OpSec 💯

Red = cooked.

The curse of knowledge is taking away from the funny here, for me at least.

I too distrust anything that calls out "leftists" in its opening sentence for seemingly no reason. Gtfoh with the pointless division.

The connection is very loose, hence the post. The below is the OP, the top is the ban message they got from Reddit (which is completely unreasonable).

Casual reminder that we sold our hundred-year old profitable and world-class national airline for pennies in the dollar in the 90s. Then during Covid we literally gave them $2.7 billion - to an entirely privately-owned business. It will not be paid back. It was a gift.

That was ~1/3 of their value at the time, and they were facing bankrupcy - we likely could have taken back 50% of Qantas simply by demanding equity for the $2.7bil - for no added spend. But instead we demanded nothing at all, because "we wouldn't want to interfere with how a business runs".

Our pollies think we're so dumb, and judging by how most of Australia votes - they're not wrong.

As damning as this is, I just can't be convinced it will change anything.

49.8% of American voters will not care, no matter what. MAGA is their identity to the bitter end.

No

The new 'offshoring', now that term has aged and become less desirable.

Fire 5000 because of 'AI-driven efficiencies'.

Over the next year, slowly rehire 7500 through offshore service providers when that delivers massive issues (don't say it failed of course, and don't re-hire all at once). No cheaper, but it allows management to pretend they are modern-thinking early adapters of leading tech.

This is because they couldn't figure out how to add card deck microtransactions into their games.

EA is dead and I'd love to see some actually good soccer and sports games come out to challenge their only remaining viable market sector, so they can be wiped out of the industry entirely.

Else they'll just keep buying actual game developers and publishers with their soccer-card money, enshittifying them, and closing them in this endless loop we've been watching play out for at least a decade.

I miss some of the people on Reddit, but I don't miss Reddit.

In time, they'll appear here (or in similar places).

I'm never going back.

I love how useless this guy's supposedly omnipotent and omniscient god is in his mind.

• Cannot intervene.
• Needs his followers to indoctrinate their children into his belief system.
• Utterly cucked by his arch nemesis if they don't.

I can't wait to see what Elon can do for Tesla with the extra budget from rolling it into SpaceX.

Imagine how many amazing new promises and forecasts can be made and broken.

I can really only echo support for what others have said - find things you enjoy and people you enjoy doing them with and.. Do the things. It's silly but it's so easy to get wrapped up online or in your head or in the news and neglect the things you enjoy (to your detriment).

I'm very skeptical that AI will replace anyone in computer science - it generates as many problems and bad code as it solves, i think it's comparable to power tools. Enables faster work if you know how to wield it, but can cause a lot of damage or just fast-but-shoddy work in unskilled hands.

Were living through the "oh wow, LLM can make things I don't know how to - it's magic" phase presently, and a lot of non-programmers are generating code that they don't understand at all. I'm pretty sure the next inevitable phase will be, "oh fuck, we have so many things that need fixing or improvements now.. And AI doesn't know how - and nor do i" phase. There will be a lot of programmers needed in that phase.

Me, if they have better build quality than BYD, which is definitely low end of engineering. Door gaps, trim and panel misalignment, razor thin bonnet cutouts.. They're really not built to last imo - and that's why they can be priced so low.

Yeah I get it. I dunno what the balance is. It needs to be fun for admins too - else they get burned out and you get the Reddit style power-trip types as the ones that stay. I'm generalizing heavily.. But my point is I guess if the community takes the lead in reporting and blocking bad users we can all help the load of the mods, while working around the limitations of Lemmy's design.

Hopefully it will improve in time, because Im not disagreeing that those elements exist and are a deterrent to newcomers.

Never slop learning, people.

Today I learned that TS is an acronym for 'this shit'.

If you believe that trawling mental health forums to find people that are trying to unburden themselves a little so that you can assert they're wrong about their own identity and actually you know them better and can solve their issues with your woowoo mysticism AI-built psychosis website* - I'd like to also tell you that you are in no position to help anyone, and would do everyone a great service by getting some mental help yourself from a licensed and qualified mental health professional.

*I would like to quote the 'Accuracy' section of this astrology nonsense direct from the Github: "Calculation engine validated against five fully-documented reference charts (Ra Uru Hu, Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Madonna, Amy Winehouse) and the canonical gate wheel (all 64 exact)".

I don't know the technical term for this precise part of the car, here's an image.

This is a newer model, but on the BYD seal I examined I nearly bent this just by leaning on it. Completely gave way under me, as it's just a thin piece of floating metal with a small rectangle of foam under it.

On a more traditional manufacturers car body this would be part of the unibody - directly joined to the frame. On BYD it's a floating panel. Same with the side panels, so if you open the door you can see between the car panel and the interior car frame. There is a thin piece of foam insert to block access, but it was loose and easily came out - more premium manufacturers make this a part of the unibody again. It prevents water (or debris/dirt) coming in between the panels, and strengthens the body, at the cost of some weight due to the added steel. BYD - nah, foam insert is fine.

Like I said, they're built to a price point and there are many points of failure that other manufacturers have learnt are not corners worth cutting.

My 2c, the whole TV licence thing is stupid. Just pay tax and have services be provided from it - including public broadcasters.

Making public broadcast user-pays was mainly to prevent the BBC from relying on advertising and becoming more biased towards commercial interests. Corporate capture is exactly what would happen if it got pushed to compete directly with commercial streaming services. It would turn to shit, die, or both.

~$3.8bil raised per year on TV licences. UK budget: ~$1200bil. That's not much to pay for a public broadcaster of the quality of the BBC imo. Perfect? God no. Good, in comparison globally to places with and without public broadcasters? Yes.

I thought they didn't need skilled employees anymore because AI is replacing all their skilled jobs.

Once again.. Actually, Indians.