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For serious comments, my true audience is the unknown reader. For jokes, my audience is myself alone.

Lemmy dev suggestions: Remove all downvotes. User blocks should keep the blockee from seeing the blocker.

  • What can we do about the increasing problem of these self-deleting bot accounts?

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  • I wonder... you know how webpages use widgets to try to see if you're human? Apparently they collect various data about how you interact with the webpage to figure out whether you're human. Perhaps they could use that data to make a fingerprint that can tell people apart. It maybe would be fairly inaccurate, but combining it with other information like IP address or location information could work together to make a better digital fingerprint.

  • Doctors

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  • In the case of the comic, she's in the ER, and it's possible that she might need anesthesia for surgery, so I think that's a case where pregnancy is directly related.

  • Heaven's Gate

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  • Yes, I said they wouldn't want them all to off themselves, but they don't care if some, or even if a lot of people die, as long as it's not too many.

  • Heaven's Gate

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  • The people who have spent so much time and money manipulating and controlling these human failures obviously wouldn't want them all to off themselves.

  • Doctors

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  • I suspect that the author of this comic gets asked these questions by doctors without understanding why they ask, and it can be confusing.

    Why is it important whether she's pregnant? Because treatment options vary and also if the doctor accidentally causes an abortion, there can be legal, sometimes even criminal, consequences.

    Why not just ask if she's pregnant and call it a day? Well, they can ask, but patients might not know or they might lie. Roundabout questions are more definitive.

    Why not just run a pregnancy test? They do, but it's better to know sooner.

  • Nancy Mace shreds Mike Johnson and says ‘Nancy Pelosi was a more effective House Speaker than any Republican this century’

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  • So you thought Kevin McCarthy was better than Nancy Pelosi?

  • TIL: There are roughly 2.5 million ants per person

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  • Just stick your bare hand in this bag and grab whatever you need. Did I mention that your share are all bullet ants?

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  • It just occurred to me that were a person to complain about life giving them lemons, that's basically like how Homer Simpson complained about finding money when he was looking for a peanut. It's indeed true that money would be unpleasant to eat directly, but that's not how it's supposed to be used, anyways.

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  • If I'm to believe that second person didn't misspeak, they had "mental breakdowns" with an "s", so multiple breakdowns, over the thought that their eating lettuce could cause a nuclear apocalypse.

    They must really like lettuce. If I had a mental breakdown over the fear that my eating a specific food would cause untold human death and suffering, including my own, I would likely not eat that food again until I could convince myself it was safe.

  • Never be unique

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  • I agree. But I'll also add that the joke itself should be pretty accessible even outside the IT crowd. It's said clearly in the text of the final panel, and even in the title of the post. The only thing an average person might not know to get the joke is that you use TOR to get on the darknet, but I think most people would figure that out from the context.

    If I had to guess how 33 people could upvote "That's the joke," I'd say maybe people got the joke, as intended when reading the comic, but then, upon seeing "That's the joke", somehow just lost their minds and forgot what the joke was. Is that the power of memes?

    Personally, I think saying "That's the joke," as it's intended, to somebody who made a mistake and misunderstood the joke is mildly patronizing and rude, on the level of teasing. Not completely polite, but not outlandish for anonymous internet posts.

    But to say "That's the joke" to somebody who very likely did get the joke seems outlandishly rude. Maybe that's just me.

  • I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.

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  • It's more like the ancient phenomenon of spaghetti code. You can throw enough code at something until it works, but the moment you need to make a non-trivial change, you're doomed. You might as well throw away the entire code base and start over.

    And if you want an exact parallel, I've said this from the beginning, but LLM coding at this point is the same as offshore coding was 20 years ago. You make a request, get a product that seems to work, but maintaining it, even by the same people who created it in the first place, is almost impossible.

  • Never be unique

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  • No it isn't.

  • Boat attack commander says he had to kill 2 survivors because they were still trying to smuggle cocaine

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  • I don't think it's consistent with your example, because nobody in or near the boats was an insurgent. I'm not saying that it's not similar, just that it's a clear divergence. They don't have any pretense that anybody on or near the boat was planning to attack them.

  • Speaker Johnson pleads with Republicans to keep concerns private after tumultuous week

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  • Speaker of the House is not a political party position. The House Republicans don't work for Johnson any more than the House Democrats do. They are supposed to be working for their constituents.

    And while there is the need for wheeling and dealing in Washington without announcing everything, really, essentially, the House members should be bringing all of their concerns to the public. That is their fucking job, and Mike Johnson is unamerican for suggesting that they do otherwise.

  • Boat attack commander says he had to kill 2 survivors because they were still trying to smuggle cocaine

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  • I reread the article and it doesn't mention "narco-terrorists." It's about calling them combatants. Although I misremembered when I said "enemy combatants." It's "unlawful combatants."

    So the article is about that, as well as about what you're even allowed to do or say about people who are clinging to flotsam and jetsam after a shipwreck.

    I think calling them "narco-terrorists" wouldn't give the military enough legal reason to murder those people as they had been illegally ordered to do.

  • Boat attack commander says he had to kill 2 survivors because they were still trying to smuggle cocaine

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  • The US isn't supposed to execute people for smuggling cocaine.

    You shouldn't just be able to call them enemy combatants if they're not even combatants. Words are supposed to have meanings.

    By the logic that you can just call things whatever you want and then you're magically allowed to treat them as that thing, then why not just call them "fish" and say that the American military was just "fishing"? That makes just as much sense to me as what they did.

  • Soup

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  • They tried something that was 5% noodles, 5% vegetables, and 90% water, and decided that the result was water.

  • Trump renames U.S. Institute of Peace after himself

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  • Donald Trump is an even stupider man that I thought if he thinks history will remember him kindly. All he can do with the small remainder of his natural lifespan is pave the way for the next narcissistic authoritarian dictator to come to power, and that person won't want Trump's name all over shit.

    Whether Trump succeeds in killing American democracy, or whether American democracy somehow survives, Trump's legacy will be cast as dog shit. The next dictator would want to blame Trump for everything wrong, while a resurgence of democracy would simply be able to tell the truth.

    Literally the only way Trump has any chance of looking good is if one of his children succeeds him. I don't think that is very likely, but I've been wrong before.

  • The Future of Magic

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  • vibe spelling

    This headmaster has a poor sense of naming things.