Off-and-on trying out an account over at @[email protected] due to scraping bots bogging down lemmy.today to the point of near-unusability.
Historically, Usenet clients tended to respond to both groups in response to articles posted to multiple newsgroups.
This tended to result in trolls doing things like posting “I’m in the market for a computer. Which is better, PC or Mac?” to comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy and comp.os.mac.advocacy with the intention of starting flamewars.
Russian intelligence claimed that the patriarch was not merely a religious leader but a metaphysical threat — an “incarnate devil”
I’m thinking that the Baltic churches may have the upper hand against Russian intelligence when it comes to theological debate.
Last year, they warned a “nuclear war” would break out between Israel and Gaza, where a ceasefire is currently in place.
That seems like a pretty questionable prediction even aside from dependence on the supernatural for information.
I imagine that Xi probably doesn’t care all that much whether you’re having mega gay sex, but I expect that he is very interested in whether you are also employing that dingus in ways more-conducive to sustaining future state output.
Where the fuck are you sourcing explosives and tear gas as a civilian
https://www.keepshooting.com/clear-out-6oz-tear-gas-grenade.html
Clear Out 6oz Tear Gas Grenade
ASAP Squatter Removal has a 95%+ success rate
Every now and then, you run into a spearman.
I bet that the goal here is to try to abuse trademark law to sue anyone who makes compatible bits because it’s embedding the trademarked BMW logo. I also bet that courts won’t buy into it.
EDIT: Well, I bet that US courts won’t buy into it. Dunno about other jurisdictions, what case law is there.
Back in the 1990s, you had Sega v. Accolade, where Sega tried making their consoles not work with a game unless that game had copyrighted and trademarked content at the beginning, with the idea that nobody could legally make games compatible with their consoles without Sega’s approval, and a court said “nice try, but no”.
EDIT2:
The court then went on to cite Anti-Monopoly v. General Mills Fun Group, which states in reference to the Lanham Act, “The trademark is misused if it serves to limit competition in the manufacture and sales of a product. That is the special province of the limited monopolies provided pursuant to the patent laws.”[9] The judges in the case had decided that Sega had violated this provision of the act by utilizing its trademark to limit competition for software for its console.
EDIT3: Oh, BMW patented it, too. I still bet that that’s going to run into anti-trust law.
I use Google’s Noto Sans as my default browser sans-serif font. It does a better job having a different capital-I and lower-case-l than does Calibri:
http://www.identifont.com/differences?first=Noto+Sans&second=Calibri
I once wrote code for an elderly researcher who would only review code as a hard copy. I’d bring him stacks of paper and he’d get going with his pen and highlighter. And I’ll grant that the resolution is normally higher on paper than on most displays. I’m viewing this on a laptop screen that’s about 200 ppi. A laser printer is probably printing at a minimum of 300 dpi, maybe 600 or 1200 dpi.
I still think that the few people reading things in print are the exception that proves the rule, though.
Times New Roman was designed for the print era, and Calibri for onscreen viewing. Onscreen viewing is a lot more common today. Based on that technical characteristic, I’d be kind of inclined to favor Calibri or at least some screen-oriented font.
That being said, screens are also higher-resolution than they were in the past, so the rationale might be less-significant than it once was.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibri
Calibri (/kəˈliːbri/) is a digital sans-serif typeface family in the humanist or modern style. It was designed by Lucas de Groot in 2002–2004 and released to the general public in 2006, with Windows Vista.[3] In Microsoft Office 2007, it replaced Times New Roman as the default font in Word and replaced Arial as the default font in PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook. In Windows 7, it replaced Arial as the default font in WordPad. De Groot described its subtly rounded design as having “a warm and soft character”.[3] In January 2024, the font was replaced by Microsoft’s new bespoke font, Aptos, as the new default Microsoft Office font, after 17 years.[4][5]
I suspect that the Office shift is probably a large factor in moving to Calibri.
That being said, there are many Times New Roman implementations, but it sounds like Calibri is owned by Microsoft, so I’d be kind of inclined to favor something open.
goes looking
Of the the last few presidents to die:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4244/ronald-reagan
Ronald Reagan is buried at his presidential library.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4311/george_h_w-bush
George H.W. Bush is buried at his presidential library.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6734/jimmy-carter
Jimmy Carter is buried at his national historical park:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4243/gerald_rudolph-ford
Gerald R. Ford is buried at his museum:
Trump says children could have ‘2 dolls instead of 30’ with his tariff plan
He added, “You know, someone said, ‘Oh, the shelves, they’re going to be open.’ Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.
I don’t really think that talking about Average Joe’s standard-of-living is really Trump’s strong point.
I’m not that concerned. There’s a famous Reagan joke that he did during a sound test:
The RAM that’s being produced at scale for parallel computation is HBM, what the capacity is going towards. It’s not in the form of DIMMs — you can’t take it after it’s been used and stick it into a PC’s motherboard.
EDIT:
Inside NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra: The Chip Powering the AI Factory Era
Blackwell Ultra doesn’t just scale compute—it scales memory capacity to meet the demands of the largest AI models. With 288 GB of HBM3e per GPU, it offers 3.6x more on-package memory than H100 and 50% more than Blackwell, as shown in Figure 5.
I’m more upset I didn’t think of it first.
Maybe nobody’s done Muhammad and Buddha yet.
https://biblehub.com/q/was_jesus_omniscient.htm
Omniscience refers to the ability to know all things-past, present, and future-completely and without limitation.
Conclusion
Scripture consistently presents Jesus as fully God and fully man, possessing all divine attributes, including omniscience.
I suppose that establishes it. Jesus is presumably also fluent in Cockney rhyming slang.
Jesus very probably did exist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Jesus
I don’t know if the historicity of any of the other figures listed has been established. I mean, Jesus had a mother, for example, but I don’t know if there’s any reason to believe that she was anything like Mary as the Bible describes her.
I’d guess that most of the Biblical figures with established historical existence are gonna be major figures like Pontius Pilate.
kagis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biblical_figures_identified_in_extra-biblical_sources
Actually, whether or not it’s permitted is, surprisingly, an undecided point in case law.
The case law here is Goldwater v. Carter, but the Supreme Court ruled on a technicality rather than the major question.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldwater_v._Carter
EDIT: I’ve brought it up before because a somewhat-analogous issue was also surprisingly undecided in UK case law, and there was a major legal tussle in the UK over it, whether or not the Prime Minister had the power to withdraw the UK from the EU without going to Parliament.