en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_pandemicThere’s been more than one pandemic, y’all. He was VP during Swine Flu. I know he’s old as fuck but I’d assume that’s what he was talking about.
I’m not turning a blind eye to it. I know he (and Trump) are sundowning. My personal opinion is that Trump is worse off just based on how they both were in the 90’s or 2000’s. Like, look up a video of Trump on Leno or Letterman and he’s not rambling on or angry like he is now. Biden always had “gaffes” or whatever you want to call them.
Everyone their age declines. To me, Trump is showing some of the early Alzheimer’s signs with the anger and the non-stop rambling (which he didn’t do in the past). Biden seems like he’s aging in the way where, if you were his kids, you’d stop letting him drive and be concerned but he’s substantially the same person he was 10 or 20 years ago (even if that included verbal gaffes).
Yeah, then he probably was mixing things up (either who was mayor or when he did what where). I doubt he’d be talking about the Ebola outbreak since we only had 4 cases in the U.S. I think it was the biggest Ebola outbreak ever in West Africa but unless the mayor of Detroit’s duties include being the super secret Global Emergency Epidemiologist, not sure why he’d talk to him about that.
Just an aside: it’s kind of crazy that we had SARS, MERS, the Ebola outbreak, multiple Avian flus, swine flu, and several more since 2000 and COVID-19 is the one that spread around the world and killed the most people. It really illustrates how a relatively low mortality rate — I think SARS and MERS were 30%-40% and COVID-19 was like 2% — can be worse overall if it’s transmissible enough between humans.
I mostly use AMD for Linux reasons. ARM for my Apple products. (I know I should use Android and I have an Android phone but I constantly break something tinkering and I’ve accepted that about myself. My daily driver phone should be locked down. Everything else, all bets are off.)
That a pretty impressive considering the real one had to be made of like 7000 pieces using different suppliers to get every congressional district on board.
I think it’s nuanced. The internet did democratize information and even societies. It allowed communication. Twitter was a key part of the Arab Spring but Facebook was used to spread misinformation during multiple genocides.
Really, when the web was young — “Web 1.0” — it was all decentralized and required some knowledge to use. Then, social media companies created closed networks and governments were able to fight back (or co-opt them). That was “Web 2.0” (which isn’t a technical term). I think it was a huge mistake. “Web 3.0” won’t ever involve the blockchain, which is useless except for naive people. But the concept of decentralized communication platforms is a good idea.
Basically, we need a better version of “Web 1.0” without the VCs, Monopoly money, and NFT horseshit. Give users control of who they follow, break up monopolies, and let censorious governments play whack-a-mole while still being able block harassers and bots.
One time, Walgreens had a charity thing where they sold clown noses and I got one, got a boost from a friend, and put the clown nose on Jefferson Davis.
Everyone who tours Cap. Hill should try it with all the horrible statues in that room.
The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge....
I worked in politics and have a degree in international affairs so people definitely argue about that. But I got good enough at coding and Linux that it became my career and people tend to trust me on that stuff.
There’s certain fields where everyone thinks they’d be good at it and they’re wrong. Voice acting is probably one. Seems easy but it’s really fucking not. And most people who think they understand politics don’t know basics about how legislative committees work, much less negotiated rulemaking.
Most bills are vague and give regulatory agencies leeway on how to interpret them. It’s like Congress passes a law that says, “No cookies after 8pm.” and a regulatory agency has to decide what is a cookie and which time zone and how to enforce it. A lot of actual policy happens during the rule making progress (called “reg neg”).
In fairness to Apple, if you play the video backwards, it’s an amazing commercial. Maybe it was like all those classic rock records where parents thought you could play it backwards to learn about Satan or whatever.
I know that’s true of large enterprises but I spent about a decade in an around start ups and few used Microsoft stuff (except Excel for finance people). If you’re starting from scratch and have a bunch of young employees, there’s really no reason to stick with the legacy Microsoft stuff.
Not saying “Google’s office suite is better than Microsoft’s.” Microsoft’s cloud offerings are basically the same now and there’s some advantages and disadvantages. I just mean there’s a generation of people that know Google Workspace better than MS Office.
Relax. I’m sure they’ll be vetted and probably most won’t even be Chinese citizens. China is just as complicated a place as America^1. I’m an American software developer and I’d rather eat a bowl of hair than go work for my own government, much less any other. There’s lots of Chinese tech workers who just want to write software and not get involved.
^1 I’ll admit, Chinese food is more complicated. Like Louisiana vs Szechuan is a fair fight. I’ll take the Pepsi challenge with Memphis BBQ vs their best smoked pork. But after that, we’re gonna need to pretend Mexican and Italian food are American to be competitive.
As someone who lives in Louisiana’s 2nd district, the main problem (some) Republicans have with the map wasn’t that a 2nd black district was drawn. It’s that it was drawn so Speaker Johnson and Rep Scalise got even safer seats and they had to screw one Republican Congressman and they chose one to screw.
This isn’t really a fight over civil rights anymore. The Voting Rights Act requires 2 majority black districts in a state with 6 seats and a 33% black population. It’d be easy enough to make two without it being so weirdly drawn but that would have required two members of the Congressional Republican leadership to make their districts competitive and that wasn’t happening.
In fairness, it’s also fucking hard to draw maps in Louisiana. I work with GIS software to create maps sometimes and you basically need at least a gaming desktop to apply high res water layers to maps without your computer getting so hot for so long, it could be used as a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator on a mission to the outer solar system.
I’m not a geologist by any means but isn’t South Florida uniquely screwed by rising sea levels? I’ve read articles about it basically being a geology problem. There’s a layer of porous limestone on top of the bedrock there. So, the types of flood protection you see in the Netherlands, Southeast Louisiana, etc. (levees, sea walls, pumps, etc.) aren’t possible.
Biden Says He Was Still VP During COVID and Obama Sent Him to ‘Fix It’ (www.thedailybeast.com)
How Biden is winning over corporate America behind closed doors (www.cnbc.com)
In public, President Biden and corporate America appear to oppose each other’s interests and blame each other for the economy’s problems....
Biden slams ICC prosecutor’s ‘outrageous’ request for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, Netanyahu (www.thehill.com)
Biden says pro-Gaza student protesters ‘voices should be heard’ in Morehouse speech (www.independent.co.uk)
Slack has been scanning your messages to train its AI models (www.engadget.com)
Arizona officials say they can’t find Rudy Giuliani to serve him with indictment notice (www.cnn.com)
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NASA Artemis Space Launch System - 3601 Pieces (www.lego.com)
With authoritarianism on the rise has the internet helped or hurt the cause for democracy and collective rule?
As a follow-up, is there signs that the internet/technology may play a role in making a better society for all?
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Qualified experts of Lemmy, do people believe you when you answer questions in your field?
The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge....
As conservatives put religion in schools, Satanists want in, too (www.nbcnews.com)
Samsung mocks Apple’s crushing iPad Pro ad with its own ‘UnCrush’ pitch (www.theverge.com)
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Microsoft offers to relocate nearly 10% of China-based staffers to the US or allied nations — AI and cloud engineering exodus from China begins (www.tomshardware.com)
Supreme Court orders Louisiana to use congressional map with additional Black district in 2024 vote (apnews.com)
MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says (slashdot.org)
DeSantis signs bill scrubbing ‘climate change’ from Florida law (wapo.st)
Meanwhile, it’s hotter than it has been in thousands of years
RFK Jr. accuses Biden and Trump of 'colluding' to exclude him from debates (www.nbcnews.com)