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  • Regardless of the size, I’m willing to let the moon take one for the team. If the asteroid is huge, there’s going to be lots of ejecta, some of which will hit earth. Still better than getting smacked in the face with a huge rock.

  • I asked GPT and Copilot some pride related questions, and they were both pretty supportive. GPT went into more detail, while Copilot used more rainbow emojis. Either way, I didn’t see any right-wing rhetoric.

  • Whereas fractions are entirely clear to every American. Like, which drill but is biggest: 7/64, 3/32 or 1/8?

  • That’s a common problem with these titles. If you want to make them short and snappy, you’ll either end up with something vague or straight up incorrect.

  • The one I have looks pretty much the same, but one of the edges is straight, one is concave and the last one is serrated. Maybe the concave edge is also designed to work only one way. If so, it makes sense to prevent the user from flipping it over.

  • I see an angry space kraken.

  • I read that with "sports" as a verb. Took me a while to realize that "Apple Sports" is the name of the app.

  • The Loops integration is fantastic. Just love it!

  • Oh yeah. It takes courage to be the last company to implement something. Like, always-on display, widgets, app library etc. Still waiting for that under-display fingerprint sensor. It seems like Apple prefers to wait 2-5 years before adding an industry standard feature.

  • Dragging it out is a reoccurring theme here.

  • It’s an opinion, not a dissertation.

    IMO raspberries are much better than strawberries. That’s a subjective opinion and I have absolutely zero evidence to support it. Feel free to disagree.

  • Before clicking, I already knew it was standupmaths. Seems like there are lots of like-minded people here.

  • Been there, done that, didn’t end well. Bumping into delusional people and trying to use facts, gradually made me realize some important things. Took me way too long too, so please take a shortcut in this regard.

    You may think it’s a debate, but is it really? Does the other person really play by the same rules? If you’re talking to a delusional conspiracy theorist, you can forget about facts. You’re dealing with an emotional matter, so you can safely skip the facts, and use emotions instead. Besides, they don’t use facts, or appreciate them.

    Long ago, I met some people who were using fancy physics terms, but were actually talking about quantum woo. At first, I tried to take them seriously, but eventually realized it’s a waste of time. I realized that these people are far beyond my reach, so I just stayed quiet and moved on.

    A few years later, I bumped into someone who claimed that all seedless fruit are GMOs. I tried to explain about selective breeding, and how ancient that technique is. At some point, I told him to check the relevant wikipedia article, to which he replied: “Wikipedia, it’s all lies.” I learned something very important that day. We don’t seem to have much common ground, so where do you even start with a person like that?

    Fast forward a few years, it’s COVID time, and the hight of conspiracy season. I started looking into this thing, and read a bunch of studies about conspiratorial thinking and the mostly subclinical mental conditions behind it. I learned, that these people don’t have any use for facts. Those will only make things worse. What they really need is therapy.

  • It’s true that I enjoy the company of likeminded people, who doesn’t. However, I also speak my mind at places where these thoughts are not necessarily understood or supported. I take risks that may materialize as a torrent of downvotes. Some of those are also 100% justified, because some of my comments can be really dumb. Occasionally, my comment ends up being 50/50 controversial, and sometimes I get downvoted to oblivion.

  • I guess that’s key detail here. I am subscribed to lots and lots of communities, some of which are nearly dead. I want to keep an eye on several small and special communities that focus on a very narrow niche. You’ll probably never see any of those communities in the All feed.

  • As you suggested, there’s no other way. I’ve spent enough time browsing all to figure out that I don’t care about 99% of what the hive mind appears to love with a burning passion.

    Very rarely I find something worth reading on all, and that’s why I visit that place about once a month. It’s not a completely useless place, but I find very little utility in it.

  • That’s a fine approach too. You’re essentially using a black list filter, while I’m using a white list.