America has always rejected fanaticism, especially since WWII. We are supposed to be E pluribus unum -- out of many, ONE. Now, the right wants America to be E unum pluribus -- out of ONE, many.
This seems insane to me. I live in a city where maybe 50-60% of people have cars, and most don't drive them that much. Yet every grocery store I'm aware of with the sole exception of the expensive Whole Foods has a fuel rewards points program. Reasons this should be controversial enough to enable a low-cost alternative:...
People are weird about gasoline. They'll drive around looking for the cheapest option, to save 2 cents/gallon. Even with a huge tank, that's less than 50 cents of total savings.
So a grocery store can offer, say, 10¢ savings, and it only actually costs them like $1.50-$2.00 per customer. That's way less than other sales that are harder to advertise and don't bring in the same amount of business.
Ultimately the psychological benefit for the shopper is more than the financial cost to the store. The others societal costs don't come in to that equation.
In a soliloquy on batteries for electric vehicles, including ships, he pondered what would happen if such a boat were to sink and the battery would submerge....
During today’s Ubisoft Summer Game Fest showcase, the publisher took a moment to acknowledge that, yes, its long-in-development and oft-delayed Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake is still being made. But if you wanted to play it soon...bad news. It won’t be out until sometime in 2026....
If a judge is called 'corrupt' by a defendant outside court in front of the media, or if something more unambiguously libelous is said, can the judge sue the defendant?
"Corrupt" would almost certainly be a statement of opinion, so not actionable in the US. A lot more detail would be necessary for this to be defamation.
"Judge XXXX has taken millions in shadow bribes and has consistently ruled for the wishes of his/her benefactors. There has been a history of being reversed on appeal proving their bias. Also I watched them kick a puppy."
Then, obviously, these things would have to be false. Even then, the bar is pretty high. There are exceptions both ways on this, but as a general guideline, if the public knows a person's name (judge in a high profile case, for example) they are probably classified as a public figure. The rule there is one of "actual malice" which isn't exactly what it sounds like, but it's the highest bar for defamation cases.
The speaker would have to say something factually false, knowingly or with no regard for the truth. Giuliani, for one recent example, was found guilty of defaming the Georgia election workers, because he went into great detail about his false claims, and he was told repeatedly that thise claims were false, but he kept going.
so we already know that youtube doesn't like people freeloading their bandwidth using something like invidious, piped, newpipe etc. why don't they just close the public web api and require a login or something. by requiring login they can keep track of what users are watching and if a user is watching thousands of videos daily...
Requiring a login would probably cut off a significant portion of their audience and ad revenue. Only Google analysts know for sure, but if the eyeballs lost to cutting off casual visitors (sent to YT from links or embeds, etc) are greater than the losses due to, frankly, a small portion of users who would just end up blocking ads in other ways, it's a net loss for Google.
Browsing Reddit at work like I've literally done every work day for the last six years, suddenly Reddit won't let me vote. Says my account has been suspended, but all I have to do is reset my password, using the email address I have on file. I don't have one. Can't get the email to reset the password, can't add an email now. I...
It wasn't compromised. If you can't be tracked and cross referenced with all the other data that brokers have, your activities aren't worth anything to reddit and they don't care about that account.
Santa himself has been described as a "jolly old elf."
I'm no lore expert, but it makes me wonder if the original Santa (human) passed the title to one of his former underlings. The Dread Pirate Roberts of the North Pole, perhaps.
Links that open natively in Sync (like news articles) are often riddled with ads. Is there any way for the Sync shell to open through a Firefox based browser, which includes native ad block?...
This isn't about immediately filtered content, like the disgusting DuffMan George Floyd meme, or Holocaust denial. That's pretty well kept in check by mod tools. I'm also not talking about cogent or even pointed political discussion....
There are certain talking heads on TV that can only be explained by the theory that there's no such thing as bad publicity. He gets people talking, even if it's usually only about how bad he is.
Outrage media works. Sports commentary especially seems to depend on it.
The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge....
In your case, I'm guessing lots of people have heard the horror stories of shitty, scammy repair techs in various fields (automobiles being one prominent example). The good ones have to deal with the occupational reputation driven by the worst of them.
For me, I don't consider myself a real expert in any specific subject, but I'm adjacent to a number of financial areas. I try not to delve into the weeds of those internet discussions too often (like I said, not an ironclad expert), and even when I do, it's only to address the most egregious errors. Money can be an emotional topic, and many of those opinions are based on the way people want the world to be rather than the way it is, so show up with facts and references and they tend to understand.
Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don't come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don't really get upset by it...
I for example, expect him to no longer require nutrition labels to be on packaged and canned foods. We're all just going to have to eat what we can and play it by portion sizes....
My last boss was labeled "THE FINAL BOSS" in my contacts. When she'd call, I felt sheer disappointment and dread when Sephiroth's theme, "One-Winged Angel" started playing.
Former President Donald Trump’s attorney on Thursday argued that a president could order the assassination of his political rival and stage a military coup without being prosecuted for it....
And don't even frame it as a nameless hypothetical. Get specific.
"Are you arguing that Joe Biden could order the assassination of Clarence Thomas and Donald Trump, and if the Democratic Senate doesn't convict on impeachment, he gets away with it?"
There is no constitutional reason it can't be amended, but there is a statutory reason Biden can't act unilaterally on that: the Judiciary Act of 1869 limits the SCOTUS to nine members.
The term identity politics may have been used in political discourse since at least the 1970s.[19] The first known written appearance of the term is found in the April 1977 statement of the Black feminist socialist group, Combahee River Collective, which was originally printed in 1979's Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism,[22] later in Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, edited by Barbara Smith, a founding member of the Collective,[23] who have been credited with coining the term.[24][25]
I have recently started university and am required to use an app that has three Facebook trackers, one of them being a Facebook location tracker according to Exodus App Privacy, for the dining plan, when it would literally work perfectly fine using your student ID and ordering to a real cashier, LIKE HOW IT HAS BEEN DONE FOR...
A person's music taste seems to crystalize at some point in their teenage years. The bands you loved at 15-17 are probably the bands that you'll love forever.
Likewise, I'm finding that my relationship with information services as a whole probably crystalized a while ago, and the new era of "apps for every individual thing" is just wholly unappealing. Give me a web browser to interface with your information. If I can't get it done with that, I'm more likely to move on to some even older tech and skip your product altogether.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm late to bingo. And get off my lawn.
Me: "seems to" "at some point" "probably" while making a minor, secondary point. Others: Severely Triggered
Reddit escalates its fight against AI bots ( www.theverge.com )
The entire Dragon Age series is only $10 on steam until June 27th. ( lemmy.world )
These games are definitely worth picking up especially for $10 for the whole series.
Why are Republicans/Conservatives embracing fanaticalism these days?
America has always rejected fanaticism, especially since WWII. We are supposed to be E pluribus unum -- out of many, ONE. Now, the right wants America to be E unum pluribus -- out of ONE, many.
hooooly shit! has anyone else played journey? ( sh.itjust.works )
I feel like that game literally changed my life in the 2 hours or whatever it took me to play it....
Embracer rolls out new AI policy to 'massively enhance game development' | Game Developer ( www.gamedeveloper.com )
Article textNewly-restructured Swedish conglomerate, Embracer Group, will leverage AI models to bolster game production....
Why are fuel perks at grocery stores so ubiquitous?
This seems insane to me. I live in a city where maybe 50-60% of people have cars, and most don't drive them that much. Yet every grocery store I'm aware of with the sole exception of the expensive Whole Foods has a fuel rewards points program. Reasons this should be controversial enough to enable a low-cost alternative:...
People who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?
Clarification Edit: for people who speak English natively and are learning a second language
Trump Finally Weighs in on Controversial Shark vs. Electrocution Debate ( whowhatwhy.org )
In a soliloquy on batteries for electric vehicles, including ships, he pondered what would happen if such a boat were to sink and the battery would submerge....
Ubisoft Excited To Let You Know Prince Of Persia Remake Is Still Years Away ( kotaku.com )
During today’s Ubisoft Summer Game Fest showcase, the publisher took a moment to acknowledge that, yes, its long-in-development and oft-delayed Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake is still being made. But if you wanted to play it soon...bad news. It won’t be out until sometime in 2026....
Can a judge sue a defendant for slander/libel?
If a judge is called 'corrupt' by a defendant outside court in front of the media, or if something more unambiguously libelous is said, can the judge sue the defendant?
Why doesn't youtube shut down their public web api?
so we already know that youtube doesn't like people freeloading their bandwidth using something like invidious, piped, newpipe etc. why don't they just close the public web api and require a login or something. by requiring login they can keep track of what users are watching and if a user is watching thousands of videos daily...
Texas GOP platform calls for ban on same-sex parenting because being gay is "abnormal" ( www.lgbtqnation.com )
Yes, this article is from 2024
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Browsing Reddit at work like I've literally done every work day for the last six years, suddenly Reddit won't let me vote. Says my account has been suspended, but all I have to do is reset my password, using the email address I have on file. I don't have one. Can't get the email to reset the password, can't add an email now. I...
Which types of work suit those that prefer to work alone, or with smaller teams?
a 320 year old elf marries an 80 year old human: Is the elf robbing the cradle, or the grave?
Getting Sync's internal browser to default to Firefox?
Links that open natively in Sync (like news articles) are often riddled with ads. Is there any way for the Sync shell to open through a Firefox based browser, which includes native ad block?...
Has anyone else noticed a large influx of Trolls lately?
This isn't about immediately filtered content, like the disgusting DuffMan George Floyd meme, or Holocaust denial. That's pretty well kept in check by mod tools. I'm also not talking about cogent or even pointed political discussion....
What do you think of Stephen A Smith ?
Qualified experts of Lemmy, do people believe you when you answer questions in your field?
The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge....
The Price Is Right: a big ad space where the joy of winning is just a distraction from the true goal - to sell more products.
NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites.
NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites.
[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?
Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don't come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don't really get upset by it...
If Trump wins this year's general election, aside from Project 2025, What would you expect him to do?
I for example, expect him to no longer require nutrition labels to be on packaged and canned foods. We're all just going to have to eat what we can and play it by portion sizes....
Has anyone else ever set a special ringtone for that one boss you dread will call you? If so, what was it?
My last boss was labeled "THE FINAL BOSS" in my contacts. When she'd call, I felt sheer disappointment and dread when Sephiroth's theme, "One-Winged Angel" started playing.
Some disaster has befallen society: you have to secure a month of food for you and three other people. How do you do it?
Let's assume no zombies or other supernatural occurrences, but could be plenty of people being shitty, consequences thereof, or natural disasters...
Trump Lawyer Argues He Could Legally Order Assassination Of Political Rival ( www.huffpost.com )
Former President Donald Trump’s attorney on Thursday argued that a president could order the assassination of his political rival and stage a military coup without being prosecuted for it....
The wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook ( www.pcgamer.com )
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TIL ~62% of the atoms in a human body are Hydrogen, and are as old as the universe. ( en.wikipedia.org )
Identity politics and universal pseudonymity arose at the same time.
Thief Disguises As Garbage Bag To Steal Package Off A Porch. ( www.news18.com )
I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app.
I have recently started university and am required to use an app that has three Facebook trackers, one of them being a Facebook location tracker according to Exodus App Privacy, for the dining plan, when it would literally work perfectly fine using your student ID and ordering to a real cashier, LIKE HOW IT HAS BEEN DONE FOR...