ProbablyAlright

1119 pts ยท May 22, 2016


Great work! I've managed to drop from an 8.7 to a 5.8. It's a hard road, but it's very possible and worth doing!!

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

At this point probably mix of a south and central American coalition, plus the EU over Greenland, and then some internal resistance once it's clear they're stretched too thin.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I disagree. There's tons of hate for homosexuality among men. There's relatively little for homosexual women. They're still affected and it still exists, I'm not erasing that. But it's a different level of vitriol.

2 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

Literally just waiting for imgcat to launch.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Not worth the effort if you live in a developed economy*. A lot of cyber crime, which this probably falls under, is done where our peanuts level earnings for something like this goes a lot further.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's not that hard to spoof GPS location, and if you had this automated you could potentially scam a good night or two of orders before being banned I'm sure. When that falls through, spin up another account. This only works on a service without dual.control (restaurant doesn't have to mark pickup).

I think you're right to be suspicious of the credibility, but I don't think the GPS factor alone is enough to say this is fabricated. But enough to not take them at their word alone, sure.

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This plays a bigger role than people realize. We have a growth culture that means you can't just let something be good, it has to be changing. Always the next project or 'improvement', no matter the current state.

6 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Yeah, it's like not everything you read is for you. This is like seeing a recipe for potato salad and complaining you don't like potato salad. Just... move along lmao

6 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

57 minutes. It's like they fired their moderators lmao

7 months ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

I don't think it is.

It's a good principle, but Jesus doesn't say much regarding whether government should or shouldn't be theocratic or secular. He does say at one point to obey authorities, but not too much on the rightful method for worldly authorities to operate.

Granted, I don't think you should care what Jesus is claimed to have said. But regardless of whether you should care or not, it isn't in the book.

8 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Wait, no, I reread this graph, I'm dumb, this is a bad extrapolation. 4% would be a big deal, but this is making some big and likely bad assumptions.

8 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It's more that 4% in this short a time is a big deal when reducing impact by just a few percent is like pulling teeth from a duck. AI is a major carbon consideration. To put it into perspective, that's like adding an entire other Japan and also that new Japan is growing like 40% year over year in emissions. That's a big problem.

8 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Based on your comment history I think we probably agree on a lot more than we disagree on. I'm not sure why you're crashing out on me over the lukewarm take that 'all news sources have flaws and bias and you should evaluate each on their own merits'.

I also don't know why you seem to be acting like I'm some rightwing facts denier. Traditional news is prone to lies that benefit it's owner, social media is prone to fringe goofy nonsense, keep your brain buckled in. This isn't controversial??

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Nah, Pelo took inspiration and references it tho. The old gooby pls meme came from a small creator back in the late 00's or early 2010's. I wanna say they were dutch but don't quote me on that

9 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm not saying that traditional media is always untrustworthy, just the individual sources are prone to errors in both cases.

For saying I've fallen into a bias trap you seem to be the one painting everything with a broad brush. None of this is black and white.

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What? No. There's plenty of stories you'll find in social media that just aren't relevant to mainstream news. This is especially true for special or local interests. The mainstream tends to have a small handful of things being shared at a time.

Mainstream also falls for rumors and BS. Like the 16 Billion record 'breach' recently was just entirely misreporting, but major platforms widely reported that. Not to mention that mainstream also frequently reports on data from socials lmao

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You're making a big assumption that I trust social media greatly more than the news. The correct answer is to evaluate traditional news media AND less established sources and apply critical thinking to both. The Internet can be a great place to get data points, but the mistake is trusting any of those data points too much because all sources have bias. This problem is equally present with over reliance on tradition news media, especially with how few owners there are dictating those narratives

9 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The point being made here is that the orgs behind this are largely immune to boycott because their customers are governments and not people. You can't boycott a thing you don't pay for.

The best thing to do would be to shame and publicize the shitty B2B vendors in the supply chain, but that information is harder to find.

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

News requires greater capital to operate and so will always represent the interests of those who can afford to operate it. Social media requires a device and a network connection. There's still problems like bots and astroturfing, but it lets perspectives otherwise unable to have a serious voice join the conversation.

Also, it lets us see more diverse perspectives. Fewer Americans would know what the rest of the world has, we'd just know what we saw on broadcast and print.

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It genuinely wasn't an abortion, she had an ectopic pregnancy. There's almost zero chance that results in a living baby, much less grows into an adult. She's still a shitheel, but generally what she did isn't considered an abortion. Fear of it counting as one delayed her treatment, with docs fearful of the very laws she supports (which arguably could have applied to them anyways).

But yeah, even within their stupid moral framework it's justified, except to the loonier yet further in the koolaid

9 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 22

If I do, yeah, it still isn't. If like 60% of the country does that changes the equation. Words don't have inherent and objective meaning. It's a soda, they aren't all called Coke, but much of the world will call all soda coke. If it gets traction and sticks the language follows, that's what we mean when we say language is descriptive.

You CAN (but shouldn't) use an LLM powered chatbot for therapy, we have a whole word for it. Saying it doesn't exist is just not so.

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

The problem with that is that'd be you just doing a weird independent rebranding. There's consensus acknowledgement that this exists, so it does. Of everyone called it an alien we'd agree aliens exist, because definitions are based on consensus understanding. Even if it's flawed and stupid - so are humans, ergo so is language.

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Yeah, you look at the edges and there's but of cloud randomly appearing and disappearing. AI doesn't simulate it well

10 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#19 not in love with the tone of this one

10 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

My problem isn't in getting ads that are targeted towards people who enjoy NSFW content. Someone else mentioned a similar Lois one, and I don't take issue with that so much. My issue is that there's young characters in this NSFW ad, and I very much doubt this advertiser who is self complying with OBA has a targeted category for that. The categorization is still going to be based on topics, so the fly in the soup comparison is still valid.

10 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I can't be behind a PiHole all the time, unless there's a better Imgur client I don't know about for Android.

10 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

You don't get ads 100% targeted to you, but to interest groups. So the fact I got this ad doesn't mean I'm a creepazoid, just that I unfortunately have interests that a creepazoid might also have. Hard to say what, sort of a 'hitler liked dogs too' problem.

I don't imagine they have an Animated Cheese Pizza interest group, so I'm hoping this is something more innocuous like 'Animated NSFW' and this fly was in the soup. I don't want anything in common with people this might directly target :(

10 months ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 3

If someone drains your bank account there are records of the transaction you can dispute. There's also fraud detection to get out in front of it. If someone steals the cash in your wallet, or you somehow lose it, that's just lost to you. A card can be deactivated, bills cannot.

There's advantages to cash, but digital txns are far more secure.

10 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0