I strongly recommend Freakonomics episode 495 “Why Are There So Many Bad Bosses?” which discusses this exact issue. Great listen as well!

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-are-there-so-many-bad-bosses/

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1053/

They don’t say they won’t give change. They say that you will get as much grilled cheese as much money you give not as much you ask for.

Okay, so I get the reason why NOWADAYS IRS can’t tell you how much taxes you owe is lobbying. But how did it work BEFORE computers? Did you file your forms and IRS agents checked them one by one, and it was just most efficient to check taxes instead of calculating them? How did we get to the situation where the IRS checks the taxes instead of calculating them? I’m genuinely curious, because that’s a recurring theme worldwide.

It’s not any court. It’s a Supreme Administrative Court - highest court instance in Poland dealing with crimes of administration

I would say that if someone asks a difficult question it’s often difficult because it’s very general, so you don’t have any specific point to answer that you know will satisfy the person asking.

On the other hand, if someone is writing misinformation then they provide specific statements which still may be difficult to correct but you have those anchor points you can refer to.

So I guess the thing here is that if someone, after asking a question, writes a BS answer they actually refine their question and narrow its scope, thus making it easier to answer.

I usually see broad questions about rather simple things unanswered, but very specific yet difficult questions answered

As long as they provide appropriate sources then it doesn’t really matter who they are

gun companies in America want to be as rich as they can be

That’s the cause of most problems in this world

Absolutely, and as it was the very first time I installed Linux, it basically meant reinstall

sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia*

Don’t know from memory if that’s correct command, but you get the point

I like Lemmy for exactly this - whenever someone incorrect makes a statement they’re factchecked.

Thank you kind person for finding and sharing that source.

Did then gas prices increase across the whole of Europe? (I’m don’t closely follow this market). I know it’s a UK newspaper, but the article seems to be very focused on UK and I didn’t see this issue mentioned anywhere else.

Can someone please explain what is the relation between Finland-Estonia pipeline and UK gas prices?

This can be solved quite easily by introducing head-up-displays in cars showing the speed in front of the driver. HUDs were introduced years ago in some airliners allowing the pilots to maintain situational awareness while having quick access to the critical information about the aircraft. And introducing safety standards from commercial aviation is almost always a good step.

And they probably did that because they have no other viable way of living, because they’re exploited by the rich. There’s no excuse for what they did, but there’s never only one person to blame for a disaster of such scale.

In my field where Google “throws” their huge DL models at problems as well, the papers they publish tend to have very limited explanation of how and why the model works and they don’t really provide a comprehensive validation of the model. So I find it difficult to trust their findings here, not only by looking at LLMs but also their “scientific” models.

While this is of course true, to me part of saying him no is not giving him media attention. If his stunts didn’t have the publicity they do, he might not actually do them. If people stopped caring about whatever shit he writes on Twitter then he wouldn’t have a power to destroy Starlink’s government deal or affect stock values.

Stop making stupid people famous!

Does YouTube pay their content creators properly? No, they have to rely on external partnerships. Does YouTube help their creators solve issues with greedy companies making copyright claims on not their content? No, they close channels because of such claims and strip creators of income they deserve. Does YouTube keep their platform secure to protect its creators? No, hackers managed to get access to the biggest channels on the platform despite YouTube being aware of the issues for months. Does YouTube at least use their knowledge from spying its users to stop bots posting comments? No, bot comments are all over the place. And I could go like that for ages…

The fact is YouTube is a shitty platform and people use it because they have to not because they want to. Because they have a fucking monopoly! People are paying thousands of dollars directly to content creators through platforms like Patreon, because they like the content. But people are not willing to support financially the platform that openly don’t give a fuck about their users and creators (which are the only reason this platform exists) and care only about their shareholders. Because why would they pay to make the rich richer while content creators struggle to earn money for rent!

I’ve just installed Connect and so far I like it more than Jeroba. There’s also Sync coming SoonTM so that would probably be good