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Not_mikey

@ Not_mikey @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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    If you know a rather simple fundamental flaw in a new trillion dollar technology that everyone missed, what would you do?

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  • The person was talking about how certain people annoy them, he may have implied it was you but if you don't think description matches say so and move on.

    But if we're talking about being a good digital neighbor, you should try and see how your implication is annoying or offensive. There are issues with credentialism but it is not just some arbitrary aristocracy, people put in a lot of work to get there credentials and take pride in them. If you start saying all these experts don't know what they're talking about and I found out something they couldn't is dismissive of all the work those experts put into learning about there field. Like don't you think doctors get annoyed by all the homeopaths or anti vaxers who dismiss all there work because theyve done there own research?

  • You should quit social media for good

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  • It seems a lot of your critiques are more of the media in general and not social media.

    if I got my news and my understanding of the world from Lemmy, it would be easy to believe a whole bunch of people in the United States have given up on civil society and committed themselvesto political violence.

    Yeah and if I got my news from Fox News or the New York post it would be easy to believe the cities are full of gangs of maurading immigrants. At least lemmy doesn't pretend to be a "fair and balanced" representative of the US. Everyone here knows lemmy is far left relative to the US just like they know everyone's not using or interested in Linux .

    As for the favoring of longer form more in depth content vs short form out of context content, that's just what people like and are drawn to regardless of the media type. More people will watch TV news with shorter segments and less content then a newspaper, and more people will watch late night with even shorter form and less context then TV news. And then there are people who don't watch or engage with the news at all because they have other things to do.

    If anything lemmy is better then a lot of the other social media because it doesn't disincentivize links. Most other platforms the algorithm is optimizing for watch time / keeping you on the platform, so links to long form news articles get down rated because if you click on that link and go to that site for 5 mins, that's 5 mins your not spending on the platform. For that sample you took half of the top posts were links to articles, see how long it would take you to find one article link scrolling through tik tok.

    Of course, the most passionate, angry, dramatic, and emotion-provoking memes get the most upvotes and go to the top of the algorithm.

    Again this is a problem with all media, if it bleeds it leads has been an adage for centuries.

    In general lemmy is showing people what they want to see, which media in general has always tried to do. Yes there are a lot of valid critiques of the behavior that this prerogative incentivizes, but that's different than the critiques of algorithmic social media that prioritizes engagement and staying on the platform, which brings in a whole new set of problematic incentives in addition to the standard problems of media.

  • You should quit social media for good

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  • Yeah, most of what the article complains about is algorithmic social media and how it boosts engagement of any kind, whether positive or negative. This leads to "extremist" takes gaining ground easier then moderate takes. Combined with algorithmic siloing, echo chambers etc. That we've heard a million times, make people more radical and disconnected from reality.

    The "algorithm" most people use on lemmy is just most up voted, so controversial takes rarely rise to the top. A lot of the stuff would be considered controversial outside of here, but within lemmy there's a "hard left" consensus where the moderates are probably democratic socialists.

  • There isn’t really another choice: Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS

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  • You can run your own signal server and federate it with others, you just can't on the standard app you get from the app store that just talks to the central signal server.

    It's all open source though so you'd just need to flip some conf flags and compile it yourself.

  • Was the fall of Rome this stupid?

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  • This, people love to think Rome fell because of moral degeneracy and corruption, but that was probably at its height under Commodus or Nero when the empire was very stable and secure. The later emperors were relatively modest and to an increasing degree impotent, so it mattered less if they were incompetent, though many of them were, and that didn't help.

    The reality is empires all eventually fall, they lose the military edge that won them the empire, either by degrading or the "barbarians" learning and catching up, and the forces that were kept in check by the military tear the empire apart.

  • 2022 vs. 2026 FIFA World Cup ticket prices

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  • Sucks to be Mexican. The world cups finally coming to your country after 40 years and the tickets are too expensive for the locals to afford.

  • 2022 vs. 2026 FIFA World Cup ticket prices

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  • Will probably be great in Mexico and Canada, they'll probably fill the stadiums there with the people who don't want to go to the US to see it.

  • 2022 vs. 2026 FIFA World Cup ticket prices

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  • I'm not sure, but it might be something about UUIDs

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  • I can see how this may be useful. My understanding is that this is go lang and the person created a wrapper type UUID and this function takes the go standard library uuid.UUID and returns the wrapped UUID.

    The wrapped UUID could be useful as you can then define methods for it like toInt() or something to make it implement some ID interface you have set up. It's a common pattern in go to create a thin wrapper around an imported type so you can implement all the methods required for some interface you defined. It does make naming those thin wrappers hard because what are you supposed to name the struct that just contains a uuid?

  • YSK Lemvotes.org will show you votes on any post, comment, or by user, for anything on the fediverse

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  • YSK Lemvotes.org will show you votes on any post, comment, or by user, for anything on the fediverse

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  • I know this is how the fediverse works, and how it has to work. But maybe we shouldn't be advertising this tool right now when the right is trying to dox people and get them fired/deported for liking a kirk meme.

  • These animals are poisoning the blood of our discourse

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  • case in point, in reference to some people who made edgy memes on bluesky

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
    Not_mikey @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    These animals are poisoning the blood of our discourse

  • Never Forget

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  • Was anybody actually paying $500 though? It's impossible to know but I think a majority of the sales were back to the seller to pump up the price, launder money, dodge taxes etc. There probably weren't that many people actually paying 20k for these links.

    A lot of very dark money got moved around though, which is really the only use case for crypto in general.

  • If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties?

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  • Yes, there are plenty of other investment opportunities, the fact that you chose the one that profits off of housing insecurity shows you don't care enough about it to forgo a little bit of extra money.

    Like other people have mentioned you would also have to be advocating against your own interest. Yes you can do that but your passion will at least be dulled by your innate desire for profit. You'd have more passion and will for the cause if you didn't own investment properties, even more if you are renting and are a victim of housing commodification.

    Another point is that you'd be adding to the demand of houses and thus raising the price. You could argue it's a drop in the ocean, but that sort of attitude leads to a million drops in the ocean and rising sea levels. You would also probably be buying it on a mortgage that's larger then the house was previously on so the floor for rent , the break even point, would be higher.

    Eg. If you bought the property for $400,000 on a mortgage for say $2,000 a month from someone who only had a $200,000 mortgage on it for $1,000 a month you've now upped the rent floor $1,000.

  • If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties?

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  • You could make a lot of these same arguments for owning slaves. If you don't buy them then someone else will, and they may be a worse master then you. Better that you buy them and treat them right, provide them good food and housing, while at the same time advocating for the abolition of slavery.

    In both secenarios you may say you want what's best for them, but that desire is in direct conflict with your desire for profit so either you become a bad investor or a bad slave master / landlord. Why bring yourself into that conflict instead of investing in something without those moral implications?

  • YSK that if US housing and population projections hold, the Electoral College map will change after the 2030 census.

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  • Mormons and skiers, also a decent amount getting born there too. There fertility rate may not be positive but it's a lot better then the other states so they're relatively gaining population.

  • What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?

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  • Lately it's been the waymos (driverless cars) in San Francisco, assume it's the same in the other couple cities there going. They've been going a couple years now so they've been normalized for locals but every so often I see people taking pictures of them or waving there hands in front of them trying to fuck with them.

  • How would you propose we actually combat climate change?

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  • How would you propose we actually combat climate change?

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  • That 80% may care, especially since climate change will hit them the hardest, but there's a lot less they can do to lower emmisions. Ask them to:

    • stop flying
    • stop driving
    • stop buying cheap plastic clothes, toys etc.
    • eat less meat
    • don't use as much AC

    They'll just reply OK, already doing all that...

    The richest 10% globally (~$50,000) account for half of carbon emmisions while the poorest half only account for 10%. The problem isn't that the top 20% are the only ones who care, the problem is there lifestyle is disproportionately causing this.

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    Not_mikey @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    What percent of drinking fountains that you encounter work?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    Not_mikey @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    What made you join a losing cause?

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
    Not_mikey @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Not like anyone wants to shoot up in a bathroom

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    Not_mikey @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Anyone notice any tarriflation yet?

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
    Not_mikey @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Episode 1 of the new season of righteous gemstones is lost cause propaganda