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MeetInPotatoes ,

Not true as I've often been born on January 1st in the early 1900's.

MeetInPotatoes ,

Don't you dare go ruining my joke with your reality-ism.

MeetInPotatoes ,

Glad you noticed that lol, it's really the make or break part of the joke.

MeetInPotatoes ,

Naw I didn't mean that, but hell yeah let's be here anyway. To me, technically the joke is that none of us probably bother to put in our real birth month and date when Steam asks us to verify our age before viewing the next game suggestion in our discovery queue or wherever; just spin that wheel for the year lol. But the wording you pointed out is the only tipoff that it's what I'm talking about, over-explaining would have made it boring, and if I go too subtle, then nobody gets it. I was genuinely thanking ye for the noticing the deliberate wording and I hope you got a chuckle :D

MeetInPotatoes ,

I hate to say it, but regardless of one's stance, on his back should be "Public perception of Fukushima, Chernobyl, and 3-mile Island."

I say regardless of one's stance, because even if the public's perceptions are off...when we remember those incidents but not how much time was in between them or the relative infrequency of disasters, they can have outsized effects on public attitude.

So let's say I wanna ping 1.1.1.1... every 5 seconds... forever. Alternatives? (lemmings.world)

Developers (two dudes) are super responsive and would likely release an IP customization feature upon request. Is there any service that would tolerate this [D]DOS-y kind of behavior that would feel more privacy friendly than Cloudflare?...

MeetInPotatoes ,

ping 1.1.1.1 -n 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999

MeetInPotatoes ,

Ahh, sorry to shatter your beliefs further.

https://www.thecity.nyc/2022/12/13/edny-fbi-investigating-nypd-drug-planting-allegations

https://abc7ny.com/convictions-overturned-brooklyn-da-eric-gonzalez-nypd-misconduct-corruption/12212052/

MeetInPotatoes ,

And before someone gets up in arms about the research papers, the researchers don’t get paid by the journals for publishing with them. In fact, the researchers need to pay the journal to publish, and then the journal turns around and charges people to read it.

What you're describing here is called predatory publishing and is not the norm. It's the "fake news" of scientific journals. I'm not "up in arms" about the original topic of making info available to the public whatsoever, just wanted to correct this part.

https://beallslist.net/

MeetInPotatoes ,

That's a little over 3 per waking hour.

MeetInPotatoes ,

Literally the first thing I do on every new computer I've used in the last 20 years or so is change the setting to show all file extensions. It's always been scummy of Microsoft to hide those details and can only be justified at all by the notion that they want to make people dependent on their icons...which is a decent business justification and a horrible moral justification.

MeetInPotatoes ,

Just a squirrel tryin to get a nut man, don't hate.

MeetInPotatoes ,

That's just cause AI can't make it's mouth into the shape of an O while it says "Feb-ROO-ary.

MeetInPotatoes ,

I use it to scream into the void and be completely uncivil because I'm civil and soft-spoken in the rest of life. In other words, I go to the dumpster when I feel like treating Trump supporters like trash :)

MeetInPotatoes ,

To do, or don't to do...that is the question.

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    MeetInPotatoes ,

    What if it IS a search engine? Maybe there's a site out there that posts every question to a random fediverse sub!

    Matter of fact, let's make one. We'll just use scripts to post every question to social media but program it to say the wrong thing first so that it gets instant results when everyone jumps on the "person" who was wrong.
    Brilliant!

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    That's really not true at all though. Look up "Food Pantries in my area" and see how many places offer food in your area. The blind man would qualify for lifetime disability checks. Food stamps are a thing, charities and churches do this kind of work as well. My city has an emergency rent program and there are, of course, homeless shelters and soup kitchens as well. It's really that society's mechanism for meeting the needs of the hungry are part voluntary (charity) and part automatic with entitlements (not a bad word!) and sometimes people fall through the cracks.

    This is why getting people connected to resources is such a big deal.

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    I live in America and the people (princesses) here drive pickups for very different reasons.

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    Cut is just Command + X. You can swap in Command for most of the windows shortcuts that use control. Why didn't Apple just use the Control button for Control things? That I do not know.

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    You could also just right click though /shrug

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    I've verified throughout our fox network that there are no foxes in any henhouses at the moment. They've been instructed to take steps to ensure that no foxes end up in any henhouses accidentally going forward and the foxes tell me that they are truly sorry this time. Despite past reassurances of not being evil, they were in fact..evil. We are rolling out an internal audit system with the help of a 3rd party partner who owes us lots of stuff. We plan on letting the advocacy groups check out our henhouses as long as they agree to be bound by an NDA.

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    I for one would much rather see the screenshot.

    Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)

    I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    though that get murky with overseas tech entities.

    I mostly agree, but you gotta admit the EU has been sticking it to the tech giants lately.

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    Yeah, it really feels like every toddler figures this out for themselves. He just said it succinctly.

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    I prefer the biblical version:

    "Hear ye, hear ye, if he who is not humbled before the Lord shall fucketh around, surely I tell you that he shall findeth out."

    -DudeYou'reOntoMe 33:16 (Lebron James version)

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    Please elaborate while I find some popcorn.

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    Not the content I deserve, but the content I needed.

    Apple (slrpnk.net)

    I don't care if anyone has a Xiaomi, Oneplus, Samsung, etc. Each brand is using a modified version of Android, and they chose to be compatible with each other. But for example the "blue vs green bubble" drama is a thing specifically because of Apple locking their unsuspecting users into a closed ecosystem. And it sure isn't...

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    I think it's being pointed out that people who share your experience generally have a pretty extreme lack of awareness which everyone else can easily notice.

    An announcement about a new iPhone or iOS feature will inevitably have Android supporters bashing on literally every single person that owns an iPhone, making childish character judgments about strangers.

    If an announcement about Android happens though, you do not get a bunch of iPhone users looking to criticize the Android fans at all. We just don't care to go through such a pointless exercise that is willfully engaging in extremely poor logic. It's raw and unfiltered stupidity to generalize about any huge group of consumers solely based on a product they use. Use whatever you like.

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    That's more specific than the average criticism, and while valid...why would anyone direct their ire for a company's marketing towards their consumers? I can't even count the amount of time I've heard folks online claim that Apple users only buy the phone for the image and because of their marketing etc. iPhones have been around for 17 years now, and people just like them. The standard complaint is that Apple fans are clueless etc. but people spend all their lives managing limited resources. It's wildly ignorant to assume they can't choose products for themselves. The simple fact is that iPhones are worth the money to the people who buy them, period.

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    i think the ire is because Apple fans believe it without questioning it, like flat earth believers being told that by a religious leader.

    Sweeping generalization. What percentage of iPhone users are you suggesting that are like this? How would you even prove that? Marketing might get us to try something but we make up our own minds after that. You'd have to be imagining that the people that line up at the stores for days are actually representative of the iPhone using population. They're the fringe. Are most of us not numb to marketing by now anyway?

    Even my apple fan coworker is always trying to convince me to move to IOS, for "new" features, and I have to say dude I have been doing that forever, I would gain nothing by moving to IOS and lose a ton of technical abilities where I use my phone like a PC...but people can't be convinced of what they already believe

    Sounds like you made the right choices for you and I'm genuinely glad for you for that. Your issue is in thinking your logic should be everyone else's as well. The difference between us is that I also believe the Android fans chose their phones correctly based on what they prioritized. I have no reason to assume that such huge groups of people dealing with limited resources aren't distributed evenly across a spectrum of being discerning and of being frugal. There's hardcore fans throwing money at them that they don't have and on the other side there are people with plenty of money that just wait till the renewal is up and get the cheapest model and don't care much.

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    But the majority of Apple and Iphone users

    There are over 135 million iPhone users in the US. What's your sample size to be saying that a majority of users want to tell you how great their product is? Are you sure you're not oversampling the loud ones? That is, it's easy to count the people who try to convert you, but how easy is it really to count the people who just don't care? Some of them have likely overheard your conversations about phones and just kept on walking or doing their own thing.

    Maybe it is not in your circle and you are then actually lucky.

    Is it that I'm lucky or that you're unlucky? Both would shift the window of perception in the same way.

    I would suggest that people who want to pretend their decision-making is better than yours (especially regarding personal preference) sound like the type of annoying people that I avoid. Sorry you have to deal with them though! Those people suck whether they're talking about their phones, shoes, cars, clothes, consoles, beer etc.

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    Well, fair enough for sure. Let's just both agree that those people suck and I genuinely hope you're enjoying your phone of choice!

    Seems like our only disagreement is just how many of the evangelicals there are. I used to do tech support for iPhones about 10 years ago and I'd say maybe one out of every 30 callers or so were the rabid fanboy types you describe. But that sample was skewed too because I was pretty much only talking to people having an issue with their phone. Hardly anyone was an Apple fan after 20 minutes on hold lol

    Cheers and good talk!

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    Undergrad what though? lol. I don't even know if this is calc, trig, algebra, physics, or just quick maffs. What am I even looking at though?

    n/m googled it, but ok, yeah... I'll just stick to saying that stats was hard.

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    I'm not sure why I didn't realize it before, but you just made me realize that if the Palestinians had the upper hand right now, they would absolutely be wiping out Israel. The world allowed this division to foment for too long; our failure to enforce UN resolutions means both Israel and Palestine have set aside the idea that the global community will ever hold Israel accountable. For Israel, that means acting with impunity, for Palestine that has meant taking matters into their own hands, however hopeless that is, because they gave up on international justice. (and rightly so, it's a performative joke)

    What's the first thing you do when you try to get two people to stop fighting? You separate them and give them some time and space to calm down, that's not possible here so the two nations are permanently like two boxers nose to nose.

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    Cruz is like the alien in Men in Black who wears an Edgar suit. I'm pretty sure whatever that is...he's just wearing a Ted Cruz suit.

    And he needs sugar.....in water.

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    I've been staring at this pic for an hour and I can't think of any possible rule it would violate besides "no giant rat balls." Which seems fair but unlikely to exist yet.

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    Burritos are closed on the ends, my Mexican food-challenged amigo.

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    I always wondered how bragging about how long you worked was considered by some as a good thing.

    Somebody invented "Employee of the Month" and our competitive habits took over.

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    Should be "work intelligent**-ly**" as well.

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    But they understood a poster and are thus very smart.

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    Also, the smartest response to the situation in the picture would be to work together.

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    If you'd ever taken any advanced math, you'd see that the answer is 1 all day. The implicit multiplication is done before the division because anyone taking advanced math would see 2(1+2) as a term that must be resolved first. The answer still lies in the ambiguity of the way the problem is written though. If the author used fractions instead of that stupid division symbol, there would be no ambiguity. It's either 6/2 x 3 = 9 or [6/(2x3)] = 1. Comment formatting aside, if someone put 6 in the numerator, and then did or did NOT put all the rest in the denominator underneath a horizontal bar, it would be obvious.

    TL;DR It's still a formatting issue, but 9 is definitely not the clear and only answer.

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    https://www.theleafchronicle.com/story/news/2019/08/08/viral-math-problem-answer-obelus-austin-peay-apsu/1933750001/

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    "Always remember to solve using PEMDAS once you've used the distributive property!" Link%20and%20subtraction%20(S).)

    (emphasis mine)

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    That you're still wrong? As I said, the true answer is that the problem is written poorly due to the obelus and thus is open to interpretation. You're entitled to your own interpretation since it's written poorly, I just find it pretty obviously less logical than multiplying using the distributive property first to resolve the term with the parentheses fully as you would in any advanced math.

    Also, distributive law and distributive property are the same thing per Khan academy
    "The distributive property is sometimes called the distributive law of multiplication and division."

    Wait till you hear that "i before e except after c" wasn't true either. It's wild that you think 7th grade math overrules grad school math though lol.

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    Presenting subjective truths as factual is the easiest giveaway that they aren't anywhere close to being a real university. Pure propaganda, and they can't even get they right.

    MeetInPotatoes ,

    President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

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