“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: […] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.” —Jonathan Swift
> Will
OP, it’s in committee with four co-sponsors out of 63 senators. Also in committee in the Assembly with five co-cosponsors out of 150 assemblypeople. Cool it with the “will”.
pushing an agenda of slop
I tend to assume “don’t know better, and moderative action for gatekeeping quality on Lemmy is sparse and delayed”. Sometimes we just get Reddit’s backwash because that’s what’s easiest, and Redditors are not discerning either.
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But then the seafloor is rising because it’s inside the stomachs of the fish who swim above it. Bastards
Can we please not use the International Business Times? I promise I’ll have a prebaked explanation someday, but until then, here’s the Ars Technica article this sewage drain of an outlet is using as its lone source.
Well don’t groan too much, or…
in about 90% of the cases
And other complete bullshit statistics I ripped out of thin air.
If you think even close to 90% of homophobes – or fuck it, 90% of cases if you think the countable closet gay instances are vastly unevenly distributed among a tiny 1% – are doing it because they’re secretly aching for gay sex/romance, you’re out of your fucking mind and need to take that shit back to high school psychology.
Just like 90% of racists don’t secretly wish they were another race or 90% of transphobes aren’t closet trans, this is egregiously wrong and nonsensical.
Stupid carbrain idiot liberal! People are using the fun one, but traffic flows so efficiently due to calming measures that it doesn’t become congested like the boring, straight one does.
Can we please stop treating AI “confessions” like they mean jack shit? It’s just giving genAI companies the self-seriousness they crave and making anti-AI people look like hypocritical morons.
As noted:
The EU has agreed to ban exports of plastic waste to countries outside the group of mostly rich OECD nations by November 2026, yet half is still being sent to those destinations. Much of the remainder goes to Turkey, now the largest recipients of European plastic waste.
So that’ll be interesting.
If you can’t know if it’s right or wrong, and have to double check it, why use it in the first place?
“If you can’t trust that a friend solved a sudoku puzzle for you without checking it first, why even bother?”
The obvious answer being that it’s much easier to check the solution to a sudoku puzzle than it is to solve it yourself. If you have reasonable means to check compared to going out and starting from scratch, then even a modest enough rate of correct answers can save a ton of time. LLMs don’t have that for me, but that’s also because I’ve been doing research as a hobby for 10 years.
If you know anything about computation theory, there’s an entire class of problems for which checking a solution is (relatively) trivial but finding a correct one is highly non-trivial.
Yeah, when an ex tells you not that they’ve changed, but that it was all someone else’s fault…
… What? That’s literally the exact opposite of what Safran said. He clearly positioned it as the fault of the industry – making zero attempt to distance DC Studios from the blame – and then claimed that they had changed with Supergirl.
Whether you believe the claim they’ve changed is categorically separate from (if I’m reading your comment right, because honestly it’s a bit incoherent) claiming Safran shifted blame elsewhere and purported not to have changed.
It’s possibly “you-on-you”, OP, if you’re willing to clone yourself for some freaky shit at the singularity of incest and masturbation.
Because the freezer is, like, way cooler.
WHAT THE HELL AM I EVEN SUPPOSED TO BUY???
If you’re a woman, sexy jogging gear. If you’re a man, binoculars and tick repellent. If you’re nonbinary, donate to your local parks department to fund sidewalks and bushes.
It’s just that simple.
but nobody is making any sales revenue off somebody like me.
Everybody who thinks this is definitely having sales revenue made off of them. It needs to be restated forever in discussions like this that the metric for success in online advertising is not largely “oh shit, I could go for one of those right now”.
Those are what stick out in our mind because we remember them. I really did see an ad for Roblox as a kid and immediately go start playing. But sooooo much of advertising is subconscious to a point that we couldn’t possibly measure its true effect except by statistics.
Even beyond what we purchase: I’ve been bombarded with sponsorships for Raycons for years. Even with SponsorBlock on YouTube, sometimes they leak through. I will never buy a Raycon product. But I still occasionally talk about them, inadvertently advertising them, simply because they’re a good punching bag. I watched a whole video reviewing what pieces of shit Raycons are. Fuck it: I’m talking about Raycon right now. And that’s still among the worst-case scenarios for the advertiser. So much of advertising isn’t “I want this product now” or even “this product looks desirable”; it’s headspace.
The idea that advertisers’ psychological manipulation just doesn’t work on certain people needs to die and stay dead. If you saw it, it had an effect on you, and any effect is a better effect than nothing. If you realize an advertisement worked on you, the advertisement has failed part of its job.
Calm down, Sigmund.
You didn’t have to add “dipshit”.
That’s true, but since they decided to follow it up with homophobia, I’ve decided not to feel bad over it.
There’s no dichotomy of “roads or no roads”. Individuals driving necessitates wider and more extensive roads. People who choose to drive when they otherwise don’t have to have the effect of making everything farther away and making road maintenance considerably more expensive.
