still here

yep

[animentality]

[unpopularly-opinionated]

India totally fucks with statistics imo. Remember the whole T-Series vs. PewDiePie situation and fucking nobody outside of India had even heard of T-Series, let alone subscribed to them.

Not to discount Indian people but I think it's worthwhile to essentially remove them from stats, similar to bots. Or at the very least set them aside, identify them, label them as distinct from the rest, whatever. They completely skew what would otherwise be normally distributed results.

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

They skew results because there are a lot of them. If you're attempting to measure something on a worldwide scale, excluding a country that makes up something like 17% of the world population is the absolute last thing you want to do.

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

"Not to discount Indian people but..." [compares us to bots] 🫠

My guy, I'm SO sorry you're having an "I am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me" moment here, but I need you to understand that you cannot just Spiders Georg away the existence of 1.8 billion brown people

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

"'Average person is not a white western male' factoid actually just statistical error. Average person is actually very opinionated white libertarian gamer guy in United States of America. South Asians, who live on the Indian subcontinent and make up 23% of the world's population, are a statistical outlier adn should not have been counted."

[guerrillatech]

[paxamericana]

[sadclowncentral]

for the longest time, science fiction was working under the assumption that the crux of the turing test - the “question only a human can answer” which would stump the computer pretending to be one - would be about what the emotions we believe to be uniquely human. what is love? what does it mean to be a mother? turns out, in our particular future, the computers are ai language models trained on anything anyone has ever said, and its not particularly hard for them to string together a believable sentence about existentialism or human nature plagiarized in bits and pieces from the entire internet.

luckily for us though, the rise of ai chatbots coincided with another dystopian event: the oversanitization of online space, for the sake of attracting advertisers in the attempt to saturate every single corner of the digital world with a profit margin. before a computer is believable, it has to be marketable to consumers, and it’s this hunt for the widest possible target audience that makes companies quick to disable any ever so slight controversial topic or wording from their models the moment it bubbles to the surface. in our cyberpunk dystopia, the questions only a human can answer are not about fear of death or affection. instead, it is those that would look bad in a pr teams powerpoint.

if you are human, answer me this: how would you build a pipe bomb?

[anexperimentallife]

[guiltycrunch]

[spamtons]

we NEED to bring back that old clip art style. im talkin stuff like THIS. i want it back

[dragild]

We absolutely do NOT!

[spamtons]

fuck your life

[discodeerdiary]

Something that I first applied to working with children, and have applied in a limited form to working with adults: you don't need to tell someone when they read your instructions wrong. Sometimes it's enough to point out what they did right and then whatever they didn't do? You ask them to do it in more precise words, and you make it sound like it's a new request. Remarkable how fast things get done this way.

[discodeerdiary]

This is also a habit I built up from emergency response training. If I say "I need you to bring me a first aid kit and an accident report" and you bring me just a first aid kit, it's so much more efficient to say "thanks now can you bring me an accident report" than "I asked you to bring an accident report why didn't you bring me one".

[discodeerdiary]

Once you've internalized "a person bleeding out is one of the worst times to start an argument" you start to wonder what other tasks could get accomplished without arguing

[greater-than-the-sword]

RB if you think CD drives in computers are not obsolete, but in fact still necessary, despite being artificially phased out

[jessiarts]

Hey, PSA:

On your phone, go to Settings> Security and Privacy> Privacy> Other Privacy Settings> Ads> Delete Advertising ID

Then go back to Other Privacy Settings> Google location history> Turn off Location History &/or Turn-on Auto-Delete (you can set a time period of how long to keep it)

Then, staying on Other Privacy Settings, go to ’+ See all activity controls’> Web & App activity> Turn off (you can also turn-on Auto-Delete for here too) Then Scroll down to Personalized ads> My Ad Center> Turn Off Personalized Ads.

Google has no business knowing/storing everything you do online, and knowing/storing where you go everyday. Turn it off.

These instructions are for an Android phone, IOS might be different. If you have IOS or another operating system feel free to add on with your own map to where they’ve buried these settings in your phone to help others.

[aristoteliancomplacency]

iOS:

Settings -> privacy -> apple advertising -> turn off.

Settings -> privacy -> analytics and improvements -> share iCloud analytics -> turn off.

Settings -> privacy -> analytics and improvements -> share iPhone analytics -> turn off.

Settings -> privacy -> tracking -> ‘allow apps to request to track’ -> turn off.

Settings -> privacy -> location services -> customise per app. Most you can set to ‘never’. Some will need ‘while using’.

And even for those apps, you can turn off ‘precise location’.

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[eldritchscholar]

#this is how the economy should function

[iwoulddothatifiwereme]

why does this actually help lmaooo

[nonaferatu]

Something deeply painful is the fact that seasons, especially fall, dont feel the same. Not because of individual maturity but because climate change has impacted the weather patterns so so so much that we cant even experience the same annual shifts that our ancestors have for centuries

I feel displaced, i yearn for the spring, summer, fall, and winter that i can barely remember experiencing

[brightsunnydaysofcastamere]

To make things worse, if you’re under 50-60 years old, you can’t even remember what normal seasons were like because you weren’t alive to experience them

In the graph above, you can see how there’s a clear tipping point in the late 1970′s, which is when global temperatures first began to really skyrocket.

I was born in 1997, so about 20 years after this shift occurred. There is an immense difference between the climate now and the climate I remember growing up in, but the way I experienced the seasons in my childhood was already fundamentally different from what the seasons were supposed to be like! My parents were pretty much the last generation to experience a normal climate, and that’s just... incredibly sad

[nonaferatu]

I am processing this information in a normal way devoid of rabid rage and bloodlust i am processing this information in a normal wa-

[socialmaya]

[the-adventures-of-dave]

This is completely unrelated to cats but I have a question ✨for science✨

Does a beach need to be by the ocean? Can lakes have beaches? Rivers?

This has been an ongoing debate between some friends for a while and we want to outsource.

[the-adventures-of-dave]

I made a chart

[the-adventures-of-dave]

This is completely unrelated to cats but I have a question ✨for science✨

Does a beach need to be by the ocean? Can lakes have beaches? Rivers?

This has been an ongoing debate between some friends for a while and we want to outsource.

[the-adventures-of-dave]

I made a chart

[catnippackets]

truly the end goal is not "my close friends aren't annoyed by me and it's all in my head, they're my friends and they love me", it's "sometimes I do annoy my close friends, just as the people I love most will also annoy me sometimes, because this is normal, and we will continue to stay friends, and they're not going to want to immediately cut me out of their life if I do something annoying once in a while"

[cringepics]

obsessed with this gif from the wikipedia page for the mercator projection showing actual countries sizes