Instagram differs from Reddit in the sense that most people use Instagram because that's where their friends and family are. You're posting more personal things there. An alternative doesn't really work for most users if no one they know is using it. Good luck with the push, though.

Guess who becomes much easier to brainwash and control when the kids of this generation don't have access to unfederated information and educational outlets?

The adults of next generation!

Fuck this new world order.

You're on ProgrammerHumor... Why do you expect the jokes to cater to you if you're not a programmer?

TIL that dumb is defined as having scored less than 100 IQ.

Anyway, I've worked enough customer service to say with some confidence that I've met at least a few people who truly just exist and let the world happen to them with zero curiosity.

I've got a guy like this now. I'm sure he does what he does perfectly fine, but I watched him struggle to identify a very obvious bug he pushed to production which disabled an entire function. It's a little different now when I see him being snarky with other team members...

I've absolutely done it before because I'm weird. Entering 1:90 (on my Kenmore microwave) ticks down 1:89... 1:88... etc. until it hits 1:00 at which point it will continue as normal to 0:59.

1:60 behaves similarly.

I have a feeling the "add 30 seconds" button will correct it to proper time format, but I'll test it for science.

I thought surely this was a joke. ... I thought.

Sent from GrapheneOS

It says it right there. He's 4+ years old.

Pretty sure they're referring to class names describing the visual style being applied, rather than what that class represents semantically.

E.g. .red-bold vs. .error-text

It's only ridiculous because you're used to pouring your entire life into Facebook or Google's servers.

If you're disturbed by it being public, I think you should be just as disturbed by it being in the hands of data farmers and merchants.

The fact of the matter is, nothing you do online is private—and on the spectrum of "how private is it," social media platforms are traditionally designed to put you at the near zero end of it. So separate your concerns if you want any illusion of separation from your actual life.

Babe, on a scale of 0x1 to 0x10, I give you a solid A+.

I don't have experience with systems like this, but just as sort of a fusion of a lot of ideas I've read in this thread, could some sort of per-instance trust system work?

The more any instance interacts positively (posting, commenting, etc.) with main instance 'A,' that particular instance's reputation score gets bumped up on main instance A. Then, use that score with the ratio of votes from that instance to the total amount of votes in some function in order to determine the value of each vote cast.

This probably isn't coherent, but I just woke up, and I also have no idea what I'm talking about.

No see. What supposed to see?

The thing is, AI doesn't need to take over the world if the BiG tHiNkErS are so eager to replace humans regardless of its merit.

The game we see here is Russian Russian Roulette.

The Legend of Korra spoilers:

It's been a while, and I've lost some of my steam over this. But yeah, that's the only one I've got the energy to type out right now.

Why are you conflating "ghetto", "gangsta," and black? 95% of it is about where and how you grew up.

There's plenty of white guys who, although will never experience and understand what it's like to live in America while black, understand the struggle of growing up in the ghettos, being socioeconomically alienated, and being pressured to look to the "gangsta" lifestyle.

These three can often overlap, but are importantly separate things. A white guy in that situation won't know what it means to be black like I do, but I will never have a fraction of their knowledge and experience of what it means to grow up to the streets.

Ever since middle school, my "bless you" interaction has always been:

• "Bless you."
• Them: "Thank you."
• "You're welcome."

And whenever I sneeze, it's "bless me, thank me, I'm welcome."

Thank you for attending my TEDtalk.

People that say shit like this don't listen to enough music to make such sweeping claims. Your parents may have had music tastes that you align with closer than that of your teenage years.

Not to mention that the "old music" is fairly selectively the ones that stood the test of time, while the younger generation is still experimenting and figuring things out. Expand your horizons; don't fall victim to the bias.

Yes. And I hate that it's so hard to do now. My generation will always have a phone and earbuds in, and then complain that it's hard to meet people.

I've gotten in an elevator with people my age and received awkward looks and silence when I make even a small comment.