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- Comment on What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all 2 days ago:
Oh.
The Internet itself surely will continue, but yes the “free and open” version is already gone (how to test this: attempt to self-host a website now, like a Lemmy instance, and see how long until AI scrapers bring it to its knees).
- Comment on What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all 2 days ago:
Slaves?
- Comment on About half of lemmy today 2 days ago:
Meh, I can think of at least 2-3 others just in the last six months to a year.
This event at least is real rather than made up.
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 1 week ago:
Which C?
- Comment on Nigerian priest tries to part the sea like Mozes 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on French village is switching their computers to Linux. They will no longer purchase Microsoft Windows or Microsoft Office 2 weeks ago:
Sounds exactly like Microsoft to not leave their product to compete on even terms, and instead use coercion tactics to “win”.
- Comment on French village is switching their computers to Linux. They will no longer purchase Microsoft Windows or Microsoft Office 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately they have, especially I am aware of some in Germany, but they gave up due to the difficulties involved as Linux did not turn out to be as easy to use as people hoped a decade ago.
And now the pendulum has swung back around.
- Comment on Lomg Sleeve T-Shirt 2 weeks ago:
lemmyshirtpost
- Comment on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues 8 months ago:
Discuss.online is still going strong!:-)
- Comment on I can't believe they still push this fear narrative myth about "tainted" Halloween candy. It's the Satanic Panic that refuses to die. 8 months ago:
Possibly either a respect for Halloween held by all those murderers, or officials covering up the actual date when things happened, the former seeming more likely.
Hrm… so Halloween is wholesome? :-P
- Comment on I can't believe they still push this fear narrative myth about "tainted" Halloween candy. It's the Satanic Panic that refuses to die. 8 months ago:
- Comment on I can't believe they still push this fear narrative myth about "tainted" Halloween candy. It's the Satanic Panic that refuses to die. 8 months ago:
Are you sure? Did you try counting the number of pieces of candy? I bet you got at least 6 to 7 pieces somewhere in there…
- Comment on Impossible 9 months ago:
/s
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- Comment on Pls halp 1 year ago:
I hope OP is okay…
spoiler
(for those not getting it, recall the definition of “OP”!)
- Comment on Ed Sheer-enough 1 year ago:
So should I like… downvote this one then? 🤪
- Comment on On trees... 1 year ago:
And it’s not even one creature or even type of creature. Look up rhizobium.
Tbf, as we learn more about our gut microbiomes, it turns out that humans are that way as well. Maybe that’s why we have the thoughts in our heads vs. the feelings in our guts… (no that’s actually not it at all, except… isn’t it though?).
- Comment on smort 1 year ago:
Isn’t intelligence somewhat like the word “good” - as in, someone must be “good at” something, rather than inherently. Are cars “good”? (sometimes but not always…) Are cats? Are people? e.g. regarding the latter, there are many tasks for which a computing device is much better than most people - e.g. sorting a list of >1000000 elements, within one second (and then doing that task, without pausing or slowing down or error, in perpetuity). So the term “good” is only definable given a known fitness landscape.
Which then becomes somewhat naive to try to extrapolate beyond that - bc then someone good at sports could be said to be “intelligent” (at performing their particular sport?), or someone with high emotional flexibility at adaptive to new circumstances, etc. Ironically enough, someone with good accounting skills (always thinking within the box, that being the whole point for them) would likely make a horrible scientist (who needs to think OUTSIDE of the box), and potentially though not guaranteed vice versa.
So intelligence must be reflective of… SOMETHING, blah blah hand waving meaning things that “I” am good at, basically. I know right, I have all the best-er-est words, I am such a jenius, and so on.
How would that measure the intelligence of a tribal person who has not seen abstracted geometrical shapes?
So yeah, they would be less “intelligent” at performing those tasks that are measured by the test. Corollary: people on average may legitimately have gotten more intelligent over time, depending on availability of schooling. Thus necessitating adjustment of the measurement system, if the real goal was not to measure “intelligence” and rather to provide some kind of separation among people based solely on that singular metric (which itself should be questioned, if the people doing so are wise rather than merely intelligent:-).
- Comment on Frogge 1 year ago:
I see your… whatever that is, and raise you a honey badger don’t care.
- Comment on Frogge 1 year ago:
Ikr, like OP couldn’t have waited a couple days!? 🤪
- Comment on Creating a Lemmy assignment for college level comp course 1 year ago:
I don’t know what is going on with kids these days. Whatever it is, is not good. And also, large portions of it seem intentional, while other parts (No Child Left Behind) due to incompetence.
I know that we grew up in the era of information. But that was then, and this is now, the new era of not just mis-information but outright, active dis-information. Your Chinese device may legit be spying on you - see e.g. TP Link routers - it’s only a matter of probability based on how cheap that would have been to accomplish (undetected) at the time it was made. And if not, then perhaps they should have done it - it’s just strategic!? :-P
I think part of a revolution must start with opening our own eyes. e.g. some people wanted Bernie Sanders - but lol “no, not like that”. I’m not saying “bOtH sIdEs SaMe” - I’m not - however… qualitatively if not quantitatively, they kinda are, yeah. Speaking of, Bernie has a recent video about oligarchy where he points out what that means. The thing in: as he described how the government exists to serve the interests of a single person and their family, my thoughts turned to how Biden pardoned everyone that he wanted to be exempt from whatever. He’s not “tHe SamE” as his opponent - he’s not! But… isn’t he though?
Regardless of Truth vs. Falsehood, I at least understand that this is how people perceive things. No nuance, no subtlety, no room for quantitative differences. So, now we will get what we wanted: not having to think deeply anymore in order to vote. Before, our votes barely mattered as certain oligarchs got what they wanted either way, whereas now, other, different oligarchs get what they want this way.
Brace yourself: I don’t think there will be another Presidential election, or least that the probability of such is maybe 50%. He said that he’d be a dictator, and he was. He also said that we’d never have to vote again. We’ll see. Long before that, Project 2025 says that it will start gunning for the liberal academic institutions present in this country. Be careful, and maybe start thinking of a backup plan? Teaching kids who don’t want to learn in the first place may no longer be a viable career option in the extremely near future - even for you who has the job already. Sorry, this has got to be stressful to think about… but it’s a real worry. Even if there is another election, the ratchet has been dialed up, and that tends to never go back down, especially lately, and only ever forwards:-|. Btw this is not “despair”, this is my attempt at least at being a realist.
Bc more to the point, it’s what the people want. As long as that remains true, and at some point long beyond that, such will continue. This is our new normal - and it’s not about “sad” or “happy”, it simply is.
- Comment on Should I avoid communities on lemmy.ml? 1 year ago:
Other reasons to avoid, besides those already mentioned here, include that you will not be allowed to say things offhand about countries such as Russia or China or North Korea with your same account even in communities located on other instances. You either comply FULLY, even when elsewhere, or else you are banned from the entire instance. You can read more about such practices in communities like !fediverselore@lemmy.ca.
Also a lot of other “not extremists” have blocked that instance altogether, so besides having access to your community able to be yanked out from under you at any time (far more than usual I mean), you also will miss out on interactions with those other people. You will be willfully choosing to remain inside of that echo chamber, which is such to a significantly higher degree than the vast majority of Lemmy overall, and legitimately much higher than even Reddit (no joke, again, read for yourself the stories in that and other communities). Whereas if you choose a community not on Lemmy.ml, then you can still interact with people from that instance, just elsewhere.
Also, you could be told that the mod hopes to kill you someday. Sadly, I’m not joking there either (some selected quotes: "nono I don’t want to shoot for pointing that it’s a game, I want to shoot you because…”, and then later tripling down still further, e.g. stating “I hope you die soon.”).
See e.g. lemmy.world/post/22359447.
- Comment on Josh Johnson - The Failure, Fear, And Frenzy around Luigi Mangione 1 year ago:
I love Josh Johnson! I hope to see him behind the chair in TDS soon.
- Comment on Stop making up states 1 year ago:
Bc it’s so far past that it has become its own thing. Like there’s “mental illness”, and then there’s “Florida”!:-P
- Comment on Stop making up states 1 year ago:
I would say that this is perfection, if it weren’t for the simple fact that most states are in far more danger of Ohio than this shows… :-D
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Profits.
It used to still be a worthwhile investment though. These days… it can be, but it’s not guaranteed. You also can learn most things online for free, so what is it even getting for you, really?
Connections.
But that only if you are willing to push for them, and so many kids are only there purely bc their parents send them, like an extended daycare or continuation of high school. I’m not saying it’s not worthwhile, but it requires a VERY serious commitment, and so many people are not willing to live up to that.
See also the recent discussion in ! AskUSA@discuss.online Is college in the USA worth the financial investment?
- Comment on Is something happening in South Korea? 1 year ago:
fr fr
Believe it or not, but I was lazy myself in writing my comment. It would have been better to have a question mark at the end. ❓
- Comment on Is something happening in South Korea? 1 year ago:
AI slop
- Comment on Cats are Healers 1 year ago:
Knowing that you survived probably gives you a nice hormonal boost:-).
- Comment on Cats are Healers 1 year ago:
Survivorship bias: those who survive the encounter have lowered stress.😁
