Squorlple
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I don’t care what people say, the most important historical event in my lifetime was the discovery and release of the lost Steely Dan tape containing The Second Arrangement
- Comment on Neo 8 hours ago:
No Trinity is interested in him
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- Comment on You Know What They Say: 1 day ago:
If I was so sure, then I wouldn’t have done further research
- Comment on You Know What They Say: 1 day ago:
Hmm. The art style, the sharp edges, the contrasting color palette, and the fuzzy background made me think that this image was AI-generated, drawing on a mix of the corporate art style and the Orwellian art style. The figures in the bottom corners that look like they have a🗿for a head really sold the idea to me, and the caption’s color, font choice, and Title Case formatting didn’t help. After seeking reassurance from a couple of AI-gen detection sites that claimed it was likely human-made, I used TinEye.com to find the oldest source of the image I could.
Turns out it was made by Pandagolik1 back in 2022. Kudos to the artist for predicting a dystopian corporate propaganda aesthetic so precisely.
- Comment on I've always been critical of Sabrina Carpenter's music. But I love the deck she built for my house. 2 days ago:
Sabrina Carpenter not being a member of the Carpenters hits me like Ice Spice not being a member of the Spice Girls
- Comment on star wars clone wars trying to find a season a episode number 2 days ago:
It’s not from The Clone Wars series. It’s from Tales of the Jedi Season 1 Episode 5 “Practice Makes Perfect”.
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- Comment on If I wanted to have a maximally downvoted post, how would I go about accomplishing that? 6 days ago:
Borrow my account and say things that most people should be in agreement about? Sometimes I really just don’t understand
- Comment on Interesting news 6 days ago:
You can view their removed comments in the modlog. I’m not licensed in psychology but I would think that to be an accurate diagnosis. I wouldn’t want to see this instability, hostility, and lack of candor in my forums.
- Comment on Did YouTube just disable video playback for people using adblockers or is it just me? 1 week ago:
Yep, both that one and another adblocker I use for a few days now. I tried yet another plug-in called something like Ad Block for YouTube that works with blocking the non-video ads but I’ve still been getting video ads with it that only play the ad’s audio with a plain black video screen for the length of the ad; spamming refresh on the page tends to bypass the video ad. Hopefully the plug-ins will adapt soon.
- Comment on 🆓🆒🆗 1 week ago:
I’m omitting the phrase “It’s actually incorrect because” from this discussion since it’s not relevant.
“[T]hey would probably be fired at from their behind”
“be fired at” is a transitive verb phrase, so there are necessarily two related entities in this scenario: the firer and the target, the latter of which we know is “they”. Simply saying “be fired at from behind” could indicate that the firer is aiming backwards as a trick shot since it is ambiguous if “behind” refers to that of the target or if it instead refers to the act of firing; most people could figure out the meaning in context, but I prefer to avoid asking that from my audience. Since “be fired at from their behind” uses “their” as an appositive to refer to the entity or entities yet mentioned in the sentence, and the only one yet mentioned was the target (“they”), this clarifies that “behind” must refer to that of the target.
It’s also commonly, but not absolutely, considered grammatically incorrect to end a sentence with a preposition. “from behind” ends with a preposition, whereas “from their behind” ends with a noun (“behind” not meaning their buttocks but rather that which is located to their rear).
I was trying to get the comment posted before a particular time constraint, so I didn’t have time to locate a word that singularly refers to the area located to one’s rear.
You’re welcome to consult !english@lemmy.ca about this.
- Comment on 🆓🆒🆗 1 week ago:
I added the “their” to avoid suggesting that the shooter would be shooting backwards at them
- Comment on 🆓🆒🆗 1 week ago:
It’s actually incorrect because they would probably be fired at from their behind
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- Comment on Well whenever you notice something like *that*, a wizard did it 1 week ago:
I see two possibilities:
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You disbelieve the quote and you are using it as a counterexample. In which case, you consider the source to not be credible on the matter.
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You believe the quote. In which case, you prove how people may believe what a prestigious scientist may say without critically examining it, even if the claim is contaminated by incredible magical thinking. This is precisely what the meme advocates against.
Neither of these scenarios contradict the meme.
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- Comment on Well whenever you notice something like *that*, a wizard did it 1 week ago:
Those two are not mutually exclusive nor contradictory. “Credibility” is a key word, in specific reference to information obtained from an individual through any medium. It’s possible to brand oneself as a scientist in a field and become a talking head without passing proper peer review and replicable results.
- Comment on Well whenever you notice something like *that*, a wizard did it 1 week ago:
I really did not expect it to be so controversial
- Comment on Opinions on the internet 1 week ago:
I should start just depicting my opinions as the Chad and other people’s opinions as the Soyjak and leaving it at that
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- Comment on 🤯🤯🤯 1 week ago:
Username checks out
- Comment on Well whenever you notice something like *that*, a wizard did it 1 week ago:
There are times in which a scientist may speak on matters without peer review, such as interviews, their own blogs or other personal web channels, or even a TED Talk. The meme is about those circumstances.
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- Comment on Well whenever you notice something like *that*, a wizard did it 1 week ago:
Did Sigmund Freud’s science? Or Philip Zimbardo’s? Or Santiago Genovés‘s? Or did they contaminate their works with their preconceived notions to get false results that they already believed in? I’ll tell you the same line that I have been saying: verify with peer review and replicable results.
- Comment on Well whenever you notice something like *that*, a wizard did it 1 week ago:
I agree with that much. A person can be smart in one field and ignorant in another field. My concern is with the contamination of one’s own supernatural thinking (either individual notions or the approach itself) into their scientific work and publications. That’s why I said “they may have applied similar illogic and pretenses”, not that they certainly did. That’s the importance of having methodology being scrutinized by unbiased peer review to produce replicable results.
- Comment on Well whenever you notice something like *that*, a wizard did it 1 week ago:
That’s why it’s important to have peer review and replicable results
- Comment on Well whenever you notice something like *that*, a wizard did it 1 week ago:
I don’t understand where you’re coming from. Could you explain further? What are the categories of black and white that you think I’m working in?
- Comment on Well whenever you notice something like *that*, a wizard did it 1 week ago:
An individual doesn’t truly understand and apply the scientific approach and method if they baselessly believe that certain phenomenon are caused by supernatural forces/entities. Ergo, the individual’s credibility in their established field is called into question since they may have applied similar illogic and pretenses to their work and understanding there.
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