I remember when this was just a joke on Futurama. Why does life imitate art in the dumbest way possible‽

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The artist knew exactly what he was doing, and you gotta admit he did a good job.

It’s a quirk in Georgia’s law where cruelty to children and their death gets those charges upgraded to murder 2.

It’s out there. You just have to search for it.

Sounds like an annoyatron or a clone. A tiny device that randomly beeps with a time interval just long enough to be hard to find and annoying. They’ve been around for a couple decades.

Just like the OceanGate Titan.

Yep, this is the judge that owns Tesla stocks and refused to recuse himself.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/texas-judge-who-bought-tesla-stock-wont-recuse-himself-from-x-v-media-matters/

And just like Taco Bell when something goes bad you get to deal with all the diarrhea.

But seriously, shouldn’t this be in !programminghumor@lemmy.world and not technology?

I don’t know if there is a polite way of putting this, but 3rd parties are a bit crazy. It’s not that 3rd parties are inherently bad, but we’re a first past the post system. 3rd parties tend to act as spoilers to whichever party they are closer to. Until the spoiler effect is fixed, you have to be a little crazy to run as a 3rd party candidate.

And like you mentioned, ranked choice is one of the options to making 3rd parties viable. But the leadership for the democrats is luke warm on it and republicans are actively working against it. It’s going to take a bipartisan grassroots effort to drag these curmudgeons into a better system.

Always is. Accuse your enemies of that which you are guilty of.

Let me tell you about a little film, ahem an adult film, called Who’s Nailin’ Paylin?.

There’s video from the group Led By Donkeys.

Context: I heard that lemmy will upvote anything. This is literally just a can of fucking beans

And then there was weeks and weeks of bean posts.

Vaccines shouldn’t be political. What is wrong with some Republicans?

My guess: turn failing big companies into failing little ones.

Someone spread the rumor that JD Vance admitted to having coitus with a couch, and the rest was memes.

“Be afraid of the cat girls.”

- JD Vance, probably.

That isn’t what that article says. It talks about American Rounds and other companies that use vending machine to sell restricted products. A different company Master Ammo found using AI for facial verification to be costly when they looked at it “years ago”. The article doesn’t specify how long ago that was. If it was 12 years ago, which is the age of Master Ammo, I would find that plausible.

The machine for American Rounds was pulled because of “disappointing sales”. Retail space ain’t free, and I bet it has slim margins too.

In any case, the whole endeavor may not be viable in the long run. They either have to get costs low enough to compete with brick and mortar stores and the Big Box stores, or they have to go where none exist while finding enough locations to recoup development costs. The devil’s in the details and unfortunately all the reporting on this has been quick news stories.