TheTechnician27

Hey, if you remember, the last time you whined about this, I appended the most recent 2025 position to the bottom of the list – just to soothe your oh-so-good-faith concern that the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics might’ve decided between 2016 and now that “actually, modern medical research is bullshit and plant-based dieting is unhealthy”.

Adding to what you said, I’ll just drop this here.

The developers’ page on GOG.

A shame that GamingOnLinux only links to Steam when some of their games are available DRM-free on GOG – pretty goddamn relevant when the games are set to be delisted in like 10 days.

Microblogs are differentiated from blogs almost entirely by the short length of their posts (we’re normally talking hundreds of characters); that’s why they’re called “microblogs”. Wikipedia accurately summarizes and properly sources:

Microblogging is a form of blogging using short posts without titles known as microposts or status updates.

I could’ve also invoked titles, but the length difference is so vast that there’s no need.

Reddit categorically fails the micro part, but it even fails the blog part. The whole point of a blog is that you follow an individual account’s writings, and – except for a new, tacked-on, superfluous, barely used feature where you can follow users – Reddit has you follow subforums.

Basically, I’d already be confused about how someone could categorize Reddit as a blog, but to think it’s a microblog is to fundamentally not know what that is.

Edit: just to illustrate the absurdism, the average English word by usage is about 4.5 characters, implying about 8500 words. A single-spaced, 12-point page can fit about 3000 characters, and thus you’re looking at roughly a 13-page, 8500-word essay.

Trade tensions between the US and Europe had eased since the two sides struck a deal at Trump’s Turnberry golf course in Scotland in July.

God, even amid everything else, this sentence is so fucking rancid.

Reddit is a link aggregator and forum. There’s no hard line for how many characters is too many to be a microblog, but Reddit’s 40,000 for a post and 10,000 for a comment is plainly disqualifying.

Edit: Oh, but Reddit is also a meme. Case closed; I retract my objection. /s

• Not a meme
• Not a microblog

Do they mean that he was impersonating ICE by wearing their uniform or that he was impersonating them by violently breaking into a random home without a warrant?

Now on the other hand, these absurd c*** n*** slurs should be blurred and unheard.

No problem at all. Full disclosure: I’m a longtime member of and frequent contributor to Wikipedia. I have a bias in this. I’ll say, however, that because we’re not a monolith, internal criticism of the project is varied, rampant, and welcomed. It’s no surprise when everyone is a volunteer and the entire draw of editing is “this thing sucks; make it better”. Criticism is so prolific that for the project’s 25th anniversary, the English Wikipedia’s official newsletter, The Signpost, published a dire, 6500-word warning about our trajectory.

We’re constantly looking for criticism so we can improve, and it’s why, if you can believe it, we love seeing new faces and articles published like “I tried to edit Wikipedia for a week; here’s how it burned my house down”. What we don’t value is criticism made in bad faith; there’s nothing to talk about when one side of the discussion wants to just sit around and Gish gallop all day for transparent political ends.

For those out of the loop, this user’s entire purpose on Lemmy is to spread negative coverage of Wikipedia, one of the few remaining strongholds against far-right disinformation.

And yes, that does include signal-boosting criticism from literally anyone who’s against the project, including Israeli courts, US House Republicans…

Effectively, their job is to stir up FUD.

Ah, yeah, I knew what you meant. I just thought it was funny imagining the serious tone of Blade Runner’s replicants pasted onto Reddit bots astroturfing for Burger King.

Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a corporate troll manipulating public opinion.

This blog post was plausibly written by AI. Look at the fabricated source on the 2020 study and at the wording.

I don’t think we know what the actual figure is because this blog post ostensibly fabricates this alleged 2020 study.

Edit: But of course this post is taking off anyway because Lemmy users are soooo much more discerning than those dumbass Reddit users.

The study is likely fabricated by this blog post from what I can find.

This person writes an entire-ass blog post titled after this alleged 2020 Computers in Human Behavior study and can’t even be fucked to link it, name its authors, or even say what the title is. I cannot find this paper anywhere. I looked through all twelve 2020 issues of Computers in Human Behavior and could not find this study. I searched keywords. Nothing.

What an obnoxious fucking dipshit and their useless, almost-entirely-unsourced* piece of shit screed. Based on the wording and the fabricated sourcing, I wouldn’t be surprised if this ragebait blog post was generated with an LLM.

* One source to a March 2017 Pew Research article the blog post claims is from 2018.

“Wins $12 million” looks more to me like “loses $6 million”. If you steal $18,000 from me and a judge orders you to pay back $12,000, I didn’t win anything except a portion of the money I would’ve had anyway had it not been stolen.

In an interview with Reuters, AFT President Randi Weingarten said that the site had already been degraded by extremists and trolls since Elon Musk’s 2022 takeover, before which the platform was known as Twitter. But the recent proliferation of nonconsensual images of women and children in bikinis or underwear generated by X’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, had made the site unusable, she said.

And here’s your “you helped enable this; don’t expect a pat on the back” trophy.

ICE just needs some more supplements

Cranial suppositories?