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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US probes China chip industry on 'anticompetitive' concerns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If the United States uses “market-oriented” mechanisms, it’s supposedly because they are more efficient, right? How come nationalizing companies is now considered cheating? And how is it that the answer isn’t simply doing it too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How TikTok Fueled The Rise Of Romania's Far-Right Presidential Candidate Georgescu⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely true, but it’s really ironic to see RFE complaining about this when RFE is itself a US government-controlled outlet created during the Cold War to influence Eastern European nations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I hate the index finger, a surprisingly humorous and well written paper from 1980⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Another way to say this is strive for functional restoration of the hand and avoid the pitfalls of your own ego trip in which useless and burdensome parts are saved to the detriment of function.

  Great conclusion actually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Thread] Mental Math⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The overwhelming majority of all neurons in our body are just for controlling movement. Ironically, things like language or creativity require very little of our computing power and might be replicated by machine learning and a sufficiently beefy computer. But complex motor tasks? We’re way ahead of our current tech on that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guerrilla Women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Only the first human was natural, every one after that was created by humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Putin says ball in Washington's court on US-Russia ties⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess Putin believes there will be a WW3, and would rather fight Ukraine before they actually join NATO and build up military infrastructure. Pulling out now would be a blunder under that viewpoint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oxygen⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Chemical damage to our bodies mostly consists of both oxidation and Maillard-like reactions. So we’re both slowly burning and getting cooked!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China proposes mandatory red flags placed on all AI-generated content posted online⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From the title, I was thinking about actual red-colored flags lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dopamine detox⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Proceeds to ingest my entire stock of dopamine-depleting medication

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Irony and Science Collide: Expect the Unexpected⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a public modlog with all removed posts and comments along with the reason, so you can get the pitchforks when a mod goes authoritarian (or, more often, have a look at what a complaining user actually meant by “freedom of expression”).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Disabling the USB port is neat, BUT… What if it got instead reconfigured to pretend to be a USB keyboard when connected and then… you know… For research purposes, of course.