[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 16 points 9 hours ago

It’s like eleven Floridas crammed into the space of Michigan.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 32 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

The charges appear to stem from faking listener traffic to get royalties from the streaming services, not from infringing copyrights—the fact that it was AI-generated is probably irrelevant.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

You’re describing the Spanish-American War, when the US seized Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines from Spain.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

if he wasn’t able to run for election because he was sent to jail

That wouldn’t legally prevent him from running—Eugene Debs ran for president while in prison for protesting WWI.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

There is no dark side of ~~the moon~~ Facebook, really—matter of fact it’s all dark.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

My mom watched the Watergate hearings while she was pregnant with me.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

This user’s name is displayed in Arabic, although the characters in the URL are Latin.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago

If a hundred people try to guess ten coin flips, odds are at least one of them will guess nine out of ten. That doesn’t make them an expert.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

Remarkably similar to the way he grins while expressing regret for his critics who accidentally fall out of windows.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I think she’s making the same mistake Obama made with healthcare: coming from a background as senators under Republican presidents, they gravitate toward proposals that would likely have passed as-is in the Congresses they served in; but when it’s a Democratic president making the proposal, it needs to be more robust because Congress will water it down as a matter of principle no matter how moderate it is to start with.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 77 points 3 days ago

Coffee isn’t a true bean—it’s more closely related to gardenias.

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