I don’t think you’re wrong, but I think you expect too much from people. Some people don’t have more to offer than virtue signaling and proviking outrage. Not everyone has the capacity to write a thoughtful and compelling argument. We’re hanging out on Lemmy writing comments to each other. It’s an open forum. There’s no entrance exams or rules against slacktivism.

And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a slogan or a chant or a meme or a bumper sticker or a tshirt or a hat or a button or a plaquard or a tweet or an emoji being the summary of your message. It’s easier to share and easier to remember. Calling it “slacktivism” is itself a clever portmanteau to convey a much broader concept, instead of a thoughtful and compelling argument. But I’m not mad, because I understood what you were saying and do not need additional convincing.

If you’re reading yet another article about police protecting a criminal because the criminal wears a badge, then “ACAB” is sufficient to share your point of view. It would be really cool if we didn’t live in a society where the term had any relevance, and nobody knew exactly what it meant. Sadly, the things we have shorthand for tell us the things we see a lot.

ACAB is not an insult, it’s shorthand for an ideological shift in how we perceive civil servants. It’s a reminder, or a clue for those who haven’t seen it before, that we have a very real problem.

Similarly, references to the guillotine should serve as a reminder that the social contract applies to everyone. When the rich devalue the lives of the poor, enriching themselves at the expense of human suffering, they need a reminder that they are outnumbered. The downtrodden need a reminder that basic human decency is a reciprocal requirement.

I’m with you on personal insults, even against shitbags like Leon, but I also enjoy clever or novel insults, so it’s more about how repetitive they are for me.

“The company to which I’ve always given my money because I trusted them to make good products has started taking advantage of my trust and is producing shitty products. How do I avoid this?”

Stop buying their products the moment they stop making good ones.

I feel your frustration, but I think you already knew the answer. Any workaround or jailbreak or open source firmware update would just be avoiding the problem, not fixing it. Stop buying Logitech products.

Literally today heard a preteen at my daughter’s dance class say she was “rawdogging” the parking lot because she was walking around without shoes. No, child. Just… no.

Minimum three, if you happen to get it right the first time.

I don’t know enough sign language to say for sure, but I do know that signers are often expressive and mouth words along with signing. It’s actually something I’ve noticed that fakers don’t do, because they don’t have hand motions to match their mouths.

Edit to add, it would help to have audio, because I knew a few of those signs and it might match up with the speech.

Compare this lady

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvNPKwz4Ghw

Or this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CujDuBthnOw

Or this guy who seemed to actually know a few words

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIWJwIs3pbI

and here’s some real ASL interpreters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONlxsY1lbSk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byToG9ZWSM4

Notice the expressions match the tone and specific words.

Gonna need some clarification of the word “during,” there, Boss.

Edit to add my answer, it was while my roommate was on a date.

The problem is that there is a kernel of truth in the bullshit. EV manufacturers do create a lot of hazardous waste, and mining lithium, cobalt, et al does horrifying damage to the earth and the people who live there. We should be talking about that, and how to improve it.

That’s not an argument against EVs, though. It’s a reason to improve them, to iterate on the design. These are important conversations to have.

But on one side, you have the capitalist who makes money if you buy a car that runs on gasoline. They want to use any criticism of electric transportation, public infrastructure, or regulations and turn it into a staunch defense of the status quo or worse.

And on the other side, you have the capitalist who makes money if you buy an electric vehicle. They want to dismiss any criticism of their technology, the required infrastructure, or regulatory capture as the death throes of the fossil fuel industry.

Those are the sides. Those are the loudest voices. They stand just behind any scientific research and shout their bullshit as though it was fully supported by whatever flimsy preliminary result they can pay to produce.

Too often, it’s the same capitalist. They profit from the chaos and confusion. They count on you giving up and moving on, because they make the most money when exhaustion and demagogeury prevents any meaningful debate. They shout because they know their arguments are bullshit, and they win because they pay for the process we use to select our leaders.

This just reminds me that, in any hobby, there are nuanced turf wars and internal politics that superfans are invested in following. This is the sort of thing that I might have really cared about in my days as a gamer, and hearing about it now makes me realize how out of touch I am with the community.

I do miss it sometimes. Makes me nostaligic for riding the bus with friends and arguing about Sega vs Nintendo or what’s going on at Activision.

There’s one quibble about this that might actually alter the answer for OP. Your numbers are correct for purely random shuffles, but a shuffle isn’t purely random. A significant number of shuffles begin with a fresh deck where the cards are arranged in order and by suit. And a significant number of shufflers use the same methods, specifically the riffle, the overhand, or some other variant of those.

This is relevant to the field of cryptography, because humans are bad at simulating randomness. If you were to draw the top card from a shuffled deck, you probably have a lower chance of drawing an ace of spades than any other card, simply because the shuffler would not feel like they had shuffled if it was still on top. When picking lotto numbers, people tend to spread out their picks to get a quasi-even distribution across the available numbers, but it’s just as likely to come up 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 as any other combination of numbers. Likewise, people playing with cards tend to cluster suits or pairs together when playing, so you’d be more likely to see those cards in proximity depending on the type of shuffle. Overhand tends to keep clumps together, and riffle or weave tend to interlace the cards in a way that still keeps pairs, sets, and runs close.

Of course, the difference would only be mathematically interesting, since in practice a good few shuffles is certainly close enough to completely random, especially if you start with a previously-shuffled deck. If you were trying to predict a card, your odds on any given draw is still going to be roughly 1 in 52.

They also may be much larger data centers than in other countries. This source is just a total count of individual data centers.

Still working for me.

I think there will be some protests, some violence, but it will be much smaller than the protesters want it to be, and any violence will be swiftly met with law and order.

Jan 6 happened in part because Trump was in power. Election deniers in every state tried to gum up the works, and will try again. But Trump is not in power. He cannot exchange favors or offer pardons. People obstructing the democratic process will be arrested and prosecuted.

I won’t. But my concern is that Mozilla is heading in the wrong direction lately, and I have used Firefox for a very long time.

I don’t want that. I want full control and absolute privacy. I do not want your AI reading my emails. Look at that summary, it’s as long as the whole email, and you’re not going to be able to trust that it picked up on the most important part of the email. This is not efficiency, this is novelty.

There was a movie about this last year. It was based on a true story, but strays a bit from what actually happened. It’s pretty good. It’s called Hitman.

Market demand is not the only factor, though. Manufacturers make design decisions based on a variety of factors, from supportability and manufacturing efficiency to alternative profit vectors like bloatware and proprietary ports.

If someone made a slider phone with a physical keyboard, it could be the best selling phone on the market without making the most money for the company.

I feel like this has been done. There was an AI generated “debate” between Biden and Trump that was mostly swear words. But it was trained on their speeches and was mostly gibberish and insults.

Edit: It was on Twitch, and users could add inputs and questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDKBtAWtTfg

The measure’s description will say that the commission created by Issue 1 is “required to gerrymander the boundaries of state legislative and congressional districts to favor the two largest political parties.”

Lolwut? The issue explicitly does the opposite of that.

Does the term describe yourself? If not, you haven’t reclaimed it.