The internet did not end up in the trash heap after the dot com bubble burst. Ai too has real world uses that go beyond the current planet wrecking bubble.

Fascists don’t respect democracy or even other people’s rights, so it’s logical that democracies should not trust them in positions of power. It’s basically the paradox of tolerance: “if a society extends tolerance to those who are intolerant, it risks enabling the eventual dominance of intolerance; thereby undermining the very principle of tolerance.”

And if you want to see what happens when these kinda of people are left unchecked in the cause of retaining the “moral high ground”, just look at the USA. The USA democrats have been giving in for 40 years against increasingly perverse transgressions by republican actors, and now it’s a dumpster fire on the cusp of becoming a full blown dictatorship.

Great find.

I checked a few other historic front pages on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_newspapers The Oxford Gazette from 1665 used the same month-day format. The first edition from The Guardian from 1821 also used it. Some British news papers like The Times never stopped using it, while The Guardian is now using day-month. So it was the British after all.

I wondered whether maybe the us americans had continued using the old style and it was Britain that changed, but no: Britain appears to have been using the day-month-year order since medieval times. This latin letter from William Wallace from 1297 has that order: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Lubeck_Letter

*Given at Haddington in Scotland on the eleventh day of October in the Year of Grace one thousand two hundred and ninety seven. *

The latin line with the date starts with “datum”.

In the EU (or atleast my part of it), studwalls are commonly used for the inner walls of office buildings. If you want to hang anything heavy on them (like a large TV), then you need to anchor it into the studs. Studwalls are not a bad solution, but if they are build as cheap as possible, then they can indeed be very flimsy.

I wouldn’t mind having a studwall in my own home, but I would use OSB+gypsum instead of 2*gypsum to give it some additional strength. And I’d never use it for outer walls.

Correlation is not causation. The meme implies causation, but all it’s facts just tell us that there is some correlation in the timeline.

More likely than a change of president being the cause of the failures, is the departure of Tom Mueller. Tom Mueller was the driving force behind the success of SpaceX and he left the company in 2020: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mueller. The effects of his departure probably took longer to ripple out through the company: others no longer being protected from Elon’s hubris, more key people leaving, … In the mean time old projects were still being successfully completed, but sooner or later the rot would start to show on the outside.

Tldr: Never trust memes.

I actually think that’s a fair question, the distance between Ireland and Scotland is less than the English channel and that can be crossed by rail. If I were to travel to Japan or some other place that I don’t know, then I’d assume that some of the islands are connected by rail and some aren’t, so in a conversation it would be natural for me to ask the same question: can I go there by rail?

Over time the salt crystals will fuse together (form clumps) because of moisture in the air. Sugar does the same thing. The clumps can be easily broken up and are still perfectly edible, but clumps in new product would be considered a quality issue.

Edit: this is an educated guess as what that best before date means, but I’m actually not a 100% certain. I’m not from the sector.

Regardless of whether or not this is ai:
There’s no evidence that there was a roadblock.
If there was a roadblock, then we still don’t know whether or not it was put up by Hamas.
Despite there being sound recording on site, no cries of “thank you america” are recorded. As well as it being a ridiculous claim that panders more to american republican sensitivities (they said thank you) than any normal behaviour, there is again no evidence for this happening.

This xheet reads like one of those stories that ends with “and then everybody clapped”: totally made up.

The same kind of misinformation has existed long before ai image generation became a thing. To increase the credibility of false narratives with a non critical audience, the video and audio only needs to vaguely resemble what is being described. They could also take a snippet from a real video recording from another place and time + real audio recording from yet another place and time, and call it good enough.

That issue is not exclusive to Linux though. Try hard enough and you can brick anything. And sometimes you don’t have to do anything at all to end up with a brick.

One time that I was really glad for having a backup pc, was when I build a pc with the first generation Ryzen cpu: The pc had no display output after putting it together. After wasting much time with double checking everything, I decided to do a bios update, which solved the issue. I couldn’t have done so without my old laptop at hand. Moral of the story for me: always have a backup pc.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tracking-trumps-war-on-elite-universities-which-schools-have-lost-funding-and-what-theyre-doing-about-it-200621655.html?guccounter=1

This article lists 7 schools that are known to have had funding taken away as punishment. Harvard is just the only one that dared to publicly speak out against the bullying and now the bully is trying to make an example of them.

The republican war on higher education is older than Bannon’s graduation from high school. Trump already targeted them during his first term. Ron Desantis has been doing the same in Florida. Texas republicans have been going at it for years as well. And that’s the ones that I know about.

It’s retaliation for this: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-trump-funding-antisemitism-columbia-b2733306.html So Harvard isn’t the only target, but they’re the ones that dared to publicly stand up against the bully and now the bully wants to make an example out of them. It’s basically a repeat of Ron Desantis war on higher education, but now on a national scale.

Here’s an overview of how other universities are faring: https://www.yahoo.com/news/tracking-trumps-war-on-elite-universities-which-schools-have-lost-funding-and-what-theyre-doing-about-it-200621655.html?guccounter=1

Theodore Roosevelt was considered domestically progressive, internationally conservative. The encyclopedia Britannica has this to say on Teddy: “By 1906 he was the undisputed spokesman of national progressivism and by far its best publicity agent.”. https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States/Theodore-Roosevelt-and-the-Progressive-movement

What do you call a progressive who wants to conserve a piece of nature? Still a progressive, because progressive/conservative terminology is about political philosophy/ideology, not about conservation. Teddy Roosevelt was a progressive politician who also was a conservator of nature.

Conservators are those that work towards the conservation of things.

Edit: conservation and conservatism are 2 very different things. To work towards conservation of something is not going to be directly tied to political backgrounds: It is not because someone is a socialist or liberal, that they will not want to conserve some things. Everyone will probably have some things (nature, monuments, traditions, …) that they want to conserve for future generations.

I don’t think political conservatism has ever meant caring about conserving heritage and nature. From the inception of the concept in the 18th century to now, it’s always been about conserving (or bringing back) inequality in power and wealth. It was never about preserving nature or protecting other people their way of life. Then and now, the credo of the conservative movement might just as well be “I want rules for thee but not for me”.

Welp, I’ve taught my parents to use the fakespot site before doing a purchase on Amazon. Fakespot was never a perfect tool, but it was easy to use and better than not checking review quality at all.

If anyone else was wondering whether they became christian because of what they saw in Europe or if they were already christian before they left for Europe … It’s the latter, this was not an embassy from the Shogunate, but from 3 christian daimyo and the young emissaries their tutor + mentor were Jesuits.

The idea of sending a Japanese embassy to Europe was originally conceived by the Jesuit Alessandro Valignano, and sponsored by the three Kirishitan daimyōs Ōmura Sumitada (1533–1587), Ōtomo Sōrin (1530–1587), and Arima Harunobu (1567–1612). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenshō_embassy

The emissaries were also not promptly exiled like the meme implies. Ito Mancio for example was exiled to Nagasaki 2 decades later, after he was caught doing outlawed missionary work.

Joining the order of Jesuit priests in 1608 he engaged in missionary work in northwest Japan but soon was expelled from the local Kokura domain and then moved to the Nakatsu Domain. He was finally exiled to Nagasaki and became a teacher at the seminary. Mancio died of an illness in Nagasaki in 1612, at the age of 43. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itō_Mancio

So yeah, never believe memes.

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Borrowing 4k for 30 days, results in a total repayment of 4918$. Borrowing 4k and paying it off every 30 days for 12 months, results in a total repayment of 10593$. This doesn’t seem very christian.

Hopefully someone makes a list of brands and companies that you aren’t allowed to boycot according to usa republicans and then publishes that list online on a user friendly website. After all, without that information, people might be unknowingly breaking the law when they start a personal boycot.

The carbon comes from another source and sticks to the metal, you’ve probably already seen examples irl. If you burn something in a steel pan on the stove, then there will be black residue (char) left sticking on the pan. A burnt electrical outlet is another case, there the carbon comes from the plastic.