No, but the way clanker has been adopted and expanded upon by the internet has made it into an analogue for the n word.
The term was originally a pejoritive for battle droids in the Star Wars prequel films, and was then adopted by the anti-AI crowd.
From there, it grew into ‘clanka’ (no hard R, just like the n word) jokes, and moved into other analogues like ‘Jim Code laws’, ‘George Droid’, and ‘Rosa Sparks’.
Ads that pretend to be normal content are literally the fucking worst kind of ad and anyone who suggests implementing them should be dragged out back and shot.
Not surprised that stack exchange is doing this, given that they seem determined to drive away their entire userbase.
Good. There should be no confusion when we go for their fucking heads.
I hope nobody is spending money on crucial right now after Micron’s dumbass decision to trash the brand. Don’t let them forget it when they try to bring it back after the AI bubble bursts either
Will? Already have.
I comment this on many of their LinkedIn posts. I think they’ve blocked me at this point
Now I’m having thermodynamics flashbacks. It’s just under 500 rankine I think? Been a few years since I even thought about that unit
Then you’d have a little freezer I think. Isn’t the freezing point of water (at normal atmosphere) approx. 274 K?
I love how Valve’s strategy is basically just ‘don’t piss off the customers and occasionally do something super fucking cool’, while everyone else in the space seems to be cutting off their nose to spite their face
IGOT GOUT
Also works
No. I think too many people obsess about what happens after they’re gone rather than living their life to the fullest. One doesn’t need to make it into history books to leave an impact on the world around them.
The following is a story I was told as a child that I think puts some if this in perspective:
One day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed a boy picking something up and gently throwing it into the ocean. Approaching the boy, he asked, “What are you doing?”
The youth replied, “Throwing starfish back into the ocean. The surf is up and the tide is going out. If I don’t throw them back, they’ll die.”
“Son,” the man said, “don’t you realize there are miles and miles of beach and hundreds of starfish? You can’t make a difference!”
After listening politely, the boy bent down, picked up another starfish, and threw it back into the surf. Then, smiling at the man, he said, “I made a difference for that one.”
Ah, ok. That makes a lot more sense lol. Idk why my dumb ass assumed you meant that was like a total amount
Lol honestly I had to search it to make sure they were actually distinct, especially since the venn diagram between them definitely has a large shared space in regards to regulating tech companies
How the hell does all the physical infrastructure an ISP maintains cost that little?
That doesn’t sound like it’s even in the ballpark, given that even the server they might host their website and payment portal on would likely cost more than that in electricity use.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is not the same organization as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Andrew Ferguson, chair of the FTC, was originally appointed to the Commission by Biden in 2023 and was made chair by Trump this year. He’s definitely softer on big corporate monopolies and mergers than his predecessor, but has not been quite as much a blowhard as one would normally expect from Trump’s picks.
This post reeks of LLM
What does this have to do with a shitposting comm or Lemmy in general?
This was my phone hotspot for a while, but it was “ItHzWhenIP”