diffusive @ diffusive @lemmy.world

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Votes. People vote with emotions and fear is one of the most powerful emotion.

This is for giving the various people scared by a world where there are (and will be) more and more deadly diseases (due to intensive farming and whatnots) a simple, reassuring and deadly wrong answer: it’s all a big conspiracy theory for big pharma to make money and for the government to control your brain and Bill Gates to steal your top candy crush score.

This is the same technique at work with economy btw: economy is scary and complex…here a simple answer “Trump will fix it because he is rich so he understands money”

Democrats talk to rationality (and sometimes rationality crosses emotions e.g. with abortions rights), Republicans talk to emotions, where facts, interests, justice doesn’t matter

Do you realise that we are years (decades?) away from viable open source hardware? You likely use a closed source processor with closed source chipset, GPU and closed source ram. And these are the building blocks, then you have the closed source integrations of these blocks

Same applies to fitness watches. Garmin happens to be one of the best (if not the best) hardware for the purpose, with a decent (not great, just decent) software that is very closed source and very closed in interoperability.

You may say to vote with the wallet… but where? Apple that is even more closed and restrictive? Huawei that deserves its own ethical discussion?

I haven’t looked into Suunto and Polaris but I would be shocked if they were dramatically different since this is their business, selling api and integrations

There is a reason states don’t have military 😉

I really don’t think their goal is consumers.

Sure they want consumers to use generative AI so that they get quality feedback so they can improve the product. But that is not the goal.

The goal is enterprises, the goal is replacing workers with AI.

There are estimations that around 300B$ have spent so far for generative AI. This is not for a gadget that close to no-one likes and burns money rather than make money

This is for removing humans from the productive cycle. It is such an ambitious goal that the various CEOs/shareholders are ok taking such an high risk gamble.

Trump will ditch any red tape to AI because Trump openly wants this world, a world where there isn’t any more the need for immigrants or workers or unions.

My ingenuity suggests me that this plan will fail on technical grounds but if it will not, it will be worse. There will be poverty and civil unrest, there will be instability and wars (it’s always easier to look for the enemy outside rather than inside) and, in the end, economy will not do great either (who will buy the crap people will produce?)

Again, I think that this plan will fail on technological grounds but removing red tapes will not accelerate this failure

In the game of nukes you don’t really need many.

You can destroy the world just so many times.

The rest is just for showing who has it bigger (the arsenal)

For a bit of context: the house of Bourbon - Two sicilies has no land for 150 years. They used to rule the south of Italy but after the Italian “unification” (or conquest) they got kicked out and have no real power.

While this may still be a conflict of interest since I am pretty sure they are still filthy rich and they may have economic interests in the US. But there is no foreign power interference here since there is no foreign power 🙂

It’s a mechanism that is compulsory in EU (and nearby countries like Switzerland).

When you try to spend money online (without the plastic card), you need a second factor. In practice in, let’s say, Amazon there is an iframe with a page of your bank that asks to confirm the operation on the banking app or insert the code they sent you by SMS or things like that

This was at page 1 of Google search last year.

Now at page 1 there is “the best lidar laser of 2025 (updated) (tested) (for real) (DivX)

For this reason there is the “it’s antisemitic to criticise this war”

Heck even Jews have been accused to be antisemitic for criticising Israel.

We live in a post-facts era

Sadly it’s not like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statelessness

Canada, for example, withdraw the citizenship to children of Canadians that haven’t lived at least 1 year in Canada before 18yo

If you lived in the medieval, would you have rooted for the apocalypse?

Dude, have you read the article? this is from an article on Nature.

Nature! Not the flat earth society scientific newsletter.

For publishing on Nature it is necessary that a number of the most well reputed experts in the field have peer reviewed the article.

By modern standard of “science”, publishing on Nature or Science is the closest to get to “consensus”.

I see your point in some newspapers articles but this is not one of that cases

This quote is not true (see this article for further details).

But even if it was it would mean something different. In Italian “corporazioni” are not “corporations” (corporations are “grandi aziende”). Corporazioni are organisations of people doing a specific work. For example masons could have their own Corporazione (they don’t, Mussolini created the “ordini” but mainly for professions so for example even today for being an engineer you must register with the engineers corporazione).

Assuming that quote was true and assuming the translation was somehow literal (hard to say without an original text) it would mean that state and productive sector should collaborate (for the greatness of the nation likely, given his kind of speeches).

Also, Fascism was definitely not capitalism. Mussolini imposed in the board of the directors of every large company one member of the Fascist party. This for controlling their behaviour and making sure that they were aligned with the fascist agenda. Not exactly freedom (it was never their point) but not unchecked power of the corporations either.

What would you hash, though? The name? The SSN? These are all know plaintexts…

If you want to de-anonymise a vote with any of these you just make a rainbow table of all voters.

Do you add salt? But now salt becomes a secret… how does the secret is picked? Someone centrally? Back to rainbow table. Everyone picks one? Then the voters has to write the hash… at that point there is no benefit with an unique id that is not really anonymous

How is the weather in the troll farms?

Cool, and after the parents fail… is it fair to punish the child?

Yes, and if the parents are unable to feed them, what is the next step? “Sorry buddy, next life pick a richer family”

No more Islamophobia if there aren’t Islamic people any more 🤷‍♂️ /s

This was orange juice not coca cola zero (the headline is misleading)

If i have to guess the gymnic was that they add zero additional sugar (but oranges still have sugar).

While I hate these misleading names and i am in favour of this kind of actions; i suspect diabetic people are familiar with this BS and would have read the nutrition facts

IMO is because Russia is a pariah now. It’s the same rationale that made Putin endorse Harris.

It’s the same narrative “we, the GOP, are against Russia… see? Putin endorses Harris. See? They fabricated a lie that Trump gave tests to Russia. Because Russia is afraid of the GOP”