the_gastropod

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by the_gastropod 18d ago
Yes that is true. But, e.g., a restaurant that sells you a bowl of cereal would not be allowed to do this.
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by the_gastropod 18d ago
In the U.S., at least, this is not really true. The FTC has laws that prohibits companies from using non-food products (e.g., glue for milk or motor oil for syrup) in photographs of food they’re selling. They also have laws about deceptive
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by the_gastropod 24d ago
Vending machines kill (and hurt) people, just like guns.
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by the_gastropod 25d ago
I don’t know if I just got lucky or what. But my AirPods Pro (1st gen) just finally crapped out last week. And the batteries are mostly fine: the speaker blew out in the right one, and it now sounds awful. But that’s ~6-7 good years that I
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by the_gastropod 26d ago
I was responding to the claim that many models had predicted catastrophe. An Inconvenient Truth is a movie made by a politician. It, of course, chose to depict the more extreme ends of probabilities. And despite that, I think it stands up p
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by the_gastropod 26d ago
Mind sharing some? I often hear people believe climate scientists frequently overstate things, and I can’t recall seeing good examples of this.
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by the_gastropod 29d ago
What party did Bernie Sanders run for president under, again? - A Bernie voter (just popped open your comment history to see your other latest comment complaining about vegans, identity politics, doing the "not all men!", "no
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by the_gastropod 29d ago
Your response is all fluff. Yes. Raising union membership is not fluff. Actually forgiving student loans of 800k Americans, after the Supreme Court partisanly blocked your efforts to forgive them for 5M is not fluff either. Lots of union me
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by the_gastropod 29d ago
Behold! A both-sides guy who’s completely unaware of actual real world events! Student loan forgiveness: blocked by the Supreme Court along partisan lines: Biden v. Nebraska ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biden_v._Nebra
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by the_gastropod 1mo ago
I know you’re going to get downvoted to hell, but you’re pretty much spot on. There’s something strangely desirable about being seen as the edgy contrarian “not left, not right” person. But 9 times out of 10, that person has approximately t
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by the_gastropod 1mo ago
Nooo. I just asked Claude (Sonnet 5 Medium) how many I's are in assassin, and it said 2. Granted, it got several words correct before this. But no, they still aren't great at this letter-counting thing.
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by the_gastropod 1mo ago
I'm far too dumb to understand the intricacies of such technology, but the continued research into Lithium-air batteries seems incredibly inspiring. If we can figure that technology out, seems like it'd unlock a whole host of batt
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by the_gastropod 1mo ago
Here, boss, maybe read up on what ethnic cleansing is, then feel free to join the conversation with a less silly comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing Also worth pointing out, apparently, “lawful” doe
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by the_gastropod 1mo ago
I think that’s some pretty thin gruel. The Democratic Party is hardly perfect. But that’s true of every political party on the planet. There are some grifters, some incompetent, and some corrupt Democrats. But by and large, Democratic polit
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by the_gastropod 1mo ago
A both-sides guy! How original! Choose the worst Democratic politician currently in office and please explain what they’ve done or said that is in any way comparable to what the Republican Party is doing.
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by the_gastropod 1mo ago
No. I believe, for example, that singling out legal immigrants from Haiti, revoking their legal status, and deporting them back to Haiti, where the current state department's website says of Haiti: "Do not travel to Haiti due to
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by the_gastropod 1mo ago
Respectfully, maybe spend 5 minutes reading about it from the horse’s mouth. The Mamdani admin has done a pretty good job, imo, of laying out the case, and explaining the plan for these 5 grocery stores. https://www.nyc.gov/
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by the_gastropod 1mo ago
I have my suspicions about what’s going to happen. I worry the demand is going to be too high to realistically deal with. But dammit am I excited to see someone try something a bit different to address a very obvious need. State-run stores
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by the_gastropod 1mo ago
Go on, dawg! Be specific!
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by the_gastropod 1mo ago
DHH has repeatedly advocated for remigration. Wikipedia defines remigration as: a far-right concept referring to the ethnic cleansing via mass deportation of non-white minority populations, especially immigrants and sometimes including na
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by the_gastropod 1mo ago
Yea, what a great point! It's totalitarian for a bunch of individuals to call out someone for their bad ideas. And it's definitely not totalitarian for someone to encourage governments to carry out textbook ethnic cleansing. You&#
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by the_gastropod 1mo ago
There is no fairness argument, only ignorance. For amateur sports, giving even a little bit of a shit is just pathetic. The risk of accusing cis girs/women of being trans is obviously extremely damaging. And discouraging trans folks fr
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by the_gastropod 1mo ago
What are you even talking about? Trans folks didn’t suddenly pop into existence in 2014 or whatever, and force conservatives to recognize them. There’ve been trans people since the beginning of human civilization. As with so many of these c
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by the_gastropod 1mo ago
What are some of these unpopular policies that “they” refuse to back down from?
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by the_gastropod 1mo ago
Straight arms (no curve around the ear), 95% chance the wearer is a Trumper.
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by the_gastropod 2mo ago
Your obvious use of an LLM to write this comment isn’t exactly confidence-inspiring that it’s helpful for learning to do things on your own. Seems like it’s evidence that LLM’s quickly become a crutch for even trivial efforts like posting i
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by the_gastropod 2mo ago
Which is why these rich people also spend so extravagantly on advertisements to encourage us to buy shit, too, right? Not like the rich get richer by convincing us we too could be rich if we work more and buy things from them right? No. Liv
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by the_gastropod 2mo ago
I'm an admitted Elon hater, so maybe that clouds my judgement. But I rented a Tesla 3 a few years back to try an EV before deciding to buy one. I ultimately went with a Chevy Bolt, and find the Apple Carplay to be far better than Tesla
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by the_gastropod 2mo ago
I’ve been feeling gaslit about this too. Getting major “we’re still early!” crypto bro vibes from this constant goalpost moving.
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by the_gastropod 2mo ago
It does. Swiftfin: https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin

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