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Who’s manipulating Trump?

Or, asking the same questions through different words: who’s able to manipulate him, and benefits from USA losing all its soft power?

I’m asking this because there’s a clear pattern in all this shit: he’s taunting every single of USA’s long-standing partners. First the EU (Greenland), then the Commonwealth (Canada), now Mexico. In the meantime the shit that Americans whine on the internet is becoming increasingly more relatable, hinting that the situation there is becoming more and more similar to the one here in Latin America.

4x or so in my case. Same thing, though.

Most of the time it boils down to “I can’t be arsed”. Stuff like:

• I’d need to rephrase it to still say what I think, without being impolite. I know that I’m an arsehole, but I’d rather not ruin someone else’s day if I don’t see a reason why.
• I’d be dealing with someone who’s clearly irrational and/or disingenuous.
• I realise that I’m taking into my own hands some matter that someone else is better prepared to. For example, explaining a subject that I’m not too certain about.

Mammals in general are so smart that I wonder if this mental model is shared by the whole class, or at least the Boreoeutheria (clade that includes both carnivores and primates, plus a lot more critters). And, like, the evolutionary benefits of that model are obvious - if whatever tore your arm apart is still lying around, you need to run away ASAP.

I can only eat green beans (my body doesn’t handle well other types). My favourite way to eat them is stir-fried, served with pork ramen; it’s a bit laborious but it tastes amazing.

I also like to chop them into small bits and add to arroz de forno (dunno the English name - it’s leftover rice mixed with other ingredients, then baked with a cheese and breadcrumbs crust).

I’m a heavy drinker but screw it, sharing my non-alcoholic version of Irish cream here:

• 100ml whole milk; boiling hot
• a cinnamon stick
• some pieces of orange skin, just the yellow part
• drinking chocolate powder; I use 3tbsp
• instant coffee powder; I use 2tbsp
• 400g dulce de leche [see note]
• 200ml half-and-half
• vanilla extract
• 300~500ml whole milk, again; keep it cool

1. Simmer the cinnamon stick and orange skin in the whole milk for 10 minutes or so. Then throw them away, they’re just to add flavour to the milk.
2. Add the other ingredients, in the sequence listed, making sure to incorporate well one ingredient before adding another. Taste it and add more or less milk as you want, if it tastes too strong add more milk.
3. Transfer to a bottle, chill it. Serve it on the rocks.

NOTE: you can buy the dulce de leche if you want, but it gets more expensive than just making it at home with the same amount of sweetened condensed milk.

Yes! I don’t really care about the alleged health benefits, mind you - I love the taste. (I’m used to bitter things, though. Yerba, sugar-less coffee, this kind of stuff.)

The darker, the better. I’m not picky though.

Wait until he discovers Skibidi Toilet. :-D

Jokes aside, kids getting obsessed with stuff is always cute to watch.

Betteridge’s Law of Headlines

It’s more like a myth than a real thing. Or rather, a pattern that is false so often that you can’t use it to guess if it’s true.

Spending the weekend with my family in Foz do Iguaçu / Puerto Iguazú / Ciudad del Este, in the core of South America. Pictures related, you guys are the first ones whom I’m sharing this with:

Iguazú Falls.

Itaipú hydro generator.

Both are freaking giant, and those pictures aren’t even a tiny bit of each.

I also bought a lot of edibles and drinkables in Puerto Iguazú. Including a Pinot Noir.

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…on a more serious note. Can’t they simply that USA’s healthcare system is so fucked up that people are taking the matters into their own hands?

Your and @tal@lemmy.today’s experiences are basically the same as mine. Except with translation instead of programming.

Larson argued that low-quality reports should be treated as if they’re malicious.

It’s refreshing and uplifting to see this sort of sanity.

The problem is that defending against a copyright troll in the court is an expensive headache, and the copyright troll has a whole army of lawyers to prove for sure that the Moon is made of green cheese. As such, even if the target knows that it’s a bogus claim, they still comply with the troll to avoid the court.

Sending a takedown notice under DMCA that’s knowingly false is perjury, which would presumably come up at the court hearing.

In theory, yes. In practice, good luck proving that the copyright troll knew it and acted maliciously.

When I adopted her I was learning German, so I got used to speak in the language with her; first to train myself*, then for convenience (I can talk with her and my other cat Kika separately). But then, like: I go to garden, Frieda follows me, when I’m going back I tell her “geh nach Hause” (go back home), neighbour sees and finds it funny, now she’s the little German.

And then there’s the front neighbour; if I’m gardening and he opens his gate, his two dogs run towards me with the biggest “I want belly rubs!” face.

*pets are great for language learning - sure, they might not answer you, but they don’t judge your pronunciation and they still pay attention to what you say.

“The hair guy”, “the beard guy”, “the guy who’s crazy about cats and dogs”, perhaps?

I know that they have one for my cat - Siegfrieda is “a alemãozinha” (the little German girl).

[Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, nor from any country following Saxon tribal law like USA. Take what I say with a grain of salt.]

As far as I know, in theory the victim of the bogus DMCA could sue the copyright troll for damages, including attorney fees and all that stuff. In practice, it would be the same as nothing, megacorp who hired the copyright troll would make sure that the victim knows its place.

As of now the site is already back.

The core of the problem is that there’s absolutely nothing effectively preventing companies from abusing IP claims to harass whoever they want.

At the very least, you’d expect claims being automatically dropped, when they’re coming from an assumptive party that already issued multiple confirmedly false claims; something like “you issued 100 wrong claims so we won’t listen to your 101s one, sod off”. But nah, there’s nothing like this…

As such, “your violating muh inrelactual properry, remove you’re contant now!!!” has zero cost, and a thousand benefits. Of course they’d abuse it.

The role of AI in this situation is simply to provide those companies a tool to issue more and faster claims, at the expense of an already low accuracy.

Lasagna, check. Fat cat, check. Orange cat, check (although not the same as the fat cat. But both are Garfield tier lazy).

Today was a good day.

Savoury: chicken pie. Locally known as “empadão”:

Sweet: inverted apple pie aka tarte Tatin: