I have anecdotal evidence that people get misinformation from tiktok.

My son in law (who unfortunately lives with us, but that’s another rant) was telling me about a third assassination plot against Donald Trump. He wanted to show me this tiktok with the news. I was able to inform him that these rumors weren’t accurate, and he quickly confirmed that.

But I only knew to question his assertion because i’d already seen news here on Lemmy that there were debunked rumors of another assassination plot. That is to say, Lemmy never pushed the tumor as news, but rather only reported about the already debunked rumors continuing to circulate. The disinformation continuing to spread was the interesting news on Lemmy.

Yep, I think you’re right.

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Yeah, I think you’re probably exactly right.

I guess that goes to show that harsh penalties don’t prevent crimes. Sigh… our justice system is so messed up.

How do you bring yourself to do something so wrong, that you can’t stand the idea of living after people find out?

It’s like that first rule of gambling, never bet more than youre willing to lose… Just never do anything so wrong that you can’t live with it.

Found the Chinese agent!

under international law if a device is used for military transmissions it is a valid target and can be attacked.

I think this means that if an Israeli sells you a phone, they become a valid target for military strikes.

Fun fact, a group of pedants is called a flem. To use it in a sentence: “the party was ruined by a flem of pedants”.

Just use llama?

I know this sounds horrible, but for the Republicans to be this panicked doesn’t exactly bode well for their chances, even if they cheat.

I was there for the election of George W Bush. My takeaway is that you can absolutely win by cheating, if the opposition just lets you do it.

The headline should read:

Despite best efforts and all odds, ISPs find themselves on the right side of history.

Those now saying 5 to 10 years are VC backed startups.

It’s scientists and engineers saying it, it may also be VCs, but 5-10 is the official line from engineers.

The bottom line is this, maybe one of these startups or smaller reactor designs will work, you never know. But at the end of the day, ITER is scheduled to be completed in 2034, and at that scale, it will be net energy positive, there’s no doubt.

Honestly, I think we’re getting really very close! We’ve been in this cycle of eternally “30 years away”. These days we’re in a cycle of “5-10 years away”. That sounds like a joke, but we really are closing in.

Now that said, while we can eventually get fusion to work, it will absolutely not solve all of our energy problems. Once it’s actually possible, it will still be the most expensive source of energy available. Which means once we can do it, we won’t actually want to do it.

Hospitals are practically faraday cages, it can be hard to get a signal in large hospitals.

But a text message that amounts to just a few bits can usually sneak through without much delay.

Let me know when the governor develops a technology to crack down on deepfakes. Using legislation to address the problem is… adorable.

For most people they won’t need anything more than a 7800x3d for 5 maybe even 10 years?

I know from experience, it is very difficult to get 10 years of gaming out of a processor. I’m a pretty frugal guy, and I’m actually ok with merely “acceptable” gaming performance, but I think the most I’ve ever managed was 8 years on the same processor, and that was with the core 2 duo. I called it the super chip, the chip that stayed competitive even when multiple new architectures were available. And honestly, 8 years was really pretty good. But when I switched to a quad core i5, it was definitely a necessary change.

Israel might be the baddies…

I’m waiting for all the inevitable news headlines “Diddy didn’t he?”.

And through neglect, hundreds more in crashes.

Doesn’t bode well for them…

You know, along with all the other news about Boeing in the last 5 years…

Honestly, I think it’s time to throw in the towel. Maybe go into support and service mode for all their existing products, and just not develop anything new.