Robust_Mirror
@Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone
- Comment on The youtube algorithm is so bad, I say to my screen "why the fuck would I care about this!?" like 10 times a day. 1 day ago:
Well while I respect what is probably a privacy or ad block angle, it’s a bit unfair to complain about something not working well for you when you’re not using it the official way, and likely actively making it worse at profiling you.
- Comment on The youtube algorithm is so bad, I say to my screen "why the fuck would I care about this!?" like 10 times a day. 1 day ago:
Interesting, I’ve always found it to work incredibly well for me, to the point I generally only watch the stuff it recommends. Like, out of the 6 videos it shows me, maybe 1 every now and then is something I don’t care about. But like, if there’s 4-5 ones I’m interested in out of 6, I think that’s pretty good, and the 2 wild cards are how I tend to find new stuff in interested in.
- Comment on In heat 3 days ago:
That’s what I use, it’s still just using other search engines to get results though.
- Comment on The therapy I can afford 6 days ago:
I assumed you had 2 points, the self hosting point about what you’re saying now, and
“keep in mind that its goal is not to help you but to have a conversation that statisvies you. You are basicly talking to a yes-man.”
about its ability to be a good therapist or not in general. I was responding to that. Sorry if I misunderstood.
- Comment on The therapy I can afford 6 days ago:
Therapy is more about talking to yourself anyway. A therapists job generally isn’t to give you the answers, but help lead you down the right path.
If you have serious issues get an actual professional, but if you’re mostly just trying to process things and understand yourself or a situation better, it’s not bad.
- Comment on RFK JR just told us Elon Musk can't use the toilet unassisted 6 days ago:
If people were actually ready instead of all talk, there would already be riots and such. No one is actually uncomfortable enough to entertain the idea of real sacrifice yet. To lose the life they have, or potentially their actual life, to fight the oppression that’s started/is coming.
I think at this point the only thing that would actually make it hit boiling point is mass joblessness/homelessness/starvation. People have to really feel it and have almost nothing to lose to really start caring.
- Comment on RFK JR just told us Elon Musk can't use the toilet unassisted 6 days ago:
I think their point is a shitty doctors diagnosis is just as invalid as self diagnosis, not the other way around. Which it is, a misdiagnosis can be more harmful than no diagnosis.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 1 week ago:
Would most people notice that? Would they say something if they did? If this particular warranty is mileage based, I’d keep my mouth shut if mine was abnormally low. It’s not like it’s something that affects the functioning of the car, and has other potential advantages like higher resale value.
And even if you said something, who is going to report on it? This is news because it’s gone to court. You’re not going to try to take them to court for it being low. At best you’ll just try to get it fixed.
I’m not saying this isn’t something they would do, I just don’t necessarily think we’d definitely see reports of it being low, even if it was happening.
If they were actually doing this, and actually being smart about it though, they’d have it go over at a rate of say, 30% of cars, and under at a rate of like 10% of cars so they’d still come out on top but actually have it seem to be randomly faulty.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 week ago:
I got an Optoma projector for the bedroom that I love. It’s about $1000 USD. Is that on the high end? I guess. I’d call it medium. But I know many people that spend that much and more on their TV. Works pretty well even in day/with the light on, obviously far better with the room darkened, and even has a gaming optimised mode.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 week ago:
Because there’s no easy way to install it. TVs don’t usually have a data transfer usb-c port.
- Comment on Full Circle 1 week ago:
You literally said you “view the population”, as in everyone, a certain way based on this.
You then admitted it’s not the majority.
That’s about as racist as you can get.
Calling a country fascist for having fascist people in power is not the same thing.
- Comment on Is there an Australian equivalent for boycotting american products ? 1 month ago:
What’s your use case? I haven’t used it to give/receive money ever since payid became a thing, instant and secure.
For more secure payments than giving out your card details you have options like Revolut that can create temporary digital cards, and bank of Melbourne has a digital card with a cvv that changes automatically every 24 hours, but still let’s you set up subscriptions/recurring payments that don’t break like Revoluts temp card would.
- Comment on That explains a lot 1 month ago:
Sure, but it won’t sustain itself at any mass. A black hole with a mass of 500,000kg lasts about 10 seconds and is harmless. If you managed to compress 300,000,000kg into a black hole you’d have it last about 100 years and it would still be too small to do any damage to the earth during that time.
You’re correct there’s enough mass in the solar system to create a self sustaining black hole though. Anything around the mass of the moon or larger we should worry. A black hole the mass of the earth would definitely be self sustaining.
- Comment on Infinite Hotel Paradox 2 months ago:
The rooms are all full by definition. You’re literally telling him to walk until he dies. Just kick him out at that point, hell shooting him on the spot would be more merciful.
But the weird thing about infinite sets is they don’t process over time as we perceive it. Things happen all at once. There’s a classic situation where an infinite tub is filled with an infinite amount of numbered balls, and for every number that goes in, it’s square root is taken out. So when 1 goes in, 1 goes out, when 2 goes in nothing happens, same with 3, when 4 goes in, 2 gets taken out, when 9 goes in, 3 gets taken out.
How many balls are in it at the end?
Intuitively it seems there must be infinite balls, as balls are being taken out at a slower rate than they’re entering. But the actual answer is 0. Because the process happens all at once. So the question becomes, which balls get removed in this process? Well, the numbers that can be squared. Which is every number. If every number can be squared, every number gets removed. So if this infinite process were to play out, there would be no balls left in it.
But if we were to try to physically do this, it’s impossible for it to actually play out. Infinity isn’t a number at the end of a line, it’s the concept of an entire unbound set. That’s why things like the hotel are good to try to explain and visualise the concept, but break down if you try to imagine them as real world places that follow time and physics.
- Comment on Infinite Hotel Paradox 2 months ago:
There are infinite types of infinity. Crazy right?
- Comment on trump puts 25% tariffs on Aussie steel and aluminium 2 months ago:
- Comment on trump puts 25% tariffs on Aussie steel and aluminium 2 months ago:
If anyone wants advice on how to ditch Netflix VERY painlessly look into stremio+torrentio addon. Optionally pay a minuscule amount (<$5/month) to real Debrid to make it faster and more private (if you’re worried about torrenting) but I find it perfectly fine as is myself.
- Comment on imagine 2 months ago:
Yeah they weren’t banned in the 90s. They were developed in the mid 90s with a patent filed in 1998. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity adopted a moratorium in 2000, recommending that governments block field testing and commercial use of terminator seeds, but didn’t yet ban research. In 2006 they expanded the moratorium, explicitly prohibiting field trials and emphasizing risks to biodiversity and farmers rights.
- Comment on Accused killer of US insurance CEO pleads not guilty to 'terrorist' murder 3 months ago:
Well the thing is if you plead guilty you’re immediately at the mercy of the judge. They simply decide on your sentence based on the provided information and give you a penalty in line with the laws around it.
Even if your the most guilty of the guilty, you’re generally better off having a jury trial to determine how guilty, as if you appear sympathetic you could get the minimum penalty rather than the maximum. The exception would be if you had an exceptionally good plea bargain for pleading guilty.
- Comment on Accused killer of US insurance CEO pleads not guilty to 'terrorist' murder 3 months ago:
For criminal cases yes it has to be unanimous. They might have heard about civil cases sometimes allowing majority/supermajority vote verdicts (allowed in more than half the states).
- Comment on Same Same But Different 4 months ago:
Mushi-Shi.
- Comment on Bluesky boom worries Chinese media 4 months ago:
X was the perfect name for the platform everyone’s leaving.
- Comment on flouride 4 months ago:
…spokanecity.org/…/city-council-information-on-fl…
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Water fluoridation reaches over 13 million Europeans through programs in England, Ireland, Poland, Serbia and Spain
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Children in deprived areas benefit most from water fluoridation according to 2018 English health agency report
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Over 70 million Europeans receive fluoridated salt through programs in Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland and other countries. Salt fluoridation is recommended when water fluoridation is not feasible
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European Academy of Pediatric Dentistry endorses water fluoridation as “core component of oral health policy”
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Fluoridated milk programs have operated in Bulgaria, England, Hungary, Russia and Scotland
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Several European countries provide free or subsidized fluoride treatments through national healthcare:
- Sweden: free dental care through age 23
- Denmark: free dental care until age 18
- Finland: public dental clinic access for all legal residents
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Scandinavian schools offer fluoride varnish, tablets and rinse programs
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Some regions in Europe have naturally fluoridated water, such as parts of Italy. Italian health officials support water fluoridation but don’t implement additional programs due to naturally optimal fluoride levels in some areas
cdc.gov/…/statement-on-the-evidence-supporting-th…
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Evidence shows that water fluoridation prevents tooth decay by providing frequent and consistent contact with low levels of fluoride, ultimately reducing tooth decay by about 25% in children and adults.
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evidence shows that schoolchildren living in communities where water is fluoridated have, on average, 2.25 fewer decayed teeth compared to similar children not living in fluoridated communities.
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A study to compare costs associated with community water fluoridation with treatment savings achieved through reduced tooth decay, which included 172 public water systems, each serving populations of 1,000 individuals or more, found that 1 year of exposure to fluoridated water yielded an average savings of $60 per person when the lifetime costs of maintaining a restoration were included.
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Analyses of Medicaid claims data in 3 other states (Louisiana, New York, and Texas), have also found that children living in fluoridated communities have lower caries related treatment costs than do similar children living in non-fluoridated communities; the difference in annual per child treatment costs ranged from $28 to $67.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9544072/
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community water fluoridation continues to decrease cavities by 25% at the population level.
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Even with fluoridated products such as toothpaste and mouth rinses, this public health practice can reduce an additional 25% of tooth decay in children and adults
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In 1945, Grand Rapids, Michigan became the first U.S. city to fluoridate its public water supply. Five years later, Grand Rapids schoolchildren were found to have significantly fewer cavities than children from the control community of Muskegon, and additional water districts, including Muskegon began fluoridating and seeing similar results
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Studies have shown that populations from lower socioeconomic groups within fluoridated communities have less tooth decay when compared to peers in nonfluoridated communities
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The cost of a lifetime of water fluoridation for one person is less than the cost of one filling
More info: www.ada.org/resources/…/fluoride-in-water
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- Comment on flouride 5 months ago:
Well look at the statistics:
Fluoride: Water fluoridation in the United States began in the 1940s By 1949, nearly 1 million Americans were receiving fluoridated tap water In 1951, the number jumped dramatically to 4.85 million people By 1952, the number nearly tripled again to 13.3 million Americans In 1954, the number exceeded 20 million people In 1965 an additional 13.5 million Americans gained access to fluoridated water. By 1969, 43.7% of Americans had access to fluoridated tap water. In 2000, approximately 162 million Americans (65.8% of the population served by public water systems) received optimally fluoridated water 2006: 69.2% of people on public water systems (61.5% of total population) 2012: 74.6% of people on public water systems (67.1% of total population)
Autism: First recognised in the 1940s During the 1960s and 1970s, prevalence estimates were approximately 0.5 cases per 1,000 children. Prevalence rates increased to about 1 case per 1,000 children in the 1980s. 2000: 1 in 150 children 2006: 1 in 110 children 2014: 1 in 59 children 2016: 1 in 54 children 2020: 1 in 36 children
Seems pretty clear cut to me.
- Comment on wooly bears 5 months ago:
In the 3rd panel read all the bugs then all the humans.
- Comment on But yes. 5 months ago:
- Carbon monoxide
- Comment on But yes. 5 months ago:
Geothermal: Incredibly old sky-spiciness from far, far away that Earth collected to slowly release.
- Comment on But yes. 5 months ago:
- Solar panels: Direct sky-spiciness to electricity conversion
- Wind: Sky-spiciness made the air move
- Hydroelectric: Sky-spiciness lifted the water up, gravity brings it down
- Fossil fuels: Really old stored sky-spiciness from ancient plants
- Comment on same as it ever was 5 months ago:
Thing is, unless we first found it way later, people would just think they’re referencing the runes.
- Comment on fuckery 5 months ago:
Unholy fuck.