geekwithsoul
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- Comment on Amazon has canceled its Wheel of Time series 6 days ago:
Wasn’t implying anything about her gender causing an issue and weird that you chose to go there. My point was that an editor is supposed to provide direct, impartial, and sometimes cutting feedback to an author. In addition to providing basic copy editing, an editor on a novel has to be able to call an author on their BS, and I don’t believe she did that in editing her husband’s books.
The writing is repetitive, long-winded, and self-indulgent. The novels have absolutely no sense of pacing and plotting is not done with any sort of strategy. She may have been a fantastic editor, but her husband’s works were poorly edited, and the fact that she was his wife I think speaks volumes as to why.
- Comment on Amazon has canceled its Wheel of Time series 6 days ago:
Considering the original author had his wife do his editing, rewriting is hardly the worst thing that could have happened.
- Comment on Tom Cruise Really, Really Loves Movies 1 week ago:
Well, if he loves movies, he should do one about the disappearance of Shelly Miscavige - that would be fascinating!
- Comment on Time to change your Steam password? Data from over 89 million accounts has reportedly leaked to the dark web 2 weeks ago:
“real-time 2FA SMS logs routed via Twilio.”
Um, Valve doesn’t use 2FA SMS?
- Comment on ChatGPT's hallucination problem is getting worse according to OpenAI's own tests and nobody understands why 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s all hallucinations - it’s just that sometimes the hallucinations manage to approximate correctness, and it can’t tell one from the other.
- Comment on Bella Ramsey Says ‘It’s Important’ to Keep Gendered Awards for Best Actor and Actress: ‘Recognition for Women in the Industry’ Must Be ‘Preserved’ 3 weeks ago:
There’s at least one study showing men get an 81% increase in money after a big award win, whereas woman get much, much less but usually something more and greater creative control of which projects they do. If they’re all lumped in the same category, men continue to win the awards and get pay bumps and women get nothing at all.
Not going to bother with an opinion on the adult film industry as that’s ostensibly a similar business but has hugely different economics. Not sure it’s really relevant to this discussion as generally, female performers in adult films go through much more difficulties than their male counterparts - they’re literally not doing the same job, whereas in the mainstream film industry they are.
- Comment on Bella Ramsey Says ‘It’s Important’ to Keep Gendered Awards for Best Actor and Actress: ‘Recognition for Women in the Industry’ Must Be ‘Preserved’ 3 weeks ago:
The current system is less than ideal, but at least with gendered awards, women have a shot at getting awards which translates into bigger future paychecks. What you’re proposing is that the same industry that currently ignores equal pay for women is somehow going to recognize them in a category against the men who are already getting paid more than them?!
- Comment on Bella Ramsey Says ‘It’s Important’ to Keep Gendered Awards for Best Actor and Actress: ‘Recognition for Women in the Industry’ Must Be ‘Preserved’ 3 weeks ago:
If Hollywood considered them equal, they would be paid the same as men for similar roles. While that can happen, it’s still the exception. And usually only happens for women who’ve won awards.
When Hollywood stops basing pay on gender, then we can get rid of the gendered awards.
- Comment on What are some of the most cringeworthy scenes or moments in TV that you've seen? 4 weeks ago:
Respectfully, Buffy’s “Once More With Feeling” is incredible.
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 1 month ago:
The Man With One Red Shoe is much worse than Joe Versus the Volcano. And if made for TV movies count, you have to throw in Mazes and Monsters. Oh and Bonfire of the Vanities was a famous flop. And Volunteers was pretty bad. People forget how bad some of his early stuff was.
Hell, both Forrest Gump and Castaway were tremendously overrated. Also the unwatchable Cloud Atlas and the stupid Dan Brown movies.
<suddenly dawns on me that Tom Hanks makes a lot of bad movies>
- Comment on woolly little chafer 2 months ago:
Bees.
- Comment on What's this thing? 2 months ago:
If it’s an air quality monitor, they likely need to move it around to get different sampling areas.
- Comment on Anon goes to the doctor 5 months ago:
Or they know there’s no point trying to rationalize someone out of an opinion they didn’t reason themselves into. Oh, and it’s worthless to prescribe medication for someone who doesn’t want to take it.
- Comment on Which adjective should come first, modular or versatile? 7 months ago:
In that case, I think the whole question is moot. The umbrella term of thingamawidget is not both modular and versatile, but its constituent parts are individually. “The thingamawidget with versatile software and modular hardware is…” would then be the more accurate description.
Otherwise it’s like describing a brownie as wet and bitter because the egg is wet and the raw cocoa is bitter.
- Comment on Supreme Court Allows E.P.A. to Limit Power Plant Emissions 7 months ago:
I was curious about this and evidently there’s some disagreement. Study from the European Parliament says it creates more radioactivity than a nuclear plant to produce the same amount of energy. Meanwhile the US EPA says it’s trace amounts that are similar to the levels seen in existing soil. Anyone have good sources either way?
- Comment on What is the stock market? 7 months ago:
A capitalism casino that somehow rules the entire economy*
* or at least many people’s view of it
- Comment on Epic knows its game store social features ‘suck,’ but it wants to fix that 7 months ago:
Software and stores aside, one of the things I appreciate about Valve is you never see them talking about what they want to do, they just do it. They may not always do what I want as a game developer, but as a game platform they seem to be pretty dialed in on what users want. I have yet to see any hint of that from Epic.
- Comment on The People Fleeing Climate Disasters Are Going to Transform the American South 7 months ago:
Yeah, wondering the same. Might even be noticeable by the next census in 2030.
- Comment on Phonebooks 7 months ago:
<waves at likely a fellow genealogist!> :)
- Comment on Phonebooks 7 months ago:
Actually in most places it was however the person wished to be listed and often included full first names and sometimes middle initials. Or could sometimes be a couple like “John and Mary Doe”
- Comment on Ban the MBFC bot 8 months ago:
“…insinuating that only bots are down voting…” (emphasis added)
No, they’re not saying “only”, they’re saying there may be bots doing some of the downvoting. E.g. probably based off IPs, client strings, or something else.
- Comment on Ban the MBFC bot 8 months ago:
That’s not what he was saying.
- Comment on Ban the MBFC bot 8 months ago:
Yeah, go see his response in another part of this thread to my request to provide some constructive feedback if you haven’t already. It was all just the same bad faith misinformation about the bot and the data source. I even linked the sources for how it actually worked and no reply, just downvotes.
- Comment on Ban the MBFC bot 8 months ago:
Currently the bot’s media ratings come from just some guy, who is unaccountable and has an obvious rightwing bias.
Wow! Talk about misinformation!!! mediabiasfactcheck.com/about/
Or maybe you think they were bought and paid for by some nefarious source? Nope…
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…I would suggest making the ratings instead come from an open sourced and crowdsourced system. A system where everyone could give their inputs and have transparency, similar to an upvote/downvote system.
Such a system would take many hours to design and maintain, it is not something I personally am willing to contribute, nor would I ask it of any volunteers.
Thank you for at least providing an iota of something constructive. It’s an interesting idea, and there is academic research that shows it might be possible. But the problem is then in a world already filled with state- and corpo-sponsored organized misinformation campaigns, how does any crowdsourced solution avoid capture and infiltration from the very sources of misinformation it should be assessing? Look at the feature on Twitter and how often that is abused. Then you’d need a fact checker for your fact checker.
- Comment on Ban the MBFC bot 8 months ago:
“universally destructive to understanding”
So what you’re saying is that no one derives any use from the bot? Wow, with that kind of omniscience, I’d expect we could just ask you to judge every news source. Win-win for everyone I suppose if you’re up for it.
Now “generally destructive” would probably be better wording for us mere mortals, but stills seems to be a wildly generalized statement. Or maybe “inadequately precise” would be more realistic, but then that really takes the wind out of the sails to ban it, doesn’t?
- Comment on Ban the MBFC bot 8 months ago:
Because this is the first thing I think I’ve seen you post and blocking everything you disagree with seems sort of stupid?
I think the bot has issues, but I hardly agree that it’s posting misinformation. Incomplete? Imperfect? You bet. But that’s not “misinformation” in any commonly understood meaning. I think the intent of providing additional context on information sources is laudable.
As someone with such a distaste for misinformation, how would you suggest fixing it? That’s a much more useful discussion than “BAN THE THING I PERSONALLY AND SUBJECTIVELY THINK IS BAD!!!” You obviously think misinformation is a problem, so why not suggest a solution?
- Comment on Ban the MBFC bot 8 months ago:
Just block it if you don’t like it?
- Comment on Doritos 8 months ago:
I mean, kinda yeah?
- Comment on Cucumber 🥒 8 months ago:
Why does that sound like the voice of experience?
- Comment on Cucumber 🥒 8 months ago:
From the article I linked with the item in the context of other finds at the same site…
