rekabis

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[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 5 points 13 hours ago

Came across a recent saying that being armed and black has even worse outcomes, especially legal ones, than being unarmed and black. In states with “stand your ground” laws, most people of colour are denied that defence even when it clearly applies.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago

Another reason why, while AI might be a fun toy, no one who is serious about getting work done will touch it with a dirty barge pole. The gratuitous hallucinations alone ought to be a sufficient deterrent.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Well, a lot of that is processed foods and…

Oh.

Oh, Myyyyyy…

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 9 points 18 hours ago

The radiator makes unbearable noises throu out the night, which drives her insane.

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B008MVYL7C

Works wonders in letting me sleep like a baby through my wife’s chainsaw-like snoring. Just make sure they’re inserted firmly enough and not sticking too far out or in.

You’re welcome.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 6 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Even if we limit ourselves to homes within city limits (so we aren’t talking about backwoods cabins, here), Canada has about 6 empty homes for every homeless person.

The problem isn’t a lack of homes, the problem is an excess of “investors” looking for a labour-free income stream parasitized off of the backs of the working class.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am getting so sick of alt-right nutcases making up stories that they themselves would rather have a leading role in.

We all know most of the alt-right is just itching to unalive anyone not like them.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

No cure seems to be available.

Sure there is. Our problem is that the tiny ultra-wealthy cadre that benefit from capitalism is well-placed to pour trillions into defending it, and have also spent the last 75 years denigrating the only viable alternative - which has always collapsed into autocracy/authoritarianism within months to a year or three of its attempt to be established, and so has never been successfully done - such that the mere mention of its name acts as a thought-terminating cliché.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Das sieht wunderschön aus. Das ist eines der vielen Dinge, die ich an Deutschland vermisse. Nebel haben wir im Westen Kanadas nicht so oft.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mississippi and Alabama are even worse. Which also tracks.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is shameful. We should all be questioning Canada’s participation - or lack of action - in the genocide happening in Palestine. To have that kind of pro-genocide intimidation happening to anyone, much less legal scholars…

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

IDK, I like growing and eating zucchini. Especially Ronde de Nice and Cocozelle. But you have to check pretty much every day during peak season, those suckers can go from hand-sized to arm sized in just a day or two.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

I haven’t heard of those in an AI context yet, thanks for the ping!

 

Just throwing my balls around on the orchard…

 
 

And I’m talking about all fascists directly involved in the current coup, from Musky-boy and the DOJ appointee Ed Martin all the way down to the individual DOGE staffers.

At some point, America is going to have it’s own version of the Nuremberg trials, and there needs to be some sort of shadow archival records system that can reliably emerge out the far end with sufficient evidence to make these monsters hang.

 

Under capitalism, envisioning a shift away from fossil fuels is more difficult by the day.

 

Looks like Roblaw’s at it again… robbing the working class to keep obscene profits rolling to the Parasite Class. And I bet the farmer who raised those turkeys get only a few dollars per.

 

This happens both on a feed as well as within a thread.

Happens both on my direct instance as well as on a random instance out there.

I go to scroll, and there is a nearly one-second pause before the screen jumps to where I have scrolled. If I start very slowly, there is no pause, but I am talking about an unreasonably slow start to the scroll.

Working with an iPhone 15 Pro Max, hardware limitations should not be in play here.

Working with the latest version of Avalon.

Curious if I am the only one.

 

I have seen these before, but for the life of me I cannot seem to recall what they are called or what they’re for.

Google search - especially image search, where I’m trying to bring up similar items - is now a total potato and seemingly capped at one screen of results in a secure and sanitized browser.

 

When I bring up an image by itself, I can do a long press on the image and get the app Safari drop-down interface (see attached), which gives me (along with other tools) the option to download the image to my camera roll or to copy the image for pasting elsewhere.

Unfortunately, the Avelon app blocks this action entirely.

If there is a workaround, it gives no indication as to what it is, forcing the user to thrash around and discover the box with the out/up arrow in the lower right.

If there is a way to whitelist this behaviour, there is also no way to inform the user on what setting they need to adjust.

At any rate, this is a noticeably frustrating suboptimal UI/UX, and should be addressed.

 

This is why Galen West is a card-carrying member of the Parasite Class.

And yes, I confirmed the no-shipments, zero-stock with the store manager. 5 days and counting with no stock so far, when the sale started there was maybe 12-24 bottles for 128,000 residents in the city.

 

I have been trying to create a post in the Canada community. Scuttlebutt is that the post limit was set to 10,000 characters, but has since been set to 50,000 characters. My post has 9961 UTF-8 characters (9969 characters overall, 8396 characters excluding spaces) and when I hit submit the submission never completes.

 

I particularly enjoy how Google got savaged:

Google has a similar yet slightly different story, where their core product - search - has gone from a place where you find information to an increasingly-manipulated labyrinth of SEO-optimized garbage shipped straight from the content factories.

Google no longer provides the “best” result or answer to your query - it provides the answer that it believes is most beneficial or profitable to Google. Google Search provides a “free” service, but the cost is a source of information corrupted by a profit-seeking entity looking to manipulate you into giving money to the profit-seeking entities that pay them.

The system almost 100% works as intended! But it doesn’t work for me. It doesn’t work for you. It doesn’t work for a vast majority of human beings across the globe. But yet it absolutely works as intended for the Parasite Class, the 0.01% at the very top.

And this is why it’s a cancer of our society. Until it has been excised and replaced with something more humane, human civilization is doomed to collapse. You cannot have an economic ideology that demands infinite growth on a planet with finite resources.

 

There's no rhyme or reason to the way we publicly fund health services in Canada: six per cent of dental care, 40 per cent of home care in long term care, 50 of drugs, nothing for hearing aids or glasses or contraception. Where's the logic there? As a result, we have the least universal healthcare system in the world. Ponder that for a second. The least universal healthcare system in the world. Not something to be proud of. Medicare does cover everyone, but it covers everyone inadequately. Stated simply, what's wrong with Canadian health care today is that we're trying to deliver 21st-century care with a 1950s model of delivery and funding. We have an Edsel, but we need a Tesla. And my point here is that we need modernization.

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