You might not give a shit but the American elections are going to have a huge impact no matter where you live. It’s world news. And yeah there’s a lot of nonsense news about the US elections but there’s plenty of nonsense news elsewhere too. Why not start a lemmy community specifically about non-US news if you feel that’s lacking?

I think this is exactly what I’d like to change about Lemmy’s culture, the same thing that happened (more extreme) to Reddit.

The guy above you made a stupid remark. Then you come along and say to yourself “I bet I can out-asshole this guy, let me write something equally asinine and insulting, that will raise the level of this discussion” The same lame brained tit-for-tat bullshit that destroys our political debate.

They did a surprisingly good job with Urusei Yatsura, will be fun to see this one.

Taiwan is incredibly pro-US, one of our staunchest allies in Asia, together with Japan. Great idea pissing them off.

Show the actual use case in a convincing way and people will line up around the block. Generating some funny pictures or making generic suggestions about your calendar won’t cut it.

Same. I keep hearing folks mention this but it’s not like AI developers aren’t aware of this (apart from a bunch of shitty startups that would fail no matter what) One way to deal with it for example is Microsoft is shelling out so much for “pre-AI” datasets (Reddit) but I’m sure there’s a lot more of those kinds of initiatives.

Google on the other hand is going to be hard pressed to deal with the ever increasing deluge of AI spam.

Some company decided to change their logo because it looks dated and might give the wrong impression. How is this even a problem?

As for liberals causing problems, yeah maybe they go a bit too far some times and can be over sensitive. But the other side is literally trying to take us back to theocracy, where women only have the rights their husbands will allow them. They’re not even pretending otherwise any more. I’ll take oversensitive over that any day.

And… “our guy is also the literal second coming of Chirst”

The problem isn’t the user experience, same as with Amazon, it’s the abusive relationship the company has with its employees. That it deliberately tries to avoid labor laws that protect workers via legal technicalities.

We do this in Ruby all the time, we just prefer methods over variables, usually.

def authorized?
  current_user&.authorized?
end

I think by far the best thing we can do for the climate is obsess over all the things the previous generations did wrong. This dad saving money for his child’s future is obviously an evil moron. Thank god we’re so much better than those idiots.

My girlfriend lies on my right arm, so she’s on the right side of the bed and I’m on the left.

This one paid off. Read the interviews given by mr Arbaugh. Musk is an ego-driven maniac, you won’t get any argument from me. But as a result a bunch of scientists got more funding than they normally would for this project that gave great joy and some measure of independence to a young quadriplegic, maybe with more to follow.

You want to hate on Musk? I’ll happily join you. But if you’re one of those assholes rooting against these doctors and scientists doing ground breaking work with Musk’s money, that’s a pretty terrible take.

She’s so relatable. Especially the part where she said “ERROR ERROR ERROR”. Who hasn’t had a morning like that?

Wel te verwachten van rechts, de vrije pers so veel mogelijk dwarsbomen. Ik lees al maanden reacties van PVVers dat alle het nieuws waar ze het niet mee eens zijn “staatspropaganda” zou zijn.

Hired goons?

Lone voice of reason being drowned out by the baying mob. Thanks for trying.

Playing the republicans’ game doesn’t give us a chance to win. It ends up in the board getting flipped and that, in the end, is what they want.

No one said that here. You’re just reducing the conversation to an idiotic meme, just like the two “representatives” in this case are doing. Just shouting bullshit at each other and thinking that makes you smarter because you got the last word. Well newsflash, this doesn’t solve anything. It just strokes your own goddamn stupid ego “my zinger was better than hers” which is absolute moronic stupidity.

Yes, Biden is better than Trump. But both sides do seem absolutely intent on a race to the bottom and we’re gleefully cheering on our side to get there first. No one is trying to be the better person. Obama kind of did and we flamed him to hell for trying, he was too civil and tried too much to compromise, right? Beating the republicans at their own game is never going to happen. Just by getting us to play their game they win.

I can appreciate that sentiment but at the same time it’d be hard to swallow if I were Ukrainian and the Russians were at this very moment killing my countrymen while my ally invites them over for tea. It’s one thing to let go of the past, quite another to let go of the present.