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@ 58008 @lemmy.world

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  • If you had to talk to a stranger, what would you want it to be about?

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  • I can't do small talk or general chat, but I can do meta. I can talk about how awkward it is to talk to strangers, for example. That feels like information exchange, as opposed to a complex two-person dance where I don't have rhythm or sufficiently-malleable limbs, which is what small talk feels like to me. The goal of small talk seems to be the process itself. If we're instead 'educating' each other about something, and that information is the ultimate goal, I'm much more comfortable.

  • Man allegedly tried to break Luigi Mangione out of jail by impersonating FBI agent: Sources

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  • That pizza cutter feels almost racist in this context 😆 If Luigi was named Paddy Murphy, would he have brought a potato masher instead?

  • Kristi Noem Blames Her Actions on Trump and Stephen Miller

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  • Kristi's braincell: don't say you were just following orders, don't say you were just following orders...

    "It was Stephen!"

    Kristi's braincell: nice 😎

  • DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI

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  • At least they have an AI-free option, as annoying as it is to have to opt into it.

    On a related note, it's hilarious to me that the Ecosia search engine has AI built in. Like, I don't think planting any number of trees is going to offset the damage AI has done and will do to the planet.

  • The White House Confirms It Altered Photo of Arrested Protester to Depict Her Sobbing: ‘The Memes Will Continue’

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  • An ICE pastor is the craziest part of this story... has the cunt ever read his supposedly favourite book?

  • Growing sense of embarrassment at Fifa over Donald Trump peace prize

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  • You need to work pretty hard to make FIFA embarrassed about anything.

  • Cartoon physics is now in effect. What are you going to try?

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  • I'm gonna get a stupidly-hot wife despite being a fat layabout piece of shit with a clear neurological condition.

    I guess that's not really physics related, so I'll also add "gracefully float towards delicious food on a wafting scent trail". I could toss a burger down a canyon and use the scent trail to lower myself down safely. Like a Portal gun, but for fat layabout pieces of shit with clear neurological conditions 👍

  • Ocasio-Cortez ramps up fight with Vance amid 2028 speculation

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  • With the insane temperature of US politics these days, I almost don't want her to run...

  • ICE agents ate at a Minnesota Mexican restaurant before arresting staff

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  • Evil. Gimme a better term and I'll use it. But for now: evil.

  • Kristi Noem says people should be prepared to prove US citizenship

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  • I wanna see the log files from her phone's face unlock feature during the period when she Mar-a-Lagoed herself with a brick in a sock.

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    California Gov. Gavin Newsom hosts Ben Shapiro on his podcast

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  • Gavin: So, Supersemite Palestine Crusher, welcome. Can I call you Ben for short? OK, so Ben; what's the deal with all these transes that they have now?? Have you seen them? There's gotta be literally tens of them out there at this point. It's out of control.

    Ben: Renée Good tried to fly her car into the Israeli Embassy and it was only the quick reactions of that ICE officer that prevented 9/11 2.0.

    Saved you 90 minutes 😴

  • Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public

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  • I was gonna give it a chance back when they were letting people reserve their usernames. When the site first went live (in beta, I guess?) they wanted me to pay them money to gain access. Enshittification is baked into the platform.

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  • You would never find a nicer, kinder person...

    Hey have you heard of this woman called Renee Good?

  • Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference

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  • I so dearly wish I had these kinds of skills!

  • Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years

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  • Rich humans*

  • you're doing ReSeArCh rong!!

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  • The "do your own research" people need to have it explained to them that even experts in their respective fields aren't automatically capable of parsing scientific literature. A family doctor with 50 years experience who prescribes antidepressants every day will have no deep understanding of what any particular scientific peer reviewed study on SSRIs is telling them. They need a grounding in statistics more than anything else, which most people just don't have. So the idea that a non-educated, non-scientist can read peer reviewed studies and come away from them with some sort of understanding of the issue is the thing that needs to be highlighted, preferably in high school science class (earlier, frankly). A willingness to slog through scientific papers in pursuit of deeper knowledge is admirable, but is dangerously misguided without proper training. I don't even mean training in the specific science, but just in how to speak the language of peer reviewed studies more generally. It's very much its own discipline.

    I want someone to ask Joe Rogan what 'regression to the mean' means. I want someone to ask him what a 'standard deviation' is and how to apply the concept. I don't want to know what papers he's read, because you could read 50 true scientific papers a day on one topic and still have no idea what the current scientific consensus is on said topic, absent the requisite training. You'll almost certainly come away from it with a very wrong but very confident belief. Dunning-Kruger on steroids.

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    I used to be one. Took me two years to find out it's nothing but grifters exploiting the mentally ill

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  • I used to be a 9/11 Truther 😭 Turned out that I, too, was mentally unwell and socially isolated even worse than that hairy fella on the island with a face painted on a football. It's crazy (if I can use that word in this context) how your brain can look at something and be 100% convinced of it, and the exact same information can look ludicrously and obviously bullshit a year later when your psychological well-being is in a better place.

    Advice: don't bother debating conspiracists on their 'evidence', but when they hopefully emerge from their pit of psychosis, welcome them back with open arms. And, perhaps most importantly, ensure they know that that non-judgemental welcome is there for them whenever they want it. The less social friction/cringe/embarrassment they feel is awaiting them, the easier and quicker they can transition into some sort of normality again. Debating the details of whatever conspiracist horseshit it happens to be is like trying to cure schizophrenia by proving the person's hallucinated demons wrong with FACTS and LOGIC. You'll just make it worse.

  • Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox

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  • Is there like a petition or something we can all sign to show that literally no cunt wants this?

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    Is audiophile bullshit cheating?

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  • The sommeliers of the technology world. The perfect storm of electric hypochondria and placebo-gooning.

    As with most things, there's a kernel of truth in amongst the dross. You will have a nicer time with a set of £70 headphones than with a £3.99 set. You will have a nicer time with a FLAC file than a 64kbps MP3 of the same song. But there's a very low ceiling of improvement that both physics and physiology will prevent you from surpassing. Maybe in the future with brain implants and shit like that we can start ramping up the fidelity of our listening abilities, but until then, you're just trickling an ocean through a literal bottleneck and insisting you're drowning in it.

    Just listen to the damn music.

  • TIL 95% of Americans don't get the minimum recommended amount of fiber

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  • We need a fibre pill. A little capsule that contains an extremely-compressed/folded length of fibre. Once the capsule melts in your gut juices, the fibre inside springs to full size like a cumming cattail, providing 6-8 weeks' worth of fibre. Then we'd never again have to miserably work through a brick of carpenter's floor sweepings, or whatever the fuck muesli is, just to have a half-normal fuckin' turd. Fuck-ass fuckin' ass.