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  • The time to do something about it was two years ago. The fucking morons who haven't deleted their Twitter account have been keeping the Nazi bar alive and relevant, I hope they're not surprised or complaining about anything now.

  • US Elections question: Bernie Sanders said that the Democrats abandoned the working class, and the working class abandoned them. How is this true?
  • I think of Sanders as like a well-meaning version of Trump. He tells people simple, good-sounding things they want to hear. I trust that he truly cares about the working class, but his ideas are probably too big and vague for there to be a path to actually implement them in any Congress of this era. He's aware of his recent popularity and maybe a little bitter that he hasn't gotten much out of it. He's only a Democrat himself to the extent he can gain more from calling himself that than an independent, so with little to lose at this point in his career he's lashing out while he can win points kicking the Democrats.

  • Nobody wants Copilot Pro AI for Office 365 — so Microsoft will force-bundle it and raise the price
  • I hate AI as much as anyone, but this article is shitty fearmongering. Buried at the end it admits there's actually no price increase, there's just a new tier with optional features.

    A “classic” Office 365 subscription will be available at the old price if you really don’t want the AI — for now.

  • Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) – Cory Doctorow
  • I'll use it for now while it's good and ditch it if/when it enshittifies just as I ditched Reddit and Twitter. The mistake I won't repeat is relying on it. If I have to bail, it won't be difficult this time.

  • Most people aren't attracted to an entire gender so why do we frame attraction in those terms so much?
  • I'm attracted to femininity, first and foremost. Femininity is a requirement, and it's not flexible. But then there are other more flexible preferences about specific appearance or personality details I might like in a woman.

  • Washington Post cancellations hit 250,000 – 10% of subscribers
  • Newspapers report facts in one section and editorial opinions in a different section. They are clearly compartmentalized from each other. They are both useful. The editorial staff has a long history of making presidential endorsements. We're free to disagree with the endorsement, they are not telling us what to think, just giving us a perspective to consider among all the others we hear.

    What the Post did is highly abnormal. It's not like the editorial staff decided out of nowhere to write up this endorsement. They did because it's an automatic thing they're expected to do before elections.

    Think about watching a sports broadcast. There's typically two guys, one reporting play by play (facts) and the other adding color/analysis.

  • looking at you rule
  • I'm not going to start being an asshole out of nowhere but I will go after an asshole and tear them apart. I will never be mean or rude to someone who seems nice. And of course I won't make fun of someone's looks or weight or gender or race. But I do make a lot of jokes on other topics and people probably perceive me as rude sometimes when I don't intend it. I don't think it's wrong to be a looser version of yourself here than in real life. Within reason.

  • Has anybody ever made it extremely obvious to you that you're neurodivergent?
  • A friend posted a link to something and mentioned me saying "you're hyper literal brain will like this" and when I got done being annoyed about the typo I realized for the first time I am excessively literal.

    Another time at lunch with a friend she mentioned in an offhand way that I have anxiety and that was when I first realized what anxiety is and that it's not normal to feel the way I do all the time.

  • Can we talk about all the clickbait articles here?
  • There are a lot of well meaning but annoying bots here who automate posting tons of links, but the problem is there's no quality control so the good submissions get buried in a lot of low quality noise.

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    This candy shrunk 15% and now CVS lies about its cost/oz
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    Microblog Memes @lemmy.world zoostation @lemmy.world
    The game is still twelve days away

    They are losing their fucking minds.

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    Right?
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    Shrinkflation @lemmy.ca zoostation @lemmy.world
    IKEA shrunk its candy but still labels it as the larger size
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    Is there any site/place where you can see the part 2 prompts?

    Specifically, I'm about to start on day 3 and don't want to waste time on code for part 1 that won't work for part 2. But this would be helpful most days.

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