Jiggle_Physics

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
There is a phenomenon going on right now where tiny sites are getting knocked offline due to sudden traffic, basically DDOSing them. It has been found that the automation of these bot farms sends out scrapers to find new places where you can post on the site. Like anything, anything hat allows you to post anything on the site. So it will find some tiny store’s webfront, see it has a place for customer reviews, and then tell the bot farm it has found new land. The place then gets swarmed with bot traffic.

So literally everywhere you can post anything is getting bot traffic right now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Since they were the first they used to be the biggest, however they are declining.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
has it ever hit 1?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Libertarians quick to censor speech when politically convenient. Who could have guessed?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't get mad, get even⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah had to replace mine, found out they have standard sizes based on the size of cooking space in your model of microwave
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shape up.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, he committed the crime of hurting their ego
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shape up.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
His neck just did that
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Ok then, tell me, when in a position where the forces that dictate government/law have come to a fundamental, ideological, irreconcilable, impasse, and your life is at stake, what do you do? What do you do when the political momentum is quickly moving into a position where you will die from it, and every check, and balance, has just been ignored? Please tell me your plan.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
He also ran a propaganda channel that catered to christo-fascism, and pushed for policies that are deadly to millions of people. Do not white wash him. Goebbels also never did any of those things, he also deserved to die for being a fascist propagandist.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Those campaigns were surrounded with violence. That is why they worked. Riots, killings, people getting beat up, people fighting police. the police committing acts of violence, etc. Just because they aren’t an armed concerted effort, not having concerted, armed, resistance, does not mean non-violent. Like you say the threat of the violence they could see, getting bigger, is the reason to reach out to the non-violent party for diplomacy. But the threat has to be real.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I have killed someone in my life. I am not telling anyone to kill anyone either. I am pointing out the pure fact that we have never resolved the progress of human right without violence, and you are naive to think we could do it this time. If you don’t want to kill people, I understand, it sucks, I know. However, thinking we can move forward without having violence is wrong, it has been happening for a while. The right has been routinely committing acts of terror for years now. They pulled the peace option off the table a long time ago.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Tell that to Mrs. Rachel and Mr. Rogers
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
If you think the rights of people can be won without violence, you have not paid attention to history. This was never going to end peacefully.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to bash Americans again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Well, if this wasn’t a troll account, it would probably be for work. The US has a military presence in the Netherlands, and we have a lot of corporate cross-over, especially in the tech industry, like the photo lithography involved in making CPUs. It isn’t that weird.

This is s troll though
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Then you see the cardiologist at lunch pounding an energy, and stuffing whatever the fastest option in their hospital is, down their throat.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It crashed the system, and that is only one of many issues they are having
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Oh, agreed. Retrospective economic research is valuable.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, yeah, that’s the problems with you entrailists, always buying into the fantasy of deciphering the economy from some gore. Now a principled economic astrologer, like myself? Well, let’s just say MY portfolio has never hit red.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I am glad you say soothsayers, I have been saying for decades, and even in this comment section before getting to this comment, that macro-economics is essentially astrology for MBA bros
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, outside of some very rudimentary principals, macro-economics is basically astrology for MBA bros.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨leading ai company⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Yes, that was my point.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't you creating more workers??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
queing?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨leading ai company⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Because the rate is more a sign of how often problems are found, rather than how many better new things you are applying.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concealed Handguns Create a Climate of Fear, Gun Industry Research Reveals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
All of these reports use data from sources such as liars, and have built in factors that make it askew. So why believe any of it at all?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concealed Handguns Create a Climate of Fear, Gun Industry Research Reveals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
So, if all of these reports are so bad, why believe the 60k number is reasonable?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concealed Handguns Create a Climate of Fear, Gun Industry Research Reveals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It is called a crime, and if you read further into what harvard talks about this.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concealed Handguns Create a Climate of Fear, Gun Industry Research Reveals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
You gloss over the context of where most of that number comes from. It doesn’t come defending yourself against some third party who has targeted you for some form of victimization. It comes from people reporting how they used their gun to intimidate someone who they were arguing with, as defending themselves with a gun. Mostly people close to them. Which normal people don’t actually consider a valid reason to say they defended themselves from crime.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concealed Handguns Create a Climate of Fear, Gun Industry Research Reveals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Daniel Webster SC.D.; Jens Ludwig Ph.D. 2000 is a paper just dismantling the methodology, and data, behind the Kleck-Lott study. There are, apparently, a lot of studies picking this one apart, but this is the one I was familiar with before this. Basically they manufactured their results to get the conclusion they wanted. Even the best studies acknowledge from suffering from things like the telescoping effect, significantly. With Kleck and Lott, they often make arguments even their own study refutes, but they are hoping most people never actually read it, especially people who have training on reading academic papers. This article has a pretty good, bullet point style, break down of how they report what their study vs what it says, and some of the underlying issues of it, and other studies of it’s type. Here is a paper discussing how this data is collected, confirmed, and reported, and why things like the National Crime Victimization Survey, always come up so much lower (recently mid 80k range). Basically a study on methodology in this line of research.

The Harvard number you cite comes from studies that estimate 60-120k DGU’s per year. They also caution that going to the higher end requires some very loose interpretation, and inclusion, of data. Their research leads them to the conclusion that MOST reported DGU’s stem from escalating fights, from arguments, between two people, and not from someone targeted to be a victim, like a robbery, etc., defending themselves. The majority of DGU’s in home held weapons are used to intimidate family, and close friends, rather than third party assailants, and the defenses here are super varied, and often make the person reporting the DGU the criminal actor. Here is what Harvard has to say about the subject.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concealed Handguns Create a Climate of Fear, Gun Industry Research Reveals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
This conversation is not that it NEVER happens, it is addressing why the stats where someone defends themselves with a gun are so low. In practice, defending yourself from armed thieves just gets you killed, or badly injured, the vast majority of the time. If that person had a gun, was standing out initial grabbing distance, and you hadn’t pulled your gun yet, you going to touch that grip would have likely just gotten you shot, and left bleeding in that parking lot, as the person ran off.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concealed Handguns Create a Climate of Fear, Gun Industry Research Reveals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It doesn’t even take lengthy observation most of the time. Most people are bad at concealing that they have a gun, especially in a way where moving doesn’t make it obvious. There is also the issue that the better something is concealed the slower it is to pull, and more obvious it is you are trying to access it.