Trump doesn’t understand the notion of soft power. All he understands is grandstanding and conflict.

Bird flu is coming and likely to be far worse than COVID, while antivax fools control US health policy. But Trump’s supporters will always blame someone else.

As long as AI is owned by billionaires, I’d rule out the first option.

Sorry to be a pedant about little things, but while you’re fixing typos, it’s “aid” not “aide”. I just mention it because it really changes the sense of “holding aid hostage.”

Why is the water consumed? Can it not be cooled and recirculated?

Short video formats on all platforms make me very quickly feel like I’m going crazy. Just one voice after another, trying to cram whatever they have to say into your ears, or one joke taken out of context, or one simplistic moral, or absurdist humor that wouldn’t hold up for longer than a few seconds. My partner watches endless “reels” on Facebook, and that hurried talking they all do, with all those cuts to make sure there’s no gap between words, makes me fell very weird and agitated. It’s like everyone has the same voice. And then it keeps looping. I waste far too much time on Lemmy but the short video stuff seems like another level of brain melt.

Right now he’s using a computer with Windows on it and he couldn’t remember the details of where he got Linux from. He said he never managed to get it working. So no useful info, I’m afraid.

This is worth reading all the way through. MIT takes money from Israel’s defense ministry to research better ways to genocide Palestinians, and subjects any student who points it out to violence and legal attacks.

I guess they’re really proud of their support for Israel.

The Supreme Court, who are corrupt and take bribes, ruled that bribes are legal. Also that even if they weren’t, the law doesn’t apply to the President.

Still, it’s good to see there are people there who won’t just go along with anything.

I wonder if that’s why Microsoft’s recent products are, you know, the way they are.

Hopefully it’s just something like this, not a scam.

My dad (in his mid 80s) told me proudly that he had just bought Linux and installed it on his computer. It’s great that he wanted to try Linux but I wonder what malware-riddled scam distro he found, and how I’ll sort it out on my next visit.

You can’t really get addicted to fedi

Hmm… anxiously eyeing my Lemmy post history…