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I’m not quite grasping the context you’re asking the question, but I will say gender matters on Lemmy in the sense that I want full representation from all genders (and non-gender folk). The value of conversation here is derived from the many viewpoints that each of us bring. Without full representation, we’ll be missing valuable inside and perspective if a specific gender (or non-gender) is missing.

Nintendo is one of the worst and most unethical companies on the planet. Would be nice if there was a community where people could share their hatred over Nintendo. The 4 horsemen of the apocalypse are basically HP, Apple, Nintendo and Nestlé. Fuck all shitty corporations but fuck those 4 in particular.

I agree with you on Nestlé, but HP, Apple, and Nintendo don’t even make the top 50 “worst and most unethical companies on the planet”. You need put in companies like Union Carbide India Limited responsible for the Bhopal disaster, the big tobacco companies, a whole bunch of defense contractors, some other agribusinesses, and a bunch of banks.

Will art matter when we’re all dead from climate change tho?? I guess everyone has their priorities

I believe these antics hurt the advocacy for taking climate change seriously. Their vandalism protests confirm in the minds of the opposition that “climate change is fake because the ‘soup throwers’ are the ones driving it.”.

Its similar to how vegans are dismissed not for their choices in diet but because of how they advocate others to do the same. People that want to go vegan have to do so in spite of the perception the most vocal vegans have created. Instead of accelerating adoption it creates a new barrier. Note, I’m not a vegan. See, I have to say that so I’m taken seriously in this response. That is how bad public perception of veganism is because of its most vocal advocates.

This is essentially the drone version of the WWII Japanese bomber, where the bomb itself also had a human pilot.

For both the human piloted flying bomb and the drone release, its a one way trip.

That looks like a commercial PTZ camera for a building security system. Did the orcs shoehorn that into a giant drone for surveillance?

Many bathroom cleaners are ammonia based. Mixing chlorine bleach with ammonia creates chlorine gas, the same stuff used as chemical weapons in WWI.

Why didn’t the orcs simply climb into the Bradley and close the hatches? The drones that were attacking them were anti-personnel not shaped charges for penetrating armor.

I still have some of the earliest modern LED bulbs on the market–old Philips ones, the AmbientLED (i think) with the yellow casing and large heat sinks.

I bought a couple of those for an enclosed fixture inside a skylight. The ceiling height there is 20 feet, plus another 2ft into the skylight tunnel. I bought those LED bulbs (at $40/each) because I never wanted to change them. Both bulbs were still fully functional 15 years later. I have since sold that house, but I bet they’re still functioning.

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Swords into plowshares

Steel and Earth sculpture

Gift of the UA Defenders

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If this is the same Mi-8 sabotage by kids from a week or so ago, this was the second espionage they did. The first paid them a couple hundred dollars. The kids were caught on this one, and both sustained serious burns (which is how they were caught at the hospital).

These artillery systems numbers are shockingly high. By my informal eye, even with towed artillery it is looking like close to 1000 artillery pieces a month and possibly higher!

FF has been giving me trouble with youtube recently. Vivaldi with uBlock Origin has been solid.

Its been quite a while since I’ve taken a proctored exam, but then all the proctors would clear all the memory on your calc before they’d let you use it for test. Is that not the case anymore?

Then consider how much these c-suite ghouls get a hard on for LLMs and AI and how much those muddy the waters of what is actually real, factual information and contributes to disinformation and misinformation on the web.

Banking C suites don’t love LLM and AI because they create disinformation. They love them because they want to replace expensive human labor with cheap computational cycles. There is a growing level of acceptance LLMs and AI won’t be able to accomplish this.

I can see his excuse not to fund this being reasonable.

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” -MayaAngelou

I believe you.

This is from memory so don’t take it as fully accurate, but I believe Ukraine was something like the world’s 6th largest arms manufacturer prior to the 2014 invasion of Crimea. They know how to make things go boom.

A bunch of that manufacturing and design capacity is gone from the war or from lands captured since 2014 though. I agree though, as a nation, it is no stranger to the defense industry.

It wasn’t a horrible idea if he was out of options. He was also doing a decent job of maintaining three points of contact at all times. I have no idea what all that handwaving near the time of the fall. I wonder why he didn’t just crawl back in when he was one floor down.

Looks like a few buildings survived, but WAY more blew up than I expected for how separated they were.

I like the end result that ISPs are pushing back on this, but don’t mistake this for altruism on their part.

Their businesses make money selling internet service. Were they to support cutting off those accused of piracy, they would be losing paying customers. Further, the business processes and support needed for this to function would be massively expensive and complicated. They’d have to hired teams of people and write whole new software applications for maintaining databases of banned users, customer service staff to address and resolve disputes, and so much more.

Lastly, as soon as all of that process would be in place to ban users for piracy accusations, then the next requests would come in for ban criteria in a classic slippery slope:

• pornography
• discussions of drugs
• discussions of politics the party in power doesn’t like
• speaking out against the state
• communication about assembling
• discussion on how to emigrate

All the machinery would be in place once the very first ban is approved.

Alternate headline: “‘Stagflation’ hits russian economy”