Now THAT’S a shower thought. I can’t think of a single athlete that’s crossed over so many decades.

And of course lemmy is spitting, hissing mad.

I was a teen in the 80s, a young adult in the 90s, and overall, America was pretty fucking nice, especially the Clinton years. With the benefit of hindsight you can say we should have fought for X, Y and Z, but we weren’t at war, starving or overrun by fascists. Was a 20-something young man to have foreseen today’s disastrous climate? I was partying and getting laid.

And I have never once in this heard of this, “working in the shadows” bullshit. None of us talk that way, never have, we embraced being disconnected slackers.

I’ve seen 100 shitty job postings for rating AI results. It’s rather complicated and pays pennies.

There are sites where you just plug in the URL and the video downloads.

Florida here, gotta use my VPN anyway to get to PH. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Imgur bans my IP from a Digital Ocean droplet of my own build. Just sayin’, they’re not only operating from known IP ranges.

Oh! I hadn’t thought that through. Guess we don’t have laws to cover hold AI responsible and the company can simply dodge responsibility.

Nah. The US has been scheming on Venezuela for better than two decades. The powers behind the throne manipulated Trump into thinking it was his idea.

In America:

Section 230 of the Communications Act provides immunity for online platforms and users, stating they generally aren’t liable for content posted by others, allowing them to host third-party information without being treated as the “publisher or speaker”.

I’m guessing Europe has a similar provision.

I’m screaming this every day, and lemmy is especially ridiculous given our views on capitalism.

In a thread about fast food prices last year, I was told I was privileged for suggesting that, “maybe stop buying their shit?”

If every American had my wife and I’s spending habits, the economy would collapse in 3-4 months.

MS doesn’t care about home users, hasn’t in a long, long time. Notice how they quit fighting piracy ages ago? The money is in commercial use.

If you’re running a Windows ecosystem, you can fine tune every aspect. If MS takes any of that tuning away, such as forcing AI, they risk killing the cash cow.

Don’t know about your jurisdiction, but we vote those people in and out around here. Well…

We used to have a quasi-private/public power company. County commissioners voted us out of that. (Still our fault.) We do still have such a water setup. For now.

This shit is a failure of local and state governments, and the people who elect them. Now that AI costs are hitting citizen pocket books, many municipalities are fighting back.

“All politics is local.”

Not an AI thing. I’ve seen it explained but I forget the exact cause.

For business, they’re locked into Excel, there is no substitute. I can see MS blowing out the remaining home users though.

For consumer use, I don’t see much difference in Office and LibreOffice. For business, Excel is the killer app, can’t do without it, but individuals can adapt pretty easy.

Load LibreOffice on her machine and let her try it! Leave the defaults to open docs with Office so it doesn’t frustrate her.

Sad, ain’t it? I repair all kinds of stuff. Have a 50" TV that only needs a new board when I can afford it. The 55" on my wall needed 2 new capacitors, $8 on eBay.

Didn’t think I had that on a PC browser! For everyone missing it like I did, it’s under your main settings.

Copy/paste reply for you smug assholes:

I’m far more heavily armed than most. I could outfit my entire block, though they’re already armed; young, old, liberal, MAGA. Yes, even the little old black lady across the street.

What the fuck do you want me to do? I’m sick of these smartass posts. Give me fucking instructions and be clear or STFU.

Fuck me. Saw what looked like an ICE thing in Alabama today, put my Colt .45 under my leg while trying to get my immigrant wife the hell back to Florida. There’s a 12-gauge pump leaning on my desk 24x7 and the AR-15 leans on my nightstand. Being that there’s no ICE around here, want me to hunt some down a couple of states away? Be clear in your instructions.

I now lock my doors, have a gun in reach everywhere I go and live in fear. And you assholes, “LOL! Where my 2A boys at?”

Haven’t looked at numbers for 4-5 years, and holy shit did it flip around 2022-2023. Last I saw was 43-48%.

Anyone want to see for themselves, this is a solid search:

“cdc gun deaths”

Plenty of data from solid sources to back treesquid. Thanks for getting me up to date! I was quite ignorant.