Phanatik

South Africa used to be an apartheid state so if they’re callling you out…

Have you any idea how many billions Facebook has been fined for this shit.

What I’ve learned is that people don’t like to be told what to do even if it is for the benefit of those around them. I’ve seen it mostly in the US where the mask mandate was seen as an attack on personal freedoms and not a response to a public health crisis. As usual, people thinking they are the main characters. Just put the mask on and stfu, no one cares.

I’m interested to see a Fediverse implementation of a YouTube alternative. Being able to link a Microblog on Kbin to a Mastodon post and a Community post on a YT alt would be HUGE.

I love that Deadpool has replaced Ryan Reynolds because that’s basically who he is in public, all to manage his crippling anxiety.

At this point, Ubisoft and Bethesda games can be thrown in too.

Arch with Wayland and Pipewire. Running SwayWM and have never been happier with my setup.

Genuinely one of the best pieces of software that these heroes are giving away.

Are you really saying that Israel really needed Switzerland’s help when they’ve been running an open air prison for decades? They’ve never needed help against Hamas.

Withdraw. Your. Support. From this regime if you care so much.

It is simply more acceptable to publicly support Ukraine. I have nothing against them protecting themselves but Ukraine and Israel are two different situations.

If only I still had a Facebook account that required me to use this awful website.

Two guys is technically some people. Interesting choice to post an article from Times of Israel.

Clear explanation! I assume the overclocking is the reason why my monitor goes to 165Hz.

We can’t discuss the post if we can’t tell what it’s even about. There’s so much shit there that it’s not clear what point it’s even trying to make.

Sunak doing the tried and true “there were good and bad people on both sides”. Yeah, I’m sure the 120 arrested is in any way comparable to the 300,000 that were there. The PM and (edit: former) Home Secretary are absolute cretins.

I don’t remember if it was said in the doc itself or it was a video discussing the doc (I think Hbomberguy), that said “they (flat earthers) are attempting a form of science”.

To me, what that says is, if they were intellectually honest with genuine curiosity, then they would’ve changed their views in the face of contradictory evidence. Time and time again, they showed that they weren’t willing to do that even after seeing the results of their own experiments.

As you said, they’ve staked too much on this notion that the Earth is flat and can’t afford to give up the grift now.

The problem with flat earthers is that they don’t listen to reason.

You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.

Everything you’ve said I agree with wholeheartedly. This kind of cornercutting isn’t good for us as a species. When you eliminate the struggle involved in developing skills, it cheapens whatever you’ve produced. Just soulless garbage and it’ll proliferate the most in art spaces.

The first thing that happened was that Microsoft implemented ChatGPT into Windows as part of their Copilot feature. It can now use your activity on your pc as data points and the next step is sure as shit going to be an integration with Bing Ads. I know this because Microsoft presented this to our company.

I distrusted it then and I want it to burn now.

There’s a difference between using ChatGPT to help you write a paper and having ChatGPT write the paper for you. One invokes plagiarism which schools/universities are strongly against.

The problem is being able to differentiate between a paper that’s been written by a human (which may or may not be written with ChatGPT’s assistance) and a paper entirely written by ChatGPT and presented as a student’s own work.

I want to strongly stress that in the latter situation, it is plagiarism. The argument doesn’t even involve the plagiarism that ChatGPT does. The definition of plagiarism is simple, ChatGPT wrote a paper, you the student did not and you are presenting ChatGPT’s paper as your own, ergo plagiarism.