Poayjay

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Talk about failing to pivot. Reddit was in such a good position to ride the AI bubble. Too bad all of their content had already been scraped. They then alienated their power users and casual users got a peak behind the curtain. New, interesting things don’t start on Reddit anymore. The entire front page is just trump articles and reposts. You can predict all of the top comments because it is the same shit over and over.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Uber: We just facilitate rides between our “independent contractors” and customers. We’re not liable for anything that happens

Amazon: We just facilitate purchases between our “independent retailers” and customers. We’re not liable for anything that happens

AirBnB: We just facilitate rentals between our “independent landlords” and customers. We’re not liable for anything that happens

It’s nice to see the first steps in destroying this completely BS business model. Hopefully this can start a domino effect.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

If she had time to run a proper campaign, then they would have had time to conduct a primary. If they would have had a primary, she wouldn’t have been campaigning.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I appreciate the articles nuanced discussion of the topic and the deeper impacts. I was fully expecting just griping about how the CoC doesn’t work.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Yeah, there’s a big difference in protecting Obama or Bill Clinton who are retired statesman living peaceful lives and Trump who has been rallying for the last decade. How much protection is he really entitled to? Especially considering his rhetoric is motivating his would be assassins.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (3 children)

So, I have significant hearing loss. Phone calls remove most of the lower sound frequencies that I’m able to hear well. Trying to talk to an Indian woman speaking quickly on the phone is nearly impossible. I am so happy for this change. Requiring phone calls for service is an accessibility issue.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Yep. I was enlisted in the navy. I’ve seen this pipeline over and over on Facebook

Hate the Navy, Joe Rogan Phase, Hate the Government, Jordan Peterson Phase, Becomes sexist and undateable, Become libertarian, Be smarter and better than everyone else, Diet racism, Conspiracy theories, Angry and isolated because of their shitty beliefs, Digs in more and lives to argue, Lost their fucking mind

It’s sad watching genuinely decent people become angry, scared, and isolated. You can’t even feel bad for them because of how insufferable they become.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I am a DOE licensed nuclear power plant operator. I worked in the engine room of an aircraft carrier for 4 years. I have received an insane amount of training on TMI.

TMI is terrifying, but not for the reasons people think. The qualified operators of the plant were fucking idiots. They didn’t understand that they had reached saturation conditions in the primary loop. Basically, they created a steam bubble where water should have been. They didn’t understand this. They have all the training and experience required to work the water boiling factory and they didn’t understand water boiling. They assumed that their instruments were malfunctioning, that they knew better. If they were in a more serious casualty situation with their incompetence and egos it would have been a disaster.

Brushing off the incident at three mile island as “just a little leak” completely misses the point. Three Mile Island proves that Chernobyl wasn’t just communist incompetence. It can happen anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

They couldn’t cast someone who looks anything like the penguin?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Literally every election is decided by the “undecided”. Democrats vote democrat and republicans vote republican. It rare that anyone changes party. What determines elections is if democrats can get people who wouldn’t otherwise vote to vote. Every time people turn out, democrats win. When people are uninterested they lose. Those ~50k people in suburbs of swing states are not unimportant, they are the only thing that matters.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago

Projecting him reaching a trillion dollars by using his average annual growth rate of >100% is ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

It’s completely anecdotal, but I just saw a post from the weird, hyper religious kid I was in the Navy with asking if any 3rd party cared about “unborn souls.”

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