[-] considine@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago

Calculator?! Those thieving, energy-sucking piles of garbage! Abacus till I die!

But seriously, AI is insidious in how it data mines us to give us answers, and data mines our questions to build profiles of users. I distrust assurances of anonymity by big data corpos.

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

And to celebrate that fact, Europe is joining the US in imposing massive tariffs on China's electric vehicles and solar cells. Yay.

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

Would be funny if Boeing started cutting corners with their hitmen, too.

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 months ago

Someone could build an army of clones of you, launch galactic war, and then you'd be hated all over the galaxy. Assuming you have good genes. Probably they made a bad movie about this.

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Then it's not getting the freshest photons.

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago

Apple is also super good with software updates on old hardware.

Except for that time they deliberately slowed down older phones with software updates so people would buy new phones.

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Municipal drinking water is tested multiple times per day in Toronto, as it should be. Testing once and assuming the complex machinery and chemical levels are the same a week later is pure folly.

Note that this is different from testing well water, which shouldn't change much. Testing well water once a year is a good idea though.

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

That's because you haven't tried cool ranch yet

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 21 points 4 months ago

I will gather all the time crystals and become quantumly immortal! No one can stop me!

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

Since Reuters is writing this up like it's just the norm for Pakistani PMs to be charged with crimes, rather than giving context, here's an article explaining that the US pushed Pakistani lawmakers to remove Khan. He was friendly to Russia and visited Putin just at the moment that the Special Military Operation began (aka invasion of Ukraine). He was also on a serious anti corruption campaign which would have threatened the very strings the US pulled to unseat him. He is hugely popular in Pakistan, and when there was an attempted assassination the crowd rallied around him to protect him.

https://theintercept.com/2023/08/09/imran-khan-pakistan-cypher-ukraine-russia/

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

EU to Hungary: get on board with the payouts or we break your knees.

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I've followed the developing belt and road initiative and it works like this: China invests in various countries' infrastructure to expand trade capacity. So far the only criticism the western media has leveled at it is that it is supposedly a debt trap. And the big evidence for that is Sri Lanka's port. However, the majority of Sri Lankan debt is held by Western banks. The Chinese loan was not at a higher interest rate. Yet somehow, China is to blame? In what way do you consider the BRI to be a hegemonic project?

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