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gamers: would you let someone else play under your gamertag?
yep
7.7%
nope
53.5%
depends who it is
38.7%
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ok nerds. i cannot get any AI tool* to convert this image of a table to a CSV that contains information that is mostly accurate. can you?

*let us agree that we can get a non-AI tool to do this, but for this test we are limited to AI tools.

Your family didn’t have their name changed at Ellis Island. That is a myth.

The topic came up recently in conversation, so I figured it bears repeating for a wider audience. You can read more about the myth and the reality here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-smithsonian-did-ellis-island-officials-really-change-names-immigrants-180961544/

Did Ellis Island Officials Really Change the Names of Immigrants?

On the 125th anniversary of the famous portal to the U.S., history shows inspectors were not the ones changing people's names

Smithsonian Magazine
i saw a license plate today that read “MUSK HVE” and i cannot determine if it means MUSK HIVE (egregious) or MUSK HAVE (still 😬 but slightly less egregious). what say you?
MUSK HIVE
57.8%
MUSK HAVE
42.2%
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somebody said google rented the inside and outside of the sphere (🤑🤑🤑) for cloud next, which makes me wonder how much money they spent on a marketing conference? also, how many layoffs will they need to do to cover the bill?
@[email protected] is also me. :)
what short form text based social media platform are you using the most? (if none of the below, lmk in the comments?)
mastodon
93%
bluesky
3%
threads
1.3%
twitter
2.8%
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not enough people know that you can tell everyaction (basically the clearinghouse for dem voter data) to put your email address in their blocklist, thereby greatly reducing the amount of political email you get. maybe even stopping it completely.

be warned that you may stop getting the emails you want from your favorite politicians/candidates as well.

https://secure.everyaction.com/Bby5Gh663k-Y6622QUla7w2

Requests to be added to our global email blocklist

EveryAction
the hot pot on top of the stove where you put pots and pans while cooking is called what?
the burner
89.4%
the eye
1.9%
other
8.7%
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what’s the best mirrorless camera for shooting still pictures? (shooting video isn’t important to me and isn’t a factor.)