whotookkarl

whotookkarl , 15 hours ago

If you're actually asking how to reach people about a delusional belief they hold it seems often if you try to show them evidence that directly contradicts their belief, argue reasonably, etc they will often become more entrenched in a defiant 'you can't teach me anything' stance to protect their perceived self identity from unwarranted attacks. You have to demonstrate the warrant first.

A possibly more effective method seems to be temporarily accepting their proposed perspective, and asking skeptical questions to reduce their confidence in the delusion. Providing the questions to work it out themselves instead of forcing the conclusion. I haven't read it yet but I've seen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combating_Cult_Mind_Control recommended as a study on cults and breaking their indoctrination & control tactics but I'm open to more contemporary recommendations if anyone has them.

whotookkarl , 15 hours ago

The Princess Bride, silent movie comedies like Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplain, or nature docs are my go to sick watches

whotookkarl , 20 hours ago

The sex obsessed wet blankets in the clergy morality police probably shut down a concert or dance hall they weren't invited to where people were actually having fun.

whotookkarl , 22 hours ago

I walked down to the store and it was 526 cabin footprints.

whotookkarl , 20 hours ago

The person holding the camera

whotookkarl , 20 hours ago

Best we can do is cold and half spilled into a paper bag

whotookkarl , 22 hours ago

Huckleberry but apparently they are really difficult to farm.

whotookkarl , 2 days ago

Good point, check pre-prints like arXiv or yarr like scihub before checking with the author, maybe save you both some time.

whotookkarl , 2 days ago

Published by Elsevier their parent company 2023 financials: https://www.relx.com/~/media/Files/R/RELX-Group/documents/reports/annual-reports/2023-ar-sections/relx-2023-financial-review.pdf nothing noted as funding research or science that I can see, it would probably eat into their 33% profit margins or 800m stock buybacks.

whotookkarl , 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Yes, it seems right now the only thing holding back that change is researchers treating paid journals as prestigious and adding clout to their name and publishings, and lacking a system to engage in peer review outside of journals and conferences. ArXiv is basically halfway there to registering users and publishing, they just need features for registering as a peer review, engaging for a review, and judging as acceptable or not. Most of that could be covered by votes and comments like Lemmy but limited to an accredited community of peer researchers.

Edit: to be clear not all researchers, some reject paid journals just not enough to change behavior in the general field/branch yet

whotookkarl , 2 days ago

It also doesn't help that a bunch of games have an upgrade charge, I mostly just use it for Blu-ray lately.

whotookkarl , 2 days ago

Yes, if you consider more than one issue (X, Y, Z) when deciding who or who not to vote for you are a multi issue voter, if you only consider a single issue (X) when deciding who or who not to vote for, you are a single issue voter. It's not per candidate, it's per vote.

whotookkarl , 3 days ago

Easy, it's 1715894564 after Jan 1 1970 00:00:00.

whotookkarl , 7 days ago

Didn't read the article, did Nintendo pay to develop this to be able to preserve the games history and release them for free so they can get some new fans for these retro games and IPs to maybe encourage them to buy some newer released games in the same series?

whotookkarl , 7 days ago

Maybe it was written that way to make you read faster as you get toward the end to convey a sense of facetiousness because I didn't need to read the article to know none of that's true, who knows. I'm probably just spending too much time online lately.

whotookkarl , 7 days ago

BOM U+FEFF is another fun one, most editors won't show it but it can cause errors like when I found one in a SQL script that was combined from existing utf-8 files together with cat. You'll see it in a hex editor or in notepad I think it just made the rest of the line italic.

whotookkarl , 8 days ago

Dang it Bobby, all morality is subjective

whotookkarl , 9 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

He extended it on another late night talk show a couple days ago, still has the contract ready

whotookkarl , 8 days ago

I think there's also a general age demographic shift down as the mods and people who care about moderation, third party apps, bots, etc left. Something similar happened during the digg exodus where social norms and consensus around some topics changed, just not at much with the bots at the time. People who remain may not care, or they just may be unaware. There was always some propaganda blindness too in the 'i don't use social media just reddit' crowd.

whotookkarl , 9 days ago

If you find yourself in a hole, first step is to stop digging.

whotookkarl , 8 days ago

I'm a 30 foot tall lumberjack from Antarctica

whotookkarl , 10 days ago

Interferometers are moving to space launches, maybe colliders need to do the same if they keep growing bigger

whotookkarl , 10 days ago

20+ hosts trying to connect to for JavaScript, no transcript or article just a video. But I find it unlikely many Jewish people are looking for voting advice anyway from a rapist, white supremacist, fascist piece of shit insurrectionist.

whotookkarl , 11 days ago

White phosphorus is incredibly easy to obtain in small volumes (if you have a matchbook you already have some red phosphorus), and in larger volumes it's found in some pretty common minerals. Unfortunately the possible damage done or weapons use of a material isn't always reflected in how difficult it is to obtain. According to the ACS 900,000 tons are produced annually & mostly used in fertilizer and pesticide.

https://www.acs.org/molecule-of-the-week/archive/w/white-phosphorus.html

whotookkarl , 11 days ago

I am pretty sure there are subsidies/grants/loans for auto companies under other governments too.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-offers-12-billion-automakers-suppliers-make-advanced-vehicles-2023-08-31/

whotookkarl , 11 days ago

Any streaming service that tries to combine ads+sub is just as greedy as cable TV and I can't support that kind of shitty business practice. Ads free or sub no ads. Cancelled each service as they rolled out that trash. Currently only subbed to Criterion and thinking of resubbing to Shudder.

whotookkarl , 11 days ago

If you're wealthy and all your money is in assets, investments, residential real estate, etc and not income then your wealth significantly increased while everyone else's decreased.

whotookkarl , 12 days ago

Hate requires you to consider them first competent with shared common values that inform their beliefs and actions. Otherwise it's mostly pity and disgust that they have no values other than authority and loyalty like a criminal enterprise, and usually can't tell if they are being evil on purpose or by accident/inaction/ignorance.

whotookkarl , 12 days ago

It's almost like one of the main functions a functioning federal government is to create and regulate new markets. But why bother politicians with work when they can just try to bully people into complacency.

whotookkarl , 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

I think for short ask questions, actually listen to their answers and follow up or share your own experiences. Now you're conversating.

whotookkarl , 15 days ago

Our diversity is our strength, get bent white supremacist fuckers.

whotookkarl , 16 days ago

As soon as the initial Russia attack failed, invalidating the treaty where Ukraine agreed to deproliferate as long as Russia doesn't attack them, Ukraine should have acquired a handful of nuclear weapons.

whotookkarl , 16 days ago

It's the movie equivalent of needing a /s to know the content is satirical in nature

whotookkarl , 15 days ago

Haven't seen it but it seems like the kind of movie that has a montage of talking heads at some point, probably close to the beginning.

whotookkarl , 16 days ago

June 30th, 2023. There were always subreddits like r/thedonald that used violent right wing authoritarian cult-like political rhetoric, but after the users and mods who gave half a shit left when they banned third party apps and sided with advertisers over the people keeping it from becoming 99% bots and bootlickers.

whotookkarl , 17 days ago

Traditional move of someone completely innocent and not trying to hide anything

whotookkarl , 16 days ago

You literally just started by saying you won't vote for him for a single issue, then end by saying you are not a single issue voter.

whotookkarl , 16 days ago

I don't even necessarily disagree with your ideas, it's the rhetoric I find disheartening.

whotookkarl , 16 days ago

Clearly not a trustee to the beneficiary... filibuster

whotookkarl , 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

It would also help if more than a handful of people in the House knew semitic is a pretty archaic term and would include Palestinians in Gaza as well as Israelis and people from several other countries as well.

Protected classes are race, religion, national origin, age, pregnancy status, gender, citizenship, disability or veteran, family status or genetic information. Nobody gets protections for genocide.

Edit: genetic not generic

whotookkarl , 17 days ago

Not scary for the auto workers who want to work on them, build them, supply parts for them, etc or the families who want affordable EVs. More scary for the wealth class who didn't reinvest enough into updating their facilities and processes to stay competitive businesses. The government already gave them extra time with the embargo but that isn't going to last forever.

whotookkarl , 18 days ago

Most of us have no intuition about millions of anything let alone billions, same as we have a good handle on seconds and days and years but start talking about nanoseconds or centuries and most of us have completely lost any meaningful frame of reference.

whotookkarl , 18 days ago

Expanding piracy, a pretty brutal form of robbery, to include ignoring digital media copyrights only really makes sense if you're trying to vilify nonviolent criminals. I haven't heard good arguments for more than 5-10 year copyrights.

whotookkarl , 18 days ago

It is but the Senate failed to do their job as usual and enforce it, thanks Mitch

whotookkarl , 19 days ago

"""
Within minutes of the assault on the building, Columbia University officials said they had no choice but to request police intervention.

"We regret that protesters have chosen to escalate the situation through their actions,"
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The Columbia administration forgetting they have nothing without the students. One person gets yelled at and they clutch their pearls and call the bastards in to beat and arrest peaceful protesters. They are escalating things, not the students.

Students asking to expunge arrests related to these protests should be putting on their resume they are willing to stand up for their rights and the rights of others without a voice. The university and cops are the ones who should be embarrassed and ashamed.

whotookkarl , 19 days ago

Yes, prohibitions of addictive substances creates dangerous black markets and criminals out of addicts who usually need medical support not a judge or jail. We try to prevent children from driving, drinking, smoking, etc for the same reason we don't send children to jail & that's not a good way to legislate adult or general populations.

whotookkarl , 18 days ago

New loyalty test dropping soon, 2+2=5