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[–] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 4 points 11 minutes ago

Yes. My point wasn't that "they're not illegal immigrants because they pay their taxes", but that - of all the immigrants one could have - the ones that do pay taxes, while getting nothing in return for it are surely even more profitable for a state than actual citizens which can and do make use of public services.

[–] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 4 points 16 minutes ago

"They kept calling us oblivious idiots for some reason."

[–] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 18 points 55 minutes ago (2 children)

Presumably, the IRS would only know about them if, you know, they pay their taxes.

[–] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 6 points 1 hour ago

Well, that's true. It's driving us all straight into the ground at velocities more typically associated with railgun development or orbital mechanics.

[–] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

Eh, tried it. Doesn't seem to support regex or even wildcard matching, which is... suboptimal. The preview window also often fails to show the content of the current file correctly.

[–] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 17 points 2 hours ago

Hah, okay. That's pretty cool. If people are going to be writing farming bots anyway, one might as well make it the formal objective.

[–] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 6 points 2 hours ago

I'm fine right here, thanks. Although I'd been using Reddit for some time at that point, I permanently left Digg as part of the Great Exodus. I don't see any particular appeal to going back to a centralized service, especially in the current climate.

[–] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Somehow, that managed to make her more feminine.

[–] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

It's hardly surprising. He's always wanted to be Tony Stark, e.g. simultaneously a nerd and one of the cool kids. Unfortunately for Musk, Stark could pull that off because A) He's neither real nor a realistic character and B) was a bona fide world-class genius. Musk - who's so far from being a genius that you need the JWST to resolve 'smart' from his location in intellectual phase space - characteristically just managed to concurrently fail at both.

[–] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Setting aside all considerations of Trump and his Russian entanglements for a moment, it's interesting how machine learning mirrors our own preconceptions back at us. It can be nice and validating, but not necessarily insightful when applied to public opinion. All it means is that Trump being subordinate to Russian interest is the common expressed perception. That doesn't make it wrong (at all, in this case), but we didn't need an LMM to tell us that.

It's far more useful when applied to seeking out trends or patterns in scientific datasets where those are considerably less apparent. We really shouldn't use this technology to build echo chambers for ourselves.

[–] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 28 points 17 hours ago

Somehow I don't think that'll draw in customers.

[–] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 2 points 19 hours ago

I'm currently using Sayonara, but Rythmbox is perfectly fine too.

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