[-] captainWhatsHisName@lemm.ee 95 points 1 month ago

Hey vocal.media why not proofread your articles a little better? The first letter is a typo, never seen that before.

Un an interview that's got everyone talking, Robert Downey Jr has finally addressed the elephant in the room; those persistent comparisons between Elon Musk and the character Tony Stark.

[-] captainWhatsHisName@lemm.ee 23 points 2 months ago

This is exactly what they are saying on a few conservative subreddits I saw today. That the moderators fact checked him about migrants, then when he tried to explain some detail that explained everything they cut his mic.

As if Vance hasn’t famously been lying about the topic for weeks and endangering a whole community.

[-] captainWhatsHisName@lemm.ee 65 points 2 months ago

This seems to be an advertisement

[-] captainWhatsHisName@lemm.ee 27 points 3 months ago

You get one coup attempt, as a treat.

[-] captainWhatsHisName@lemm.ee 58 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Obviously.

All the major networks covered this live. None of them covered the Harris rally that happened right after. Some did fact checking afterward. That’s after most people stop watching.

The reporters often asked useless softball questions, like asking him to comment about his upcoming interview with Musk.

When there was a serious question, he simply didn’t answer. There was one about abortion and he said he would answer later. There was one about whether an an abortion drug should be banned. He gave a rambling response that seemed to be about something else.

Compare this to a typical Biden press conference where the reporters are rude and yell out questions and push back and tell Biden that he isn’t answering the question.

The press is afraid of Trump and complicit with his criminal behavior and complicit in the ignorance of the voters.

[-] captainWhatsHisName@lemm.ee 31 points 4 months ago

As an uncle who knows something about WWII and also notices the current rise in fascism, I must point out there is an error in the article:

At press time, Poppavich signed up for a local history group’s WWII reenactment, requesting a position within the Axis powers, specifically the USSR since he “likes Putin’s style.”

Actually, the USSR was not an axis power during the war. They were one of the Allies on the side of Great Britain and the US. The Axis was Germany, Italy, and Japan

[-] captainWhatsHisName@lemm.ee 28 points 7 months ago

I remember watching some bewitched reruns and they only had a few plots.

  • Husband doesn’t want wife to use witchcraft ever
  • Husband wants to be the breadwinner and doesn’t want any magical help with his career. By the way his job is in advertising which is useless and stupid so why would he care?
  • Wife’s in laws hate husband and make problems for him using magic in some way
  • Nosey neighbor keeps seeing strange things but nobody believes her

It’s a comedy so nobody ever thinks to use magic in a way to help society or something, so that’s ok. But it’s very noticeable how mundane the plots are. Also I think there were a few other old shows where the characters were in the advertising business or television business. I bet this was done to pander to the people who were paying for the show.

[-] captainWhatsHisName@lemm.ee 46 points 8 months ago

Decades ago there were many unique candies that came out only at Easter time in the US. They were made by relatively small companies. For example there were chocolate eggs with maple or raspberry candy inside. You didn’t see candy like this at any other time of year. There were also Peeps, which weren’t great but at least they were special in that you only saw them for a few weeks a year.

Then slowly Hershey and Nestle started flooding the shelves with egg shaped versions of their boring ass candy you could get any day of the year. And they started selling peeps with different shaped at Halloween and Christmas.

It’s a shame.

[-] captainWhatsHisName@lemm.ee 26 points 9 months ago

Yes. In fact it’s a myth that the economy was strong even in the short term.

So I guess Trump wants the government to take over most businesses, have them make panzer tanks and Messerschmitts, and invade a bunch of countries to get slave labor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Nazi_Germany

[-] captainWhatsHisName@lemm.ee 31 points 10 months ago

There are so many “boomer bad”, “genx vs millenniall”, “zoomers are lazy” stories lately. Seems like they got tired of just pitting races against each other and moved onto fake generational conflict. This way we don’t notice what the billionaires are doing to all of us. Meanwhile the 5 richest billionaires doubled their net worth.

[-] captainWhatsHisName@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

Google has different goals than a search user.

  • A search user’s goal is to find something related to what they typed.
  • Google’s goal is to make money based on what was typed.

Whether google uses AI or not, their goal will be at odds with the user’s and the results will only be useful enough that most people won’t completely stop using search.

[-] captainWhatsHisName@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago

It was built into Apollo (the Reddit app for IOS). You could type something highlight it and select “sPonGeTExt” from a menu to set random letters uppercase in a block of text.

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