[-] megopie 16 points 1 week ago

Aldi nord and Aldi sud are two different companies (north and south), they split when two brothers disagreed on whether to sell cigarettes in the grocery store. The Aldi’s in the US are Aldi Sud.

[-] megopie 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think to some extent this cadre is swinging at ghosts. They were presented with inconvenient (to them) truths and rejected them. Now they construct increasingly elaborate and nonsensical alternative reasons for things being the way they are. The consistent observable realities they are encountering get written off as malicious tools of an imagined enemy. So they lash out at anything that contradicts their world view, especially when it’s evidence based and not just opinion.

It’s a fight that will never end, because they live in reality, not their idea of it. This isn’t to excuse their behavior but to say that they’re not just evil and mean or carrying out some carful plan. They’re very much making things up as they go and picking new fights as they hit roadblocks. If left in power, they will slowly destroy everything attempting to make the world fit their preconceived notions.

[-] megopie 17 points 2 weeks ago

I’d highly recommend:

Technology connections; he does in depth videos about the engineering of household appliances we often take for granted.

Bernadette Banner; she does videos about historical textile arts, weaving, sewing, ECT.

Lindsey Nikole; she does videos about ancient animals, Zoology, and Paleontology.

Ze frank; he does irreverent videos about interesting species of animal.

[-] megopie 17 points 3 weeks ago

And going to server farms and just ripping out random cables until something visibly fails. Then assuming that any cables pulled out that didn’t cause an immediate failure were not important.

I mean, maybe someone could have told him what everything did, but you know, they got fired because they refused to sacrifice their work life balance.

[-] megopie 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Drag’s a user with weird neopronouns and got upset when people didn’t use them. This started ‘discourse’ about not intentionally misgendering people just because you don’t like them, even if they use weird Neo-pronouns.

Also went around telling people to off them selves. Got banned for it.

[-] megopie 18 points 2 months ago
[-] megopie 18 points 4 months ago

I don’t want ten or twenty year out commitments from companies. I want immediate policy implementation from law makers. Anything less than laws that take immediate effect I will assume to be pandering and not real action.

[-] megopie 18 points 7 months ago

Also helps defeat facial recognition systems you haven’t consented to be scanned by.

[-] megopie 17 points 11 months ago

It’s just not the same without the Dracula flow guy

[-] megopie 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Gravel is a very important construction aggregate.

Although it depends on the mechanics for how useful 2 would be. Does the gravel just like appear near you? Is there just a guy who gives you bags of gravel? Do you have to go to a specific location to get it? Is there a limit to the through put? What’s the volume of output of the gravel. what type of gravel is it? Could it be processed for other minerals?

Like, free gravel sounds pretty damn awesome based on the mechanics.

[-] megopie 17 points 1 year ago

According to the declassified internal FBI document I just linked, they do have access to the content of messages from what’s app, without any formal legal request.

The NY post is a poor source and completely unreliable.

[-] megopie 18 points 1 year ago

So, they’re really easy to work with and relatively affordable, so great for prototyping, and acceptable for production if a company wants to get stuff out the door without getting a proper custom built solution that would be better in the long run.

When spin (electric scooter app rental company) pulled out of Seattle, they didn’t pick up a lot of the scooters there. People started pulling them apart when it was deemed they were legally abandoned, and it turned out they were all running on raspberry pi’s as their brains.

Ultimately it’s save money on the development side since it allows companies to use less experienced or specialized employees. It’s obviously expensive in the long term since a custom built system that only does what you need it to would cost less

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