Arghblarg

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[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

Good point. Doesn't the FDA also consider any chemical/drug legal until ruled illegal as well?

Seems it would be safer to require something be declared legal first, before it can be marketed willy-nilly (food, medicine or drugs).

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 35 points 5 months ago (5 children)

... directed the Food and Drug Administration to eliminate a loophole in safety rules that allows food corporations to self-affirm that all of their ingredients are safe without providing data to the agency, a key step in his “Make America Healthy Again” agenda.


I agree with the idea of this. Am I hallucinating or is there actually something sane coming out of this whole mess? AFICT JFK Jr. is a complete nutbar, so I am skeptical but ...

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have heard of it yeah! Definitely want to try it out.. just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Do you find the voice recognition is decent?

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 68 points 5 months ago (8 children)

The Assistan/Nest devices have gone to shit as well. When I first bought one about 5 years ago, it could:

  • play many games (voice-controlled text adventures, multi-player gameshow-style trivia and party games, etc.);
  • play music from my Google Music Library library with no commercials;
  • play podcasts from 3rd party podcast providers;
  • play almost any radio station that also had livestream feeds

Now all the games are gone, and 'podcasts' are just the small subset of podcasters who also upload their episodes to Youtube (whatever feed they used to use had almost every podcaster there was, even obscure ones); asking for specific episodes by episode number or date is totally broken. Playing radio stations is hit or miss, the voice recognition often picks a stream completely unrelated to the one I ask for; it is waaay worse at matching the callsign/city I ask for.

Playing music is intolerable. There's a stupid commercial for Youtube Music Premium after nearly every track. NO, I will not upgrade to your freaking Youtube Premium.

Enshittification, thy name is Google.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

Wonder if he'll call for electoral reform too :p

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago

Well, there was a proposal (which I think was actually very clever and would have been adopted much more easily than IPv6) -- too bad it was never considered.

https://bill.herrin.us/network/ipxl.html

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 18 points 5 months ago

Well he really must hate those filthy neutrals.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Stay true to your principles. There are many, many others out there who agree with you. One's religion should NEVER motivate one to force it upon others.

In fact I think there is no true "freedom of religion" without "freedom FROM religion" (as in, every individual is free to practice their religion of choice, so long as such practices harm no one else, or to practice NO religion). If only our governments would codify this explicitly into law.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That's great! Ukraine, make sure the wording of any agreement mentions specific rare-earth elements, none of which you actually have; then make a good show of being cowed and agree to "50% of all the rare-earth minerals on this list, thank you USA moar weapons now plz".

Let Krasnov waste his time and hold his little baby press-conference; the world can hold back its laughter until the ink on the contract is dry. If it means Ukraine gets the help it truly needs, hopefully in 4 years this madness will be over and the agreement will remain as worthless to the US as it appears to be.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

Actual cannibal Shia LaBeouf?!

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago

Uh... how about neither then? False dilemma argument.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Exactly -- the threat of tariffs -- and annexation! -- must not only stop, but be refuted forever by a new treaty, signed by the US. Promising both will stop, for good, is the only remedy now.

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