Don’t know why they don’t shut them out from the trials. It’s good business to fire customers that are costing you money.

Wes Anderson + Richard Ayoade? I’m in.

Confluent?

Sitting around a table in the school library and trying not to giggle while a catholic priest told us about the dangers of sex, that it was for procreation only and that abortion was evil.

This priest had left that parish a few years earlier but they brought him back to teach sex ed.

It was later learned that he had been molesting children while at the parish.

😜

We live in a hyperbolic age. People’s attention has been commodified so almost all messaging is exaggerated to pull attention to one pole or another. Nuance and patient, thoughtful debate can’t live in that atmosphere.

Sounds like the investigation started under Biden. If they shut it down now, they’ll look (even more) like they cover for pedos.

shirtsthatgocringe

Yeah, even of the companies don’t pocket the difference, he’s an idiot to suggest that this will cut inflation.

This guy is just not very smart, I think.

Anything made by Samsung.

Not necessarily. Trademark infringement usually comes down to consumer confusion.

If a character in a book incidentally eats at McDonalds, that’s probably fine.

If your video game has McDonalds logos everywhere to the point that it looks like McDonalds paid for placement or sponsored the game in some way, that’s probably infringement.

The question a judge is going to ask is: “Were consumers led to believe that McDonalds endorsed this product?”

Trademarks protections exist to protect consumers as much as companies. They are they so you can trust that something labeled McDonalds is actually from the McDonalds you know.

Things like parody are considered fair use because people are assumed to be smart enough to understand that it’s parody and not the company doing something out of character.

There are at least some Duolingo courses that use AI voices exclusively and they are shit.

On the one hand, having an AI to talk to sounds like something that could be good. Getting a real person to talk to every user would be impossible. I just don’t think the technology is going to meet expectations any time soon.

If you run into an asshole in the morning one instance, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day in every instance, you’re the asshole

Soothing the egos of some very insecure, very rich people.

It’s like a dad who can’t admit his rich son is fucking asshole.

Whiskey and black licorice.

Lemmy and Mastodon aren’t centralized. Instances can federate with other instances as they choose. If your instance has, for example, a lot of bigoted communities and users, you can expect the bigger instances to de-federate from yours.

You can always federate with instances that reject “EU norms”—whatever that means—in a bubble of your own.

For every day use, I use it. It’s convenient.

If I’m traveling or going to a protest, I’ll turn it off. I also make sure I know the ways to disable it.

Hope Florida is run by DeSantis’s wife has been involved in shady dealings.

The meeting marked an attempt by the board to provide clarity as House Republicans probe a $10 million donation that Hope Florida, a charity and welfare program spearheaded by First Lady Casey DeSantis, received from a Medicaid settlement in October. Lawmakers are now investigating whether the foundation funneled those millions to political campaigns against the failed ballot referendum to legalize recreational marijuana.

The foundation’s executive director, Erik Dellenback, announced his resignation a day after legislators grilled the foundation’s leaders about the donation funds during a House budget committee meeting.

The Tampa Bay Times reported that Hope Florida split the $10 million evenly between Secure Florida’s Future and Save Our Society from Drugs — organizations that promptly poured a collective $8.5 million into Keep Florida Clean, a political action committee created to defeat Amendment 3 and run by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ then-chief of staff James Uthmeier.

From the Tampa Bay Times article:

Weeks after the DeSantis administration steered $10 million from a Medicaid settlement to a charity spearheaded by the first lady, the Hope Florida Foundation sent $5 million apiece to two separate organizations that gave millions to a political committee waging an anti-marijuana campaign championed by the governor.

I think it’s a myth that the Mormon’s own a significant share of that company.