Don’t know why they don’t shut them out from the trials. It’s good business to fire customers that are costing you money.

Confluent?

Sounds like the investigation started under Biden. If they shut it down now, they’ll look (even more) like they cover for pedos.

You know what would actually make parents more present in their children’s lives? Fewer hours at work and more money.

The only people helped by robotics will be people who already have the luxury of: working from home; regular hours; high wage; and good PTO benefits. So, well-off to wealthy people.

Poor people in low-paying jobs won’t be able to afford the robots for a couple generations, anyway. His perspective on this is self-centered. Which, I suppose, is typical of him.

Yeah, even of the companies don’t pocket the difference, he’s an idiot to suggest that this will cut inflation.

This guy is just not very smart, I think.

There are at least some Duolingo courses that use AI voices exclusively and they are shit.

On the one hand, having an AI to talk to sounds like something that could be good. Getting a real person to talk to every user would be impossible. I just don’t think the technology is going to meet expectations any time soon.

If you run into an asshole in the morning one instance, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day in every instance, you’re the asshole

Lemmy and Mastodon aren’t centralized. Instances can federate with other instances as they choose. If your instance has, for example, a lot of bigoted communities and users, you can expect the bigger instances to de-federate from yours.

You can always federate with instances that reject “EU norms”—whatever that means—in a bubble of your own.

He must’ve been what all these tankies look like in real life.

Hope Florida is run by DeSantis’s wife has been involved in shady dealings.

The meeting marked an attempt by the board to provide clarity as House Republicans probe a $10 million donation that Hope Florida, a charity and welfare program spearheaded by First Lady Casey DeSantis, received from a Medicaid settlement in October. Lawmakers are now investigating whether the foundation funneled those millions to political campaigns against the failed ballot referendum to legalize recreational marijuana.

The foundation’s executive director, Erik Dellenback, announced his resignation a day after legislators grilled the foundation’s leaders about the donation funds during a House budget committee meeting.

The Tampa Bay Times reported that Hope Florida split the $10 million evenly between Secure Florida’s Future and Save Our Society from Drugs — organizations that promptly poured a collective $8.5 million into Keep Florida Clean, a political action committee created to defeat Amendment 3 and run by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ then-chief of staff James Uthmeier.

From the Tampa Bay Times article:

Weeks after the DeSantis administration steered $10 million from a Medicaid settlement to a charity spearheaded by the first lady, the Hope Florida Foundation sent $5 million apiece to two separate organizations that gave millions to a political committee waging an anti-marijuana campaign championed by the governor.

How is this “not the Onion”? This isn’t the kind of stuff The Onion prints.

Literally any and every other thing that’s actually going in the world.

This isn’t as forward thinking as you’d want it to be.

For as much as they are abused, “IP laws” protect small and individual inventors, writers, composers, etc.

With no patent, copyright or trademark protections the billionaires will own or bury everything.

What is needed is to bring the laws back to their intended purpose.

Latest case of affluenza. He needs the Brock Turner treatment. You remember the rapist Brock Turner, right?

The only thing keeping TSLA’s stock price so high is the perception that it’s a tech company. They’d have to replace Elon with another tech CEO that can spew bullshit about tech advances being right around the corner. That probably will not save it as a car company.

I’d rather see the company fail before Elon and other majority share holders can cash out.

On exempt days, parents should send their kids to school as a wolf with tits and giant balls.

With “Gnome Sweet Gnome” on it.

Then we start calling Rubio Gnome of State and variations. Just mock him mercilessly.

Libby link:

https://share.libbyapp.com/title/11693967

Yeah, there’s no evidence that this is because of tariffs. Companies don’t make big moves like this after only a week of changes.

I’m not one to body-shame but the audacity of that fat fuck to say this is beyond the pale.