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Didn’t know this was such a shared experience lol. After COVID subsided I literally could not get a single friend to get the fuck off Discord and outside to go on a hike or anywhere. Decided I’d stop trying so hard, quit using Discord, and waited to be invited to something. It’s probably been 3 or 4 years now with no contact from any of them.

This is a fantastic meme thank you for sharing

I just looked at my Pihole and I don’t see any requests for this domain in the last 24 hrs. 4 people with android phones on my network. Maybe best to block it for now? Could be from an app you have running in the background too, if you transfered data to the new phone.

In my experience with Mealie, most sites work, but I think some don’t allow scraping or something because every once in awhile we can’t import a recipe.

Alternatively they have a built in AI that can scan an image, so if you feed it a screenshot of a recipe it’ll likely get it in there (may need to double check stuff though)

I think the saying goes the other way around. Sit at a table with 5 Nazis, now there’s 6 Nazis. A table with 1 Nazi is just an outlier and an embarrassment. A laughing stock.

From his job? Working for an employer who cannot tell him how to spend his own money.

This exactly. Ask AI questions you wouldn’t know who to ask to. Researching a niche history subject and have a question? Not everybody’s actively going to school or knows a history major. Ask AI and it will do it’s best to give you an answer, maybe it’ll find something you missed. There is the risk of AI being wrong, but there’s the risk of a history major being wrong too. Verify the answer if you’re paranoid, but I think AI’s at the point where it can help people learn more efficiently if it’s used correctly.

Do this with a Local AI and you get the added benefit of not worrying about wasting water or “burning down rainforests”.

Clickbait title. It’s one of the coowners who has donated his personal funds to this party. The other owner and other members of the company disapprove of the decision.

Understandable in that there’s no way a company or employer can tell you how to spend your money. That there’s 2 owners with divided beliefs who are working for a similar cause. They are indeed private individuals using their individually earned money for private purposes.

If, let’s say, Mullvad as a company was donating to this political party, that would be alarming and worth freaking out about, but it’s one guy, basically donating with his funds he makes from his job. In a corporate environment there are many different people with different beliefs, of different economic statuses. Somebody might be donating thousands to one candidate, another donating hundreds to another.

Just because the co-owner of a company you like supports somebody you don’t like, doesn’t mean you should jump ship. Who knows if everybody else in the company is donating to other political causes?

Highly recommend everyone read the direct response this article is quoting. Direct from the other owner of the company on Hacker News. Makes the whole “scandal” seem very understandable in my opinion.

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I mean that is definitely a part of the problem. There are a lot of factors at play. I think it’s naive to think that politicians aren’t worried about the possibility of the rich leaving if they introduced higher taxes on top of other risks, because of the fact that they get a shit ton of money from them.

The rich has paid the politicians to make it this way, and I’m saying the reason it hasn’t gone the other way is because the rich & the politicians are butt buddies. I feel like that’s the core of my argument so I’m not sure how it doesn’t make sense.

Plus none of this is certain anyway, they might flee, they might deal with the taxes, they might just say fuck it and get away with it because if you have billions of dollars, what’s stopping you from hiring a private task force/protective service of your own…?

If they stop being US citizens make them register as foreign agents and publish all lobbying attempts. In addition we should make any organization that is not >50% owned by US citizens a foreign controlled entity and remove their ability to lobby in private. There are other changes that would need to happen like making it illegal not to be able to trace ownership of an organization to an individual but its better than nothing.

The problem I see with this argument is the “we need to do this, and then this, and then this”. If it were that simple to make changes, the rich would be taxed fairly already. We’re having trouble making one change, how would we accomplish a series of changes? I’m not defending the rich. I’m just saying how it is and arguing there’s more to it than just “kick the rich out” and/or “tax the rich”.

I probably just took this meme too seriously. And like you said, I’m feeling a hostage to these people as well.

That’s exactly what I said but maybe I was misunderstood. Or maybe the peanut butter jelly analogy wasn’t tasteful.

If the US actually taxed someone like Bezos a fair amount to narrow the wealth gap, Bezos would just go to another country that will gladly accept his enormous amounts of money and help him move his assets & businesses over. The US would then lose a very large chunk of money, and as we all know, the US wants to be “The BEST country in the world”, so that’s not something they’d willingly let happen.

Maybe it’s not that simple, but I think that’s the general reason we haven’t seen the ultra-rich tax increases we all want. The politicians like money, the rich like political power, and the US wants to be the biggest and bestest. Just like a peanut butter jelly sandwich, you can’t seperate the peanut butter & the jelly once they’re put together.

I’ve heard of performance problems trying to produce in a VM so haven’t tried that, but if you try it and it works let me know because I’d love to stop dual booting.

I’ve tried getting FL Studio to work multiple times but keep running into little issues. Tried Bitwig but can’t get the workflow down since it’s too different from FL. Unfortunately the best way for me is to dual boot since I don’t want to spend time fixing broken settings when I want to produce. Sadly it’s the only thing keeping Windows on my PC.

He gave people information that they otherwise wouldn’t have, regarding the surveillance state at the time. Definitely good for the common person, bad for the government.

I do wish there was more done about it. It seems like not enough happened and now things are even worse with the thousands of internet trackers, Google, Meta, Flock, etc… We needed some kind of privacy protections but we didn’t get enough and now we’re here, on platforms like Lemmy, avoiding the all-knowing algorithm as much as possible.

How did we go from “Ahh! The government can listen to our phonecalls and read our emails!” to “Sure Big Tech, train your AI on my personal photos, location, usage habits, and manipulate my internet experience for profit! Please do!!!”

Cellphone video footage obtained by Fox 13 Memphis shows a vehicle driving away from officers, but does not appear to capture the moment of the shooting. A photo of the car shows bullet holes in the windshield.

Of course Fox doesn’t show the moment of the shooting. They want to make the cops seem like good guys and the car is the big bad criminal getting away. Same shit with Renee Good.