The Mexican president said earlier this week he would wait for Venezuela’s election results to be reported fully before he recognized a winner.

^^ This is a much more accurate description of the situation. Mexico isn’t explicitly backing Venezuela’s regime, it’s refusing to take sides.

The kids came up with the joke:

“Do you like fish sticks?” (Pronounced like “fish dicks”)

Then, when the person said yes, they’d call them a gay fish.

The joke becomes a meme, but Kanye West doesn’t get it, despite having it explained to him. He thinks the joke is directed at him personally, and does actual scientific research to find out why people think he is a gay fish. At the end of the episode, he accepts his fate, and decides to live as a gay fish (complete with a catchy autotuned song.)

George Clooney was instrumental in getting the show made in the first place. He liked their second Christmas short so much that he made hundreds of copies and gave them to all his friends, which helped them pitch the show.

Windows 12 is scheduled to release before Windows 10 goes EOL. At this point, those who haven’t switched are better off just waiting to see if 12 is decent or it’s shittier than 11. If it’s the latter, it might be time to finally ditch Windows on my gaming PC.

“We tried asking. We tried begging. We tried bullying. We even tried tricking people into upgrading. We tried everything short of actually making a usable OS!”

They pulled all their info from a reddit thread, though. Even though it was a Windows 11 sub, reddit tends to have more polarized opinions than most.

So you’re asking how to factor 2x + 3x^2?

You can factor x: x(2 + 3x). Or in this example, 4(2 + 4*3).

No ads and the ability to filter to only unread posts (at least on Memmy.)

Deep pockets and clips!

Depression is a symptom. Major depressive disorder is a disease.

Corporate tax rate is 21%, so by subtracting $80 million from their income they get a $16.8 million discount.

I’ve never wondered if I’m dreaming while awake. So I’ve conditioned myself that if I’m wondering whether I’m in a dream, I’m in a dream.

Makes it easy to lucid dream.

Yep, exactly.

As a doctor who’s into tech, before we implemented something like AI-assisted diagnostics, we’d have to consider what the laziest/least educated/most tired/most rushed doctor would do. The tools would have to be very carefully implemented such that the doctor is using the tool to make good decisions, not harmful ones.

The last thing you want to do is have a doctor blindly approve an inappropriate order suggested by an AI without applying critical thinking and causing harm to a real person because the machine generated a factually incorrect output.

Ok, well I didn’t come up with the system so please write to the heads of science to get it changed.

It is fixed. Your ruler shows 1.0, and then you estimate 1 digit past to 1.00 +/- 0.01.

Whoops, fixed.

In the real world, you’re measuring with significant figures.

You draw a 1 cm line with a ruler. But it’s not really 1 cm. It’s 0.9998 cm, or 1.0001, or whatever. The accuracy will get better if you have a better ruler: if it goes down to mm you’ll be more accurate than if you only measure in cm, and even better if you have a nm ruler and magnification to see where the lines are.

When you go to measure the hypotenuse, the math answer for a unit 1 side triangle is 1.414213562373095… . However, your ruler can’t measure that far. It might measure 1.4 cm, or 1.41, or maybe even 1.414, but you’d need a ruler with infinite resolution to get the math answer.

Let’s say your ruler can measure millimeters. You’d measure your sides as 1.00 cm, 1.00 cm, and 1.41 cm (the last digit is the visual estimate beyond the mm scoring.) Because that’s the best your ruler can measure in the real world.

Forum: People set up communities on their or someone else’s server. People have to individually find and register for each siloed community.

Aggregator site (i.e. reddit): Everyone sets up communities on the same server. A single account on the server can join and interact with any community they want, and aggregate them all together into a feed.

Federated aggregator (i.e. Lemmy): People set up communities on their or someone else’s server. They all use the same language so they can communicate with each other. You can make an account on any server and then visit any community, and aggregate them all together into a feed.

To be clear: Those pregnancies would have happened before abortion bans, too. It’s just more visible now.

There are some (like in The Wolf of Wall Street,) but the penalty is prison time if caught. Crypto still has a lot of scams, though.