gandalf_der_12te @ gandalf_der_12te @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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It's a meme because it first makes you laugh, and then it makes you think.

As of April 2021, PLOS One charges a publication fee of $1,745 to publish an article.

I mean, seriously, I would like to publish to one of these, but who has the money to do that?

I feel you 😿

That's why I'm sending it to you 😸

source

“I mean a lot of glazed here. Some sprinkle stuff. Some of these cinnamon rolls. Just whatever makes sense.”

You gotta see it from their perspective, they're CEOs (presumably) and aren't used to knowing the details. They just vaguely point in vague directions ("pitch") and let the employees figure out the rest.

I don't believe there's misinformation because we fail to discern the truth though. Misinformation exists because people believe what they want to believe.

almost how a printing press made the production of books so much faster

... and we all know that lead to 30 years of bloody war, btw

Your comment somehow just made me realize something: When we see/read news, we have to trust the one who's telling them to us. Since we weren't there in person to see it with our own eyes. Therefore, it's always about a "chain of trust".

This is true no matter whether photos can be manipulated or not. People have been able to lie since humanity exists. Nothing has really changed. Photography, just like globalization, has only brought everything closer together, making it easier to have a more direct, straightforward relationship to other people and events. With the beginning of AI, this distance between you and an event is going to increase a bit, but the core mechanics are still similar.

I kind of wonder, how do we really know that something is true? Do atoms actually exist? What if we're being lied to by our authorities. You say "of course not". But what if? I mean, if we blindly trust authorities, we end up like the republicans, who believe everything that fox news tells them. How, then, do we discern truth?

How, then, do we discern truth? I guess we have to give "proof" for everything, in the sense of mathematical proof. Something that everybody can follow, using only their fundamental assumptions and deduction. I guess that is what science is all about.

yeah, every time you go to a party, and fun happens, somebody pulls out their smartphone and starts filming. it's really bad. people can only relax when there's privacy, and smartphones have stolen privacy from society for over 10 years now. we need to either ban filming in general (which is not doable) or discredit photographs - which we're doing right now.

interesting thought. we haven't had photos in history, and people didn't need them. also, we've been able to produce text deepfakes all throughout history (and people actually did that - a lot) and somehow, humanity still survived and made progress. maybe we should question our assumptions whether we really need a medium to communicate absolute truth.

That's a fair question.

I think there's many different - and valid - answers to this, depending on how you look at the question.

I guess you could say that society had a stronger immune system back then to eliminate these bad cells. These days, they run way too freely. It's bad, and i'm not sure whether we need a structural reform or whether we can wriggle through this one.

so about that global trans polycule ...

short question - do you mean Cleveland, OH, or Cleveland, TN, or Cleveland, TX, or Cleveland, GA?

So first of all let me tell you that it does indeed depend on where you live. So it would have been very useful information if you had stated where you live. Since you didn't state it, I assume it's in the US, since for some reason, people in the US never seem to see the need to state that they live in the US (not all of us do).

Secondly, I really am sorry for your situation. There's a lot of wrong things with society. One of those things is that it's difficult to meet new people. Another, in my opinion, just as bad thing, is that one has to drive. Basically, people didn't drive before 1800. Driving is the exception in history. I don't see how or why people think these days that it's completely normal to drive, or to have to drive. This has nothing to do with your post, but it's still something that I'm thinking about. Sorry for the random side-rant.

Thirdly, I have found that it's often best to search for like-minded people, and just randomly go to them, say to them "hey, can I sit with you", wait a few seconds, and if they agree, sit down and just say "hi" and "i'm [insert name] and i'm from [insert location] and i'm looking for [insert any random hobby or activity you like]". most people react by either agreeing or declining, and such is life.

wrote my own lol / piecework from stuff randomly found on the internet

it's open source anyways (at least the kernel) in case anyone wants a copy :D

oh yeah, i've played this one before :D

pretty great, yeah, but definitely not a dating app

where can i get it? what features does it have?

That’s so many ungrounded thoughts and opinions though! The topic of this comment thread has changed like 7 times, I’m just having fun at this point. =D

same for me :D

Sometimes that’s just trying to justify why fictional Earth with time machines still has dictators and not a huge past interventionist problem,

In fiction, the best way to resolve this I feel is to assume that nothing can be changed from before the first time machines were invented, because the first time machine sets something like an "anchor" that all other time machines can jump to.

I look at time in general a lot like water in a river. It flows from the river to the sea (no pun intended) only in one direction, but once it reaches the sea, it can move relatively freely in all directions. I think that time will lose its sense of unidirectionality at some point, but that's solely my own hypothesis. I have zero evidence to back that up. It's more or less based on the idea that time represents progress, and at some point our world will be "fully developed", just like a child grown into an adult or an acorn grows into a tree. At that point, there is no more progress, and therefore, time kinda stops or becomes meaningless. Just that it happens at a cosmological scale, affecting all of humanity.

ok nvm