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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 0 points 51 minutes ago* (last edited 49 minutes ago) (1 children)

Lmfao, so now Lila Shroff, staff writer at the Atlantic, is a white supremacist?

The quote was being used to make the article author's point in the context of the article, it wasn't a feed of quotes the author found inspiring from people they think you should pay attention to.

By your logic Robert Evans of Behind the Bastards fame is a white supremacist because he's quoted them before.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca -1 points 56 minutes ago (3 children)

Yeah, and my point is that your point is anti-intellectual horseshit wrapped in righteous indignation.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 0 points 59 minutes ago* (last edited 56 minutes ago) (5 children)

Yeah, and he's quoted once to make the point that the fact that someone like that, and someone like Bernie Sanders agree on AI hurting workers, shows that the anti-AI backlash is cross partisan.

Your righteous ignorance is just anti-intellectual trash.

Read the full article, then critique it and him if you want, or keep your mouth shut and don't judge a full article because it's opening line quotes someone you despise when you don't even understand that the context is not validating or praise worthy.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (7 children)

Hey everyone, check out how edgy and dismissive this guy is!

God, not listening or thinking is so cool. How do you maintain your ability to not engage with the discussion topic while still thinking you have something to say that's worth listening to?

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 21 points 22 hours ago

This is precisely why. xAI spent a huge amount on compute hardware, then got absorbed into SpaceX.

SpaceX doesnt have need for that much compute, and there's certainly not enough Grok demand for it. Meanwhile Anthropic is desperately looking around for anyone to buy compute from.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Lmfao.

No, it's the US.

Trump is not an aberration, he is an exact representation of American values. He did not rise from a vacuum, he rose from decades of Americans blindly following Republicans to their doom.

You cannot say that he does not represent the US when he was voted into office on two non-consecutive turns.

America is a shit hole country, filled with shit hole people, who vote for shit hole representatives. There may be occasional flecks of not shit in there, but you're just hollow husks of corns in a sea of shit.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Honestly, not at the scale of the US, but Cuba has cracked down on political prisoners and the corruption is sometimes extremely visible in Havana when you see the properties of the elite and government compared to those of everyone else.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

The history of Cuba is another example of why America is such a piece of shit country, and always has been.

Honestly, it must be fucking wildly embarassing that a tiny island, that America has used it's full economic power to try and impoverish and starve to death for decades, has a comparable average lifespan and cancer survival rate, far better infant mortality rate, almost double the number of hospital beds per person, and an over 10% higher literacy rate.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

We grow herbs and spices, lettuce, tomatoes, etc. One problem I've found is that I've never been able to get decent yields out of any root vegetables, have never been sure the issue.

One nice thing is that some of the Ontario hydroponic Greenhouse lettuces are sold with their roots still attached, so you can the head of lettuce and then plant the base in your garden.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It would be interesting to see a filter of responses by country.

In my experience:

  • Architecture / Eng / Construction Industry (Canada):
    • 8-5, summer hours, loosely enforced.
  • Software Industry (Europe):
    • 9-5, several extra weeks of vacation, loosely enforced
  • Software Industry (America):
    • 9-6, moderately enforced
  • Software Industry (Canada):
    • 9-5, summer hours, loosely enforced

That being said, even with the shorter official working hours, I often end up working more than that. I may have a bunch of 6 or 7 hour days, but will also have a bunch of 16 hour days when things are hectic.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly, this just exposes how bad the author is at math.

Like congratulations, you've heard of a linear trend line, surely all systems can be modelled with nothing more than an unchanging straight line right?

I hope nothing but the worst for Tesla, but this kind of guffawing at the most basic possible extrapolation just makes the author look dumb.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Let me just leave this here:

South Korea’s ADD showcases new Supercavitating Torpedo at MADEX 2025

ADD said that the development of this supercavitating torpedo is currently about two-thirds complete, and that after further maturing the torpedo’s stabilization control technology, it will finally secure the design and testing technology of the test body.

...The MRXUUV (Mission Reconfigurable eXtra-large Unmanned Underwater Vehicle) currently under development by ADD could serve as testbed.

According to an interview with the ADD chief researcher, the supercavitating torpedo displayed at MADEX 2025 is an actual tested torpedo, designed in size to fit in a UUV, capable of being guided (in the initial phase of the launch, at low speed), and is being developed to sink enemy main surface ships with ultra-high-speed kinetic energy without a warhead.

The publicly released timeline doesn't line up, but the motivations do.

 

Business owners on Bathurst are running an astroturf campaign using AI generated videos of fake people to try and stop on-street parking being turned into dedicated transit lanes.

They claim they just want their voices heard, when in reality they're upset that others' collective voices are louder than theirs. They also make nonsense statements like it shouldn't be trade-off, when it inherently is since there is limited street space on Bathurst.

The owners of Summerhill Market seem affiliated with the group but are trying to pretend they're not, and the owner of Minerva Cannabis appears to be one of the leaders of the group, and decision makers behind the AI videos.

A little more info on Blogto: https://www.blogto.com/city/2025/05/bathurst-bus-lane-rapidto-toronto/

 

Don't buy those crappy plastic bag-clips to hold chip bags, flour bags, etc closed. They're unsatisfying, they wear out and bend, and they just add more plastic pollution to the world.

Instead buy more binder clips. They're made from spring steel, they're strong as hell, they almost never wear out, they can be used to close bags, as small clamps, as hangers for almost anything in a pinch, and they're amazing for building pillow / blanket forts.

I have some from my grandma that she bought 30 years ago and they work just as well as the ones I bought a year ago. The only risk with them ever is rust, and you can just scrub that off with vinegar, add a brush of paint and it's fixed.

Truly some of my favourite robust little items.

 

I can't be the only reddit migrant who often instinctually goes to a given community by typing /r/community, only to be 404d. If the /r/ path isn't being used for anything else, is it possible to have it dynamically redirect to /c/ instead?

 

The federal New Democrats backed Conservative demands Wednesday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau take part in a televised "emergency meeting" on carbon pricing with Canada's premiers.

The federal carbon price is not the "be-all, end-all" of climate policy, and New Democrats are open to alternative plans presented by premiers, NDP environment critic Laurel Collins said Wednesday.

 
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