There can be multiple groups of many people in a population. It doesn’t have to be a majority to be significant.

25% of 150 million is a pretty large number of people. “Many” is vague enough that you shouldn’t be calling anyone dumb over it.

Gaming in Linux on a windows VM isn’t viable for most systems. Most games run really well through proton with little to no effort. Some even run better on Linux than on windows. You just can’t play a lot of the most popular competitive online games because it flags their anti cheat.

I’m always making up stuff to see company reviews and wondering how many of those are fake too.

That’s a misleading headline. Makes it sound like 70% of young people use cannabis. The figure is that of people who were charged with cannabis related crimes, 70% were in their 20s. About 1.8% of their population had ever used cannabis in 2019.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210122065355/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/01/22/national/japan-marijuana-law/

Mortgage rates are down ~0.25% over the last month which is a bigger deal for most buyers. Mortgages and homes are still pretty expensive compared to a couple years ago but we might finally be at a turning point. The fact that everything isn’t getting worse is a good sign.

True but trust is hard to establish in decentralized platforms like the fediverse. As far as I’m aware the only decentralized banking is unfortunately cryptocurrency.

Isn’t that what NFTs do?

Mid journey and the like have already been caught creating shutterstock watermarks in images. Future models might be able to fake specific watermarks well.

I slightly hate myself for suggesting it, but are you essentially describing NFTs?

I work with software and my coworkers will occasionally tell me they ran something by ChatGPT instead of just reading the documentation. Every time it’s a bullshit waste of everyone’s time.

Fuck trump and all but he literally did not say he would stop all electric car sales. He said he would stop all sales of Chinese brand cars manufactured in Mexico.

Source: The speech linked by the NYT article that Gizmodo/jalopnik references

https://www.youtube.com/live/XGJwCUHVgc0?si=O_c0epZoYWO1Owf0

The “you’re not going to be able to sell those cars” line is about 32 minutes in.

GMOs aren’t inherently bad but many crops are genetically modified to be resistant to glyphosate and other herbicides so they can douse the fields with the stuff.

When you use a vpn, any traffic that would go between you and a website goes through the vpn first. Makes it hard for sites to know who you are and makes it hard for your isp to know what sites you visit.

When you use tor, any traffic that would go between you and a website is bounced around between a few different computers first. Similar to a vpn but is near impossible to track unless you’re a big gov agency with lots of resources.