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TheTechnician27

@ TheTechnician27 @lemmy.world

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"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: [...] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead." —Jonathan Swift

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  • Oh, and now you're trying to warp Gates' building of a multitrillion-dollar monopolistic megacorp and donating part of his personal profits to charity into something akin to Robin Hood. Yeah, dude, the ruthless capitalist centibillionaire personally deciding who lives and who dies is practically a folk hero. And hey, he's even out there donating money for syphilis research, which could help underprivileged associates of pedophile financiers who cheat on their wives.

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  • Kind of weird to see you arguing that you don't believe in the morale value of charity.

    Kind of weird that you're acting like stealing hundreds of billions through monopolization and exploitation and then giving some portion of it back is praiseworthy. Charity has moral value when you earned the money you have, not when you're giving part of your ill-gotten gains back; that's a partial offset, not a bonus.

    Again, you could look at someone like Jimmy Buffett who just, you know, made his fortune being a pretty cool guy whose art people loved enough to pay for it, but you're still ride-or-die for your favorite child rapist-hobnobbing, cheating, ruthlessly corporatistic and monopolistic Trump-ass-kissing thief of hundreds of billions of dollars under the justification that he gave some of it to charity.

    World's best centibillionaire? Quite possibly almost by default. Best billionaire? Impressively stupid take.

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  • as well as donating the vast majority of his wealth

    Damn, I forgot that when I give away a portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars I stole through naked monopolization and exploitation, it makes me a super great guy – and the more money I steal, the betterer. How benevolent of Billy Billionaire; what a noble sacrifice. It's a good thing Jeffrey was around to give him those antibiotics for his STD; I'll bet he couldn't have afforded those healthcare prices after giving the shirt off his back to charity.

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  • Man, not like Jimmy Buffett or something? It had to be the man who used underhanded tactics – notable even compared to other massive corporations – to monopolize home computing and was buddy–buddy with a man he definitely knew trafficked and raped children while he cheated on his wife with multiple women? You clearly have poor taste in people either way, but hopefully in this specific case you just said "fuck it" and carelessly decided that, out of the ~3000 billionaires, your guy is the one who remarked that a permanent ban of Trump from Twitter "would be a shame" and who used his platform to spread disinformation that climate change doesn't pose an existential threat to humanity.

    Even if the billionaire has to be alive, you're remarkably stupid by choosing him.

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  • Oh shit, good one. Wow, you're so clever I almost forgot that you're insufferable. Come to think of it, I tagged you some months ago after reading a comment where you called Bill Gates the "best billionaire", so maybe your opinion of Luigi would've improved if he'd had extramarital affairs in the company of the 21st century's most notorious child sex trafficker.

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  • You’re doing fuck all to help anyone.

    No one said I was, you illiterate fuck. That's why I don't shit on people who are.

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  • Hey, man, Luigi was fighting for you too; maybe with proper dental care, for example, you could finally have those boot polish stains removed from your teeth.

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  • Damn, poor little baby sure is jealous that Luigi got the entire US talking about the evils of private health insurance for weeks if not months and took down a mass-murderer.

    What a little cockweasel you are.

  • All Toy Story movies are basically documentaries

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  • Any 5th any movie is going to be a rehash.

    Have you seen it, or do you even know anything about it? This one's getting solid reviews from critics and audiences. And I say this as someone who's never gotten into the franchise and didn't even watch 4 or 5; I have nothing to personally defend here. The Schafrillas review (also on Nebula) was quite positive, and he went in with the same expectations you're talking about here.

    If you're going to be a pretentious, overgeneralizing jackass, maybe don't pick on the movie with a 93%/7.8 on Rotten Tomatoes.

  • humans in space

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  • profound

    "Wow, this lunar lander and this bacteriophage sure look vaguely alike. Also, have you seen how one is a sphere and we've built spherical probes before? And another is a cylinder and we have cylindrical rockets? Wow, fucking crazy, man. Humans are viruses; I'm soooo deep."

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  • The real deal

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    Twitter?

  • Brought to you by the same people that told you not to believe everything you read on the internet and now only read click bait headlines from Fox or Breitbart

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  • Brought to you by the same people that told you not to believe everything you read on the internet and now only read click bait headlines from Fox or Breitbart

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  • Wikipedia used to be untrusted. Anyone can put anything there! Now teachers rather see wikipedia than AI bullshit.

    As a longtime contributor to Wikipedia, the teachers were categorically correct. 2000s Wikipedia was, broadly, a trashfire where citations were mostly an afterthought and there really weren't standards. Some of the most bare minimum standards that make Wikipedia actually functional weren't codified until c. 2006 and took easily over a decade to really take hold culturally. And unfortunately, the popularization of Wikipedia made the late 2000s pretty bad too; whereas the early 2000s were a largely benign wild west, the late ones saw a flood of near-unfiltered garbage that's still being cleaned up today.

    I'd still say not to trust Wikipedia today and use its sources instead for anything even slightly consequential, but back in peak Wikipedia scare days, "use its sources" was very often a nonstarter.

  • Fortune 500 bosses demanding staff return to the office share one trait: Narcissism, research finds

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  • If you actually look at the evidence presented, they cite this 2019 meta-analysis in the Journal of Management: "Making CEO Narcissism Research Great [ew]: A Review and Meta-Analysis of CEO Narcissism". On signature size, for which it found only two studies by nearly the exact same team, it remarked:

    Ham[, Seybert, and Wang] (2018) and Ham, Lang, Seybert, and Wang (2017) employed an alternative unobtrusive measure of CEO narcissism by measuring the size and contents of a CEO’s signature in SEC filings (2 of 42 articles). Their rationale posits that a larger signature represents the grandiose nature of a narcissist. To validate the measure, Ham et al. used student samples in a laboratory setting. While the main advantage of the measure is that it captures a behavior under the direct control of the CEO (i.e., his or her signature), the measure may not fully capture narcissism’s multifaceted nature. Ham et al. also provided external validation by correlating the measure with employee ratings of CEO narcissism, as obtained by O’Reilly et al. (2014). As this is a newer measure, it has seen limited use to date.

    I still see this as some absolute TikTok narcissist-whisperer shit and emblematic of the worst of the reproducibility crisis and conclusion-chasing in the social sciences – sincere respect for the social sciences though I may have.

    Edit: I will add that not Charles Ham, not Mark Lang, not Nicholas Seybert, and not Sean Wang are psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, or frankly fucking anything; they're in business studies.

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  • Could I then use this handwriting phrenology to claim that Jimmy Carter was a bigger narcissist than Barack Obama was a slightly bigger narcissist than Adolf Hitler?

    I understand they're considering other factors, but this is so obviously fucking stupid.

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  • unobtrusive measures of narcissism via photo size, signature size, and relative compensation predicted greater resistance to remote work in public statements early in the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Dude, come the fuck on. I take psychology as a serious science, so this methodology legitimately offends me: signature size as a metric for narcissism? Get the actual fuck out of here. This reeks of a paper in search of a conclusion.

  • Nancy - May 11, 1948

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  • Yet again proof that inflation as a tracked percentage is BS

    Well for starters, $10–$15 "in most places" is completely asinine. 15 cents would've been reasonable for an ice cream soda in 1948, so neither that nor the $2.10 figure are disputed, but "$15" is some "I mean it's one banana, Michael" shit. No ice cream soda dispensed from a machine at a regular-ass diner in 2026 is running $15. I think a reasonably high-quality float with handmade ice cream that I've seen runs about $5, which still doesn't keep pace with $2.10, but then CPI isn't tracking specifically the cost of an ice cream float.

    The fact you don't understand how CPI works or what ice cream sodas cost doesn't mean the powers that be are corrupting the calculations to make it look better.