hibsen @ hibsen @lemmy.world

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Now that is definitely an unpopular opinion.

Oh. Ew.

Does it mean something in particular? Like are they marking the receiver as a future colonial possession, or is it more innocuous?

Maybe someday we can start talking about tearing these down and sticking them in whatever hole the confederate monuments end up in.

No luck catching them swans, then?

I think I'll always choose to believe that they chose that company name because they knew they'd be leaving shit all over the sidewalk in every city they were in.

...this one goes to eleven.

Is the one in five from the Economist/Yougov survey? I was mixing it up in my memory with this one from the ADL on antisemitic attitudes that showed one in five people surveyed believed six or more antisemitic tropes.

I'm still a bit dumbfounded on what to do with this kind of information. It makes no sense. We literally fought the biggest war ever about this, deployed weapons so horrifying they've never been used again, and 20% of people are like "oh yeah let's do it again"?!

You can make reefs out of a lot of things.

Thanks for saving me a click. At least they’re realistic about it.

Not being able to scroll recycled content all day has been hugely detrimental to me. I’ve actually started reading books again. BOOKS.

...not what I expected but I'd totally play that.

Their tears sustain me. God forbid someone actually help people instead of corporations pretending to be people.

I have the feeling that if we shook execs at Raytheon and Lockheed upside down for long enough a fair amount of that would fall out.

Jesus. I don't even vape and I can tell what that is just from seeing people use them around town.

The CR provides funding through January 19, 2024, for agencies and programs that were funded in the following four FY2023 appropriations acts:

• the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023;
• the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023;
• the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023; and
• the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023.

For most other federal agencies and programs, the CR provides funding through February 2, 2024.

You can read the whole thing here.

...Ecco the Dolphin?

Why, though? If you already have it and it’s already hooked up to a lightning cable you already have, what would a refresh get you?

There’s a bit of comfort in only ever needing one type of cable, I guess, but I’m not sure it outweighs the hassle for me.

I didn’t, but I get why. It’s a specious argument — it doesn’t matter if 99% of them are useless. It matters if the 1% that become ubiquitous for whatever reason provide utility that makes the useless ones worth it.

Yeah you can run a company that never provides any time or resources to tinker, but only if you’re okay with innovation never happening again.

Yeah there are definitely lots of times I’m doing something on it and wish I had a desktop app version of whatever I’m trying to do (looking at you Codespaces, although that’s a terrible example). I get it from a late-stage capitalism perspective, but that doesn’t make it less annoying.