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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you go about evaluating sources of information for truth/credibility/etc.?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
No person nor source gets it right all the time, I like your idea as an evaluative technique but I think the assumption that being incorrect here is necessarily because of lying might mean discounting a lot of sources/creators who are otherwise reputable. I’d look at it more like degrees of doubt cast over everything else they say where you don’t have the expertise to evaluate the accuracy. Much like a driver’s licence, you get dinged enough times for more and more infractions and eventually you lose your license. If they keep continually getting things wrong where it’s something you know something about eventually you can probably discount them on anything else as well, but if it’s just once or twice, especially where they’re not egregiously wrong, some benefit of the doubt could be beneficial to all concerned. Better I would have thought to take what feels like their salient points on the content they produce on topics where you aren’t knowledgeable and check if other people are claiming anything similar and where something is verifiable, try to verify. Of course theoretically you should do that all the time but in practice at least each time you know someone is wrong about something it’s an indication that for them specifically further checking is required.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yeh you don’t like it, sure, but the question was whether it had gotten worse in some way that’s quantifiable different to how it used to be in the past, or if it’s just OP’s personal taste changing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What good thing just happened in your life?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
The other day I made butter chicken and it was one of the best butter chickens I’d had, at least as good as restaurant quality. Can’t wait to make it again and it was my 2nd try ever so I think I nailed it pretty quick. Wicked proud of that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the event you believe a contract killer is in breach of contract, who adjudicates?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
There’s better answers here addressing the unlikeliness of contract killers existing in the sense of a freelancer available for hire to all the general public rather than someone trusted by peers in a criminal enterprise and also about the “contract” not really being a contract because it’s unenforceable but I think you could also draw the conclusion just by reasoning alone that if a contract killer in that Hollywood sense of the term existed, and breached their contract and you the client don’t have the personal connections or power to threaten that particular assassin’s life in response, there’s always just good old reputation at stake. I mean, it wouldn’t help you in your specific case if they’ve nicked off with the money and left your target very much alive but to have hired them in the first place would have required word of mouth in hopefully a pretty small community of people since you can’t exactly expect to find them on fiverr so you could make it know pretty quickly that this person doesn’t honour their contracts so their wet work career would be over pretty quick.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That funny feeling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I didn’t know this was common for other people. I’ve always viewed my capacity to cause what should be a sporting injury from lying in bed as a uniquely personally shameful indictment.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Well I mean, what would you say in that position? It’s hardly going to help any to come out and announce that everything is fucked and you’d probably also be pretty disinclined to say nothing of note was achieved in your own administration or that there isn’t really enough time to do much of anything in the remaining period.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm going to try not to swear when you're around. Is this a good apology to a coworker?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It also sounds like based on the preceding post that they really are going to have to do this as the initial reaction to offending their coworker seems not to have gone down well with them and their colleagues at all. It looks like they’re kind of having to do this to prevent things escalating any further which might be why their apology has needed to be workshopped and people are finding flaws in it. They’re probably having to work through a fair bit of resentment before they can find an authentic apology in themselves. Good for them though, that can take a bit of reflection and the initial instinct can be to try and issue a non-apology apology but instead they’re working through it to get it right.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you think lemmy will ever be popular?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I can’t foresee Lemmy specifically reaching levels of popularity comparable to platforms like Twitter or Reddit. Barring some very strange disastrous upheaval of the whole landscape they and their ilk will continue to be Leviathans even with decisions at the top that look like outright sabotage. There is so much inertia. Maybe those two examples might disappear, but only if they’re devoured by another just like them.

I can see Lemmy and similar Federated platforms with their quite sizeable yet comparatively miniscule user bases carrying on as they are and even growing a little bit and having some effect on the zeitgeist with the occasional piece of local culture seeping in to the wider platforms though people there will likely not know that’s where it came from. I also think efforts like Threads or likely something similar that comes after will be where the fediverse meets any mainstream success essentially becoming part of those bigger platforms in some way I can’t yet predict in detail.

The big appeal of Lemmy is ideological and technical, this will always limit the number of people drawn to it. If there weren’t already giants in this space that wouldn’t matter because there’d be a snowball effect that would draw crowds who came because of other people not because of any interest in how the platform functions or ideals to pursue and with those crowds could come more crowds until you have a critical mass. But with the situation as it is now, the big crowds that draw yet more crowds still, are elsewhere so you’ll only ever have enthusiasts or ideologues that go out of their way to be here.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Hopefully in a year or two they’ll eventually just call it Twitter or maybe if we’re lucky it will go out of busi and then they’ll probably still just call it Twitter because the X thing would then have just been a short lived portion of its overall lifespan.
Are there any recent-ish single player, complete games that are similar to Rise of Nations and would work on Mac or at least on WINE?
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you actually care about your friend's new baby, vacation abroad or similar life events or are you just being nice?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I care, usually not very much, but somewhere above zero. It’s good that they actually have something to talk about which therefore gives us something to talk about. Holidays overseas are a bit easier than kids because there’s some relatability there but whatever they’re talking about it’s usually more the person talking about it that’s interesting more than the thing. You’re already friends, so you already enjoy their insights or way of talking about things and you’ve probably been there for a fair few of their important life events so it’s nice to hear about the latest ones and how that’s shaping then today as others shaped them before.

Because I don’t have kids and wasn’t on their vacation for me there is a natural limit imposed on just how interesting it can be hence saying I don’t exactly care a whole lot, but it’s usually at least enough to make sharing a beer more satisfying.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I was a secret immortal how long could I keep the same US ID for before I get taken away for study. I'm thinking 150 years.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It’d be cruel to the people around me, but I do rather like the idea of starting over every 30 years or so, your could try out so many different paths.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threw a wrestling watch party, made special food, and was very disappointed in the outcome.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It’s a tough job
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who poop with the bathroom fan off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I like to imagine your guest has a Lemmy account and was browsing while doing a fanless poop 💩
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every show with a suicide now has a disclaimer with a suicide hotline at the beginning. Is there any evidence that these warnings make a positive difference?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s amazing how effectively just hearing this from someone who has firsthand insight can put it in perspective.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come Israel don't use Mossad to take out all of the Hamas leadership similar to what they did after Munich? Would this not be better than bombing stuff into oblivion?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Further to that third point as well, there’s probably also a question simply of opportunity. You could take the Munich situation as evidence of capability, but it may also have been opportunity plus capability. Intelligence seems like it’s a pretty difficult game and perhaps the successes in the operation bayonet had to do with unlikely and fortunate intelligence scoops that they have not happened upon now and can’t rely upon. Also, while I don’t know much about the post Munich assassinations, it sounds like went on for over twenty years, didn’t really take out many of the actual important directly involved individuals and a lot of the people they would have logically wanted to target successfully went in to hiding out of their reach so if the strategic goal is to behead the organisation that carried out attacks as a defensive strategy to weaken their capacity to do it again, 20 years just to take out relatively minor unimportant figures isn’t really going to work.

That said, it also looks as so many have stated like “taking out Hamas” is more a convenient political smokescreen for a much more sinister goal so a very successful intelligence operation that rapidly took out all their leadership at once would actual run counter to their true objectives in this scenario.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have sex with a clone of yourself, is it incest?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Wow. That was fucked up.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I think he’s famously at least eaten a lot of McDonalds.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These motivational messages on the computer screen in an emergency department hospital room⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I can’t imagine getting worked up about it either, but then the whole mildly infuriating deliberate oxymoron turn of phrase is that it’s something that should only really be a little annoying but which nonetheless is really quite annoying. It’s a type of silent frustration where you feel it, but you don’t really express it or visibly react.

In terms of what should they have put on these screens? If they felt they absolutely had to do this or really thought it might help make people’s situations feel even a modicum of improvement, then the glib messages could maybe have focussed on something other than gratitude as their common theme. It hardly seems like the appropriate time to bring that up. By their nature, any cheesy and overly broad phrase is probably going to have a sadly ironic and patronising tone to it in the circumstances but maybe something like “hang in there” or just about anything except what they went with has got to better.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well THAT'S super helpful! 🤦⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
To keep you busy so they can show up during the call and claim no one was there.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not casually stealing comments⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I pass butter.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not casually stealing comments⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Gee that Barbara sure does manage to be insightful on a light of different topics. I try not be presumptuous but sometimes I really do feel surprised that she has so much more depth to her than her modelling career might make you think. Truly a polymath.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are LLMs capable of writing *good* code?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t know how to program, but to a very limited extent can sorta kinda almost understand the logic of very short and simplistic code that’s been written for me by someone who can actually code. I tried to get to get chat GPT to write a shell script for me to work as part of an Apple shortcut. It has no idea. It was useless and ridiculously inconsistent and forgetful. It was the first and only time I used chat GPT. Not very impressed.

Given how it is smart enough to produce output that’s kind of in the area of correct, albeit still wrong and logically flawed, I would guess it could eventually be carefully prodded into making one small snippet of something someone might call “good” but at that point I feel like that’s much more an accident in the same way that someone who has memorised a lot of French vocabulary but never actually learned French might accidentally produce a coherent sentence once in a while by trying and failing 50 times before and failing again immediately after without ever having known.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If lemmy.world became the biggest in the fediverse with a user base that could rival Reddit. Would it become monetized?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I think you might be misunderstanding the whole advantage of the fediverse idea in the first place.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If lemmy.world became the biggest in the fediverse with a user base that could rival Reddit. Would it become monetized?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The thing is, in a scenario where it’s as big as Reddit in terms of users, most of the content on the fediverse then would be local to them so if they defederated everyone or everyone defederated them, who’d really be cut off from whom? They’d probably only be marginally less appealing to their user base who might not even know how the whole fediverse thing worked anyway.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If lemmy.world became the biggest in the fediverse with a user base that could rival Reddit. Would it become monetized?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Definitely. At least the damage could be largely limited to just that instance though. I can’t seriously imagine the people behind it letting their ideals trump profit for an extended period of time, especially with financial imperatives from the costs associated with the infrastructure required if that one instance alone had so much traffic.

Theoretically though, if it started going rancid it’d be much easier to jump ship without losing out on too much, that is unless they defederate with everyone or everyone defederates with them, either of which could be distinct possibilities. In that case, I guess you’d just have another Reddit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which one is selected? The "Yes" option or the "No" option?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Oh no! Guessing you wanted to resume?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which one is selected? The "Yes" option or the "No" option?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s been at least 3 hours now. Which was it?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit Undeleted all my posts and comments⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Maybe you should start the long process of manually changing everything to grammatically correct, parseable nonsense, comment by comment. Make it a long term project.