procrastitron

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago

It wasn’t being marketed and sold as a meme product. It was being marketed and sold as critical safety equipment.

On top of that, it was being sold during a pandemic when such equipment was being used continuously by large segments of the population.

It shouldn’t be surprising that large numbers of people bought it; the company selling it lied to those people to trick them into buying it.

[–] [email protected] 111 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

The perfect material for Tesla’s new cyberboat

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 weeks ago

AI salesman: We could easily automate hundreds of government tasks!

Me: Correctly?

AI salesman: Let’s not get ahead of ourselves…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To be clear; the items in my list are my rebuttals to the now-deleted comment I was replying to.

I.E. those are the things I was asserting as being true, not the things I was disputing.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It’s hard to tell where to start with all the things wrong with what you’ve said:

  1. Palestinians include people of multiple religions.
  2. Muslims do not believe they are God’s “chosen ones”
  3. Neither does Islam have any concept of birthrights based on religion.
  4. Palestinian claims to Jerusalem (and Palestine in general) aren’t based on religion but rather the fact that it actually is their land.

It’s sounds like you’ve been taken in by Israeli propaganda that tries to misrepresent the root causes.

The real root cause is colonialism. It’s not about religion at all except as an excuse to colonize the region.

[–] [email protected] 105 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Your wife is right.

Most of the signs of aging are really just the cumulative effects of repeated skin damage, and the two most common causes of that damage are sun exposure and smoking.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago

This is old. I’ve seen this image long ago… well before AI slop was a thing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was in college in Texas when it happened. I don't remember anything closing.

All of my classes kept to their regular schedules.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Adding on to this; I'd be very surprised if there was a locality within the U.S. that didn't require every building to have carbon monoxide detectors, but again, voting doesn't even have to occur within a building.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In short, no.

Voting in the U.S. is run by the individual states, and each one sets their own rules and policies.

The federal government does set some minimum rules that only apply to federal elections, but those rules don't even require the use of voting booths: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2024-title11-vol1/pdf/CFR-2024-title11-vol1.pdf

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That was a mistake in my original post. I meant to say that you DON’T specify a political affiliation when you register.

Thanks for catching that, I edited the original post to fix it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The bomb threats were real. I never said every item on the list was fake… it’s the list itself is B.S.

Mixing real voter suppression techniques along with easily debunked fake ones makes the real ones more likely to be dismissed.

That’s why I said these sorts of misinformation posts make it harder to fight back against voter suppression.

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