Counterpoint: Every developer should have to test their app on a machine with 1 GB of RAM and a dialup modem before inflicting their bloat on the rest of the world.
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•North America contains some of the longest continuous deciduous forest records on the planet.English
18·9 days agoThe labs that are being “relocated” are next to the forests that they study. How the fuck do you study forests from a central headquarters in Utah?
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•North America contains some of the longest continuous deciduous forest records on the planet.English
9·9 days agoIt’s “just a reorg” where they shut down all the research labs (which can’t be moved because they’re located by the forests they study) and hand leadership to pro-logging lobbyists.
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•North America contains some of the longest continuous deciduous forest records on the planet.English
28·9 days agoThey’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees called “state directors,” embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more, protect less, and get out of the way.
https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•North America contains some of the longest continuous deciduous forest records on the planet.English
23·9 days agoThey’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees called “state directors,” embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more, protect less, and get out of the way.
https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•North America contains some of the longest continuous deciduous forest records on the planet.English
24·9 days agoThey’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees called “state directors,” embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more, protect less, and get out of the way.
https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263
Suffer not the abominable intelligence to live.
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Fuck AI•Target Warns That If Its AI Shopping Agent Makes an Expensive Mistake, You'll Have to Pay for ItEnglish
11·14 days agoEntertainment purposes only.
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196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•the pancake battles rule onwards [OC, brainmade]English
51·21 days agoYou’ve made some pancake batter, but you’re missing some key steps (e.g., pour into hot pan, flip, serve) before you have any pancakes.
Just show them the graph. Can’t argue with hard data.

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Fuck AI•The AI Company Zuckerberg Just Poured $14 Billion Into Is Reportedly a Clown Show of Ludicrous IncompetenceEnglish
82·29 days ago“It’s not about the money. It’s about sending a message.” -Mark “Not the Joker” Zuckerberg
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Games•I started playing WH40k Rogue Trader and I'm digging it, but I know virtually nothing of Warhammer. Any super basic world info I should know going in?English
11·1 month agoIn short, there’s increasing hints that the “greater good” espoused by the Ethereals (i.e., the Tau’s mysterious leadership caste) may actually be a cover for a lot of mind control and eugenics.
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Games•I started playing WH40k Rogue Trader and I'm digging it, but I know virtually nothing of Warhammer. Any super basic world info I should know going in?English
151·1 month agoYou’ve got the important foundational elements. The other big event is the Horus Heresy, where about half of the Emperor’s sons fell to Chaos and started a huge civil war that left the Emperor in his current half-dead state, but the imperial bureaucracy keeps on chugging.
The other thing to keep in mind is that the world of Warhammer 40k has been evolving over decades of novels, tabletop games, and video games made by multiple authors. As a result, the canon is vast and occasionally self-contradictory.
If you want to know more, I highly recommend the Ciaphas Cain books (novels with a comedy streak) and a silly fan series called If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech device.
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En panne de sens@jlai.lu•Peter Thiel is actively convincing billionaires to abandon The Giving Pledge — and it may be workingEnglish
31·1 month agoYou’re thinking of the good timeline, not here.
Strictly speaking, there are also do-not-angles.
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politics •Republicans resist calls for Iran war hearings, creating a new standoff with DemocratsEnglish
17·1 month agoThe best time to repeal the 1973 War Powers Resolution was decades ago. The second best time is now.










OK, now explain why you can’t find a decent ISP in a major American city. (That’s right, it’s because of monopolies and enshittification.)