Is this an opportunity to self-publish my own book for $100k per copy and be guaranteed one sale?

Wouldn’t one typically renovate first and then reveal the name change when the renovations are complete?

Obviously I get the real reason this is such a cluster fuck is because no one will perform there anyway, but… this whole presidency is such a cluster fuck. If the right was determined to do a fascism, I’m so fucking glad they are led by the stupidest person possible. His idiocy is the only thing standing between us and a much greater darkness.

I guess we should buy more Blu-rays. But I don’t have a good space to library all of them… wait a sec… I have an idea…

FWIW, I’m happy to have context added to the humor in case there are any who don’t grasp it.

Amidala: Because they’ll gain super powers right? Right?

Anakin: smiles

You just know that even in a party full of pedos, they’d all be like, “that guy is so weird and cringe. It’s embarrassing to be here with him.” As they all pat each other on the back and celebrate being pedos!

Looks like a broken link.

It’s probably written by contractors who live in countries with far worse human rights and privacy violations.

Because that’s the reading comprehension level of most readers these days.

Attorney General Pam Bondi denounced the protest […] saying […] that the scene was “horrific.”

Horrific? A protest? People shouting to get attention and be heard is horrific?

Tell me you’ve led the most privileged of lives without telling me. What a completely unrelatable train wreck. You’ve got conservatives who’ve seen combine accidents and IEDs and child soldiers — the true horrors of the world. Let’s see what their response is.

Crickets.

I see.

Maybe we should deport them.

It’s not enough to foment insurrection in our country, now Trump is doing it in other countries, too???

Yeah, yeah. I know.

👨‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

She most likely deserves to be strung up along side the rest of them, but giggling isn’t the rope I would use. Grieving people are allowed moments of joy, and I would hate to normalize judging everyone through this lens.

Whether she is genuinely grieving or not — I’m not saying you’re wrong in your interpretation. She is a horrible person, but this headline presumes that a person finding levity during times of grief is wrong. I’d hate for regular people to judge themselves or those in their own life harshly due to Erika fucking Kirk. Those are the folks I care about. Kirk can die in a fire, IDGAF.

I rode in a Tesla last week. Some of the tech is better than what I’ve experienced in other vehicles. To be fair, a lot of the controls are way worse and key functions are buried in screens and menus that are difficult to find.

I’ll never own a Tesla, but I do hope the always on wireframe view of everything around you comes to other vehicles. It’s way easier to see pedestrians and cross traffic in a parking spot on that screen than it is the 360 camera view on our new Traverse which is only available in reverse and for a few seconds after shifting to forward.

users are presented with a clear choice between two paths

There is a third path. Just stop being a user. Maybe that choice isn’t clear enough. Push notifications are fucking evil. I removed the app and use FB as a PWA about once every six months. I might use it more if it had content from my friends or anyone I gave a fuck about, but instead it’s all promotions and suggestions.

Without the little red number creating FOMO on my phone, I have no impulse to check it. Yet I check Lemmy several times a day. I check Bluesky every couple of days. Because every time I open them, someone I want to hear from is posting something I want to see. You should try that, Zuck.

Not sure I like that this headline / research seems to frame the issue as a PR problem. I don’t want to be filled with a bunch of AI slop to try to convince me that AI is not a threat to my job. I think overall I have a pretty balanced view of AI — though how many of us realize when we are unhinged — but I think it’ll eventually settle into a tool which increases efficiency, slightly reduces jobs in certain sectors just like the farm combine did, and not a lot will change overall.

The thing negatively influencing my faith in democracy is so many of the people of the world voting for right-wing and autocratic parties. I feel like democracy has failed us in that respect. On the other hand I don’t know of a better solution. AI isn’t really involved there.

I wonder if there isn’t a more fundamental connection between people who observe the direction of the world and those who see that corporations are falling over themselves to eliminate workers and are deeply worried that they just might succeed to the detriment of all.

Deleted it. My wife then naturally sent me a DM of a thing asking if I could build it cheaper. Reinstalled to see the video, then deleted again.

There are a lot of content creators there I enjoyed but c’est la vie.

I worked for a series of such companies when I contracted for the DoD. They basically get points towards winning contracts for being owned by veterans, women, and minorities. After like 3 years they lose all of those benefits, go out of business, and reform under a new configuration, hiring back the same set of contractors that worked for the first company. Minus sub-standard performers.

My observation is those companies are owned, controlled, and financed by white men with token minority leadership.

I never observed any fraud. One of the companies did have an open vacation policy which I guess might feel sketchy but it was mostly about not having to pay anyone out for vacation when they were done. I didn’t observe anyone taking excessive vacations (though we had folks who saved vacation days for years under different contracts to go back to India for a month so I’m not sure how that played out).

So not only does this not resolve any fraud, it barely counts as DEI. This is someone trying to kill something they don’t even understand is already part of their own stacked deck. I will be shocked if this actually happens because I think someone will pull him aside and explain the program is nothing but optics.

Caveat: this is just my experience with about 3 different contracting companies while working one job for about 5 years, which is a very narrow perspective of the system as a whole.

Do commenters know they can copy text instead of break web accessibility?

Broken as intended on the Ring website. Couldn’t copy/paste text. Would’ve forced the issue were I on desktop at the time.

As far as I can tell it’s still voluntary. This is their policy. It sounds like if you choose to share photos or video with public safety organizations, that now Flock and hence ICE can access it.

That all said, fuck Flock and I certainly don’t want anything I share (which I never have) to contribute to the profits of a private surveillance company. The solution here appears to be share nothing with public safety at all ever so that contract is worth nothing.