Gotta say, that’s very fucked up.

Community note: REPORTED!!! Mark, @heavydust@sh.itjust.works just called you ugly!! Ban them for their perfectly correct and valid opinion!!!

Yeah I feel you. It’s one of the few excellent apps that I’ve never felt the need to upgrade. I don’t think I need any of the extra features. I wish there were a lifetime option or something a little less expensive than their yearly. I might just subscribe for a few months to show my support for the devs, because it’s such a solid app. But their prices do seem really high.

Yeah, just search for 404 media with whatever app you use for podcasts. I don’t use Spotify or Apple and it came up straight away for me in PocketCasts.

404 Media knocking it out of the park as usual. This is one of those independent outlets which has been doing consistently awesome journalism. I especially like it when they get targeted for their work, because they are never afraid to call out the hypocrisy or bullshit, they thrive on it.

The silver lining here is that Facebook was already increasingly a waste of our time. The only reason we’re able to share our stories via our official Facebook page is that we’ve fully automated that process, because it is not actually worth our time to post our stories there organically. Since before we started 404 Media, we knew there was very little chance that Facebook would help us reach people, grow our audience, and make the case that people should support our journalism, so in a way we lost nothing because there’s nothing to lose. On the other hand, that perspective is based on us having already accepted Facebook’s rejection of our journalism years ago.

Their podcast is also very solid, worth a listen.

You got me Dominos? I asked for PIZZA!

Take a moment and imagine yourself in this situation. It’s an absolutely terrifying nightmare. Yet another reason to be disgusted by Israel’s amoral behavior.

After the attack, the soldiers turned Arian’s apartment into a military base. They brought in her neighbours, separated the men from the women, and interrogated them. Some of the men, including Arian’s husband, were detained. "I was still lying on the bathroom floor, unable to move my injured leg and frozen with shock and fear.”

Before they left, at around 2:30am the soldiers warned them to not tell anyone what had happened.

“Book me a cheap flight to New York.”

“All set, I’ve booked you a business class seat on a flight to Dubai, via Hawaii. Your MasterCard has been charged $14,572. Your flight leaves in 48 minutes, enjoy your trip!”

Ah, the classic loving counterweight paw.

Also known as the “we’re cuddling, but separately, so please stay away…but only this far away” move.

I’m very glad to see practical research like this being done. I’m sure it’s not popular with the Evilcorps of the world, but at least people are thinking about real solutions.

The question of how much production is necessary to end poverty cannot be answered by assessing PPP-based incomes or aggregate GDP. It is necessary to assess what is being produced, and whether people have access to necessary goods and services. Development strategy should focus on ensuring the efficient production of and universal access to the specific goods that people require to achieve decent lives and good social outcomes, including nutritious food, safe housing, healthcare, education, sanitation, transit, information technology, and household durables. This can be done while also reducing less-necessary forms of production, particularly in high-income countries, in order to bring resource use back to sustainable levels.

So basically, money is not the whole answer, but providing everyone with the fundamental/essential things they need to live decent lives will get them most of the way there. Seems pretty straightforward and doable to me, if a few powerful people are forced to part with their insatiable greed.

(PPP = purchasing power parity, for those like me who didn’t know.)

Unless it has some kind of extra coating on it, you should be fine. To be honest though, I’d just dump the contents directly into your air fryer. Aside from slightly easier cleanup there’s no reason to risk any extra chemicals leeching into your food.

This was a surprisingly awesome game. The Sabacc mini-game alone is worth the price of admission.

Just look at most of the winners of Game of the Year. I’d argue most of them fit in the category of narrative driven story-rich games.

If they actually believe something so patently ridiculous, then it’s probably best that they cancelled it. So I guess this is good news. Those are the only kinds of games I want to play. FFS.

I wish there were more people here, too. But I don’t think it can ever realistically be, nor does it need to be a competition. As long as there are a default millions of people willing to spend their valuable attention contributing to corporate ad-powered social media companies, the more socially responsible platforms like Lemmy and Mastodon will always be a niche corner of an aspirational web that at least attempts to trust and respect its users. I’d flip it around: the smallness of these mostly positive communities on Lemmy reflects how content the huge crowds at reddit, meta, twitter etc are at being surrounded by utter shit. If the last few years haven’t shown them that there are better places to spend their time online, I’m not sure what will. I hope I’m wrong, but I’m also starting to be okay with the size and scope of things over here.

For fucks sake, this is infuriating. Choosing between a young, extremely popular, highly effective congresswoman and a dying man few people have heard of, should have been the easiest choice ever for one of the most important House committees.

Omg I really thought I was the only one. I can never find the setting I want. I think it’s one of those examples where Apple oversimplified to the point of confusion.

Yeah, you nailed it. The latest reporting on this says that Apple isn’t paying them yet, because they think OpenAI will get more benefit out of just having their product in everyone’s faces:

Apple isn’t paying OpenAI as part of the partnership, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the deal terms are private. Instead, Apple believes pushing OpenAI’s brand and technology to hundreds of millions of its devices is of equal or greater value than monetary payments, these people said. Source.

I appreciate the clarification! I definitely misinterpreted the reporting about this, and clearly didn’t dig deeply enough. This makes me feel a bit better about using the non-ChatGPT features.

Well shit, thank you. I swear I searched for that setting before, but there it is!