It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?
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    That actually makes it funnier to me because ananas would be easier to pronounce in Japanese vs pineapple. Ananansu(u is silent) vs Painappuru.

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  • One of the largest solar projects in the US opens in Texas, backed by Google
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    Can do both because their stupid AI will probably suck more energy then those panels will produce.

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  • What's a handy terminal command you use often?
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    not sure if it counts as a command, but i use the up arrow to scroll through previous commands like, almost every time I open a terminal.

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    I don't understand how this show is on network television
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    Are sewing machines the new beans?

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    With the can deposit the answers clear
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    real talk though, you could litterally buy two steam decks for the price if one ps5 pro.

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    Games industry layoffs not the result of corporate greed and those affected should "drive an Uber", says ex-Sony president
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    Sony's EX president is the one who should be driving ubers.

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    Ayaneo officially enters the U.S. gaming market — $399 Next Lite and $999 Kun now available at Best Buy
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    I love my steam deck, but I'm also glad to see more competition in the handheld gaming pc market.

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    Audiophiles be like
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    actually I found the joke to be funnier because it was litterally technically correct.

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    Audiophiles be like
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    The meme is literally correct. when you make an audio file into an mp3, it takes some of the sonic information that our brains are bad at noticing and just...completely removes it(to save storage space). if it's a high quallity mp3 its essentially completely unnoticable. That's why it's psychoacoustic, it uses psychology to fool your brain into thinking it sounds better than it does, litterally.

    Psycoachoustic is basically just a big word for taking into account how our brains deal with what we hear.

    Also I'm not saying mp3 is bad, in fact I think the opposite is true. I think it's good to think of it like being the .JPG of audio, you're not getting the original quallity and that's the point and unless you need to do manipulate that audio file and its a reasonable quallity then you likely won't notice the difference.

    Ogg vorbis (.ogg) is a better codec though IMO.

    *edited for spelling and grammers

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    xkcd #2975: Classical Periodic Table
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    Hydrogen should be air, water, and fire.

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  • My reaction after reading the intro to the "highway driving" section of my local Driver Handbook
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    Fun fact, the shinkansen(bullet train) in Japan has had no fatal crashes or derailments since its opening in 1964, and in case you forgot, Japan is constantly plagued by earthquakes.

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    Time to start an internet war!
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    According to the cube rule of food identification this is correct.

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  • All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It's So Much Older Than We Thought.
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    I could be mistaken but I believe the hypothesis is that at one point the universe had an average temperature and matter distribution (pressure) to make it so that in most or at least a large portion of the universe it was significantly easier for organic molecules to start forming including the building blocks of DNA and then when it cooled/expanded some of that organic matter made its way to earth to eventually turn into life.

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  • Has anyone ever had a bot on a website answer their question?
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    I wish I could turn the amazon ai generated bs in the product info search off permanently, as I only tend to use that search to figure out what actual people have said about the thing I'm looking at and I don't trust a LLM to not hallucinate some random bs for something important I'm trying to figure out thanks.

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    Cheap and Lethal: The Pentagon’s Plan for the Next Drone War
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    Yea, let's just slap the missile equivalent of chatgpt on a bunch of drone missiles, what could go wrong? /s

    Serriously though, what happens if the AI driving the drone hallucinates? I wouldn't want to be anywhere near these things when they're testing them.

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    Bit Reactor has a Star Wars tactical strategy game in the works, 15 XCOM veterans on its team, and an ambitious vision for the future of the genre
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    Let's all hope the publisher doesnt fire the whole damn studio right before launch like is apparently common these days.

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  • Firefox 127.0.1 Release Notes
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    Locally hosted Firefox.

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  • Campaigns Can Now See What You Watch on TV.
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    Honestly, if I'm costing the company that made my TV money just because I refuse to let it track me, all the better. They deserve it for trying to crab that shit up my ass in the first place!

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    Judge rules that federal agency can't enforce abortion rule in Louisiana and Mississippi
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    "Joseph, who was appointed to the bench by former President Donald Trump, enjoined the EEOC from enforcing the abortion provision of its rules against the Catholic plaintiffs and employers located in Louisiana and Mississippi for the duration of the lawsuit."

    VOTE!

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    Its a shame that they did that, especially since the largest neurodivergent community on lemmy was over there, but for anyone who calls this instance or lemmy.world home I saw we make this the new one.

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    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/07/new-world-bank-business-ratings

    "Business Ready pilot edition to debut in 2024, replacing Doing Business ratings that were found to be influenced by political pressure"

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    "Business Ready pilot edition to debut in 2024, replacing Doing Business ratings that were found to be influenced by political pressure"

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    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/07/minnesota-pro-worker-paid-leave-union

    "New legislation will mandate paid leave, prohibit non-compete clauses and bar captive anti-union meetings, among other measures"

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    ‘The best state for workers’: what are Minnesota’s new labor laws?
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    "New legislation will mandate paid leave, prohibit non-compete clauses and bar captive anti-union meetings, among other measures"

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    Me upon learning you can post images in the comments section
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    Moms for Liberty listed as ‘anti-government’ group by extremism watchdog
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    The ‘parents’ rights’ group has backed book bans and the removal of discussions of race and LGBTQ+ issues in schools

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    Atlanta approves funding to build ‘Cop City’ despite fierce opposition
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    City council vote 11-4 to move ahead with police and firefighter training center despite significant pushback

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    I can't find any way to change the sorting of comments on a post, I can do this in the web up fairly easily though. I think this is pretty much the only think keeping me from using the app rn.

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