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byMightyMartian
23, 2026 @06:58AM
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Attached to: EU Parliament Calls For Detachment From US Tech Giants
They go back largely because MS will give them deep discounts. MS has four decades of experience of undercutting potential competition with loss leaders and similar tactics. The motives then were largely that open source represented significant savings, but now it's about data and technology sovereignty.
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byMightyMartian
ry 17, 2026 @10:10AM
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Attached to: Supreme Court May Block Thousands of Lawsuits Over Monsanto's Weed Killer
I have no idea what any of this means, or has to do with Harris or Walz.
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byMightyMartian
ry 17, 2026 @08:47AM
(#65931188)
Attached to: Supreme Court May Block Thousands of Lawsuits Over Monsanto's Weed Killer
You mean, the couldn't stomach a sane government run by rational people?
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byMightyMartian
y 13, 2026 @12:07PM
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Attached to: JPMorgan Warns 10% Credit Card Rate Cap Would Backfire on Consumers and Economy
In the short term it would most certainly hit profits, not merely because of lower revenues from interest, but because credit card is unsecured, bad debts taking a bigger bite out of profits. The ultimate result would be that it would become much harder to get a credit card. In the end consumers would effectively have their short-term lending capacity reduced.
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byMightyMartian
ry 10, 2026 @10:33PM
(#65915658)
Attached to: Scientists Tried To Break Einstein's Speed of Light Rule
There's this guy who came up with E=MC^2. The photon's energy can be converted to massless particles under certain conditions, such as the production of electron-positron pairs.
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byMightyMartian
ry 10, 2026 @07:33AM
(#65914568)
Attached to: Scientists Tried To Break Einstein's Speed of Light Rule
This demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of what light and gravity. Photons in a vacuum follow the curvature of space, that curvature being gravity. Mass bends space, the more extreme the mass, the greater the curvature, which photons follow. But the photons themselves have no mass.
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byMightyMartian
09, 2026 @03:14PM
(#65913258)
Attached to: Record Ocean Heat is Intensifying Climate Disasters, Data Shows
Nobody ever went broke assuming people are ignorant morons.
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byMightyMartian
09, 2026 @12:24PM
(#65912684)
Attached to: Record Ocean Heat is Intensifying Climate Disasters, Data Shows
So it's your underlying claim that thermodynamics doesn't exist and energy just sort of disappears.
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byMightyMartian
y 06, 2026 @04:35PM
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Attached to: UK Urged To Unplug From US Tech Giants as Digital Sovereignty Fears Grow
So what you're saying is your average American is a fucking moron.
I can get behind that.
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byMightyMartian
y 06, 2026 @01:57PM
(#65906201)
Attached to: Microsoft Office Is Now 'Microsoft 365 Copilot App'
I've done quite of work on Calc, and never had much of a problem. It's not a one-to-one match with Excel, but I've had few issues. I don't really use Powerpoint or Impress, save to view presentations, and haven't seen any significant issues.
I have used Writer *a lot* (I've written a novel and several proposals and projects). Once I got it used to it, I actually prefer the way I can work styles in Writer to Word, and every time I'm forced back into using Word, I find it just a huge pain in the ass. In general it doesn't molest docx files too much (unlike Google Docs which horribly mutilates styles).
I'm pretty much using LO full time at work now, and only use Word and Excel when I log on our Terminal Services server. I'm not sure I'd ever be brave enough to completely abandon Office, but I'm definitely not looking at further re-entrenching myself.
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byMightyMartian
r 29, 2025 @07:57AM
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Attached to: AI Chatbots May Be Linked to Psychosis, Say Doctors
So, like Dungeons and Dragons and Judas Priest before them, AI models are now blamed for underlying mental health issues that they have nothing to do with.
Bring on the AI moral panic. As if we didn't have enough of those these days.
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byMightyMartian
ber 25, 2025 @08:45AM
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Attached to: Spotify Disables Accounts After Open-Source Group Scrapes 86 Million Songs From Platform
Can't wait for the groovy A flat, Asus4-G sharp-sus5, F sharp add11 song, with the C minor dim7 root for the bridge.
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byMightyMartian
ber 25, 2025 @07:52AM
(#65881317)
Attached to: Fake Video Claiming 'Coup In France' Goes Viral
The French have an interesting record with tyranny, including lopping off the head of a tyrant, and then lopping off the head of one of the tyrants that was instrumental in the first tyrant's head getting lopped off. The French Revolution makes that puny American War of Independence seem like a stroll in the park.
And perhaps we can also mention how there wouldn't even be a United States if France hadn't given the Continental Congress significant financial and military (particularly naval) aid.
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byMightyMartian
er 23, 2025 @07:52AM
(#65877081)
Attached to: Google Launches CO2 Battery Plants for Long-Duration Storage of Renewable Energy
That seems an extraordinarily high efficiency rate. I am very dubious.
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byMightyMartian
r 22, 2025 @09:47AM
(#65874503)
Attached to: Google Launches CO2 Battery Plants for Long-Duration Storage of Renewable Energy
Yup, just another example of the Carbon Capture Perpetual Motion Machine Scam. The thermodynamic uphill problem with atmospheric capture is so extreme that if you had enough free energy sitting around to make it worthwhile, you wouldn't need to do any of this.
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