[-] kewjo@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

the entire songs context is around the Battle of Baltimore which included 25 hours of naval bombardment. from the perspective of the ships where it was witnessed and given the volume of shells fired they assumed everyone would be dead.

[-] kewjo@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

basically no company wants the bad PR. If it had come out twitch would be known as the platform with pedos and parents wouldn't let their kids use it resulting in the platform becoming obsolete.

[-] kewjo@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

the swastika was originally a religious icon used and still used in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jianism, i wouldn't consider them Nazis... Context matters

[-] kewjo@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

State Senator Anthony Kern [photo], the bill’s sponsor, says the Ten Commandments shaped the country’s heritage. “Our history is the Ten Commandments,”

I'm guessing he's never read the Constitution?

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

would bet money he doesn't even know what the 10 commandments are

[-] kewjo@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

i reported it as doxing, looks like they're recording names and addresses. maybe those in the EU can raise gdpr concerns?

[-] kewjo@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

depends on the implementation, article states it's based off the acquisition of fakespot which is trained to detect scams and fake reviews. if it could be expanded to detect misinformation that could be a really helpful tool depending on how its configured and information is relayed to the end user.

[-] kewjo@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago

Microsoft lawyer Rakesh Kilaru wrote that Microsoft was already considering layoffs before the merger.

Corporate gaslighting at it's finest. we planned to layoff ~1000 employees from the company we were acquiring before we agreed not to do that!

[-] kewjo@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago

could be skimpflation. company's have been changing ingredients slowly to lower the cost of ingredients to save on cost. doing it very slowly over years they end up saving money and no one really notices the changes.

if you can find an old ingredient/nutritional list from a few years ago you can compare ingredient order to see if it's changed

[-] kewjo@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

i really hope you can clarify, are you saying genocide is justifiable to have cheap bananas?

[-] kewjo@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

volunteers on false promises will become victims. let Elon get it first if he really believes in it, just like the ocean gate CEO believed in his submarine.

[-] kewjo@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

before the Nazi party came to power, they would show up to rallys, protests and town squares to silence political opponents through intimidation and physical violence.
A lot of people would consider Twitter a modern day digital "Town square". i would say it's eerily similar, the main difference is that there's no physical violence just the silence.

[-] kewjo@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

imo its a bit different as they are using physical resources and then artificially limiting access. a better comparison would be getting a motherboard and having to pay extra to use some of the usb ports.

I think eventually there should be laws against wasting physical resources for monetary gain. if they want two models, make it such that they either don't meet manufacturing requirements and are hard disabled (similar to cpu yield) or produce one with and one without.

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