[-] cerevant@lemm.ee 29 points 11 months ago

Aside from the “well duh” factor, and the fact that this wasn’t even a secret, The demo had to happen long before it was ready to ship because the FCC filings were slated to go public and they didn’t want the world to find out about the phone from that source.

This wasn’t the demo of a defective unit shipped to customers, it was the demo of incomplete software and hardware. The reception of the first iPhone was overwhelmingly positive. So much so that Google abandoned their plans for Android being a BlackBerry knockoff.

[-] cerevant@lemm.ee 16 points 11 months ago

No one is leading or trailing, because no one has voted.

Polls are not even a little bit predictive this far out.

Polls contain no actionable data for voters unless they are looking days before the election and want to strategically vote in a race with more than 2 candidates.

[-] cerevant@lemm.ee 23 points 11 months ago

Sigh. Time for another round of patents that all say the same thing, except instead of “…but using the internet” they will be “…but using AI”.

[-] cerevant@lemm.ee 18 points 11 months ago

This is what is going to drive federated social media. Once marketing types can figure out that they won’t need to maintain 12 different social media presences and can host it on their own domain, they’ll gladly subsidize general purpose instances to make it easier for people to access their content.

[-] cerevant@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

Say you don’t understand the fediverse without saying you don’t understand the fediverse.

By these standards:

  • The web is unsafe by default
  • Email is unsafe by default

In all three cases, your safety is determined by the home you choose, and who/what you choose to interact with.

[-] cerevant@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

Here's his quote:

The black is a better athlete to begin with, because he's been bred to be that way. Because of his high thighs and big thighs that goes up into his back. And they can jump higher and run faster because of their bigger thighs. And he's bred to be the better athlete because this goes back all the way to the Civil War, when, during the slave trading, the big, the owner, the slave owner would breed his big black to his big woman so that he could have uh big black kid, see. That's where it all started!

Racist. Definitely racist.

[-] cerevant@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

Aside from inflation and limited benefit of upgrading, subscriptions for every little thing are depleting discretionary income.

[-] cerevant@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

He’s a Senator - his district is the whole state.

Not that this negates anything you said, just clarifying.

[-] cerevant@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

Look at their outfits and try to tell me any of them would look out of place in a pride parade.

[-] cerevant@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

Along with the rest of crypto, but don’t tell them…

[-] cerevant@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago

Republicans: see? Now we have evidence that the liberal biased mainstream media take their marching orders from the Democrats.

[-] cerevant@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I keep seeing this, so I wanted to clear up some details:

  • Bail isn’t a penalty, it is an incentive to return for trial (to get your money back). Bail was waived for Trump in previous cases because not only is he constantly followed by Secret Service, he is a high profile person who won’t be able to hide for long anywhere in the world.
  • Bail is typically a tenth (or less) of what Trump was given for even violent felonies.
  • You must pay the entire amount to be released on bail, unless you get a bail bond.
  • A bail bond is when a third party agrees to pay the bail amount if you do not show up for trial. The 10% frequently cited is a fee to the bail bondsman for taking this risk. You still have to provide some kind of collateral to the bondsman to cover the remainder of the bail amount.
  • You don’t get the 10% back. If you have the cash to cover bail, it makes sense to use it because then you can get it all back.

Trump getting a bail bond would be a public admission that he doesn’t have the cash. He’ll find the cash.

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