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  1. Comment on Jimmy Kimmel to return to ABC on Tuesday after show’s controversial suspension in ~tv

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    Still good to boycott for moral reasons in cases like this where you don't need to do a ton of investigating to know where you stand. And simply avoid the pitfalls of point 4 by pirating.

    Still good to boycott for moral reasons in cases like this where you don't need to do a ton of investigating to know where you stand. And simply avoid the pitfalls of point 4 by pirating.

    1 vote

  2. Comment on Tesla influencers tried Elon Musk’s coast-to-coast self-driving, crashed before sixty miles in ~transport

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    I think the reasoning for wanting it to be optical-only is that if they figure it out, it can be rolled out to every consumer Tesla vehicle (a lot of cars!) via a software patch, and suddenly you...

    I think the reasoning for wanting it to be optical-only is that if they figure it out, it can be rolled out to every consumer Tesla vehicle (a lot of cars!) via a software patch, and suddenly you have a fleet of a million potential autonomous Tesla Ubers already on the road. Dwarfing waymo and others in numbers. Doesn't look to me like that's ever happening, but what do I know

    4 votes

  3. Comment on Flight fares surge after US President Donald Trump's surprising H-1B visa move; ‘Extremely bad situation’ in ~society

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    He seems to enjoy deliberately causing economic harm to make people come grovelling.

    He seems to enjoy deliberately causing economic harm to make people come grovelling.

    5 votes

  4. Comment on Is anyone else having trouble focusing? What strategies do you use to help with focus? in ~society

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    Limit any social media or news doomscrolling to predefined hours of the day, even if it's still approximately the same amount of scrolling time as you did before. Exercise, socialise, hydrate, eat...

    • Limit any social media or news doomscrolling to predefined hours of the day, even if it's still approximately the same amount of scrolling time as you did before.

    • Exercise, socialise, hydrate, eat well, sleep 8+ hours at consistent times.

    • Volunteer or get involved in something local. Let yourself see the small ways people are making things better. Become part of it, even if "it" is just picking up litter.

    • Do harder tasks earlier in the day and save the easier stuff for later when you're tired.

    • Romanticise your process.

    • If you have trouble getting started, complete one or two super easy tasks to gain some momentum.

    • Don't give up hope and give yourself some grace when you falter.

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Fat Bear Week is here early, and the bears are fat and playful in ~enviro

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    I've put the house and the wife and kids on the outcome of this, so hopefully the disgraceful cheating scandal that tarnished last year's contest is over and done with.

    I've put the house and the wife and kids on the outcome of this, so hopefully the disgraceful cheating scandal that tarnished last year's contest is over and done with.

    8 votes

  6. Comment on Jimmy Kimmel pulled “indefinitely” by ABC after Charlie Kirk comments in ~tv

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    Cling tight to community. Shelter and help each other, share resources and information, organise. Grassroots political resistance starts with groups of people coming together just to survive and...

    Cling tight to community. Shelter and help each other, share resources and information, organise. Grassroots political resistance starts with groups of people coming together just to survive and pull through. And don't lose hope.

    6 votes

  7. Comment on Mastodon now has a Quote Post feature in ~tech

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    Yeah exactly that. Every quote tweet is potentially a harassment campaign even if not intended, because the target is a single click away. People on Mastodon don't do the screenshot thing as far...

    Yeah exactly that. Every quote tweet is potentially a harassment campaign even if not intended, because the target is a single click away. People on Mastodon don't do the screenshot thing as far as I've seen.

    2 votes

  8. Comment on Slow social media in ~tech

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    It does seem like social media is shifting more towards that kind of communication: Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram etc.. Might be the deluge of AI slop, or the danger of seeing assassination footage...

    It does seem like social media is shifting more towards that kind of communication: Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram etc.. Might be the deluge of AI slop, or the danger of seeing assassination footage while scrolling twitter, or the public social platforms enshittifying sooner, or other reasons I can't think of.

  9. Comment on Slow social media in ~tech

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    Funnily enough I had a similar reaction during the Twitter exodus a few years back, when people tried to leave and decided the algorithm-free Mastodon "just didn't do it for them". They were used...

    Offering the majority of people a healthier alternative is no different from offering a heroin addict a set of hiking boots in exchange for his bag of dope.

    Funnily enough I had a similar reaction during the Twitter exodus a few years back, when people tried to leave and decided the algorithm-free Mastodon "just didn't do it for them". They were used to high-drama heroin, and a simple chronological feed was like a salad. And Mastodon isn't even that different from Twitter in form or pace. We have no hope of getting people off this shit en masse.

    4 votes

  10. Comment on Mastodon now has a Quote Post feature in ~tech

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    In my experience some of the worst behaviour on Twitter was enabled by quote tweets, I assume it's related to that. I can disable quoting my own posts because I don't like it, but if there are...

    In my experience some of the worst behaviour on Twitter was enabled by quote tweets, I assume it's related to that. I can disable quoting my own posts because I don't like it, but if there are enough people around me that do like it, I would still expect that to become a more toxic environment.

    9 votes

  11. Comment on Sweden's health minister has urged the EU to push ahead with social media restrictions for kids while insisting it be treated as a pressing matter in ~tech

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    I guess I agree completely with their assessment of the problem and its severity, but don't think age gating is going to solve it. At best the kids'll cheese their way through it, at worst every...

    I guess I agree completely with their assessment of the problem and its severity, but don't think age gating is going to solve it. At best the kids'll cheese their way through it, at worst every tech company is required to have everyone's passport on file. Then every subsequent data leak for all time is tied to your government ID. And the kids still cheese their way through it anyway.

    I would prefer seeing them regulate addictive practices and dark patterns out of social media. Get rid of the infinite scroll. Regulate content recommendation algorithms and make their logic transparent. Limit how many times a link can be re-tweeted. Stuff like that.

    36 votes

  13. Comment on Call of Duty: Ghosts – Power, paranoia, and orbital tungsten rods in ~games

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    I laughed every single time he used that "POV getting kicked in the face" clip as a title screen for a chapter. The comic timing is flawless.

    I laughed every single time he used that "POV getting kicked in the face" clip as a title screen for a chapter. The comic timing is flawless.

    3 votes

  14. Comment on Why do so many people think US President Donald Trump is good? in ~society

  15. Comment on Medieval Europeans were fanatical about a strange fruit with a vulgar name that could only be eaten rotten. Then it was forgotten altogether. Why did they love it so much? And why did it disappear? in ~humanities.history

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    Good grief, you just made me hungry for quinces

    quinces taste like what pears wish they could taste like. They have a very fresh, complex, floral note.

    Good grief, you just made me hungry for quinces

    1 vote

  16. Comment on Medieval Europeans were fanatical about a strange fruit with a vulgar name that could only be eaten rotten. Then it was forgotten altogether. Why did they love it so much? And why did it disappear? in ~humanities.history

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    Honestly before reading this article I'd never heard of Quinces in my life, I wonder if they're fading into obscurity in the same way the Medlar did, or if I'm just a brainrotted millennial with...

    Honestly before reading this article I'd never heard of Quinces in my life, I wonder if they're fading into obscurity in the same way the Medlar did, or if I'm just a brainrotted millennial with no regard for good food and nature...

    3 votes

  17. Comment on Medieval Europeans were fanatical about a strange fruit with a vulgar name that could only be eaten rotten. Then it was forgotten altogether. Why did they love it so much? And why did it disappear? in ~humanities.history

  18. Comment on What are the standards for a good father/husband? in ~life.men

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    For most of my life I've found myself exasperated by my parents' generation and their disinterest in teaching and training. In parenting, university lecturers and in the workplace. It culminates...

    For most of my life I've found myself exasperated by my parents' generation and their disinterest in teaching and training. In parenting, university lecturers and in the workplace. It culminates in stuff like the famous bean dad thread - a man who publishes a story about how coddled young people are because his eight year old couldn't intuitively understand the can opener he never taught her to use.

    So yeah I might have complimented you too, not because it's amazing but because it's rarer than it should be and we want to encourage that.

    16 votes

  19. Comment on Karen Gillan joins the new ‘Highlander’ and has the best reaction to the news in ~movies

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    Okay, chances are good that I won't even watch a reboot of Highlander but........ ..... Dave Bautista is a great choice for the Kurgan.

    Okay, chances are good that I won't even watch a reboot of Highlander but........

    .....

    Dave Bautista is a great choice for the Kurgan.

    3 votes

  20. Comment on Do you play games in a play by email format, and if so what are you favorite games? in ~games

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    Keep an eye out for me! I use the same username as here

    Keep an eye out for me! I use the same username as here

    1 vote