I suspect today will be the best day of the rest of Trump's life.

He's wasted tired and anxious but at least he still has hope.

God this is sad.

The parts of tech that are useful and elegant are contracting, while subscriptions and ads just get more obnoxious.

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A global episode of heat-related coral bleaching has grown to the largest on record, US authorities said Friday, sparking worry for the health of key marine ecosystems.

From the beginning of 2023 through October 10, 2024, "roughly 77 percent of the world's reef area has experienced bleaching-level heat stress," Derek Manzello of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) told AFP.

When ocean water is too warm—such as during heat waves which have hit areas from Florida to Australia in the past year—coral expel their algae and turn white, an effect called "bleaching" that leaves them exposed to disease and at risk of dying off.

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Netflix is starting to raise prices in some countries as growth spurred by its crackdown on password sharing starts to fade.

The film and TV streaming giant said it had already lifted subscription fees in Japan and parts of Europe as well as the Middle East and Africa over the last month.

Changes in Italy and Spain are now being rolled-out.

In its latest results, Netflix announced that it had added 5.1 million subscribers between July and September - ahead of forecasts but the smallest gain in more than a year.

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A highly anticipated museum housing the world's largest collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts has opened the doors to some of its galleries.

More than 20 years in the making, the sprawling 120-acre Grand Egyptian Museum near the pyramids of Giza, will showcase more than 100,000 objects, including treasures from the tomb of King Tutankhamun.

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Google has signed a deal to use small nuclear reactors to generate the vast amounts of energy needed to power its artificial intelligence (AI) data centres.The company says the agreement with Kairos Power will see it start using the first reactor this decade and bring more online by 2035.

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The remains believed to belong to Andrew Comyn “Sandy” Irvine, who disappeared alongside George Mallory in 1924 while attempting to conquer the world’s highest peak, have likely been found. The discovery was made by a National Geographic team during the filming of a documentary, reigniting discussions about whether the duo managed to reach the summit before their deaths.

Just gonna point out the obvious here but...

It's so bizarre to me that someone could possibly look at Trump and think "yep, this is a godly man who is going to save us from the forces of evil".

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That command prompt.

The US death penalty is so bizarre.

"We desperately want to kill these probably-guilty people, we want it to appear humane while simultaneously lacking any humanity, and no one wants to be involved in any way because we acknowledge that it's pretty much murder which is the crime we're punishing these poor bastards for"

Other countries still doing this, which I don't condone, at least own it. "We think these guys are scum and we're going to end them by chopping their heads off. No you may not watch."

[-] fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 130 points 2 months ago

I swear these guys sit down every morning and make a list of all the messed up shit they've done, then issue a press release saying the dems did all that stuff.

[-] fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 176 points 2 months ago

Turns out a rich person can just buy a social media platform and fuck with elections and stuff.

Just want to point out that this woman made a mistake and expressed remorse.

The guy who's trying to be pres, deliberately and knowingly stoked this fire for his own benefit.

[-] fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 104 points 2 months ago
  1. Lose Debate
  2. Tantrum <-- we are here
  3. Complain election will be rigged.
  4. Lose election.
  5. Claim election was rigged.
  6. No one cares.
  7. Go to jail.
  8. Become old and frail and irrelevant before Christmas.

Investors have instead treated the stock as a proxy for the market’s bet for a second Trump administration

Exactly.

That said, only an idiot would hold any at present. Guaranteed those shares will be worth less after the 20th than they are now.

It's great that the admins are putting so much effort into getting this right.

Sadly, I don't think this is the way. Adding this to the ToS means you admins will always be in the centre of every unwinnable situation that arises.

You need a committee to deal with these issues on a case by case basis. There are many advantages to this:

  • You can be tough but flexible and adaptive
  • you can enlist the help of people with more time
  • you can enlist the help of people with experience writing policies
  • committee members can resign or be discontinued when they become embroiled in some shit storm.
  • you can retain veto power

I don't want to be critical of the ToS because someone has put a lot of thought into it, but the most charitable thing I can say is that its unlikely to serve its intended purpose.

One, day... some adult is going to think "that fucking cunt ass bitch lied to me about the rice".

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Just wondered how others promote threat awareness for friends, family, co-workers, and clients.

Every few weeks I email a half dozen employees & family members explaining one or other phishing attempt I've seen, just to keep it in peoples minds.

I heard someone else talking about a kind of email pen-testing service you can sign up for and they send scammy emails to see if the recipient falls for it. Seems like a great idea but only viable for me if it's very cheap.

I could link to something on privacyguides.org in my email footer but I think that's just virtue signalling more than anything actually useful.

[-] fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 110 points 3 months ago

Trump said Thursday that Walz has "had a terrible career" and called him "a weird guy," adding that Harris was "weird in her policy."

I love this so much. His best retort is "no, you're weird!".

Um so pumped to see him lose the ejection, and then go to jail, and then become irrelevant, and then die.

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