The API change wasn’t it, it’s when it became clear to me they were selling all my data to Google. I frequented mental health subs, and I started getting Google ads for scams TARGETING people with mental health issues. Just sick.

You’re talking about rebuilding and continuing society; I’m talking about hospice. It’s like making sure someone on death row is getting plenty of exercise and eating healthy.

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For what? They can stock pile 200 years worth of food a supplies now and just sit on it till they run out. At which point they will die.

Probably not. I believe if we look at how poorly humanity as assimilated information about climate change, I think it is more or less a given that we will manage to kill ourselves off. A few stragglers might live in the bunkers the tech giants made for themselves, but humanity as a whole will be on the way out.

I have a very small set of friends, and I got my PhD in Indiana. Randomly, while renewing my visa in England, I bumped into some friends who were just traveling.

It’s almost as if there is a financial incentive to enshitify everything.

I loved the NHS while I was over there. I got health care SO MUCH BETTER than in the US. And it was way more continent and less stressful. And, assuming that the “entry fee” I paid when I got my visa wasn’t subsidized, cheeper too.

I think the death penalty could be just, but, unfortunately our justice system is too capricious and dysfunctional to be worthy of administering it.

Stephen Jay Gould, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard, testified in defense of evolution at a trial in Arkansas then was on the same plane as Bill Clinton during Clinton’s interregnum between governorships. Clinton said he “would have vetoed that bill”, meaning the bill mandating equal time for creationism.

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If lemmy was around while you were 16 you are clearly a child. Now, pass me my cane, I want to shake it while I yell at those clouds.

I’m gradually concluding that every decision in computer UI has been wrong. Peak UI happened in the 1990s; it’s been downhill ever since. People think terminals are scary, but come on—asking ChatGPT “how do I do this?” and getting three lines that have worked unchanged since 1989 is not harder than watching some tech-bro explain which menus to click… menus that get rearranged every six months so they can find new ways to wedge ads into your ribbon.

Look, the hospital is going to put me in enough debt that I’m going to have to give them one (or two) kidneys if I don’t want them to end up with my house. No time to pay back any loans right now.

Danm, I’m checking myself into the burn ward currently. I wish I could up my social credit score making memes like this 😉.

Actually, that’s a very reasonable speculation. I hadn’t thought of that angle.

Yes, that is what I read roguetrick as saying. The headline should include the lede “viral load undetectable, even after therapeutics stops”, however, this lede gets buried in the article, instead of highlighted in the headline.

Well apparently fedora w/ kde is wrong or something. I have no idea why.

I mean I use Ubuntu with I3, which is obviously a better choice and all /s.

I mean, you do realize people don’t have to write a letter that says “let’s break the law together.” People in the 19th century were capable of waltzing over to the hermitage, chatting in a backroom, and leaving with an “understanding”.

The Georgia officials took their actions with the accurate perception that the federal government would choose not to enforce federal law. And they were right, and AJ was the person who happened to not be enforcing the law. He doesn’t have to write down on a piece of paper that he didn’t enforce the law, we see that he didn’t.

I really do appreciate your excellent summary of events, and it is interesting to frame it as Georgia ignoring the Supreme Courts ruling rather than Jackson, but I wonder to what extent Georgia ignored the Supreme Court ruling with Jackson’s blessing. You could argue that it is really Pam Bondi ignoring court orders, and not Trump, but, of course, Trump could tell Pam Bondi (or whoever) to stop ignoring court orders. In theory the executive branch’s role is to enforce the orders of the court, and, by making it clear to Georgia that he had no intention of enforcing court orders, this could have enabled the state government to continue on in illegal activities that, if the rule of law were followed, should not have happened.

You clearly know more about this than me, so I’m not trying to argue, but the failure of the rule of law is obviously always a collective failure, and many many people enable it, and it still seems fair to me to pin some of the blame on AJ, though obviously not as much as I was implying.