Hegar
@Hegar@fedia.io
- Comment on Technically Correct 4 months ago:
Ah, dang. Yeah I was there before 2013 and it was so noticably delicious. The friend I was visiting said it was the first thing her mother had said when visiting as well, how good the tap water was.
Bummer to hear that's changed!
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 4 months ago:
TBH, I just don't think something better is possible - I suspect that there are no valid shortcuts to trust.
Unless something is just obviously bullshit, it will always take some time to develop a sense of how the different sources are treating a new story. Even a trusted source can prove unreliable on a particular topic.
It's uncomfortable living with that uncertainty until you've seen a story from enough angles that you can judge for yourself. But either the story is important enough to me to spend that time, or I just accept that I can't really know.
- Comment on Technically Correct 4 months ago:
The tap water in Canberra, Australia is the tastiest I've tried out of the ~20-50 municipalities I've sampled in Australia, Western and Southern Europe, the US, China, Taiwan and Vietnam.
- Comment on Technically Correct 4 months ago:
I don't think they need to make the enforcement of rules ultimately arbitrary to prevent explosives. You already can't bring explosives. The molecules involved are not relevant.
- Comment on Hugh Jackman as The Wolverine 2000 vs 2024 4 months ago:
It's perfectly normal for humans to become less matte as they age. Please stop this unnecessary reflectivity shaming.
- Comment on Technically Correct 4 months ago:
Ah yes, the "rules only apply when I say they do" rule.
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 4 months ago:
Just block it and move on already. Your disagreement is hardly worth this crusade.
That's not sufficient.
A private trust assessing company shouldn't be given free space in an open public forum as though it's assessments we're something the general public should be aware of. If you trust it you can go seek it's assessment off site. But this company shouldn't be allowed to spam the fediverse of all places.
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 4 months ago:
I down voted, argued against and the blocked it because:
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I don't trust its specific analysis of sites. Others detail some examples.
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I don't think whole-site analysis is very useful in combatting misinformation. The reliability and fullness of facts presented by any single site varies a lot depending on the topic or type of story.
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Other than identifying blatant disinformation sites I don't see what useful information it provides. But even that's rare here and rarely needs a bot to spot.
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Why is an open-source, de-centralized platform giving free space to a private company?
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Giving permission for a private trust-assesing company to be operating in an open public forum makes it look as if these assessments reflected a neutral reality that most or all readers would agree on or want to be aware of. Really, it's a service that people can seek out of they decide they trust it.
Presenting this company's assessment on each or most articles gives them undue authority that is especially inappropriate on the fediverse.
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- Comment on Sigma male Patrick Bateman Ryan Gosling Drive (2011) Compilation Cobratate The Joe Swanson Experience 4 months ago:
No, that's too shitpost.
- Comment on I drew the Mexico states by memory 4 months ago:
If you'd zoomed out a little more you could've included Ibiza to the north, where the Mayans started out before expanding north towards disneyland, or the Azores to the west, the base used by the Polynesians to obtain sweet potatoes from the Ghanaians.
- Comment on yew 4 months ago:
The stink lines. And everything.
- Comment on Anon has a master plan to get her boyfriend back 4 months ago:
Yes. No. Yes. Yes but not gay.
- Comment on Anon has a master plan to get her boyfriend back 4 months ago:
Luckily green text is fiction, no one really did this.
- Comment on Anon is an anthropologist 4 months ago:
This is probably incorrect. Rocks preserve in the archaeological record so that's what we have the most evidence for.
Increasingly sophisticated knowledge of woodworking, textile science, plant and animal biology, mathematics and astronomy were no doubt developing alongside knapping techniques, that stuff just doesn't preserve well.
- Comment on Anon is an anthropologist 4 months ago:
It's not fake. @Dasus is correct. Stone axes, fire control, language, carpentry, glue, ocean travel - heaps of smart things predate homo sapiens sapiens. We're not the first smart species.
- Comment on We love our new Democratic Nominee, Don't We Folks? 4 months ago:
Not engaging and instead just letting readers see your other response would've been the classier move.
- Comment on Anon is an anthropologist 5 months ago:
Usually the distinction is between "advanced communication" which some animals display, and "language", which only humans have.
Whether you want to call it language or advanced language, what we do today is way older than 10k years. There are stories that have been dated to 100k and if the arguments about erectus are correct, then what you call advanced language is probably 2m+ years old.
- Comment on Loading like a 90's dell computer 5 months ago:
This is called parsing - your brain processing the speech sounds into meaning. That feeling of suddenly realizing what was said is your brain needing a little extra time to parse.
This can happen for lots of reasons. One time my sister in law was so grumpy that my brain struggled to parse what she was saying because the tone and words were so mismatched.
- Comment on Anon is an anthropologist 5 months ago:
Language is much older than just 10k years. There's a few reasons to think that language might have developed with erectus, which could make language 10x older than the 'human specie', according to anon.
- Comment on Most important map 5 months ago:
In NNY it's called momcorp.
- Comment on The Nature of Nature 5 months ago:
You could just as easily say nature wants empathy, cooperation and collective action. Also that tool use that Mr Frum seems so fond of, nature wants that too.
But of course the nature doesn't want, it just is.
- Comment on When creating a story, how many black characters can I create without them calling the story woke? 5 months ago:
Nazis in the 1940s were actually socialists
No, they were not. Not at all, not even a little.
You can't eat urinal cake and great danes don't get a vote in the national elections in Denmark.
Sometimes a name is misleading.
- Comment on When safety becomes a word puzzle 5 months ago:
Don't Do What Donny Don't Does!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
This is objectively within the bounds of "normal" human experience. It's seen in primates and other mammals too.
Sleeping in the same bed as your family was the norm for a long while, across many cultures. It was also perfectly normal for noble to sleep in the same bed as some of their staff, or for merchants or other traveller to share a bed while on the road.
Most people in many western cultures would probably find it weird, but they're the weird ones for needlessly sexualizing the act of sleeping.