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  • This is the shit that I can’t handle with the whole “had to walk uphill both ways in the snow in order to go to school” rhetoric, because it centers the story teller’s pain, and reinforces the “yeah, whatever, grandma” response.

    If they would instead say something like, “when I was a kid, not every school district had the money for a whole bus system just for children, and a large section of the population didn’t have access to cars either, so we were mostly responsible for getting ourselves to school on our own, on top of 6he ract that it was 8jcredibly difficult for the school district to communicate closures, so if you could possibly get there, you’d try, so we’d be forced to try,” It would do much more to communicate what they actually mean.


  • Thurstylark@lemm.eeto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneFreudian rule
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    Nowadays, he’s only taught in a, “None of what this guy said has any basis in reality, but he basically started the field, so we’re learning this as HISTORY ONLY.” kind of way.

    You don’t need to know anything about the content of his work in order to say he is a fraud, as it is accepted as fact by the field of study as a whole.


  • Interesting. Ants communicate by smell (essentially), so much so that a live ant which is coated in the “I’m dead” compound will be repeatedly carried to the dead pile regardless of how many times that ant walks away from it.

    So, something in Trix must include a compound that those ants identify as “Dead pile goes here”, and everyone thought someone else moved the dead pile lol









  • Ever since I got into radio, I’ve definitely found that there’s nearly always some wild shit to be found on the airwaves if you know where and how to look for it. In my teen years, I would spend hours on good ionosphere nights sitting on my front porch with a handheld CB just listening to people being absolutely unhinged on channel 6.

    If you have even a passing interest, do yourself a favor and pick up a RTL-SDR for cheap, and take a look around.








  • Allow me to translate:

    We are inviting you to work for free because our content moderation team isn’t focussed on actually moderating harmful content… Well, only if you define “harmful” as “harmful to advertisers’ brands.” And by “moderation” I mean adding notes to things a la twitter, or X or whatever… Doesn’t matter, we just think that Elon was onto something when he outsourced the responsibility of fact-checking to unaffiliated users who can be duped into free labor as long as we dress it up as “making the community better” (like we actually have a platform that actually fosters anything close to a “community” lol). Hopefully you’ll steer unearned traffic towards incorrect information so we can make the case to those users that YT is OK with that kind of content without having to say the quiet part out loud, and make the case to advertisers that it’s worthwhile to stop caring what kind of content their ads get placed near. Your contributions will be ignored by the general public, especially those who are seeking out inaccurate content, but you’ll get the feeling of superiority that comes with hitching a ride on the coattails of someone shittier, yet vastly more popular than you could ever hope to be. Together, we can make Youtube even more money.