commandar

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[–] commandar@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

The reality is that they already have all the excuse they need.

Personally, I'm not a fan of the side that's perfectly happy with pursuing genocide having the perception that they have a monopoly of violence.

[–] commandar@kbin.social 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

Easiest way to kickstart it is arming at-risk minorities.

California's strict gun laws have their roots in white conservatives' reaction to the Black Panthers marching with rifles while St. Reagan was governor of the state.

The upside of this strategy is that if the gun laws don't change, then at least those minorities will have some means of protecting themselves.

[–] commandar@kbin.social 52 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Refusing to cooperate with Democrats is what sank him.

He needed support from Democrats to keep the Speakership. He's spent the entire year giving them no reason to trust him -- including going on the Sunday shows this week knowing this vote was coming and trying to blame Democrats for the near shutdown.

[–] commandar@kbin.social 38 points 2 years ago (6 children)

This AI ruling is also actually completely in-line with existing precedent from the photography world.

The US Copyright Office has previously ruled that a photograph taken by a non-human (in this case, a monkey) is not copyrightable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute

[–] commandar@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

That's a really great point and another reason I've really enjoyed the Garmin experience -- Garmin doesn't try to sell your own data back to you.

Getting anything more than the absolute most basic of real time data out of a Fitbit requires an annual subscription. With Garmin, it's just there.

[–] commandar@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Fitbit is owned by Google and has the same policy of not repairing cracked screens.

I owned a Sense 2 and was in a bicycle crash. Screen hit the pavement and shattered. Absolutely no options from Fitibit/Google to get it repaired.

I switched to Garmin and couldn't be happier.

[–] commandar@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

A lot of gun rights groups have been champing at the bit for a good chance to challenge that section of Form 4473 for a while now. A common point of contention is that e.g., holding a medical marijuana card would be a disqualifier if truthfully filling out a 4473. It's so rarely actually prosecuted that finding a test case isn't particularly easy, though.

It will be interesting -- and telling -- to see how they react to this case.

[–] commandar@kbin.social 136 points 2 years ago

The CEO of Unity used to the the CEO of EA.

It explains a lot.

[–] commandar@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Something like a body panel is going to expand/contract a couple of orders of magnitude more than 10 microns just from the weather changing day-to-day.

[–] commandar@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

It's SEO-optimization nonsense.

[–] commandar@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Look at the Netherlands and how it's often done there, you walk around with a scanner so you can scan as you go and quickly pay at the end.

Walmart and Sam's Club have this with their Scan & Go app in the US. Scan the barcode with your phone, add it to your cart, pay from your phone, and someone at the door will scan a QR from your phone then scan a few random items in the cart and you're done.

I pretty much wouldn't shop at Sam's if it didn't exist. The checkout lines there have always been long and a pain. It cuts a ton of time standing around waiting in line out of a trip.

[–] commandar@kbin.social 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There's been an AMD/GloFo fab in Dresden for decades.

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