I’ve been wondering for a bit why during the time the Democrats controlled the legislature, executive, and judicial branches during Obama’s first term in 2008 more wasn’t accomplished. Shouldn’t that have been the opportunity to make Row V Way law and fix the electoral college? I understand the recession was going on but...
Like it or not, the United States are of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations.
Now I totally disagree with Republicans on almost everything especially since 2014 but one thing I like about them is, how to pass the actual laws, and how to put justices in supreme court.
No matter how wrong are they, or who paid (directly or indirectly) to pass the laws… when they have majority, they just steamrolls.
Democrats on the other hand are just talks.
Edit: Though, on a larger scale, I think Democracy is a failed experiment. But that’s entirely a different debate.
Look at just one example:
In Europe, Apple was told accept outside payments. Apple made mockery of the wish of the people they are making money from… and made it more expensive to use outside payment system.
Now take a guess, if it was China asked Apple to implement something serious… do you think Apple would be able to make mockery of Chinese government and still survive in China?
For what i heard, a lot of people on the Linux community use Krita for image manipulation, even though, it’s intended for digital painting, and GIMP is the one intended for image manipulation, because people don’t like the GIMP’s UI....
As others have mentioned, it’s simple things takes alot time finding/figuring out.
I use GIMP within Ubuntu MATE few times a week to edit pictures. Simple edits nothing major.
One of the thing I need regularly is to highlight certain part of the picture.
Now in Microsoft Paint I can draw a rectangle, choose its border thickness, and color in 2 seconds.
I have learned how to do the same in GIMP few times but it took alot of time and I still forgets after few weeks.
So now I just reboot the PC and log into Windows or use Windows virtual machine and draw rectangle in 2 seconds in Microsoft Paint.
Mine is extremely simple use case, so I can only guess how difficult or how time consuming it would be for actual professional to create artistic work in GIMP vs Photoshop (or in similar commercial software).
Now only if those “researchers” looked even further back, they would have found that ultimate building blocks of any coffee, like electrons and up & down quarks came into existence around 13.8 billion year ago (or may be ~28 billion year ago as claimed by some new research), and our universe may be a part of infinite multiverse that may have existed forever.
So wouldn’t it be even bigger headline that coffee has existed forever :)
Microsoft last year proposed using OpenAI’s mega-popular image generation tool, DALL-E, to help the Department of Defense build software to execute military operations, according to internal presentation materials reviewed by The Intercept. The revelation comes just months after OpenAI silently ended its prohibition against...
Now obviously, mere mention of word AI sparks outrage online.
But I have a different take, and not for this particular instance but AI and military in general.
Even if the US shuts down any and all AI research and AI applications, do you think China, Russia, Iran, and others gonna do the same?
I don’t think so. Nvidia is super happy to supply expensive AI processors to China… officially or not.
It’s better to prepare preemptively than fall behind all eternity.
Look at North Korea, once they got the nukes, they became untouchable with unhinged loonies at the helm. And now South Korea and may be the US must keep throwing millions to them. They keep hacking anything and everything (except in China & Russia) they can get their hands on… without any consequences at all.
I have not seen any hacker being successfully prosecuted anywhere in the world from the “state sponsored hacking teams” of China, Russia, Iran or North Korea.
IMO all of these nations are never gonna be at peace with rest of the world, so why don’t stay (or at least try to be) in the lead while you can?
In 2025, advancements in medical technology have perfected bio-mechanical organs.
A corporation known as The Union sells these expensive “artiforgs” on credit, and when customers are unable or unwilling to pay for their artiforgs The Union sends “repo men” to locate and forcibly repossess the organ - invariably resulting in the death of the owner.
I got an invite code and so spent a bit of time browsing around because I'd heard good things about it. But I was surprised at how basic and non-diverse it all is. The forums are preset and are very generic. The conversations are definitely better than Reddit, but no better or worse than the ones I've had with people on Fedi....
I was interested in Tildes after reading on kbin/lemmy that Tildes is more about reading than gifs/vids. I even sent email asking for invite but haven’t heard anything yet.
But from your experience it sounds like there’s not much to miss not being on Tildes. Thanks.
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Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term?
I’ve been wondering for a bit why during the time the Democrats controlled the legislature, executive, and judicial branches during Obama’s first term in 2008 more wasn’t accomplished. Shouldn’t that have been the opportunity to make Row V Way law and fix the electoral college? I understand the recession was going on but...
Power-hungry AI is putting the hurt on global electricity supply (arstechnica.com)
There Are Thousands of Alien Empires in The Milky Way (piped.privacydev.net)
(Read before Comment) Why you don't like GIMP UI?
For what i heard, a lot of people on the Linux community use Krita for image manipulation, even though, it’s intended for digital painting, and GIMP is the one intended for image manipulation, because people don’t like the GIMP’s UI....
Your morning coffee may be more than a half million years old (apnews.com)
That coffee you slurped this morning? It’s 600,000 years old....
Microsoft Pitched OpenAI’s DALL-E as Battlefield Tool for U.S. Military (theintercept.com)
Microsoft last year proposed using OpenAI’s mega-popular image generation tool, DALL-E, to help the Department of Defense build software to execute military operations, according to internal presentation materials reviewed by The Intercept. The revelation comes just months after OpenAI silently ended its prohibition against...
What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use?
New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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How to properly pass output of a command to another command?
I like to pass output of this command:...
Finally got access to Tildes today... Seems unimpressive
I got an invite code and so spent a bit of time browsing around because I'd heard good things about it. But I was surprised at how basic and non-diverse it all is. The forums are preset and are very generic. The conversations are definitely better than Reddit, but no better or worse than the ones I've had with people on Fedi....
Lemmy.world reaches new milestone: 100k users and counting! (lemmy.world)
Created on June 1 of this year, lemmy.world quickly grew to 51k users and then blew up after reddit’s API debacle on July 1, doubling to a whopping 100k in just 9 days later!
What the best mastodon instance?
And while we’re at it, can you guys recommend the best mastodon client?...
(also takeover request) should locking and forced "merger" of communities be allowed?
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1119656...