So far, the nonprofit claims it has fished out a million pounds of trash from the patch, a mere 0.5 percent of its total. But within a decade, it says, it could ramp up its operations to get rid of it in its entirety.

:-/

They’re asking for $75B for the full project and currently relying on start up capital with a tiny fraction of that. Apple’s “committed” $7.5B tentative to Ocean Cleanup Project raising the rest on short notice.

This isn’t “on track”. It’s a pilot project that’s in the middle of a Series B funding round.

Also - most critically - it’s not clear in the article what they’re doing with the waste they recover. Simply moving it around doesn’t eliminate the garbage. And the project does not appear to include a budget for recycling or otherwise repurposing what they recover.

Try starting your day at 25% with a hectic schedule.

I would simply charge my phone overnight.

Also those smart locks are super hackable.

Most off the shelf door locks are pretty easy to evade if you know what you’re doing. But most burglars are people hard up enough to take a very high risk, low reward line of work and not terribly sophisticated.

The two home invasions I’ve heard of personally both involved just walking up behind someone as they were opening their door and pulling a knife on them.

The fact the cancellation page has been seen crashing multiple times

That’s standard business practice for every subscription service. “Oh, hey, sorry. Your attempt to stop paying us money isn’t working right now. Try again later.”

Impossible. People name and complain about Reddit all the time. It’s like everyone on Lemmy’s bitch ex.

There’s a guy in the comments who posted a picture of an unsubscribe email.

So… at least one person.

the left who are the biggest benefactors of Disney’s propaganda and ideologies

Trying to explain to everyone at SAG-AFTRA that Disney executives are the real leftists.

But this does beg the question… Is Iron Man a Tankie?

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I regularly get through the day without running out of power. And an extra thing in my pocket is annoying, especially when I need to dig it out in order to use it. Same reason I prefer to open my garage with a clicker than to unlock a big deadbolt by hand.

If running out of power is a real fear, you can always do the “hide a spare key under a fake rock near the door” trick.

Gates’s Mom was an IBM executive. He got handed a multi million dollar contract before he was out of undergrad. That’s not “from nothing”. The man was practically coronated

Microsoft was always bad. But now that they’ve saturated the market, they need shadier and shittier gimmicks to keep justifying their inflated stock price.

Now they’re trying to sell businesses on AI as a full replacement for worker headcount. It’s a bald faced lie. But with enough money spent on marketing and gimmicks like this…

So if Microshaft is going to install these products automatically with my copy of Windows, the tools are free to use, right?

That’s sort of the joke of it all. Microsoft needs to tell their investors “We sold AI to 100 million new users!” to justify these bloated investments in OpenAI.

So instead of selling it as DLC, they just shave off a chunk of the 365 subscriptions and say “that was people paying for AI”.

See ya all on RedNote, I guess.

China doesn’t have to do a thing because Douyin is already maintained separately for the Chinese market.

Nobody really wanted to grapple with the reality. They just saw “Chinese investors mean Communist propaganda means Americans most be protected from the thing”. Then Cold War brainrot kicked in and that was that.

A country that fumbles this hard doesn’t deserve to exist.

Not the guy with the hole in his neck.

Okay, but why would you want to do that?

Similarly, lots of apartment keys and office keys are just FOBs now.

I’m not sure why. There’s nothing magical about a signal from a key when it could just as easily come from a phone.

They failed to prosecute him once he was out of office, having already acknowledged he had committed crimes during the impeachment.

There won’t be any more elections

We’ve got two gubernatorial races and a whole mess of municipal races coming in November. So that remains to be seen.

But when see front-runners for primaries coddling up to fascism all up and down the Dem slate, it does not fill me with optimism for the future.

Hey, you know how we’re already fucking hemorrhaging our own base?

I’ve been on Lemmy long enough to know that you plug the leaks in your party by screaming at everyone who won’t align with Henry Cueller, Bob Menendez, and Eric Adams. Call them Tankies. Tell them that they’re brainwashed by Russia. Remind them that by not voting for Democrats, they are killing Palestinian children. Then blow up their phone with “I’m not like other Democrats! Support me and we can change the system together, for just $25/mo!” ad spam.

Why be more inclusive when you can just start excluding your entire base?

Transgender people are hurting the party. Homeless people are hurting the party. The Radical Leftist Antifas are hurting the party. You’ll never get your Health Care Reform or your Student Debt Relief if you keep wasting your time on the tired, the poor, and the huddled masses who won’t stop yearning to breath free.

Politics is for the professional managerial class. Now get in line to walk 40 miles in the blazing sun, knocking on the doors of people two weeks away from eviction and asking them to Vote Blue No Matter Who!

If you don’t, my close personal friends in the Republican Party are going to shoot this puppy. And it’ll be all your fault!

A staff of seven with a budget of $10M. Just imagine what people who weren’t geeked to the gills on The West Wing episodes could do with that kind of money.