leadore

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[–] leadore@lemmy.world 13 points 10 hours ago

Hawley just hasn't come up with a good enough "what's he gonna do for trump in return?" yet.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 15 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Notice from health insurance company: "Claim Status: DENIED. Reason: your marker levels exceeded the threshold value set by our accounting department."

[–] leadore@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

After reading your whiny entitled posts, sounds to me like you'd be doing him a favor if you did.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Glad to know the Minimal doesn't force you to use their own network--the website kind of implied that was the only choice. The eInk screen is the feature I would find most appealing about it, since it would eliminate the need for a separate ebook reader, but I don't think they're quite there yet in terms of speed so I'll wait until someone finally solves that problem. The keyboard would be fun to have too.

Yes, Sunbeam's no videos thing seems weird, which is too bad since video would actually be usable on the Pro model with its much better camera resolution than most other flip phones' basically useless cameras. I guess it's something to do with their goal of minimizing distractions.

As for texting, I don't use T9 input for that (I do use it for some other things)--one of the main reasons I went for the Sunbeam was that it had the other input options. I always use the touch screen keyboard for texting now. I was worried it wouldn't be very good because of the small screen size and was prepared to have to use the dictation app, but I was surprised how well and fast I can type on it in landscape orientation so I didn't need to use dictation--even though it worked well when I tried it out.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

😡 😡 😡

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

I have the Sunbeam F1 Pro and very very happy with it. How do you rate the minimal phone compared to the Sunbeam you had? The main problem I see is that it looks like you have to use their plan instead of the carrier of your choice.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

Repubs: "Stop saying we're cutting Medicaid! We're not cutting Medicaid! So relax! We're just changing the rules so that no one will be eligible for it any more."

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

Aiding and abetting public access to reliable information is radical and forbidden!

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Billionaire tech bros gettin' what they paid for.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Fair enough. Though I expect Mangolini will give the auto industry more breaks once they kowtow to him enough. That's what it's all about, getting people to pay up or do other "favors" for him in return for him reducing the amount of pain he's inflicting on them -- "nice business you have there, be a shame if anything happened to it".

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

How is that not criminal destruction of property? Some of those books may not even be replaceable. 😠 You could also say criminal intimidation of protected minority groups by an obviously targeted political act.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm sure the car companies know more about how it will affect them than I do, so I believe what they say and defer to that.

When the panel discussion I saw said the 100K cap is not an issue for the UK since they don't sell much more than that here anyway, I extrapolated that to mean it wouldn't change the status quo for the US side either, but that was just my own speculation.

 

If AI is going to scrape content I post or emails I send to people who use gmail, etc. I would like to include a few sentences in each item that will fuck with any AI training they get used by.

(I especially want to stick it in any emails that google will have access to because certain people I want to communicate with refuse to use anything but gmail, even for conversations just with me, after I've specifically asked them to. 😠 )

So I've searched and found many online "nonsense generators" but they use AI to generate silly sentences for you. That's not what I want.

What I want is something that generates grammatically incorrect entences, sentences with words that would never follow each other, and whatever kinds of sentences would cause AI training methods to learn wrong and meaningless patterns of language, so that when it generates stuff based on that it will be obvious crap that is useless for any purpose.

I figure someone has created this by now. Does anyone know where to find something I can use for this?

 

I'm glad to see Canada taking a strong stance, especially the direct action against Musk with the Starlink contract. Mexico is also standing strong and Trump has already backed off of them for now. BTW ever notice how the closer friends the countries are with us, the worse he treats them?

 

I came across this video yesterday that I really liked, kind of a mini-documentary about people who've stuck with flip phones this whole time, never made the switch. I'm one of them.

I like technology, but every time I think about getting a smartphone, it does not spark joy. I feel much happier when I look at flip/feature phones (currently using a Coolpad Snap flip phone and thinking about pulling the trigger on a Sunbeam F1).

Watching this video has strengthened my resolve to avoid using a smartphone for as long as I can get away with it. Do you identify with any of the people in the video?

 

In spite of everything that's happened, the United States still has three branches of government:

  1. The Oligarchs
  2. The Christian Nationalists
  3. Their Enablers
 

New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.

archive.org link

 

(This is a gift link)

There was particular glee in Trump’s takedown of Vice President Kamala Harris, whose gender and multiracial heritage were relentlessly attacked in the “manosphere,” a loose network of misogynistic communities with influence through gaming, social media and other cultural forces.

A network poll shows that 49 percent of men 18 to 29 voted for Trump; the number was 53 percent for men ages 30 to 39, an increase over 2020 results in both categories.

“Gender is the story of this election in a lot of ways,” Miller-Idriss said.

Christian supremacists urged followers to drop to their knees in prayerful gratitude for the defeat of the “Demon-crats” and for the victory of a man they say will usher in “Bible-based governance.”

 

Per anti-vax conspiracy theorist RFK, Jr., Trump promised him control of our public Health agencies in deal for him to drop out and endorse Trump.

 

We are here.

(written in 2003) Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they all had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism.

 

The suit alleges the mandate violates the Oklahoma Constitution because it involves spending public money to support religion and favors one religion over another by requiring the use of a Protestant version of the Bible. It also alleges Walters and the state Board of Education don’t have the authority to require the use of instructional materials.

“As parents, my husband and I have sole responsibility to decide how and when our children learn about the Bible and religious teachings,” plaintiff Erika Wright, the founder of the Oklahoma Rural Schools Coalition and parent of two school-aged children, said in a statement. “It is not the role of any politician or public school official to intervene in these personal matters.”

 

It's a cult. If that link doesn't work for you, here's a gift link to the article.

 

Keep watching to the end for what you can do about it.

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