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A practically unknown band overseas despite being huge in Australia. They traversed several genres in a few years but failed to sustain commercial viability.

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The Talk (beehaw.org)
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Alt text:

A two-panel cartoon humorously shows "the talk" across generations.

The top panel shows parents giving their child the traditional "when two people love each other very much..." talk.

The bottom panel reverses this, showing the grown child giving their parents "the talk" about "when someone calls and says they're from Microsoft Tech Support."

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Alt text

Neighbourhood watch vigilantes in paramilitary gear on the sidewalk making a citizens arrest of a balaclava clad man. There is a tiny community street library next to them.

One of them on a walkie-talkie says: "Janet? We got him. The guy who takes best selling novels and leaves behind textbooks from 1978"

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Brainwashing (beehaw.org)
submitted 3 months ago by sqgl@beehaw.org to c/humor@beehaw.org

Realizing that not every moment in life will be deep, or meaningful, or vibrating with energy that would give him the fulfillment that he'd always hoped for, Todd unloaded the dishwasher.

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"About 72 per cent of fatalities aged 13-55 are men, which is the rough age range of Hamas combatants, Mr Fox said. “We know that Hamas uses child soldiers, and these statistics show clearly that Israel is targeting fighting-aged men.”

According to the Henry Jackson Society who's entry in Wikipedia says: While describing itself as non-partisan, its outlook has been described variously as right-wing, neoliberal, and neo-conservative

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submitted 4 months ago by sqgl@beehaw.org to c/theonion@midwest.social

I think this is a serious article folks. Can any Polish people here confirm?

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by sqgl@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

US ordered TSMC, not Taiwan the country. The vast majority of sales are made to US based firms so they likely have a lot of sway.

US is the major customer of TSMC, so they can order them, not to mention we protect them with defense pacts, so they might want to actually listen. Pretty sure they make some of our military grade chips as well.

Cutting edge chips are used in cutting edge military hardware. TSMC provides a lot of the chips used in advanced American weapons. Turns out a faster chip in a missile makes the missile better able to make sophisticated split second decisions.

US can order most of its allies to do anything. Remember when the US thought Edward Snowden was on the Bolivian presidential airplane and within the span of like, half a hour, managed to get all of western europe to deny airspace to Bolivia, ground the literal presidential plane and search him like a dirty drug mule? Was pretty awkward after that when Snowden wasn't even there.

[Cobbled from Reddit thread]

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[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Misleading title. He did not win the appeal.

He won the opportunity to have an appeal hearing.

It is last week's news anyhow.

[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago

I'm biased towards paragraphs.

Otherwise, good point: understanding the other side is a good way to somehow being able to work together.

[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 32 points 1 year ago

That is why the comparison is with 2019. It wasn't a pandemic until 2020.

[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 29 points 2 years ago

It is a privacy/security issue, not moral. A QR eatery will probably not accept cash either.

[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 27 points 2 years ago

Get out of here with your pinko agenda. What are you, some kind of long haired, bleeding-heart, sharey fairy, hippie, Jew?

Behold: The supply-side Jesus.

[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 35 points 2 years ago

Amazon also sell faked AI products if you search for (bizarrely)...

“goes against OpenAI use policy”

Try that string and see what happens.

[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 52 points 2 years ago

IANAL But my understanding is that a contract cannot void basic rights.

[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 21 points 2 years ago

You are describing r/Worldnews not other Reddit subs.

And Lemmy has been 50-50, with very little actual personal attacking.

[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

False equivalence.

Russia bombed Kiev for the hell of it, not even pretending there was a military objective. Russia also is conscripting Ukrainians to fight against their fellow countrymen as cannon-fodder on the front line. It is kidnapping children into Russia.

[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Biden to Bibi: "don't make the same mistakes we made in 9/11. There's no reason why we had to be in a war in Afghanistan."

[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"This quantity is not enough to operate hospital generators for more than thirty minutes,” Hamas added

This sounded like an exaggeration to me but it checks out by my calculations (correct me if I am wrong).

This website calculates 300 litres would generate 2.85 MW hours. If what Hamas says is true then the hospital would have to be using 5.7 MW of power.

I compared this with the state of Victoria (pop. 6.7M) Australia where the hospitals in total use 147MW of power. In non-wartime that Gazan hospital probably serves about ten times fewer people, which would be 14.7MW. Admittedly an Australian hospital's power use is probably more profligate.

Aussie Hospitals Power Use

[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The fediverse sounds just like what we all thought the internet was back in the early 90's.

Apart from Mozilla sabotaging the ideal in ways others describe here I can think of other ways it could be hijacked by corporate interests...

eg elimination of net neutrality so that ISP's prioritise traffic to paying servers, then doing deals with the biggest servers until we again only have a handful of options if we want wide reach?

Humans are suckers for hype and corporations know hype. While that is dangerous for democracy I have lost interest in communicating with the masses so being part of a relatively small network of people is just fine by me.

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