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Emotional_Series7814

@ Emotional_Series7814 @kbin.melroy.org

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  • UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones

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  • I really never should have opened this thread, but hard agree. I'm doing the small bit I can to help out and I only have that energy because I (mostly) stopped clicking on news and aggressively curated my online experience to be free of politics or depressing news. It's easier to fight the good fight when you are not constantly being shown 28483838 bad things and 28483838 fights to fight. Even without algorithms that want to maximize engagement and that thus maximize outrage, human nature tends to focus on the bad and engage with outraging things (which is why A Bad Thing Happened constantly dominates Technology feeds instead of spiels about this or that tech advancement). If seeing all this paralyzes you into despair and/or doomscrolling like it paralyzes me, you have to actively try to work against that tendency or just try to avoid getting shown outrage in the first place.

  • I checked my backup hard drives

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  • I'm happy to hear that, always good news

  • It's 1am and one of my NAS hard drives is doing the death rattle.

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  • Looking into making my own NAS, where'd you get these?

  • Dullsters @dullsters.net
    Emotional_Series7814 @kbin.melroy.org

    I bought a digital train ticket instead of a physical one.

  • Dullsters @dullsters.net
    Emotional_Series7814 @kbin.melroy.org

    Sent invoice #155555 today: 5 5s in a row!

  • Dullsters @dullsters.net
    Emotional_Series7814 @kbin.melroy.org

    Took a slow walk and saw the different colored leaves

  • Anti Meme @sopuli.xyz
    Emotional_Series7814 @kbin.melroy.org

    hard to swallow pills

  • Spent a while today trying to figure out why I had such a bad sinus headache

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  • I am glad you figured out a cure.

  • Tinnitus is now a high pitch version of all the stuff that gave it to you. How it's going?

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  • Aside from filling out academic surveys online, how can I directly help scientists?

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  • So I thought my town did not have any food pantries, but I went to look it up anyways because of your comment. Oh wow was I wrong. Donation made partially because of your comment!

  • people keep talking about how "em dashes" are evidence of ai. i use them all the time. am i a computer now?

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  • Just checked your home instance. feddit.org seems to be a Lemmy instance. I'm on Mbin, which is a totally different software. That could be the difference.

    EDIT: Just checked how the comment appears your instance. It indeed shows up as one line instead of two on your Lemmy instance, though running that line through https://babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/whatisit.html confirms my suspicion that it shows it shows as an en dash, not an em dash.

  • people keep talking about how "em dashes" are evidence of ai. i use them all the time. am i a computer now?

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  • Not on my end

  • people keep talking about how "em dashes" are evidence of ai. i use them all the time. am i a computer now?

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  • I do hope you believe I'm a human ;-; you can probably go check all my comments and notice the many edits on them, because I often remember a point I want to make or think of a way I can express myself better after the fact, and I never thought being the type who comments my thoughts immediately instead carefully revising and waiting an hour or so (although to be fair, who does that?) would be the one proof of my humanity. Well, hopefully. It's entirely possible you still believe I must be a bot, because they have probably gotten good at mimicking humans, including professions to be human and not bots, given how many sci-fi stories are written with robots and humans interacting and proof being needed or whatever. (Wouldn't know, don't use them myself.)

    I typed from a phone. Creating an em dash is holding down on the hyphen button (which is already a bit of extra effort to get to) and sliding over two keys, pretty easy and fast. I just tested typing an em dash on my computer. I do not actually have an alt key due to being a Mac user (maybe newer ones or older ones have it?). For me, it's Option+Shift+the hyphen key. It is slower to type an em dash for me than just a plain hyphen on both phone and computer, but not slow enough or irritating enough for me to make me choose not to. I feel my stubborn insistence on using em dashes, despite the disadvantage it gives me on getting perceived as a human being, could in itself be proof of my humanity, because what else do I gain besides a speck of affirmation of my identity as the type of person who still wants to use em dashes? Although of course only in this conversation, because most people who think me botlike would probably dismiss me as a bot and move on instead of replying to me and saying why they think I'm a bot: no chance to defend myself, and why would you let what you think to be a bot spew more slop at you about its supposed humanity? I'm also already comfortable using em dashes, maybe a fraction of a second wasted, whereas rewording my sentences, my train-of-thought run-on sentences typed straight from my stream of consciousness, to avoid em dashes is more effort for me, personally. Although you could make the argument that given my willingness to learn to do things the right way, I ought to type without run-on sentences and give people more of a signal I'm not a bot, and drop the em dashes so I am one less false negative when using the "em dash automatically equals bot" strategy.

    Not saying you think I specifically am a bot, of course ;) Your approach probably works too. I learned to type in your manner because people did it on tumblr and I used to use that site. Bots do lean towards more formal grammar correctness, but I wouldn't write off the possibility of telling it to type informally, without capital letters, and with the occasional omission of punctuation when not needed for expression or clarity. Or straight up telling them to write like they are on tumblr. However, I would write off a human lazy enough to use a bot to impersonate people as not bothering to try to vary the typing styles.

  • Aside from filling out academic surveys online, how can I directly help scientists?

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  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    Emotional_Series7814 @kbin.melroy.org

    Aside from filling out academic surveys online, how can I directly help scientists?

  • people keep talking about how "em dashes" are evidence of ai. i use them all the time. am i a computer now?

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  • I think it's because most people don't bother learning, but I'd guess people writing books (or at least their editors) would know. AI eats up all the books and learns how to use em dashes. The majority of the internet-using population does not use it. And so you get the heuristic that em dash = AI. This is just a total guess, by the way.

    Looked up the difference between hyphens, em dashes, and en dashes in high school. Maybe for curiosity, maybe for some assignment, I forget by now. Started using em and en dashes, not going to stop now.

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  • Not sure whether you meant to express disbelief or just to be silly, but you did make me wonder if this meme was legit or not. It is!