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Comment · 27 days ago
I've never seen a well intentioned person use this "everything should be allowed or nothing should be allowed" mentality. It's always somebody who knows they're doing something wrong. You know that the value of a golf course or paper mill is not the same to a community as a data center. You know there are so many levels of falseness to this dilemma that most people will not know where to start and will instead shut down.
Comment · 1 month ago
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Comment · 2 months ago
A lot of people willingly get into scams because they think they're entering a position to be "in on it." Lots of ponzi scheme victims are like this. They know it's a ponzi schene and they know how ponzis work, but they think they'll be one of the people who cashes out before it ends. The breaking point is when the wrong person tries to cash out and they realize it already ended a while ago.
Comment · 2 months ago
That's probably why Google tolerates all the blatant fraud against them by the avalanche of spam sites ruining the service. They're frauding google but google is frauding advertisers and they wouldn't be able to commit fraud to such a high degree if they couldn't tell advertisers that their ads got 10 gorillion fake impressions.
Comment · 2 months ago
It's sad how fast some people are these days to just say "nope too hard, can't be done." Especially when it's something that WAS accomplished 20, 30, even 40+ years ago in some cases! How can someone watch a satellite train fly through the heavens and think pattern matching algorithms are an unsolved, even unsolvable problem? Such doomerism.
Comment · 2 months ago
Google search still has that feature where the little preview blurb will bolden where it matches parts of your query so you can see what context the pattern appeared in. Always very useful but now it gives you a pretty good look at what google replaced your actual query with. Since I started paying attention to this, I've realized that most of the cases where I need to add a bunch of excluded keywords, I'm actually just gradually twisting googles arm into searching what I wanted to search. It takes a lot of excluded keywords sometimes until it finally runs out of ideas for stuff to replace my entire query with.
Comment · 2 months ago
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Comment · 2 months ago
I don't know where else to ask this but it's killing me. Does anyone know what the hell that GitHub physical CD thing was about? Did anyone in the world get theirs?
Comment · 2 months ago
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Comment · 2 months ago
Dear god. As if the 3D printed crap wasn't enough.
Comment · 2 months ago
Actually, the demigods are imaginary entities. There is nothing real about them in comparison to the smolnet protocol called Gemini.

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