The company’s name was registered in September 2023, according to Australia’s business regulator, having originally launching under the name Slim Shade.

Wonder how that conversation went. “We can’t use Slim Shade, it’s too close to Slim Shady, Eminem will sue. I know, what about Swim Shady? That’s much better.”

Legitimately thought this was on NonCredible Defense until I read your comment and checked where I was.

Relevant SMBC

I still count The Second Dream among the best gaming experiences I’ve ever had. I agree with you that the only reason it worked is because the game was so plotless until that point, but it’s not like the game wasn’t fun until then - it was just fun for reasons other than story. If the moment to moment gameplay hadn’t been engaging, having the big reveal be tens or hundreds of hours into the experience wouldn’t have worked at all.

The game Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is another example of this sort of thing… There’s a moment near the end that hits really hard, and I feel like the whole design discussion for the game focused on that moment and the rest of the game was just a vessel to get the player to the point where it would hit hardest, and it does a great job of that. It’s only a 4 hour experience, though, not a 40+ hour one.

Oh, man - when your defense has to boil down to “Yeah but sexually exploiting kids isn’t really that bad…”, you know you’re fucked.

If it comes out that the entire Trump presidential run was masterminded from the ground up to cover for all the rich people visiting Epstein’s island… I won’t even be surprised at this point. Not even a little bit.

If someone calls up Bank of America’s customer service and asks if they should eat a mushroom they found in their back yard, and the rep confidently tells them “yes”, do you think the response should be “Well, it’s not the rep’s fault you listened to their advice, you should have known that Bank of America isn’t a good source for mycology information”, or “That rep should have said ‘I don’t know, ask someone qualified’”?

I’d argue that it’s at least 50% on the person who gave the advice.

While I understand what you’re trying to say, it should be on the owner of the software to ensure that the AI won’t confidently answer questions it isn’t qualified to answer, not on the end user to review the documentation and see if every question they want to ask is one they can trust the AI on.

Massachusetts has had for a while a subsidy on new heat pump installations, which sounds great! We looked into getting one. Heat pumps in MA cost considerably more than in the rest of the country, because installers have largely increased what they charge to capture that subsidy for themselves as extra profit.

I predict the same effect here, with private insurance.

Quentin Tarantino, who wrote a character that had to suck tequila off of Salma Hayek’s toes into From Dusk Til Dawn, then cast himself in that role.

Okay, be honest - you’re doing some sort of lemmy ban speedrun challenge, aren’t you.

If you want a buzz cut (something you can do with clippers and a single length attachment), doing it yourself is really no problem at all. If you want something more complex, you probably want to see a professional.

Trump: “We want to pay SNAP, we just don’t know how to! We don’t want to illegally allocate funds, we need the courts to tell us how to proceed!”

Courts: “This is how to pay it; you have to do so.”

Trump: [Appeals]

That was our feeling, too - if we did lose everything, we have digital backups of those documents. The chances are obviously low of having a fire, but that’s not really the point… the intent is to plan for the “what if” scenario. If you want 100% fire safety, you store things off-site, but this was an acceptable level of risk for the cost, for us. You mention floods; these boxes are rated for much longer in water, so they might be applicable to your use-case.

We have a fireproof / waterproof safe box we store documents like that in (essentially this). It’s not going to keep an intruder from getting the documents if they wanted to (they could just take the box with them and smash it open, it’s certainly not good as an anti-theft device) but it’s waterproof and fireproof and that’s more what we were concerned with.

It’s worth noting that these aren’t rated to protect documents from a prolonged intense fire; if your house burns to the ground, it’s probably not going to help.

Given the outpouring of support nationwide for Mamdani, this feels like a bold move. If they misjudge the population, this could end up providing unprecedented support for these candidates rather than scaring people away from them.

if an RSS bot posts an article, a human is not going to post it again

I reject your premise, on the basis that it seems like basically every article, worth reading or not, is posted repeatedly (by humans) over the span of a day or two anyway.

Of course, I block the bot accounts, so if there are interesting articles that aren’t being re-posted, I can’t see them, but… I’d say my Lemmy experience is considerably better even with the presumed reduction in content.

To directly answer your question, even if I could see them, I wouldn’t engage with bot account posts.

Well, using the administration’s covid response as a benchmark, his goons don’t seem to care overly much about how much harm they cause.

That was all for “personal use”.

Or you’ll do what?

He’s going to ignore it, so you might as well just jump ahead to the enforcement step. There’s going to be an enforcement step, right?