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Catch42

@ Catch42 @kbin.social

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  • Oppenheimer or Barbie first?

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  • They aren’t related other than being released on the same day. They are tonal opposites so people are having fun combining them as an unusual double feature.

    Admittedly, I’m going to watch one on saturday and the other on sunday because I don’t really want to spend 5 hours at the theater in one day.

  • This got me thinking which button to click

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  • trademarks are good for 10 years and looking at some of twitters trademarks it seems the renewed them in 2019. So yes, in 2029, if X hasn't reverted to being called twitter then their trademarks will be unprotected.

  • What are some cool skills that are best learned young?

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  • Learning to drive. I've met a few people who didn't learn to drive until their late 20's or 30's and there always seems to be some awkwardness to their driving. On the opposite side, learning to drive at 16 seems to encourage reckless habits to form, people I've known who waited until 18 have much better driving habits on average.

  • As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch

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  • Uh, the first one. It's all downhill after that. It's the only one he's ever pulled off. Look at the goals for the master plan part 2 and you'll see that they haven't managed to do a single one, but Elon still went ahead a published a part 3. Why actually meet goals when you can just pretend you've met them by posting new ones, I guess.

  • I think the rush to recreate communities is a bad idea.

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  • Hi, thank you for your contributions!

    I find myself wondering how many people we need to have a self-sustaining community. I've been making and stockpiling memes and discussion ideas so I can post regularly, but ideally there'd be enough people so that my posts aren't the majority.

  • 'Heavy debt': Elon Musk says Twitter cash flow negative after ad revenue declines

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  • Ah, I misunderstood what you were asking; No I am not sure. I made my assessment based on what is available. If I'm proven wrong when Tesla either releases the data or more likely is forced to release the data by NHTSA, then I will stand corrected.

  • What Are You Playing This Weekend? (July 15th)

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  • The pikmin 4 demo

  • 'Heavy debt': Elon Musk says Twitter cash flow negative after ad revenue declines

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  • I read both articles you have linked to, I don't think either of them contradict what I said. Both articles point out that Tesla dominate automation related accidents, which makes sense because Tesla has a far greater number of automation equipped cars on the road. Furthermore they point out that those accidents have risen dramatically over the past few years. If you look at the graph on the WaPo article you linked to you'll see it's in agreement with what I said since Tesla switched to vision based systems in mid 2021.

  • 'Heavy debt': Elon Musk says Twitter cash flow negative after ad revenue declines

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  • Yes, because rising road fatalities and having lower than average road fatalities are not mutually exclusive. Radar-era autopilot was incredibly safe, so even though Elon made the stupid decision to make it vision-based which has caused fatalities to go up, they're still below average. You can check NHTSA's ratings just type in Tesla in the search bar and you'll see that they've gotten a 5 star rating on every car in every category.

    Of course if you look at Tesla's own data they claim to the orders of magnitude safer, which I'm sure is only possible with some creative data manipulation, but it's silly to claim that Tesla's are less safe than average.

  • 'Heavy debt': Elon Musk says Twitter cash flow negative after ad revenue declines

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  • Well, Tesla is publicly traded, makes money, and clearly their cars work because they have lower than average road fatalities. With the disparity of how badly Twitter's being run vs Tesla I wonder how long it's been since Elon's actually been in charge of anything other than being a spokesperson for Tesla.

  • How Long it Took for Popular Apps to Reach 100 Million Users

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  • This graph has some scale issues; 5 days and 2 months look basically the same and the difference between 5 years and 7 years is also minimal. They would have been better off dropping the "World Wide Web" which doesn't fit anyway since it isn't an app and giving more space to everything else.

  • I think the rush to recreate communities is a bad idea.

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  • Why not try starting a magazine with a very similar name? I think the magazines are case sensitive so maybe m/Hardware

  • Have you ever had a hyper realistic dream that you still remember after years?

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  • Yes, but I've forgotten it now

  • Lemmy + Kbin Just Surpassed 500,000 Total Users

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  • It's another site in fediverse. It's a link aggregator like Lemmy is. I'm replying to your comment from kbin :)

  • Hybrid-work trend may wipe out $800 billion from office property values by 2030, McKinsey study says

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  • Good. Property values are a necessary evil in our economic system to allocate finite amounts of land. Unlike say the value of a company that makes things, which reflects the utility gained from it's products, property values mostly represent scarcity, falling property values therefore indicates that we have partially mitigated that scarcity.

  • I think the rush to recreate communities is a bad idea.

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  • I think that's true for some niche topics, but other ones are better served by having dedicated communities from the start.

    When I joined I made 2 magazines. One of them was about collecting Nintendo games and I quickly realized that I would have better discussions if I just joined the Nintendo magazine. I've basically abandoned it. The other I made, m/Otomegames I think is needed. We could post in the general gaming magazines, but there's a whole bunch conventions and inside jokes that people who don't play otome games wouldn't understand.

    Now for my shameless plug: do you like otome games? Do you not know what otome games are, but romance/adventure games made for women sounds intriguing? Come join us <- direct link. "@Otomegames @kbin.social" <- remove the space for federated peeps

  • I think the rush to recreate communities is a bad idea.

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  • Forgot to switch to your alt?

  • Antique Memes Roadshow @lemmy.world
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    This one always confused me

  • Clemson University to ban TikTok on all campus networks

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  • I see that difference as a rather significant one.

  • EU will require removable batteries from 2027

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  • Apple could do this but they’d be driving away their customer base, the hardware is fine but software is really the reason to get an iphone.

  • Personal Justifications for different phone life cycles

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  • Most of the cost will not be borne by me personally. Even if the price of food goes up, as someone from a rich country I already spend relatively little of my income on food. I suspect this is the case for most people reading this thread right now. So for me it is about morals not money. Yet, I fundamentally agree with you; money not morals is the easiest way to convince people to make a change. That’s why I focused on it in my original post.

    I want to push back on your idea that food prices will continue to go up. IRL, I work in food sustainability, which means that companies hire me to to help them decrease the environmental impact of their companies. While the increasing global temperatures will push down yields if nothing changes, things are constantly changing and tons of people are working very hard to make sure that food yields are resilient to increasing heat. Plus, and this is the area I work in, we are working to reduce food waste at the producer level which will also help reduce upward price pressure.

    Anyway, I’ve enjoyed our discussion

  • Technology @kbin.social
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    Personal Justifications for different phone life cycles

  • Technology @kbin.social
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    Are lots of websites really going downhill and/or closing or does it just seem like it to me?

  • New Communities @lemmy.world
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    Join m/Otomegames for discussion and news about 2d husbandos