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  1. Comment on How has your industry changed in the past decade? in ~life

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    Those other customers are why I can't find decent beer anymore.

    Those other customers are why I can't find decent beer anymore.

    5 votes

  2. Comment on How do you build strong online communities? in ~talk

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    I miss the euphoric atheist drama. Tangentially, I feel like I got into being a compulsive popcorn-muncher at the worst possible time. Had I tried to get into online drama-watching any later, my...

    I miss the euphoric atheist drama. Tangentially, I feel like I got into being a compulsive popcorn-muncher at the worst possible time. Had I tried to get into online drama-watching any later, my first major drama would've been Gamergate. Reading threads about that is like snacking on stale piss popcorn. Could've closed the tab and logged out. Instead, I got hooked on previous drama and didn't realize that online culture was entering a boring forever war. Had I joined the dramasphere earlier, that would've been that many more years of acutally entertaining drama.

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  3. Comment on Matt Gaetz withdraws as US attorney general nominee, after sex trafficking and drug use allegations threatened to imperil his confirmation in ~society

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    Not to mention there may be a problem getting a jury to take a strict liability crime seriously when one of the girls claimed to have been of legal age.

    Not to mention there may be a problem getting a jury to take a strict liability crime seriously when one of the girls claimed to have been of legal age.

    3 votes

  4. Comment on Should I stop using Kagi because they do business with Yandex? in ~tech

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    I believe the users should be broken into two buckets: the general user and the ethical alternate user. Ethical alternative enjoyers are much quicker to drop a service for seemingly minor reasons...

    I believe the users should be broken into two buckets: the general user and the ethical alternate user. Ethical alternative enjoyers are much quicker to drop a service for seemingly minor reasons than advertisers. The advertisers’ content preferences are known in advance and mostly change if a newspaper gets a bee in its bonnet and writes a hit piece (like the NYT’s expose of PewDiePie killing the Let’s Play genre of YouTube). The general public has no standards, typically. Whether the anarchist alternative resembles /b/ era 4chan or /pol/ era largely depends on how dissatisfied people are with the advertiser sandbox. The less angry at the ad-censored internet, the less shitposty and more hate pervades the alternate spaces.

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  5. Comment on "Americans get screwed because they can’t read" in ~society

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    Or it's tradition (excuse me, has proven precedent)

    Or it's tradition (excuse me, has proven precedent)

  6. Comment on "Americans get screwed because they can’t read" in ~society

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    IMO, that example you gave is a product of people who petulantly insist on paragraphs instead of flowcharts. Decision trees are not best represented in linear strings of text.

    IMO, that example you gave is a product of people who petulantly insist on paragraphs instead of flowcharts. Decision trees are not best represented in linear strings of text.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on "Americans get screwed because they can’t read" in ~society

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    Regarding physicians, it’s long been my outsider’s observation that the long chains of science prerequisites in the standard pre-med curriculum are largely wasted. By the time they’re relevant in...

    Regarding physicians, it’s long been my outsider’s observation that the long chains of science prerequisites in the standard pre-med curriculum are largely wasted. By the time they’re relevant in clinical practice, even a student who was more interested in learning than earning an A would have forgotten (or “that’s why the pharmacist earned her PharmD”).

    Knowledge should translate to clinical practices through review articles and CEU classes, not from doctors reading raw research after work. There’s a place for that, but it’s utterly delusional to expect that to be standard practice.

    3 votes

  8. Comment on The resistance is not coming to save you. It’s tuning out. in ~society

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    Congress allowed this power grab by willfully ceding its regulatory powers to the Executive.

    Congress allowed this power grab by willfully ceding its regulatory powers to the Executive.

    3 votes

  9. Comment on The resistance is not coming to save you. It’s tuning out. in ~society

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    Why can’t insurance companies manufacture consent to nullify the concept of intellectual property, then make semaglutide drugs cheap? That would be the one useful thing that industry ever did.

    Why can’t insurance companies manufacture consent to nullify the concept of intellectual property, then make semaglutide drugs cheap? That would be the one useful thing that industry ever did.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on The resistance is not coming to save you. It’s tuning out. in ~society

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    There’s an obnoxious kind of online leftist who loves protests that block traffic because “protests are supposed to be disruptive.” I need to use your post as a template for diplomatically dunking...

    There’s an obnoxious kind of online leftist who loves protests that block traffic because “protests are supposed to be disruptive.” I need to use your post as a template for diplomatically dunking on them. Their top goal is catharsis, not policy change.

    Protests need to disrupt the right people. Merely forcing your way into public consciousness is no guarantee the general public won’t choose to be more reactionary out of spite.

    16 votes

  11. Comment on How Bluesky, the rival of Elon Musk’s X, is seizing the moment in ~tech

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    I believe some folks have set up ActivityPub-Bsky bridges, with all the usual Fediverse drama about mirroring, searching, and scraping that usually happens.

    I believe some folks have set up ActivityPub-Bsky bridges, with all the usual Fediverse drama about mirroring, searching, and scraping that usually happens.

  12. Comment on Selfishness in AI in ~tech

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    AI art is a wide bucket between the zero-effort prompt typers and those who treat AI outputs as inputs for a collage or actually edit them.

    Custom videos, custom art, and custom music generated by AI aren't yet considered by everyone as disposable trash that someone put no effort into making,

    AI art is a wide bucket between the zero-effort prompt typers and those who treat AI outputs as inputs for a collage or actually edit them.

    3 votes

  13. Comment on Unplugging from comedy shows, by Rosstin316. A Reddit post analysis. in ~society

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    Bush 2004 springs to mind. Likewise, doomerism among Gen X who thought Bush '04 was a fluke. If his second go is anything like his first, it'll be easier than the fatalists would want you to...

    feeling hopeless about the number of people voting for him again and everything putting us back here for Round 2.

    Bush 2004 springs to mind. Likewise, doomerism among Gen X who thought Bush '04 was a fluke.

    surviving the first Trump presidency

    If his second go is anything like his first, it'll be easier than the fatalists would want you to believe. As I've said elsewhere, it's the state-level policies where I see the worst impacts on citizens before 2030 (Trump wants to direct Federal attention at immigrants and will be too busy with that to multi-task at oppressing the citizens competently).

    3 votes

  14. Comment on How Bluesky, the rival of Elon Musk’s X, is seizing the moment in ~tech

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    Even more confusing, the different softwares handle things like shutting off comments differently. It's by no means guaranteed that someone else's server will honor those requests (or it's one of...

    Even more confusing, the different softwares handle things like shutting off comments differently. It's by no means guaranteed that someone else's server will honor those requests (or it's one of the front ends that does support quote posting).

    1 vote

  15. Comment on Tildes Book Club - Experiment - Crowd sourcing our next voting thread in ~books

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    I'm guessing I could help around 15:00 or 16:00 EDT. Don't want to make any promises until the morning, though. I may need to spend that time raking leaves off my roof (for the third straight week).

    I'm guessing I could help around 15:00 or 16:00 EDT. Don't want to make any promises until the morning, though. I may need to spend that time raking leaves off my roof (for the third straight week).

  16. Comment on How Bluesky, the rival of Elon Musk’s X, is seizing the moment in ~tech

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    I do consider that to be a feature. For every researcher emeritus who ain't got the time for computer nonsense, the three-column layout scares off 100 people whose chatter only adds noise to the...

    the interface of most activitypub applications is kind of confusing to most people

    I do consider that to be a feature. For every researcher emeritus who ain't got the time for computer nonsense, the three-column layout scares off 100 people whose chatter only adds noise to the network.

    See also: your final paragraph about Reddit and its refugees.

    blocklist drama

    That absolutely is a much larger roadblock to Fediverse adoption than a three-column interface. Ro (formerly Aer0h)'s list you linked is a notable grifting shit-stirrer. He talks a big game about racial justice and has it out for white trans women who dare say their immediate livelihoods as the trans community is currently facing more threats than black folks.

    I once got banned from a 1000+ user server (which has since shut down b/c the admin just got sick of it) with the message, "You didn't do anything wrong, but your willingness to mouth off to popular admins puts the rest of this server's social connections at risk if we let you stay." It's absolutely a problem.

    Even if the admin doesn't get sucked into drama, they may also get bored and close up shop (see above).

    2 votes

  17. Comment on How Bluesky, the rival of Elon Musk’s X, is seizing the moment in ~tech

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    The way blocking (federation in general, really) breaks threads also encourages dogpiling, as good-faith users can't see the 37 others who already made the exact same point.

    The way blocking (federation in general, really) breaks threads also encourages dogpiling, as good-faith users can't see the 37 others who already made the exact same point.

    1 vote

  18. Comment on Where does your username come from? (Following up on last year's thread) in ~tildes

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    This name is several permutations removed from its original form. Way back when, I noticed two trends of Reddit usernames: OBNOXIOUS_ALL_CAPS shameful-porn-addict I decided to spin up a persona as...

    This name is several permutations removed from its original form.

    Way back when, I noticed two trends of Reddit usernames:

    1. OBNOXIOUS_ALL_CAPS
    2. shameful-porn-addict

    I decided to spin up a persona as a shameless degen coomer (years before the phrase “shameless degen coomer” existed) with variants of HORNY-IN_PUBLIC as the name. More of an amusing novelty than troll troll. Over the years, I became the mask as I enjoyed the roleplay more than chasing after my expected life goals. Later, I dropped the incessantly horny on main aspect from this family of names when registering for new sites. (I have about two other families of names that are loosely IRL-based that I largely no longer use)

    Not to mention, it’s fun to call my esoteric opinions the voice of the public.

    10 votes

  19. Comment on Tracking who US President Donald Trump has named to serve in his cabinet and administration in ~society

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    I’m surprised I haven’t seen more celebrating over her nomination precisely because of these disqualifications. There is a non trivial fringe of Americans (not restricted to either left or right)...

    I’m surprised I haven’t seen more celebrating over her nomination precisely because of these disqualifications. There is a non trivial fringe of Americans (not restricted to either left or right) who hate the intelligence community and would love to watch them take a humble.

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  20. Comment on What is the process for adult ADHD diagnosis? in ~health.mental

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    That would explain my preference for espresso. The high concentration means it acts like an instant-on lightswitch, while the lower total dose means I don't get as easily jittered. French Press...

    That would explain my preference for espresso. The high concentration means it acts like an instant-on lightswitch, while the lower total dose means I don't get as easily jittered. French Press and drip are like running the risk of getting way too high because you were impatient with your edibles. Tea, too.

    1 vote