lol god DAMN this is the entirety of the White House statement on the death of #henrykissinger.
This is about as close as I think you could get to Biden publicly saying "fuck that guy I'm glad he's dead."
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If Telcos Ran Restaurants
Waiter: "Ah, welcome to the restaurant, Sir!"
Customer: "Thanks! May I take a look at the menu?"
W: "Certainly, that'll be £125"
C: "I have to pay to see the menu?!"
W: "They do cost us a lot to produce, so we have to charge for them."
C: "But you sell food. I can't buy food unless I can see what I'm buying."
W: "But we do have to charge to see the menu."
C: "I'll go to another restaurant."
W: "Ok you can see the menu for free. Just this once! Since it's you!"
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the BT price list, or me 😀
[Sadly I forget the name of one of the legends of uk.telecom that I recall died some time ago]
oddly, this also applies to a certain major house builder in the UK.
Me: This house looks interesting. We have financing in place. Conveyancer ready to go.
Them: Great! £1000 deposit please.
Me: what about the contract terms? Can I at least see those before I pay a deposit?
Them: No.
Me: OK. If I pay a deposit but then find the terms unacceptable, can I get a refund?
Them: …
Me: ?
Them: Maybe.
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I follow a lot of trans and non-binary people, but most of you are young and I am older... Where are all the older (40+) people who are trans and non-binary?
Boost for reach and say hi if this is you when this reaches you 👋
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Israel’s communications minister Shlomo Karhi has accused Israeli newspaper Haaretz of - “subverting Israel in wartime, undermining the spirit of Israeli soldiers and residents and serving as a mouthpiece for incitement of Israel's enemies. Propaganda in the service of the enemy and presenting the narrative of our enemies, while presenting lies, using anti-Zionist and anti-Israeli terminology and justifying the enemy.”
So, you know, in case you were wondering which Israeli newspaper to read...
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At the minute, as far as I can tell, the move is limited to cancelling all government worker's subscriptions and stopping all government advertising in Haaretz. This could easily escalate, but I don't think the government are going to come out of this well.
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It's taken 6 months, but my latest labour of love is finally complete! You can now explore fully documented and annotated source code for Elite on the #NES, reconstructed by hand from a disassembly of the original ROM. Please enjoy!
github.com/markmoxon/nes-elite…
GitHub - markmoxon/nes-elite-beebasm: Fully documented and annotated source code for Elite on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
Fully documented and annotated source code for Elite on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) - GitHub - markmoxon/nes-elite-beebasm: Fully documented and annotated source code for Elite on the N...GitHub
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@C8H10N4O2 Nice video - much easier than me trying to do the C64 mission myself! Thanks.
Looks like the C64 Trumbles don’t make a sound when they perish, so that’s a unique NES feature. The NES also makes a noise when they multiply, so that’s the same. Interestingly, they aren’t called Trumbles in the NES - they’re Squeakys, according to the Inventory. 🤔
And they don’t eat narcotics, either, as the NES version renames narcotics to rare species. They still eat food, though…
youtu.be/Limpr1L8Pss
What's the deal with the popcorn button?
Try it. You know you want to.Referenced Videos:The Antique Microwave Oven that's Better than Yourshttps://youtu.be/UiS27feX8o0And the follow-up to that oneht...YouTube
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my microwave has a popcorn button with three presets but also has a sensor.
Once you select a preset, the sensor takes over.
Was it long ago ? Did you made friends easily in there ?
Feel free to ask whatever question you like about me 😋
what happened to keyboards that i need to buy a new one every two years
granted, yes, i at least smashed one, but still
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“A group of academics has apologised after their submission to an [Australian senate] inquiry contained false allegations of serious wrongdoing, which were collated by an AI tool [Google Bard] and not factchecked.”
[via “Download This Show”]
theguardian.com/business/2023/…
KPMG lodges complaint after AI-generated material was used to implicate them in non-existent scandals
Senate inquiry into Australian consultancy industry concedes its integrity has been undermined by reliance on case studies generated by Google Bard AI toolHenry Belot (The Guardian)
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I'm not a mathematician, but an engineer. So I do lots of applied mathematics. To those workers that are not mathematically trained, the results are like magic.
For example my seminar paper was on echo compensation for hands-free devices in 1992, a technology that was new development back then and mew routinely built in cars.
Today we develop machines with electronic compensation of unavoidable mechanic tolerances based on stochastic mathematical models.
Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row
> For nearly a week, the country of 10 million met customer needs with wind, hydro and solar — a test run for operating the grid without fossil fuels.
canarymedia.com/articles/clean…
#Environment #Renewables #Wind #Solar #Hydro #Portugal
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Result: UK Supreme Court holds that Rwanda policy is *unlawful*.
UK government has lost.
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There will come a time when the Raspberry Pi Foundation does not require a super secret mythical combination of USB C power supply and cable that is only dubiously complainant and can only be obtained on the third Thursday of the months with no R in them.
That time is not now.
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Given how they were told of by the AUTHOR of the power delivery portion of the spec because of what they did to the 4, you'd think they'd have made *some* effort on the 5.
But hey, this version has AI in it, so yay?
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Modern political semantics:
Tory/GOP politicians: We oppose, um, Flerb!
Tory/GOP voters: What's Flerb?
Politicians: It's anything you hate.
Voters: Like what?
Politicians: Your choice, whatever. Now, see my opponent? They personify Flerbism.
Voters: Oh no! We must stop Flerbery ruining our country!
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Today’s lesson. Most of the time when you ask “how do I do this?” and get the answer “don’t do this, do that” you’re talking to an irritating fuckwit. The lesson is that this is not all of the time.
The practical application of this was learning that digit is a very cool tool for editing Debian packages.
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SUNAK: It shows we're serious people.
CASE: David. Cameron.
SUNAK: We'll give him a Barony
CASE: Of where? Ham?
SUNAK: Well it's done now so-
ED MILIBAND <interrupts>: CHAOS MOTHERFUCKERS!
SUNAK: Damnit! Who keeps letting him in?!
CASE: I think it's the cleaners
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Ally of Lord Frost yesterday: "Rishi, the time has come to appoint David as foreign secretary, from the Lords, to finish what he started started on Brexit."
Sunak: Good idea, I will do that tomorrow."
[Lord Frost sits by the telephone this morning.]
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Autistic masking behaviors vary from person to person. What are some of your masking characteristics?
image: @littlepuddins.ie
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I had to do this when I worked at Google.
They were like "we own everything you make unless you get an exception"
So I went "I make stuff using tons of copyrighted material, and I only get away with it because no one would bother suing some weirdo with no money. You really want to own that?"
They gave me an exception
Four #prominent #Arab #Israeli #leaders were #detained in #Nazareth Thursday over planning a #protest that #police alleged could incite violence and threaten public order.
#Balad chair Sami Abou Shahadeh, former #Hadash MK Mohammad Barakeh, former Balad MK Hanin Zoabi, and former Balad chair Mtanes Shihadeh were #arrested on their way to what Arab media called “an invitation-only #vigil ”
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Unknown parent • • •@liquor_american @Belafon @escarpment yeah, not a single nice thing said about the man in the entire thing and people in my replies are acting like it's fawning praise.
I have to assume the folks telling me I lack a proper grasp of English have responded to every backhanded compliment they ever recieved with a cheerful and oblivious thank you.
This is some barely-disguised diplomatic shit right here, people got too used to Trump calling people losers directly I guess.