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    Israel's end is near 😎

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  • Taking a stab in the dark here, but they probably don't like the genocide of Palestinians that the state of Israel is engaged in

  • What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?

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  • Yeah to expand on this, in professional settings you'll want a higher sampling frequency so you don't end up with eg. aliasing, but for consumer use ≥44–48kHz sampling rate is pretty much pointless

  • What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?

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  • Probably the latter. Seems like a cynical marketing ploy, really

  • What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?

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  • Surprisingly enough, some essential oils do have research-based actual uses, such as topical antibacterials, antifungals and antiparasitics.

    While there's quite a bit of woo woo around them, there's also a lot of interesting research into phytochemicals like essential oils. Same with a few other "plant-based" things like pine resin; there's even a clinically tested pine resin salve that helps with wound healing and is used for treating difficult wounds in some hospitals in Finland.

    The problem with essential oils is trying to filter out the snake oil claims from the actual research-based claims. Most vendors tend to have pretty, well, wild claims about what their products can do, so your best bet is scholar.google.com or www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov and the like

  • It’s the End of the Web as We Know It

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  • How do you propose these "open source journalists" make a living? Corporate grants or straight-up corporate jobs just like a huge chunk of Linux development, landing us right back at square one, if not even somewhat behind it. At least independent media exists nowadays, but if the assumption is that all news has to be freely available, like acastcandream said that'd just lead to journalism being very effectively locked out as a career path for anyone who's not independently wealthy or somehow able to make people actually donate or pay for a subscription despite the content being available for free – and that hasn't worked out too well for most publishers so far.

  • It’s the End of the Web as We Know It

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  • no one ever tactfully includes ads

    This is pretty patently hyperbole; I've run into many sites, including news, with non-intrusive ads.

    Whether it's class-based gatekeeping is another matter entirely. For-profit media employees have to eat too, and in the current economic system most can't just give people access to content for free without any sort of monetization mechanism and with a voluntary subscription, because that'll very often lead to income dropping off a cliff. Unfortunately people are very loath to pay for online services except for some more niche cases like the Fediverse where instances run on voluntary donations – although I've seen a couple of moderately popular instances struggling with upkeep being higher than what people are willing to donate (and it's not just services either; open source developers face similar issues.) In some countries we at least have public broadcasting companies, although eg. here in Finland the current extremist right-wing government is looking to reduce its funding by quite a bit and possibly even entirely dismantle it if they get their way.

    While I definitely agree that news should be available for free, railing against a for-profit publisher's paywall is, frankly, myopic; like it or not, in the current system even content producers have to make a living. None of us really has a choice in whether we want to live in this system or not

  • It’s the End of the Web as We Know It

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  • Well, whatever the solution to this problem is, I'm fairly sure "put a blockchain on it" isn't going to be it. Distributed ledgers do potentially have some uses, but using them to carry "proof of humanity" information doesn't make much sense

  • It’s the End of the Web as We Know It

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  • Well, for many publishers the choice is either ads or paywalls. The fact that people feel entitled to get everything for free is a part of why things are going to shit, because ads bring with them a whole slew of perverse incentives (eg. optimizing for ad views instead of content quality)

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    Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it

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  • Oh yeah it absolutely is bullshit, I'm not saying that. Or, well, it is true they're likely collecting tons of data but it's not like US companies don't do it too and for reasons that are probably just as bad. This is why I tend to think that if you're going to ban TikTok for collecting data, you can't ignore Meta, Amazon, Alphabet, Apple et al

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    Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it

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  • Well, they're totally different platforms . The rationale behind the TikTok ban (and I'm not saying I'm in favor of it or opposed to it) is that they can do spooky spooky things with your personal data and your attention – your opinions can be nudged once there's enough data on you and your eyeballs are on the app half the day. And just to repeat, I'm not saying I agree with the ban (well, not with banning just TikTok anyhow…)

    Temu and AliExpress have their own problems (like the absolutely mind boggling waste of finite resources) but nobody's worried Temu is radicalizing boys or collecting tons of your personal data. And yes even Temu does collect data just like everyone else nowadays, but it's a shopping site; compared to a social network there's not all that much you can get out of your users or too many ways to really influence them outside of making them spend more money

  • The cycling revolution in Paris continues: Bicycle use now exceeds car use

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  • Are we assuming that everyone is always going to be biking with no other options? I don’t think anyone is even advocating for that.

    BUT WHAT IF YOUR LEGS ARE BROKEN? WHAT IF THERE'S A NUCLEAR WAR???

    The people who seem to think that biking is an untenable option because you might have to very occasionally use other modes of transport make me wonder if that mindset comes from the fact that people feel that it's normal to only use one mode of transport pretty much ever, because that's how many people are with cars.

  • Tough break, kid...

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  • Joe Biden just did the rarest thing in US politics: he stood up to the oil industry; The Biden administration suspended new permits for natural gas terminals. Can we see more of this kind of backbone?

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  • The idea that all politicians are corrupt and conniving bastards is mainly a right-wing fiction. They assume everybody acts exactly like they themselves do

  • Sunak to drop heat pump targets in fresh retreat from Net Zero

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  • Wonder if using first-past-the-post has something to do with that. Seems like a pretty terrible system

  • What I want to become Vs What I do

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  • Well sure that's fundamentally true, but really doesn't give any sort of accurate picture of how estimates are done any more than "humans are just collections of cells" does, and anybody who does estimates without using some sort of data as the basis and is purely guessing is doing it wrong as fuck.

    It's not like we have no idea how long certain tasks have taken in the past, or what affects how long something will take.

  • EU threatens to hit Hungary's economy if Orban vetoes Ukraine aid

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  • I figure you're right, it really doesn't seem all that likely but it was just a thought that popped into my head.

    But yeah, it's interesting to see what this current "turbulence" will lead to. Requiring consensus only has a chance to work if everyone is acting in good faith, so when a member state is well on its way to becoming essentially a dictatorship with aims that are directly at odds with the EU's goals, there's simply no way consensus will work.

    It's interesting that the EU really doesn't have too many good mechanisms to do anything about bad-faith actors in the first place. Eg. using Hungary's funding as a lever has been tried, but because of the consensus requirement, Orbán can essentially hold decisions hostage until he gets what he wants.

    Too many systems have been built with the implicit assumption that all participating actors are acting in good faith, and a single bad-faith actor can actually cause remarkable amounts of trouble because there's no mechanisms for stopping them

  • EU threatens to hit Hungary's economy if Orban vetoes Ukraine aid

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  • I wonder if he's being treated with kid gloves because he gives an excuse for not aiding Ukraine. "We wanted to, but it's that damn Orbán"

  • An unlikely challenger to Putin brings a rare show of defiance, creating a dilemma for the Kremlin

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  • He'll be dealt with before he becomes an actual threat

  • Third of UK teenagers believe climate change exaggerated, report shows

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  • the people earning a lot of money (suggesting responsibility) are wimpy losers who cannot solve this problem.

    That's not the problem, but I really wish it was. The problem is that the people who are actually in charge are psychopaths who don't give a shit about doing anything to the problem, and are more motivated to actually make things worse

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Why is the Cat Screaming?

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    Make sure to use your freebie

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    This meme is definitely not an allegory for anything

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Yes Alfredo

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    That's an oddly specific phobia

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    Frank!

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    God, I hate Mondays

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    So, turns out that nuclear-powered pacemakers were a thing

    www.ans.org /news/article-3591/the-case-of-the-pupowered-pacemaker/
  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Slightly skanky

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    ah, yes

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Plant is you

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    How do you plan on keeping the queen occupied?

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    I said what I said

  • Memes @sopuli.xyz
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    Raiders of the Lost Manul

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Guess what? 🎮

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    Spaghetti appointment

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    You Are Not a Parrot - And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this

    nymag.com /intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html