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Nikki Haley keeps saying Biden won’t finish his second term and Kamala will become president, and *how we can’t have that!*. Like what cant we have exactly? That Biden can’t die before his second term is over? Or that a woman will become president in his place? Or the fact that if he did, heaven forbid, then a woman of black and Indian origin will become president over a cough…. a fake white woman of Indian origin?

On one hand climate change cant come soon enough and sink Florida for good, but on the other hand I dont want the plant and sea ecosystems to die either. The possibility of seeing burmese pythons and alligators in DC area in a few decades is indeed very exciting.

[Conservative groups draw up plan to dismantle the US government and replace it with Trump’s vision – The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/29/election-2024-conservatives-trump-heritage/132651e6-4621-11ee-b76b-0b6e5e92090d_story.html?utm_source=reddit.com)

If this comes to pass we really will start looking for alternatives outside of the USA.

Trying our Arc browser for first time today. Interesting concept.

Imagine a couple of years from now someone develops a music focussed AI bot. This AI bot’s single mission is to create every possible tune there ever can be, ranging from 1 min to 10 mins. Imagine all this AI bot does is create random music pieces forever. In a while this AI could have conceivably compose every single piece of music there was and will be in future. Now Sony music comes along, acquires this music bot and thereby acquires every single piece of music that will ever be written again in future. This is not actually that futuristic as you think it is, but a very real scenario coming soon to all of us. World’s gonna be fun then!

Is there a safari plugin or chrome plugin that filters out all mentions of a specific “topic” that I chose? For example I am fucking tired of seeing *Vivek Ramaswamy* every fucking where on the interwebs, so if there is a pluging that you know just hides him away forever from my Internet experience, it would be so nice and much appreciated!

Caught up with s1 of the bear. While good didn’t see anything remotely close to this being *succession* killer and all. Maybe s2 is dramatically different?

One of the most annoying things about WhatsApp is how it latches on to the ringer sound for notifications and not the actual sound for notifications. The result is that you cannot silence or reduce the sound of WhatsApp notifications with just volume buttons alone – you have to adjust the ringer volume to adjust the notification volume. In essence WhatsApp assumes that their notifications are necessary as phone and forces you to make a choice to silence both phone ringer and WhatsApp if you just want WhatsApp notifications at a lower volume. Just shitty design this by Facebook, but then what to expect. In an ideal world WhatsApp notifications can and should be controlled via sound volume not ringer volume but here we are.

> [What Happened to Wirecutter?](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/08/wirecutter-recommendations-worse-new-york-times/675075/)
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Longtime fans have turned on the product-recommendation website. An evolving internet may be to blame.

I am one of them. I used to trust Wirecutter recommendations over anything else on Internet, but I dont get the feeling it is the same anymore. I am sure NYTimes buying it had to do lot with that feeling, but now more often than not their recommendations are basically *here’s the most expensive item on the shelf and we recommend it* mode. Heck, I literally bought their budget sunrise alarm clock pick reading their recommendations last week and immediately regretted making the purchase. I could and should’ve gone for something else that had better reviews.

Buzzfeed’s entire business model is *X asked this question on reddit and some of the responses are shocking* articles with embedded gifs. Thats fucking it. The one part of their site which was actually very very good, the news division was gutted.