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by bigger_inside 3y ago
it's no great conspiracy, it's the normal working of the bureaucratic/legal structure, as any organizational sociologist will gladly tell you: An emergency approval of the vaccine was only legal if there are no other working
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
I don't trust the encryption, but I especially don't trust the WhatsApp backups - and if I disable cloud backups for my messages, it asks me every few weeks if I don't want to turn it on, and I have to choose "never&quot
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
Before we make idealizing comparisons between "barbaric pasts" and seemingly enlightened presents (the "arrogance of the present" in which we assume that whatever we do now is knowledgable, good, just, right, at the end
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
> In a way, it's comforting to know that newspapers back in the 1950's were as susceptible to BS as modern day newspapers. fixed it.
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
the frustration part sets in when I start reading the page, and then a whole-page popup interruts that experience and makes me disable cookies. Second frsutration is when I have to go dg for the "no". At this point, I reevaluate
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
he existing webcam apps for android, like droidcam, send the signal through the local wifi when the app is installed on the phone and the PC.
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
yes, both OBS and, as a standalone, DroidCam do this, as android and PC apps. Does this just integrate these apps, or something like it?
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
unironically. The continued existence of the pirate bay and torrents is like the remaining aqueduct from a crumbling civilization, a reminder of what we once could do, before usurpers gobbled it up to squeeze the last cent out of everything
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
a CIA claim isn't "proof". I've never seen anything to prove it, just imperialist hysterics
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
exactly. When I read things I KNOW about, it's incredibly obvious that the news entertainment business (which WP and NYT and CNN and Fox all are) exist to serve the prejudices of their audience. A few times I made the mistake to let
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
this is making this out to seem like some nefarious Iranian scheme, when in fact this was entirely their money, frozen by the US under absolutely no justification in international law. Again and again, it needs to be said that "sancion
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
How is this in any way new? The meme "I can't even choose an option that makes an NPC sad in a video game" is years old. As is the insight that quasi-parasocial relationships with fictional characters are much, much stronger
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
Is this more than just pattern recognition? I mean, what you're saying is that we're wising up to the fact that "buy this for nature/sustainability/etc" is just another way capitalism gobbles up and resells cri
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
I have a hard time not putting this into the lineup of anti-technology moral panic aided by pseudoscience intent on gobbling up a new field. Do we all remember how "internet addiction" was, at first, a joke in a newsgroup until a
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
the scientists are not the problem here, PUBLIC science and public institutional structures were, are, and will be. The media takes a scientist, who has a strong tendency to say "this may work, we can't be sure" and "un
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
not the OP, but "government publicizing something" != "transparency". Usually, historically, it's quite often the opposite.
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
which also brings back the old insight that harvesting greens kills a lot more animals than producing steak does. Though I guess with symbiotic species living inside organisms, that may become debatable? In any case, there is no food consum
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
This. I want a brand-unfriendly internet, though of course putting it that way again puts the commercial aspect and the internet's relation to it front and center. I want an internet that isn't built commercially, not with monetiz
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
Exactly. I'm a researcher, and there are maybe two or three things I know a lot about, and some things where I understand, structurally, how they function. Literally everything on the news about these things is horrible. It either dumb
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
That description goes for college students, too. Though the blandness isn't lack of skill; it's fear and powerlessness. Michael Berubé has this story where he says, he once came early to class and overheard the students make great
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
If they're pruned and curated enough to not be immediately recognizable, let them have their chatGPT papers. Bad cheating is just a sign of not caring, but good cheating takes effort and smarts...
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
I teach college, and in the beginning days, everyone was screaming about "the students will have chatGPT write papers now". Well, apart from the fact that chatGPT is really incapable of developing a thought, and also apart from th
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
so, would you say "me caes bien" is 0.5?
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
Or the computer in Children of Time, also comprised of ants. (Though I also came here to say: Three Body Problem. Pretty well done in the Chinese TV show.)
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
huh? why? is there a bot checking for this word? will it get someone in trouble?
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
though it's not giving room in general; if it actually does depends on whether, in this context, it MAY be used or not, which the question itself doesn't communicate. This makes it a hornet's nest to actually use it. A purely
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
we lie all the time to knit people together, yes, of course. The key is in the "culturally specific" part. What kinds of lies are coded as rude and what kinds of lies are coded as glue? This differs, which was all I'm saying.
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
very culturally dependent. In Germany, the first offer is the offer. If you refuse it, there will not be a second one; and making a second, third offer, in turn, would be rude in Germany, as it is pestering and assumes I'm lying with t
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
< for political reasons well, and for technical ones. Since this a tech-heavy board, I expect it to be common knowledge here that you can't operate a grid on wind and solar alone, as you can't control the weather-based output (
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
design credit, absolutely! I'm speaking of Yayo and human leather hats, though. :D

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