Manjaro was my “throwing into the water”-distro and it worked very well getting me swimming. YMMV.

Very long, but crazy well made presentation of the topic. Facinating.

• Lucy
• Gibson
• Project 2501
• SAL-9000
• Hal-9000
• Skynet
• Matrix
• WOPR
• Master Control Program
• Citadel’s central computer

[List of fictional computers]

Besides all that drama of OP:

Wouldn’t that be THE BEST social media community where messages like that would actually happen? I would love to be a part of an open undivisive group of people who would write things like “Hey, I’m Joe, I do this and that and noticed you, lets band if you like” or “I’m jenna, I do the creative work for XY instance, lets connect”. That would be really cool. The problem is as always that we can not trust these messages because of the last decade of misuse on various platforms. Even if we take out all the scams, we only accept the right message in the right medium: If someone would write me what OP posted on LinkedIn, I would read it as a business inquire connection (at best). If she would write me that on Tinder&co, I would take it as an avance. If I would get a message like that on facebook, I do not believe in it as a honest request anymore. On Insta I would read it as a scam too. But where is the place where I can get a message like that and trust it as it is the norm in that social network? McLuhan said “The Medium is the Message”. We need a Platform/Network/Medium to give a room to actually send a message like that where a connection without the aspect of business or sex is assumed because of the choosen Platform/Network/Medium.

The Fediverse will not solve this problem sadly, as it is mainly just decentralized, but is not out to solve societary tilts and disgraces. But it is nice to think that such a place/site/room could exist (one day?) where a person (even of another gender) could have an exchange like that without bad intentions. As usally, The good ones are silent, and the loud ones are scams.

For my creative work I need scalpels and blades. Buying good quality Swann Morton blades in small packages is very costly. So I bought 200pcs Box. Whenever I take a new blade, I think how I will pick from this box mostly for the next 40 years of my life. I might even die before I used the last blade. But then again, that was how I got my first blades from my grandfather back when I was a teenager. It seems to be a pan-generational item in our family.

Black Death as a Viable Alternative for Cholera.

Is this rage bait? Those are different macbooks. I think the bottom ones are pros. My current Pro M2 has HDMI and magsafe. My M1 (Air?) is like the top one, but is not in fact a pro and therefore does not provide as many ports.

For me (europe) it is:

• 2,99 = 50GB
• 9,99 = 2TB

Everyone with a family or social life has between 20-200GB photos and videos. Notice how there is no plan for 5,99 = 1TB. You either do not back up everything and pay 3€, or you pay a tener per month to have a cloud storage that is always 50-70% empty but still have to pay for.

I will be the first to leave Apple iCloud if there is a viable solution that works like apples own OS integration without jumping through hoops and losing albums and meta data

Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin phaseout has begun

A russian attack on US civial aviation would remove all brakes on ukrainian aid. They would not even allowed from then on to strike deep into russian territory, it would be a auto subscription to the Best-Daily-Targets-Newsletter by every 3Letter-Agency in the US. How stupid can Putin be?

I was not proficient with this topic, so had to look it up:

The Ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus’s Paradox, is a paradox and a common thought experiment about whether an object is the same object after having all of its original components replaced over time, typically one after the other.

In Greek mythology, Theseus, the mythical king of the city of Athens, rescued the children of Athens from King Minos after slaying the minotaur and then escaped onto a ship going to Delos. Each year, the Athenians would commemorate this by taking the ship on a pilgrimage to Delos to honour Apollo. A question was raised by ancient philosophers: After several hundreds of years of maintenance, if each individual piece of the Ship of Theseus were replaced, one after the other, was it still the same ship?

It is the same Argument the Iranian and Afghan Goverments use to cripple the freedom of womans. AllahuMaga.

“You love the idea of me”

legal tender

As far as I understood it in the last 20 years, it is only legal tender for debt facing the goverment. No private business has to accept cash. They do not have to accept cards either. If they wish, they could demand payments only in acorns or bottle caps if they wanted to. Only govermental Institutes (eg. for taxes, fines, etc.) have to always accept cash so you can always free yourself from outstanding debits without needing a bank account as bank wiring or credit cards are a private 3rd party business that can not be guaranteed for every citizen (as banks can arbitrary decline service to people).

Okay. Good.

Fuck Putin. If he would only put 1% of his heinous acts against the west into his own country, russia could progress. The west could live happy without Russia. But the west lives rent free in russians heads. Without the west, they would realize that they themself are the reason for the shithole they are in. It is not the gays. Not the Weed. It is their shitty attitude towards everything. But as long there are western countries, they can project their abysmal performance to them.

On July 18, 2023, in partnership with Microsoft, Meta announced Llama 2 On April 18, 2024, Meta released Llama-3

L2 it’s one year old. A study like that takes time. What is your point? I bet if they would do it with L3 and the result came back similar, you would say L3 is „insanely outdaded“ as well?

Can you confirm that you think with L3, the result would look completely opposite and the summaries of the AI would always beat the human summaries? Because it sounds like you are implying that.

Maduro preparing Vzla as a refugee destination for Putin when things go sideways. Some of his Wagner Troops are allready there irrigating the ground with blood for his arrival.

I would watch that Youtube video where every entity in this list is given a short 5 Minute presentation, who they are and what they stand for. I bet it is a can of worms.

Year Top Marginal Tax Rate Congress President

1980 70.00% 🟦 Jimmy Carter

1981 69.13% (🟦🟥) Ronald Reagan

1982 50.00% (🟦🟥) Ronald Reagan

1983 50.00% (🟦🟥) Ronald Reagan

1984 50.00% (🟦🟥) Ronald Reagan

1985 50.00% (🟦🟥) Ronald Reagan

1986 50.00% (🟦🟥) Ronald Reagan

1987 38.50% 🟦 Ronald Reagan

1988 28.00% 🟦 Ronald Reagan

1989 28.00% 🟦 George H.W. Bush

1990 28.00% 🟦 George H.W. Bush

1991 31.00% 🟦 George H.W. Bush

1992 31.00% 🟦 George H.W. Bush

1993 39.60% 🟦 Bill Clinton

1994 39.60% 🟦 Bill Clinton

1995 39.60% 🟥 Bill Clinton

1996 39.60% 🟥 Bill Clinton

1997 39.60% 🟥 Bill Clinton

1998 39.60% 🟥 Bill Clinton

1999 39.60% 🟥 Bill Clinton

2000 39.60% 🟥 Bill Clinton

2001 39.10% 🟥 George W. Bush

2002 38.60% 🟥 George W. Bush

2003 35.00% 🟥 George W. Bush

2004 35.00% 🟥 George W. Bush

2005 35.00% 🟥 George W. Bush

2006 35.00% 🟥 George W. Bush

2007 35.00% 🟦 George W. Bush

2008 35.00% 🟦 George W. Bush

2009 35.00% 🟦 Barack Obama

2010 35.00% 🟦 Barack Obama

2011 35.00% (🟦🟥) Barack Obama

2012 35.00% (🟦🟥) Barack Obama

2013 39.60% (🟦🟥) Barack Obama

2014 39.60% (🟦🟥) Barack Obama

2015 39.60% 🟥 Barack Obama

2016 39.60% 🟥 Barack Obama

2017 39.60% 🟥 Donald Trump

2018 37.00% 🟥 Donald Trump

2019 37.00% (🟦🟥) Donald Trump

2020 37.00% (🟦🟥) Donald Trump

2021 37.00% (🟦🟥) Joe Biden

2022 37.00% (🟦🟥) Joe Biden

2023 37.00% (🟦🟥) Joe Biden

KEY [Congressional Control: Democrat🟦 Republican🟥 Split(🟦🟥)] [President: Republican Democrat]

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