It feels like it’s September again

C'mon, he was subpoenaed. I wish that shit meant something to the plutocrats.

Every single government shutdown in the last 30 years has been caused by Republicans controlling the House

Luckily the majority of websites and Internet traffic go to the three cloud companies

I prefer to consider it in terms of "dimensions of awareness". Humans have evolved hundreds, possibly thousands, of interlinked dimensions of awareness for just about everything from colors to body language. Simple automated systems with sensors have their own dimensions of awareness, from vision to heat to pressure. Whatever it is that they track and respond to. AI, however, is finally hitting the point where these dimensions of awareness are being stacked and linked together (GPT5 can see, hear, read, and respond) and it's only a matter of time and agency (aka executive functioning) before we see true AI consciousness.

I also enjoy making sure the DNA of those bribing me helping me distribute my "savings" around the house is on the cash

However the effects are becoming increasingly dramatic as more and more of the population finds themselves in an economy with no jobs for them. Eventually UBI will become necessary once we hit the tipping point.

I’d actually love to see a graph that shows the distribution of lengths of various wars

No, it’s not a VPN. Your traffic does not go through it. All using it does is change which server that your device asks for IP addresses for the websites you visit. When your device asks for the IP for an ad, Adguard gives you one that points back to your device and prevents the ad from being loaded. Otherwise it acts like any other DNS-Over-HTTPS server.

It’s like every time there’s a war everybody forgets how fucking long they take. WW2 took six years. The Vietnam War took almost 20 years, same with the Afghanistan War. Anybody expecting anything solid within the next couple years is delusional. Ukraine is in it for the long haul.

You have to keep in mind that the Russian government holds workers hostage. The Kremlin literally requires foreign companies to have an office with workers located in Russia just so that the workers can be threatened in order to pressure the company. And most companies care enough about their image to try and prevent headlines like “[Company] allowed workers in Russia to be murdered”.

If you rotate a 3 clockwise it becomes a pair of balls

“we’ll give you better representation and a better shot at fighting these lesser charges if you flop the flip” - the DoJ, probably

The only reason telegram was unbanned in Russia is because they started collecting and handing over identifiable data about Russian users.

That’s just a Tiananmen 2d circle with stretching though.

10,000 mg per kg of body weight you would literally have to consume 10x your body weight in aspartame

10g/kg is actually 1/100th your weight, not 10 times it

Please. It’s absolutely ridiculous and a mockery of the justice system as a whole that trump is even allowed to be handled with kids gloves in the first place. Every single criminal should be treated the same or there is no such thing as justice.

The US desperately needs federal anti-SLAPP laws that force the issuers of frivolous lawsuits to pay for the defendant’s legal costs

Lmao elitism like this will just turn Lemmy into a radioactive, insular circlejerk cesspool

Lmao look at this loser, just buy your gf at the GE like a civilized person