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CaNaCl sounds like a card game you play with grandma.

Sometimes the only real options are “bad” and “less bad”. An uncomfortable echo of something else we’re all familiar with, perhaps.

This does not mean that we should not criticise the less bad option, only that we should not switch to the the bad option.

I hope being part of the British Commonwealth doesn’t exclude them.

Not being sarcastic.

The link, however tenuous, to Britain and our asinine degree of exceptionalism shouldn’t be a stumbling block, but I can see Europe - especially France - considering that to be a problem.

Largely because of music recommendations on YouTube: Holiday by Green Day, specifically the intro, and He’s a Pirate, the theme from Pirates of the Caribbean

At the same time. There’s a similar kind of bounce to both of them and I think my brain is trying to cram them in the same bucket.

And then the LLM says something like “You’re absolutely right, there was an error in that code that is clear and obvious now it has been pointed out and despite the fact you gave the instruction to make no errors. Is there anything else I can help with?”

… and they’ll be too blind to take that as the warning it is and continue to ask even more of the LLM.

Literally in the blurb:

Carrying cash is too risky these days.

If you’re not getting mugged by the government, you’ll get mugged on the street instead.

Yeah, I’d say us Xennials are out here looking for the early web, wherever it might spring up.

This part of the Fediverse definitely has that early web feel to it. Loosely moderated, no “algorithm” and little to no corporate interference or ens**ttification. Just like Usenet used to be. (And maybe still is. Still waiting on a smart person to build a bridge to whatever’s left of Usenet from the Fediverse. Were I 25 years younger, I might have even tried to be that person.)

Left Reddit with the API exodus. But I’m not on Lemmy. Most of the traffic and discussion does seem to have ended up on Lemmy groups like this one, so that’s where my participation ends up, but I’ll be on kbin/mbin for as long as I can be.

Satirists make the best politicians, but most of them aren’t brave enough to try.

So I actually had to drill down into the report itself to find this out:

The organisation releasing the report has offered suggestions and policy ideas to local (if not national) governments that ought to bring down pollution and then relied on those cites to report back the success (or otherwise) of the implementation.

That alone has my sus alarm jingling. People never lie about pollution. Just ask, I don’t know, Volkswagen, maybe.

It also doesn’t report on whether that pollution - if it actually has reduced in a particular area - has simply moved outside the monitoring area. Because I bet there’s a bit of that going on too.

Yes it can. First you pump the sea full of the most obnoxious, toxic, lethal poison, then you wait for the global food web to collapse, taking humans with it.

Climate will begin to behave within a few hundred years.

Older folks might think you’re making a reference to Cliff Richard, a guy who is quite famous here, so expect that to come up every now and then.

Lots of people really don’t like the guy, or think he’s a bit cringe-worthy, but others regard him fondly.

Anyway, like yourself, Cliff isn’t his real name, but most people know him by it.

Do with this knowledge what you will.

Minor correction: Finland is Nordic, but not Scandinavian. It was arguably Scandinavian during the several hundred years it was occupied by Sweden, but that’s a somewhat touchy subject.

There are posts on Usenet from the mid-to-late '90s under my real name that are probably still around. I don’t go looking for them and hope they don’t come looking for me. About 50% of them are an embarrassment.

I never said it was empathy. I said it’s the closest thing you’ll ever get to it from him.

My bad. I used a double negative, which clearly confused you.

“That doesn’t mean that racism doesn’t exist there” means “racist behaviour almost certainly still goes on there”.

I can try to break this down to words of just one sound if you like, but to do that might be too mean, and it’s hard to write like this as well.

Nominally non-racist. Back during apartheid, South Africa was definitely racist. Now apartheid is over, everyone there, regardless of race, is supposed to be equal.

That doesn’t mean that racism doesn’t exist there, just that it’s no longer encoded into law, and indeed the opposite might be encoded, regarding hate crimes and the like.

South Africa isn’t a threat to America, no, but living in a post-apartheid, nominally non-racist country is super uncomfortable for rich, white racists. They perceive the situation as them being in danger, and this has triggered the closest thing to empathy that you’ll ever get out of DJT.

Not sure he’s been accused of killing any.

My diet is fine. You may have missed that I’m cutting out things that qualify as snacks. Things whose nutritional content is limited and are mostly fat and carbohydrates, including those commonly eaten right after what might otherwise be a sensible meal.

I’m talking biscuits (cookies), cakes and the like. I already don’t eat crisps (chips) nor do I drink anything with fizz or sugar (or both).

If I can’t get to a good weight doing just that, I might look into alternative sources of nutrition and superfoods, but those tend to cost the sort of money that I can ill afford to spend.

Also, I looked at the blurb for that book and it claims that it contains recipes that will “treat” cancer. That’s weasel wording to avoid being called snake oil, while at the same time convincing the gullible that it contains a cure, so you’ll forgive me if I give it a miss.

Same reason people like watching TV dramas. It’s escapism. They get to vicariously live someone else’s more colourful life - or are glad they’re not living the celebrity’s real or acted horrible life - for a short while to get away from their own.

And anyone on a screen is usually better-looking as well, which is a big draw.