vonbaronhans @ vonbaronhans @midwest.social

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We have over 300 million people in the US right now. Social security started in the US in 1935 with just over 127 million people then.

Yeah, we probably have gone through 999 million options by now.

Yeah, actually. But weirdly, it also makes me feel way less guilt. Like, the constant self put-downs about not being as "productive" as I should be. That all got way quieter on meds. Even if I'm still not doing what I "should" it feels like a controlled choice instead of inescapable guilt-inducing procrastination.

It's weird. I'm new to both my diagnosis and the meds, so who knows.

Well, I think we'd have to give some of the Eastern seaboard to the UK. But some goes to France, some to Spain. And tbh a lot could be reallocated back to American Indian groups and councils. Oh, and a bunch would go back to Mexico, too.

Fascists will still count him if his knee doesn't bend enough.

Hey I leave comments. And half decent ones at that!

I think the care for being not identified and covering one's tracks provided in the above comment is a pretty obvious indicator for why their comment history is scrubbed lol.

That is a much more succinct way of putting it without any real loss of accuracy.

I'm no expert on the topic, but Nature is an exception rather than the rule, given its history and prestige.

Academic journals were around well before the Internet. Real capital investment was required to review applications, provide editing advice, typesetting, printing, and distribution. All of those are still things, now with additional online publishing, which also has its own technology costs.

What's wild and out of whack, of course, is that peer reviewers generally aren't paid, submitters pay to get published, and readers also pay for access. Other than the relatively minimal office staff to keep things running, there's very little overhead. So why is it so damn expensive?

I think the answer is that they can get away with it. You can publish in an open source journal for free, of course, but there may or may not be quality control. Plus, it's an attention economy. If you publish in Science or Nature, you're almost certainly getting prestige that can turbo boost your career because that many people will see and likely cite your work.

And on and on it goes. I think we would pretty strong regulations to stop this system.

I think JRPGs do focus on choice, but usually more in terms of the gameplay and deep combat systems with weird synergies to discover. Story-wise... yeah definitely more linear.

About two or three months ago. It's not for all content, but their more in depth stuff, How X did Y articles, and other writing that's more analysis and opinion than reporting on facts usually goes behind the new paywall. Anything you'd care about for news or breaking stories is still free, which is about 75%+ of the content on the site.

The memo does say "this does not impact the federal holiday" (or close enough, I can't see it while I'm writing this comment, lol).

But this is still the beginning of a slippery slope, or at least hints very strongly of it. It's got that fascism stank.

Okay that gave me a hearty chuckle, thank you.

Probably not in the sense that the average American uses the word "communist", which is more about their remembered history of authoritarian regimes of the USSR and mid 20th century China and those sorts. Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, and the atrocities thereof.

Linux is communist insofar as it is open source, and therefore less affected or tied up in capitalistic practices. Capitalists still use and contribute to Linux, but often those contributions go back into the commons of the open source code.

You probably know all that, I'm just feeling long winded.

I don't know what peanut butter is like in other countries. In Japan it was very different, a lot sweeter.

What's yours like? Have you ever been able to compare it to something like JIF?

Here's an important bit from the actual journal article abstract

This lower literacy-greater receptivity link is not explained by differences in perceptions of AI’s capability, ethicality, or feared impact on humanity. Instead, this link occurs because people with lower AI literacy are more likely to perceive AI as magical and experience feelings of awe in the face of AI’s execution of tasks that seem to require uniquely human attributes.

It then goes on to say you should target ads for AI to people who don't know anytime about AI, since they'll see it as magical and buy in. Kinda gross, if you ask me.

I don't quite follow what you're saying, but I think I largely agree?

The Hitler salute is a "Roman salute". The Roman empire is a big inspiration for Nazis. And Rolling Stone seems to be very aware of that in the article.

Comparisons to users on other social media networks would be useful, yeah.

I don't think I ever learned how to properly source information from primary works until college. I didn't really get it until grad school.

Kinda the same for the scientific method. In high school it was just a thing you learn and memorize, but barely ever applied, if at all, in the actual curriculum. I wish it had been impressed upon me at a much earlier stage of my life why the scientific method is so useful and how it led to the sheer boom in our knowledge as a species. Like, they do tell us... but we didn't really get it. I've heard others had better teachers... But it really would be better if the system didn't have to rely on winning the teacher lottery.

I think you're hung up on how Big Tech has designed feeds with the express purpose of keeping you there for as long as possible, or even more perversely, as enraged as possible.

But algorithms can be made to serve other purposes, and I think the fediverse could do with a curation algorithm. Or even better, multiple choices for algorithms to suit your preferences and needs. From what I've heard, Bluesky offers something along those lines, which has contributed to its adoption rates.

I think if Lemmy devs wanted, they could probably come up with some great starter options. Heck, maybe they make it easier for everyone to customize their own algorithms. Not sure how far you get without knowing how to code that sort of thing directly, but even a little would go a long way, I bet.