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They gave those out to Gawker bloggers. The only think the OG blue checkmark stood for was "someone who was friends with a Twitter insider".
I'm old enough to remember when the media tried to astroturf Threads like this.
This. It used to be not that uncommon for kids to arrive in Kindergarten already capable of reading and writing. Now it's not that uncommon to see kids graduating high school unable to read and write. Our education system is a disgrace.
Moving the HQ of the gaming and movie business to California was a mistake. Sony needs to return to its roots and base all major decision-making in Japan.
"[X] searches spike after [X] election"
Journalism, Ladies and Gentlemen.
I tried thinking about Electron apps but I ran out of RAM.
Here's the chat, for those who are interested:
They are like this literally any time a Republican is in the White House. They were like this when Dubya was President too, even though today they act like he's some sort of elder statesman just because he hates Trump.
Imma let you finish, but since Trump won the popular vote by millions of votes, the word "reasonable" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
I think the poster intended to make a contrast between US postwar vassals versus Soviet postwar vassals.
If "Twitter, but decentralized" was compelling to the average social media user, Mastodon would have eaten the world years ago.
Get real. It's a liberal echo chamber. 90%+ of the posts there are anti-Trump and/or anti-Musk.
A chatbot has no wishes or desires. Any output that isn't responsive to the prompt is, by definition, a "hallucination".
Google has deleted the chat from their site but here is an archive. It's at the end and seemingly out of nowhere.
People are going to have to get real creative to square this with the "One China" policy.
LOL, they write this same article every 4 years.
Yeah we should call this whole thing off and spend the money on solving poverty! /s
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The China whose economy has been imploding over the last year? good luck to Europe if they want to emulate the Chicoms.*eyeroll emoji*
That's great to hear!
More entertaining Presidential tweets. That's about it.
Because everyone besides Bernie dropped out right before Super Tuesday and endorsed Biden, hoping to get appointments in a future Biden Admin. Many, like Buttigeg were well rewarded for this.
If they did, the police might as well just keep officers stationed there 24/7 since they'll be getting called hourly.
These "You broke our arbitrary rules, therefore we fine you x% of your income" schemes are just a roundabout way for the EU to put an income tax on foreign corporations. It's going to blow up in their faces when companies start deciding that access to a shrinking European market just isn't worth the cost and hassle.
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Just go to sleep and find out tomorrow (maybe!) when you wake up.
Low-trust society.
So they don't want to hang out with expats but they also can't be bothered to learn the local language? Not surprising they aren't doing well socially.
It reminds me of the tragic fate of HitchBOT.
It's best to always avoid sending your warships into a war zone. They might get damaged, after all!