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Meron35

@ Meron35 @lemmy.world

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  • Reader maturity

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  • This was the book I consistently hated at every age.

    I could see that he was a traumatised, lonely child. At the same time, he continuously engages in self destructive behaviour while having a superiority complex.

    I guess for the time this sort of story may have been groundbreaking, but the fact that Holden never faces any sort of reckoning makes it boring and infuriating. It needed something legendary, like the "it's you" moment from Bojack Horseman.

  • Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

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  • Just look at the historical examples of hyperinflation, e.g. Germany, Argentina, Venezuela. Your debts are technically wiped/worthless, but everything else goes to shit, and it takes at least a decade to recover.

  • YSK you can turn off Google's personalised advertising. This prevents them from using things like your browsing history, search history, or personal data to serve you customised advertisements.

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  • SmartTube

  • Is the US uranium market about to go nuclear in 2026?

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  • If every billionaire is starting their own cryptobank, what else incentivizes people to use one bank's currency over another? It's got to (hopefully) be something other than the reputation and trustworthiness of the men that own the bank.

    This is exactly how banking works, trust and vibes.

    The US Dollar is backed by the trust and assurance of the US government. Insert "our words are backed by nuclear weapons!" civ meme.

    There's a very loud and vocal minority that advocates for currencies backed by natural resources. This is generally considered a terrible idea, because it means your currency is heavily tied to commodity price fluctuations, resulting in much more volatility. E.g. during recessions, governments should spend more to lift the economy, but cannot do so they pursue a Gold Standard.

  • Trump tariffs: US president announces plan to hit UK, Denmark and other European countries with tariffs over Greenland

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  • This is legitimately what the conservatives believe, that the EU is "free riding" on bailouts by the US.

  • More than half of US families are one paycheck away from homelessness.

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  • It's better to think of working, middle, and upper class in terms of how much of their income derives from labour vs capital.

    Working class = majority of income from working.

    Upper class = majority of income from owning capital, i.e. can afford not to work at all.

    Middle = somewhat evenly split.

    Traditionally working class was associated with "lower" jobs such as labourers, and those working cushy office jobs usually earnt a high enough income to accumulate enough capital to become middle or upper class.

    This is more aligned with the British definition, where their "middle class" is more equivalent to the US "upper middle class." Make no mistake though, with many jobs not paying enough to accumulate capital, professionals such as teachers, accountants, and nurses would firmly be considered working class, because they you know, need to work.

  • Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply

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  • The original subreddit simulator ran on simple Markov chains.

    Subreddit simulator GPT2 used GPT2, and was already so spookily accurate that IIRC its creators specifically said they wouldn't create one based on GPT3 out of fear that people wouldn't be able to tell the difference between real and not generated content

  • Drag

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  • Shannel should be the guest judge

  • Very confusing

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  • Even the cheapest shower curtains have extra sewn in threads at the bottom which weigh them down and prevent clinging.

    Mould isn't an issue if you're airing out the bathroom properly, and washing the curtains every week or so.

    Glass is also prone to mould as well, but you can't just throw out it. The tracks they require are particularly difficult to keep clean and give me the heeby jeebies.

    Washing curtains is infinitely easier than maintaining and cleaning the glass tracks.

  • Very confusing

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  • That's even more confusing, why not forego the shower glass entirely and just have a shower curtain instead?

    Yes I know it's likely retrofitted, but I won't pass a chance to say that shower curtains are superior. Shower glass looks glossy in brochures, but everyone IRL has a sad squeegee hanging from it.

  • Google's Youtube now has ads for tobacco products even though it is against the terms of google's service

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  • Android: Revanced, Morphe, Newpipe

    iOS: AdGuard

    Android TV: SmartTube

    WebOS: Youtube-webOS (unfortunately requires registering a developer account)

  • The singular they is actually such a natural part of the English language, the people complaining about it almost certainly use it without noticing

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  • Some academic fields a decade or two ago went through a phase where they intentionally used "she" for all pronouns. The idea was because academia was so male dominated, even a neutral pronoun would still make people inagine a male lab worker, statistician, etc when reading. Intentionally using "she" was thought to force people to imagine a woman and normalise that image.

  • Personal Details of Thousands of Border Patrol and ICE Goons Allegedly Leaked in Huge Data Breach

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  • The recruitment websites of right wing militant groups have such poor security that leaks happen all the time. Perhaps unsurprisingly, 2/3 of the Oath Keepers are former military and/or law enforcement officers. The leak obtained by DDOSecrets included membership ID, membership type, name, physical and email address, and join date.

    Inside The Pro-Trump Militant Group The Oath Keepers - The Atlantic - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/right-wing-militias-civil-war/616473/

    The database leak included such granular detail that economists have been able to study their firm-like behaviours, including

    • running discount codes for memberships
    • promises of pre-order welcome packages that are never fulfilled
    • "Tiers" of membership types

    Selling Violent Extremism - https://www.ucigcc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/2024_wp10_klinenberg_v2-FINAL.pdf

  • If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop?

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  • Unfortunately this is an increasingly unviable strategy, because even "good" creators have started using clickbaity titles and thumbnails, even if their content has remained the same. Some have even retroactively changed the titles/thumbnails of their older videos to this style.

    Clickbait is engineered by behavioural scientists to be as addictive as possible, and has been proven to trigger similar neural pathways to other addictions, such as drug or gambling.

    Basically every creator with a shred of self awareness has admitted that they hate creating clickbait thumbnails, titles, and phrases like smash that like button and subscribe; they end up doing it anyway because A/B testing with randomised thumbnails and titles clearly show that they work.

    The live A/B testing in particular obscures whether a creator employs clickbait or not - you may be under the impression that a certain creator has remained principled, when in reality you were just allocated to the control group by chance.

    I feel that it's one of those situations where the game is rigged, and the only way to "win" is to change the rules yourself.

  • Man arrested for violating Japan’s anti-dueling law in downtown Tokyo

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  • If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop?

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  • Look into DeArrow (by same creators of SponsorBlock), which offers crowdsourced "de-clickbaited" video titles and thumbnails.

  • collar rule

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  • This is pup play erasure

  • Would work on me

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  • The stats on people's hinge profile are often more attractive than their actual prompts.

    Stats: 32, Bank Manager, Non Smoker, Some HCOL Area

    The prompts: Must love dogs

  • A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom

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  • Nope, this is exactly how surveillance capitalism works