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readflaggedcomm··on Scientists: Don’t Feed the Doubt Machine
>This has a key role in whether individual decisions are cast as a matter of ‘freedom’ versus ‘solidarity’, and regulations as restriction or protection.

A scientist with this type of filter is foremost an activist.

readflaggedcomm··on Kiwi Farms, the Web’s Biggest Community of Stalkers (2016)
It lists all: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-tra... and there is one suicide from mid May, and nothing in June.

It stops before July, but the emails and suicide are alleged to occur on the 26th and Sunday the 27th*, which suggests it would be there, even if it took locals time to figure out what happened.

He or the Twitter account supposedly posted the passport to confirm he was a citizen at the time, but that's just what I heard.

* https://archive.md/aMcW4 archive of https://docs.google.com/document/d/12pOhaaFh998B0kyc5Sm4Ihlh...

readflaggedcomm··on Curated list of userscripts
Because the page source is more annoying, thanks to thinks like Vue and React, which generate the DOM on the browser, rather than building an actual web page on the server.

Take Twitter for example. The elements don't exist until the page loads, and none of the classes have any useful meaning, which makes user styles impossible, and user scripts need to rely on a DOM observer or a timer to find attributes or (even more often) element text to locate some elements to hide or modify.

readflaggedcomm··on Ask HN: How do you tackle your own negativity?
Try to be constructive, and expect the sewage of bad faith to overwhelm it. Communication for you to build things, not to impress people.
readflaggedcomm··on Kiwi Farms, the Web’s Biggest Community of Stalkers (2016)
The story was limited probably because it can't be verified. The only clue is one Twitter account's word and the US report claiming no citizens died in Japan during those months.
readflaggedcomm··on Truth Social Violated Mastodon’s License; Entire Platform Might Now Be DOA
>Mastodon, the software Trump is using to create Truth Social

I see this restated as fact, when the public has no access to its closed beta.

Where is the proof?

readflaggedcomm··on All Applications for Nuclear Energy at COP26 Rejected
It would be interesting to know what the "green zone" means to them. They don't bother to link to any edifying documents.

But this is a very defensive treatise. A bad look.

readflaggedcomm··on Reasons for Speaking Out on Sex and Gender Issues (2020)
>they will just mimic correctness

This depends on the culture. Mimicking mainstream opinion is not a traditional ideal in many parts of the world, which is why some geographies are underrepresented.

readflaggedcomm··on Substantially more monarch butterflies have arrived in California to overwinter
Considering the weather patterns (cold and wet in the west cost), this wouldn't be the case without global warming. Bad news.
readflaggedcomm··on Meta buys Within, the studio behind VR fitness app Supernatural
I'm sure Zuckerberg sees becoming AOL of the next big thing as the best direction to take his company, but it just all seems so overly complex. No communication standards can lower garden walls, because the walls and complexity are the point, when you sell ads for communication platforms

But then, restaurants and other businesses relying on Facebook exclusively to have an online presence (often inaccessible to those with no account) seems like a bad idea to me, but it happens.

readflaggedcomm··on Meta buys Within, the studio behind VR fitness app Supernatural
Facebook doing Second Life over again was predicted when they started VR, it just doesn't seem like that big of a change to me.

But I've already made up my mind on it, and I can assure you not everyone goes along with Facebook.

readflaggedcomm··on Why It’s Time for NYC Restaurants to Return to Paper Menus
This may be a stupid luddite question, but do the restaurants provide free wifi to access this data keyed from the QR codes?

Because without that and me carrying a computer with a camera, my flip-phoned self has no way to access their electronic menu. Obviously I'm not their audience, and I'm not going to NYC to eat, but does this really work for them?

readflaggedcomm··on The M1 Max is the fastest GPU we have ever measured in Affinity Photo benchmark
My hatred of Twitter's layout is not principled, I assure you. It's purely aesthetic and visceral.
readflaggedcomm··on The 37-Year-Olds Are Afraid of the 23-Year-Olds Who Work for Them
Has angst always been justification for unprofessionalism, or is this new?
readflaggedcomm··on The M1 Max is the fastest GPU we have ever measured in Affinity Photo benchmark
Now assume your and Twitter's research is wrong. How do I make it readable?

Not with CSS, their markup is impenetrable. You have to have another site scrape and reformat the content. Shameful.

readflaggedcomm··on Banning anonymous social media accounts would only stifle free speech, democracy
Attesting to facts requires more than identity. There are billions of nobodies with identities whom I don't trust to attest to anything.

Verifiable events can be attested to (like the availability of testing) with trustworthy data, like from a reliable reporter or the test providers or some reliable surveillance mechanisms. Using a identity as a proxy for accountability, in furtherance of reputation management -- as the social media web largely treats all this -- is an error.

People aren't reliable just because we know they're people, as Facebook-provided comments on third-party sites demonstrate.

readflaggedcomm··on Banning anonymous social media accounts would only stifle free speech, democracy
Why? Identity does not make an argument. Numbers of posts don't prove me wrong. A preponderance of quacks doesn't inform me of my baking skills when I toss bread to ducks.

The impulse to identity, by law or platform-specific reputation system, is useful for other ends, but the end of judging books by covers should not be one to strive toward.

readflaggedcomm··on With corporate tax off table, U.S. Democrats turn to billionaires
That's what voters want, sin and "nudge" taxes. It's a way to express power over other people to get them to do what you want, which is the purpose of democracy.
readflaggedcomm··on With corporate tax off table, U.S. Democrats turn to billionaires
That's about ten percent of spending. The social safety net (the important stuff) is already most spending: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57170

Cutting military spending to politicians usually means something else, like cutting benefits to warriors who've already served (thus not really military spending).

readflaggedcomm··on Ivermectin shows that not all science is worth following
Because it links to the individual studies.
readflaggedcomm··on Two conspiracy theories about cola
Ginger is also anti-nausea, but I eat it with sushi just because it tastes good.

From their study link:

>And, the reason most people say that they prefer Mexican Coke is that it contains real cane sugar instead of corn syrup. But according to this Time article, a study done by Obesity journal found that Mexican Coke did not contain sucrose

What does this mean? Last I looked many years ago, Mexican coke has two formulations you can notice *just by looking at the ingredients*: sugar or corn syrup. Did they not look? Did they not trust it?

The taste difference is noticable, because less-refined cane sugar is very tasty.

readflaggedcomm··on The new public health despotism
No, and you've already said all this without dodging the issue.
readflaggedcomm··on The new public health despotism
The same people uprooting our lives also lied about gain-of-function research: https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/1450947395508858880

The social contract was breached from the start.

readflaggedcomm··on Trump's new platform and the Affero General Public License of Mastodon
>Early evidence strongly supports that Trump's Group publicly launched a so-called “test site” of their “Truth Social” product, based on the AGPLv3'd Mastodon software platform.

No citation given. It would have made more sense to use a friendlier project, anyway, like Pleroma.

But no evidence is needed to be outraged by something that hasn't happened yet. Sad!

readflaggedcomm··on USPS pilots a public banking program
Other articles* mention fees: $5.95 to cash checks up to $500. That's more than my local-chain grocery store's service counter.

* https://prospect.org/economy/usps-begins-postal-banking-pilo...

readflaggedcomm··on Roku tells customers it is unable to strike a deal with YouTube
Is the Amazon Prime app on Chromecast as good as Roku's?
readflaggedcomm··on Reasons to consider NOT switching to Linux
>something will happen and you will need tech knowledge to continue

Same as with windows, except all those people who do have knowledge are in no position to improve Windows. They improve applications that run on Linux, instead.

readflaggedcomm··on Judge won't force NASA to look at area man's interstellar drive
Ah, I missed that, thanks. Was too distracted by the bizarre text in the pdf.
readflaggedcomm··on Judge won't force NASA to look at area man's interstellar drive
I wonder if Mr. Ivers was taken advantage of by some lawyer who knew this was pointless. If so, he should have used that money for a proofreader for his patent, instead, so it would be easier to demonstrate its folly.
readflaggedcomm··on A&W Turns its 'Worst Marketing Fail' Into a New Burger, Launches 3/9lb sandwich
Or maybe that's just advertising spice, to blame their customers for their own failures in a cheeky way.

I remember A&W burgers, and they just weren't that great.

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