Instead you just have to trust that anything you’re doing is actually with who they claim to be. No encryption means no identity or security guarantee.

Much more likely is that it never existed. All the “savings” are programs that already paid out, or have contract penalties for early termination, were lies based on misunderstanding how the programs worked like tax rebates being counted as money already paid, etc.

DOGE has already had to walk back savings claims multiple times when it’s pointed out publicly that they can’t do basic math or know how the systems work to base their inflated numbers on.

Idk, kind of feels appropriate that the White House pages should post like the President would. Not just the filtered PR responses. Some people might wake up to how ridiculous it is. If even one person realizes how idiotic the President must be for those types of posts then it’s a win as far as I’m concerned.

The cult members will believe whatever anyway no matter what is posted, but if even one person wakes up to the reality it’s a win.

And notably, Japan does not have broad fair use copyright exceptions like the US. There are a very specific set of circumstances where it applies, and Generative AI for sure is not one of those.

Please may be useless. Thank you isn’t useless. That tells you that the prior response gave them the answer they were looking for. No response at all could mean that, or that they gave up, or any number of other things.

Why bother with that? That’s gonna be $1000 just for the box alone, and still lock me into the Synology ecosystem.

I can build a NAS with more capability for less than that. Like taking a Jonsbo NAS case and have the freedom to do whatever I want with it, with plenty of space to move everything else I’m running over to that as well. Even their N5 would likely be less expensive, and I’d have room for 12 HDDs and 4 SSDs then.

I had been considering upgrading, my current 4 bay Synology is physically full and running out of storage space. Moving that to a larger Synology box and adding drives would be easiest, basically plug and play.

But now instead I’ll probably just switch to a more traditional NAS instead. Run TrueNAS, or maybe give HexOS a look. If I’m going to have to convert from my current proprietary Synology filesystem anyway I might as well rebuild from scratch. As it is I’ve shifted all the services off the Synology and Docker to a dedicated Proxmox box.

I think they were saying the car software wouldn’t add artificial distances to short trips, where it’s more obvious. Not that the real world measurement is difficult or anything like that.

See, that’s very true… but he clearly is doing some shit on his own. The tariffs serve no useful purpose, not for political gain, or for the billionaires, it is actually bad for them. They’re stuck trying to ride the wild and unplanned market volatility from the inconsistencies and rollbacks.

If anything, it seems like that’s the shiny thing they’re letting him focus on so he doesn’t do other stupid shit that gets in the way of the actual plans.

That assumes he didn’t need all that to pay back Russian debts immediately.

I wouldn’t be surprised if 20 years from now we find out that Trump money directly funded the continued Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Not a billionaire, that’s for sure. Him being so sensitive about it and never wanting to appear less than that, proves it, and it’s been the case for decades.

Got to admit, he’s accomplished a shit ton in his first 100 days already, way more than basically any president in history.

He’s doing a fantastic job of destroying the country in every single way simultaneously. Not just destroying the democracy directly, but all American influence and soft power worldwide. He has already managed to do more damage to America than any terrorist attacks ever could have imagined, in record time.

I mean, he probably was if we go by what he supposedly stood for. But actually tending to that dichotomy with their shitty world view tends to break their brains.

When you find yourself on the other side from Big Bird, Mr. Rogers, and Captain America, you need to do some serious reevaluation.

A reminder that Fox News was/is actively against Mister Rogers and everything he stood for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29lmR_357rA

To be fair the bagging area issue is usually caused by a bad configuration, and usually weight based, not camera recognition.

Different stores setup those systems with varying parameters, some are so strict that just regular product variances go outside their limits.

They’ll still further increase prices citing this as the reason to maximize profits further, knowing consumers don’t actually shop around much.

All these fast food places seem to have forgotten the place they sit in the economy. They’re now the cost of a regular restaurant in many places, and often take just as long now. They just happen to have a drive thru window, and even that’s not a guarantee for many of them anymore.

Why should I pay McDonald’s $15 for a burger meal when I can get the same thing at the same price from a better quality fast food place, or an actual restaurant burger for the same price?

The only reason people are still going there is because they haven’t looked around to realize that other businesses haven’t inflated their new prices under the guise of inflation the same way, and those other options are now a much better deal.

“You can’t put your hands on the students”

“Okay”

Just install Signal, say you’re a journalist, and wait to be added.

I never discounted the meat and dairy industries. They’re an issue as well. However…

Fucking almonds use 14% of the water in the State and 2/3 of that is exported. That’s a ridiculous use of water for a single shitty crop no matter how you cut it.

Almonds could be removed from most people’s diets entirely with very little change on their part, hell most probably wouldn’t even notice, and recovering nearly 10% of CA’s water usage alone would do more than swapping showerheads. People would definitely notice the result of beef and milk availability dropping by a similar amount. You need to start with the things people won’t have to make active changes for.

Dairy is a big issue, like you mentioned… And milk alternatives are much better than dairy when it comes to water usage. But even then, out of those alternatives, nut based options like almond milk use a lot more water in the process than something like oat milk or soy milk. If people are already reducing their dairy usage with alternatives, there should be a larger focus on the ones with larger impact.

Also, everyone always talks trees and CO2, they’re a fraction of the global cycle, algae converts 40x as much CO2 as trees do. And it does so much faster, with a higher growth rate. But everyone is always so focused on the trees they ignore easily available alternatives.