As much as not protecting endangered species sucks and is stupid, what you’re talking about is the MUCH more concerning part.

Annoucement by annoucement, the US accepts rule by decree.

How, in the ever-loving-fuck, are people not marching in the streets (I am aware people are, but as a percentage of the population it’s really not enough given what’s happening)

Sadly, only sort of: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TwPLqGkYnBA

Does it really cost what Kagi is charging? I would love to see some research on this if people happen to know where to find such articles.

Like, in theory to pay for Kagi or a similar service but it’s just extrotionately expensive.

I pay for other service which are offered for free (like email hosting), but those are reasonably priced.

Your “left wing” democrats are further right wing than our mainstream conservative party coalition. (The Liberals, and probably the Nationals too, to be honest)

And that’s with an extremely right-wing owned press (Murdoch & Nine Fairfax, Australia).

Let that sink in.

And please, for the love of God, actually riot. I don’t enjoy the notion of being under the thumb of the US with the fuckwits at the helm.

It was bad enough with vaugely competent imperialists in charge.

The No Kings marches are piss-weak given people are ALREADY DYING and more will die because of the Dems capitulation.

I’m not a revolutionary, but I damned well would be in your country.

Seriously, and kind regards from the provinces.

If it makes you feel better, this may be a mistranslation from German where saying “eine Software” is appropriate.

I’m sorry, but the rules for how your government works are so confusing.

And requiring budget bills to pass every year or you entire government shuts down is a bug most other democracies patched out last century. (You just make everything roll over by default if you can’t pass a budget). The US Government seems to be constantly in shut down. It’s kinda dumb folks, it doesn’t need to be this way.

I could have sworn I heard that the 100 person US senate only needs 51 members to pass a bill, but I vaguely heard they don’t want to do that because it overrides the option to filibuster?

What???

Very lost over here

I have never understood the appeal of marvel universe movies. It just always came across as bad world building.

The whole reason super heroes with secret identities works is they are unique, and not a fundamental change to society.

Having a world that’s basically the same, with truck loads of super heroes makes no sense at all.

I have seen only a handful of these movies.

This is the real answer. Really, really gross, just not necessarily illegal.

Age of consent varies. Example in Victoria Australia is it’s within 2 years until 16, anyone from 16 as long as they’re not your teacher or someone else with authority, and then 18 anyone older than 16.

Prevents stupid shit like I’ve heard from the US where an 18 year old gets booked because the parents don’t like that their 17 year old is having sex…

Don’t look up the age of consent in China, they’ve really dropped the ball on that one 👀

What the hell

Because of using Shelter, this will make my phone practically unusable.

This is fucking ridiculous

Yeah I’m the same (not really into that type of posting).

I basically want what Facebook once was, but with e2ee. Something like: you make a post, only people you’ve added can see it. They can comment, and if they choose, your friends can see that comment also.

Something to prevent mass scraping and data collection, while retaining the ‘keeping up with old aquitances’ vibe old Facebook used to have.

I really wish we had an end-to-end encrypted option where posts are only shared and accessible to people you’ve added. Some of us don’t wish to post our personal photos to everyone on the internet.

WHO IS USING AI TO RESPOND TO EMAILS? Like, by the time to “craft” the ultimate response, you could have just written the email.

This may be my bias as an engineer (not software, but chemical), there’s not really much faffing about in an email. You just politely respond, or politely make a query. It’s not very long, typically, and even if it is, an LLM isn’t gonna help you.

You don’t have to sugar coat anything unless there’s some fuck up you’re trying to soften. You just go “Hi xyz, could you please clarify when the design temperature is changing here?”.

Wtf is there you can use an LLM for in an email?

I have only used it for software troubleshooting, as it’s quite nifty there, even if it’s information is out of date, it gets versions confused, etc, still gets me out of a bind or spits out random ideas to try.

But emails? Those short form messages, just barely longer than texts?

Are we actually serious? It’s not a report

Either LLM or quality trolling

In addition, cooperation with traffic police has intensified and more traffic cameras and automated enforcement systems have been introduced.

Man, if I had a dollar for everytime I’ve read someone from Australia write online: “they’re just revenue raising!!!” I’d be rich.

We’re not as brain-dead as the Americans with cars, but still not great.

They mean not guaranteed the same way by law.

Practice of course is a different matter

We really need some consumer protections around emails.

Imagine if your landlord could just intercept your mail on the same way.

It’s part of our identities.

We’re living in the Wild-West of the internet

The US lacks even the most basic consumer protections it seems.

In Australia, companies still try to give you the run around, but I am extremely confident this wouldn’t fly here. Even though I’m not a lawyer.

If you literally can’t get a hold of them, they’re breaking Australian Consumer Law, that’s a slam dunk to charge back the card and dare them to take you to your state’s relevant tribunal that hears cases like this. It costs either like $70 to file, you can represent yourself easily, and if you’re low-income, it’s literally free.

They don’t want to waste money on fighting you. If you’re confident you’re clearly in the right, it’s very easy to get a company to back down.

This is a great time to remind everyone to take photos before and after getting a rental car, because otherwise it’s your word against them.

It’s SO funny how apparently for almost 20 years we (as in the west outside the USA) decided that using Chinese cloud platforms or networking hardware was dangerous and to be avoided, but private US companies? Nothing to see here!

Silver lining of the orange man is that maybe countries will wake up and smell the digital sovereignty that we sorely lack.

Honestly at this point, because of first past the post, this probably splits the establishment vote. Which I personally think is hilarious (ranked choice being implemented would be better, of course).