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CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.worldOPto politics @lemmy.world•“Uptick in Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers22·23 hours agodeleted by creator
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.worldto 2 North American 4 You@sh.itjust.works•BIG (like Americans) IF TRUEEnglish161·24 hours agoIt also helps that we don’t follow the protected designation of origin, so you can only make comte in one province of France, or literally anywhere in the US.
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What Fediverse instances would you recommend to others?51·1 day agoJoining a default instance is fine for beginners, but you can’t stay for long. Do a quick peek around, find an instance that looks cool, and head out.
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Oatly loses long-running 'milk' battle with dairy lobby1·1 day agoIt’s similar to the product “I can’t believe it’s not butter,” a margarine that can’t be marketed as butter because it’s not made from dairy.
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.worldto Global News@lemmy.zip•UK | Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to label vegan drinksEnglish1·2 days agoAlso an emission and not an emulsion 😉
+1 for checking in your config when you can mandate everyone uses the same tool chain. My point is more that the existence of global gitignore supports my open-source use case without precluding your corporate use case.
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.worldto Global News@lemmy.zip•UK | Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to label vegan drinksEnglish2·2 days agoMy primary complaint about this is that it is needlessly confusing for juice consumers, since if you juice a cow you get blood, and not milk.
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.worldto Global News@lemmy.zip•UK | Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to label vegan drinksEnglish11·2 days agoAbsolutely! I am not pro-dairy; its production is definitely an immoral practice. I am not in favor of this decision because it is pro-dairy, but because it is pro-consumer. For me, the consumer protections that prevent me from buying vegan cheese when I mean to buy dairy cheese are the same consumer protections that prevent me from buying cheez-whiz when I mean to buy dairy cheese. The consumer protections that allow people to make informed decisions that I find morally reprehensible are the same consumer protections that allow me to make informed decisions that I find morally superior. I like this decision because I feel like I won, even though the evil dairies also won.
Yeah for sure. No disrespect to Chief Seattle, but I’m pretty annoyed that our little sibling to the south has a much better flag than us, so I posted my favorite local flag instead 😜
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.worldto news@lemmings.world•Rules of mysterious ancient board game decoded by AI, scientists sayEnglish2·2 days agoFor those of you who, like me, have a knee-jerk negative reaction to the word “AI,” from my reading of the paper, the ai in this research is much more in the lineage of Alpha Go than it is in the lineage of ChatGPT (which I know is a strange sentence to write because ChatGPT is in the lineage of Alpha Go, but here we are). I think CBS is over-indexing on the researchers’ use of the term “identified” here — I think based on my understanding of the paper it would be strictly more accurate to say the researchers identified the likely rules by comparing ai playthrough data to wear patterns, and that when the researchers say the ai “identified” the ruleset, they mean it more loosely, but I may be mistaken.
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.worldtoHacker News@lemmy.bestiver.se•Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 yearsEnglish11·2 days ago“This change is part of a broader, ongoing effort to align all of Gallup’s public work with its mission,” a spokesperson for Gallup said. “We look forward to continuing to offer independent research that adheres to the highest standards of social science.”
Here’s what Gallup’s About Page:
We use that knowledge to make our clients stronger.
We help our clients create exceptional workplaces and engaged customers.
We help them understand what the world’s citizens need and want.
Whatever their mission and purpose, we help them achieve what’s possible.
I don’t see how you can expect a reasonable person to believe that discontinuing your US presidential approval rating brings you closer to your stated mission — this is manifestly not the case.
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.worldto Global News@lemmy.zip•UK | Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to label vegan drinksEnglish5·2 days agoThe dairy production industry is particularly odious because its traditional production is relatively innocuous (oh, we just kept milking the cow after it gave birth naturally) but its industrial counterpart is so deeply awful, and they’ll choose whichever presentation is most persuasive in any given discussion.
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.worldOPto Privacy@lemmy.world•WiFi Could Become an Invisible Mass Surveillance SystemEnglish1·2 days agoFrom the readme, it looks like chase your tail has a different focus than the article, which is focused on how your physical body perturbs the wifi signal, rather than probes against the wifi on your device.
I like this solution a lot. I hope I remember it the next time I initialize a repository.
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.worldto Global News@lemmy.zip•UK | Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to label vegan drinksEnglish2·2 days agoIf I were a judge and you brought a suit against a dairy claiming they have to label their products cow’s milk and cited this case as precedent, I would find in your favor.
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.worldto Global News@lemmy.zip•UK | Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to label vegan drinksEnglish21·2 days agoBecause for many people, an alt milk is a new product — even if a product has existed for hundreds of years, you may be one of today’s lucky 10,000. It doesn’t much matter how long dolmas, or samosas, or arepas, or lumpia have existed, if you’ve never encountered it. What you and I, who are familiar with the production of alt milks, call them informally amongst ourselves is not what is at issue. I just don’t think it’s unreasonable to say that the word “milk” has a formal, legal definition, and that alt milks don’t fulfill it. I would take objection to courts saying that latex isn’t milk, for instance, because to my mind, the product of p somniferum is produced using a milking process, while an almond milk is an emulsion.
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.worldto Global News@lemmy.zip•UK | Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to label vegan drinksEnglish26·2 days agoFor me, home production for personal use is different than commercial production because you don’t see the product under production. When you take something to market, the consumer no longer has any relation to the production process — they never looked at the cookbook, or saw an almond. You’re exposing whole classes of people to something that they do not have the kind of intimate experience with a food you’re describing. Instead, almond milk is the result of some mysterious industrial process, rather than something that comes from a cheesecloth in your kitchen. I think, experientially, buying a carton of almond milk at a store is very different than making it at home.
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.worldOPto Privacy@lemmy.world•WiFi Could Become an Invisible Mass Surveillance SystemEnglish2·2 days agoI just mean that surveillance via wifi is so much more pernicious because wifi is useful. There is no use for cctv other than surveillance, so it would be relatively much easier to get rid of than wifi surveillance, and we haven’t even been able to get rid of that.
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some safer alternative platforms for collaborative post market production projects?10·2 days agoSorry, I didn’t mean that accusatorily, I meant it quite literally. Both Reddit and Discord are much smoother user experiences and have much larger audiences than their fediverse counterparts. I totally get why people still use the corporate counterparts. I’m glad you’re here, and I hope more people come join us, and you shouldn’t feel like you have to apologize for maintaining a Reddit presence. Someone has to stay there to invite people across, at the very least.
Naw dawg. I just can’t handle all these super negative comments in my inbox anymore. It’s relentless. I’m sorry the link I posted wasn’t perfect.