skisnow
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- Comment on Zelensky associate at crux of Ukrainian corruption case said to have fled to Israel 1 day ago:
The article spends more time on Zelensky, who doesn’t actually seem to be implicated in any of this corruption beyond the fact that he had unrelated dealings with Mindich, than it does on Mindich himself, who didn’t even get his name mentioned in the headline.
This is clearly not a trustworthy news source.
- Comment on FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT! 2 days ago:
Anyone remember when Wikipedia was the default byword for Unreliable Internet Source? The internet used to be good.
- Comment on Ancient ahegao 4 days ago:
I’m 97% sure this is shopped but that 3% is driving me mad
- Comment on The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing" 5 days ago:
But what if bias was not the reason? What if your face gave genuinely useful clues about your probable performance?
I hate this so much, because spouting statistics is the number one go-to of idiot racists and other bigots trying to justify their prejudices. The whole fucking point is that judging someone’s value someone based on physical attributes outside their control, is fucking evil, and increasing the accuracy of your algorithm only makes it all the more insidious.
The Economist has never been shy to post some questionable kneejerk shit in the past, but this is approaching a low even for them. Not only do they give the concept credibility, but they’re even going out of their way to dishonestly paint it as some sort of progressive boon for the poor.
- Comment on Waymo says its self-driving taxis will take customers on freeways for the first time 5 days ago:
Define “held accountable”?
If you mean who will pay out if there’s an accident, presumably Waymo will have found an insurer willing to cover them. But if you mean that someone out there must be punished to satisfy some sense of vengeance, then you may want to re-examine your values.
- Comment on Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery 6 days ago:
Marrow was interested in “how public institutions decide what’s worth showing, and what happens when something outside that system appears within it”.
Wanky pretentious edgelord crap. It’s obvious what happens when you put up a shit AI-generated poster in a museum without permission. Someone asks the staff why there’s a shit AI-generated poster on the wall and they take it down. Other artists have done the “sneaking something into a gallery” thing way better than this many times before.
Sure, Art is supposed to make you think and react. But art that makes you think “wow that guy completely failed at every aspect of this” is of no value. The true scandal isn’t that he did it, it’s that some dumbfuck at the BBC thought it was worth reporting on.
- Comment on Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post 6 days ago:
Just so nobody forgets, North Face planted ads on Wikipedia, and then threw one of their regional managers under the bus when they got caught, as if to claim that it wasn’t really the real company doing it.
- Comment on Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm 1 week ago:
“Massive trillion dollar corporations are behaving absolutely fucking atrociously, so we need to do the same” is such an awful take that it makes me doubt the legitimacy of this user account.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 week ago:
Your phrasing implies that the issue was that farmers all sat about at home not working because they weren’t getting paid. There were plenty of problems, but I’ve seen scant evidence that that the threat of getting fired for not doing your job was even in the top three.
- Comment on Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem. 2 weeks ago:
This is one topic I’m quite willing to go into conspiracy theory territory on, because Google have a lot of very clever engineers and must surely know that their search is dogshit.
The only plausible explanation is that they’re somehow making more money doing this than they did by being quietly competent.
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 2 weeks ago:
You don’t even need to reject the applicability of Gödel, because there’s no proof that our universe doesn’t include a bunch of undecidable things tucked away in the margins. Jupiter could be filled with complete nonsense for all we know.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t stand up on its own terms on other levels as well.
Even the most cynical misandrist interpretation of how research is funded would still lean towards men being given the agency on whether sex lead to pregnancy.
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 2 weeks ago:
It’s a good way to get answers to Password Recovery questions that people forgot they used when signing up to some website or email service 15 years ago but are still active on
- Comment on sucked in losers 2 weeks ago:
Sadly also too tall for the blood to reach their brains, resulting in Shit Art Syndrome and Dick Hygiene Forgetfulness.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 2 weeks ago:
Lucky I’ve not encountered him, the urge to talk to him like a 5 year old would be too great.
“What a big truck you have! And it’s so high up! I bet you have to do a big jump to get up there. And look, it says “WAR” on the front, that’s fun! Did you put that on yourself, or did you ask a man do it for you?”
- Comment on Fictional 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I’m with you, because I don’t understand why a “dumbass” would be the speed of light.
Makes more sense for God to measure things in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units
- Comment on Banana 3 weeks ago:
Some people find the smell very strong. Something to do with receptors idk? I know someone with a banana allergy who can immediately tell if he’s entered a room with bananas in it from smell alone, even if they’re not peeled.
- Comment on Banana 3 weeks ago:
also, banana strings
- Comment on Helpful guide 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 3 weeks ago:
Out of curiosity, does anyone know how many critical vulnerabilities are currently unpatched in Windows 7?
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 3 weeks ago:
How bad would running Windows 10 past support be exactly? Seems like most vulnerabilities should have been patched by now.
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 4 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 4 weeks ago:
The mindblowing part of it for me is that a company the size of Disney don’t seem to have the appetite to own and run their own servers.
These are the same people that managed to get two counties redistricted so that they could own their own city, and to this day literally buy the entire electorate by giving housing only to people who vote the way they’re told to.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Even now it mostly sounds like the sort of line someone in a Black Mirror episode would say
- Comment on Fediverse alternative to Facebook is what's really missing 4 weeks ago:
One huge problem is that most people on Facebook neither know nor care what sinister things Meta are doing to them. Everyone thinks they’re immune to propaganda, and most people don’t understand the true extent with which they’re being tracked or what’s being done with that data.
- Comment on English moment 4 weeks ago:
That said, the English language shows how messed up its history is.
The irony is that Britain is, to the best of my knowledge, the only country other than Sweden whose mainland hasn’t been occupied by a foreign invader in over 950 years.
- Comment on tiny tot engineering 4 weeks ago:
The duality of man -
Wholesome: dad gets involved with his kid’s hobby and helps him win
Not wholesome: kid shows up to play with a rigged beyblade someone else made for him, in order to participate in a one-sided competition, predictably breaking the other kid’s toy
- Comment on A young woman was sexually assaulted while out DoorDashing. Two days after she reported the assault to DoorDash, they deactivated her account and she can't access the money she's owed. 4 weeks ago:
I wish there was some way to make site owners understand that neither I nor most people object to the occasional ad banner, it’s the “tracking every single thing you do online and selling it to Palantir” aspect that I’m blocking you for.
- Comment on one bright second 4 weeks ago:
I dunno, I feel like neither empty space nor vast aeons of darkness are particularly pulling their weight in terms of really doing existing with any real level of conviction. It’s easy to be vast if you’re doing fuck all with most of it.
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 4 weeks ago:
