If you're a reader and you like buying dead tree books on Amazon, I recommend you stock up. I publish through Amazon Kindle desktop publishing, and they've told me the printing costs will be rising in June. I suspect this will mean price increases at that time.
I know! My only hope (and it does happen) is that the electorate is just slow and eventually realizes what's happening and there's a reaction.
In Ontario, it looked like the liberal party under Kathleen Wynne could do anything and remain in power. They did all kinds of nutty things. But eventually it caught up with them and they were trounced so hard in elections that they aren't even considered an official party anymore. But it took longer than anyone would have expected.
In Ontario, it looked like the liberal party under Kathleen Wynne could do anything and remain in power. They did all kinds of nutty things. But eventually it caught up with them and they were trounced so hard in elections that they aren't even considered an official party anymore. But it took longer than anyone would have expected.
That's a frighteningly accurate statement. The reason modern "democracy" is a constitutionally limited republic is that just because 50.00001% of people want a thing doesn't mean they should get it. We learned over centuries and failed empires that this was the case, but power is a siren's song.
And to be clear, nobody should be doing it. That's scary and it's an abuse of power no matter what.
I can't believe that in 2020 Donald Trump had Joe Biden publicly investigated by the FBI with no probable cause to believe a crime had been committed!
Because that's not what happened. This week it's now official that in 2016 Barack Obama had Donald Trump publicly investigated by the FBI with no probable cause to believe a crime had been committed.
For all the talk of "a threat to democracy", that's actually a threat to democracy. I mean, they tried to impeach Trump for less.
Because that's not what happened. This week it's now official that in 2016 Barack Obama had Donald Trump publicly investigated by the FBI with no probable cause to believe a crime had been committed.
For all the talk of "a threat to democracy", that's actually a threat to democracy. I mean, they tried to impeach Trump for less.
A LLM fed by wikipedia would really like certain words that I feel would be tells.
"WikiGPT is a portmanteau of wikipedia and ChatGPT"
"WikiGPT is a portmanteau of wikipedia and ChatGPT"
Look.... the teevee told them to support it, so they support it!
Let's line up homeless people before suicide booths -- just like the good guys do!
Let's line up homeless people before suicide booths -- just like the good guys do!
Fuck John Bolton. And Fuck Donald Trump for bringing that piece of garbage back into government.
Those little drill battery inverters are incredible in a lot of unexpected ways. Sometimes you just need a plug for a bit of power somewhere there's no power.
A promissory note is basically just a piece of paper saying "I promise to pay you this amount at this time". It might be secured or unsecured, and it might have an interest charge but it doesn't have to.
They are actually used relatively commonly in big business, because typically you'll place an order of materials or services, promising to pay at some amount of time after delivery. This means that despite not being a bank, the customer is indebted to the vendor for some period of time between delivery and payment, and the customer has promised to pay within a certain period of time (usually between 30 and 90 days)
They are actually used relatively commonly in big business, because typically you'll place an order of materials or services, promising to pay at some amount of time after delivery. This means that despite not being a bank, the customer is indebted to the vendor for some period of time between delivery and payment, and the customer has promised to pay within a certain period of time (usually between 30 and 90 days)
activitypubblueskybridge@venera.social
sdiy@friendica.me
stocks@social.outsourcedmath.com
retrocomputing@nerdica.net
news_sources@social.outsourcedmath.com
fediversenews@venera.social
mobilelinux@venera.social
Not saying I specifically endorse any of these, they're just a few that looked interesting.
sdiy@friendica.me
stocks@social.outsourcedmath.com
retrocomputing@nerdica.net
news_sources@social.outsourcedmath.com
fediversenews@venera.social
mobilelinux@venera.social
Not saying I specifically endorse any of these, they're just a few that looked interesting.
Tbf, at least one person did the right thing, and now he's public enemy #1 and may die without ever landing back in the land of his parents. :(
@realcaseyrollins thought I'd let you know about a discovery I made: you can use lotide to join friendica groups. I've joined a couple now, and I've gotten posts and commented and verified that my comments show up. Opens up a whole new ecosystem to make it a bit more diverse.
One negative is that friendica users almost never put in a title so you have to click the comments button to see it. I bumped vpzom to see if he could just take the first line of the message when there's no title. (I should see if i can figure it out tbh)
One negative is that friendica users almost never put in a title so you have to click the comments button to see it. I bumped vpzom to see if he could just take the first line of the message when there's no title. (I should see if i can figure it out tbh)
Windows is just bad in many ways. They're trying to half-ass stuff like settings, so after 10 years you still need to go find the network adapters page to do basic configuration.
People crap on Linux for bad ux, but come oooooon.
People crap on Linux for bad ux, but come oooooon.