Bill Clinton named an airport after Ronald Reagan, the guy who fired something like 10,000 FAA air traffic controllers for wanting to strike.

Biden told the rail road engineers who were almost literally begging to be treated like human beings they couldn’t strike, here’s more money you don’t have any time to spend, and kiss my ass because “I am the pro-union” president. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_railroad_labor_dispute

Newsom pushed through a age verification law. How can that work unless it is a national login page? Reddit, imgur, lemmy/piefed, and pretty much everything else would require a digital bouncer at the door because none of this is designed to keep a tiny fraction of the countries total population from being psychologically scared like all the rest of us have been.

Establishment Democrats have been enabling the Republicans for decades.

fuck yeah! Anyone else want to go to DC and follow the national guard around blasting Cellswellers version of the imperial march. Willing to split the settlement money 60:40!

just need to hang on for a bit longer and when AMOC fails the heat waves will be a much lower priority! \s

Identity management and security.

So this username is DevDave but hilariously there are about five (down from seven) different David’s fighting over this handle. It’s hilarious because as soon as one of us signs up with this handle to a new service, we send a friend invite to the others as a not to subtle “First!” with both middle fingers. Yes it does narrow things down from ~8 billion to five, but since we are all in tech and are interweaving its hard to know who is actually who and it creates an interesting level of chaos. Otherwise this my random bullshit account and I don’t type anything here I wouldn’t say out loud in public.

The others are more isolated/specific due to reasons.

This is my third account in the piefed/lemmy universe and the experience feels a lot like the years immediately after Digg imploded but before the incident with the first censorship revolt (I forget what that was even about). That’s when the first big change to the “Hot” algorithm was made that made it easier to moderate but also made the site more stale.

Thinking about what that website was like then vs now is more than a bit depressing actually. I knew a handful of the original reddit dev’s at a professional level after meeting them at a couple PyCon’s. Still have a couple of the Reddit stickers they would randomly hand out to people. I don’t think I ever met Aaron in person but I talked shop with him a lot about the python framework he had made. Bleh.

Accounting language is different.

A debit is incoming while credit is an increase of liability.

Think of the big picture of a credit card. The card backer (bank/credit union) is paying the vendor cash equivalent while crediting you with debt.

That’s only good enough to give the machines time to come to a safe halted state. For however long it takes to repair the chillers, that facility is a credit on the accounting ledger.

I often wonder if that is the reason Reddit dropped it, to make controlling and influencing the user base easier? A joke example, seeing +100 to -99 votes regarding the sacrilege or glory of pineapple on pizza is a lot different then just +1 or -1

Reddit’s shadow ban system is another part of why I don’t trust them. Plenty of times I’ve seen posts where metadata says there are multiple comments but instead its empty without even the [deleted by reddit] trail. Could be just their distributed database taking its sweet ass time to become consistent or maybe those people are on some sort of shit list?

For myself I know I keep saying something that results in me getting some extra attention from an LLM because I keep getting sub 30 second instant bans and warnings for ambiguous comments that sound threatening but aren’t. I lost a 20 year old account because of the comment “We should never have killed that fucking bear” being determined as advocating violence.

Indeed this is an overly solved problem. Personally I prefer ReplayGain for music and some video-audio productions while compression is great for making voices clearer. Thinking about adverts, compression would likely be the winner for making it less jarring decibel wise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReplayGain - works fairly well for audio. I imagine some sort of mean average would be good enough for balancing a movie’s loudness to the adverts.

The biggest weakness to data centers are the chillers.

Next up are the transformers.

I remember Reddit used to have the ability to show both upvote and downvotes. I miss that feature.

Wasn’t the last episode in the Bailey’s that the husband had gone full MAGA or some shit?

Also please no one explain what the fuck this is about, I find it funny how confusing this must be.

Can you elaborate? Just curious what you are referring to.

This might be the best chance AOC gets to pull the floor out from under Chuckles and get into the Senate.

AOC has made it clear she despises him so that won’t be a barrier.

I had written SG1 off as silly for so long until getting hooked on season 2. Definitely a “don’t judge a book by its cover”.

Also the variety of stories worked so well. That said, nothing will top “How far is Alaris anyway?” /Several billion miles O’Neill/ “That’s gotta be a record.”

Or the free tickets to the “Virginia Dialogs or something like that”

It felt like Apple almost accidentally burst the bubble a few months (or was it a year?) ago when Apple stated their intent to just lease or license one of the leading models. I am not an economist but it definitely looks like they are following the same strategy as Berkshire Hathaway with Apple’s board planning to buy on the “dip” everyone outside is seeing as inevitable.

Strategically it would make sense for Apple if they not only extracted steep concessions also gouged out more control over Samsung and Apple’s fabs.

You left out the horror of how the machine balanced the books of citizens vs available resources.

I hope Mamdani’s “work” involves telling these people to go fuck themselves with a big smile.

Reminds of the SG1 episode where the super advanced aliens turn to humanity for help against a constantly adapting AI scourge because humans are skilled at solving problems in unpredictably stupid but effective ways.