about events within the US or related to the US internal news with no involvement of foreign officials or international organizations and no effect on people outside the US are not allowed here.

mohKohn ,

the phrase is embrace, extend, extinguish, and Microsoft has been doing it for years

mohKohn ,

Embrace, extend, extinguish is a very particular kind of monopolistic behavior. you're just listing people buying out their competitors. which to be clear, is also bad.

Embrace, extend, extinguish is when you have an open standard, which a company nominally embraces, and then adds unique features to their version that only interoperates with those using their product. Apple and SMS is a current example, since their reactions only work on iPhone. the Wikipedia article has plenty of examples from Microsoft. it's also quite likely that it's exactly what Facebook plans to do with activitypub.

mohKohn ,

End of an era honestly.

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