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- Comment on How do "lie detectors" work (I mean Polygraphs). If I'm loyal specifically to the constitution of my country, and the interviewers ask if I'm "loyal to [My Country name]", how would that work? 26 minutes ago:
The polygraph process doesn’t care about what the person means because it isn’t even measuring personal convictions or whether the person even thinks they are lying or telling the truth. If you think a polygraph has any meaning whatsoever other than what the person ‘reading’ it wants it to mean then you have fallen for snake oil.
- Comment on How do "lie detectors" work (I mean Polygraphs). If I'm loyal specifically to the constitution of my country, and the interviewers ask if I'm "loyal to [My Country name]", how would that work? 29 minutes ago:
Yes dog noses are excellent and they can smell things. They are also great for finding survivors in disasters!
K-9 units don’t operate on whether the dog smells something, they just follow the signals from their handlers. That is what makes them bullshit.
- Comment on How do "lie detectors" work (I mean Polygraphs). If I'm loyal specifically to the constitution of my country, and the interviewers ask if I'm "loyal to [My Country name]", how would that work? 1 hour ago:
Don’t forget to get your Miggs-Bryer personality certificate!
- Comment on How do "lie detectors" work (I mean Polygraphs). If I'm loyal specifically to the constitution of my country, and the interviewers ask if I'm "loyal to [My Country name]", how would that work? 1 hour ago:
You fell for snake oil
- Comment on How do "lie detectors" work (I mean Polygraphs). If I'm loyal specifically to the constitution of my country, and the interviewers ask if I'm "loyal to [My Country name]", how would that work? 1 hour ago:
It can go in with K-9 units ‘smelling something’ and all the other made up bullshit that they use to violate people’s rights.
- Comment on Late 1 hour ago:
Why does she have wings!?
- Comment on How do "lie detectors" work (I mean Polygraphs). If I'm loyal specifically to the constitution of my country, and the interviewers ask if I'm "loyal to [My Country name]", how would that work? 3 hours ago:
If someone is asking you questions with a polygraph they are interrogating you with a predetermined outcome and it does not matter at all how stressed you are or whether you tell the truth. Even if you show no signs of stress, they can subjectively interpret the output to say that you were stressed.
- Comment on How do "lie detectors" work (I mean Polygraphs). If I'm loyal specifically to the constitution of my country, and the interviewers ask if I'm "loyal to [My Country name]", how would that work? 3 hours ago:
Not only are they made up indicators, they are operated by someone who does a subjective reading of the output!
- Comment on How do "lie detectors" work (I mean Polygraphs). If I'm loyal specifically to the constitution of my country, and the interviewers ask if I'm "loyal to [My Country name]", how would that work? 3 hours ago:
Because it lets them see how people react under pressure. If people think the stress detector works, they are more likely to be honest because they are worried the people using it will think they are hiding something.it is a mechinal version of “we already know the truth, we are just asking to see if you lie to us”.
The implication of the machine often gets results even though it isn’t reliable in any way since stress is not an indication of anything specific.
- Comment on The world is falling apart! Send us your money! 8 hours ago:
My inbox is already full of nagging emails about donations since donating to wikipedia. Don’t need a second firehose.
- Comment on Discord explores virtual rewards for its ad product as it prepares for a potential IPO 12 hours ago:
Will give those a shot.
Just use it for gaming with a handful of friends and would switch if anything else was as reliable and easy to use but with less annoyances. I haven’t found an alternate that does video streaming and works with xbox, which one friend needs.
- Comment on Discord explores virtual rewards for its ad product as it prepares for a potential IPO 13 hours ago:
Oh boy, more pop ups to dismiss!
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 13 hours ago:
*paw fetish
- Comment on [deleted] 14 hours ago:
Pointing out it is a joke is a rug pull on the punchline.
- Comment on The Myth of the Alpha Male 16 hours ago:
If we folllow the rules of software development, alpha are buggy releases that show basic functionality but require a lot of additional work before they are ready.
- Comment on The Myth of the Alpha Male 16 hours ago:
‘we’
- Comment on The Democrats’ One and Only Union-Busting Governor: Jared Polis 1 day ago:
I dunno, worker’s party sounds like it buys into the capitalist system. People who are retired, stay at home caretakers, and a ton of other people who don’t work for a living should be included because the work that people do supports them as well.
We need a party for the general population. A real People’s Party…
Dammit!
We really do need a party for the general population’s interests though, but all the good ones are taken by malicious actors.
- Comment on Technically the truth 1 day ago:
*Yore
- Comment on Hot in the car today 2 days ago:
Mostly around the anys.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 2 days ago:
I had one many years ago because my wife talked me i to it and ‘deleted’ it due to not using it after a couple years because it was showing me other things than just my contacts even back then. It was mostly a way to see my hogh school acquaintences and childhood friends who moved far away were still alive.
The superficial connections were fine, but not engaging like nearby friends. I have one friend who does post there and sometimes forgets to put it elsewhere, but my wife lets me know when he does.
Note: I put ‘deleted’ because there is zero chance they deleted anything other than the ability to log in.
- Comment on Where does technology come from in Star Wars? 3 days ago:
Star Wars has a plethora of aliens living alongside humans, there is no reason to assume there are even more advanced aliens and the current ones can’t make tech.
- Comment on Where does technology come from in Star Wars? 3 days ago:
People and aliens.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 3 days ago:
I did forget about The Mountains of Madness!
- Comment on Let's play this game again 3 days ago:
You can see all the spiders in your walls. Bacteria and all kinds of living things coat every surface you look at and fill your intestines.
I’m not sure that a side effect would be worse than the super power.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 3 days ago:
Antarctica here I come!
- Comment on Let's play this game again 3 days ago:
Crowded subway station = fun times!
- Comment on Let's play this game again 3 days ago:
The other half is poop.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 3 days ago:
Me.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 3 days ago:
Whoch makes sense as air being stopped would make moving around impossible.
- Comment on I can't believe this is a real article. Just wow. 4 days ago:
7 days is also about a quarter of a lunar cycle, which makes more sense than the number os celestial bodies.