CarbonIceDragon
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CarbonIceDragon 5 points a day ago

I can guess a few things. For one, its slightly less effort than selecting the chosen text and copying, though not much less so I don't think that's the whole reason. But also, it does technically give more information that otherwise would have to be typed out, like its often possible to tell what platform the text comes from, the username and profile icon of the original poster, etc. And if there's a chain of several people responding, you can capture the whole conversation without worrying about formatting nested quotes and such. Fonts can also convey mood, which you'd lose if you just copy the text.

Finally, I guess it could feel more clear as to the source, like if you copy paste text with some quote formatting, there's more room for someone who doesn't understand the formatting to think you were saying that thing, and it's immediately obvious that you could edit or make up the quote if you wanted. A picture immediately says "this is something this other person somewhere else said" in a way that's harder to misinterpret and looks harder to fake (even if in reality making a faked picture of text is easy)

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CarbonIceDragon 39 points 3 days ago

and apparently makes your eyesight worse on top of that

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CarbonIceDragon 4 points 6 days ago

Somewhat reminds me of that "Golden Circle" empire that some pre-american-civil-war slavers wanted to try to make

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CarbonIceDragon 331 points a year ago

It's possible for platforms under the influence of the Chinese government and right wing American billionaires to both have harmful censorship.

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CarbonIceDragon 312 points 2 years ago

the literary equivalent of:

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CarbonIceDragon 300 points 2 years ago

The ironic thing is, conflating any and all criticism of the state of Israel with anti-semitism could be argued as anti-semitic itself, because to suggest that jewish people in general and the Israeli state/military are one in the same such that criticism of the later is also hateful towards the former, is also to suggest that jewish people as a whole are responsible for the actions of Israel.

As cultural groups as a whole are inherently unable to be guilty of crimes (since even if a large number of people belonging to one commit some crime, such a group will also contain members that cannot be guilty of it, like young children), but states and similar entities, being organized and capable of decision-making, can be, then any attempt to link the moral culpability of a state and that of a cultural group is inherently to apply unfair accusations to that group, and thus hateful to it.

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CarbonIceDragon 290 points 2 years ago

Well, I've been losing sleep and having anxiety attacks over the possibility that he might worm his way back into office again, so no sympathy

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CarbonIceDragon 226 points 9 months ago

Plot twist; they cancelled because their convention had to be rescheduled due to unforeseen circumstances.

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CarbonIceDragon 224 points 3 years ago

I mean, the United States has, to be fair, developed a food culture that emphasizes using a lot of meat, especially over the past century or so. It's not surprising that people from an area that eats so much meat, who go vegan, are going to want to look for ways to still make dishes familiar to them

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CarbonIceDragon 216 points 2 years ago

You would think Israel, of all countries, ought to know how blatantly evil this kind of stuff looks.

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CarbonIceDragon 199 points a year ago

I get the sentiment of "it's funny when someone tries to call the AI in on their side and it disagrees", but do we really want to encourage this sort of "the AI agreeing with someone means they're right" behavior? Beyond LLMs being notoriously inaccurate, they are also subject to potential manipulation by whoever owns them.

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CarbonIceDragon 195 points a year ago

I mean, the guy is a lawyer, I'm not sure I can think of a profession with a more "generic person in a formal but not fancy outfit" stereotype than that.

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CarbonIceDragon 190 points a year ago

Since there is insufficient cell differentiation at conception to produce any reproductive cells, does that mean that according to the white house, all people are legally non-binary now?

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CarbonIceDragon 187 points a year ago

I don't think mice understand the concept of something not being free tbh. It ain't like they go around with little mouse wallets filled with little mice money and little mice credit cards.

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CarbonIceDragon 169 points 2 years ago

By that metric, kelvin would be even better though.

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CarbonIceDragon 162 points 2 years ago

As a former cashier (grocery store not walmart admittedly, but I doubt things are that different), I dont think weird uses for the items are the way to go, the cashier is barely even going to notice or care what you're buying. what I bring to freak out the cashier, are some item that needs ID to buy, some big heavy item with the barcode removed so that it will take a bunch of lifting and turning in a hopeless effort to find it before someone eventually has to go find another one and bring it over, and a propane refill if walmart does those (at my grocery store the process to go find a full one was a pain, especially in the winter since they were outside). Further, I try to buy these items with the help of a ton of expired and unexpired coupons mixed together, several gift cards, and a stubborn half-deaf old person who wont take no for an answer.

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CarbonIceDragon 162 points a year ago

I've long found the notion that the lesson of Jurassic Park, if a fictional story like that must be taken to have one, should be something like "science/genetic engineering is bad" or "you can't control nature" to be a bit silly, given that, well, it's a zoo. With pretty big animals, to be sure, but dinosaurs were animals still, not kaiju or dragons or whatever other fantasy monster, and some genetically modified to be somewhat bigger and lack feathers would still be such. It's a story about some people building a zoo badly because they didn't do their due diligence about the animals they had and cheaped out on staff and the systems they had for containing the animals, and somehow people get the take away that "these animals are special and can't be safely contained" rather than "letting rich people cheap out on safety is a bad idea".

Were one to write a broadly similar story where someone cheaps out on a park containing elephants and tigers, and they get out and maul some people, it'd be obvious, but give the tigers scales and make them born in a lab and suddenly it's a monster movie.

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CarbonIceDragon 155 points a year ago

Didn't he attack the very concept of empathy at one point in all this doge mess though?

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CarbonIceDragon 147 points 2 years ago

A great way to tell if they mean "anti-imperialist" as "against the conquering and subjugating of other groups" or instead just "in favor of anyone that declares themselves to be against the United States and Western Europe."

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CarbonIceDragon 145 points 6 months ago

They do have the island of Lesbos I suppose, that has to count for something

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