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The specific problem of people from the Trump admin betting on polymarket is not “gambling”.

That specific problem isn’t really “gambling” tough.

Theft. That’s what is up with all these violence fantasies. I don’t think of myself as a violent or aggressive person. I’ve navigated my entire adult life without giving anyone a beating. However, throughout history theives have received a violent response from their victims. If you steal something you should expect to face the wrath of your victim if you’re caught.

Ok, shot instead of beaten.

No. Even in a safe, posh neighbourhood you’re very likely to get beaten. You might have justified it in your own mind but to everyone else you’re just a thief.

Satisfying homogenised mammalian excretion.

That's what I was going to say. It's a little bit like looking into the eyes of a lizard and trying to understand what it's thinking, or trying to understand 4 dimensional space. Most people including me just can't conceptualise it. However, if you have complete and utter disregard for everyone else... and I mean you just can't muster up a single neuron's worth of compassion, then these guys are a stratospheric success.

Ok sorry I didnt get that from your post. Why do they want this specific car?

Sorry i dont understand what’s going on. Your car got stolen. You got the car back. Then someone posted a photo of it today. The conclusion is, the people who stole your car are now following you / watching you? Why would car thieves be watching you?

The short answer is, NFC only provides a brief packet of data - the details you would see on a physical card then the vendor’s machine takes the money from the customers bank account. Payment with a QR code requires your phone to actually interact with your bank and transfer the money from your account. The reason why one is more common than another in different locations is historic. In western countries you’ve been able to pay by card at most retailers for several decades. Originally there was a magnetic strip on the card, then a chip on the card, then the card did NFC. That being the case phones could just emulate cards by doing NFC and you could pay for things with your phone. Vendors didn’t need to do or change anything. In South East Asia (and elsewhere?) that’s not really the case with many smaller street vendors requiring cash payment until recently. Many people might have cards but they were really only used for identifying yourself at the bank or cash machine. Even in larger cities, smaller food vendors often required cash payment - at least up until covid. That being the case there was never an era where people carried and used bank cards, so QR codes are the alternative tech.

• google messages - I really need the web ui, trying to switch to scrcpy
• google wallet & samsung wallet - have already decided to go back to a physical wallet with cards
• google maps - I use this mostly to find opening times for businesses.
• ms teams - for work
• facebook messenger - selling junk on facebook marketplace

I need to take a closer look at this. We don't do it but in these troubled times, young family et cetera... is it worth it? They can just link purchases to the card I use to pay anyway right? Having a quick look at my nearest grocery store, it looks like they give me 10% off one shop each month, amongst a plethora of other bullshit perks like points towards fancy cookware or something. If I shop once a week and spend $200 then that's $20 a month or $240 a year. Essentially one free shop a year. Not much of a saving really. There's other simpler things I can do to save more money I think.

There was a photo earlier today. Consensus is that he’s having monthly treatments for something.

Bamboo shoots are a common ingredient.

Nah. Segregation isn’t the answer.

Cashiers here have started saying “have a good rest of your day” instead of “have a good afternoon” or something. It never used to be a phrase. Its very common now. I understand that language evolves and that this is probably used often enough to be dramatically “appropriate” now, but i just hate it. Some how the grammar is just discordant and I find it jarring every time. Of course, I dont tell cashiers about this grievance, because I appreciate them and I understand this is just me being weird and I try to get through my day offending the fewest service workers as possible.

Here thats certainly customary, but its not necessarily a situation down “meal” for adults. I went to a 3 year olds party a few weeks ago. At a kind of cafe that had a playground. The food laid out was just sausage rolls and little pizzas and things like that. You could order coffee and juice and that was paid for by the hosts. If you wanted to order a meal you would’ve had to pay for that. Myself and my 2 kids attended, and we gave the birthday kid a book, and enough money in a card to cover the cost for the 3 of us. YMMV with the cash gifts, but when our little darlings were 1 we put on a party in a park and made a tidy profit. Lots of work though.

I’ve always wondered how they can even claim to be able to do this. Obviously if you’re banned you can’t just sign up with the same email address or other details.

I don’t know exactly but, it’s “bad” like everywhere else. Really looking forward to everything costing more, again. It’s just so surreal that the entire world needs to suffer because Trump is a pedophile child rapist and is happy to throw us all under the bus to avoid people thinking about that. I’m Australian, and really, really starting to dislike our close relationship with the US. I can see it’s a pragmatic relationship, but I hate that we have to sign on to all the idiocy - I really want our guys to tell Trump to stick it up his ass even if it costs us.

The bundled fonts are a great idea. I recently learned that fonts are my biggest susceptibility to fingerprinting

The bulbous head is reminiscent of a beluga whale. I dislike the logo immensely.

I don’t think there’s a single answer here. In most human interactions you start with really truly trying to listen and observe and understand. Often when someone is scared or grieving you don’t need to solve their problems or concerns, you just need to enable them to express their feelings. Likely everyone they’ve interacted with during their journey has been too busy or hasn’t cared enough to listen to them. When I’m absolutely miserable the simple act of crying is an emotional release and I invariably feel better after. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy suggests that it’s the resistance to emotions that causes us harm - if you’ve spent the last several weeks trying not to worry about an operation it creates enormous tension - sometimes just being able to tell someone what you’re worried about is a tremendous relief. If someone shares medical concerns like “what if x happens during the operation” I wouldn’t engage with that and simply say “that’s probably a good question for the surgeon when he visits, but I’m sure he has a plan to manage that risk”. I’d also suggest asking the doctor for something to help them relax.

Make up a bunch of arbitrary mystical rules about who will be lucky enough to enjoy this new paradise and who will be relegated to an eternity of misery.

I dont know anything about this but in (yes fictional) apocalypse novels the gas in car tanks always goes bad after several months.

There’s a lot of young people on lemmy and I imagine lots of people with unfulfilling jobs. Im self employed. My job is tough, and stressful. I wouldn’t do it for free, but I choose to do this job because i have the right skills and experience, and I genuinely enjoy “helping” people with my services.

He is half German and thinks he can hate Jewish people and act like a Nazi but because he speaks German at home All the German’s I’ve known are the opposite of this. They’re very quick to stamp out nazism and anti-semitism. I think that generally they would respond more harshly than most non-germans. That said, my experience might not be representative and it seems like the far right is gaining popularity in Germany. I think it’s more likely that he acts that way because someone at home acts that way. actually speak German and say rude things without people knowing. Pretty pathetic really. You’ve correctly identified that this kid is a douche. Sure he might know a foreign language, but that doesn’t make up for wanting to exterminate you if you were born to the wrong family.

Not really, although you might try the 500kb club. Im talking more about technologies and platforms. IRC, XMPP, RSS…

I dont think the main stream will ever meaningfully turn against advertising. We’ve collectively demonstrated that we’re willing to accept advertising and trade our privacy in exchange for free content and services. That said, the worse the main stream web gets the better the “side web” gets. The good parts of the web will always exist, even if they’re not as popular as they once were.

Define love.

My “company” is tiny, and only employs myself 1 colleague, and an assistant. We’re accountants. We self host some models from huggingface. We don’t really use these as part of any established workflow. Thinking of some examples … This week my colleague used a model to prep a simple contract between herself and her daughter where by her daughter would perform whatever chores and she would pay for cello lessons. My assistant used an AI thing to parse some scanned bank statements, so this one is work related. The alternative is bashing out the dates, descriptions, and amounts manually. Using traditional OCR for this purpose doesn’t really save any time because hunting down all the mistakes and missed decimal places takes a lot of effort. Parsing this way takes about a third of the time, and it’s less mentally taxing. However, this isn’t a task we regularly perform because obviously in the vast majority of cases we can get the data instead of printed statements. I was trying to think the proper term for an english word which has evolved from some phrase or whatever, like “stearing board” became “starboard”. The Gen AI suggested portmanteau, but I actually think there’s a better word I just haven’t remembered yet. I had it create a bash one liner to extract a specific section from a README.md. I asked it to explain the method of action of diazepam. My feelings about AI are that it’s pretty great for specific niche tasks like this. Like the bash one liner. It took 30 seconds to ask and I got an immediate, working solution. Without Gen AI I just wouldn’t be able to grep whatever section from a README - not exactly a life changing super power, but a small improvement to whatever project I was working on. In terms of our ability to do our work and deliver results for clients, it’s a 10% bump to efficiency and productivity when used correctly. Gen AI is not going to put us out of a job.

You’ve missed a few critical elements. Firstly, pets can’t reason, don’t understand what’s happening to them, and the worst part - aren’t able to minimise their own suffering. For example, I lived with a dog that had quite advanced cancer in one leg. Every time he got up he would hurt himself. The leg just couldn’t support his weight but he couldn’t not put it down. He had cancer in other parts of his body as well. Secondly, lots of people are just unable to provide the high level of end of life care that an animal like that needs. Like, if you need to go to work every day, you just can’t be there to carry your dog every where they need to go, and make sure they don’t hurt themselves. There’s no social security for pets, they haven’t worked hard and saved up for their end of life care. The vast majority of pet-owners can’t afford indefinite high level care. Every day you own a pet, you are making decisions on their behalf. Yes they can’t choose euthanasia themselves, and you have to make that decision as their guardian. Ask yourself, what would this creature choose to do if they could reason and if they were aware of the relevant considerations. Obviously that’s not an easy decision. I haven’t had a pet for the last 15 years because I don’t want to have to make this kind of decision.

Maybe everyone already knows this but you can generally see better in your peripheral vision in low light. Almost all of your color vision / cones are concentrated in a tiny central area of your retina. The grey scale / rods are dispersed around that. In some ways I think night vision is a kind of skill that some people might be better at than others, even if the mechanics of their eyes aren’t special.

Yeah me too. I think this is called “coil hum”. I notice it with things like usb-c thunderbolt ports. Often you can swap a cable or something and it’s resolved.