geekwithsoul

@geekwithsoul@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to the doctor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, wondering the same. Might even be noticeable by the next census in 2030.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phonebooks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  <waves at likely a fellow genealogist!> :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phonebooks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not what he was saying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ban the MBFC bot⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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/

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  Or maybe you think they were bought and paid for by some nefarious source? Nope…

  Media Bias/Fact Check funding comes from reader donations, third-party advertising, and membership subscriptions. We use third-party advertising to prevent influence and bias, as we do not select the ads you see displayed. Ads are generated based on your search history, cookies, and the current web page content you are viewing. We receive $0 from corporations, foundations, organizations, wealthy investors, or advocacy groups. See details on funding.

  …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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just block it if you don’t like it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doritos⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, kinda yeah?

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cucumber 🥒⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does that sound like the voice of experience?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cucumber 🥒⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From the article I linked with the item in the context of other finds at the same site…

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cucumber 🥒⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Evidently it really was probably a cucumber? …blogspot.com/…/bullshit-memes-8-ancient-egyptian…

  tl;dr - was found with other model food, probably meant to sustain someone in the afterlife

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Misinformation: Baseless claim about U.S. presidential candidate Kamala Harris crash spread by mysterious website⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or people without any media literacy are more likely to vote for conservatives…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit Undeleted all my posts and comments⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This just happened to me as well. Deleted all my stuff about a year ago and even happened to check last week and it was still gone. Saw this and went back to check again just now, and it had all been undeleted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge Rules That Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Cannot Appear on New York Ballot: The ruling was a blow to Mr. Kennedy’s independent campaign for president. The judge said that he had used a “sham” address⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We should have bingo cards or something

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Believing accusers should always be the first step. But when independent organizations investigate and find that accuser’s story is contradicted by known facts and not corroborated by other witnesses or any evidence whatsoever, then no, we shouldn’t still believe them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s Tara Reade first off. Secondly she defected to Russia in the company of a known Russian intelligence asset whom she termed a “friend.” So excuse everyone who thinks her story might be suspect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches game of thrones⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t even call it fan fiction as the writers were seemingly not even fans of the show. It was like a fan hired someone who had never seen the show and hated everything about it to write it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emma Roberts says internet culture doomed Madame Web⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m actually curious about that - I think it had significant reshoots and many of the villain’s lines are badly ADR’d. I’m guessing the final product had very little resemblance to what was in the script.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can turn on Scottish slang in the subtitles, reminds Still Wakes The Deep developer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Scots is a completely separate but related language, not a dialect

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EXO-6 Unveils Museum-Grade Collectible Captain Picard Figures from Star Trek: The Next Generation⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s strangely beefy looking. Giving off Yul Brynner vibes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The average price of DVDs and Blu-rays has gone up.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably a bit of both, but also think they’re actively trying to dissuade folks from buying physical media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube seems to once again be rolling out its widely hated new web redesign⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically, at least when it was up for me earlier this year, scrolling still moved the video off screen