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  • Excellent post lol, the pizza box just needs one or two blocks of text facing to the left, and one or two facing to the right, and I would’ve thought for sure it was a copy of a page!

    In case anyone hasn’t had the pleasure of seeing the chaos that is House of Leaves, here’s a couple of chaotic pages from it:






  • Fair point that it hasn’t been rescinded, but I’m struggling to find any convictions based on this law or citations of this law ever being used in court, so it really does not seem relevant nowadays. If anyone can dig up any and reference them here, I’ll gladly edit this comment to reflect that information.

    There are laws from 1700s that haven’t been rescinded but also bear no relevance to the modern day. California just changed old legal language stating that marriage was defined as being between a man and woman, but gay marriage has been legal for a long time now.



  • JargonWagon@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldPOV: It's January 19th
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    It probably won’t make a difference for you, but if you worked in a government facility and they’re spying on you, obtaining credentials, obtaining information on infrastructure in the energy sector, government facilities, etc., getting network credentials, getting floorplans, getting times where a changing of the guard occurs, etc. - any foreign entity can use that info to tear a country down from the inside and kick off a full scale war.

    Local government isn’t going to self-saborage with that information. Yeah, spying on the citizens is awful and we should avoid any apps/devices that do that too, but that’s not as bad as war unless it gets so bad that it gets to a point of civil war which seems unlikely.

    inb4 tankies claim “conspiracy”:
    China hacked US Telecom Infrastructure
    China hacking US Treasury
    Two recent events I was able to dig up fairly quickly. Wouldn’t be surprised if there’s more. Apparently they tapped Trump’s phone too, but not sure how credible the article/source is.








  • JargonWagon@lemmy.worldtoFuck AI@lemmy.worldYou think?
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    Thank you! Clearly we shouldn’t be making a 1 to 1 comparison between the McD’s AI and one used in education. It’s like saying, “If Notepad can’t correct spelling errors or grammar mistakes, then Word shouldn’t be used to rely on such either!” Different programs, both text editors.

    inb4 “Notepad can do so now” or “you can if you get this plugin” - that’s not the point.




  • Didn’t make a claim, just expressed my doubts of the data. Data gets parroted from one “source” to another without proper investigation into the original source of data. I don’t have all the time in the world like all those on here to dive into all the articles discussing it, I’m not an investigative journalist, but how’s this for confirming my doubts:

    “However, the people of China can afford to buy these extremely expensive properties. In fact, 90% of families in the country own their home, giving China one of the highest home ownership rates in the world. What’s more is that 80% of these homes are owned outright, without mortgages or any other leans. On top of this, north of 20% of urban households own more than one home, according to Nomura.”
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    Does having money owed on a house mean that they own the home? No. 80% of families own their homes. The rest of the articles bring up data point after data point that makes the claim hard to believe and goes into explaining why the home ownership is so high.

    I’m allowed to express opinions based on gut feelings without having to waste my lunch hour digging up sources to back it up, and no, it’s not based on any “western-supremacist biases”, just seeing how the numbers don’t seem to add up. It still feels high honestly with other data points brought up in that article, like how high the average house costs versus the wages in that area, but whatever, I’m out of time before I have to go back to work.