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Hotter, More Cross Bunny 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

(exhausted sigh)

I am SO GLAD my reproductive years are behind me. 12 hours taking care of an infant has completely done me in.

UnmappedSmallTownUSA 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Haynes, Arkansas seems like it could use some mapping!

Population: 122
Building count: 9
Roads to review: 10

Map link: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/34.890926/-90.79205
#OpenStreetMap

Map image of the town showing the status as of the time of this posting

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

^{OpenStreetMap}

#OpenStreetMap

Lumikeiju 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I mapped it! 🙂

UnmappedSmallTownUSA 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@Lumikeiju thanks for helping out!

Haynes now has 117 more buildings and 6 roads to review.

#SmallTownUSAUpdate

#smalltownusaupdate @Lumikeiju

Steve Herman 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The US economy grew at a 2.8% pace in the second quarter -- much more than expected. https://www.bea.gov/news/2024/gross-domestic-product-second-quarter-2024-advance-estimate

Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2024 (Advance Estimate) | U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)

Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.8 percent in the second quarter of 2024 (table 1), according to the "advance" estimate released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP increased 1.

^www.bea.gov

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Steve Herman 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

“Today’s GDP report makes clear we now have the strongest economy in the world.” - President Biden in a statement https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/07/25/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-second-quarter-2024-gdp/

Statement from President Joe Biden on Second Quarter 2024 GDP | The White House

When I took office, we were in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Today’s GDP report makes clear we now have the strongest

^{The White House}

Melissa BearTrix 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

This

Tesla Earnings Fall 43% In 'Difficult Operating Environment'; Elon Musk Touts Autonomy https://www.investors.com/news/tesla-stock-earnings-q2-tsla-rally/

The reason

American Test Of BYD's Tesla Model 3 Fighter: ‘It's Way More Luxurious’ https://insideevs.com/reviews/727003/byd-seal-model-3-test/

Giggles

Hugz & xXx

Tesla Earnings Fall 43% In 'Difficult Operating Environment'; Elon Musk Touts Autonomy

Tesla earnings fell more than expected, though sales beat. Tesla stock fell late, extending losses with Elon Musk on the conference call.

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josh :floppies: 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

conservatives be like "oh look a new way of doing things that will benefit society somewhat it must be FROM THE DEVIL SATAN HIMSELF"

Melatonin 6 months ago • ActivityPub

Does one have to be an iconoclast or revolutionary these days to be validly left? I consider myself to be left of center, and very much in favor of progressive policies.

However I find myself being disagreed with quite often, mostly for not advocating or cheering violence, "by any means possible" change, or revolutionary tactics. It would seem that I'm not viewed as authentically holding my view unless I advocate extreme, violent, or radical action to accomplish it.

Those seem like two different things to me.

Edit: TO COMMUNISTS, ANARCHISTS, OR ANYONE ELSE CALLING FOR THE OVERTHROW OF SOCIETY

THIS OBVIOUSLY ISN'T MEANT FOR YOU.

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CanadaPlus 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

Gatekeeping is dumb. You are what you are, the rest is description.

Also, this is a pretty communist instance, so it's no wonder you got "lol liberal" responses. Maybe try .world for a wider perspective on a question like this.

Edit: Or another large, politically generic instance, like sh.itjust.works.

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Cowbee [he/they] 6 months ago • ActivityPub

Gatekeeping is dumb, but so is calling a square a circle.

Secondly, Lemmy.world actually blocks Leftist instances, while Lemmy.ml does not. You see a wider net on Lemmy.ml, Lemmy.world leans right-wing.

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CanadaPlus 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

Ah shit, you replied before my edit. Yes, communication is important, but only exists in context. Asking if you're "validly" X is pure gatekeeping. The question is if "I'm X" makes what you are more or less confusing to whoever you're talking to. Although, people rarely ask.

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Cowbee [he/they] 6 months ago • ActivityPub

I generally agree, actually, you can see my top level comment. The question is deliberately posed in a leading manner, Purity Testing is nonsense sectarianism.

Still, the bit on .world doesn't make much sense, .world explicitly blocks Marxist instances.

CanadaPlus 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

Yes, sorry, didn't know.

Edit: Although OP isn't on one. Or at least dbzer0 isn't to my knowledge.

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Cowbee [he/they] 6 months ago • ActivityPub

dbzer0 is generally an Anarchist instance, though there are Marxists. They are federated with Lemmy.world to my knowledge.

CanadaPlus 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

Also TIL!

Muad'Dibber 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

lemmy.world (and blahaj.zone) blocks the communist instances, yet they aren't blocked by us. So really you're only going to get a censored and anti-communist perspective from those instances.

CanadaPlus 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

TIL, although OP isn't on one.

It still seems pretty lefty over there for the most part.

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Track_Shovel 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

Tell me something interesting about yourself

Prompt questions:

What do you do for work, or what are you studying towards

Musical recommendations (bonus points for metal)

Useless tidbit you know (bonus points for citing sources)

Best meal you've had

Best place you've visited

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HubertManne 6 months ago • kbin (AP)

I have a bachelors of science dual majored in microbiology and chemistry with a masters in education and I work in IT.

ClassifiedPancake 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

I used to not cook at all. Then I realized I can’t go on like this and started a challenge: Eat a self cooked meal every single day for a month. It was super challenging but I learned a lot (and initially wasted a lot of food due to bad planning). Now I still cook almost every day.

When you wanna know if a hobby is for you, try doing it every day for a longer time and see if you still enjoy it.

eezeebee 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

Not as much of a metal head as I used to be, but these recent albums made me feel some of the magic of it again:

Civerous - Maze Envy
Anti-God Hand - Blight Year

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LazerFX 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

Have you listened to any Brothers of Metal?

gerryflap 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

I work as a Java programmer, which means that I spend about 50% of my day complaining about Java. Why doesn't it have enums like Rust? Why are there no tuples? How many goat sacrifices do the Java gods require to support named optional arguments to functions like Python? In the remaining time I have meetings, write docs, write tests, and sometimes even code. Nothing to complain about though, seeing how we are treated compared to people I know who work as taxi drivers or in elderly care, we programmers are basically treated as gods.

As for music, I like Hardstyle and Drum and Bass primarily. Examples: "Phuture Noize & Devin Wild - Waves", DnB: "Telomic & Susan H - Underwater". I'll be visiting the DnB festival "Liquicity festival" this weekend so I'm very hyped right now

LazerFX 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

Really? Come to the C# side... We have all those, and concise code too.

Squirrel 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

Depression and anxiety greatly hindered my educational goals, so I only have an associates degree in accounting. However, the woman I married has a master's degree in computer science and a good, well-paying job. Our first child had medical issues requiring full-time care for several years, so I am now a stay-at-home dad to two kids, guiding them through homeschool.

Binette 6 months ago • ActivityPub

Is cake a sort of bread?

So according to Merriam Webster bread is:
a usually baked and leavened food made of a mixture whose basic constituent is flour or meal

And cake is:
A: a breadlike food made from a dough or batter that is usually fried or baked in small flat shapes and is often unleavened
B: a sweet baked food made from a dough or thick batter usually containing flour and sugar and often shortening, eggs, and a raising agent (such as baking powder)

And yet some people don't think that cake is bread.

What's your opinion?

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CanadaPlus 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

Yes, cake is bread. This is controversial because of the savoury vs. sweet distinction we have, but there's no consistent way to include all the breads of the world without including Western cakes too.

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jol 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

I think saying cake is bread is like saying scrambled eggs is an omelette.

CanadaPlus 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

Isn't it more like saying an omelette is scrambled eggs? And yes, actually, the only difference between a scramble and omelette is shape.

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jol 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

The ingredients used in both are also different. Don't have to be, but usually are.

CanadaPlus 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

Interesting. What would you expect in one but not the other? I can't think of anything, but it might be regional.

Plain scrambled eggs would be the scramble equivalent of a baguette with just flour, water and salt. An omelette loaded with things might be more like the cake.

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jol 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

Exactly. And there are sweet brrads like brioche that are almost cakes. And plain cakes like banana "bread". By point exactly is that scrambled eggs are more usually plain, and omelettes are more usually rich with other ingredients, but prepared differently, like how bread is kneaded but cake not.

CanadaPlus 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

I'd say cakes are all bread, but not all bread is cake. Likewise, I'd say omelettes are a type of egg dish, as are plain scrambled eggs, but not all egg dishes are one of those.

If you kept to Western cuisine you could argue bread as a distinct category both within "homogeneous baked goods" or something, but then ingera (for example) would probably end up being a cake, and that's not quite right. It's more important that bread include all solid grain-based staples the world over than that it exclude Western cake, IMO.

GrayBackgroundMusic 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

Yes. Flour, water, heat. That's it. Tortillas are bread. Cake is bread. Crackers are bread.

anon6789 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

As a general rule, I would see in a majority of cases that in a bread, gluten development is encouraged to provide a chewy texture. In a cake, you want to avoid gluten development to have a light and fluffy texture.

Special bread flours have high gluten content and cake flours have lower gluten for that reason.

Now we of course do have many exceptions, such as banana bread is low gluten and very sweet, while many biscuit recipes call for cake flour, but no one would call a biscuit a cake. In both those cases, I don't think you would like a banana bread or biscuit that has the strong gluten structure that a proper baguette has.

Cakes (especially something like donuts) can be yeast risen, and some breads like matzo or tortillas have no leavening, or breads can use chemical leavening like Irish soda bread.

GrayBackgroundMusic 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

If gluten is required, then gf bread isn't bread. But anyone who's eaten gf bread would call it bread. Different but still bread.

anon6789 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

I don't know if I've ever had GF bread, so I had to look up how it's made. I wondered how the bread would have the proper structure to rise without a gluten matrix, and it seems I was on to something. Reading up on it a bit, gums and starches are used to replace the function of the missing gluten. So while GF bread has no gluten, it's still made with a gluten replacement, and the same function is required for proper results.

If we change my qualifier to bread typically having a deliberately developed structural matrix with high elasticity, it covers wheat and GF breads. It still is fairly universal we want chewy breads and non-chewy cakes.

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GrayBackgroundMusic 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

bread typically having a deliberately developed structural matrix with high elasticity,

Cake fits into this, I'd say.

Jimmybander 6 months ago • kbin (AP)

These comments could be part of an episode of Qi.

Random Dent 6 months ago • ActivityPub

Maybe yeast is the thing?

In which case, cake isn't bread.

And also bread isn't bread, it's just a really thick beer.

But it doesn't have alcohol, so you'd need to add sugar.

Then beer is cake.

cerement 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

whole category of cakes are called “quick bread” (ex. banana bread) because they’re baked in a loaf pan (they get the name from the shape rather than the ingredients)

sylver_dragon 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

they get the name from the shape rather than the ingredients

I was under the understanding that the main difference was that quick breads used chemical leavening agents (e.g. baking powder) instead of yeast. Hence the "quick" in "quick bread". Wikipedia (always a source of unblemished truth /s) seems to agree with my understanding.

bread leavened with leavening agents other than yeast or eggs

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Nefara 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

Yep, Irish soda bread is a quickbread made from a dough with baking soda as the rising agent, and it is absolutely a bread, not a cake.

boatswain 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

It's much closer to a cake, really; it's a batter more than a dough. It's not sweet though, which is a defining factor for a lot of people.

Nefara 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

I'm not sure if you've tried making it but the recipes that I have tried all result in a dough that's capable of standing on its own as a boule. If you do an image search you can see a lot of images of Irish soda bread with X score marks baked in to their tops, which you couldn't make with a liquid batter.

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boatswain 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

When I make it it's much wetter than that and definitely needs to to poured into a bread pan. This is for Irish Brown Bread, not for the white flour soda bread with currants and whatnot.

Nefara 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

Here's a picture of the dough from a similar recipe to what I use

If you do a search for "Irish soda bread" you'll get almost all the same kind of pictures of X cut boules with some kind of add ins. Sounds like the brown bread is something different, but it's probably still yummy.

Traditional Irish Soda Bread - The Irishman's Wife

This traditional Irish soda bread recipe is an easy, rustic loaf of bread that you can prep and bake in under an hour. Winner!

^{Emma Lee (The Irishman's Wife)}

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Danie 6 months ago • friendica (AP) (via Diaspora)

6 myths about mechanical keyboards that are no longer true

A white keyboard showing some buttons with a blue background colour such as the backspace, home, pgup, pgdn, end, alt, fn, and ctrl. The enter and space keys have images on them like cottages set against a sea view.

For better or worse, the “mech keeb” community is still a niche one, so there are many more people outside of it than the ones in the know. So, a regular PC user might still have some misconceptions about mechanical keyboards that are far from the truth.

These myths range across all aspects of mechanical keyboards, from the look and feel to the sound and price. Perhaps the only silver lining we have is that most of these myths are super easy to debunk, so people don’t have an excuse to stay uninformed any longer.

It’s always interesting to me, no matter what the technology, so many people tend to get hung up about issues that existed when it launched, and those perceptions stubbornly persist. Yes you can buy really cheap membrane keyboards, but the experience is not the same, and a better keyboard is going to last you a long time. Both a keyboard and mouse are intensively used with a computer, so you may as well be a bit more discerning when choosing them. I’ve realised over time too that RGB colour lights are not the biggest thing (unless you want to set certain shortcut keys in their own colours) but I really do value backlit keys to see them clearer (I do visual typing not touch typing).

See xda-developers.com/mechanical-…
#Blog, #keyboards, #technology

#Technology #blog #Keyboards

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Greg A. Woods 6 months ago • diaspora

I tried a new ergonomic mechanical keyboard recently that I was quite excited by, but with my current desk a thicker keyboard was entirely unworkable. The thin profile of the Apple full-size desktop keyboards I've been using for the past few years win over all the other aspects. I think I've become quite attached to the short travel of chicklet keys too.

I do wish I could change/replace some of the keycaps though....

This is the one I tried:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keyboardio/the-model-01-an-heirloom-grade-keyboard-for-seriou
https://shop.keyboard.io

Ones I've looked at but not tried:

https://www.zsa.io/moonlander
https://trulyergonomic.com/ergonomic-keyboards/ (optical mechanical switches!!!)

Keyboardio: keyboards for people who love typing

Keyboardio makes the best looking, most comfortable ergonomic keyboards. We also sell switches and keycaps.

^Keyboardio

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Danie 6 months ago • friendica (AP) (via DFRN)

@Greg A. Woods that wood looks really great!

@Greg A. Woods

Warner Crocker 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Good morning. Blooms a bloomin’. #Summer #Photography #flowers #BloomScrolling #Chicago #Today

Close-up of a vibrant red zinnia flower with a yellow center, surrounded by colorful flowers and green foliage in a garden.

#photography #flowers #chicago #summer #today #bloomscrolling

Achyu 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

Which are you favorite non-English movies, series etc?

If not favorite, ones that touched you in some way.

I'll start by mentioning some movies from my mother tongue(Malayalam of Kerala, India):
* Mumbai Police
A crime thriller (Came out almost 2 decades ago n was very striking for the time)
* KammaraSambhavam
Political/Historic satire/drama (The main actor has some cases on him, but the movie is quite good)
* Kathavasheshan
* Devasuram
Conservative sigma male upper class Kerala dude getting character development. I really liked how the transformation happened in it
* Maheshinte Parthikaaram (Mahesh's Revenge)
Not an action movie.

From my country, but not in my mother tongue:
* Super Deluxe - A Tamil movie that I recently watched, quite unique
* Enthiran (Robot), a Tamil movie
Has over the top stuff, but is fun to watch
* Viduthalai(Liberation), another Tamil movie
* Agent Vinod - A Hindi spy-comedy movie

The anime that I like are Hunter x Hunter, Parasyte, Samurai Flamenco, Gintama.

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ditty 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

Cure (1997) is an absolutely mesmerizing film

unce 6 months ago • ActivityPub

I enjoyed Dark(German), Deutschland 83(German), and Gomorrah(Italian)

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Philote 6 months ago • ActivityPub

City of God, (Portuguese/Brazil)
One of my all time favorite movies period.
Gangster/Crime lord style movie about kids running the Favelas in Rio

Elite Squad 1 and 2 also (Portuguese/Brazilian)
Top notch Cop/shoot out movie really reinvigorated the Sicario and John Wick style films.

Oldboy (Korean)
The WTF twist is an early stand out of what the amazing Korean producers are now famously known for.

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CommissarVulpin 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

Joyeux Noel. It’s a French/German/English language film about the Christmas Truce during WW1. Very moving film in my opinion.

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ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

A tanú (The Witness) - Hungarian comedy of communism

Pronell 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

City of Lost Children, and to a slightly lesser extent, Delicatessen and Amelie, all directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

I've yet to see worldbuilding as effortless as it is in the first two movies.

Drop you in blind, explain nothing, get very weird, and tell a fantastic story.

Lemuria 6 months ago • ActivityPub

Pridyider, the Filipino movie about a haunted fridge. Haven't been able to find a copy of it in years unfortunately.

2012 film

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MicrowavedTea 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

There are many good thriller/horror movies in spanish.
* La piel que habito
* REC
* Los ojos de julia
* La cara oculta (I think this one's from Colombia)

Shutter is also a great Thai horror movie.

From my country Murderess (Φόνισσα - Greek) from last year is pretty impactful.

Truffle 6 months ago • ActivityPub

Have you watched "Historias para no dormir"?
It was series of Spanish horror movies, I think four or five. My favorite from that series was "La habitación del niño" such a good story! I am a horror buff and it is always refreshing to watch something that surprises me in a good way.

MicrowavedTea 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

Oh I hadn't heard of those, added to the watch list

Tiefling IRL 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

Does Pan's Labyrinth count?

SanguinePar 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

One more mention for Dark, absolutely the best thing on Netflix IMO.

Others:

Neuvas Rienas (9 queens) - an excellent Argentinian heist/scam film with quite a cool look. Like a mix of Ocean's Eleven (plotwise) and the Bourne films (visually).
Intacto - interesting Spanish movie about people who are able to steal others' luck. I could imagine Christopher Nolan doing an English language remake.
Le Havre - fun French film about an old man helping shelter a child who is in the country illegally. Very funny.
Akira - obviously
Ringu - original Japanese version. Terrifying.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - quite an obvious choice, but it absolutely blew me away when it came out.
The Killing - Danish TV show. Not seen the American remake, but the original is amazing
Oldboy - Korean movie, as above, remade, but I've only seen this. I suspect this one is better!
Godzilla Minus One - monsters! And the suffering of post WW2 Japan! Odd mix, but it works!
8 Femmes - very funny French murder mystery. Recently remade (pretty well) in Italian as 7 Women and a Murder.
Duet for Cannibals - very strange Swedish film I saw recently about two couples and some strange living/working arrangements.
Rashomon - classic Japanese movie, where we see the same event from 3 different perspectives
Taxi - brilliant French heist/crime/driving movie, with some superb car chases

So many more, but this list is getting too long!

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Zagorath 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

For a serious drama: Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources, a shockingly good pair of French films that start when an idealistic city dweller moves out to the countryside to start farming on some valuable land that the locals would rather went to them.

Much less seriously: Le Concert. A French comedy-drama about a Russian conductor forced out of his prestigious role after a falling out with the Soviet leadership, who many years later gets an opportunity to re-form his orchestra out of a rag-tag group who haven't played in years, and travel with them to Paris to give the eponymous concert, performing the same piece that he was conducting at the moment a KGB agent stormed in to strip him of his title. There are some more layers to it that give the movie some brilliant genuine heart, in addition to the hilarious hijinks of the premise.

I'll just add an extra one that doesn't really fit, but is kinda close. Death and the Maiden, by Ariel Dorfman. Doesn't fit both because it's a play rather than a movie or TV show, and because it might be originally English (I'm honestly not sure and have seen contrary answers about it—even in my copy of the play itself it's unclear, with references to the "world premiere" in England being after it "was staged and opened in...Chile"). But regardless of the original language, it's very much not from an anglo perspective, being written by a Chilean and set in post-Pinochet Chile (technically, it's described as being potentially any country post dictatorship, but it's primarily written for Chile). It's about a husband who accidentally welcomes into their home a man whom his wife swears was her warden and rapist while she was imprisoned by the dictatorial regime, and the play is all centred around "is she right, and will her husband believe her?"

withoutclass 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Just donated to #mastodonforharris, my first political donation in so long I can't even remember if I've ever donated to a political cause before now. Join us https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris

I just gave to Kamala Harris!

Show your support with a contribution.

^ActBlue

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Europe Says 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

https://www.europesays.com/1361088/ Matt Pottinger: “We are now in the foothills of a great-power hot war” #GeopoliticalAnalysis #GeopoliticalNews #geopolitics #Politics

Matt Pottinger: “We are now in the foothills of a great-power hot war” - EUROPE SAYS

Matt Pottinger: “We are now in the foothills of a great-power hot war” https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/geopolitics/2024/07/matt-pottinger-we-are-now-in-the-foothills-of-a-great-power-hot-war Posted by HooverInstitution

^{EUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)}

#Politics #Geopolitics #geopoliticalanalysis #geopoliticalnews

wuphysics87 6 months ago • ActivityPub

How Do You Handle Loud Neighbors?

My upstairs neighbors seem to like clog dancing at 2am. What would you do?

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wuphysics87 6 months ago • ActivityPub

Update: Thanks for the advice. Particularly, they may not realize they are loud. That was something I hadn't considered. I knocked on the door, and no one answered. I know someone is up there, because they walk like a dinosaur. Based on their steps during the day, I imagine they are quite heavy set, know how loud they walk, and could be embarrassed to open the door. I will try again later, and hopefully a positive update will follow.

But, if this turns into a game of noise, I have a solution: make them louder. I have access to an ultra sonics lab. They'll be loud enough I won't need to call in a noise compaint. The rest of the complex will come with torches and pitchforks. Though I believe this can be solved diplomatically.

Birds of the World 🌍🦜 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

🌎 Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco) #SouthAmericanbirds | #TocoToucan #Toucans | #BirdsOfTheWorld #BOTW #birds🦜

📷: Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco) by Nick115 via Pixabay 2018

The photo shows a large, striking (adult) bird with a predominantly black body, a white throat and chest, and red undertail feathers. Its most distinctive feature is its massive, colourful beak which is yellow-orange with a black base and tip. Two subspecies are recognized by the IOC World Bird List.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)

Distribution: Endemic to South America from the Guianas south to northern Argentina and Uruguay.

Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Ramphastidae
Genus: Ramphastos
Species: R. toco

CC: UORD

#birds #BotW #birdsoftheworld #southamericanbirds #tocotoucan #toucans

hungrythirstyhorny 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

i want to learn to negotiate, can you all give me some tips and how to learn to negotiate?

GissaMittJobb 6 months ago • ActivityPub

Read some books on the subject

Never Split the Difference might be appropriate. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion is a great read. Getting to Yes/Getting Past No may also be decent.

Understand "what kind of cards you're sitting on". Before that even happens, ensure that you have good cards

Concrete example: You're looking to increase your salary. You can do it either by convincing your current workplace to increase it, or you can look for a new job.

The cards you're sitting on: How valuable you are to the company, and how likely you are to leave if you don't get what you want.

How to improve your hand before you get to the negotiating table: Try getting some competing offers for jobs.

If you're the less experienced negotiator, avoid negotiating live

When negotiating salary for a new position, the recruiter likely has far more experience negotiating. They will know techniques to try to get you to commit to a lower number than is possible. To avoid this from happening, move negotiations from in-person/on the phone to email. Give yourself a lot of time to process all information.

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memeorandum 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Justice Kagan says there needs to be a way to enforce the Supreme Court's ethics code (Associated Press)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/justice-elena-kagan-enforcement-supreme-court-ethics-code-needed-rcna163756
http://www.memeorandum.com/240725/p94#a240725p94

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Tiffany Li 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I’ve been avoiding Southwest Airlines for years because I refuse to fight for a seat like it’s the last discount Panasonic on Black Friday at Walmart in 2005. Seems like I wasn’t the only one!

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/25/investing/southwest-airlines-assigned-seats

CNN screenshot: Live TV Business / Investing Southwest Airlines is getting rid of open seating By Chris Isidore, CNN Updated 2:05 PM EDT, Thu July 25, 2024 -Southwest f Southwest-com Daniel Slim/AFP/Getty Images A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 plane sits at gate at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The airline will start selling assigned seats for the first time in its history.

Today I learned 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

TIL workers at Gloucestershire Airport play Tina Turner songs at full volume to keep birds off of the runways.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_strike#Auditory_repellents
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ebtxyh/til_workers_at_gloucestershire_airport_play_tina/

#TIL #todayilearned

Old Man in the Shoe 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Bots don't do content warnings

lidd1ejimmy 6 months ago • ActivityPub

What are some good TV series crime/drama/thriller?

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Pandemanium 6 months ago • lemmy (AP)

The first four are remakes, but they're done very well.

Tokyo Vice

Shogun (not exactly a crime thriller but it will suck you in)

Ripley (shot like a black and white film from the 40's, good even if you've seen the Matt Damon movie)

Perry Mason

Yellowjackets

Altered Carbon

Big Little Lies

Nine Perfect Strangers

Dark Winds

If you like crime comedy, try White Lotus, Dead to Me, Search Party, Only Murders in the Building, Flight Attendant, and The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window.

lidd1ejimmy 6 months ago • ActivityPub

your a savior... my girlfriend will like the crime comedy ones so thanks for those!

Lisa Stranger 6 months ago • diaspora

I've never heard of this gal, which is probably a good thing... kids need their own culture

Kamala Harris May Have Locked Down The Gen Z Vote With This Pop Star's Endorsement

excitement about a potential Harris ticket appeared to reach a fever pitch when English singer Charli XCX weighed in online that evening.

Vouching for Harris with a reference to her latest studio album, “Brat,” the “365” singer took to X, formerly Twitter, to tell her 3.6 million followers, “Kamala IS brat.”

The tweet had reached over 30 million people by Monday afternoon.

Though the shout-out may have seemed snide to the uninitiated, dubbing Harris a “brat” was as strong an endorsement as ever for those in the know.

kamala IS brat

— Charli (@charli_xcx) July 22, 2024

The amount this single tweet may have just done for the youth vote is not insignificant. https://t[.]co/VyQQVZnKmE

— David Hogg 🟧 (@davidhogg111) July 22, 2024

Parts of the internet have been saturated with “Brat” references since the album came out in June, leading many to christen the season “Brat Summer.”

Political insiders who understood the reference used their platforms to stress how much sway Charli’s co-sign could have with young voters, who were feeling largely disaffected by the Biden vs. Donald Trump rematch.

When Gen-Z activist David Hogg weighed in, he posted, “The amount this single tweet may have just done for the youth vote is not insignificant.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/kamala-harris-may-locked-down-183026353.html

Kamala Harris May Have Locked Down The Gen Z Vote With This Pop Star's Endorsement

While Charli XCX may not be Taylor Swift-famous, her opinion might give young voters the green light to join Team Harris.

^{Kelby Vera (Yahoo News)}

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Lisa Stranger 6 months ago • diaspora

Slightly cynical-slash-sarcastic take here—but kids who vote this way are probably more likely to vote for the party that gives them rights and benefits, rather than culture-war shit

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Lisa Stranger 6 months ago • diaspora

Idiocracy is coming to pass, basically

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Melissa BearTrix 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

And done ... The earth has healed ... Well I'm blonde ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

Medea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀ 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

are you having more fun now ?

Melissa BearTrix 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@MishaVanMollusq

I always do my best to have fun ... You never know when it will end ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

@Medea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀

Lisa Stranger 6 months ago • diaspora

Pivot already, goddammit - Raw Story

As of July 21, 2024, the Biden/Harris administration has a definitive end date. It has been broken. This could well be the best thing in the long run, but at this very moment, but 22 hours from the split, NOBODY on earth knows for sure.

And the wolves will be at her door. You can already hear them. The despicable Joe Manchin came for her last night, and there will be other attention-seekers just like him, who tell us they know better than we do.

All I know right now is this: Vice President Harris has my full support.

I will be looking for the rainbow after this angry storm we’ve been through, but right now I am going to just sit with all that has happened, and let things be.

I’ll pivot in my own way, and on my own good time, thank you.

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/pivot/

backup: https://archive.ph/4d0pz

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Tom Grzybow 6 months ago • diaspora

Manchin seems to have made evil his life's work.

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Lisa Stranger 6 months ago • diaspora

I'm relieved that he was slapped down with due haste.

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Andrew (Television Executive) 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

At some point, when I was a kid, I latched on to the idea that being comfortable and satisfied was bad.

I used this as a drive to push myself to try new things and to reach higher goals, but also as an excuse to behave in self destructive ways.

Comfort isn't the enemy. Satisfaction and joy are good and healthy. Things can end, that's okay. Good, even.

If you, like me, bought this myth: consider being kind to yourself. That doesn't mean you have to stop growing, but it absolutely does mean you're allowed to enjoy what you have.

Andrew (Television Executive) 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Take a walk through the clouds. Reach out and become part of the sky.

Find the nearest true wilderness and spend a few hours in the middle of it.

Clean up someone else's mess.

Mx. Luna Corbden 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Have you heard Death Cab’s Foxglove Through the Clearcut? (Acoustic version is best)

Cleaning up someone else’s mess in the wilderness reminds me of that, the line “No one seems interested in fixing what they’ve broken, they just sweep the pieces into the bushes and slip away.”

Europe Says 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

https://www.europesays.com/1361059/ J.D. Vance Endorses a National Abortion Ban and Said It Is Necessary to Keep George Soros From Flying “Black Women” to California for Abortions #america #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #UsNews #usa #UsaNews #WeThePeople

J.D. Vance Endorses a National Abortion Ban and Said It Is Necessary to Keep George Soros From Flying “Black Women” to California for Abortions - EUROPE SAYS

J.D. Vance Endorses a National Abortion Ban and Said It Is Necessary to Keep George Soros From Flying…

^{EUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)}

#UnitedStates #USA #America #US #usnews #WeThePeople #unitedstatesofamerica #usanews

Today I learned 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

TIL that average human height went down from 5'10" (178 cm) for men and 5'6" (168 cm) for women to 5'5" (165 cm) and 5'1" (155 cm) 10,000 years ago and it took until the 20th century for average human height to match pre-Neolithic Revolution levels.

http://www.hormones.gr/127/article/article.html
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1eccjw6/til_that_average_human_height_went_down_from_510/

#TIL #todayilearned

Europe Says 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

https://www.europesays.com/1359066/ Russia is offering Moscow residents a record $22,000 to fight in Ukraine #Ukraine #UkraineConflict #Ukrainian #UkrainianConflict

#Ukraine #Ukrainian #UkraineConflict #ukrainianconflict

David August 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Tulsi Gabbard called Kamala Harris “the maidservant of Hillary Clinton, queen of the cabal of warmongers.” I’m really glad Tulsi is getting good use out of the “How to talk in a way to get people to ignore you” lessons she took.

#news #satire #parody #comedy #sketch #SketchComedy #TulsiGabbard #KamalaHarris #HillaryClinton #politics #political #USpolitics #USpol

#Comedy #News #Politics #Satire #political #parody #KamalaHarris #sketch #USPolitics #uspol #hillaryclinton #TulsiGabbard #sketchcomedy

OtownKim 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Tulsi is a nasty Russian asset!!

MAKS 24 👀🇺🇦 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

🇨🇳🤔 "Recently, Russian and Ukrainian sides have signaled that they are ready for negotiations. Although the conditions and time are not yet arrive, we support all efforts that promote peace," - Wang Yi

❗️ "We are ready to mediate in the organization of peace talks", he said.

Europe Says 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

https://www.europesays.com/1361056/ Harris, 20 Years Younger Than Trump, Leaves Republicans Scrambling To Escape Their Own ‘Too Old to Be President’ Trap #AnythingGoesNews #BreakingNews #GlobalNews #LatestNews #News #WorldNews

Harris, 20 Years Younger Than Trump, Leaves Republicans Scrambling To Escape Their Own 'Too Old to Be President' Trap - EUROPE SAYS

Harris, 20 Years Younger Than Trump, Leaves Republicans Scrambling To Escape Their Own ‘Too Old to Be President’…

^{EUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)}

#News #Worldnews #BreakingNews #latestnews #globalnews #anythinggoesnews

Melissa BearTrix 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I remember the days when we did a search and the top link was not an ad !

Hugz & xXx

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Jigme Datse 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@JamesK Just the right age...

@JamesK

Melissa BearTrix 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@JamesK @jigmedatse

Giggles ... Hugz

Hugz & xXx

@JamesK @Jigme Datse

LA Legault 🇨🇦 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

And that’s a wrap. 2 hours, $2M 💅 your turn, boys.

Flipboard Tech Desk 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

President Joe Biden is still running for re-election, Donald Trump wasn’t shot, and Kamala Harris is not a contender for the Democratic Party presidential nomination — that’s all according to ChatGPT as of yesterday, reports BGR.

We have seen multiple examples recently of why relying on AI to deliver accurate information is foolish at best, and dangerous at worst, but BGR asks whether we should really be expecting more from technology we are so often told is close to “human-level intelligence.”

https://flip.it/Etnof-

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Chatbot #ChatGPT #LLM

From the Trump shooting to Kamala’s campaign, AI chatbots struggle to keep up with the news

The AI chatbots that we're constantly told are getting closer to human-level intelligence, for some reason, struggle to keep up with news.

^{Andy Meek (BGR)}

#ai #artificialintelligence #Chatbot #chatgpt #llm

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Chewie 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

well, it does clarify it further down.

Maybe to "be shot" in AI land the bullet has to penetrate?

Chewie 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

it's it because you have to pay for more recent datasets?

But yes, that is not obvious, and should be showing as a massive disclaimer.

Lisa Stranger 6 months ago • diaspora

gods this guy is a pig

Elon Musk Causes Uproar With 'My Son Xavier Is Dead' Remark

"And so I lost my son, essentially. So, you know, they, they call it deadnaming for a reason. Alright. So the the reason it's called deadnaming is because your son is dead. So my son Xavier is dead, killed by the woke mind virus."

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/elon-musk-causes-uproar-son-201533796.html

Elon Musk Causes Uproar With 'My Son Xavier Is Dead' Remark

Elon Musk got emotional while recalling his daughter's transition, a change he claims he was deceived into authorizing.

^{Afouda Bamidele (Yahoo Entertainment)}

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Lisa Stranger 6 months ago • diaspora

That's at least his 2nd kid with an X name... he is obsessed with X

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Michael Fenichel 6 months ago • diaspora

It marks his spot. Somewhere between #Muskville and the land of #TrumpVirus.

#trumpvirus #Muskville

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逢凶化吉顺利摸鱼 :verified_misskey_mi: 6 months ago • misskey (AP)

一口气买了3张话剧票，感觉好爽

Lisa Stranger 6 months ago • diaspora

second hoax for him in a month... but let's talk about Biden's mental capacity

GOP senator falls for sexually explicit Jimmy Carter death hoax

Lee posted an image of a fake letter purporting to be from the Office of Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, announcing the ex-president's death.

One look at the letter's contents, however, would have immediately indicated that it was fake.

The letter listed "getting soft on the Soviet Union" and "failing to rescue several hostages from Iran" as among Carter's "significant foreign policy achievements."

The letter also quoted Carter as making lewd sexual references to both his late wife Rosalynn and former First Lady Nancy Reagan.

"Rosalynn was a baddie. Jill, Melania, even throat goat Nancy Reagan had nothing on Rosalynn," the letter falsely quoted Carter as saying. "She was the original Brat. She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it."

Spokespeople for Lee did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

This isn't the first time, even this month, that Lee has fallen for an online hoax.

On July 5, Lee spread an unverified and ultimately false report that President Joe Biden was suffering a medical emergency on Air Force One.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-senator-falls-sexually-explicit-161140922.html

GOP senator falls for sexually explicit Jimmy Carter death hoax

The fake letter announcing Jimmy Carter's death quoted the 39th president as calling his wife a "baddie" and the "original Brat."

^{Bryan Metzger (Yahoo News)}

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frater chaos 6 months ago • diaspora

hey now, give the guy a break already... the competition to take over Louis Gohmert's place as the dumbest person in government is very stiff...

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Lisa Stranger 6 months ago • diaspora

meanwhile back on the hill, he's running a perennial dead fish up the flagpole—yet another bill to end home rule for DC, as if they aren't already taxed without representation

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Steve Silberman 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Current status of the Trump campaign: Shitting his pants in a brown flood down both legs.

TRUMP VANCE MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! 2024- July 25, 2024- Trump Campaign Statement on General Election Debates "Given the continued political chaos surrounding Crooked Joe Biden and the Democrat Party, general election debate details cannot be finalized until Democrats formally decide on their nominee. There is a strong sense by many in the Democrat Party - namely Barack Hussein Obama - that Kamala Harris is a Marxist fraud who cannot beat President Trump, and they are still holding out for someone 'better.' Therefore, it would be inappropriate to schedule things with Harris because Democrats very well could still change their minds."

OtownKim 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

😂😂😂😂

Lisa Stranger 6 months ago • diaspora

when the leopards eat the chief leopard's face... you love to see it

'U lost my vote': Trump's fans respond to his latest statement with criticism and bigotry - Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-u-lost-my-vote-dearborn-michigan-police/

backup: https://archive.ph/wPKZ0

'U lost my vote': Trump's fans respond to his latest statement with criticism and bigotry

Donald Trump has said he could shoot a person in the middle of the street and not lose voters, but he lost at least some after a recent statement that appears to be an attempt to woo disaffected swing-state Muslims.

^{David McAfee (Raw Story - Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Journalism)}

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frater chaos 6 months ago • diaspora

"Back the Blue" (unless he's brown)

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Lisa Stranger 6 months ago • diaspora

or unless they're keeping you from hanging Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi

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Ed Wilk of America! 🇺🇦🌵 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

https://apnews.com/article/boneless-chicken-wings-lawsuit-ohio-supreme-court-231002ea50d8157aeadf093223d539f8

Chicken wings advertised as 'boneless' can have bones, Ohio Supreme Court decides

The Ohio Supreme Court says consumers can't expect boneless chicken wings to actually be free of bones.

^{MICHAEL RUBINKAM (AP News)}

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Ed Wilk of America! 🇺🇦🌵 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@12thRITS Gotta have a good char.

@Lot⁴⁹

glasspshr 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@12thRITS

Not just for steel anymore!

@Lot⁴⁹

Europe Says 6 months ago • mastodon (AP)

https://www.europesays.com/1361030/ Harris says she ‘will not be silent’ about humanitarian toll in Gaza #america #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #UsNews #usa #UsaNews #WeThePeopleOfTheUnitedStates

Harris says she 'will not be silent' about humanitarian toll in Gaza - EUROPE SAYS

Harris says she ‘will not be silent’ about humanitarian toll in Gaza https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/nx-s1-5048285/harris-gaza-war Posted by Thetimmybaby

^{EUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)}

#UnitedStates #USA #America #US #usnews #unitedstatesofamerica #usanews #wethepeopleoftheunitedstates

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Kamala Harris May Have Locked Down The Gen Z Vote With This Pop Star's Endorsement

Pivot already, goddammit - Raw Story

Elon Musk Causes Uproar With 'My Son Xavier Is Dead' Remark

GOP senator falls for sexually explicit Jimmy Carter death hoax

​'U lost my vote': Trump's fans respond to his latest statement with criticism and bigotry - Raw Story

'U lost my vote': Trump's fans respond to his latest statement with criticism and bigotry - Raw Story