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- Comment on Anon tries to manipulate Tinder 49 minutes ago:
I suspect games tinker with the formula behind the scenes, to accurately place people faster if nothing else. The more players the longer it could take for the skill of any one to show up in the numbers, so I bet they factor in other game specific metrics at least at first. There would be some risk of this being abused, but that’s less if they keep it a secret and maybe the progress numbers shown to players aren’t quite the same as the real numbers used to decide who to match them against.
- Comment on Anon meets up with a girl 5 days ago:
I think a common conclusion in general, I dated a woman once whose mind went to that explanation constantly for all kinds of things and it was basically always a distorted picture of reality. I think people just don’t get needed validation due mostly to arbitrary bullshit and the world sucking and that makes it easy to buy into toxic self hating memes.
- Comment on Anon meets up with a girl 5 days ago:
Well I guess he will find out based on whether or not she ever contacts him again.
Really though this does seem like the kind of thing where “it’s because you’re sexually repulsive” only seems like the obvious explanation because of insecurity brainworms.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I’m glad to see it at least, though maybe it would also make sense to be posted on !reddit@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I’m still on Reddit too, and I bet a lot of people who came here from there are. Lemmy just isn’t a fully viable replacement yet.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
That’s the thing about that sort of censorship though, you can only guess what it might have been. Your guess seems plausible, but it’s just a guess, and when the guess that Reddit mods were acting in good faith turns out to have been wrong, they don’t want you to know about it.
- Comment on Asshole Lab Rat 1 week ago:
I found a source that includes the second half which makes it more obvious:
Dr. Macho believes #42’s behavior is intentional and aimed specifically at him. “I caught him laughing at me once while I was trying to sort data he’d fucked up. I know what you’re thinking, ‘Can rats even laugh? And what would it look like?’ Trust me, when a rat laughs at you, you’ll know.”
When asked why he doesn’t simply exchange #42 for a less malicious rat, Dr. Macho explained, “You can’t just use an infinite number of lab rats. They start to think you’re a psycho if you keep asking for more.” Dr. Macho sighed. “I feel like I’m living in an annoying Pixar movie where I’m the bad guy – oh, wait….I’m the bad guy. I’m the evil scientist performing experiments on a sassy, smart rat. And my name is Dr. Stu Macho? Oof, yeah, I’m the wrong one here.”
Just behind Dr. Macho, #42 winked and walked directly into his food bowl.
- Comment on Asshole Lab Rat 1 week ago:
The diet experiment is presented as present tense. The cat smell experiment is described with “I once ran an experiment”, part of the speaker’s “thesis”, which is in the past. They are clearly keeping #42 alive to be used in totally separate research, in this fictional The Onion esque scenario.
- Comment on Asshole Lab Rat 1 week ago:
They do not take rats from say a maze solving study, then give them diabetes for a different study, then give them a brain tumor before putting them in the decapicone (a real product).
I figured, but in the meme story this is pretty explicitly what is happening.
- Comment on Asshole Lab Rat 1 week ago:
In this story the researcher’s problem was that they let the rat live and used it across multiple experiments
- Comment on Anon is jealous 1 week ago:
Nah it’s a bait thread
- Comment on Did 70% of Wisconsin voters just delete their own constitutional guarantee to be eligible to vote? 1 week ago:
Hm, worrying. I wonder what the gap might be, like what could make an adult citizen not a ‘qualified elector’
- Comment on Did 70% of Wisconsin voters just delete their own constitutional guarantee to be eligible to vote? 1 week ago:
I am pretty sure those voting rights are also guaranteed by the federal constitution, so probably not
- Comment on Tiger Predators 1 week ago:
One way of thinking of it could be that since all of our intention and decision making originates in such a process, the line between them isn’t that clear.
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 2 weeks ago:
IMO the most valid argument is that there are way more people making a middling income than people making a high income, so any reduction in taxes for those people would need a proportionally much larger increase in the upper brackets to maintain the same level of tax revenue, if it’s possible to make the numbers work at all depending on how much of a tax break you want to give. The minimum amount to be taxed is set based on where the tail end of the bell curve is, the number of people who are poor enough not to be taxed is small.
Of course there’s also the fact that the richest people don’t get their money from having a job at all, it’s all in investments, so messing with income tax rates doesn’t even affect them.
- Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture 2 weeks ago:
But I think the point is, the OP meme is wrong to try painting this as some kind of society-wide psychological pathology, when it’s rather business people coming up with simple reliable formulas to make money. The space of possible products people could want is large, and this choice isn’t only about what people want, but what will get attention. People will readily pay attention to and discuss with others something they already have a connection to in a way they wouldn’t with some new thing, even if they would rather have something new.
- Comment on Why is the price of real estate rising so dramatically? 2 weeks ago:
The biggest reason that is often overlooked is wealth inequality. The rich keep accumulating wealth, and real estate is a scarce form of wealth that holds value, produces a return, and can be accumulated. It probably accelerated recently because of the large amount of money that was dumped into the system around covid; that was yet another opportunity for the wealthy to grab a bigger share of the pie.
If things keep going this way, we’re going to get into a situation where regular people don’t own houses anymore, and rent is a much larger percentage of your income.
- Comment on Ragrets 2 weeks ago:
IIRC the story this is from is about a girl who is incapable of making the most basic decisions so an assistant was hired to whisper in her ear what she should be doing
- Comment on Being an already decided voter in a swing state is swell 3 weeks ago:
A text message app with a keyword blocking feature is very useful to have
- Comment on ... 3 weeks ago:
can’t see correlation without social agenda—theyre just two very different things. Science and agenda; or agenda using “science”. It’s bias. That’s very unscientific.
The idea is that the place the OP meme is coming from is a belief that science and agenda are not different things and rather are inseparable. It is very unscientific, it’s a fundamentally anti-intellectual attitude.
- Comment on ... 3 weeks ago:
I think you’re reading statement B too literally. I’m pretty sure the idea behind it is related to critical theory and is an objection to the idea that rationality is trustworthy and that class conflict should be regarded as a higher truth. In that way statement B is relevant to statement A; it’s an implicit rejection of it.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders: Is there a path to remove big money from politics? Goddamn right there is! 3 weeks ago:
the only way to separate them, is to abolish both and start from scratch
Ok, well, for those of us who don’t think a state of civil war following total collapse of the United States government is a good idea I’m glad there’s people like him trying to work out another path forward.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
changing how its “block” button works. That option previously allowed users to hide their profile from certain accounts – but will no longer do so.
So I guess all that stuff they did to lock down the ability to see things on Xitter without an account was strictly for evil then
- Comment on Anon gets trolled 4 weeks ago:
literal sexual assault
- Comment on Goddammit Texas! 4 weeks ago:
True, and that is an issue, but I guess the main thing I’m getting at is that despite voter registration not being a unified system a majority of people moving between states aren’t going to be deterred from registering by a Kafkaesque bureaucratic labyrinth.
- Comment on Goddammit Texas! 4 weeks ago:
I think for most people in the US when you move you have to get a new driver’s license, and that process also lets you register to vote
- Comment on Anon sells girl scout cookies 5 weeks ago:
If this was real I’d be interested in the details. Did anon accept fiat or crypto? Were the boxes advertised mainly on the darknet itself? Or clearnet, and if clearnet how did they get users that know wtf an onion link is or how to use it? Were the police alerted by an irate customer calling the police near the return address, or were the cops buying the cookies as a sting operation?
- Comment on How fast do you need to travel to JUMP the Grand Canyon? 5 weeks ago:
There is no way
- Comment on Dreams come true 1 month ago:
- Comment on Dreams come true 1 month ago:
The real term is synthetic data