“After many decades of civil service, it is time for the state to give back to our hard working representatives. Therefore they will be retired in januray of the year following their 65th birthday”

“January 6th has for the last few years been a reminder of an embarrassing moment in our history, well no longer! January 6th shall henceforth be known as a day of celebration, celebrating not only long and faithfull service but also new talents, skills and hope for the furue! Join us, as we once again rejuvinate our government to keep our nation strong and dependable!”

That’s fair, I jist watched a WTYPpod episode yesterday when they ranted about how cities remove the trolley wires with a future promise to get on battery busses, an increadibly dumb idea. So I was already a bit riled up.

Based on his record, a few articles snd forum posts explaining what should happen, all of which will be ignored by the legal system, there won’t even be a baliff giving Mr. Trump a heavy slap, which seems apropriate with how Mr. Trump behaves.

Here in Sweden it isn’t a requirenment to own winter tires, but you are required to use winter tires during winter conditions.

So there are people who simply park their car in the autumn and just won’t drive during winter.

It is very noticable during spring when they come back on the roads and plenty of them has not driven for half a year.

I agree, but we are talking about replacing fossil powered busses here, why not pick the most energy efficient solution right off the bat?

Busses should not be battery powered. They run on fixed routes, put some wire up and make a trolly bus network, it lowers the demand for exotic materials for batteries, while also lowering the energy use of moving the bus as it removes the heavy batteries.

Yeah, that is my take as well, at first I thought it was completely useless just like the old Facebook posts with users posting a legaliese sounding text on their profile trying to reclaim rights that they signed away when joining facebook, but here it is possible that they are running their own instance so there is no unified EULA, which gives the license thing a bit more credibillity.

But as you say, bots will just ignore the links, and no single person would stand a chance against big AI with their legal teams, and even if they won the AI would still have been trained on their data, and they would get a pittance at most.

This is too simple, groups of people radicalizing themselves is a very well known phenomenom, it has existed since humans started forming groups.

A good example are the terrorist groups during the cold war, Baader-Meinhof, Japanese Red Army and similar.

The groups may start as a group to work towards a new political system through peaceful means, then someone starts an informal competition about who is the “best” and more “pure” member, starting to subtly put other member’s down for not doing as much as they are.

Then it becomes a feedback loop, and soon you have a group that condems their own initial goals as counter revolutionary, and constantly moving the goalposts.

The algorithm itself doesn’t introduce this behaviour, but turbo chargers it by making people self radicalize mich faster by showing them an endless stream of people telling them how to be even “better” and even more “pure”.

Properly moderated it doesn’t have to be.

Looking at their comment history they seem to allways include that link to the CC license page in some attempt to prevent the comments from being used with AI.

I have no idea of if that is actually a thing or just a fad, but that was the link.

Yep, I started my camera journey with a Canon EOS 400D, a good starter camera for the time, but limited, it was a DSLR camera, and at the time it was great, full clarity in the view finder, but almost ten years later I bought a Lumix GX80, an EVIL camera, and the viewfinder was just amazing with how many tools you could have to help you, I loved the digital level feature, it helped me a lot!

And now with my Lumix S5, another EVIL camera, the EVF is better, and I have better lenses, seriously the Lumix S5 24-105 f4 is just fantastic allround, the Sigma Contemporary 100-400mm is awesome as a budget super telezoom lens and the standard Lumix S 50mm f1.8 is just a fantastic portrait lens.

All weather sealed and relatively cheap.

The Lumix S5 is a brilliant full frame budget camera, it is still a camera though, so it is still expensive, but less expensive than most other fullframe cameras sold today.

I got it last year, but am already planning on extending my camera collection with a Sony A7 IV, for it’s much better AF, when I have enough money to spend on one and some good lenses, I will. No rush though, I am in no hurry and my S5 is fantastic in the meantime

Interesting, I did some light googling earlier, but after some more googling now it seems as if both Canon and Nikon ended production of DSLRs around 2020, they are all focusing on EVIL (Electric Viewfinder, Interchagable Lens) cameras now.

Sure, I may be too late now, but removing real content makes their platform less valuable overall.

Yep, they are still being made, both Canon and Nikon are still making new DSLRs

Welp, I had no idea about this, time to delete my gallery I have had for 20 years.

Stopped using it last year as it was just so slow.

I would refuse any flight on a new Boeing plane (post 2019), but the 747 is a very reliable plane, and I would have zero problems with flying one today even after this event.

This is not Boeing’s fault.

IT guy here, I can sort of accept Windows 11 from a user’s perspective, but the new Outlook is absolutely unforgivable.

It is a peice of utter garbage and will break so many workflows that I am scared for the future.

Microsoft built their dominance on Office, not Windows, specifically, Excel and Outlook.

Sadly almost every company runs Exchange and there is a lot of companies that either already run 365 or are migrating to it.

Strong blow…

Put in a long clothes rack, boom! walk-in closet

Copper and it’s alloys:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_properties_of_copper