I bring a portable screen from home, bringing me to a total of 4 with the laptop screen.

But I just like lots of monitors

The GOP are proanti-worker and the Democratstic leadership actually hate America andworkers

There we go, now it makes sense :)

Apparent we do not

Hey, some of us just want to have the biggest instance so we don’t have to rely on people subscribing to things. (Australia, I have 2 accounts)

Me too, I cannot believe it. How garish

Implement an actual independent electoral commission, proper scrutiny, paper ballots only (seriously, the US are fucking brain-dead for using voting machines, it’s caused issues at elections dozens of times), and all this goes away.

But yeah, ranked choice voting is definitely high on the list also

Sure does help, though.

Any system that ultimately doesn’t work for the greater good is bound to fail, because someone will come along promising to deliver the people from their woes.

It’s happened very many times throughout history, and yet many “checks” are perpetuated on convention alone, in many systems around the world.

You’re just asking for it, at that point.

Letting politicians draw their own electoral boundaries, and “certify” their own elections is beyond ridiculous.

Git gud, USA, yikes.

Brought to you by the independent electoral commission gang.

WHO IS USING AI TO RESPOND TO EMAILS? Like, by the time to “craft” the ultimate response, you could have just written the email.

This may be my bias as an engineer (not software, but chemical), there’s not really much faffing about in an email. You just politely respond, or politely make a query. It’s not very long, typically, and even if it is, an LLM isn’t gonna help you.

You don’t have to sugar coat anything unless there’s some fuck up you’re trying to soften. You just go “Hi xyz, could you please clarify when the design temperature is changing here?”.

Wtf is there you can use an LLM for in an email?

I have only used it for software troubleshooting, as it’s quite nifty there, even if it’s information is out of date, it gets versions confused, etc, still gets me out of a bind or spits out random ideas to try.

But emails? Those short form messages, just barely longer than texts?

Are we actually serious? It’s not a report

Either LLM or quality trolling

In addition, cooperation with traffic police has intensified and more traffic cameras and automated enforcement systems have been introduced.

Man, if I had a dollar for everytime I’ve read someone from Australia write online: “they’re just revenue raising!!!” I’d be rich.

We’re not as brain-dead as the Americans with cars, but still not great.

There being absolute fucks doesn’t imply positive and negative fucks though.

It implies we’ve set a point to measure against which we call zero fucks.

Perhaps there’s an absolute zero fucks which can never be reached.

This is my favourite word on the sign. People used to spell this way (however they liked, and by accent).

And I can HEAR this person’s voice through the words. Beautiful

They mean not guaranteed the same way by law.

Practice of course is a different matter

We really need some consumer protections around emails.

Imagine if your landlord could just intercept your mail on the same way.

It’s part of our identities.

We’re living in the Wild-West of the internet

I think you’re underestimating what service workers will do for a small amount of entertainment.

Being very subtly snide is a great way to pass the time.

Source: I used to refer to milk as cow’s milk when working at a cafe, because very occasionally it would trigger someone, and I found that mildly amusing.

(Everyone else didn’t bat an eye, because that’s what it is).

Triggering snowflakes is pretty fun

Indeed, and I personally hate it. “&” Is right there if they want to save space.

I really dislike when the reason to continue doing something is tradition, and that’s what is going on here. It would be so easy to just start using “&” instead of commas, which outside this context are not used this way.

Get with the times, silly journalists.

(Just an extra gripe, that journalists are often really shitty at citing. “A report from XYZ organisation says” yes, which one? Y U DO DIS TO ME?)

This headline is proof this newspaper convention is stupid. If they’re so keen on holding on to this weird tradition of “saving space” in headlines for a medium in decline (print), just use an “&” symbol. It’s much more recognisable, comma has a clearly defined function and they’re misusing it.

Their tradition be damned.

Just my 2¢

The US lacks even the most basic consumer protections it seems.

In Australia, companies still try to give you the run around, but I am extremely confident this wouldn’t fly here. Even though I’m not a lawyer.

If you literally can’t get a hold of them, they’re breaking Australian Consumer Law, that’s a slam dunk to charge back the card and dare them to take you to your state’s relevant tribunal that hears cases like this. It costs either like $70 to file, you can represent yourself easily, and if you’re low-income, it’s literally free.

They don’t want to waste money on fighting you. If you’re confident you’re clearly in the right, it’s very easy to get a company to back down.

This is a great time to remind everyone to take photos before and after getting a rental car, because otherwise it’s your word against them.

It’s SO funny how apparently for almost 20 years we (as in the west outside the USA) decided that using Chinese cloud platforms or networking hardware was dangerous and to be avoided, but private US companies? Nothing to see here!

Silver lining of the orange man is that maybe countries will wake up and smell the digital sovereignty that we sorely lack.

If they’re making profit, how in the world can they possibly think it’s charity?