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I'll ask the question here, since it seems like a good place for dashcam advice: How quickly is this going to drain my car battery, left plugged in? (This is for hardwiring an always-on dashcam.) The Coca-Cola Company is reportedly returning to Russia after a two-year absence following the invasion of Ukraine. The company has apparently filed patent requests to reclaim the trademarks on Coca-Cola, Sprite, and Fanta.
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  @kevinrothrock I may be pedantic, but maybe not. How does a patent request reclaim a trademark? At the request of Russia’s federal censor, the Mozilla Foundation, the entity behind Firefox, is blocking censorship circumvention add-ons for its browser, including ones developed specifically to help those in Russia bypass state censorship. https://theintercept.com/2024/06/12/mozilla-firefox-russia-censorship-blocked/
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 @kevinrothrock asked couple questions in their today's Reddit AMA, but it ends in 20 minutes, and there is still no response at all https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1de7bu1/comment/l8gc7h0/  to be fair, Russko-Vysotskoe is actually a lovely town. I even went to prom there with one of the local human females, and just see for yourself what a fun we had   As long as I can use AI to pretend I've read or seen people's art and writing, I feel like it's a win.   @kevinrothrock some of my friends were saying that the ideal use for AI is to generate an important email from a one sentence prompt and then for the recipient to generate a one sentence summary of said email. 
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St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly deputy Boris Vishnevsky was designated as a "foreign agent" last week for criticizing the war to foreign journalists. Now his office door and floor seat bear the "foreign agent" warning, and it's repeated during morning roll call.  @kevinrothrock Boris is an elected legislator? I wonder how us foreigners got the people of St. Petersburg to elect our agent. That could come in handy.  The NYT is here to explain Armenians to you: "For Armenians, a classic relic ethnic minority whose Christianity and peculiar alphabet date to the epic struggles between the Romans and the Parthians, it was another genocide." A powerful explosion in Sergiyev Posad, a city in the Moscow region, has left up to 38 people injured, say local officials. https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/08/09/powerful-explosion-rocks-optics-plant-in-moscow-region-at-least-11-injured-as-blast-wave-blows-out-windows-in-vicinity @kevinrothrock Thank God there are "only" injured people from this impressive blast.  @kevinrothrock Smoking near the fireworks again? They really need to do some warehouse safety training 😛 People asking me if Putin is headed for six feet under — please don’t be silly. He doesn’t need nearly that many feet, even if buried upright. The Foreign Ministry seems to be running with the HIMARS explanation, while other Russian officials have leaned on “sabotage.” (The latter scenario — explosives planted inside — is more plausible from a structural POV, but neither is impossible or mutually exclusive.) @kevinrothrock It’s MH-17 all over again. I think we should be careful about feeding the narrative that so many things are technically possible that it’s impossible to ever know the truth. |
@kevinrothrock Woof.
Yes, but...woof.