[-] Bob@midwest.social 5 points 3 days ago

A million percent AI.

[-] Bob@midwest.social 6 points 3 days ago

Lemmy has lots of "both sides" bullshit, to the point where people are now making fun of that argument before it even presents itself.

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[-] Bob@midwest.social 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I just fucking tried to look up cholegolasterol.

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[-] Bob@midwest.social 15 points 1 month ago

Whiter than... Something really white.

[-] Bob@midwest.social 12 points 2 months ago

I dunno what's so confusing. Clearly Jews invented black people in order to mess up society so they could, uhh... so they could... get a strike?

[-] Bob@midwest.social 9 points 3 months ago

I would rather it not exist in DC either, actually.

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[-] Bob@midwest.social 21 points 3 months ago

I think that's the funniest part. Like, as far as I know, the regular Assistant uses the same approach to handling data that buzzword AI things use, a neural network. But branding (and potentially internal company politics) is weird, so they decided to kneecap Assistant in order to make Gemini look better on release.

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Yeah. They did exactly that

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submitted 4 months ago by Bob@midwest.social to c/usa@lemmy.ml

If you live in New Hampshire, I suggest you call your state legislators to support this bill. Approval Voting is a very small change that goes a long way! If you don't live in New Hampshire, send this to someone who does!

[-] Bob@midwest.social 15 points 4 months ago

Sure, but we're taking the lump as a whole since they're all drawn as a group, which adds in "death to Israel" and "Hitler was right."

[-] Bob@midwest.social 44 points 4 months ago

Okay, but like, the woman is still on the right side? Like, she's clearly not okay with the people behind her, so she's still got good opinions. So long as she follows through and also admonishes the protesters, she's right both times.

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[-] Bob@midwest.social 6 points 8 months ago

Seahorse, you must have terrabytes of memes saved up and I'm so here for it all.

[-] Bob@midwest.social 6 points 10 months ago

I bought a Thinkpad specifically because they're built to be easy to upgrade and repair. They're aimed at corporations, so the IT managers value that ability. I've upgraded the RAM and installed an extra hard drive. I'm probably going to fix or replace the CD drive in the future, since someone damaged it and it only opens with the paperclip method now.

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submitted 10 months ago by Bob@midwest.social to c/ohio@midwest.social

The state legislature is trying to make it harder for the people to have a say in their democracy. Vote "No!" Retain the right to amend the constitution, or else the bar will be set so high only the legislature will get to propose amendments!

That's it. That's the post. Drag your friends to the polls, too, while you're at it.

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submitted 10 months ago by Bob@midwest.social to c/reddit@lemmy.ml

First off, yes, I'm getting rid of my account, but I decided to have a look around on the official app and

  1. It's hot garbage
  2. I'm subscribed to a bunch of subs I've never even interacted with before in my life. What gives? Did they just sign me up for shit without asking? They sent me emails after promising they wouldn't, they've lied about a lot of stuff, but every time I'm surprised they're such dicks for some reason.

Has anyone else experienced this?

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submitted 10 months ago by Bob@midwest.social to c/missouri@midwest.social

Hey everyone,

Missouri Agrees is running a fundraising campaign so they can put Freedom Voting Up for referendum.

You can donate through any of the campaigns here and your impact will be TRIPLED. +1 from the individual campaign and +1 from an anonymous donor. They're aiming for 1.2 million by July 1st, so every dollar counts. It's an all or nothing fundraiser, so if we fall short everyone gets their money back.

Don't know what Freedom Voting is? It's also called Approval Voting and you can read more about it here. The short answer is it gives you the freedom to vote for everyone you like instead of having to just choose one. That's it. Instead of "pick one" it's "pick any number." It fixes a huge number of problems while also being ridiculously simple.

If anyone has any questions of course I'm open to chatting.

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submitted 11 months ago by Bob@midwest.social to c/ohio@midwest.social

Hello all,

The way I see it, the kind of person willing to be an early-adopter is the kind of person with gumption. They're willing to deal with uncertainty, they're willing to stake out a claim based on principles, they're willing to put in a little extra work where it's needed.

Alight, maybe, maybe not.

But if that sounds like you, I want to recruit you to lead a referendum to switch Ohio or a local government in Ohio to Approval Voting.

If you haven't heard of Approval Voting before, here it is:

  1. Vote for everyone you like.
  2. Most votes wins.

That's it.

But OH BOY does it fix a lot of problems. Under Approval, it's always safe to vote for your favorite candidate. With Approval, you can't submit an invalid ballot. And best of all, Approval voting doesn't have spoilers.

Approval Voting helps show how much support every candidate in the race actually has, since there was nothing stopping anyone from voting for them. Everyone's final total represents their approval rating!

If this sounds like a good deal to you, let me know and we can talk about what it would take to switch your elections to approval. If you have any questions, fire away! I'm even perfectly happy to tell you what kinds of problems and limitations approval has, because all voting systems have problems and limitations!

P.S. I couldn't find any community specific rules and I'm not sure if this counts as advertising or spam per the site rules but if it does let me know and I'll delete the post.

P.P.S. I do actually live in Ohio, I'm not gonna go around recruiting people for projects in a state where I don't live.

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