[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 21 points 5 hours ago

I purged them from the last few days.

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submitted 7 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) by kescusay@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

Hey everyone, just a quick heads-up. This community has been getting flooded with content from a site called "Townflex" that looks like it just republishes stories from elsewhere. I'm provisionally banning the site, because it's difficult to assess their credibility, and the sheer flood of posts from it were beginning to look like site promotion - i.e., spam. Over the next few weeks, I'll work on a bot to automatically remove submissions from the site.

If you've got a good reason for me to rethink this policy, please let me know below.

[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

Presumably the Free Democratic Party in Germany. They're a center-right party.

[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Sure, but how likely is that?

[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 65 points 5 days ago

I'm 100% positive they're not reading my ChatGPT logs.

(I don't use ChatGPT, and neither should anyone else.)

[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Not sure why you got downvoted for that. It's true.

[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

I should have said broke more.

[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 416 points 8 months ago

"Cognitive amplifier?" Bullshit. It demonstrably makes people who use it stupider and more prone to believing falsehoods.

I'm watching people in my industry (software development) who've bought into this crap forget how to code in real-time while they're producing the shittiest garbage I've laid eyes on as a developer. And students who are using it in school aren't learning, because ChatGPT is doing all their work - badly - for them. The smart ones are avoiding it like the blight on humanity that it is.

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Hi there,

I'm the mod for !nottheonion, and I'd like to unban someone. Unfortunately, the user I want to unban doesn't have any content in the community anymore, and I can't find a way to do it.

Help?

[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 267 points 1 year ago

The fact that he ever had an approval rating with Gen Z is mind-boggling.

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Look, I get it. The gargantuan shit-show that is U.S. politics and the American descent into fascism is on everyone's minds. It's certainly on mine.

But the point of this community is to highlight weird news stories that make you go, "By golly, I thought I was reading a headline from The Onion. You know, America's finest news source." A lot of stories being posted lately don't even remotely fit that.

That doesn't mean political stories aren't allowed here, but they must have headlines that would make people pause and wonder if it's a story from The Onion. Straight up regular, non Onion-y headlines don't fit.

[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 282 points 2 years ago

The message is clear: Do not come to the United States as a tourist. Do not spend your money in the United States. Do not support businesses that operate from the United States. Our borders are closed, our economy crumbling, our government falling to fascism, and our culture dominated by a relatively small minority of aggressively ignorant morons.

Don't come. We've gotten unfathomably stupid over here, and it's no longer safe.

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Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow President Trump to serve a third term in the White House so that the country “can sustain the bold leadership our nation so desperately needs.”

For the record, Trump is 78 years old. Assuming he survives and manages to stay in office, he would be 86 when we're finally rid of him.

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I can't find any content from this user from which to access the famous three-dots menu to unban them, and the post that resulted in their ban is already long gone, so I can't do it from there.

Could an administrator please unban the user?

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submitted 2 years ago by kescusay@lemmy.world to c/eugene@lemmy.world

The end of an era in Eugene. :'(

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case made public Friday a heavily redacted trove of documents that provide a small glimpse into the evidence prosecutors will present if the case ever goes to trial.

The nearly 1,900 pages of documents collected by special counsel Jack Smith’s team were initially filed under seal to help U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan decide what allegations can proceed to trial following the Supreme Court opinion in July that conferred broad immunity on former presidents for official acts they take in office.

That's gonna be some serious reading over the weekend.

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submitted 2 years ago by kescusay@lemmy.world to c/eugene@lemmy.world

Hey everyone, just a quick PSA: Oregon ballots are in the mail as of today. (Oct. 16th, 2024).

Go to https://oregonvotes.gov/MyVote to find out when yours will be in the mail!

Go to https://oregonvotes.gov/Counties if you have any issues or concerns to bring up with your county elections office!

VOTE!

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submitted 2 years ago by kescusay@lemmy.world to c/eugene@lemmy.world

Just spotted that we made this list on Forbes last week. We're famous!

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Ugh, the smoke (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by kescusay@lemmy.world to c/eugene@lemmy.world

I hate the fact that it's almost fall now, and we're seeing temperatures around 100 degrees fahrenheit and smoke from first fires. In September.

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The Biden administration on Wednesday plans to accuse Russia of a sustained effort to influence the 2024 US elections by using Kremlin-run media and other online platforms to target US voters with disinformation, six sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

It’s expected the US will make a series of moves on Wednesday aimed at addressing the Kremlin’s efforts including the White House publicly condemning the actions and the Justice Department announcing law enforcement action targeting the covert Russian campaign, the sources said.

[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 394 points 2 years ago

Suggesting that a war should be waged against the democratically-elected government of the United States seems... Well, it seems kinda treason-y to me. Just a smidge.

[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 277 points 2 years ago

Hey, uhh, Europe? Can we talk?

Look, I know the way the left has been handling immigration has you upset, but could you please take a closer look at the absolute freaks you're electing today?

I mean, just take a good look at the United States, circa 2017 through 2020. Did we look like electing an absolute freak worked out for us? Did it fix our own immigration problems? Did it make electing your own Donald Trumps look like a good idea?

[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 318 points 2 years ago

My son is trans. Please vote for Joe Biden so he can have the protections he needs and I don't have to stay up at night worrying about him.

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