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kassiopaea @ kassiopaea @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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  • Now you do too

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  • I'm just imagining the human half doing like a naruto run.

  • YSK Employers do NOT verify your total work history unless you're applying for a government position.

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  • I know this is true for most employers, but I'm not sure I'd be willing to be confident that there's no way for any company to know. I've heard more than one report of companies that sell that sort of information to certain partners.

  • TIL about Fedi-Search, an open sourced frontend to easily search the Fediverse with a lot of mainstream engines

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  • Honestly I think proper search is one of the biggest things holding the fediverse back from mainstream adoption. It needs exposure, and it needs to be easy to find information and communities around obscure topics in order to really replace silos like reddit and facebook. I'm glad to see this exists, and I particularly like that it supports kagi.

    Edit: Maybe this should have been obvious when seeing that it uses other search providers as a backend, but all it does is pass a list of fedi websites to filter results for. That's... not a proper search. It's a potentially useful tool, but it's not doing any of its own aggregation and more importantly the list of websites is also painfully small. Color me disappointed.

  • Trump Mobile Keeps Charging My Credit Card And I Have No Idea Why

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  • idk, I feel like the phone and the mobile service operator could qualify as two different layers of scam.

  • Trump Mobile Keeps Charging My Credit Card And I Have No Idea Why

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  • Since it seems like most of the comments are along the lines of "haha stupid maga idiot 😂😂😂", I'd like to make it clear that 404 Media is actually a pretty left-leaning publication which appears to be reporting on trump mobile from the standpoint of "wow, let's see how bad this actually is". Their reporting is mostly tech-focused, so this is in their wheelhouse.

    That said, if it were coming from any other source I'd be laughing my ass off.

  • Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy

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  • i prefer to do mine in the czech republic, personally

  • Xiaomi naming convention

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  • Seems to be a common thing with Chinese tech, honestly. It's kinda frustrating.

  • Microplastics shed by food packaging are contaminating our food and drink, study finds

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  • My claim is that alternatives with minimal drawbacks are going to be required in industrialized societies, yes, because plastic is very deeply ingrained in our industry, and has been critical to many of the advances that we've had in the last few decades (especially medicine and healthcare).

    If we're talking about just the food supply chains, that's a little bit different because people are more willing to suffer inconvenience if the perceived health risk is large enough (because health depends on our diets). The problem is that the perceived risk, for the vast majority of people, is fairly small. Plastic ingestion poses chronic issues, not acute ones (mostly). This means that we've already addressed most of the more acute toxicity concerns, and the chronic concerns are going to require more conclusive data to persuade people to care now and not dismiss it by saying "I'll worry about that later, we have more important problems now".

    That said, I never said we were "doomed". In fact I think that we're going to develop better and safer technologies, and plastic and how it reacts with living organisms will be better understood. But, I think that's going to take some time. In the mean time, I think we're going to start to go back to older materials (particularly in the food supply chains) where the additional cost is manageable. Plastic isn't going to go away completely though. Not now, not ever. The best we can do is make it safer, and mandate other materials where it's most important.

  • 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup

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  • Laziness doesn't exist. Everyone has their own struggles and it's pretty fucked up to judge someone because they don't choose to put their limited energy toward overcoming the obstacles that you take you've taken for granted having the ability to overcome. We should be encouraging curiosity and exploration, not demonizing people who got left behind and are too scared to try new things.

  • 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup

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  • Being able to upload to Google Play Music was such a great feature. Honestly though, maybe it's best that they killed it when they did. That way it can live on in memory as the example of what a music streaming service should be like... instead of becoming an enshittified zombie like spotify is today.

  • Microplastics shed by food packaging are contaminating our food and drink, study finds

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  • I did not at any point advocate for the status quo or claim that there isn't mounting evidence that microplastics are toxic. Please don't mischaracterize my statement.

  • Microplastics shed by food packaging are contaminating our food and drink, study finds

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  • I don't think anyone is saying that we can't get rid of it, but it's not realistic to think that industrialized societies are going to give it up without alternatives that have little/no drawback, and that's going to take a lot of time and effort to develop. I'm not sure I see that sort of thing being properly incentivized unless we have conclusive data on plastic toxicity.

  • Republicans ask Donald Trump to revoke Zohran Mamdani's citizenship

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  • No, because Kroger is a major national chain that doesn't need to operate in NYC to be profitable. It's like a petulant child throwing some of his toys away because he has to share them.

  • Republicans ask Donald Trump to revoke Zohran Mamdani's citizenship

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  • Why did it take so long to come to that conclusion? That's been the case for years. My mom, who is religious and fortunately not part of the MAGA cult, has repeatedly told me that she wouldn't be surprised if he is.

  • Iranian immigrant who has lived in New Orleans nearly 50 years arrested outside Lakeview home

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  • While I'm not going to say I'm "glad" she lost, which would thereby mean that I'm glad that there's so much more fear and suffering in the country, I think there's some merit to the idea that electing Kamala would have just resulted in more of the status quo that people were clearly becoming disenchanted with and, perhaps, in the long run, Trump being elected sooner is going to ultimately result in less harm as people are incentivized to push back sooner and harder because they're less worn down than they otherwise would be.

    Really, idk though, I don't have a window into the alternate universe where that happened. This is all just kinda shit. @DancingBear really should be making that point if that's what they believe instead of being rude about it.

  • $440 Charge For A Wheel Scuff Raises Questions About Hertz's AI Rental Car Damage Scanner

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  • Hertz is the worst rental company I've had to deal with. Enterprise is the only one I'll use if I have a choice.

  • HENRYs with kids say 6-figure salaries just aren't cutting it

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  • I completely agree, but your point is irrelevant to mine.

    Median household income is around 80k, which means that the vast majority of the population makes a lot less than 100k. I have little pity for the financial concerns of people who are having a hard time getting by with six figures, when so many people have to be content with far less.

    I will absolutely still stand in solidarity with them against the ruling class who make things far more difficult for all of us than it needs to be. That's not the point.

    Asking me to have pity for the financial concerns of someone who makes more than double what I do (assuming similar circumstances) is like asking the average migrant laborer to have pity for mine.

  • HENRYs with kids say 6-figure salaries just aren't cutting it

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  • I'm not necessarily against anyone, but forgive me for not having much pity for the financial struggles of a class of people that can't manage to be happy with incomes that more than double what I've had to make myself content with my entire life.

    Are we going to be saying that the struggles of billionaires actually matter next?

  • HENRYs with kids say 6-figure salaries just aren't cutting it

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  • "Different" meaning "need to make payments on cars and properties that a poor person can only dream of having"? Look, I get that rich and poor all struggle... but can we not pretend that the struggles are equal?