TheTechnician27
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- Comment on Radio transmissions 2 days ago:
A few additional fun points about this:
- “Crab” is Germanic.
- “-ification” itself has its roots in Latin, so even your proposal would be “Latinised”.
- "carcino- comes from Ancient Greek.
- True crabs’ scientific name, “Brachyura”, is Neo-Latin derived from Ancient Greek.
- Comment on Radio transmissions 2 days ago:
I think the meme is funny too, but it seems like it’s becoming so divorced from its original context that some people actually believe that carcinisation is some kind of ideal endpoint of evolution. Just to clarify: this isn’t true given how few actual examples there are and the tradeoffs involved.
- Comment on Don't kink shame Oklahoma City. 5 days ago:
🎵 It takes a lot to make a stew 🎵
- Comment on I've hated donald trump since day one but then I saw this and thought.... 1 week ago:
I’m not German and thought “huh, I’m not German; maybe I’m actually wrong, and I’m not going to overstep here”… And then the Germans arrived.
- Comment on Good job 1 week ago:
“Let’s nostalgia bait millennials who miss the Aero aesthetic.”
- Comment on I've hated donald trump since day one but then I saw this and thought.... 1 week ago:
“Are these anti-Nazi protestors holding up a Star of David trying to protect democracy in Germany, or are they just trying to keep their family from being deported?”
🤡
- Comment on Anon is in the folder now. 3 weeks ago:
What’s the ratio of sweat to passion?
- Comment on Grieve with me 4 weeks ago:
- Test the cable first if you have a spare.
- Test the AC adapter if you have a spare.
- If both fail, inspect the charging port with a flashlight. 4a) If it looks dirty, try cleaning it out with a toothpick (if you have a dedicated plastic tool for mobile repair, use that). 4b) If it doesn’t look dirty, refer to 4a. What often happens is that lint from your pocket compacts over time as it gets in there and then gets pressed in by the charger.
- If this doesn’t work and you have a good, locally owned mobile repair shop nearby, they might look at the port for free just to see if there’s anything you missed.
Only after all of this would I start to strongly consider the phone itself as the culprit.
- Comment on Are you amused 4 weeks ago:
You finally got here. This is the ninth “Your Sanctuary” location. But it’s mine now. Take it from me, if you dare…
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 4 weeks ago:
Oh god, it’s real.
- Comment on Github keeps shoving copilot everywhere. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Max changing name back to HBO 4 weeks ago:
Thank fuck, honestly. What a stupid fucking name; took them long enough.
- Comment on It's My Nature 5 weeks ago:
They should end in the style of the author’s notes from the fanfic My Immortal instead.
- Comment on When you think that YOU are always correct 5 weeks ago:
9gag-ass meme tbh
- Comment on Pope Joan 5 weeks ago:
Transvestigators: “Trans X will never be real X!”
Also transvestigators: “Trans X are apparently so functionally indistinguishable from biological X that you can’t tell from thousands of hours of footage (including their voice) from public appearances and paparazzi voyeurism taken at almost every possible angle over dozens of years, including childhood pictures. Instead you need to resort to convoluted, pseudoscientific, unreproducibly arbitrary, per-person diagrams. This applies to dozens of celebrities. But they’ll never be a real X tho!”
Transvestigators are scum, but I feel if I were trans that these “investigations” of obviously and openly cis people would make me feel more affirmed than basically any other form of external validation.
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- Comment on YOLO 1 month ago:
Psychology has an embarrassing history.
It really doesn’t?
Half their studies aren’t reproducible.
Replicable*, and also see here.
Their most famous study is basically a fraud.
Do you mean the Stanford prison experiment, which is famous because of how terrible it was? The one that’s taught in Psych 101 classes as a lesson on ethics and how not to design an experiment? Because while I would argue it’s not the most famous study, the entire reason it’s famous is because it was so shittily designed that psychologists going forward took lessons from it.
They’re behind eugenics
This literally isn’t true, or at least it’s a ridiculous half-truth to put psychology at the forefront of eugenics. Eugenics is – surprise, surprise – rooted in biology after inheritance became more widely understood. Eugenics had its hand in basically every natural science, and so you’ll find occasional psychologists like Henry H. Goddard showing up, but you’ll see biologists, statisticians, politicians, and so forth. Eventually eugenics spread into fields like psychiatry, but “they’re behind eugenics” is absolute fucking horseshit that you fail to back up with literally anything.
I’m not anti-intelectual [sic] or a Scientologist or anything
Uh-huh…
I guess what I’m trying to say is that psychologists like Jordan Peterson might want to clean up their own room before trying to lecture the rest of us.
Why are you bringing up Jordan Peterson? Peterson is widely despised among psychologists, he no longer works at the University of Toronto, and instead of contributing research to the field or engaging in clinical practice puts out self-help sludge. “I’m not an anti-intelectual, but I’m going to take an entire century-old field of science and compress it into Philip Zimbardo(?) and Jordan Peterson so I can say that science bad actually.”
- Comment on So true 1 month ago:
My dad: “The plain peanut butter sandwiches will continue until morale improves.”
- Comment on Wiki Wars: Editors and propagandists are fighting for influence over the online encyclopedia’s most controversial entries 1 month ago:
This user’s entire history (username included) is spent signal-boosting demonstrably false, bad-faith attacks against Wikipedia. I have no idea how this post has a ratio of 28–0 when the article’s premise is that the ADL of all organizations is a good arbiter of what is antisemitic when it comes to coverage of Israel’s genocide in Palestine. The article starts with “This past March, researchers from the Anti-Defamation League accused Wikipedia of biased coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
Newsflash: it isn’t. The ADL consistently treats anyone who dares to challenge Israel’s genocide as antisemitic. This user is a ridiculous troll and should be banned from communities for their transparent, bad-faith agenda. I’m sure if there’s a story worth posting, somebody other than “wikipediasuckscoop” can post it. It’s so transparent that in an age where the Internet is blanketed with far-right disinformation, one of the last remaining bastions of truth that refuses to compromise and bend to said disinformation will come under attack by bad-faith, far-right actors desperately flailing to discredit it.
I’d like to point out that when the article says “propagandists” (i.e. people opposed to Israel’s genocide) and arbitrarily delineates them from “editors”, what it’s failing to point out (likely because a) its author doesn’t understand shit about fuck or b) its author doesn’t care) is that any article related to a conflict between Israel and Arab countries is extended protected by default (on top of other heavy editing restrictions). This means that it can only be edited 1) on a registered account 2) which is at least 30 days old and 3) which has made at least 500 edits. This isn’t 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 typing “Izreel sux lololol” or even just some random sockpuppet account trying to insert anti-Israel bias. You have to be an experienced editor to make changes to these articles. Every single one of these even remotely controversial public changes is put under a microscope and discussed ad nauseum by other experienced editors on the corresponding talk page – not just to make sure that it’s covered without bias per NPOV but that its claims are suitably backed by reliable, independent sources.
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 1 month ago:
And other reasons why “security through obscurity” is bullshit.
- Comment on My PhD supervisor when I start to regret choosing a thesis on the Great Vowel Shift [Day 120] 1 month ago:
I’m so sorry that these shitposts keep getting shittier.
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- Comment on [Joel Haver] This deleted scene almost completely ruined Spider-Man (2002) 1 month ago:
Just doing my part. 🫡
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- Comment on When I don't know if she's trying to give me a signal or if I'm just reading too much into it [Day 118] 1 month ago:
This is a series where I make a meme out of every line of dialogue in The Room. It was running every day, but I got kind of burnt out on it for a bit and started having gaps of a day or two. I’m intending to get back to doing it daily now.
- Comment on Google is excited about money! 1 month ago:
It’s likely in your best interest to move away from Gmail, if not immediately then over some period of time (e.g. start new email signups with other address, gradually move over existing ones, etc.)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
but it’s not helpful
Seems pretty helpful to me to direct software requests or bug reports to the place where software or bug reports are taken.
The Lemmy github page — like any github page — is indecipherable for anyone who’s neither geek nor nerd.
Huh? How’s it “indecipherable”? It has some code listed, then below that is a description of the project. If you just want to add a bug report or request a feature, you click on ‘Issues’, then you check to see if that feature request/bug report is already there yet, click ‘New issue’, select the kind that you want (“Bug Report”/“Feature request”/“? Question”). Then you fill it out in the template that they give you and click ‘Create’.
I’m neither geek nor nerd.
Okay, but I should hope you’re literate. It’s not “indecipherable for anyone who’s neither a geek nor nerd”; it’s actually extremely easy, and even if you don’t find it that way at first blush, you could just ask “Hey, I’m kind of having trouble with this; can anyone help?”
Is there a community about Lemmy software on Lemmy somewhere?
My dude, my guy, the reason it’s on GitHub is because that’s where the developers are.
