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Probably not who you think.

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stux, to random
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Cause everybody knows that the birb is the wirb!

Birds ‘surfing’ on a artificial wave for human surfers

EdSanders,
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@stux awesome, but seriously, how is “surfin’ bird” not the music?

EdSanders, to random
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A thousand times yes. This nonsense about “pretending,” or “acting”, or whatever is just a dodge. It’s a coping mechanism because they can’t accept that the people and institutions they grew up with and trusted are actually terrible.

From: @StillIRise1963
https://mastodon.world/@StillIRise1963/112459258306948207

GottaLaff, to random
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A video filmed during Donald 's New Jersey rally on Saturday has shown "thousands" of people leaving while the former president was still talking.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-new-jersey-rally-crowd-walks-out-speech-video-1899832

EdSanders,
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@GottaLaff
You need to understand what actually happened here.

For decades this weekend in Wildwood has hosted an antique car show. The town is packed to the gills with old white people (Trump's main audience).

Next to nobody (maybe a few hundred people, maybe) went to Wildwood to see/hear Trump, they were there already so the campaign threw this together to take advantage of it.

stux, to random
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iPads are almost as expensive as MacBooks :flan_laugh:

But sure! An iPad really needs an M4 chip for all those uh.. "heavy apps"? :apple_inc:

Apple seems a little lost

EdSanders,
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@stux there are specific uses, artwork, reading in bed, etc.,.

The pencil is really good.

arstechnica, to random
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It’s cutting calories—not intermittent fasting—that drops weight, study suggests

The study is small and imperfect but offers more data on how time-restricted diets work.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/its-cutting-calories-not-intermittent-fasting-that-drops-weight-study-suggests/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

EdSanders,
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@arstechnica the measure of control required to follow any restricted eating plan is an enormous factor.
It’s often left unsaid, but the intermittent fasting advocates I’ve seen/heard make it pretty clear that the calories consumed should decline (which is certainly my own experience).

Restricting calories through strict outside monitoring & control (as in the study) is not a practical solution, but creating & maintaining a time restricted diet can be.

Free_Press, to news
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Sell Trump Media Stock (DJT) Now - An Implosion Is Likely

Trump has done this before - made a fortune off the backs of gullible supporters who are left with nothing after trusting Trump.

Your only hope is to cut your losses and sell your DJT stock NOW.

Having already lost 50% of its value, DJT is on a downward spiral to $2 per share - it's ACTUAL stock valuation!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntobey/2024/04/12/sell-trump-media-stock-djt-nowan-implosion-is-coming/

EdSanders,
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@Free_Press it’s not worth $2 a share. That implies a value of $280M.

It has no value. It loses millions, has no prospects for growth and is run by grifters.

The problem for people trying to bribe him this way is that Wall Street knows it and there are plenty of traders who will be happy to take advantage of them.

They’re already fighting over it, look at the option chain.

hazelweakly, to random
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"The most valuable code in the world is often glue code" -- Ok yeah, so then why are we so fucking bad at it, huh?

Seriously. You know what would make my whole life right now? A flow chart. With a sarcastic paperclip or a snarky stapler or some other anthropomorphic substitute for soulless capitalism.

"Hey! Listen! What do you wanna build?"
Door 1: A CRUD server
Door 2: A CRUD client
Door 3: A CRUD to CRUD pipe

"Well you came to the right place! How much CRUD are we talkin'?"

[[ etc etc ]]

EdSanders,
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@hazelweakly

If this sentence:

“It requires making global coherence an emergent property of locally coherent decisions and that's super ridiculously absurdly hard.”

Was the only thing you ever wrote in your life your contribution to the world would be greater than most people could hope to achieve in a lifetime.
Thank you.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Dear white women who vote for fascists, is it not evident to you that they don’t like you EITHER?🤔

EdSanders,
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@StillIRise1963
This has been a mystery to me for many years and not just women, jews, gays, etc.
I've often asked, "They hate you, and they hate your family, why do you vote for them?"

inthehands, to random
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Today’s case study in “security is a property of systems, not their components,” in the form of some solid recommendations about election process:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/03/on-secure-voting-systems.html

EdSanders,
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@inthehands
I’m curious why “hand marked” is preferred over “machine marked, voter confirmed”?

New Jersey’s new voting machines use this system and include the rest of the steps.

The ballot appears on the screen as marked, after confirmation, it’s printed and can be read again to see it was cast as intended, then collected & securely binned

stux, to random
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If one where to tell me a decade ago where we are now with I would have not believed it I guess

I can imagine alien worlds, quantum mechanics, black holes and whatever but I could not have imaged this utter chaos

It seems like facts just have gone out the window and the followers just accept it. It's not about the actions anymore but rather the person

That's scary shit

EdSanders,
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@stux I don’t have my head in the sand, but I don’t think Trump is nearly as viable as portrayed in the press.

That said, he and his minions are working diligently to steal the election, and very unfortunately he definitely has the Supreme Court lending support.

It’s going to be a fight to the bitter end, but he’s not currently winning.

EdSanders,
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@stux no doubt. I’m gearing up for the fight, but I’m hopeful that the system is capable of withstanding the assault they are undertaking.

mekkaokereke, to random
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The state of the Union address is how people think elections work.

The state of voter turnout is how they actually work.

Today didn't change voter turnout, in swing districts, in swing states. So it changed nothing.

Sick burns tho.

EdSanders,
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@mekkaokereke @morecowbell this is absolutely the thing.

Dems wouldn’t lose a single white vote by prominently endorsing and fighting for the issues that most concern Black Americans (They were never getting those shitty people anyway) and fighting tooth & nail against the absolute bullshit voter suppression, and outright disenfranchisement, that is the ONLY policy position of the Republican Party is the shortest path to victory.

RickiTarr, to random
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Does anyone else have trouble doing one thing at a time? Like if I'm doing chores it helps to have a podcast or talk to someone, or watching TV, I need to do something with my hands, like a little handy craft, or a simple game. I love movies, but the movie has to be absolutely fascinating for me to want to go to a theater where I just need to sit there and watch. I have a large amount of tabs open on my phone all the time and I flit back and forth through a bunch of different things. Weed helps calm this down a bit.

EdSanders,
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@RickiTarr if I’m doing more than one thing at a time , I’m not doing my best at any of it. That’s generally not a problem, because very few things require my best effort, but for things that do, I can’t have any distractions.

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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The moment folks normalized MAGA politics was the moment that nothing would get better in the near term, regardless of who is in office.

EdSanders,
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@BlackAzizAnansi
I think it’s somewhat true. There’s been some stuff that seems (and often is) marginal because there’s so much that’s screwed up, that in a normal context would seem significant.

Not wiping out student debt is a perfect example. The bulk of it was prevented, but Biden chipped away at the margins. For the people who did get relief I’m sure it is a big deal, there just aren’t enough of them.

Nonilex, to Law
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's lawyers told a appellate court Wed that he's prepared to post (only) a $100M to halt of his penalty, arguing that provisions of the verdict make it impossible to secure a bond for the full amount.

TFG's attys made the offer in court papers asking the state's mid-level appeals court for an order preventing ' office from enforcing the $454M judgment while his plays out.


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-fraud-appeal-bond-new-york/

EdSanders,
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@Nonilex
Trump built himself quite a trap. The only bondable asset he has is real estate, but the court case he lost has found that his valuations of that real estate were wildly inflated.

A bond issuer would have to put a real value on the assets used, likely a fraction of what Trump has valued them at, thus reiterating the court's findings of overvaluing assets

RickiTarr, to random
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If you could pause body aging, what age would you have paused at, and why?

EdSanders,
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@RickiTarr
26. I was a beast.

RickiTarr, to random
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So, reading the comments from my other post actually brings up some questions for me, I think we've all met people who seem to overestimate their abilities and equally we have met people who seem to underestimate their abilities. What is the difference? Is it misplaced confidence, narcissism, low self esteem? Do we need people who will just make decisions when necessary or is consensus always the path? Is Dunning-Kruger real?

I think in this post Trump Presidency era we all have questions about this, but honestly, that even started in the Bush era, are these men actually "dumb" or is this much more sinister?

EdSanders,
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@RickiTarr

Dunning-Krueger is definitely real, and the inability to perceive the concept it is shorthand for is an example of the concept.

caseynewton, to random
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Apple's Vision Pro is a really compelling device, and I loved my short time with it. But I'm not sure we quite understand yet what it's for https://www.platformer.news/apple-vision-pro-hands-on-impressions/?ref=platformer-newsletter

EdSanders,
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@caseynewton I would bet that it never has a $1,000 price tag. I could see $1,500, but I just can’t see Apple coming down that far anytime soon. They don’t sell $500 laptops even though they could (and should).

RickiTarr, to random
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If it was possible to live forever, would you want to?

EdSanders,
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@RickiTarr only if it works the way Cory Doctorow set it up (Down and out in the Magic Kingdom). The ability to “deadhead” can keep things interesting.

ElleGray, to random
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    EdSanders,
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    @ElleGray it is not lost on me that, basically, as soon as the generation that had to fight the Nazis was gone, the Nazis comeback kicked into high gear.

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    When a white person here tells me they won't vote for the anti-fascist, I know they're a RACIST.

    EdSanders,
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    @StillIRise1963 it’s not even a question. The second anyone says it, I’m done with them.

    anneapplebaum, to random
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    Still marvelous to think that 110,000 people voted in the Iowa Republican caucus, yet it will be interpreted as sending a significant message about America. That's less than a third of the population of Bydgoszcz. (if your response is "where?" then you are making my point)

    EdSanders,
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    @anneapplebaum it’s not even 20% of the population of Ocean County New Jersey. Hell, there are more Republicans in Ocean County than voted in the Iowa Caucuses.

    There are 5 counties in NJ with larger populations than Ocean.

    There are 3 other counties in very blue NJ that also have more Republicans.

    The story that should have come out of Iowa is that a fascist movement has taken hold there.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Okay, so I'm going to type out a sentence, and I want you all to finish it, but instead of doing deep thinking about it, just type the very first thing that pops into your head. I know this will be hard for many of you, but try it! LOL

    If I could do whatever I wanted to right now, I would _________.

    EdSanders,
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    @RickiTarr sleep.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Do you think there are "normal" people? If so, what constitutes normal? If not, why not?

    EdSanders,
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    @RickiTarr
    I love these questions.

    While I don’t think there are “normal” people. I do think there are “normies”, which are people who are basically satisfied with whatever the LCD offer is.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Okay, all Superheros are, at least, marginally problematic, but what Superhero do you think is the most problematic, and why?

    EdSanders,
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    @RickiTarr I’ll go the other way (at least kinda) Captain America has been the least problematic because he’s basically following the golden rule and has been a consistent opponent of tyranny. He’s totally law-and-order guy but the first law is, don’t follow illegal orders.
    Marvel deserves props for putting him on the right side (resistance) in Civil War.

    He does lend himself to jingoism though.

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