cogitoergofutuo

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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
I’m also from the US and I’ll second that this is basically correct and should be taken as an implicit assumption about most Americans if you’re looking in from the outside. Most Americans are only presented with increasing incarceratio
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
That’s cool, all manner of illegal shock content has always shown up on the chans as well, since day one. “Channer” as a term applies equally to all people in that ecosystem, even those that are reviled by the rest. :)
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
Yeah those videos are certainly despised by channers, what websites did they run into those videos on in the first place?
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
Too little too late. I left Twitter a few days ago after I saw some users complaining about animal torture videos showing up in their feeds and search suggestions, and this was on the heels of the footage of the shooting in Texas making the
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
> say there's a site that allows anyone to pirate with minimal friction with one click. Still think piracy isn't lost sales? Say that this site is user-funded and actually buys a copy for every click. Still think piracy is lo
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
It is not the author’s job to proactively search out and adjust for crazy interpretations of mundane sentences. That rule would be funny. “NOAA reports record hurricane activity — BUT DON’T WORRY HAARP ISN’T INVOLVED” would be a hilarious b
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
The author of this article literally spent ~$500 on a phone.
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
Sometimes scientists cover the same stuff as other scientists in the interest of checking reproducibility or finding new data. Sometimes new stuff is discovered, sometimes not.
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
I’m still not buying that “most readers” are so familiar with that conspiracy theory that they would jump to “FBI agents have taken it upon themselves to publicly accuse the CIA in involvement in 9/11” There is so much room for discuss
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
I did not interpret the headline that way. I’m not sure why someone would jump straight to that aside from the “Bush did 9/11” memes that get circulated every now and then.
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
> It says nothing about the CIA covering up an involvement in 9/11 The title doesn’t say that the CIA was involved in 9/11.
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
I’m a big fan of AT-ATs but I like AT-STs as well.
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
> "Best for readers" is not particularly subjective here. This is correct. It is exactly the same amount of subjective as the word “best” normally holds. Since there has never been a reproducible measure of best-ness in any obj
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
An ATM machine that dispenses clout.
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
> It's about writing encyclopedia articles in a way that's best for their readers. This sentence contains a load-bearing “best”. The Wikipedia editor’s contention is that they have established the canonical “best”, and it is th
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
I am happy that you brought up accuracy _and_ precision! Somewhat humorously I think a good chunk of the disagreements here come from people treating those concepts interchangeably. Attempts to apply mathematical reasoning to language and
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
I can only speak for myself, but the actual phrase “comprised of” is the least interesting thing to discuss when it comes to this topic. I am fascinated by a single person taking up the cause of “correcting” the language of others based o
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
That’s great example! That post is an unserious riff as a response to another post that meant to assert the correctness an individual’s personal definition of a term on what I found to be tenuous pedantic grounds.
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
Lol out loud!
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
Surely their oversight will lead to a decision about which usage to sanction. You can submit your thoughts here! https://www.apstylebook.com/ask_the_editors#submit_tab
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
I love these one-person crusades against present reality. Words mean whatever a critical mass of people want them to mean. For example, the usage of the present tense here: "Composed of" and "consists of" are better alt
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
> in LoZ, the requirements are the same for everyone, even if you are capable enough as a player to kill him before you collect all the gear, you can't. you have to do it all. those are rails. rails are bad. So every other Zelda gam
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
> The original Legend of Zelda plopped you on the map and gave you nothing. zero guidance. I consider this very good. You literally can’t get far off the beach until you hit a specific milestone. And then the next milestone and so on. Ze
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
> I don't believe that you are talking about the same game that everyone else is. I’m talking about the one where you wander pretty aimlessly through a big field picking up sticks and stuff and occasionally get ethered by those ston
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
If you think about it, every company is a competitor because they’re all competing for money
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
Such hyperbole. Saudi Aramco is superior in every financial metric. I don’t know anyone can say this with a straight face while Aramco exists. (Since we’re bringing up companies nobody else mentioned)
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
There’s probably a very high price ceiling for diehard Zelda fans! I was one myself until BotW, which in my opinion is the worst game with the Zelda name attached to it ever made. I hope by the time they get shake off the “endless grind for
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
I personally chuckled when I saw this on the front page within minutes of finding out that the new Zelda is $70.
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
It’s also not really serverless to begin with, because at the end of the day code is being executed on a physical device that many of us might call a “server”
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by cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
I personally use search engines on a daily basis. They link me to external websites that I can trust or distrust to varying degrees depending on my prior experience with them and the amount of further research I put in. If a person is in th

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