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ConstipatedWatson

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  • Do you hold your breath during underwater scenes in movies?

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  • I too sometimes check the time to see if it is realistic, since the only character with a real chance of surviving underwater is Guybrush Threepwood. It kind of looks implausible in every action movie, though

  • I'm new to lemmy. Any tips or advice?

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  • Goddamn it, you're only telling us now??? 😁

  • What’s your favorite Star Trek TNG scene?

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  • Right now I'm not sure this is my favorite because it's late and I am not thinking clearly, but I've watched Data in command countless times, so it's certainly one of my favorites

    Part 1 in HD

    Part 2 in HD

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  • Who told you to tell the truth?

    You had no right!

  • What do you do?

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  • This is disturbingly accurate

  • 👣👣👣

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  • How does the old saying go?

    Ah, yes: "This is funny because it is true"

  • Mozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December | TechCrunch

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  • Even if they did so, isn't Firefox entirely open source? At least their work could be forked (though I agree if they don't have the resources, hardly anyone else could make it)

  • Excel

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  • An old meme, with a beautiful new spin.

    I'm lovin' it!

  • GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation | HKS Misinformation Review

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  • Crap, every day I see signs of how AI is polluting reality, when it could and should only be used to improve humanity.

    Also, I'm starting to believe AI is effectively going to destroy or resize several jobs. For example, a friend of mine told me it asked ChatGPT to write several lines of code and it did so, maybe 85% correctly. He went through the whole code and could find mistakes and correct them. Anyhow, long story short, it would have taken his a lot of time to write them himself.

  • Airbnb's struggles go beyond people spending less. It's losing some travelers to hotels.

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  • I want to slightly hijack your comment to say how innovative lots of these services were when they showed up and how they all ultimately managed to become a corporate machine crapping on both customers and intermediaries.

    I mean that, when they arrived, Uber, AirBnB, Glovo/Deliveroo/Just Eat/DoorDash all brought something new and potentially useful and parallel to existing structures (involving regular people on the ground which, theoretically, can make an extra buck), but then... They all went down the toilet (I suppose since they were all losing money at the beginning to establish themselves, they had to find some way to make money, but they all irreparably chose enshittifcation)

  • Ex-bank CEO gets 24 years after falling for crypto scam, causing bank collapse

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  • Fascinating read about a horrible tragedy by a complete idiot. I also learned such a way of scamming is called pig butchering.

    I'm not making fun of scammed people and feel for them, but I'm stunned how person X from NYC could believe that person Y from Hong Kong would want to marry them by never having met them. I mean, I can't understand why you'd trust someone who you've never met and only been chatting to.

    For example, if a real friend of yours had been a victim of email spoofing and the scammer started trading emails as your friend, then you'd be interacting with a "trusted" party and I can see it would be easier to fall for it, but these are random numbers from a country you've never visited (which no one can even certify even is the one they claim to be) and you start trusting them for no good reason.

    There are tons and tons of scams, some much more subtle and/or targeted than others, but this stuns me in how generic and random it is (and how successfully it works)

  • A.I. Artist

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  • The horror, the horror... I embrace it...

  • New🤓Paper

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  • Laughs in posting on the arXiv 😜

  • Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads

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  • We should all probably start donating to Firefox. Isn't Google their main source of income?

    There might come a time when they prefer to gut Firefox, forcing Mozilla to either reject uBlock Origin or die (or they could simply pull the plug on funding knowing they'll earn more when people go back to Chrome-based browsers)

  • Logan Paul Sued Me - Coffeezilla

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  • This is very distressing, but not unexpected... Trying to silence Coffeezilla is the only endgame here, despite claims of his poor reputation being smeared by a thorough investigation

  • Dengue Fever Threatens to Gate-Crash the 2024 Summer Olympics

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  • Crap, this is terrible news.

    I wonder if anyone around here has the medical or biological knowledge to say whether or not dengue can spread wildly in Europe or give reasons as to why it's not likely.

    I found this Nature article here but it's paywalled.

    The BBC has an accessible article here

  • Death Valley heat melts skin off a man's feet after he lost his flip-flops in the dunes

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  • While I fully agree with you, for a second there I wondered what could have been proper clothing and footwear for this type of trip. I normally wear Chaco sandals in the Summer and they seem to be sturdier and more appropriate footwear for this walk and then I thought they could melt too, so... Hiking boots? Those would possibly not melt, so maybe they would have been appropriate, but I'm not sure...

    A strange game, the only winning move is not to play... You don't go to Death Valley in the boiling hot summer (I myself have been in June of many years ago and it was a chillier day)

  • AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data

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  • You don't say, Sherlock

  • China loses maths Olympiad to US but genius student Shi Haojia remains on top of the game

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  • The last line of the article is what makes me the most curious. Why is it that with such a powerful pool of promising Mathematics students, research is not yet considered as good as that in the US (and I would also like to know it compared to Europe)?

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