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asparagus9001

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  • 13% of the population commits 50% of the crime

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  • Defederation from this garbage ass instance when?

  • Johnny Cash Is a Hero to Americans on the Left and Right. But His Music Took a Side.

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  • One of my favorite takes to throw out at random is "The Grateful Dead was the greatest country band of all time".

    Now I'll admit I mostly say it to wind people up, but I don't not believe it, either. It hinges on two things: most people don't really think of country music as having bands (even when the singer, of course, has a backing band) and I think Workingman's Dead is a genuinely great all-time country album. American Beauty crossed genres a little harder but it has its bona fide country moments too.

    What I'll say is - if you always dismissed the Dead as "17 minutes of masturbation via the electric guitar" (and you're not wrong either), at least give Workingman's Dead a spin. The tracks clock in at standard radio play length and I think it will give you a different perspective. If you still don't like it, fair enough.

  • Spotify’s first US price hike for Premium is coming next week

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  • Spotify is a publicly traded company. Their financial reports are required to be audited every single year. They really are losing money. There's no way around that.

    The studios, most of which are also publicly traded, report billions of dollars in profit every year. Hollywood accounting is about using shell companies to move money around (back to the main studio) while ensuring that nobody ever gets paid out on the profits of the movie by the LLC they set up to produce the movie.

    I finally got out of accounting. It's really hard to commit fraud at any scale when you're a publicly traded and audited company. People are gonna call bullshit on that but I'm serious. I would be in favor of requiring every "small business" to be audited on a regular basis because I don't know the exact percentage but I would testify in front of Congress right now that easily over 50% of all the small business clients I ever had were committing fraud somewhere.

    One case that comes to mind is a guy with a small construction company who had funneled over a half a million dollars to his personal house, calling it business expenses. I took this to my boss - who signed a code of professional ethics and has a professional license on the line - and their reply was "he's defrauding the government out of about a quarter million dollars but we're not the accounting police and that's why we don't sign his tax returns."

  • Tesla Identified As Most Recalled Car Brand, Mercedes & Toyota Least

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  • efficiency is when you have to recall your cars the most out of anybody because it's more efficient to get them out the door and in to the suckers customers hands and then fix them later

  • Alabama GOP refuses to draw second Black district, despite Supreme Court order

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  • The funny thing is if you go back to George Bush - they were conceivably on the path to have a permanent majority if they ever got their immigration reform plan done. Latinos y centroamericanos are overwhelmingly Catholic and to various degrees on the conservative side of things, and the Republicans threw it all away to be racist.

  • People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars — For the first time in 28 years of JD Power’s car owner survey, there is a consecutive year-over-year decline in satisfaction, wit...

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  • I'll be praying for you when the wave of recalls start coming out

  • 87% of classic video games are 'critically endangered.' As a millennial, I'm worried it means a huge chunk of my childhood will disappear.

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  • I'd really love to know what the percentage is that is or is at risk of truly being lost - this article just completely ignores that piracy exists. Maybe you can't buy game boy games or Metal Gear or Unreal Tournament anymore but the idea that they are inaccessible is just plainly wrong. I guess you probably can't advertise that in business insider (if only to prevent some ridiculous lawsuit from Nintendo) but it changes this number drastically.

    I actually do remember stuff from the 90s and 2000s that's truly lost, and it's a damn shame, but the black flag will always provide.

  • Home searched in Tupac Shakur murder investigation

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  • Neat! I found that after some time playing the guitar I was able to fundamentally understand how a violin works. They're very similar instruments, in many ways (especially if you are playing pizzicato on the violin.)

    I'm still no good at.... either one of them really, but I find that every time I even spend a month messing around with an instrument I gain a deeper understanding of how they all work, and music in general.

  • Comcast advertising “10G” in hopes to confuse consumers to accept slower speeds

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  • I'm going to assume that 4g works decently enough where you are at this point. Much the same thing happened during the 4g rollout - it was too sparse, the phone spent too many resources hunting for a 4g signal when 3g was right there. You end up with a less stable connection because it's constantly bouncing back and forth.

    I think if you look up how to disable 5g on whatever phone you have (which is possible on any phone) and stick to 4g for now you'll find the performance is as good as ever - if not better, with some of the load from other users being pushed to 5g.

    I worked for "a major phone company" when 4g was rolling out. It's unfortunate during this period, but I don't know how you prevent it. 5g will objectively be better for 99.9% of users at some point - it might not be now, but everyone has to sell a 5g phone to "future proof" and have another selling feature. I wish the companies would educate people a little more on the rollout but then you're basically telling them "this thing we're selling you isn't really ready yet". And I mean, if you live in a major city, it's working just fine... but not everybody does.

  • News @lemmy.world
    asparagus9001 @lemmy.world

    Home searched in Tupac Shakur murder investigation

    abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/home-searched-tupac-shakur-murder-investigation-source/story

  • So did anyone watch the 7/16 nugs stream and have issues with it?

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  • Yeah I dunno. The screen was pretty hard to see to begin with but it didn't seem to follow a pattern you would expect of like... log in > go to some kind of "purchased shows page" (I've never actually used nugs so I dunno exactly) > click on the show > get an error or anything like that. It was more like clicking around in the menu a handful of times and then just going back to youtube and loading up a different part of the same video. It was just super weird and janky.

  • Grateful Dead @lemmy.world
    asparagus9001 @lemmy.world

    So did anyone watch the 7/16 nugs stream and have issues with it?

  • Advertising revenue in Twitter crashes by 50%

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  • Remember that time he said he was going to solve the COVID ventilator crisis and sent out a bunch of obsolete overstock sleep apnea machines that nobody wanted and weren't actually useful for the purpose? That was a good time.

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    Everyone's a Spartan until its time to do Spartan things

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  • speak for yourself

  • ChatGPT use declines as users complain about ‘dumber’ answers, and the reason might be AI’s biggest threat for the future

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  • I guess at the core of this, we are afraid of ourselves. We are afraid that the worste of humanity outpaces the better parts, that the inputs and training aren’t altruistic but are more pointedly “bad” or “wrong”, and thus leading to “harmful”, whether through misinformation, lies, or fabrications.

    Is there any reason not to be afraid? I think you could say that Tay was essentially the same idea a few years back and it took like 48 hours loose on the internet for it to spout literal Nazi (1930s-40s German NSDAP) rhetoric. Besides that being a PR disaster - if "AI" is only getting stronger and more integrated into human life and society, that can be pretty problematic.

  • Children addicted to video games ran away from home in the middle of the night to find WiFi when parents turned their internet connection off, says expert

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  • Gambling addiction - a rather well documented phenomenon over centuries - wasn't even in the DSM until the fifth edition. Gaming addiction will be in the sixth. See you then.

  • Children addicted to video games ran away from home in the middle of the night to find WiFi when parents turned their internet connection off, says expert

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  • I did bother to read it. Did you? Just because it hasn't been fully fleshed out to be officially listed with diagnostic criteria and full information for the manual doesn't mean that it hasn't been defined or that it doesn't exist or that the APA does not classify it as a mental disorder.

    Do you have some kind of ideological problem with the concept of gaming addiction, specifically, in the universe of all the other behavioral addictions out there? Gamers™ sure do seem to get sensitive any time anyone says anything that could be construed as remotely negative about their hobby - like that some people develop crippling addictions to it as outlined in the topic article.

  • Children addicted to video games ran away from home in the middle of the night to find WiFi when parents turned their internet connection off, says expert

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  • It's in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - THE authoritative guide on what is or is not considered a mental disorder, yes.

    This is hardly groundbreaking stuff - people can be addicted to porn, food, exercise, pretty much anything. Really the primary criteria in calling any addiction a "disorder" is "what negative effects is it having on your life?" Well, "I literally want to kill myself when my parents cut off the wifi" is a pretty negative effect.

  • Meta Threads engagement has dropped 50% in a week

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  • I think both of your points are correct but a lot of celebrity types write straight up essays attached to some of their pictures - it's like where they get out everything they can't fit into 280 characters.

  • Did Trump let Americans die purely for political purposes?

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  • Will we ever be far enough removed from the pandemic that we can talk about how the federal government lied and ignored 100+ years worth of science on the efficacy of masking (including effective mask mandates during the "Spanish"/Kansas flu pandemic), without being accused of being an antivax conspiracy theorist?

    I'm vaxed, waxed and ready to party, but it is a stone cold fact that they told people not to wear masks - and caused untold numbers of deaths - because they didn't want the general public to reduce the current supply.

    (Fauci also did an absolutely horrendous, I mean historically awful job dealing with the AIDS crisis, but I guess that's for another time.)

  • Did Trump let Americans die purely for political purposes?

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  • You wouldn’t believe how many people thanked me as they walked into the store and took off their mask after seeing one man simply dissenting against the bullshit.

    More and more people are saying it, folks