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soyagi OP ,

Cause of death hasn’t been given, but I have a sad feeling I know what it is :/

What are some examples of modest dictators in history?

Stereotypical authoritarian leaders in history tend to do opulent, egocentric things like building statues of themselves everywhere or writing songs about how cool they are and making kids in school sing them. What are some examples of modest dictators whose regimes skipped that type of pomp and circumstance?

soyagi ,

Kekkonen of Finland, if you stretch the definition of dictator a bit.

soyagi ,

What a terrible headline. Tell me what the experts thought. I don’t want to see this kind of clickbait here. Change the title yourself if necessary, just don’t let this kind of shit slide.

Chorus of disapproval: why aren’t unhappy musicians going on strike like actors are? (archive.today)

For almost as long as she has been writing songs, Helienne Lindvall has been fighting for the rights of songwriters. But it wasn’t until 2007 – when scriptwriters in the United States brought Hollywood to a juddering halt, buckled Daniel Craig’s stint as James Bond, and forced hours of repeats onto the air – that she...

soyagi ,

In places that don’t have EV chargers currently, will it be the state’s responsibility to install them?

On Finland’s highways highlighted on the ball in that article, there are a lot of existing gas stations that have EV chargers. But there can easily be more than a 60km gap, especially the further north you go. Is it down to the state, local municipality, or EU to fund it?

Furthermore, if a commercial provider, like a gas station shuts down, would some authority be required to at least keep the EV chargers running?

How is the 60km distance calculated? From existing EV chargers? If a gas station closes, the measuring point to/from the next/previous EV charger will change.

I can’t imagine the state will want to install EV chargers every 60km in addition to the ones already provided by commercial enterprises such as gas stations. Will they be required to?

Rebecca F Kuang: Goodreads is right to divide opinions, wrong to boil them down (www.theguardian.com)

Emotions run high on Goodreads. In fact, I tell every author navigating their first book launch to stay off it. They’re not going to listen to me, because who doesn’t want to know whether their manuscript – this precious thing they’ve toiled on in solitude for years – has found its readers? And because I’ve been...

soyagi ,

…his boss immediately told a female employee without his consent. The man eventually had to leave the job due to mental issues that resulted from being ignored by the woman.

I wonder what her problem was. Homophobic or just heavily uncomfortable because of societal norms and standards?

soyagi OP ,

YouTube Premium is also going up: 9to5google.com/…/youtube-premium-price-increase/

soyagi OP ,

YouTube Premium is also going up: 9to5google.com/…/youtube-premium-price-increase/

soyagi ,

…Taco John’s would be pledging a $40,000 donation (roughly $100 per store) to the nonprofit organization of Children of Restaurant Employees (CORE), which provides financial support to restaurant employees and their families when facing crises like serious illness, injury, or natural disaster.

Wait, what? They are supporting a charity to help people that are essentially their victims? If they paid their workers better such charities wouldn’t need to exist.

I know this isn’t the focus of the article, but I can’t believe what I’m reading! They are really donating to a charity for their own underpaid workers? Can someone clarify this for me if I’m wrong?

soyagi OP ,

From this Kotaku article:

But fixing Flash-based games isn’t all the team plans to do. It also “took a long, hard look at community feedback on Neopets Metaverse” and NFTs, two recent initiatives which Neopets fans almost uniformly hated. “It quickly became clear that the game just didn’t line up with everything that made Neopets…well…Neopets,” the team wrote. Instead, the team is abandoning that venture (thank god), and focusing instead on an upcoming mobile game called World of Neopets, “a social life-simulation game in which you live your ideal Neopian life from the perspective of a Neopet.”

and

The devs promised that World of Neopets will not just be a rebranding of the maligned Neopets Metaverse. “There are no NFTs in World of Neopets, and the game is NOT built on a crypto model,” they wrote. Blessings!

soyagi ,

Photo (fo-toe) or picture (pik-chur).

soyagi ,

This was really sad to read :(

soyagi ,

Is it really a note-taking app if it’s a system that reads documents and answers your questions about them?

Blog post from Google about NotebookLM: blog.google/technology/ai/notebooklm-google-ai/

soyagi ,

I wonder what the exact terms of the deal are. For example, if Tunisia takes the money and does very little with it to stem the flow of migrants to the EU, will there be any consequences? How could it be monitored?

soyagi ,

For sure! See “Total Eclipse of the Heart”.

soyagi ,

Link without the reddit bullshit: independent.co.uk/…/finland-phone-mobile-free-isl…

Archive link: archive.is/XGjEj

Other sources: euronews.com/…/phone-free-zone-finland-introduces…

www.cnn.com/travel/article/…/index.html

soyagi ,

Original article source, for those interested to read more: metro.co.uk/…/two-men-banned-from-all-you-can-eat…

soyagi ,

I can’t believe Photopea (www.photopea.com) is free. It has nearly all the same features as Photoshop and works in just the same way. But it runs in the browser! Super quick, regularly updated, and free. Amazing.

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