It’s more of an observance day for many, which makes my point even more when most people think of Labor Day as a time to buy things on “sale”.
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There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.
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A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Large employers drop health benefits as costs rise
27·3 days agoThe slide was probably when the IRS made providing insurance a tax shelter for employers. Truman was suggesting a single payer system for the country in 1945, but we went the other way. One thing added to another.
Probably the first modern holiday that demonstrated how quickly we forget the why.
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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•If there was one, what division would that be?
6·3 days agoShould be “There is, no pink.”
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News@lemmy.world•Trump to Break Ground on Arch Before Getting Approval
11·3 days agoWhen have they waited on final approval before? Oh, you mean Trump hasn’t picked which things to make gold vs. not.
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politics @lemmy.world•Pentagon temporarily rescinds its mandatory testosterone screening guidance for troops one day after issuing it
10·3 days agoI know it’s not his line, but it fits. “Nobody knew this would be so complicated. Nobody.”
Well, you’ve messed up my claim. Yes, some cats are totally like that, and would never survive on their own. Others wouldn’t give their past human servants a second thought if they found themselves outside. Still, they are not right wing.
Not true. All cats are members of the same anarchy organization. He just duped them into thinking he is in alignment with them.
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politics @lemmy.world•Americans have grown more skeptical that a woman will be president in their lifetime
8·3 days agoMaybe not even competently. The bar is so low even a badly run admin by her would be better than what we have now. Simply because the narcissism and ability to act on it wouldn’t be there.
That last line is a powerful analogy and exactly how it feels.
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Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•An engineer created this traffic light-free intersection monstrosity. Because, you know, cars and car infrastructure don't already take up massive amounts of space as is.
8·3 days agoMaking it so most of the traffic is in a merging state is a really bad idea. So many accidents happen because of people changing lanes, and here a large part of the traffic needs to do that, plus has little space and time to do it in. I’d love to see this made in something like City Skylines, just to show how bad it gets (without the car accidents, though, unless newest versions also simulate that).
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Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•An engineer created this traffic light-free intersection monstrosity. Because, you know, cars and car infrastructure don't already take up massive amounts of space as is.
3·3 days agoI’ve always heard that in civil engineering the ones who design parking lots are the worst of them, based on the results we see in the world. Maybe this was from one of them accidentally handed something outside their normal work.
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politics @lemmy.world•Americans have grown more skeptical that a woman will be president in their lifetime
241·3 days agoYou forgot the classic one, “she’ll be too emotional”, while voting in what we have now.
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Technology@lemmy.world•OpenAI announces new slop generator GPT-6 Astra: Unfortunately not any better than the last one
18·4 days agoThe different LLMs do vary in abilities. What I find amazing is how bad Copilot is compared to any of the others. Not just on complex stuff, but basic requests. I’ve had local models do better, years ago.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Bill Gates calls for ‘human-reserved’ jobs in face of AI takeover
71·4 days agoNot developing AI. We’ve been working on and with ANI for a very long time, and constant research on what might make AGI possible. What side railed everything is some companies found out they can do lots of amazing things with LLMs, a subset of AI science, and investors will pay them to make better versions. They talk a lot about how what they’re doing will lead to AGI, but these people (or the scientists doing the actual work) know better than that. LLMs can possibly be part of what AGI uses, but it’s on the wrong branch. And they’ve given up following the other branches because this one is paying off.
So in short, we could have done better (both ethically and core results), but once again money got in the way.
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Games@lemmy.world•The White House releases new arcade games that run on the browser
3·4 days agoIt’s what all of us first asked either in our head or out loud.
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politics @lemmy.world•“Catastrophic Failure”: Postal Service Whistleblower Warns Mail-In Voting Rules Could Derail Election
20·4 days ago“Stupid Post Office. Anyway, we counted what we did get in, and we’re sure they’re valid, and turns out we won with 110% for us.”
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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•It's official. American AI companies no longer have to respect the Clean Air Act
10·5 days agoYes, profits is a misleading word. Investments? Lots of money is being thrown around. Is it real? shrug
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump’s first midterm ads are heavy on ‘me’ | CNN Politics
91·5 days agoTheirs to lose. Just like it always is. Amazing how close they come sometimes and just… give it up.




But we can build ballrooms and arches and multiple attempts at a blue pool. Odd.