drislands @ drislands @lemmy.world

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Pal, bud, friendo, sport, tiger, chief, boss.

You're right, but there are a lot of people (that I've seen, at least) who are willing to abstain from voting over Biden's handling of this.

I sincerely appreciate your effort to relate your perspective. I think I did originally interpret the comment how you described, but I over thought it and wondered if there was a connection I was unaware of.

I don't disagree with your general point. But finding a new source of Helium, regardless of the rate of use, is a good thing.

That aside -- are you saying Helium is related to climate change? Curious to know how, if so.

Ah yes, we're wasting helium, so finding more isn't a good thing. Of course. 🙄

(Note: There are some dumb stories floating out there about Reddit CEO Steve Huffman getting paid $193 million last year. You can ignore those in general since they are really about stock and options awards with a long vesting period. And you can specifically ignore them for this story since those costs aren't included in the R&D totals.)

From the article. Reddit wants you to believe it had $193m to throw at the CEO, to imply they are great at making money. The more people spread this lie the more reddit wins.

Yeah, unfortunately. I think the reason is the relative lack of moderators and the lack of a paid admin team.

Extra hilarious because, IIRC, the previous comic was about having a patron that just wanted to bone you, except you're gay so it's a chore.

I'm enjoying it somewhat. It's much more populated by people with similar interests to mine, e.g. Linux and D&D, but it's also more populated by aggressive and ignorant commenters who are all too eager to be contrary and smug.

I brought it up purely as speculation, as one possible explanation for why the process was not properly followed. I don't have any experience with publishing companies, whether for science journals or otherwise.

A few things came together for me here.

The paper had two reviewers, one in India and one based in the U.S.

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"...a reviewer of the paper had raised concerns about the AI-generated images that were ignored."

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...the U.S.-based reviewer who said that they evaluated the study based solely on its scientific merits and that it was up to Frontiers whether or not to publish the AI-generated images...

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"The authors failed to respond to these requests. We are investigating how our processes failed to act on the lack of author compliance... "

They don't outright say it in the article, but it looks like the reviewer based in India was the one who actually raised concerns about the garbage images. The authors were supposed to respond, but didn't, and the journal published anyway.

I will readily admit that this is just my own conclusion here, but -- I wonder if there was an element of racism that went into ignoring the reviewer's concerns?

Hilarious as all the other answers are, my guess is that this species has more complex sex chromosomes than the XX/XY variations we're familiar with -- perhaps there are more than 2 slots for the chromosomes to go, and then there are more than 2 options per slot, resulting in the humongous number of options stated in the post.

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I've made an effort to engage with you, to tell you why a person would disagree with your opinion without belittling you. I even outright said at the end of my last comment that I don't agree that calling for violence against the police is the right course of action.

You clearly haven't even read my comments, much less tried to explain your own position.

If you're being ridiculed, it's because you're making a fool of yourself -- not because anyone else is wrong. Honestly, dude.

Why do you think calling for violence against the police is a bad thing? Is it bad, in your opinion, to call for violence against any group, regardless of what that group is?

Say for the sake of example that we were living in Nazi Germany. Would you say that calling for violence against the SS is as bad as calling for violence against Jews? I don't think you would.

Granted, we are not in Nazi Germany. The police in America are not the SS. But there are plenty of legitimate problems with the police, including the murder of unarmed minorities going unpunished.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I suspect you don't believe that the police are bad enough to warrant calls for violence, and maybe that's true. However, there are people who don't think that's true -- they think the police, as an institution, are corrupt enough that they should see violent consequences.

Bit a side note, but I don't know that I agree with calling for violence against the police. I don't think it's going to accomplish anything at this point because of the very real risk of extreme backlash. But I do understand why people want to.

That may not have been your point, but you made it badly. You cannot compare Black lives and blue lives as a meaningful comparison because, as the other user pointed out, membership in one is compulsory and optional in the other.

You may as well have said:

Imagine if a similar gif with "fuck people that don't enjoy bestiality" was posted. You people are nuts.

...for all the relevance it would have to the point you're trying to make.

Your point is that calling for violence on any one group is bad. That's a fine point to argue, but using Black lives as an "equally bad" comparison point is nonsense.

Optimistic of you to think people wouldn't use it as an excuse to be even MORE discriminatory. There would be Ultra-Whites who could claim they were never non-white in the past X years, with seniority by how far back they can trace their reincarnated whiteness. And of course there would be new religions claiming that if you follow them you'll be reincarnated into the race/environment of your choice.

I'm in agreement that this stuff is painfully useless.

But "it couldn't even find the meeting" sounds more like a configuration problem and less like a comment on the product's quality.

They're nuts. Easy block, IMO.

What? You must be joking. Really? The entire thing was about opt-in error reporting?

.... seriously, that can't be it, can it?