smeg

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[–] smeg 1 points 1 month ago

This is absurd. The contemporaneous accounts don't support this. We're making up fake history based on feels.

Meanwhile, real black African history is basically never taught due to the shadow of colonialism.

Instead of reaching for some false valour, can we teach the full pre-colonial history of Africa?

[–] smeg 9 points 1 month ago

Fork it. Keep it open source. Enshitification is coming.

[–] smeg 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And if their percentage was unreasonably high, their competitors would sell at lower prices. Strangely, they don't. Which tells us that Tim's complaints are nothing but bullshit.

[–] smeg 1 points 2 months ago

The cookie banners are the result of shitty web companies aggressively violating our privacy. It's not the regulation's fault that every company is evil.

The easy solution to eliminate the banners is for companies to stop being evil.

[–] smeg 18 points 2 months ago

Now they start taking away privileges from citizens for disagreeing with government policy. Next they jail them.

[–] smeg 2 points 2 months ago

Contrary to fact hypothesizing.

[–] smeg 25 points 2 months ago (7 children)

All of the AI tools know how to make CP somehow - probably because their creators fed it to them.

[–] smeg 15 points 2 months ago

The term prediction markets is a way to brand away from the stigma and the social harms of gambling.

But it's the same.

[–] smeg 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Even if the shutdown commences, the Democrats will cave when some small inconvenience occurs for wealthy people. Again.

[–] smeg 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Tuvix's death makes the entire series A+. If Janeway had a choice between keeping Tuvix alive and getting home immediately, or killing Tuvix and having to slog through the entire Delta quadrant, then clearly the latter is the superior choice.

[–] smeg 20 points 2 months ago

By the time they unfreeze it, Trump will give them reason to freeze it again. Make a deal with a bad faith party, expect them to demand more every time.

[–] smeg 45 points 2 months ago (10 children)

I struggle to consider it scientific because it bakes in so many fundamental assumptions without questioning them. At least mainstream economics.

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