Hegar

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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 21 points 9 hours ago

Child rapist grasps for distraction from his role in a sex trafficking ring.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 25 points 22 hours ago

will evidently focus more on outside spending from organizations and super PACs that supported the Democrats’ presidential bid

I heard someone saying the democrats aren't a political party, they don't have ideals, they're just a patronage network.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 19 points 1 day ago

The entire lawsuit was a bribe to trump. Obviously bullshit lawsuits like that are made to be settled out of court. That way you can disguise the bribe as an out of court settlement payment.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As an Australian living in the northern hemisphere I avoid both christmas and anything that reminds me of home.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago

A fair point. I would guess closer to 10% than 1% or 100% also have a foreign language page. I'd guess between 1-10% of those english language pages are non-english speakers.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

But that's 1.1M living people with english language wikipedia pages, right?

I think a better comparison figure would be the ~1.5B english speakers or the ~400M native english speakers. So 0.073% or 0.275%.

Much more achievable.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 24 points 2 days ago

three deputies were killed in the blast, which took place when a bomb squad moved some explosives.

Wait if a bomb squad was moving explosives how were three deputies killed? Was it a sheriff's dept bomb squad? The article never says that the deceased were the bomb squad.

I can't help but wonder if there was no moving, just three goobers at a training facility who were allowed to play with explosives.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is 100% CBS just cowardly caving in to fascism.

That said, the late night talk show format is baffling to me. I've had coworkers who seemed to earnestly enjoy them, but I thought the whole joke of letterman, leno, kimmel etc was to be intentionally unfunny, right? I just do not get it.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

let this be the beginning of the end

Fascism doesn't voluntarily give up power. There's no way that scandal brings down the regime. They didn't install tech bros as officers in the military because they intend to respect the will of the electorate.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 5 points 4 days ago

LLMs have far more going on than lemmy will admit, and we have far less going on than we think.

Yes and yes and especially yes on the last bit.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago

People just massively overestimate what goes on in a brain, I think. It's not magic. Consciousness, experience and understanding feel ineffable but they're just chemicals and electricity.

There's no divine and irreproducible spark, no reason that silicon and metal couldn't produce a system that does everything a brain does.

 
 

Chinuk Wawa, also called Chinook Trade Jargon, is an incredibly simple language with like ~1000 words and basically no grammar. It's a pidgin of several native languages with some english and french influence.

The language was spoken by settler and native alike, until the railroad arrived and English overwhelmed it.

The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde built a very nice app to help learn this very important part of our region's heritage.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_Jargon

https://www.grandronde.org/services/education/chinuk-wawa-education/chinuk-wawa-app/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chinuk.wawa&hl=en_US

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chinuk-wawa/id908108231

 

A survey of 600 likely general election voters in Michigan, released late Thursday by WDIV Local 4/Detroit News, found that zero African American respondents said that they supported Trump, while 82.1 percent said they supported Vice President Kamala Harris.

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