Or is this race to the bottom?

Always has been. They’ve just been given jetpacks now.

But the serious answer is “whatever’s cheapest”. If their manufacturing is already setup for the current efficiency standards, then they probably won’t change anything. Not sure how new models may be affected, but I guess it depends on the supply chain.

Probably the same reason the quack science “free energy” videos on YouTube get so many views.

But also, it’s likely an evolution of the roofer scams from ye olden days.

Why does this seem like “You won a free boat! Just come to the police station to claim your prize.”

Pro tip: If you use the crosspost button, it’ll use the same image link and accomplish two things:

1. Your instance won’t have to host duplicate images
2. It will show in the feed as a crosspost

Dogs chew on bones which are much harder, and other than potential for bone fragments/splinters, they’re fine (such was my logic, anyway lol). But for good measure, I asked their vet a good while back, and was given the green light.

I would print out the code and Rube Goldbergian series of database triggers that run some of our internal apps; to the untrained mind, it would probably have an effect similar to looking into Medusa’s eyes.

Oh, I absolutely love my ice maker. Didn’t think I needed one until I replaced the fridge in my old house with one that had one. Now I can’t live without one (except in the dead of winter when I clean it and just turn it off for ~2 months)

Dogs love chewing on ice cubes, especially in the summer. Between keeping bowls of ice cubes out for the dogs and me making margaritas and slushy cocktails all summer, I’d never be able to get by with ice trays.

One of my favorites:

The quote is from Bewitched of all places, and it’s lived rent-free in my head for decades. I just threw it onto an online card generator.

Lol, if only. It’s not a “smart” fridge, but it does have a lot of, frankly, unnecessary electronics for what it does. Electronic components that, as any internet search for Samsung appliances will confirm, can and do go bad and are a pain to repair.

“It all started back in elementary school when they told me I was ‘gifted’…”

Samsung Fridge (don’t judge me, it came with the house).

I knew it was a “when” and not and “if” it would start having issues, and it finally showed its colors last month.

Front panel buttons either refused to work at all or would cycle through every option continuously and randomly.

Want water? Sorry, only crushed ice today. Want ice? Sorry, just water today. Oh, I actually did want water (starts dispensing). PSYCH! Now I’m going to shoot ice at you and splash water everywhere.

Was about to just toss the thing and get something dumber and more reliable, but decided to roll the dice with a replacement control board from ebay. Thankfully, that worked and I’m only out $80.

Counterpoint: Good?

The fediverse has no global identity system. Just like how temporary email addresses protect YOU from spam, disallowing them protects volunteer-run services like Mastodon, Piefed, Lemmy et al from spam (and trolls, etc).

I do not approve any registration applications from throwaway email providers. Also, volunteer-run services are much less likely to use your email address for nefarious purposes. Data breaches are another thing, but TBH, most of the spam I get is from spammers just spraying out to anything that’s formatted like an email address. Not sure about Mastodon, but Lemmy and Piefed do not reveal your email address to anyone (admin can only see it during singup and in the database). At least in Lemmy, the passwords are hashed, but the standard advice to use a unique password per service applies so that in the event of a data breach, the email+password combo will only compromise that single service.

I guess the moral of the story is to save the tinfoil hats for BigTech™ and show the Fediverse people, who are trying to do better, that you’re here with good intentions. As an admin, I’ve seen more spam, trolls, and n’eer-do-wells signup with throwaway emails than people who are here because they want to be here, and to a severe enough degree that I will no longer accept registrations using such services.

Might want to just use the actual article title for the post. I’m good with acronyms and context clues, but it still took me far too long to make the connection to Internal Combustion Engine and not the US gestapo.

The oath of office of the president of the United States is the oath or affirmation that the president of the United States takes upon assuming office. The wording of the oath is specified in Article II, Section One, Clause 8, of the United States Constitution, and a new president is required to take it before exercising or carrying out any official powers or duties.

Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:— “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

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

Exactly. When a charlatan shows you what’s in one hand, always watch what the other hand is doing.

Every time I hear this, I think “Ok, that’s what his right hand is doing. What he doing with his other hand?”

Read: Isn’t the batshit stuff pretty much always a distraction?

Mondoweiss is a sensationalized rag (and that’s me being charitable). The fact that this was posted by the top mod of this community has ruined the entire community’s credibility in my eyes.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/mondoweiss/

Has anyone ever clicked on a reference url from OpenAI

No. lol

There’s a “4” in the “5” column. Oh, and as someone else pointed out (and I missed) a “5” in the “4” column as well.