15 years ago was when I stopped using facebook. It had the potential to be a great way to organize and maintain social connections, but instead it was a toxic environment promoting the most annoying shit, particularly when posted by frequent users trying to broadcast their lives to the world. Simultaneously it did a great job of hiding anything I’d actually be interested to know. Fuck knows how bad it has become in the meantime. It was striking how much it seemed to bring out the worst in people, and equally remarkable how so many people just wanted to wallow in that.

I’m talking about a web page linked to by MoffKalast, see comments above

It could be, although it also seems that “opposing” representatives are usually of the left/green persuasion and the right wing is mostly “supporting”, which is not what I’d expect to see in that case. All I can say for sure is that it’s very confusing.

EDIT: thanks for that link 😁

It’s not the topic of the vote I’m trying to clarify but rather trying to make sense of that web page showing who is voting for what, and how, if at all that is connected to the European Parliament vote. That website suggests overwhelming support for the proposal at both state and representative level, I’m not sure what to make of that.

Green = “opposing”, red = “supporting”… “chat control extension”. I guess the greens are against the chat control proposal, though that’s hardly clear, and there seem to be more reds than greens so that suggests the chat control proposal was accepted, or is there some other layer to this? Also the stance of a state bears no relation to that of its representatives. Very confusing

You even get a free cremation. Saves time and money!

yup, it says “can” not “should”

2 out of 4 correct

AI my ass, they just don’t want people to bypass the paywall

My PC is 15 times faster than the one I had 10 years ago. It’s the same old PC but I got rid of Windows.

But do you need extra dressing when the whole kitchen staff have already hocked up their chunkiest loogies to hold up their end of the cultural exchange?

Can’t speak to your specific issues but I also tried Ubuntu about 10 years ago, and went back to Windows. Last year I gave Mint a try. Works great, gave my old PC a new lease of life, and there are such quality FOSS packages that you never need to touch any MS bloatware again. Things are not what they were 10 years ago

The Gargamel Research Institute

After a nine month legal battle, Zurich has reversed its decision and told the BBC it was sorry for the stress caused.

Yeah, very sorry I’m sure. Oopsie, we accidentally fought a nine month legal battle to avoid paying out the exact thing the insurance is for

Is it my imagination or are LLMs actually getting less reliable as time goes on? I mean, they were never super reliable but it seems to me like the % of garbage is on the increase. I guess that’s a combination of people figuring out how to game/troll the system, and AI companies trying to monetize their output. A perfect storm of shit.

Sometimes, even basically evil people have a line they won’t cross. Deceiving the public and corrupting the rule of law beyond repair, just to protect a cabal of pedophile rapists, seems to be that line, for an alarmingly small number of republicans. I guess she just didn’t think it would come to that. MTG is probably just your basic greedy racist vindictive kind of evil. I can imagine why the sadistic child raping stuff might be a deal breaker for some people.

if (true) return BIG;

You let them leave the house and meet up with friends, next thing you know they are riding around on bikes! Where will it end?

Well… yes? AFAIK that was Alex Jones talking about endocrine disruption caused by atrazine in herbicides. Frogs turning gay seems a silly thing to focus on, but the health and environmental effects of herbicides and pesticides are a valid concern. By turning it into a joke, intentionally or not, he was doing his bit to invalidate serious discussion of the issue.

So weird that companies waste so much time trying to find ways to stop me from stopping them from wasting my time.

Maybe they should do a study in exactly where the ad revenue comes from. I strongly suspect that people who use ad blockers, and people who potentially generate revenue from ads, are two non-intersecting sets.