One thing about Illinois, when a delivery person comes around, they pound on the door like they are a SWAT team about to bust down.
In Iowa, "knock loud" means knock slightly louder than a butterfly's wings caressing a summer morning's mist.
There is a reason all of my delivery notes say "Pound on the door like the drums of Mordor" but I have never, in twenty-something years, gotten anything more than a elf's delicate tapping against the wood.
Why? Well, consider an app that is known to introduce (even if temporarily sometimes), quirky accessibility bugs. Now imagine that same app shoehorning updates each time you launch and you cannot downgrade if it breaks. Then, imagine if when you complained, you got redirected to the metaphorical recycle bin chat bot thingy that tells you to reinstall the app and have a good day. Pair this up with accessibility quirks that have existed for years at this point, and you get an idea of how valued you are as a customer. Finally, the icing on the shitcake: imagine that while all of this happens, you get random popups or elements on screen that beg you to pay a monthly subscription, or show ads for promoted games and content. In your chat app.
I don't get the impression of, "We really care about you and hope you have the best experience possible." Instead, I imagine them being like, "Well, suck it up. We've got the monopoly and all your friends, so you're just gonna deal with it anyway. That makes us money. We might fix it later."
Huawei enters the GPU market with 96 GB VRAM GPU under 2000 USD, meanwhile NVIDIA sells from 10,000+ (RTX 6000 PRO)
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A subtoot that's more like a supertoot:
If you are not opposing card-carrying fascists at this point in some way shape or form, your compliance is tacit endorsement.
If you are a technologist who is not considering how the systems you build might be weaponized, you are culpable when they are.
I realize in accessing certain spaces, this stance is disqualifying. Consider: If you need to discard your integrity and sense of human decency, what is behind that door that could possibly be worth it?
How not to be a social-democrat in one easy step.
#spd #bas #bürgergeld #inflation
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Soziales - Bericht: Arbeitsministerin Bas (SPD) plant erneute Nullrunde beim Bürgergeld
Das Bürgergeld wird nach der Nullrunde in diesem Jahr einem Bericht zufolge auch im kommenden Jahr nicht erhöht.Die Nachrichten
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@nilz selbst wenn diese Kürzungen nicht zu vermeiden wären, müsste die Kommunikation eine ganz andere sein. Das ist als ob sich Habeck hingestellt hätte und gesagt hätte "tüdelü Flüssiggasterminals" und dann wäre er wieder im Ministerium verschwunden.
Hier wird gar nicht argumentiert und einfach Härten angedroht, weil Haushalt. Aber man weiß jetzt schon, dass das nichts bringt. Also bleibt nur übrig, dass man arme Menschen hasst.
a "crypto hack protection protocol" getting hacked is a perfect encapsulation of #crypto
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#infosec #cybersecurity #threatintel #CozyFinance #defi #tornadoCash #Optimism
Brief Frontline Report – August 30th, 2025
Report by Marat Khairullin and Mikhail Popov.Zinderneuf (Marat Khairullin Substack)
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Mike Johnson Blames “Human Heart” for Gun Violence, Not Firearms
Comparative evidence suggests otherwise: the scale of violence follows access, not abstract morality.The Intellectualist
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#Esel, #donkeys, #animals, #Wildpark, #Anholter_Schweiz, #Anholt, #Isselburg, #Münsterland
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The story of John Smeaton and the Eddystone lighthouse by Anonymous
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
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Pianeti che collassano in buchi neri: nuova ipotesi inquietante
Un nuovo studio apre scenari inaspettati per lo studio della materia oscura e per il destino dei pianeti gassosi.Everyeye Tech
#CAQ #Legault #Quebec #Canada #PublicPrayer #Secularism #ReligiousFreedom #NotwithstandingClause #ReligiousRights #SocialTension #Politics #ReligiousSymbols #Bill21 #PublicSpace #ControversialLaw
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Quebec to ban public prayer amid secularism push | The-14
Quebec plans to ban public prayer this fall, sparking criticism over religious freedoms. The law may also expand bans on school and daycare symbols.The 14 (The-14)
“Elon Musk has been communicating with the organisers of some far-right groups behind the campaign. He’s even considering funding it.”
This is, unfortunately, quite believable.
If it happens, the best way to flip it on its head is to say: "Thanks for supporting the England women's rugby team's World Cup efforts" (per Billy Bragg)
Battlefield 6 dev apologizes for requiring Secure Boot to power anti-cheat tools
Amid player complaints, EA says 330,000 cheaters were stopped in beta’s first two days.
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Secure boot won't let your kernel be modified though.
Their anti cheat software just makes sure that you haven't tampered with the kernel at all. It just monitors for any changes after the system has booted.
It does not modify your kernel.
Errico Malatesta – La tattica elettorale
@anarchia
Il terreno comune su cui si incontrano i borghesi, che cercavano di corrompere, e quei socialisti, che cercavano di essere corrotti, fu l’urna elettorale. Né il danno sarebbe stato grande, ma i traditori, gli ambiziosi e gli stanchi riuscirono purtroppo...
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Errico Malatesta – La tattica elettorale
Il terreno comune su cui si incontrano i borghesi, che cercavano di corrompere, e quei socialisti, che cercavano di essere corrotti, fu l'urna elettorale.Libertà è Partecip/Azione Diretta (Rivoluzione Anarchica)
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“How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?
Agitation over the New York mayoral race is on full blast in the Hamptons, where many of the city’s wealthiest residents congregate in August.”
What does the decision to do this story tell you about The NY Times editorial posture?
MOM: my child is trans
MAGA: We must examine their genitals!
MAGA: We'll ban pronouns!
MAGA: I'm outlawing gender affirming care!
MAGA: Let's remove all LGBTQ books!
MAGA: We must deny them bathroom access!
MAGA: We can make it illegal for them to play sports!
MOM: My child was shot at school
MAGA: there is no legislative fix for this.
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Stay safe, and have a nice day 😀
#Mastodon #scammer #TechHub
Bad days do not define me ✍️
I chose to show up today and not let yesterday define me. #blaugust2025
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Bad days do not define me ✍️
I chose to show up today and not let yesterday define me. #blaugust2025gobino's bites
The size of the current global sea-ice volume departure is near record levels, with thinner than average ice found in both the #Arctic and #Antarctic.
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Global: Sea-Ice Concentration/Extent/Thickness
Near real-time visualizations [Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability] [Arctic Sea-Ice Extent and Concentration] [Arctic Sea-Ice Volume and Thickness] [Arctic Temperatures] [Antarctic Sea-Ice E…Zachary Labe
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Maybe USA is not the place to have the UN building anymore then.
US denies visas to Palestinian Authority leaders for UN general assembly
Step comes when France is leading a push to recognise Palestinian state after Israel’s unyielding bombing of GazaJason Burke (The Guardian)
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#zxspectrum #retrogaming #vintagecomputing #8bit #z80
"The revolution will not be in your feed. Seize the tools of liberation so that we might cast off the yoke of our oppression"
Poster seen in San Francisco, California
TikTok suspends its live feature for the next few days in Indonesia, citing increasing violence in protests over lawmakers pay
In response to the protests, social media app TikTok said Saturday it had temporarily suspended its live feature for "a few days" in Indonesia, where it has more than 100 million users.
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As a leading global news agency, AFP offers quality multimedia content in video, text, photo and graphics in six languages and now reaches North American audiencesUS AFPNews
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The post „Extremismusprävention“: Prien verteidigt Mittelaufstockung für „Demokratie leben!“ appeared first on Apollo News. #news #press
„Extremismusprävention“: Prien verteidigt Mittelaufstockung für „Demokratie leben!“ - Apollo News
Die Bundesregierung will das Programm „Demokratie leben!“ deutlich ausweiten: Für 2025 sind 191 Millionen Euro eingeplant, 2026 sollen es fast 200 Millionen sein. Prien verteidigt das Vorgehen nun in einem Brief.Jonas Aston (Apollo News)
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This is another core reason why #Lemmy and #Piefed are better than #Reddit.
On Reddit, if a head mod of a major subreddit goes toxic or starts power-tripping, the community is stuck. That mod only got control because they lucked into claiming a name like r/movies or r/pics first—and now they hold the keys.
On the #Fediverse, it doesn’t work that way. If people don’t like !movies@lemmy.world, they can move over to !movies@piefed.social. Even if lemmy.world is the biggest Lemmy server, it has no monopoly on access.
And that’s exactly what happened. People voted with their feet. Which is why !movies@piefed.social is now the most active movie community on the Fediverse.
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D. Moonfire
in reply to D. Moonfire • • •I don't like most elves. They are annoying, whiney, and delicate but somehow always "perfect".
I used to like them as a teenager, but closer to my fifties, I appreciate orcs and goblins a hell of a lot more. (And once I explained about troglodytes, I'm discouraged from calling the kids those despite it being accurate.)
The Poison Elves comic and Anne Logston's Shadow are two exceptions.