I don’t think so. I think they’ll either use it for very benign tasks or they’ll get a LOT of people killed.

I had no idea that doves could so obviously express excitement! So cool! Much more personality than I expected!

If these aren’t microplastics, what are?

“Micro” just means “small” in this case and doesn’t mean “microscopic” or have anything to do with “micrometer”.

The definition of “microplastic” according to NOAA: “Microplastics are small plastic pieces less than five millimeters long”.

This kind of thing is intended to draw outrage away from the other horrible things that he’s actually doing. If they talk about things that everyone agrees are insane, then back off, they spread the outrage around and get less pushback on their real agenda.

Anyway, that’s my theory.

I highly doubt that Amazon is dumb enough to ask people to volunteer their time for free. There are way tooany ways that ends in lawsuits. HR and the lawyers would put a stop to that faster than you can say “wage theft”.

I’ve worked jobs where, at times of peak business, office staff were asked to volunteer for paid shifts rather than hire more people for a very short time. It’s not weird or malicious, it’s fairly normal.

“Volunteer” doesn’t always imply “work for free”.

You know, I get it, they’re probably just an asshole. Maybe they’re having an emergency, though. How about just letting them get around in case there is a good reason for driving recklessly? Or maybe just in case they’re nuts enough to make things violent?

The people doing this understand the consequences and see the as goals.

I love when people say “ackchyually you’re wrong” without offering an alternative.

So, NYC gets about $100B in federal funds annually. I wonder how much they pay in taxes to the federal government. I’d bet they pay more than they get.

How would I set this kind of thing up? Mainly, where can I find the lists? I can probably sort out the DNS settings.

I’m 90% sure that when they said “you yourself”, they actually were referring to Newsom, not to the commenter. I can see how the comment could be taken either way though.

Okay, I didn’t look at the image closely enough. Yes, definitely AI. The knobs look like they’re melting. The buttons are all off-kilter. Non of the text is actual text, just AI blurs.

Everyone is saying it’s a washer. Couldn’t it be a gas dryer? The combination makes a little sense if they’re both gas appliances. Maybe many apartments only have one gas line and this is the easiest and cheapest way to install a dryer. Add it where there is already gas for the stove.

Thank you for providing the extra context. That’s very helpful.

Google and Meta have absolutely had this capability for ages.

I aliased cd to a custom funtion in my bashrc to do this at one point, but cd ../../../.. is too engrained so I never rembered to use it.

I’m guessing that, if it is, they’re keeping anonymous.

My first question was "what is the Alt National Park Service? ". Here’s the blurb from their front page.

The Alt National Park Service (AltNPS) was a movement that began around the time of the inauguration of President Donald Trump in January 2017. After the Trump administration imposed restrictions on the communications of various federal agencies, including the National Park Service, unofficial “rogue” or “alternative” social media accounts emerged. These accounts, which included the AltNPS, aimed to communicate scientific facts, environmental concerns, and information about climate change that they felt were being suppressed or underemphasized by the official channels.

The AltNPS specifically emerged as a response to the Trump administration’s temporary suspension of the National Park Service’s Twitter account after it had retweeted images comparing the crowd size at Trump’s inauguration to that of former President Barack Obama’s.

While it’s important to note that the AltNPS was not an official branch of the National Park Service, it gained a significant following and served as a platform for discussion on environmental issues, climate change, and the importance of protecting national parks and public lands.

Source

Everything about this seems dystopian… That banner, though is icing on the cake…

I used fakespot a lot. It used huristics to attempt to determine how authentic a product’s reviews are. It analyzed the reviews for things like repeated phrases, odd review activity like bragading, and other things. It then gave a letter grade to the veracity of the reviews and an “adjusted” aggregate review score after removing any reviews that it considered to be suspicious.

I’m going to miss fakespot. I don’t know how accurate it was but it definitely informed my decisions.