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  • Imagine getting a new monitor for your PC that quietly changed what you were able to see when you used it. If you wanted to read an article about a topic the manufacturer didn't like, the article would be completely reworded to fit their preferred narrative.

    Someone eventually realized this was happening and called out the manufacturer publicly (which allegedly led to death threats and such) who proceeded to crash out over it, initially claiming this was to reform the broader internet, but eventually quietly pushing a patch that made your monitor install malware on your PC.

  • It'd be hilarious if this dude went to prison over this, because it seems like he finally crossed from "annoying and unethical but legal" to straight up illegal.

  • "Well that settles it! He has my vote!"

    a lot of American voters, apparently

  • The Lesser War started when Franz Ferdinand was assassinated.

    I dunno, doesn't have the same ring to it.

  • One day (soon) they will call The Great Depression "Great Depression I."

  • 30F is definitely hotter than -40F, there's no argument from me there.

    I also do not dispute your similarly new point of the US southwest having the record for the hottest weather recorded on earth, so far.

    We appear to disagree on other things, though.

  • Oh we're pivoting away from personal, subjective opinion and towards objectivity now?

    30F is literally freezing, which is obviously below "cold."

  • there are other benefits I don’t really care to explicate.

    Ban evasion, propaganda, etc.

  • Hell yeah brother.

  • I honestly don't see how those two are related but I do think it is interesting that the person I replied to insists they were joking while you insist they were not.

    Schrodinger's Douchebag at play.

  • I was curious to see if you were simply so passionate about the issue you were accidentally commenting in bad faith because you lost your cool or if that's just something you double down on because you're a troll.

    Given it's the latter, enjoy the block!

  • "No."

    "... Well alright then, just had to ask in case it was on the table."

  • You were obviously being sarcastic with stating it was "unrelated" and you're obviously playing dumb, also in bad faith now.

    You're deliberately trying to confuse the "idiots" that agree with you, not the idiots that support this ridiculous move.

    My username is a pun. You're welcome to get bent out of shape over it if you want, but I hope people reading this realize you're doing further bad faith tactics by tossing in this Red Herring as a cherry on top.

  • Oh okay, then 30C isn't even hot. Maybe 50C or 60C.

  • Shitty Piefed dev -> lemmy.world mod -> ex-reddit power mod -> Ghislaine Maxwell

    makes about as much sense as

    "We shouldn't have people starving in the streets or paying $35,000 to visit the emergency room" -> socialism -> USSR -> Stalin -> Holodomor

    Sure, the links are there, but what a silly series of connections to reach to in order to paint your target as the worst possible thing to confuse the impressionable.

  • 30C is normal but slightly annoying, 30F sucks.

    A Floridian

  • Neural nets are pattern recognition and repetition machines - nothing more or less.

    If black people have historically been given harsher punishments by the criminal justice system (duh), any neural net is going to pattern match and print out a heavier sentence for a black person based on its training data.

  • This is the diplomatic way to say "takes one to know one" in response to the accusation of "shithole country."

    We are actively, aggressively dismantling as much vital government services as we can to pad the bottom lines of as many oligarchs as possible with the continued Trickle Down Reagan Economics promises that need just one more election cycle to come to fruition, despite all available data pointing to the contrary.

    ... but if the data is "woke" I guess it's to be ignored.