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Kevin Rothrock

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.)

Kevin Rothrock

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.

vedomosti.ru/business/articles

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OvertonDoors

@kevinrothrock

So how dose one distinguish between the fascists and their corporate sponsors?

Politico printed a peice detailing attempts by Balcan democracies work with Lidl, Ahold Delhaize, Procter & Gamble, *Coca-Cola*, A1, Yettel, Ferrero, Heineken, Mars, Mondelēz, L'Oréal, GSK (GlaxoSmithKline), Bosch, Samsung and Amazon in April. The were asking the multinationals to abstain from spending their advertising dollars on right-wing media platforms which catered to Russian disinformation and anti-democratic messaging. That was months before elections.

Tell me who you friends are and I'll tell you who you are.

@kevinrothrock

So how dose one distinguish between the fascists and their corporate sponsors?

Politico printed a peice detailing attempts by Balcan democracies work with Lidl, Ahold Delhaize, Procter & Gamble, *Coca-Cola*, A1, Yettel, Ferrero, Heineken, Mars, Mondelēz, L'Oréal, GSK (GlaxoSmithKline), Bosch, Samsung and Amazon in April. The were asking the multinationals to abstain from spending their advertising dollars on right-wing media platforms which catered to Russian disinformation and anti-democratic...

Mark Gjøl

@kevinrothrock I may be pedantic, but maybe not. How does a patent request reclaim a trademark?

Kevin Rothrock

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. theintercept.com/2024/06/12/mo

Kevin Rothrock

Google has a funny way of identifying towns in Russia

deskJet95

@kevinrothrock Need to distinguish from the polar bear settlements

Kevin Rothrock

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

Kevin Rothrock

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.

IanMoore3000

@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.

Шуро
@kevinrothrock Well, I have washing machine which claims to have AI...
Kevin Rothrock

'bout that time for me to post this meme once again

Kevin Rothrock

блин, он посмотрел Top Gun Maverick что ли?

Kevin Rothrock

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.

John Francis

@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.

Kevin Rothrock

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."
nytimes.com/2023/10/09/opinion

DecoratedGuidance

@kevinrothrock Thank God there are "only" injured people from this impressive blast.
The claims about storing fireworks there make no sense. Why store fireworks in a place that already suffered an arson back in June 2022?

Viraptor

@kevinrothrock Smoking near the fireworks again? They really need to do some warehouse safety training 😛

Kevin Rothrock

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.

Kevin Rothrock

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.)

Anders Puck Nielsen

@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.

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