Well, I’m mildly surprised.

The suddenness kind of reminds me of when he bombed Assad.

Sooo does that mean my present government and civil order is doing just fine in the remaining pocket of survivors?

If so, in a lot of ways, that would be good for me. No shortage of housing or food, and lots of new opportunities. It’s not ethical to condemn pretty much everyone else, though, if I literally am deciding.

I have noticed an attitude like being a computer person is a defect, but they still want us to fix their shit, sometimes.

I miss r/okbuddyphd. It’s possible to study so much it starts interfering with your ability to interact with normal people, who made more reasonable, balanced life choices, and that’s what those memes spoke to.

The bit where she’s distracted by her skinny arm right after saying she can’t distract herself makes me pretty sure it’s parody. It’s very well done, though.

I have no earthly idea what you’re talking about (replied in the wrong place, maybe?), but that is some prime internet weirdness.

Oh the irony.

I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised. Making a whole post about a mod decision/lack of decision you disagree with is not polite behavior, even if OOP was a nut.

I mean, political apathy is pretty standard in any culture, and there’s no some doubt people - particularly women - enjoyed the wonders of progress and democracy, but there’s always been support for the Taliban as well. That’s how insurgencies work.

I wasn’t there, but it was mostly fought from within convoys and fortifications, and even when there’s contact you don’t usually tell the guys with guns if you think they’re crazy. Are you sure your sample of local opinion was representative?

I feel like saying that on Lemmy is kind of self defeating. We’re the people that were too nerdy and online for Reddit.

The old internet was just an intermediate stage between the standardised internet, and before the internet when you had to find a clear channel through the ionosphere. Congratulations, however old you are, you’ve lived long enough to be bitter that the world has changed.

Now if we’re talking about the specific way it’s developed with a new generation of robber barons controlling everything, obviously few here will disagree.

For a while there, I could tell the wingnuts apart from the convoy-style flag accessories, which sucked. You don’t really want your own flag being co-opted. The whole “elbows up” thing where we oppose the US has changed that a bit. I’ll have to watch out for black ones.

What if you wake up from the Matrix and it turns out the world actually descended into an ice age?

I mean, it’s a silly, kinda extreme scenario, but we’re talking about big picture stuff and you can’t ever convince me would cover it as well.

(it wasn’t until years later that I learned the full story behind that)

Okay, I can’t be the only one that’s kinda curious about your trainwreck neighbors. Obviously they fell down a conspiracy rabbit hole, but was there more?

I’m like 90% sure this is sarcastic, but you never know.

If it’s a really reliable source and sounds plausible, very little. Iran hit a hospital in Israel recently.

If it’s some random person and sounds plausible, probably many repetitions from unrelated people in unrelated contexts, with some time as “word is” after a couple or few mentions. Airport security is theater and misses actual weapons all the time. I guess I should add the caveat that if it’s something easily refuted like “TSA hires out of malls” it gets promoted to fact faster, because of Cunningham’s law.

If it sounds implausible, a lot. Like, it might be a thing I painstakingly confirm or deny over the course of years. Thermodynamics is always explained in a way that has massive gaping logical holes. It obviously empirically works, but a rigorous derivation without any sneaky tricks would probably imply a proof of P!=NP - and it took me years to work my way through enough papers and literature to confirm that.

If it’s a source or type of source with a history of making up the sort of thing they’re saying, infinite - it will be all noise regardless of how much data there is.

Laying it out like this, I clearly put a lot of emphasis on the motivation and past track record of sources. There’s so many things to see and measure, far too many, and there’s also lies and mistakes, so I guess one has to. That’s probably been true since the stone age, and probably drove some human evolution, although it’s intensified quite a lot in recent history.

Note that even facts are still subject to skepticism, discussion and revision. Absolute certainty it it’s own beast, and it’s not a universally agreed-on fact that it even exists.

Blyat.

Interesting how Wikipedia handles slashes in the title.

Good to know! Although I have to wonder if that’s true for programs more recently set up as well. That was >40 years ago.

Ah, so it dovetails with the whole “children get a name reasonably fast” thing. I was interpreting that as “ever, in a natural lifespan”. My bad, haha.

I suppose a counterexample to that might be cultures which do not use script in general. Then, obviously, there’s no Unicode characters for these non-existant glyphs.

True, but there’s little risk of a name being entered into a form without some kind of transcription.

So what though? “We’re the baddies” has the opposite of mass appeal, even in other cases where it’s true and makes sense. They can shout at clouds all they want, along with the flat Earthers.

They’re all part of a conspiracy community where they think every nation or group the West doesn’t like is good and, less plausibly, working together. They take issue with anything that goes against that narrative.

Honestly it seems goofy but harmless to me. But, many people take personal offence. And they did make Lemmy.