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these trucks are only used by the few people who need a big truck

Did I miss your sarcasme or are you not connected to reality?

Yeah my priority is basically as followed:

1. Made in the EU + owned by european corpo
2. Made outside EU, but owned by European corpo
3. Made anywhere but US by a non-US corpo
4. Made in Eu, but owned by an US corpo
5. Made in the US and or by a us corpo

But i have to be fair to myself and spend my money wisely, and basically only 4 and 5 can persuade me to spend more money than i should. Only avoid 5 is hard enough also, because if you dig deep enough you almost always come across the us in the supply chain of either goods or services (payment systems is an obvious example here, but also every company uses us software etc)

Most European supermarkets white label food is made in Europe. It can be hard to find confirmation it isn’t made by the same factory, but even if it is most of your money goes to the employees, suppliers and local business. Some ingredients have a very common source (i believe a lot of almonds and walnuts come from the us), so it could be best to avoid products with those ingredients. But peanuts and cacao don’t come from us, and potato starch and sunflower oil are also more likely local-ish.

I like the second one a lot, especially how the upper and bottom numerals face the floor and the left and right ones face towards the center, and to allow for that there has to be a sudden flip from 3>4 and 8>9. But the indices are not playing by the square-clock rule and unlike the cartier one form a regular oval shape.

I like how the upper one had to find a way to make clear which indice represents the numerals - it really shows the problem in projecting the circular movement of the hands into a rectangular (thanks, that’s the right word) shape.

It think most analog clocks/watches will give you an old-timey whiff much more often than not, just because there is a more new-timey alternative. I went looking for some watch faces for smart watches, but couldn’t really find any interesting one. Most are either digital numbers or a round clock on a rectangular display.

Neither of those interest me like the Cartier tank, which I find really ugly watches to be honest. It’s just this double outlined rectangle(-ish shape) which is unevenly split into 60 boxes that I like (seen below on the first, third and fifth watch).

Cartier found a work around quite some time ago and maybe they weren’t even the first to design a square ‘clock’:

(The roman numerals are nice, but notice the ‘circle’ between the numerals and the hands, almost like the circle from the ai)

such a variety of failure modes

What i find interesting is that in both cases there is a certain consistency in the mistakes too - basically every dementia patient still understands the clock is something with a circle and numbers and not a square with letters for example. LLMs can tell you cokplete bullshit, but still understands it has to be done with perfect grammar in a consistant language. So much so it struggles to respond outside of this box - ask it to insert spelling errors to look human for example.

the ability to “see”

This might be the true problem in both cases, both the patient and the model can not comprehend the bigger picture (a circle is divided into 12 segments, because that is how we deconstructed the time it takes for the earth to spin around it’s axis). Things that seem logical to use, are logical because of these kind of connections with other things we know and comprehend.

Removed by mod

By far the best, but still off. These three were loaded in the same order as i post them:

I thought the same, until it refreshed and it got worse and it refreshed and it was different but still bad. These three were loaded in the order as posted:

Thanks for sharing, opting out was a easier than I expected. I was already logged in and just had to visit this url: https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-ai-improvement

The setting you need to do this, called Data for Generative AI Improvement, is found under Data privacy within How LinkedIn uses your data in account settings. Click here.

Added context:

Airbus, Leonardo and Thales announced Thursday that they will combine their satellite and space activities […].

Airbus will be the majority owner of the new joint venture with a 35% stake, and Leonardo and Thales will each hold a 32.5% stake in the new company.

The development of space launchers will be excluded from the new company’s operations.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/23/airbus-thales-leonardo-announce-space-merger-to-rival-musks-starlink.html

It’s less weird if you understand distraction can be used to steer peoples attention away from real problems.

I have an old one with a battery, which is not what you’re asking for but it has a feauture i have really come to like: you have to put the alarm on everytime. Having it go off every day automatically is a huge convienienxe that radio alarms, wake-up lights and smartphones have; but setting the alarm to wake up at a specific time next day is some kind of magic agreement with the universe. I’m not necessarily a believer in manifesting your destiny, but setting an intention like this really helps me out in the morning. Just wanting to put that out there.

short looping videos

is being worked on by the team behind Pixelfed, it’s not on ActivityPub as of yet but it is intended to become part of the fediverse: https://loops.video/