logicbomb

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s sometimes called red fascism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of locomotion is that? What is the evolutionary advantage?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  What is the evolutionary advantage?

  Preservation of energy. Anti-parasite behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodwill Isn’t a Platform (thoughts on the Digg beta)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  no plan for federation, and no guardrails to stop the slow slide into bloat

  What would be an example of a guardrail to stop the slow slide into bloat?

  I’m not asking for a detailed explanation, but I simply can’t understand what sort of feature you’re imagining.

  I sort of get the idea that maybe you just mean that you’re already seeing the beginnings of bloat, but if there was something that could actually stop bloat, that sounds very interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen people who treat their cats like they are little stupid humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that only by being yourself will you find people who like the real you. No one can beat you at being you, but you’ll only ever be second best at pretending to be someone else.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The real me is so introverted that I don’t find people at all. Well, I find them, I guess, but I mostly want them to leave me alone.

  I guess zero human interaction is a tiny bit too low, so my dream is to live in a big city where everybody ignores me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Become irresistible to women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, he dodged a bullet. Imagine a taxonomist who wants to date another taxonomist. It’s virtually guaranteed that their relationship would be non-stop fighting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you were super intelligent and you were a slave to Mark Zuckerberg, you might try to embarrass him, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PhDebaters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  truth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨people who use AI a lot would probably be the most likely to get their exact wish from a genie.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that backwards? The people who can get AI to do exactly what they want must have gotten that power from a genie.

  Then, for their second wish, they can ask the AI to generate the best wording for the wish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I went to grade school, I think it really depended on the local school district. I was lucky enough to grow up in a nice area with well-funded schools, and I have relatively few complaints about the education I received. However, in doing school activities, I had the opportunity to see schools in poorer districts, and there was a distinct difference.

  At the time, I didn’t think too much about the difference, except that I didn’t feel as safe in some schools.

  But looking back… Now I know why parents always shop around for better school districts, because there are some places where it would have been far more difficult to get a decent education.

  That’s my knowledge from many decades ago. Maybe it’s gotten worse since then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The “brainwashed” thing is somewhat true, at least from the perspective of an outsider, not due to a racial thing, but there is a cultural aspect in addition to the tendency for all sides to be brainwashed by their own propaganda.

  But the Japanese propaganda told their soldiers to fight to the death, because if the Americans captured you, it would be worse than death. So, from the outside, they did appear to be brainwashed in that regard. Of course, Americans had similar propaganda making Japanese seem as evil as possible, often in the most racist way.

  Also, culturally, I think American culture emphasizes each person more, while Japanese emphasizes community more, which means things like kamikaze are easier to sell. And that sort of thing also appears like brainwashing to the outside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The train tracks are extra support to keep Florida from floating away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t recall specifically being taught that, but I do recall believing that was a fact at the time, so it is very likely that I was taught that in class.

  I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a couple of slaves like that, but even so, it’s a misleading statement. I actually think that using the truth to lie is a worse sin than just outright lying, because it’s easier to mislead more people like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The one that immediately springs to mind doesn’t exactly fit the criteria, because it wasn’t even true at the time that I was taught it in public school in Texas. But my history teacher taught me that no real historian called it the “American Civil War,” and that it was correctly called “The War of Northern Aggression.” And, of course, although the Confederacy did want to keep slavery legal, their actual central reason for seceding was “states rights.”

  Like I said, both of those are simply lies. Only propagandists call it “The War of Northern Aggression”, and it was always explicitly about slavery.

  The sad thing is that I believed and repeated these lies for years after that. Note that, like most people, I didn’t have access to the internet to easily check things myself. Since at the time I had zero interest in reading about history, it was difficult to correct my knowledge.

  It has demonstrated, to me at least, the importance of keeping propaganda away from children. The more you lie to children, the harder it will be for them to become functioning adults.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proof of wormholes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, of course. When, as you said, the doctor addressed “the family” and told “them” that stuff, of course, I assumed that you, being “a friend” wouldn’t have been there, or at least would have said “us” instead of “them.”

  But of course, you were actually there and heard the words directly with the family. Cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proof of wormholes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  She was a hardcore alcoholic, and this is an alcoholic saying that. Doctor addressed the family and told them alcohol wasn’t the factor, the liver failure was 100% down to Tylenol.

  That doesn’t sound realistic, that a hardcore alcoholic’s liver failure was 0% from alcohol abuse. I suspect that the information changed at some point in the process of relating it to you.

  It was probably just that the Tylenol overdose was the immediate cause, and somebody took that to mean that alcoholism was not a factor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you be sued for defaming virtual K-pop stars? South Korea court says yes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In July 2024, the defendant targeted Plave in a series of posts - some containing profanity. Among them were comments that the people behind the avatars “could be ugly in real life” and gave off a “typical Korean man vibe”, Korea Times reported.

  Unless the guy said much worse things that weren’t reported, it seems like South Korean defamation laws are draconian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I canceled my Hulu/Disney+ subscription two days ago. A long time ago, I had an absolute boycott on Disney because I hated their hypocrisy when it came to copyright law. They tried to extend their copyrights indefinitely, even though the majority of their IPs came from the public domain. They were like a dog who only knows how to fetch the ball, but won’t ever release it.

  When Disney acquired Pixar and was the American distributor for Studio Ghibli, and bought Star Wars, and distributes Marvel, at some point I eventually relented and stopped my boycott. I stopped caring as much about hypocrisy, in general. But never again. It was obviously a mistake to ever give them money. They will never get anything from me again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somebody call a doctor!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eugene, I think I’m having a stroke.

  A backstroke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the thing about propaganda is that it works, and if it doesn’t work, then the propagandists will come up with something else that does work. The thing is that they’re constantly thinking about how to exploit you, while you’re thinking about other stuff.

  So for example, I hate feeling like I receive a hard sell. So, if I am at a store and somebody tries to sell me something, I will not buy it, and in fact, I’ll probably assume the product is so shoddy that it can’t be sold without pressure. Same goes for popup ads online.

  But if a marketer knows this about me, then they can definitely manipulate me. They just have to do it in a way that I don’t realize is marketing. And there are all sorts of campaigns like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But also, the correct answer is Devil's Due⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even though I think DS9 is objectively better than TNG, I would still recommend TNG to get into it, as the more exploration focus should appeal to a wider audience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about 15 bean soup.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  a potato added (not eaten)

  This is a sin

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I see I was overthinking it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get it. Don’t both top and bottom show interference patterns, or is this about something else?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Children's reviews of a mobile app.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, when displaying reviews, often sites display a 5 star review first. After all, the store also wants more sales.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Look at that plumage, bro.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Realistically, most of those birds probably look like food to the owl.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific unprogress...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know that I was completely wrong in this regard. You know, like how Mark Twain said something like travel was anathema to bigotry.

  So, I thought that the reason bigotry existed was that people are afraid of the unknown, so if you forced people together, they’d have to realize that we’re all the same.

  But now I realize that the main reason bigotry exists is that people are staying in contact with other bigots. The part about meeting diverse people is important, but far less important than pulling people out of their comfort zone to combat bigotry. So, the internet amplifies bigotry, because they’ll never be out-of-contact with their local bigots, even if they travel away from them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Woofstream⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate, hate, hate when a reporter interviews a scientist about something, and the interview is going fine, then the reporter inevitably asks, “How could this be used?” And suddenly, the scientist has to start bullshitting. You get to hear a completely respectable scientist start making all sorts of dubious claims, because they aren’t allowed to tell the truth, that its use is up to the future. There have been uncountable experimental results that didn’t seem to have a use at the time, only to be regarded as essential in the future.

  If they were trying to invent some product, they’d be called an engineer instead of a scientist.

  But in this case, the scientist wouldn’t even have to bullshit. “We’ve already learned a lot about aerodynamics by looking at other animals in wind tunnels. There’s no reason to think we might not learn anything useful here about aerodynamic shapes.”

  In my book, that makes this guy who said “absolutely no one” in the meme an anti-intellectual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vampire Survivors - Open beta test for Online mode, with free roaming!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this the release where they add vampires?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The information was key for a wrongful death case the survivor and the victim’s family were building against Tesla, but the company said it didn’t have the data.

  Then a self-described hacker, enlisted by the plaintiffs to decode the contents of a chip they recovered from the vehicle, found it while sipping a Venti-size hot chocolate at a South Florida Starbucks. Tesla later said in court that it had the data on its own servers all along.

  Joel Smith, Tesla’s attorney, said in an interview that the company was “clumsy” in its handling of the data but did not engage in any impropriety with regard to it. “It is the most ridiculous perfect storm you’ve ever heard,” Smith said, in an effort to explain why Tesla was unable to produce the collision snapshot data until after the hacker retrieved it for the plaintiffs.

  In court, Smith told jurors in his opening statement that Tesla would “never think about hiding” the data because it proved that the driver had time to react to the pedestrians standing by their parked car had he been paying attention.

  “We didn’t think we had it, and we found out we did,” he said. “And, thankfully, we did because this is an amazingly helpful piece of information.”

  For reference, here is a poem called the Narcissist’s Prayer:

  That didn’t happen.
  And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
  And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
  And if it is, that’s not my fault.
  And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
  And if I did, you deserved it.

  If I was on the jury or I was the judge in a non-jury trial and this happened, I would have pushed for the largest decision possible. No company or person should be allowed to act like this.