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nitpicking

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So I've been a science teacher, museum guide, freelance writer, software dev, software product manager, network admin, and for a long time now a business trainer. And I run SFF conventions.
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mitchw, to random
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nitpicking,
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@mitchw I'm tempted to PhotoShop that to read "Never Loose Hoop", because that typo drives me crazy.

Nincowpoop, to DuckDuckGo
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I know that I am not the first to bring this up, but #DuckDuckGo is getting more useless by the day. I really try hard to not support fascist billionaires where I can, but the % of times I get useless responses from DDG and have to use Google is now close to 80%.

#search #duckduckgo

nitpicking,
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@Nincowpoop

This is not my experience, but in any case: there are other alternatives out there.

I hadn't heard that Brin and Page are Fascists. That's Elon. I don't like Google's policies and I use Google products as little as possible, but I don't know that Fascist is the right word.

guyjantic, to DuckDuckGo
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Feature suggestion for or other engines: let me downvote results.

There is just so fucking much utter garbage, and the people pushing it have (apparently) effective SEO. Let me click a button saying "never allow this domain in my search results ever again."

nitpicking, (edited )
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@guyjantic
Hmmm ... should we approach the Wikimedia Foundation with a proposal for "WikiSearch"? That is in no way a joke, and I am a regular donor to Wikimedia and would support the project. You could build it using Stract code.

eric_ma, to DuckDuckGo
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Here is one thing that it is happening lately when I search for something in : Apart from the results linked to my query I am also getting some results(links) from the place where I live. How is this possible? This was not happening before with #

nitpicking,
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@MoiraEve @eric_ma

There is a difference between "knowing" and "tracking" your location. They obviously have to "know" our search terms, but they promise they don't track them, or associate them with us personally.

alb_004, to DuckDuckGo
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Do anybody know this already?

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/try-duckduckgos-new-ai-feature-duckassist-now-for-free/

nitpicking,
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@alb_004 Yep. You can turn it off on the settings.

typingmonkey, to random
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Last night’s sunset was spectacular.

nitpicking,
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@typingmonkey That Whole Foods looks remarkably like a New Jersey Turnpike rest stop.

gorskon, to random
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Antivax transphobe Toby Rogers got the bright idea that many of the central tenets of progressivism are actually autistic traits. So vaccines cause progressivism...and Trumpism, too? WTF?

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/04/27/vaccines-cause-autism-which-leads-to-progressivism-andtrumpism/

nitpicking,
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@gorskon In other news, antivax transphobes are not big on making any sense.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Yesterday I had one person say I'm too so pro-tech pro-capitalist and one person say I was trying to force a leftist ideology, and both were responding to A City on Mars. All I can say is I wish people would stop trying to find the hidden motive and just read the words as plainly written!

nitpicking,
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@ZachWeinersmith You answered your own question, sir. People want a "simplified" answer, precisely because the real one is so complicated and difficult.

blondoid, to random
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It’s my Birthday!!!! I made it to 41!! Woo!!

nitpicking,
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@blondoid Happy Birthday, child. (Born in 1961.)

arstechnica, to random
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Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal—and why it won’t go back

The past year has seen record renewable power production nationwide.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/why-germany-ditched-nuclear-before-coal-and-why-it-wont-go-back/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

nitpicking,
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@arstechnica "Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal—and why it won’t go back"

The entire article can be summarized as, "Because they don't care about the environment, and will happily destroy it for political reasons--while calling themselves 'green'."

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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So I'm closing in on Bea Wolf 2, first draft, and I've just crafted what I believe is the first four line stanza of alliterative verse that literally alliterates on every word:

nitpicking,
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@ZachWeinersmith Are you familiar with this actual, published scientific paper?

https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf

nitpicking, to random
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Chiropractors, giraffes, and reality: the Washington Post pretends that chiropractic is anything but a superstition-based placebo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2024/04/25/giraffe-chiropractor-tiktok-joren-whitley/

Note: there is a minority movement in chiropractic that rejects the original, magic-energy-flows-through-the-spine version of that practice.

The article contains amazingly false balance, as you'd expect from non-science journalists covering science. They can't tell the experts from the quacks.

typingmonkey, to random
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How you know my kid goes to Nerd School: there’s a big trophy case in the entryway that’s crammed with trophies but they’re all science olympiad, debate, band and math competitions.

nitpicking,
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@typingmonkey That says your kid is a nerd, not so much about the school itself. IMO.

charliejane, to random
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What Women Want is an utterly bizarre film, and it's hard to believe it became a smash hit just a quarter century ago. Mel Gibson gains the power to hear all women's thoughts, and uses it to... commit plagiarism and become a better corporate shark.

My newsletter: https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/is-what-women-want-mel-gibsons-creepiest-movie/

nitpicking,
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@charliejane In my head, "What Women Want" has exactly the same appeal as our former President's show "The Apprentice": performative cruelty. I despise both, but not everyone has empathy.

elithebearded, to random
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Tried to use "identify" from imagemagick to find out some details about a .mkv video file. It failed but left a 18G file in /tmp filling the partition and causing strange errors in other programs until I figured out what happened.

Nice job there.

nitpicking,
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@elithebearded Imagemagick works on video files now?

spamless, to random
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No, Intermittent Fasting Won't Kill You

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/1000544?ecd=mkm_ret_240407_mscpmrk-OUS_2AngDiscussions_etid6416460&uac=105476CV&impID=6416460#vp_2

nitpicking,
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@spamless Nor does intermittent fasting appear to help significantly, though.

nitpicking,
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@spamless Dallman, remember how fat I was when I visited you in Germany? I lost 120 pounds by just ... eating less. My anecdote is also not very much evidence of anything.

nitpicking,
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@spamless Consider the quality of the studies.

dansup, to Pixelfed
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Pixelfed Groups will support private or local-only groups!

In addition, we will offer many features and settings to make managing your group, moderators and users more effective and easier!

Pixelfed Groups settings

nitpicking,
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@dansup I know I repeat myself, but PLEASE add filtering by account. I would love to be able to mute accounts--not even because I hate them or anything, just because they post stuff I have no interest in, that clogs my feed (e. g. hundreds of images of architecture--not my thing).

thibaultamartin, to random
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Completely mind boggling to me that we threw away 5 billion phones in 2022.

Some of those could have been repurposed: smartphones are hardly innovating any more. The most eco-friendly phone is the one you already have.

We need to publicly support communities like @postmarketOS who work on making these phones repurposable, and @gnome that work on making a polished mobile experience that serves people, not creepy corporations.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63245150

nitpicking,
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@DrorBedrack @thibaultamartin @postmarketOS @gnome It's silly. The BBC article appears to expect that every phone not currently being used (in many cases for years) will suddenly be thrown away this year. Why?

mitchw, to random
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nitpicking,
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@mitchw I don't know if I would choose to enter the formless void between universes in order to compute.

shekinahcancook, (edited ) to kentucky
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It is now illegal in Kentucky to expose the illegal treatment or processing of animals.

When exposing crime is punished, you are governed by criminals.

To clear up some confusion, the red legislature passed this Ag-Gag law, the governor vetoed it, then the legislature overturned the veto, with a few dissenting votes - but not enough to stop the overturn. So the Ag-Gag law is now adopted.

nitpicking,
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@shekinahcancook Facially unconstitutional, but it would be super expensive to litigate.

spamless, to random
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Who remembers the ignominy of Spiro ?

Speaking of criminal incumbents in high federal offices, I mean.

nitpicking,
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@spamless I raise my hand. I do remember Spiro.

charliejane, to random
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For years, I watched every terrible comedy where a boy becomes a girl, or vice versa. Now, I give quick "reviews" of all of them.

I watched these mostly godawful "fish out of gender" movies so you don't have to!

https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/here-are-my-reviews-of-x-terrible-gender-swapping/

nitpicking,
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@charliejane Perhaps you've already done this, and I missed it, but have you done similar things for old (and many terrible) SFF stories with gender transformation, e. g. Heinlein's I Will Fear No Evil? I am not a movie person, but I would be curious about your reaction to, say, the Jack Chalker books (there are many) in which men are turned into sexy women.

gutenberg_org, (edited ) to science
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British scientist Rosalind Franklin died in 1958.

Her most famous contribution to science came from her X-ray diffraction images of DNA, particularly Photo 51, which provided crucial evidence for the double helix structure of DNA. Her photo was shared without her knowledge with J. Watson & F. Crick, who used it as a basis for their model of DNA's structure. Their work overshadowed her contribution, & she was not fully recognized for her role until after her death.

nitpicking,
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@gutenberg_org Check your timeline. Franklin died in 1958, not 1956.

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