It’s definitely promising. I just meant that he has that gift of oratory. The next couple of cycles could be interesting, as the DNC won’t abandon money, even as more and more voters, especially younger ones, see no representation across the country.

Thank you for your service.

It’s important to note that there are veto-proof majorities in both houses of the Legislature, which has until 2026 to overturn the vetoes. This smells like good news, but it’s all sizzle, no steak.

While I agree with the premise, these juxtaposed images don’t convey what you’re hoping they do.

In my defense, this was just a YouTube suggestion after finishing another video. I do share NPR text links here regularly, but only when the text version is what I run into. This is somewhat the difference between being paid to provide news and volunteering. But I get where you’re coming from.

Dragging Hanlon into this?

Being able to see facial expressions and hear inflection allows for a deeper experience. I tend to read transcripts most of the time because it’s just faster. But for understanding who Momdani is as a full introduction, text alone won’t get you all the way there, and I’d only so far seen clips.

Just wait until hurricane season really ramps up. They’re going to need a lot of Sharpies.

I tip my hat to you for compressing so much bigotry into such a small space.

This said, stop beeing an asshole on here. If you want to espouse othering ideals, this is not the space in which to do it.

Your level of ignorance of modern economic factors should win some sort of prize. I’m sure your response, as always, will be projection, but I feel your consistent efforts to espouse gestures broadly something is in bad faith. If you had a thesis for anything you’ve posted on this instance, we could engage in conversation.

But you don’t.

This is a cavalcade of nonsense you get defensive about. Oh, you just learned about AI and are unaware that hundreds of billions have been thrown at it? Then shut the fuck up until you grasp the topic so you can craft a sensible question.

It’s pathetically hilarious to me that you then – on Beehaw – opt for sexist language only to trump it with “you only count if you serve capital” bullshit, which is such a significant failure to read the room that I’ll say nothing. This isn’t your home instance, and I’m not aware of anyone who’s enjoying your participation here, so take your ball and go home.

Gut feeling, I agree. That said, I’ve heard from friends (let’s hear it for hearsay!) that their friends and relatives seem to be going away from their core beliefs and instead believing everything endlessly spat at them by a glowing rectangle.

I have to think there’s an Ouroboros aspect to all of this. Regardless of Musk’s upbringing, he did bring electric vehicles front and center and oversaw the creation of reusable rockets. These are not small things. Many would be content with that, but then he went megalomaniac … MOAR … MOAR, and now we’re seeing declining sales at Tesla; Xitter is, well, whatever it is; and SpaceX hasn’t been doing great of late.

I’m reminded of Tom from MySpace. Got a few million on the way out, and he’s under the radar, presumably enjoying cocktails with umbrellas in them. Like, if you’re set for life, maybe don’t try again.

People built houses before hammers were invented. But that’s sort of the point of tools: that they can do things more efficiently than we can.

This really rises to the level of an interrobang?

First off, the “BBC paywall thread” didn’t occur on Beehaw, so you’re just confusing users here.

Al-Jazeera has a consistent history of objective journalism that covers topics Western sources don’t – or from an angle they’re unwilling to explore. That’s it. No conspiracy, no mystery. Objective news is objective news, regardless of whether you happen to like the name or the framing they start from.

Millions of people consider Fox News “journalism” when it simply isn’t. Al-Jazeera is. So, to answer the title question: because it is. Whether you like that or disagree because it’s a little too Muslim for you changes nothing about the empirical evidence of their coverage.

It’s entirely possible he was responsible for some of PayPal, but since, his MO has been, as you said, buying up promising companies. And there’s nothing wrong with that. The problem comes when he rewrites history to be the founder instead of simply an investor in these firms and claims credit for shit he simply didn’t do.

I fell for it myself for a while. Early days of Tesla, early days of SpaceX … dude knows how to sell and arguably accelerated BEVs, but it appears he doesn’t know how to actually carve tunnels or rewrite mass transit with functionally unlimited money. Not to mention, Starship is having a really bad time these days, which stands in stark contrast to how banal Falcon launches have become.

Calling Musk an engineer is like saying the same about Steve Jobs. Both are(/were) salesmen happy to claim credit for every success while delegating blame for problems.

Not that this is unique to the pair in the current climate of people believing in messianic oligarchs, but I’m not really aware of any boots-on-the-ground innovation that sprang forth from Musk’s mind. The Cybertruck is a fucking joke, and that seems to be the thing at Tesla he was most involved in of late, then broke the windows during a demo.

Leave breaking Windows at a keynote to Steve Ballmer.

OK, and the kernel is written in C and assembly. Should they know both of those as well?

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Well, that’s templates for you, I guess. But this breathless thing of I just now realized I don’t own my media is a bit absurd. Arr, but I do, and with no data tracking. Win-win.

I think it’s just mind-fuckery with some fun for the IDF.

If you know why you need alpha channels, of course you’re going to save in an appropriate format. But most casual users aren’t going to care. They took a picture of their breakfast or dog and just want to upload now. I’m not arguing PNGs serve no purpose; I’m arguing that most people aren’t Web or app designers. They don’t care whether it’s lossy or lossless, let alone about transparency.

I’ll agree for those use cases, but not everyone is making icons, stickers and emoji.

For production, yes. What percentage of images produced are for production, though? I know damn well how important alpha channels are, but for posting something on social media, which is orders of magnitude more output than image creation within the context of a larger presentation, no one cares.

The vast majority of people aren’t graphic artists. That you and I know what alpha channels are has no bearing on daily use by the masses.