seven_phone

@seven_phone@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a search engine showing open evidence of skewing results away from true for their own motivations. Slightly comic when it is Microsoft doing it to Google but if they do this so blatantly how else are they more subtly redirecting our searches towards biased or even false results that benefit them and misinform the user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DWP spent £50,000 trying to stop release of review into disabled man’s death⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Department had found that to meet transparency targets it was quicker to increase opacity and thereby loop around and back into transparency from the wrong direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is consciousness dependent on input to the brain?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  People placed in isolation tanks for long periods have reported that consciousness seemed to become more vivid when deprived of external stimuli but that it was increasingly less grounded. Without real world input consciousness does not shut down it constructs its own simulated input.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hospital admissions for lack of vitamins soaring in England, NHS figures show⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks frazorth and Zombie for your full replies, I should have guessed that what was common to both your answers would be the idea of manufacturers prioritising profit through saleable appearance and ease of production rather than nutritional benefit. The world we have made for ourselves seems to have profit and unchecked greed at the root of every problem.

  With such high hospital admissions it surely would be more economic if not basic good governance for the government itself to add key vitamins to the food supply in a digestible form in the way fluoride is added to tap water. I suppose there would be complaints of ulterior motives, maybe something added to calm the population. And to be fair the thought of pacification might pass through a politician’s mind from time to time - with some historic attempts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is in a small convenience store where you can buy food things and heat them up while in the store⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A squid is able to get through a hole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is in a small convenience store where you can buy food things and heat them up while in the store⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think oftentimes they find use of their own urine demeaning and so prefer to outsource.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hospital admissions for lack of vitamins soaring in England, NHS figures show⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Would all of this be solved by over the counter multivitamins or is there more nutritionally missing in a poor diet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Notepad’s spellcheck and autocorrect are rolling out to everybody after 41 years⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s local, I am in the UK and every computer I bought with Windows installed up until about 8 years ago came with standalone Word bundled. Works was there too but unused.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Notepad’s spellcheck and autocorrect are rolling out to everybody after 41 years⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me what Microsoft once was, Word often would be bundled free at source with Windows because people need a word processor. Notepad was provided as a very light way to get down notes and edit, and then additionally Wordpad was a place between them. I have used Notepad more than any other application, you could even use it as a cheap and cheerful hex editor. Now Word is a subscription, Wordpad is being removed from Windows - even that sentence looks wrong, and Notepad is to be bloated into redundancy. I have no idea why Microsoft is squandering it’s legacy, we grew up with these things.