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- Comment on On the individual's responsibility — toombs.earth 2 days ago:
This is somebody’s personal ramblings. Not really a shit post. That said, I agree with it. I recently started watching “Alone”. When you get shipped off to the wilderness, you figure out real quick how dependent you are on others. Even the toughest people out there can only survive so long on their own. Humans need each other. The very idea of a “rugged individualist” is itself a giant shit post.
- Comment on AB-1043 Age verification signals: software applications and online services. 3 days ago:
Aaaannnnnddd the server crashed.
- Comment on Ads used to be different 💔 4 days ago:
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 5 days ago:
- Comment on Life advice from the pedophile in chief himself. 6 days ago:
That is the same expression my toddler gets when he’s filling up his diaper.
- Comment on pro tip 1 week ago:
- Comment on You no longer need JavaScript (for lots of stuff) 1 week ago:
Personally I like using server side rendering when I can. The UI should be as light weight as possible and you can do a lot with just HTML and CSS. That said, it’s pretty hard to build a responsive web app without at least a little bit of JavaScript.
- Comment on America's Premiere News Source 2 weeks ago:
It’s a recurring joke from the show.
- Comment on America's Premiere News Source 2 weeks ago:
What about The Daily Show, America’s only source for news. Brought to you by gambling.
- Comment on OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’ 2 weeks ago:
Hey everybody! I’d like you to meet my girlfriend. Isn’t she beautiful? The black powder coat really accents her indicator lights.
- Comment on Those hooligans of the deep? NEVER! 2 weeks ago:
Mutters quietly on death bed
“…Shellfish…”
- Comment on Meta really wants you to believe social media addiction is 'not a real thing' 2 weeks ago:
On December 15, 1953, led by Paul Hahn, the head of American Tobacco, the six major tobacco companies (American Tobacco Co., R. J. Reynolds, Philip Morris, Benson & Hedges, U.S. Tobacco Co., and Brown & Williamson) met with public relations company Hill & Knowlton in New York City to create an advertisement that would assuage the public’s fears and create a false sense of security in order to regain the public’s confidence in the tobacco industry.[12] Hill and Knowlton’s president, John W. Hill, realized that simply denying the health risks would not be enough to convince the public. Instead, a more effective method would be to create a major scientific controversy in which the scientifically established link between smoking tobacco and lung cancer would appear not to be conclusively known.[13]
The tobacco companies fought against the emerging science by producing their own science, which suggested that existing science was incomplete and that the industry was not motivated by self-interest.[11] With the creation of the Tobacco Industry Research Committee, headed by accomplished scientist C.C. Little, the tobacco companies manufactured doubt and turned scientific findings into a topic of debate. The recruitment of credentialed scientists like Little who were skeptics was a crucial aspect of the tobacco companies’ social engineering plan to establish credibility against anti-smoking reports. By amplifying the voices of a few skeptical scientists, the industry created an illusion that the larger scientific community had not reached a conclusive agreement on the link between smoking and cancer.[11]
Internal documents released through whistleblowers and litigation, such as the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, reveal that while advertisements like A Frank Statement made tobacco companies appear to be responsible and concerned for the health of their consumers, in reality, they were deceiving the public into believing that smoking did not have health risks. The whole project was aimed at protecting the tobacco companies’ images of glamour and all-American individualism at the cost of the public’s health.[14]
- Comment on DoorDashers are getting paid to close Waymo's self-driving car doors 2 weeks ago:
Putting aside all the late stage capitalism going on here, I still can’t get over the fact that Alphabet (Google) spent billions of dollars developing self driving car technology only to arrive at, “Oh shit. Someone left the car door open. What do we do now?”
- Comment on Landmark trial accusing tech giants of harming children with addictive social media begins 2 weeks ago:
Don’t even need to spend that much. Trump accepts fake peace prizes.
- Comment on i mean 3 weeks ago:
Understood. My experience deepthroating N64 controllers is …uh… limited.
- Comment on i mean 3 weeks ago:
Better have a long tongue to reach the “Z” button with.
- Comment on Praise Be 3 weeks ago:
"Well God can use ‘imperfect people’. Just look at King David."
How that story actually went…
David: Has an affair with Bathsheba and has her husband assassinated.
God: “Listen here you little shit. I gave you everything you could ever want and you decided that wasn’t enough. I’m feeling merciful so I won’t kill you like you killed Uriah. Instead, you can spend the rest of your miserable life suffering the consequences of your evil deeds.”
- Comment on Start-up idea 3 weeks ago:
Not every old design was better but some were.
My wife absolutely refuses to give up her early 1970’s GE range. It’s impossible to get parts for it so eventually it’s going to have to be replaced. One of the actually nice features it has is is that all the push button controls are on the range hood. Don’t have to worry about them getting greasy while cooking or little kids turning the burners on.
- Comment on How does this thing work? (wrong answers only) 3 weeks ago:
The stove is hot so the fan is just trying to cool itself down. Duh.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 3 weeks ago:
Back when I went to an office every day, I usually wore loafers. Easy to slip off and on under your desk without drawing lots of attention.
- Comment on Work smarter, not harder 3 weeks ago:
I see you left that short stint at WorldCom off your resume.
- Comment on It would be a crazy marketing stunt for any of the privacy focused email service companies stated that Jeffery Epstein and others could have kept their secrets if they had used their service. 3 weeks ago:
Just because someone collects data doesn’t mean that they’re using it for a particular purpose. I’ve worked at orgs that archived gobs of data - not necessarily user data - “in case we find a use for it.” Possession of data does not guarantee possession of a particular insight.
I’m not saying that no one at Google knew. Just that it’s far from impossible.
- Comment on Is there a good email server that can be run through Docker? 4 weeks ago:
I’m still looking for a good solution that includes support for notes. I’m migrating off Exchange Online and using mailcow temporarily but the built in notes feature is sorely missed.
- Comment on HAWK SHARK 4 weeks ago:
I use Tom’s of Maine because I’m allergic to HAWK SHARK deodorant.
- Comment on u snigle? 4 weeks ago:
“Hey good looking. Can you help me install Microsoft Office in this thing?”
Worst pickup line ever.
- Comment on OpenAI Wants To Create Biometric Social Network To Kill X’s Bot Problem 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on OpenAI Wants To Create Biometric Social Network To Kill X’s Bot Problem 4 weeks ago:
Altman, a regular user of X since 2008, has been forthright about his frustration with the bots on it. In September, he posted to X that “somehow AI twitter/AI reddit feels very fake in a way it really didn’t a year or two ago.” A few days earlier, he made a similar point, citing dead internet theory, which posits that since 2016, the internet has been overrun with non-human activity. “I never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM [AI]-run twitter accounts now,” he wrote.
CEO of glorified bot farm complains about effects of bot farming.
- Comment on This kid gets it 4 weeks ago:
There’s nothing I want more than to be a mid-level cog in the
corporatestate political machine./S
- Comment on Is it still seasonal allergies if they last all four seasons? 4 weeks ago:
You look to me like a plant that would fuck a person in the sinuses and not even have the goddamned common courtesy to give them a reach around. I’ll be watching you!
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