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  • Probably only sucessful ones.
    Google captchas have had multiple rounds (with it faking you out claiming you failed) for probably a decade. Every round of the game updates some confidence score which if you get it high enough lets you pass.
    This conversely means there is no way to fail, you just get stuck in an infinite loop of challenges if your score doesn’t get high enough.

    The only other alternative means of pricing it would see even valid users consume way more than one “verification” per actual completed captcha, since so many users have low enough scores to need multiple rounds of captcha even when completing them with perfect accuracy.
    I doubt they do this, but if they do it’s a scandal waiting to happen, besides also being very weird for any kind of statistic google certainly offers for their captcha.




  • safe to say

    That’s why I’m asking, I have not seen that usage, and prior to this I was not aware of any problems with the term.

    literal origin

    I don’t really care how a word was created, I care how it is used and percieved. Words can fall into and out of bad association, and massive raging assholes can coin words without problematic meaning.

    Otherwise “glowie” doesn’t make much sense at all, doesn’t it?

    I don’t see a problem with it, I thought it was a great short word to describe a specific problem (surveillance) with a specific vibe (shizophrenia).
    There are plenty of words of similar shape, like buddy or goalie, sometimes abbreviations sometimes created like that. Never felt glowie was missing anything, if you asked me to come up with a term for “someone who glows in the dark” I may have arrived at the same word.

    the original form “glownigger” is still widely used (it’s bizarre that it’s on the end of the list on Wikipedia, in fact, after some forms that are probably barely used).

    This is probably what it comes down to. Clearly we must frequent different places, so where did you see that and what makes you think this association extends into the wider world?
    And then also how is it bridged to glowie? I have seen the old r/waterniggers and that hasn’t affected the words hydrohomie, water, and water utility worker to my knowledge.


  • Glow in the dark, Glowie, Glows, Glowfag, Glownigger:

    The term was coined by Terry A. Davis, a computer programmer diagnosed with schizophrenia, who allegedly believed that the CIA was stalking and harassing him. “Glowie” is often used in online forums to refer to government agents, especially undercover operatives who infiltrate online extremist spaces.

    “Glow in the dark” and its derivative terms have been used to refer to various groups: newcomers that do not fit in with the culture of certain forums and are thus suspected to have bad intentions, journalists who report on extremist groups, tech companies that collect users’ personal data, and others.[1][5][6][7]

    I looked at the explanation there, which mentions shizophrenia and IT origins.
    I see now that the list of words contains racist etc. variations, which I’m guessing is what you are referring to?

    Personally I have seen glowie used in “shizophrenic” places worrying about privacy and government surveillance and the likes, but I have never seen the questionable variations nor seen any racist people or content in combination with “glowie”.

    Is this a guilt by association thing? Where the inventor of the word was racist and used it in racist variations so the base word itself is taboo somehow?





  • Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.comto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBone rule
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    Just fine is pushing it, we are capable but not particularly good.
    We need specific plant parts grown on purpose to be consumable (fruit, nuts, …), or we need cooking.
    There is a good number of plant stuff like grass, certain bark, and most parts of medium sized plants which a lot of animals can consume but we cannot.
    If you go out and eat random plants you will die you won’t be able to digest almost any of that.

    I would argue there are loosely two levels of plant digestion ability above ours.
    The first being what most mamals have, which allows to consume leafs and most small and medium plants minus the thicker stalks. My example would be deer.
    Then there are ruminants who can digest grass more efficiently and tend to deal with stalks better, main difference being more things being worth digesting vs. just being digestible. Classic example is cows.


  • Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.comto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule 15
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    5 months ago

    My guess for the injury rates is you expect drywall, thus your body allows you the speed and force you can take on drywall, but then you hit something harder like a metal strut.
    If you already expected something of similar hardness you could never use that much force.


  • In Europe you learn to respect walls at a very young age.
    You don’t deliberately kick a table leg with your toes either, you just know with certainty it will only give you pain.

    Drywalls have some cushioning to them, they first compress then flex.
    Brick is completely solid, it hurts even at very low speeds when hit with bone. Just knocking on it is painful.

    Go outside, pick a nice flat pavement stone, put two sheets of paper over it. Now use your knuckles and knock around on it for a bit, then see what your instincts tell you when you think about punching that.