It’s news to me. Do you have any further reading about it you can share?

That telescope is pretty cool.

They make a lot of shows now that would never have been greenlit back when all shows had to be hits. It’s possible to have a niche now.

Even that I think can partially be explained by people feeling in their gut that their vote won’t change anything about their situation. Might be wrong, but you look at something like Obama winning which did have some positive effects, but not the hope and change people were expecting.

I think this take misunderstands the political reality: in the U.S. we have what could charitably be called a flawed democracy. Just because laws are passed or policies enacted doesn’t mean there is majority support.

The house of representatives is elected under rules which are determined state by state. Many states have gerrymandered districts, which is just legal cheating.

Each state receives two senators, regardless of population. Places like North and South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, each get two senators even though they have smaller populations that individual cities in other states.

The president is selected by the electoral college, not the popular vote.

Supreme Court justices are appointed for life - random chance of when they die determines how many justices one party or the other gets to appoint (before we get to Republicans cheating Democrats out of an appointment).

All of which sounds and is grim, but I take a little encouragement from the fact that the majority of Americans do support many reasonable policies and improvements.

You’re right that there’s value in having a software repository with “vetted” apps in it. And at the same time, there’s a difference between “here’s stuff we’ve done some kind of due diligence on” and “you aren’t allowed to install anything we haven’t okayed.” That’s what Apple and now Google are doing.

(I also think there’s value in having a word like “sideload” to describe the action of installing software not in a repository. It’s just that it’s tied up now in this paternal attitude from the big companies)

I think it would be nice to have greater block options, but have never had a personal need for them. What kind of internet beefs are you guys getting into?

I don’t understand the segment of people who were excited to come up with a new slur for AI. Plus it’s not even effective. It doesn’t make sense, doesn’t bite. Computers don’t clank, not even robots clank anymore. Are we in Battlestar Galactica or something

Same, came to recommend the series. So many good clips!

Good thing I can take personal credit for all these plants. Sort of like how I helped my local sports team win the championship.

And potatoes and corn!

I wasn’t familiar, they’re beautiful birds! That said, I read that they feed while perched, while I think the defining feature of hummingbirds is they feed while hovering. https://thisweekinpalestine.com/the-palestine-sunbird/

Question is do you provide backup

You know it’s not strictly auto completing sentences that previously existed, right? It’s using words that it anticipates should follow others. I’ve had it suggest code libraries that don’t exist, and you’ll hear about people going to the library to ask for books that haven’t been written but supposedly by real authors, and it sounds like something they would write.

Tab music notation is super common, and although it wasn’t supported by this particular service before, you could see where it might be the sort of request people make, and so chatgpt combined the two.

Same, our church growing up never talked about that. (disclaimer atheist now)

I know that scholars understand the “official” Bible as a combination of earlier sources. Still, it’s funny how much Bible fanfic there is. How do you decide which stuff is real and which stuff is too crazy.

I do too. I think some people don’t understand it’s shortening “best regards” or “all my best” and instead think it’s saying “I’m the best”. At least that’s what one co-worker said to me. But I still use it.

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I’m not saying subs is perfect. But comms has a much more predominant existing meaning: “communications.” It’s not clear what you’re referring to. While “sub” does have some existing meanings like “subscription” or “submissive,” those aren’t as pervasive meanings, and in my mental map it’s more associated with a subreddit or Lemmy community, so that’s what I’m going with.

And proud of it

Listen, “comms” is a terrible name for this concept. I’m calling them subs until something better comes along.