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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A customized delivery experience⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Consider how many millions of people use them. If their customer service fucks up 0.01% of the time, that’s still thousands of people having to put up with this shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to live 6 hours drive from my parents and drive to theirs after work on Friday for a weekend roughly every month or so.

  If there’s somewhere around halfway I can get fed, go to the bathroom, and take a short break which also doesn’t push my midnight arrival time much later, then of course I’m going to do that instead of going out to a full service restaurant, or cooking myself and having to clean up from it, again pushing my arrival later? I’d be shocked if most people wouldn’t agree with this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We hate “The French” but have no issues with French people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to move a sofa⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s harsh on to call it erasure, but completely understand that in effect it’s the same thing, because to me it seems people are hostile because what you’re saying doesn’t match their lived experiences, and so they’re saying “that’s not how it is” because they believe that you’re pre-judging situations based on how you think people will react to neurodivergent people, when that’s not the case at all. I like to think it comes from a place of good intentions, but yeah in reality it’s no different to saying “just cheer up” to a depressed person, when it’s really not that easy or how it works. The most important thing is that as irritating as it is, harboring resentment over this kind of thing helps nobody, and the best thing you can do is accept that they’re trying (badly) to help, and that they just don’t fully understand what the issue is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to move a sofa⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I completely agree, but it also doesn’t mean that the people who don’t have that connection to you suddenly aren’t willing to help their community, it just means that you have trouble integrating into communities, which is very valid and I can completely relate and understand, as that’s kind of how being neurodivergent works.

  As much as it sucks to hear, it’s absolutely an “it’s not them, it’s you” situation, and I’ve been in the same position, and still do get in the same position, where I’m feeling out of place, unsure what to do and unwelcome, and very sensitive to confirmations of that, which is part of at least my experience of being autistic, but I’ve learnt that a lot of the times you don’t actually have to pick up on social cues or whatever to make connections, as most people aren’t even that invested anyway, and to most people talking to someone, even if they’re weird, is better than talking to nobody. You may say “but everyone’s already got friends they’re always with” but even that’s just an autistic lens over it, as you’re just noticing when other people are having conversations but not you. And it doesn’t have to be everyone. Like you said yourself, being a friend of a friend goes a long way, so if you just have a few connections with people who are friendlier or more similar to you, then that just gets you into circles. You won’t exactly be neurotypical all of a sudden, but it definitely helps with feeling less different or isolated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to move a sofa⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thing is, like you say, they’re willing to help a friend of a friend, but frankly the bar for a friend is pretty low for a lot of people. As someone who’s also neurodivergent and has had approximately three friends on average for most of my life, but recently moved to America and so had a full reset, I’ve been reminded that the majority of people like to think they’re good people, even if they have questionable beliefs or cut you off in traffic or whatever, and thay extends to helping out people that they know.

  Given I’ve been in the country a month, have autism, and live out of the city, I’m still fairly confident if I needed a neighbor to take me to hospital, or someone to help me move a couch, or whatever else, I could find them even through work or the neighborhood pretty quickly, as it just takes one connection to flip a switch in people’s brains from “fuck that guy” to “they’re in my tribe, I’ll help them”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone confirm?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I went and found it altogether dreary. The city feels like it’s trying so hard to be New York with nothing of what makes New York so good, then you go out of the city and find the bleakest landscape on earth. Even leaving isn’t a good experience because you’ve got to deal with getting to O’Hare. I’d take Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Seattle, Boston or even DC, Phoenix or Philly over it in a heartbeat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the problem with all politics. People don’t like the status quo and so vote for “not this” without considering the ill effects of what they’re voting for, or historical precedent. It’s how we ended up with Trump twice, it’s how we ended up with Brexit, and it’s not going away any time soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if programmers rewrote the English language?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same in English…

  Can’t, won’t, you’d’nt’ve, and if we get into dialects then you get things like owt (anything), nowt (nothing), ont (on the) and int (in the).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but corporations which keep profits up by providing a good service that people are willing to pay for should be celebrated and rewarded over those which keep them up by wringing every last penny out of you while simultaneously degrading their service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite recent advances, it's still possible to identify AI slop if you know what to look for.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fundamentally hard for AI to make things dirty.

  It can do messy, but it’s based on denoising, and it’s very hard to distinguish a layer of dust or grime from noise, so unless some new technology comes up we’re still going to have that as an indicator well after scale and limbs are fixed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away."⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Twitch is more of a parasocial website in most cases though, unless you’re watching exceptionally small streamers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NHS England to trial AI and robotic tools to detect and diagnose lung cancer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good, if it’s as good or better than we have currently then that’s great, if it’s not then oh well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advertisements⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There hasn’t been an insignificant number of times I’ve found out about a new product or event I’m interested in, a sale for something I already want, or something like that through advertising.

  It’s rare as a proportion, but it definitely does happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advertisements⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe that ads are just yet another tragedy of the commons type of thing, where bad actors not only ruin it for everyone, but also convert good actors to being bad actors.

  I’d say there’s three tiers:

  • Ads showing you things you actually want or need, and providing you with new information.
    • These are going to have high CPMs, so you don’t need many per page, and having more per page will decrease their value, but kind of require tracking to ensure their relevance.
  • Ads showing you things you might not want or need, but might cobsider buying, or information that isn’t immediately relevant.
    • This is the baseline for reasonable quality, untargeted ads, and CPMs for these are going to be fairly low, but much higher if you click on them
  • Ads promoting scams, malware, and things you neither want nor need.
    • In this case, the CPMs will be virtually zero, so the site is forced to cram as many on the page as they can. They’re also encouraged to get you to click by mistake.
    • This makes people block ads or trackers, reducing the number of ads in the first category and forcing more sites to adopt these patterns.

  It’s kind of sad that it’s going this way (and has been for a while) but I guess it’s going to end up with just a return to paying for media with money rather than ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a question⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect it was intentional - afaik at least in English speaking countries, live event subtitles for a foreign language are either just in that language, or [speaks in …]. It’s more for pre-recorded shows, and even then baked into the video feed rather than the subtitle track, that you get subtitles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The surge starts around 2016, could be political instability following David Cameron leaving/Brexit, smartphones being common enough that muggings increase, changes in policies due to Sadiq Khan being elected, children who grew up during the recession growing old enough to join gangs, or a number of other things

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the drop is 2020 and then it never recovered actually?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably Switzerland.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Council removes almost 1,000 flags from Derby streets⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Flags on lampposts isn’t seen to be an issue anywhere else. There’s also (as far as I’m aware) no reported issues of flags flying down, regardless of whether it causes accidents. Even then, if it’s not well secured, remove it or tie it properly, otherwise leave it, it’s the same amount of effort if not less than removing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Council removes almost 1,000 flags from Derby streets⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In almost every other country other than Germany it’s very normal to see national flags flying everywhere. People on the right are starting to realise that and use it to say “they’re trying to stop us being patriotic.”

  Taking flags down is only going to make that worse and create an “us vs them” mentality. What would help, is flying more flags. Fly a pride flag next to a St George’s Cross. Fly a Union Jack with a dragon in the middle. Fly the same flag as the far right, but see it to represent all the people who work to make the country what it is, no matter who they are. That’s far better than creating unnecessary divisions over something that really isn’t an issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's dad is a tailor⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s from 2018…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing with PE is they only invest what they’re willing to lose, which the vast majority of their investments do, but the tiny fraction that don’t make enough money to fund profits and cover losses.

  If 95% of companies in the stock market lost money, that’d be the end of days, but that’s because generally once you graduate to an IPO you have to be pretty profitable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole point of a pardon is “we know you did the crime, but don’t think you should be punished.” It can only come about if there’s an ulterior motive, like corruption or if you agree to work with the government towards their goals, initially working on dangerous projects etc. Allowing it to be overturned later would undermine that as it wouldn’t make the danger worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Essentially: it’s not designed as a change from North/East/South/West, it’s designed as a from-scratch way to refer to those directions.

  The sun rises in the East and sets in the West, so let’s say East is “Sun” and West is “Setting-Sun.”

  Polaris/The North Star is in the North, so let’s call that direction “Star” and the other direction “No-Star.”

  When you say “Setting-Sun-Sun-Star,” you’re saying the direction is more similar to the path the sun takes through the sky than it is to the North Star, and in the direction the sun sets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was assuming a conlang situation where “north” referred more to the axis, rather than the direction.

  Anti-north-north would be more “reversed-vertical-vertical” meaning it’s reversed vertical (south), and closer to the vertical axis than the horizontal axis. North would just be “vertical” without being reversed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In all cases, 2 at most.

  North North-north-east North-east North-east-east East Anti-north-east-east Anti-north-east Anti-north-north-east (south-north-east is impossible so the second anti would be redundant) Anti-north anti-east-anti-north-north (reversed word order to distinguish it further) Anti-east-anti-north Anti-east-east-anti-north Anti-east Anti-east-east-north Anti-east-north Anti-east-north-north

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  anti-north-northeast doesn’t sound unreasonable, but that’s being logical instead of just thinking about two directions, as written in text, as OP is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't like the 'left liberal bias' of cited and sourced Wikipedia articles? Not a problem, our lord and savior Elon is introducing Grokipedia.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Elon is one thing, but the Grok developers have recently done a surprisingly good job at making it neutral and unbiased in matters of opinion, but also allowing it to tell people they’re wrong in matters of fact, which is why there’s so many screenshots around of conspiracy theorists getting shut down by it.

  I can’t say whether this will be the same, but if the devs take “without bias” to actually mean “without bias,” rather than what Elon intends it to mean, it could actually be somewhat useful to filter out obvious promotional content and any small levels of bias.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She is making a GREAT point⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or they just don’t know if they’ll want to raise children later…

  Sure you could say they should adopt, but they may see some value in the experience of supporting their partner as they go through childbirth in forming a bond to the child.