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As the Trail Blazers dig in on Moda Center costs, Portland looks for leverage in c/portland@lemmy.ml
[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah but widdle billionaire needs public funding so he can sell more boxes to corporate overlords for higher margin, and the general public, who can barely afford the time let alone the money to attend this private event are supposed to shoulder the cost?

Fuck right off.

OpenAI poached from Apple and Tim Cook responds in c/business@lemmy.world
[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Yep, they paid a class action lawsuit for anticompetitive behavior for exactly this, but it was long ago. It surely still happens, but they may not be stupid enough, at this one particular company, to put it in an email anymore.

Coffee Grinder in c/buyitforlife@slrpnk.net
[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Braun handheld electric grinder. Bought at a Goodwill in 2007, still runs like a champ.

Braun handheld electric grinder. Bought at a Goodwill in 2007, still runs like a champ.

For what are you preparing for 2027-2030 and would advise other people to prepare? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

The new "bi-party affordable housing bill" that became law today is largely aimed at removing regulations and requirements on modular/manufactured housing. It adds--get this--a new special mortgage for affordable housing under 100k. I mean, short of Marty McFly, no one is able to buy more than a doghouse for 100k. This is the kind of shit that passes with "strong support". Rather than build shared, affordable, efficient housing, a lobby yet again wrote a bill that won't help much or many.

Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's unbelievable what people have already allowed, why not go for it if you're meta?

New York Times and Other Publishers Ask Court to Penalize OpenAI in c/nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz
[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Will enforcement though? What they're doing is illegal under existing law but there is no enforcement because the criminals are backed by incredible wealth. Until there are consequences, it won't get better with a new law or policy.

‘We will never use them’: the California universities stockpiling AR-15s, grenades and submachine guns in c/news@lemmy.world
Oregon Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential electricity costs by 1.3% in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

This exactly covers the main issue. Much damage has already been done that the average person is just supposed to eat? Bullshit.

Nearly Half of Americans Are Skipping Summer Vacation This Year and the Reason Is More Alarming Than Ever in c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

"on the plus side, it's backward, violent and is growing moreso daily."

Who wouldn't want to endure that for $179 round trip?

Is humanity too far gone? in c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

He used "median" when playing shows for the upper intelligence half.

Kidding.

Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman He Met on a TV Set After Surveilling Her With a License Plate Reader in c/usa@midwest.social
[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Nah, that dude deserves slower. Put him in a transparent glass box with 10,000 female mosquitos. Naked. A plain mattress. No bedding, no pillow, nothing to block or kill the mosquitos. Add more mosquitos every few weeks. Feed him well but he will be alive and otherwise healthy. unless of course he gets some of those mosquitos that will lay eggs under the skin or near orifices of their host, that would be a real shame.

His every waking moment will be torture.

Fresno County farmer gives away 182,000 pounds of nectarines for free in c/latestagecapitalism@lemmy.world
[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago (5 children)

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

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Giugno 1953 (cdn.masto.host)
 

cross-posted from: https://mastodon.uno/users/salvatorelasorella/statuses/116678706656567174

Giugno 1953

Una fotografia pubblicata da Popular Mechanics mostra una sfida tra sei persone e l’OARAC, computer sviluppato da General Electric. Il compito era calcolare il quadrato di 8.645.392.175: nessun concorrente ottenne il risultato esatto, mentre la macchina completò il calcolo rapidamente e senza errori. L’episodio contribuì a diffondere l’idea dei computer come strumenti capaci di superare l’uomo in velocità e precisione nei calcoli numerici.

@computer

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Toronto driver beats 18-year-old traffic ticket following judge’s ‘sarcastic’ remarks (www.cp24.com)
 

Not eaeth-shaking case of precedent but a nice reminder of why legal systems exist and why many have become disengaged by them.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47186075

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[Solved] Post image/thumbnail low res? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by pdxfed@lemmy.world to c/boostforlemmy@lemmy.world
4 comments fedilink
 

https://lemmy.world/post/46959884

I opened this thread and clicked the image to zoom and it was all blurry. I thought the Op had out in. Low quality image to the post but when I clicked and downloaded the image and opened it, the image was much higher quality.

Is this someone using the "thumbnail" field in the post feature which maybe isn't used that often which is why it hasn't come up for me before? I'm no fediverse expert, is it someone cross posting from another linked site or app and that's why it's displaying differently?

Just strange to have such a low quality image when clicking on the image to view vs. downloading a higher res version.

TIA

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Money and Jobs - Basic protections, transparency that WA and CA provide for workers and jobs seekers Oregon hasn't bothered to set up (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by pdxfed@lemmy.world to c/oregon@sh.itjust.works
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Oregon is often listed as a "progressive" state, but in fact, has failed to keep up or institute some worker, job and wage pieces and are embarrassingly behind as of 2026:

  • Washington and California both have statewide minimum salaried/exempt wages. As of 2026, the minimum annual salary an exempt(salaried) WA employee can be paid is $80,168.40, and in CA it's $70,304. WA's bill is particularly progressive and in the last 3 years has caught up to and now passed CA for the required state salaried minimum. New York, Maine and Colorado also have salaried minimum thresholds. Meanwhile, Oregon has...nothing for salaried/exempt employees and only toes the Federal line, current still at $35,536 since 2019 when a Texas lawsuit and corrupt judge clawed back an Obama increase to $47k. More on that history across presidential administrations since 2004 here but at any rate, it's embarrassing Oregon hasn't moved on this despite Democrats having total control--easy to see who pads their pockets.

  • Oregon has no job posting salary disclosure requirements. Both CA and WA have required job posts to have the salary range in them as of 2023. Oregon, continues to provide employers the benefit of darkness where inequality pervades and employees invest the time and effort in application to jobs where by the time an employer may disclose the salary the grip of sunk cost may not leave the candidate with other options. This is embarrassing and could be easily fixed, the only people advocating against this are greedy, or incompetent--even a basic passage of this is not hard and decent employers already do it as they don't want to waste candidates' or their own company time.

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Background battery drain crazy - yahoo Finance (lemmy.world)
 

Not sure if this is the website or a new version but I had my phone in my pocket all day while working, went from 100% to 35%, had an incognito single tab open at finance.yahoo.com and that's what android said did nearly all the battery usage.

Could be a different website wouldn't and it's just yahoo frequently updating/pushing content I didn't even have my phone open/active hardly at all, it was using so much the back was warm which is what had me check even what was using it and why the battery was so low.

149.0 (Build #2016150063), b20f603334b8677ba67ed2fb12a1043b3c8c6933 GV: 149.0-20260318190823 AS: 149.0 OS: Android 16

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The Weekly Struggle (imgflip.com)
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The Weekly Struggle (imgflip.com)
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Cavs decide they can "fix her" and net Harden by giving up Garland (www.nba.com)
 

Surely this will be the team where Harden isn't a toxic, defense avoiding premadonnna?

What is CLE doing?

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Grizz trade JJJ to Jazz for bag of marbles (www.nba.com)
 

What are the grizz doing?

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Neverending scroll? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by pdxfed@lemmy.world to c/boostforlemmy@lemmy.world
5 comments fedilink
 

App used to automatically load posts from what I recall but no longer seems to even under "all" categories so it's certainly not a "tiny communities/no new posts” thing. If I scroll back to the top of "all" and drag down to refresh, new content loads

Boost/Lemmy/android/pixel8a but seems like a server issues unless I've missed a setting somewhere?

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The truth behind the UK's so-called 'millionaire exodus'--a false claim repeated in the US and elsewhere (www.bigissue.com)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by pdxfed@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
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Right wing media and think tanks consistently blitz the news and press when tax increases are discussed, threatened or, in the recnent instance of Mamdani, the new more progressive mayor of NY, that progressive taxation policy drives the rich to leave.

I wanted to share this article about the UK media outlets misleading, inaccurate and over representation of coverage here of the identical issue as the same schlock fear mongering without any data is done there as in the US. I assume the playbook is the same in Canada, Australia and elsewhere but would be interested to hear from those better informed.

Coordinated, well funded attacks on critical democratic infrastructure are not coincidence globally, they are the playbook.

cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/29858954

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Do your clothes fit (USA) (lemmy.world)
 

As someone >90th percentile in height and >75th percentile in weight for the US, I've found in the last 5 years I now no longer fit into most "Large" size clothing and need to buy more "Medium" sized clothing. I haven't lost/gained weight nor shrunk(that I'm aware of). Statistically, numerically and culturally this seems strange.

Anyone else find sizes that "should" or "used to" fit have morphed and you now shop different sizes where your body size hasn't changed?

A few random calculators: https://tall.life/height-percentile-calculator-age-country/ https://simulconsult.com/resources/measurement.html?type=weight

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