It’s wild how different this response is to the US’ response to COVID and other infectious diseases in humans

Got a source for the Guardian no longer using AGI? Given a ‘desperately trying to convince people that AI is cool’ title like this, discontinued use seems highly unlikely

Wow, thank you so much for sharing this. What a major blow to the Guardian’s credibility

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England

“Draft bill attached,” wrote a lobbyist representing two influential fossil fuel trade groups to the lead counsel for the West Virginia state energy committee in January 2020.

Thanks for spreading the word about this. I wasn’t aware. What an unfortunate development. I’ve never encountered mandatory FR in Canada, thank goodness

Bless the EU

Thank you! I updated it. Maybe I screwed up the YT URL the first time, because I didn’t get a thumbnail automatically. So then I uploaded a thumbnail image, and I think that overwrites the URL

:D I know, right? I saw it on Mastodon (link in post) and had to pass the chuckles on. I don’t usually share stuff like this

This is what supporting genocide looks like. (If you’re in the US, I think you still have to vote for Biden in November)

Black tea: Yorkshire Gold (by Taylor’s of Harrowgate). Other: Celestial Seasonings Sleepy Time tea

I might’ve misspoke about never paying for a video game again. I do like the look of gog. I’m really out of the loop when it comes to gaming. I like more privacy- and ownership-respecting platforms, and I would (do) pay for those. What I meant was I’d caught a glimpse of the direction of the mainstream gaming industry with WC3, and I realized it wouldn’t work for me and had to get off it. I use LibreOffice. I’ll check out the libre gaming software, thanks!

They’ll obviously win when we run away. We should take the fight to them.

I appreciate your point of view. The way I see it, I think maybe 95/100 people blindly trust big tech companies and 5 of us don’t (to the willing we’ll avoid mainstream social media, for example); the proportion is debatable, but I think it’s a very uneven divide. I don’t think we have enough power to “stick it” to big tech. I also don’t think we need to. I participated in the reddit blackout last summer and then I left it altogether for here (Lemmy), which I enjoy more and want to help grow more than I did the last place. I guess I do want some people to keep big tech in check and whistle-blow, at least to help spread awareness. I guess I’m just not the person for the job, and I think that’s okay. More tech savvy people would do well in those roles :)

Shrinkflation noobs. Never specify the size of a (pseudo-)prepared product. It’s better to use abstract terms like large, extra large, and jumbo that can be shrunk down in size without increasing legal liability down whenever you wish to juice your profits a bit (/s)

Crap, I use FMovies. If the site is making headlines like this I’m probably going to need another site soon