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Probably trying to mirror Reddit, which had /r/politics for US, and /r/worldnews for everything else. There was a lot of effort (probably wrongly) to try and copy Reddit over instead of finding new ways to do things. /r/worldpolitics was the original sub, but there’s an interesting drama story there.

If Lemmy and other fediverse discussion areas had developed slower and more naturally there might have been more of a country/instance symmetry, but anyone who was around when the Reddit implosion and migration happened knows that it was total chaos and a grab bag of where a new user should sign up. Lemmy and the rest were not ready for such a shift, and now that everyone’s been in a place or two for a while, short of a closure or blocking or whatever there’s no reason to move around to a matching country and instance, if there even is one. People mainly look for popularity, activity, themes, and engagement, and if that’s found on the other side of the globe it works.

One missing period created a wonderful visual.

I just rewatched some Hawkeye episodes. I’m down with this. brb got to make some more special arrows.

When WordPerfect was great. Reveal Codes was incredible. That and a HP Laserjet 5P was a solid combo.

Steve Rogers: Big man in a suit of armour. Take that off, what are you?

Tony Stark: Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist.

Tony was being snarky, but he’s not wrong about the suit being just an extension. Yes, it’s important to his abilities, otherwise he wouldn’t have needed it from the beginning in the cave. But it’s also not a crutch, as Ironman 3 showed and taught him, and he’s trying to show Peter that it begins with the person.

Also keep in mind what he said to Peter in this same scene - when Peter said he just wanted to be like Tony, Tony comes back and says yeah, and I wanted you to be better. Tony knows that Peter truly doesn’t need the suit because he is that powerful, it’s just once again an extension that enhances those abilities, and if Peter thought it was the suit that made him special he wouldn’t grow.

Everything is through OneDrive. Even stuff that doesn’t need to be. Desktop shortcuts…really?

Also - I hate Teams, refuse to use it. The one time I did use it for some irrelevant confirmation message, it stuck and now not only does it load every time I log on (to get closed immediately), it also has the history of that one message. That I’ve tried to delete, and it keeps coming back.

‘There’s no way to legitimately register voters online’, says one of the few states that doesn’t do it. Sounds like a convenient way to discourage voters.

‘We really want to stay a red state’, says same state.

Lucky the cars were helping slow things. That’s a hero, jumping in to make the difference. I’m guessing they’re probably familiar with large trucks so they knew what had to be done.

The flaw of the question is assuming there is a clear dividing line between species. Evolutionary change is a continuous process. We only have dividing lines where we see differences in long dead ones in the fossil record, or we see enough differences in living ones. The question has no answer, only a long explanation of how that isn’t how any of this works.

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Trolley problems usually have some conflict that makes the decision hard.

Had to have hit something also when the truck rolled off. Very lucky no one got killed.

tries to hack into it

“Oh no, someone is trying to hack into me too!”

I think more people know about Arch from it being mentioned than who actually use it. Actually I think more people know about Arch from the meme of an Arch user mentioning it than who have mentioned using it.

Bills don’t often get passed on the first try. If anything you should be critical that this is only the second time, it ought to be a constant attempt to change a system that seemingly everyone not making a profit from is against. I’ll also say that the only way anything like this will get passed is through the left, the right does not want everyone to get a vote. So it will likely fail again somewhere unless the ratio of left-right shifts. As is true of any bills that favor the public good.

Bills are often started by one or a few people to get voted on by others. It will be resisted, but not by the side that would do well with a ranked choice with other left-sided third parties.

I said wild animal, not cat. Missed the point. Where do you draw the line at animal abuse being okay?

If it was a wild animal would it be okay? They aren’t going to be leashed, so I fail to see how that changes empathy.

There is a LLaVA model, as well as a version fine tuned with LLaMA3, Mistral, or phi3. Go to Ollama.com and search for “llava” under models.