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2024-09-01 11:39:15

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@npub1wlu…q294 Jetzt würde es helfen, wenn die Politiker sich der Begrifflichkeit „Würde“ nähern würden.

2024-08-28 11:12:35

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@npub15zu…s7lx Because “industry” is a neutral expert.

2024-08-11 20:33:08

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@npub1nn8…8sed Obviously.
Haven't you've read the Bible?

2024-08-08 13:49:48

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@npub15zu…s7lx But But, they are endorsed personally by the ghosts of Himmler & Hitler, so Rumble & X are great places to advertise.
You even get a free swastika with your ad.

2024-08-08 13:01:44

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@npub1qe5…8ugl Are these guys crazy?
This is a public confession that they are not journalists, but Trump cheerleaders.
Why not save a bit of money, and just redirect wsj.com to donaldjtrump.com?

2024-08-08 12:45:26

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@npub1qe5…8ugl How are you supposed to do that, if you racist ideology tells you that whites are by far superior to others, judging Harris on her merits is simply not allowed, it could produce the wrong result.

2024-07-25 11:25:20

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@npub1tps…9rmt
Books have let kids develop their own opinions and independent thought.
That is way scarier than a machine gun in the hands of a loyal follower.

2024-07-19 13:04:52

Ah, beim Arzt, Microsoft sei Dank, nicht nur die Flüge fallen aus, auch die medizinische Versorgung.
Frage wie oft muss Microsoft unsere Infrastruktur am die Wand fahren bis jemand auf die Idee kommt das die Monokultur Windows eine echt coole Idee ist

2024-07-11 10:47:03

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@npub15zu…s7lx Hungary indicated, that with Trump's triumph in November there is a chance for peace in Ukraine.
(Guess Orbán means Trump will force them to surrender.)

2024-07-09 12:49:59

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@npub15zu…s7lx Oh, the right-wing (“conservatives/neoliberals/libertarians”) since at least Reagan/Thatcher have indoctrinated the world with quite a bit of idiotic ideas.

2024-07-02 18:49:09

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@npub1lrv…tth9 Sigh, most of these “journalists” work for the oligarchy.

2024-06-25 19:41:18

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@npub1khx…geyg wax sculpture.
Great idea, even without the heat waves that seem to have become the new normal in the past years.

2024-06-19 22:32:12

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@npub1ffl…tv7d Guess the extreme heat wave is not helping a felon who was happy to sell out his country for a cheap billion to the fossil energy industry?

2024-06-19 16:28:40

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@npub1w9a…04m0
Which country's definition of illegal content does Adobe use? Just curious.

2024-06-18 13:49:43

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@npub1t5m…9guy Asking for a friend, is a fake bookshelf, generated via an algorithm good enough, or do I need a real bookshelf?

2024-06-18 10:26:16

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@npub15zu…s7lx Oh, I'm sure the responsible researcher would have itched to publish, look, I've managed to do an AGI.

2024-06-18 07:23:03

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@npub15zu…s7lx Smells more like OpenAI marketing.

2024-06-13 10:51:01

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@npub1lrv…tth9 You mean the site with the sans-serif swastika logo?

2024-06-04 14:36:02

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@npub1sly…t8j7 Und 1440/Stunde Fackel und Mistgabel Träger die kurz eine freundliche Aussprache mit den verantwortlichen Stadtplanern suchen.
Du weißt schon der deutschen liebstes Spielzeug.

2024-06-01 09:48:46

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@npub1lrv…tth9 Ah, but this core voters love him exactly for his VILE character.

2024-05-31 14:30:27

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@npub1zj4…fyjh Or at least a pinky swear that it's safe.

2024-05-23 11:30:20

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@npub1tvq…l6jk Ah, you don't know that.
That's the beauty.
In general, without special precautions, you never know where the LLM comes up with the probabilities for the next token.

2024-05-18 16:49:13

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@npub1gns…77w4 Tja, wo klebt man das auf die Cloud Infrastruktur?

2024-05-16 13:43:29

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 I'm so happy that some places talk already about LLM usage in teaching maths.
And their biggest worry is that students might cheat with the help of AI.

2024-05-11 05:49:30

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@npub132h…f594 Job accomplished.
The GOP is on a time journey into the good old colony days, and surely, you don't think that the colonists had that many doctors available?

2024-04-25 09:57:21

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@npub1lrv…tth9 That's so unfair, reality is coming after Donald's alternate reality with its alternate facts.

2024-03-28 16:41:44

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@npub15zu…s7lx Well, if #Rwanda was not dirt poor, and had enough food, it would not deter the refugees from coming, right?

2024-03-28 09:41:20

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@npub1u3t…c6ug How many suicides do Evangelical preachers cause?

2024-03-26 14:21:34

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@npub1vs7…a6g3 virtual millions. #P01135809 is not allowed to sell for 6 months. Who knows where a business that is losing money faster than having any revenue will be, stock-price wise, in half a year?

2024-03-23 19:36:51

Ich gehe mal davon aus dass Kanada jetzt auch Android Handies mit NFC verbieten wird? Schließlich kann man damit in Hotels einbrechen.
Millionen Hotelzimmertüren lassen sich mit Handy knacken
https://futurezone.at/digital-life/hotelzimmertuer-nfc-schluessel-knacken-handy-flipper-zero-hacker/402831193

2024-03-19 22:32:43

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@npub1lrv…tth9 @npub1njx…6peh @npub1y2e…skxk @npub1jnh…lfd7
Exactly.
The point is, the current net worth estimate is around 2500m. He has over 500m in rulings against him already.
500m that's 20% of his net worth estimate.
These 500m will get court collectible in a week or so.
Now depending upon how quick one needs to liquidate assets, there are steep discounts to consider. And tax effects.

2024-03-19 08:58:29

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@npub1jnh…lfd7 @npub1lrv…tth9 Yeah.
According to the Forbes estimates, he's worth $2.6b. Much of that in real estate, which is challenging to sell.
With a fire sale, that might liquidate to $500m or not.
(E.g. Benko bankruptcy that is heavy on "premium" commercial estate is estimated in an absolute best case at a 30% payout after 5 years slow sellout. Or below 10% for a fire sale.)
Basically, this fine, wipes out the Trump wealth.
#P01135809
#trump #bankruptcy

2024-03-16 11:19:21

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@npub1lrv…tth9 But how is what Boeing #C-level management did different from other exchange traded corporate powerhouses.
They all prioritize short-term thinking, shareholder value over alles, ...
I totally understand the need to punish someone for ruining a national gem.
But what about health care insurers that routinely deny coverage because they calculate it's cheaper than doing the correct thing? And the customer will most certainly die in time.

2024-03-16 09:54:19

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@npub1lrv…tth9 Well, Vova is rumoured to have always admired the Eastern German model of “tightly controlled democracy” when he was stationed in Eastern Germany as one of the Russian watchdogs when it was a Russian colony.
And be honest, it has many benefits, e.g. you can send congratulations to the won “elections” to the winner before the ballots even close.
The journalists can be briefed on the results before, so they prepare better articles how Putin is the Greatest Leader Humanity ever had.

2024-03-13 13:32:27

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 Since when did Trump care about the law?
If anyone dares to mention it, it's a witch-hunt!!!

2024-03-09 09:43:24

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@npub1lzz…jhl3
Well, the USA is a protectorate of the Russian Federation. One of the great achievements of Great Leader Trump. Didn't you know?

2024-02-28 08:21:09

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@npub1su4…a0dw Do the astronauts check the bolts themselves?

2024-02-19 09:29:10

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@npub198t…hasj @npub1mrt…g7rs
It always depends if you expect a lawyer (even a half-trained one) to read the document on the receiving side. If not, you can literally scare many lay people with a nastygram.

2024-02-17 13:54:00

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@npub1sly…t8j7 Also, wenn du Metadaten nicht kennen dazu nimmst, bewegen wir uns langsam Richtung Onionrouting oder eben wie du es gesagt hast, Usenet.

2024-02-17 13:23:54

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@npub1efv…4jx2 @npub12gs…q86j
Well, Elon likes robots.
In hindsight it should be clear that his problem with Twitter was not too high a level of bots, but a too few bots on the platform.

2024-02-16 07:49:18

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 Yet I miss, as usual, a warning never to invite the pthreads cousins to a fork family party.

2024-02-14 16:11:30

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@npub1efv…4jx2 Well, you have to admit that naming Teslas as “fully self-driving electrical chairs” might have created some marketing issues.
Assisted suicide isn't an industry you can easily do an IPO in.

2024-02-12 10:54:23

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@npub1fpe…75rh Not that it's innovative, it's a variation of the con that the pharmaceutical industry ran with clinical trials for a long time, start n trials, cancel the trials where the outcome happens to be not what you want it to be.
Forced a change in procedures, with clinical trials now being published publicly at the start, thus making withdrawing them silently not an option.

2024-02-12 10:48:53

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@npub1fpe…75rh Yeah, I recorded all possible outcomes, and deposited the videos with different public notaries.
I'm a certified prophet. With a seal of approval from a public notary that has me predicting unpredictable events weeks before they happen.

2024-02-12 10:10:59

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@npub1fpe…75rh And all still worthless.

2024-02-11 20:07:32

So he is a con man whose word is worthless. What's new. The spending targets are non binding. And at least during the presidency of that coin man they were far in the future targets.
And yes it's rather will known that he works for Putin, turning the USA into a Russian protectorate. Enjoy becoming a colony again.
The Associated Press: Trump says he once told a NATO ally to pay its share or he'd 'encourage' Russia to do what it wanted
https://apnews.com/article/trump-nato-foreign-aid-russia-2b8054a9fe185eec34c2c541cece655d

2024-02-09 17:22:46

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@npub1lrv…tth9 It works for Iran, it worked for Hitler, why not for the GOP?
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/902/676/056/260/365/original/ca0745f7fec4ac53.png

2024-02-07 15:24:17

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@npub1su4…a0dw Well, complete sets of bolts are nowadays not included with the basic #boeing models.
Surely the airline knew that.

2024-02-07 11:59:32

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@npub1hyk…3p33 While it does not a difference for the overall discussion, GDPR in the EU is a bad example of #capitalmoat. EU online copyright regulations would be a better one.
GDPR enforcement has the problem that it's done by MS authorities. So like US bankruptcy law, the big ones, shop around the 27 MS with the most business friendly attitude. Jurisdiction shopping.
E.g. Ireland's DPA is notorious for dragging its feet for years, before even opening a formal complaint.

2024-02-07 08:43:45

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@npub132h…f594
I'd agree.
ONLY, if you are in an accident with a GOP-diot, without a seat belt, he makes his injury dramatically worse, and you are punished for that, if it happens that you are even only partially liable for the accident.
Or to put in the tasteless words of BEEP, if you drive over a drunkard sleeping off his binge on the street, the prosecutor will still charge you with driving over a human.

2024-02-05 13:35:49

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@npub15zu…s7lx Well, I do not know the damages for dead passengers in the USA, but actually the statuary damages airlines need to pay for dead passengers on international flights are peanuts. The Montreal convention raised the limits to proven damages up to roughly $175000, the Warsaw convention in force before had lower limits.

2024-02-05 11:27:25

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@npub15zu…s7lx #Boeing seems to have manoeuvred themselves into a penny-pinching mode of running the company.
Don't think that they can fix what the MBA & accountants destroyed over a couple of years overnight.

2024-02-05 11:18:36

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@npub12jw…rvm9 Aber aber. Als gute Christfaschisten amerikanischer Bauart lernen sie das selektive Lesen der Bibel bereits im frühen Alter.
Im Gegensatz zu den Amis haben sie es leichter. Die meisten Amis gehen ja davon aus, dass die Bibel im Original auf Englisch geschrieben wurde, unsere Idioten sind welterfahren, haben also absolut die Möglichkeit das Original zu lesen (ohne die Sprachen zu kennen) und dann beliebiges zu interpretieren.

2024-02-04 13:41:41

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@npub1u2h…z4d7
🤷 But he perfectly represents the template Republican nowadays, doesn't he not? Most of them are more or less openly pro-Russia nowadays.

2024-02-03 09:14:48

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@npub1ska…7jzc Logisch.
Die Mitte-Rechts Parteien haben sich dem Neoliberalismus verschrieben.
Der kann anfangs sogar populär sein (wer sagt nein zu einer Steuersenkung), aber irgendwann bleiben nur mehr die unpopulären Programmpunkte übrig.
Also verlegen sich solche Parteien oft als Folge von Neoliberalismus auf populistische Themen aus dem Dunstkreis "sozialer Konservatismus" (Migration, Kreuz, Kopftuch, ...) und autoritäre Muster.
Und von da ist es gleitend ins Rechtsextreme.

2024-01-28 15:16:36

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@npub1tra…npqw
Well, the GOP are the criminal rich party. Harsh criminal penalties apply to the poor, PoC, ...
Not sure if Biden/Obama qualify as rich enough to get them a hall pass.
Trump OTOH, is one of them, claims at least to be rich, so obviously, so what if he has a sideline as a drug lord?

2024-01-28 10:22:32

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@npub1rea…fduv @npub1755…3ka0
Ich bin sarkastischer.
Bei aller Deutschtümlerei.
Der Balkan fängt in Wien an.
Regeln und Ordnung sind ganz toll, aber nicht, wenn sie mich dazu zwingen aktiv zu werden.
Deshalb auch, sollen doch die Autofahrer besser auf ihre Regeln aufpassen.

2024-01-26 07:00:09

Ach ist das nicht wunderbar wenn der Boulevard Zahlenmissbrauch betreibt, um die breite Leserschaft zu emotionalisieren gegen die #ORF Konkurrenz?
Also wo ist die #blackhat Zahlenhackerei? Ganz einfach. €1500/m klingt für einen Normalbürger brutal. Ist aber weniger als wir in einem Kleinstunternehmen mit 2 Angestellten monatlich Personalkosten haben.
Reinigungsfirma, die in 170 Gemeinden tätig ist.
Also in welcher Relation zu den monatlichen Lohnkosten steht der GIS?
https://www.heute.at/s/statt-5-mal-firma-soll-100-mal-orf-abgabe-zahlen-120015770

2024-01-24 07:43:34

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@npub1ffl…tv7d Once a traitor, always a traitor.
I just wonder, I always thought that the precedent for selling nuclear secrets is still one frying, so why is this guy not on federal death row?

2024-01-24 07:37:47

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@npub1lrv…tth9 Well, they are obviously crazy if they enter traffic without a proper steel armour.

2024-01-21 13:19:25

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@npub1mmf…eknq Careful with such texts.
One could almost interpret it that you mean the IDF, and not the Hamas that has been bombing Israeli civilians for the past months all the time.

2024-01-18 19:40:19

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@npub15zu…s7lx Nope, but then T&Cs are strictly constrained by law locally.
And Apple is notoriously known for flaunting local laws.
Although sometimes, it backfires badly, e.g. telling a wellknown senior attorney (or actually, one of his flunkies I guess) that Austrian & EU warranty laws do not apply to Apple headsets, which resulted in Apple getting sued over a couple of hundreds of €, by a specialist lawyer.

2024-01-18 19:35:50

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@npub15zu…s7lx Anyway, let's see how Apple feels about doing such a number when the EU's CRA comes in force.
(Which actually puts advanced requirements onto the warranty required for software, which is a reminder that statutory warranty actually applies to software too.)

2024-01-18 19:32:20

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@npub15zu…s7lx Ah, beg your pardon, here you bought a watch with a list of features listed at the point of sales.
So this is not software, this at best a hardware product that uses software to fulfil its functions.

2024-01-18 19:27:10

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@npub15zu…s7lx Well, how come that Rotten Fruit simple can take away functionality from a product?
I can see how this might be for not yet sold watches, but already sold one? You press update, and begone are at least some features that you paid money to “buy”?
Bad enough if you do it like Samsung that simply did not deliver on a feature that they sold a watch with (“ECG will be enabled in the near future by an update”) but taking away features because they are too cheap to pay for licences?

2024-01-14 18:01:04

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@npub1khx…geyg Climate change is about “miniscule” changes to the average temperature. Which as such is bad enough. And with enough grade celsius more, it can get too hot for us, for sure.
And mostly more extreme weather patterns, which is a problem, because our infrastructure is designed only for certain patterns. Thus, as some architects/builders in my timeline days ago commented, the former “test for the once a century disaster” become the new normal.

2024-01-01 11:30:40

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@npub1nn8…8sed
Climate deniers do not understand climate versus weather. Nor how they are linked via statistics.
So any cold spell (even if accompanied by a half-continent flooding) is proof for them that “climate change is a hoax!”.
Trying to explain to the idiots that even without the warming, just the more extreme weather could be deadly to civilisation is very hard. With the warming, it really becomes ugly.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/680/460/510/653/544/original/74c53a6d704b25cc.png

2023-12-31 12:34:49

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@npub1yyx…qa5g @npub162c…l0z4
Well, I guess then, the NPUs on our devices need to scale by some magnitudes yet?
And, *ahem* it is already running more or less on specialized hardware, specialized enough, that they cannot just cluster together some random cloud nodes, but need specific types with an array of high performance GPUs.

2023-12-25 19:43:12

So Broadcom, the new VMware owner in less than a quarter changes the licence model to subscription only, and kicks out most service and sales partner, informing them on the quick that their contracts will be terminated and not renewed. Or perhaps, nobody exactly knows.
That literally screams build your business on closed source products, doesn't it?
They call the #GPL anti business , but somehow the mainstream is quite okay to overlook unacceptable behaviour from the big players?

2023-12-25 16:13:54

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@npub1u3t…c6ug
Well, if they were trying to escape the 1700, they surely wouldn't be fleeing into our conservative hellscapes.
@npub1hyk…3p33

2023-12-21 18:55:31

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@npub1200…aqy2 That is exactly the point.
As much as you want to whine, see any feasible alternative to Democrats or GOP? No.
So realistically it's these two options and that means probably Biden & Trump.
Not voting, or voting GOP will not bring you one inch nearer to your dream. And that's a kind of unmovable point.

2023-12-21 14:16:00

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@npub1200…aqy2 Slightly different formulation:
How exactly will your life under Leader Trump become better?
Even if you think you are already at the bottom, it's a fallacy that the bottom you feel you are at, is really the worst case for your life.
And I'd like to point out that the Biden administration has changed signifiant things, e,g. how anticompetition law is enforced.
Sadly, it takes longer than 4 years to see the effects. It took decades till it became unbearable bad after Reagan.

2023-12-20 08:15:25

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@npub1lrv…tth9 Ah, not surprising, for many right-wingers and Evangelicals Jesus was way too woke.

2023-12-19 19:14:25

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@npub1lrv…tth9 They published the "guest opinion" of a well known (in Europe) far right extremist nut, conspiracy theory and disinformation distributor.
That does not make DJT less of a Hitler impersonator who uses loosely translated NSDAP propaganda materials for his campaign. But he literally might be not crazy enough for the Compact guy.
Yes, a century ago, there were even more crazy antisemites than Adolf, which does not make him less a racist and antisemite.

2023-12-19 14:37:56

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@npub1200…aqy2 Oh, it's simple.
There are existing laws to protect employees. You can be punished, if unlucky, even severely if you do not protect them the way the law/rules say.
Now, as a guess, there are no rules setting exposure levels and protection levels for school kids.
As schools are often PUBLIC schools, and thus creating such rules legally would mean the state creating obligations for itself.

2023-12-17 17:22:52

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@npub1ks7…eg5u Maths is mostly common sense.
It's just that it takes sometime a little bit of explaining. Ah, and naturally exercise, if you plan to use it reliably, especially, your s̶t̶u̶p̶i̶d̶ ̶s̶a̶d̶i̶s̶t̶ dear professors insist that you have to use no CAS or other in practice commonly used tools during your exams.No electronic devices, here is your pencil, here are your prestamped sheets of paper, and feel lucky that we don't make you use Greek stone tablets.

2023-12-17 14:33:57

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@npub1a76…3kkt 🤷 I've been mainly on Firefox now for years.
Not perfect, but then Chrome has been never perfect either.

2023-12-14 14:43:43

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@npub15zu…s7lx Ah, it's always
- "protecting the kids"
- "pornography"
as fallback if they have no other idea.
Hint: When I was a kid, that was, cough, the job of my parents, to protect me from the stuff they considered not good for me. 🤷
Anyway, the moment they manage to create a screen that can correctly identify the viewers' age (100% correct, not 99%) and selectively blank the pornography (again 100% correct detection, please), I'm fully pro censorship. But not before.

2023-12-13 07:39:28

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@npub1lrv…tth9 Stupid questions:
a) how is that (just in general) surprising? That wonderful 3rd party doctrine in the USA means that your data has basically no expectation of privacy.
b) but in this specific case, how does this actually work in relation to HIPAA?

2023-12-12 22:31:25

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@npub132h…f594
So if the SCO-TX argued that you cannot get a ruling on the permissibility before the abortion by a court, because it's medical professionals who have to decide, does that mean that justices will also be barred from having an opinion on the legality of an abortion AFTER an abortion has been performed?

2023-12-10 11:07:48

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@npub1lrv…tth9 Be careful, AFAIK, there is currently a freeze on admissions.
So it's almost certainly a phising email.

2023-12-07 09:17:16

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@npub1lrv…tth9 Obviously.
The underlings did not check their job descriptions to see if “scapegoat” was part of their jobs.
I personally, in my days as an IT consultant, took the option of being treated as a scapegoat as acceptable (as long no real legal liability was attached).
Surely you don't expect your betters to be accountable? What would be the point of reaching these levels, if you still could be kicked for banalities like a peon?
Read too much history about the French Revolution?

2023-12-05 09:41:43

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@npub1sly…t8j7 f%ck you.
Do you want the theoretically correct answer (you know the one that gets you 100% in uni), the one that is practical and works (but assumes certain constrains and might thus not be overly portable, but at least you can show it in polite company with embarrassment) or do you want the line up of horror freaks that I've seen in real life, where you need psychological therapy after dealing with them?

2023-12-04 12:51:30

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@npub1lrv…tth9 You are not exactly correct.
Even Fuhrer Trump will keep a number of pet “court journalists”.

2023-12-02 14:11:33

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@npub15zu…s7lx Putin doesn't need mothers nor wifes either, so if they end up in a gulag or dead, 🤷

2023-12-01 18:58:38

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@npub15zu…s7lx
Well, let's be honest.
Rape is a highly woke invented crime by feminists.
Problem solved.

2023-11-30 01:16:01

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@npub1lrv…tth9
Why?
It's not in their interest.
As cynically as it sounds, the news linking toll actually raises the entry costs for any potential agile startup competitor.
100m is peanuts for Google. But it will keep a number of irritating disruptors from even getting under way.
Mission accomplished.

2023-11-26 09:01:27

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@npub1j8m…v5r7 Absolutely.
It's a fucked up situation, and Hamas is certainly a huge problem. They literally teach the "protocols of Zion" as real & true in school. Which is a joke considering that even the Nazis didn't take more than 2 years or so to prove them as fake (didn't keep them from using them for propaganda, btw).
OTOH, the Israeli government has not really helped either, some current ministers have called the Hamas literally Israel's biggest asset (admittedly before being in gov)

2023-11-15 22:17:32

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@npub1lrv…tth9 Interesting is also that some pro-Putin journalists (so-called Putin & Russia experts) turned out to be sponsored Russian oligarchs.
A little conflict of interest that is usually not mentioned.

2023-11-10 17:03:08

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@npub1hyk…3p33 Facts ruin any civilized chat.
And that's a fact.

2023-11-06 17:27:09

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 Sorry, higher education, especially in countries with the US/UK tradition, is a trillion-dollar business. (US alone is slightly below $900b)
Arguably they have been a business for a long time, BUT in the past decades it's rather clear.

2023-11-04 13:35:35

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@npub1sqf…5skr 🤷 So they will now sell it to a private party first, that resells it to the Feds? “The American Way” of getting around the constitution?

2023-11-03 17:48:48

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@npub1rrn…dtwc Sinngemäß,
Bible => GG
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2023-11-03 09:43:52

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@npub15x4…3p3l You don't say.
The UK Tories' more crazy policy proposals were cheered on Twitter by crowds that used statistically unlikely uniform language.
Yeah, ordering 5000 reply tweets. Easy. Coming up with 5000 different, positive sounding replies to an utterly stupid idea? Not that easy.
And 5 different texts, each 1000 times (or similar numbers) often had to do.

2023-11-01 18:14:36

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@npub1sly…t8j7 Und die Erfahrung vom letzten Zenbook (mit eben "nur" 16GB verlötet) war so prägend, dasx 32GB halb-verlötet in schnöden schwarz jetzt 32GB voll verlötet in eleganten beige beim nächsten Laptop schlägt.
(Kannst du dir DAS vorstellen, meine Frau hat keine 24h Bedenkzeit gebraucht, und interessanterweise waren in dem Falle Aspekte wie minimal höherer Preis, bessere Grafikkarte im PRO Modell etc irrelevant. Laptop nicht nach Farbe und Marke gekauft, 🤷 Wo soll das noch enden???)

2023-11-01 18:05:05

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@npub1sly…t8j7 Räusper, meine Frau ist die Dame die aus ökologischen Gründen (keine unnötigen CO2 Belastung dadurch dass sie einen neues Gerät einrichten muss) jammert wenn ich ihr versuche ein neues Zenbook nach nur 5 Jahren anzudrehen.
Und genau da ist der Hacken, man kann mit 16GB (wenn man nicht gerade yacc143 als Spitznamen hat) heute leben. Nicht jeder muss mit mehreren Usern und x Browsern etc gleichzeitig eingeloggt sein.
Aber in 5 Jahren? Wie wird dann dein Mac mit 16GB schwitzen?

2023-11-01 17:37:04

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@npub1sly…t8j7 16GB? Das ist doch ein Scherz?
Meine Frau weigert sich ein Zenbook mit nur 32GB fix verschweißt zu akzeptieren, sogar bei den "Normalbenutzern" ist es angekommen, dass der nicht aufrüstbare Speicher (insbesondere wenn er knapp gewählt ist, und 16GB ist für das Jahr des Herrn 2023 doch arg ein knappes Minimum) die Lebensdauer eines Schlepptops begrenzt.

2023-11-01 13:23:42

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@npub15zu…s7lx Framing!
It's a #brexit benefit.
See how UK Farmers have a free hand to decide what pesticides to use.

2023-10-22 16:55:44

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@npub1lzz…jhl3
The GOP does not deal with data, they do emotions.
Emotions do not need facts, data, and other such irritating details.

2023-10-19 07:24:27

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@npub1efv…4jx2 Mastodon I seem to remember, also has an option (I admit you have to google how to do it, I never used it), to semi-mute a followed account: you get to see posts that originate from the account, but not posts the account just boosted.