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The biggest advantage of an unpiloted jet is that it can pull far more G forces. If your aircraft can make a 12G turn when most humans pilots start blacking out at 9, you’re going to win any dogfight.
Star Trek TOS episodes (1 hour show) were about 52 minutes long, with 8 minutes for commercials. By the time of TNG, episodes were down to 42 minutes. I regularly see ads every 5-6 minutes on YouTube.
Businesses never understand that it’s THEIR obnoxious, sh*tty advertising that kills something profitable, and when it finally dies, it’s surprised Pikachu faces all around.
Evangelicals call it “prosperity gospel” and it’s a total perversion of Jesus’ teachings. Basically, it claims that rich people deserve to be rich because their wealth is proof that they have God’s favor. It’s used to explain away why preachers are allowed to own private jets, yachts and diamond mines.
Server indexes of places for newcomers to join can be instrumental for Fediverse adoption. However, sudden rule changes can leave some admins feeling pressure to change policies in order to remain listed.
The entire point of the Fedi-verse is so that one person or small group of people can’t ruin the entire platform for everyone else. Anyone who tells you how to moderate your content, backed up by a threat can screw off.
Middle-of-the-road person: “You are not in a culture war or an ideology war. You are both in a CLASS war, run by billionaires who are the REAL source of your pain. They use the six corporations that control all the news to distract you and keep you fighting with each other so that they . . . the rich . . . can run off with all the f*cking money.”
The pirates will simply move to another Lemmy Instance and re-create the group there. This is the advantage of having a decentralized platform: so one person or small group of people can’t ruin things for the rest of us.
You don’t have to report “both sides” of an issue if one side of that issue is blithering insanity.
News today: "Should we eat horse paste and shove UV lights up our own asses to fight Covid? Donald Trump says ‘Yes’ but honestly, WHO KNOWS? ¯_(ツ)_/¯ "
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu railed Sunday against growing criticism from top ally the United States against his leadership amid the devastating war with Hamas, describing calls for a new election as “wholly inappropriate.”...
Schumer (re: Israel) “losing their way” Biden (re: huge civilian death toll in Gaza) “hurting Israel”
You weak, pathetic sons of b*tches. Your government is contributing militarily and financially to a genocidal ethno state and THIS is the best you can come up with? This is what your “criticism” looks like when someone’s got you by the balls.
Yeah. Sure. Right. Musk will sell Intelligence to ANYONE who pays for it and US taxpayers will foot the entire bill for constructing the satellite network.
And then all the contractors and politicians will all pretend to be surprised by this and Musk will get the finger-wagging of a lifetime.
Lyft and Uber said they will cease operations in Minneapolis after the city’s council voted Thursday to override a mayoral veto and require that ride-hailing services increase driver wages to the equivalent of the local minimum wage of $15.57 an hour....
This reminds me of a stunt a company pulled a few years ago, where they sold a bunch of bald Bratz dolls and claimed they were “undergoing chemotherapy.”
They were really taking a bunch of unfinished dolls and trying to dump them for a quick buck.
Calling them “free-form ads,” Reddit said the new advertisements are its most native format ever, designed to look and feel like community content shared by real people....
Bernie is an example of what a progressive politician actually looks like.
American politicians (Republicans AND Democrats) have been moving steadily to the right for the last 40 years. So now, Democrats are where the Republicans were in the 1980s, boring corporatists and friends of banks, pharmaceutical and insurance companies.
And the Republicans have moved all the way into an insane asylum. They long for the “good old days” of company towns, run by 19th century robber barons and worry that the six corporations that control all our news are the “liberal news media.”
Yup. News sources have been consolidating for the last 50 years. It used to be that every news outlets you watched was ultimately owned by one of 40 companies. Today, that number is 5. So if five billionaires get together and decide something is not going to be talked about, then it DOESN’T get talked about. This is why the Internet has them so freaked out. They can’t control it (yet) so it’s a threat to their version of reality.
This is also why our “liberal news media” does such a terrible job of speaking truth to bullshit. It’s not necessary to report “both sides of an argument” if one side of the argument is insane, woo-woo dipshiterry. What they’re doing there is gaslighting you into thinking that babbling nonsense is “just another point of view” It’s not in the interest of billionaires to have informed citizens, capable of critical thinking, so the point of this exercise is to keep us fighting with each other about where the REAL source of our problems come from while they . . . the rich . . . run off with all the f*cking money.
Spurred by Teen Girls, States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes (www.nytimes.com)
PSA: Nova Launcher is owned by an analytics company (www.androidpolice.com)
Since a few folks seem unaware of this, I’m posting anew for visibility.
rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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It's that easy! (lemmy.ml)
climatejustice.social/…/112303357717712825 Scroll down inside that link for a slightly more extreme version (NSFW).
US Air Force successfully tests AI-controlled fighter jet in first dogfight against human pilots (www.techspot.com)
Public Service Announcement (slrpnk.net)
YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps (www.theverge.com)
How many more will be made? (lemmy.world)
"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov (pluralistic.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14100831...
Never seen a Camel walk through the eye of a Needle. (lemmy.ml)
There are no ethical billionaires. (lemmy.world)
humility (mander.xyz)
Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed" (wedistribute.org)
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Yeee yee (lemmy.ml)
Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
This has happened once before and they reversed it. But they said this last time too:...
The Streisand Defect (lemmy.sdf.org)
Netanyahu snaps back against growing US criticism after being accused of losing his way on Gaza (apnews.com)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu railed Sunday against growing criticism from top ally the United States against his leadership amid the devastating war with Hamas, describing calls for a new election as “wholly inappropriate.”...
SpaceX is reportedly building a $1.8 billion network of spy satellites for US intelligence (www.theverge.com)
Tell me what it means (lemm.ee)
Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis after city council forces them to pay drivers more (apnews.com)
Lyft and Uber said they will cease operations in Minneapolis after the city’s council voted Thursday to override a mayoral veto and require that ride-hailing services increase driver wages to the equivalent of the local minimum wage of $15.57 an hour....
Dolls (file.coffee)
In the US? Yes
Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts (www.zdnet.com)
Calling them “free-form ads,” Reddit said the new advertisements are its most native format ever, designed to look and feel like community content shared by real people....
Bernie Sanders unveils 32-hour workweek bill with no loss in pay for workers (thehill.com)
Tech Titans Are the Robber Barons of Our Gilded Age (jacobin.com)