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being a hentai addict would make him objectively cooler than the piece of literal shit he actually is

I’ve written bad music, lots of it. Not bad in an interesting way. Just uninteresting and bland. The worst kind of insult one could think of when their art is being evaluated kind of thing. Like the kind of music you’d hear in a bad low budget commercial, once weird millennials get old enough for them to co opt shoegaze for pharmaceutical commercials

Well of course. Me too! The only way that changes is if we change the framework of our entire economic system, really

And mine either!!

my home actually has adaptive lighting, highly recommend. Gradually changes from cool to warm through the day

https://github.com/basnijholt/adaptive-lighting

Need home assistant although some things like homekit can do adaptive lighting too, just not as feature rich. You also need bulbs that can do the full spectrum of white (or rgb) obviously

But the home assistant one can adjust based on sunlight, dim the lights concurrently in a specific room to help with sleep, and customize it (like most times the primary advantage of HA vs commercial options)

I assume they’re being pragmatic. Appealing the us to remove copyright is a fools errand. Appealing to shorten the length of the prection period is too frankly given the nature of corporate protectionism but it’s far more likely than America ever entertaining the idea of free information, regardless of the benefits that could ensue. Think of the shareholders! And yourself! Gotta hang that carrot in front of you. What if you finally write that novel and it blows up! I know you secretly want to be a multimillionaire! No one just makes art or has passion to study and document something without financial gain, that’s dumb. Ignore all those forum posts where people do exactly that

My favorite ones are the ones from people who’s were the unfortunate victims of amazons garbage user interface

Saw a white led where you could buy in various color temperatures but you had to select and the default was 5000k/cool white (blue white). First review was a guy that expected amber/warm white/3000k and it was cool white. It said he had purchased the 5000k option. Sorry that amazons ux is absolute shit dude but I guess the cool white is what it’s supposed to be

Similarly the amount of “answered questions” that are just “I don’t know, why are you asking me??” Because amazon sends obnoxious unclear emails asking for product feedback to customers and then posts the answers with 0 moderation or review. So your grandma gets an email like “does your new toaster have smart capabilities that work with 2.4ghz wifi?” And she’s a trump person that can’t handle defying even the mildest authority figure so she answers, even if her reply is utterly useless

phew

I’m sure they initially just did a ctrl+f for “lgbt” then someone on truth social who’s totally not obsessed with checking on gay and trans stuff all the time boosted a post about how it still had a reference to ‼️‼️🚨🚨gay shit🚨🚨‼️‼️

“The goal for OpenAI is not to create hyper-persuasive AI models but instead to ensure AI models don’t get too persuasive.”

Fingers crossed, trust us bro

How do you deal with flawed papers?? Especially on this scale. Like as a social issue

I highly suggest reading the second half of the article at a minimum. Morris destroys this bullshit paper. But Morris is the director of biostatistics at UPenn. You can’t expect the average person to hold articles to the same rigor that he will. But for better or for worse the articles are available to all.

Like as a person who is educated on statistics and research methodology it is generally easy to find flaws in a deeply flawed paper like this (although some things, like the authors having a history of retracted papers, the journal not being listed in pubmed or medline, the journals mailing address being just some guys house, the journals board of directors all being antivax nuts, etc), take effort and research.

But the laymen can’t necessarily see this. Of course that’s why they bother to go to these lengths. To create an “alternative” (read: fake) journal. Because an article like this (hopefully) wouldn’t pass the review process in a legitimate journal. But a laymen doesn’t know that. They don’t know the difference between nature, Wiley, and whatever the fuck their kooky shit is called. The pdfs all look the same. It legitimizes their nonsense

In a time where people just read abstracts (or really just headlines) and call themselves experts, how do you combat this? I don’t know. This paper was shockingly easy to tear apart and here it is, in a congressional hearing, being presented as a potential valid source. Some of our congresspeople brought good papers to counter but even they didn’t seem to know how to tear this paper apart when it had such basic flaws. But all Kennedy had to do was not cite the Wakefield study and find one of the many kooky papers that have been written in its wake (lol) which they didn’t prep for.

This should’ve been a shutdown where he referenced that paper, they looked it over, and immediately fucking destroyed it. I was unfamiliar with that paper and found several issues on my first read like confounding variables mentioned in the article. This is a pretty big one but not as huge as the major one Morris mentions, which is the potential for vaccinations to have occurred outside of network, making their data and proposed outcome garbage!

It’s funny because when you work in a medical field you’re taught explicitly to stay in your lane. Ethical codes generally tell you to do this too. Not everyone does this obviously. But when someone is outside of this system, like rfk, they can do whatever the fuck they want. Like if an MD was sitting for this right now people could appeal to the AMA to pull their license. But RFK has no such authority over him. He can say whatever and do whatever. Libs love that of course but it means that he can push very harmful narratives with no evidence

Dark times. I genuinely don’t know how to handle something like this

And a reminder while anti vaccination goes wayyy back (it actually predates vaccines, oddly) the autism vaccine link is primarily due to the “Wakefield study” from 1998 linking the mmr vaccine to autism. This was (eventually, took forever) retracted because Wakefield both falsified data and had a vested financial interest in test kits (he stood to gain $43 million per year). He also had his medical license revoked. He has since shed all of that though and decided to ride the anti vaccination wave, which is quite lucrative. He has done podcasts, documentaries, “political activism”, and was hobnobbing with celebrities back when anti vaccination crunchiness was a weird lefty thing (he was even married to Elle McPherson for a few years). Like many sociopaths a grifter who does not give a shit about killing hundreds of thousands for financial gain and will likely happily adopt right wing politics (maybe he already has) once he realizes how easy that crowd is in terms of extracting money

Also a reminder that a study retraction is very uncommon, generally only done when fraud, errors, or misconduct are discovered

I remember when I was a teenager working in restaurants during high school I’d come home and shower afterwards. when I’d wash my hair it’d reek of cigarette smoke because I’d spent the last 5-9 hours standing in a giant plume of it.

I picked up smoking in college, I wonder if that was a factor. Thankfully I quit, eventually

“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause... It is such a splendid sunny day, and I have to go. But how many have to die on the battlefield in these days, how many young, promising lives. What does my death matter if by our acts thousands are warned and alerted. Among the student body there will certainly be a revolt”

It’s arguable whether these were Sophie Scholl’s last words but this is what Else Gebel said was the last thing Sophie said to her. She likely had different “last words” at the guillotine but that’s just semantics really