Noem told reporters alongside Trump on July 1 as they toured a new detention center in the Florida Everglades known as ~~"Alligator Alcatraz."~~ "Alligator Auschwitz."
That's the correct name.
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The truth is, anything but saccharin.
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FTFY 👍
I dunno. For hundreds of thousands of years we've been selectively breeding puppies.
Puppies
At least 20 girls between the ages of 11 and 17 from four different schools in the Spanish town of Almendralejo were stripped naked against their will
JFC. No, they weren't. They had their faces pasted on to a simulated naked body. To suggest it is even remotely the same thing as actually being stripped naked is insulting to anyone who's ever had that happen to them.
Pasting peoples faces on to other people's naked bodies has been around since the invention of photography. When digital photography happened and we got Photoshop/GIMP it became easier. Now we've got AI that makes it even easier than that.
The problem though isn't the technology it's the fucking people doing it. Are the folks running the Newdify app assholes? Absolutely! Can we regulate that kind of app without breaking things for perfectly legitimate uses of technology? No! We already tried!
Back in the 90s legislators tried to introduce laws that would stop people from doing such things with Photoshop but they never made headway because it's perfectly legal to manipulate photos. There's no way to stop such things within the technology itself.
Instead you make it illegal for people to distribute naked pictures of people—simulated or not—without their permission. Except that's already illegal. So what, exactly, are we to do about apps like Newdify?
Sue the assholes distributing the images and report them as CSAM. Just like always.
MAGA likes to call the immigrants, "rats" but the truth is far more sinister! They're transgender mice! Too dangerous to even study in a lab!
The crops stood no chance!
Our only hope is to get rid of accurate hurricane forecasting and health care for the poor and elderly! If by some miracle a few billionaires get a tax break then maybe we'll make it through this crisis!
Not just peanuts: They could exploit undocumented immigrants by paying them less than minimum wage and abuse them without having to worry about getting sued or deal with paying unemployment insurance.
We estimate the effect of ~~social media~~ Facebook and Instagram deactivation
FTFY.
Now that I've been on Lemmy (and other federated social media) for a few years it has become abundantly clear that not all social media is created equal.
The big social media platforms are designed and activity manipulated in order to stress you out and keep you engaged. Federated social media is much more organic and doesn't have that problem.
I mean, it can still stress you out but not in the same way. For example, every cruel dumpster fire that comes out of Republican governance stresses me out but that's the news. It'd stress me out even if I heard it from NPR.
Whereas if I read that same news from Facebook I'll also get to read racist high school classmate's take and see my own family members "liking" and "loving" similar hateful messages. Facebook will then notice how "engaged" I became when I reply pointing out how wrong they are (with lots of references/links to reality) and fill my feed with more stressful garbage that reminds me just how much many of the people I know are complete shit human beings.
So yeah, just a bit different 🤣
I want to see a similar study done on people who regularly read/post to LinkedIn. Firstly, so I can find out, "who TF even are these people‽" And secondly, to find out if they were insane before they started doing that or if LinkedIn pushed them over the edge.
The Trump administration—and conservatives in general—are treating oil that can only be extracted from fracking like it's old fashioned oil wells. They're not the same. The output from a traditional oil well is easy to predict: They have a specific amount of estimated oil and over (a long) time you need to add more well heads to keep the same level of output but in general it's well-established science. You can extract from them for decades and decades.
Fracking can extract a lot of oil from a tiny area all at once over the course of just a few years. In theory you could extract oil from the same fracking well for 40 years but in reality it's just ten years. No fracking (for oil) has lasted longer than that as far as I'm aware. You can still extract natural gas from the same site though (I don't know the specifics on that).
NOTE: What makes fracking wells only last ten years isn't that you can't get any more oil out of them. It's because it takes too much energy to get more oil out of them. Forget how much it costs: There's an amount no one will pay to extract a barrel of oil from the ground and that is "more than one barrel's worth of energy".
Whereas wind and solar power will last forever, fracking is a boom that will only last another 20 years or so. By screwing over solar and wind power Republicans/Trump/conservatives are screwing our future. It takes a long ass time to replace fleets of vehicles and the time to do that is like ten years ago. We need to ramp it up too if we don't want to get caught in another energy crisis around 2035 (that's approximately when the output from traditional oil wells drops to the point where fracking can't make up with demand anymore).
To be fair, all that industry does is wine!
Microsoft is trying to make Xbox into Windows: Where 3rd parties make the hardware and then license the platform from Microsoft. It's a vastly more profitable model. Especially if they get all those end users signed up for a subscription service.
The problem is that the world thinks of "Xbox" as a console (and a specific kind of controller). To pull this off Microsoft is going to have to re-brand Xbox entirely by making people think of it more like a game-specific app store that runs on Windows and special handheld hardware. It won't be easy.
There's a bigger problem with this plan though: No real coordination with the Windows OS team. Windows on handhelds sucks. The past twenty fucking years of Windows development has been almost entirely focused on improving enterprise features with very little attention paid to end users or gaming.
Growth in Windows gaming has come despite Microsoft's investments. Not because of them. In fact, I'd argue that if it weren't for Steam, Windows—as a gaming platform—would be a fraction of what it is today.
Don't get me wrong, though! I love this new Xbox roadmap! Windows gaming has been holding back Linux desktop adoption for far too long. The latest benchmarks that show games on SteamOS vastly outperforming the new Xbox-branded handhelds pretty clearly demonstrates all that bashing of Windows by Linux nerds was deeply accurate.
It turns out that Linux on the desktop really is superior! 🤣
Auschwitz started as "just a concentration camp" too.
Eventually countries will stop accepting our deportees and then what will they do? The answer is simple:
They'll come up with a final solution.