TheTechnician27

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?

Seconding that Chick Tracts are comedy gold (Exhibit A). They’re so feverishly deranged that they become an unintentional parody of evangelical Christianity. Solidly “so bad it’s good”.

To be fair, that’s a very Southern Baptist way to look at it. If you’ve ever read a Chick Tract (I’m so sorry), you’ll know that many end with someone who lived mired in sin earnestly repenting and believing in God right before they die, and it’s shown to work. Some other branches of Christianity, notably Catholicism, relax the emphasis on belief and put more stock into your actions while you lived – although they also believe most but not all sins can be pardoned if you confess and perform penance.

However, I would suggest that believing in God because of Pascal’s wager is:

1. Obviously idiotic (this part we all know). There are an infinite amount of gods you could believe in that would have the belief requirement. Even if you assert that it’s a belief in “a” god, how are we supposed to know it wouldn’t be some god who values empirical reason and would look down on this belief? These infinitesimal odds you’re wasting your only known life on aren’t even strictly positive.

2. Something the God of the Bible probably wouldn’t appreciate? Within the shared fiction of Christianity, he knows exactly what’s in your heart, and I’m sure “I’m cooperating just so you give me the goods” doesn’t play well. Granted that’s kind of on God for being an abusive parent and threatening eternal damnation to anyone who doesn’t, but I’m still sure he doesn’t like people who game his abusive system for selfish ends.

“Unfortunately, this isn’t good news,” his ex-wife Shelly Miles told Adams’ fans on YouTube. “He’s not with us … anymore.”

What part of that isn’t good and fortunate? Is there more to this story that I missed? Did he fall over a balcony when he died and land on a decent human being?

“Opinion articles may be removed.” What do you think an editorial – “an article or any other written document […] that expresses the publication’s opinion about a particular topic or issue” – is exactly? The Le Monde article even says “OPINION ● IRAN” at the top in case you were confused somehow.

Rule 3, OP. Editorials aren’t allowed.

OP, for the love of fuck, when tensions are this high, please post anything other than an article from the Daily Mail.

Also, this is a repost from earlier.

Putting the original Associated Press article here since syndicated news agency articles tend to go down much sooner than their originals:

https://apnews.com/article/timothy-busfield-child-sex-abuse-charge-83c82a8c5dbfabd4880f3c8af02fb523

I mean they were probably equivalent anyway, so I think you were okay.

I didn’t think footballs were capable of either?

I’d be shocked if they could claim fifth-grade English on their résumé.

Some do, some don’t. Within the PCSX2 project, a lot of members like to call RetroAchievements “RCheevos” (in large part, admittedly, because “RA” could be confused for “RetroArch”). Personally I think it sounds kind of dumb and prefer to just say “achievement”.