The only time fuel is dumped by aircraft is during an emergency and either 1) needs to land somewhere unexpected and is far overweight for the runway, or 2) there is a situation where the landing is exceedingly dangerous and there’s a need to reduce weight and potential fireball size (e.g. landing gear failures).

What’s wrong with CC0?

I think it’s more about finding something that clearly gets under his skin.

Weird that name-calling is that thing, but I guess it makes sense given how much time he seems to spend crafting names for other people.

Exactly.

The right (and foreign powers) have been dumping tons of money to promote and prop up right wing influencers for years. There doesn’t even seem to be a litmus test other than 1) will they move people towards our general direction, and 2) will they regurgitate talking points we toss to them.

The right have been reaping huge dividends from promoting people in this space. Influencers on the left exist, but are having a lot harder time without access to similar resources.

The takeaway isn’t to do what the right is doing by promote sleezy influencers… but funding existing and successful influencers left of center, even if there isn’t 100% alignment could have a big impact in this space and help level the field.

For everything the conservatives are bad at, they are somehow crazy good at messaging.*

Their ability to take a positive term, redefine it as something it isn’t, and use it as a hammer is impressive. The reality of “getting rid of DEI” clearly means more discrimination and hiring/firing based on race/sex/etc, but they certainly framed it as “best candidate instead of minority preference”.

This is a repeating trend. Fake news, Critical race theory, woke, cancel culture, marxism, radical left, et – these are all good examples of the right redefining and hijacking terms or language. It wouldn’t surprise me if they try to do it with the word “democracy” to mean something like “far left woke Democrat ideals”.

* Just to clarify – “good at messaging” just meaning that it’s effective at being taken up and repeated by a subset of the population. How people listen to and trust the stuff is beyond me.

The point? I think he expected the world leaders to come bearing personal gifts and favors. Trade some of the US’s global position and power for his own personal wealth and power? I don’t have proof, but it would be on-brand for Trump.

He’s also surrounded himself with yes-men and crazy people (e.g. Navarro). He clearly has an elementary understanding (at best) of economics. Money good. China bad. Money go to China bad (trade imbalance). Tariffs keep money here.

Combine all that with the fact that he never admits responsibility for anything. When China pushed back, he retaliated. When they stopped participating, it leaves us in a stalemate that I believe will hurt us a lot more than them.

So, I think the trade imbalance is the justification. The goal is likely just personal power for Trump. But he doesn’t really know what he’s doing, doesn’t care to learn, just thinking he’s the greatest being in existence and everything bad is not his fault.

There’s probably some (small) guardrails on the major platforms to deter spreading misinformation, but it’s really easy to get a chat bot to take whatever position you want.

E.g. “Pretend you are a human on Twitter that supports (thing). Please make tweets about your support of (thing) and respond to our conversation as though my comments are tweet replies.”

Or more creatively maybe something like, “I need to practice debating someone who thinks (thing). Please argue with me using the most popular arguments, regardless of correctness.”

I haven’t tried these, but have a bit of practice working with LLMs and this is where I would start if I wanted to make a bot farm.

The YouTube video is a repost. Pretty sure the original was Flash from the early 2000s.

Yeah. Outrage now doesn’t mean outrage when it matters. Things will look very different in 4 years and conservatives always seem willing to fall in line.

And Gavin Newsom started a podcast and is cozying up to crazy right wingers.

This hasn’t been true at any of the places I’ve worked.

There’s always been some pressure from management, usually through project managers or business users, for urgency around certain features, timelines, releases, etc. Sometimes you’ll have a buffer of protection from these demands, sometimes not.

One place I worked was so consistently relentless about the dev team’s delivery speed that it was a miserable place to work. There was never time to fix the actual pain points because there were always new features being demanded or emergency fixes required because most code bases were a wreck and falling apart.

If I remember right, super delegates were the main reason Bernie lost the nomination.

They missed so many opportunities to make it actually a nightmare. Adding these should help…

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And beyond this, solving the problem is just the baseline. Solving the problem well can take an immense amount of time, often producing solutions that appear overly simplistic in the end.

I recently watched a talk about ongoing Java language work (Project Valhalla). They’ve been working on this particular set of performance improvements for years without a lot to show for it. Apparently, they had some prototypes that worked well but were unwieldy to use. After a lot of refinement, they have a solution that seems completely obvious. It takes a lot of skill to come up with solutions like that, and this type of work would be unjustly punished by algorithms like this.

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Washington Post, but yeah.

No, they’re asking about the case that did go through where he was found guilty of 34 felony convictions. The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump

He was supposed to be sentenced in September. Trump’s defense asked to delay. Prosecution didn’t object. Judge didn’t want to stick his neck on the line and accepted the delay.

I have no idea what will happen now but probably nothing meaningful anymore. It should have happened in September. I don’t know why the prosecution didn’t fight the delay, but understand why the judge did what he did.

But yeah, I completely agree with your sentiment. The momentum into nailing Trump down on crimes happened way, way, *way *too slow.

Learn something from this…?

To what end? For what point? There isn’t an “undo” button on fascism.

First, A lot of the far-left authoritarian users are in other instances, like lemmy.ml. Those communities are easy to avoid and users from there easily identified.

Second, I can only guess you’re talking about Harris when speaking “a communist and a known war monger”. Speaking as a former libertarian Republican (who left the party when Trump took over), Harris isn’t communist or far left. That’s 100% right-wing propaganda. America’s Democratic party is pretty conservative compared to liberal and leftist parties in Europe and isn’t that much to the left of the pre-Trump Republican party.

As for the known warmonger, I have no idea what you’re talking about.

Could you imagine if the presidential candidates and their VP pick had to play Overcooked together for a few hours?

It wouldn’t even have to be a competition on score. You could learn so much about them so fast - their communication, ability to adapt, and how they handle frustrations.