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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • Perhaps I wasn’t paying appropriate attention but it also seemed unexpected to me. Everywhere has a background level of “we want more mods and admins” so it gets easy to ignore, and it feels like we’ve gone straight from there to “right we’re shutting down now” without an intermediate “we’re really struggling here folk and may have to consider shutting down if it doesn’t improve”.


  • letsgo@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldHighway to hell!
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    1 month ago

    if you drive too fast you’re not insured

    I explicitly asked my insurance company (verbally, not a chatbot) about this last time I went to Germany. They said as long as I’m not breaking any laws, my insurance is valid. No speed limit means there is no “too fast to be insured”.














  • I get the strength of your feelings, but for now the MAGAts aren’t actually killing people. Yet, maybe, but that remains to be seen. By calling for their deaths, and doubling down on it, you are making yourself worse than them. Killing political opponents is something we see in places like Russia and Iran, not in a (supposedly) advanced democracy like the USA, where a wide political spectrum is meant to be part of the design.

    (BTW I’m British, and a big fan of what America SHOULD be. Somewhat less enthusiastic about what you’ve become.)

    The reason we’re seeing this sort of stuff coming to the forefront, IMHO, is because the mainstream political parties aren’t listening to the people’s legitimate concerns about immigration, poor public services, lack of work and so on. So when the Nazis strut in, apparently championing all that stuff, it’s hardly surprising when people vote for them. The solution is not to murder those voters but for the mainstream parties to take that stuff into consideration and make sure the far right remains “fringe”. There will always be far-righters, the trick is to minimise their influence.

    The rise of Nazism really needs to be a wakeup call for the moderates: you aren’t listening to some really important stuff, you need to start, and no it’s not “racist”.






  • letsgo@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.worldA 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy
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    3 months ago

    Just because you can make phones with an army of cheap Chinese labour doesn’t mean that’s the only or best way. With suitable “design for manufacture”, pick and place robots like those used in PCB design could relatively easily be adopted to screw screws in where needed. Use plugs instead of those flat cable things, then the whole lot could be easily automated. Remove any aspect of the design that needs fingers and the whole process can be automated.