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New comment by redavni in "Conspiracy theorists unaware their beliefs are on the fringe"

redavni — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 22:31:48 +0000

Conspiratorial networks? I'm not wasting my time reading research which is probably entirely intentionally incorrect conspiracy theories that people believe. Might was well have done research into whether people believe Gone With The Wind was actual history. Reading the research is not necessary because of the framing. The framing makes the research useless for truth seeking.

The idea here is exactly what you say, belief in authority because science people spend time on it. Essentially this is science as religion. Which was exactly my point.

New comment by redavni in "Conspiracy theorists unaware their beliefs are on the fringe"

redavni — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:18:04 +0000

The dichotomy of conspiracy theory / not conspiracy theory is semantic poison. This entire article is reinforcement. Do you see it?

Are you the kind of person who believes convincing sounding research from an Ivy League school posted on social media and wikipedia articles? Is your epistemology based in socialmediaism?

New comment by redavni in "Yes I Will Read Ulysses Yes"

redavni — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 22:14:32 +0000

Dude has a mildly traumatic experience in a high pressure environment at which he pushed through, and you respond with toxicity and name calling? This is not OK behavior for an adult. Do better.

New comment by redavni in "Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI"

redavni — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:43:02 +0000

analyzing and modifying a user interface in realtime?

New comment by redavni in "Google restricts Android sideloading"

redavni — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 21:38:11 +0000

I would love to, but this is the wrong forum. This is going to sound weird if you understand these events purely literally, but me and you are ideologically aligned, but not dialectically aligned. There is a much greater truth to this entire situation.

New comment by redavni in "Google restricts Android sideloading"

redavni — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 18:27:38 +0000

When you understand that this is not literally the truth, but is actually still true.

New comment by redavni in "The Gmail app will now create AI summaries"

redavni — Fri, 30 May 2025 21:46:07 +0000

Been using this in our Workplace account. Most people don't like it because they are luddites, but I absolutely love the summaries for those multi-week 50 email threads. Also the ability to quickly insert an absurdly overly formal response to a simple request as a joke is amusing.

I do wish it had the ability to respond to emails for me though with a prompt.

New comment by redavni in "[dead]"

redavni — Thu, 22 May 2025 22:44:04 +0000

My statement was intended to alleviate the tension caused by semantic dissonance that was created by the authoritative title and the the authors statement that this is an editorial opinion.

Welcome to the future.

New comment by redavni in "[dead]"

redavni — Thu, 22 May 2025 21:39:10 +0000

The Economist is a European publication owned by Italian owners of Fiat, Rothschilds, and other British families. This article is attributed to "Leaders" which means it is an editorial position of the publication.

New comment by redavni in "Google scraps minimum wage, benefits rules for suppliers and staffing firms"

redavni — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 22:43:43 +0000

The end result is that the NLRB decision potentially made life worse for affected employees. Poor grasp of cause and effect at the labor board.

New comment by redavni in "Hackers threatening to publish a stolen sanctions and financial crimes watchlist"

redavni — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 20:55:54 +0000

I'd be wondering if sending the request was enough to get you on the list.

New comment by redavni in "Tesla Cybertruck deliveries halted for 7 days"

redavni — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 18:12:43 +0000

So why do we sell cars at all? They are the 3rd leading cause of death since before Elon Musk and yourself were born.

New comment by redavni in "Surprising public health benefit of unemployment?"

redavni — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 20:43:12 +0000

I didn't read the entire paper, but I don't see lowered stress and lack of sleep mentioned anywhere. These would be the most obvious answers and should be addressed.

https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Lives-vs...

New comment by redavni in "Nobody Wants to Buy the Future: Why Science Fiction Literature Is Vanishing"

redavni — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:32:01 +0000

Agreed. The bookshelves have been full of terrible sci-fi for over a decade now. I have given up on the book sellers and the awards (Hugo, Nebula etc). I do read sci-fi almost every day though still. Almost all of it from Kindle Unlimited.

This article could probably be summarized as "People don't read anymore".

New comment by redavni in "Weather forecasts have become more accurate"

redavni — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 16:36:54 +0000

There is a gap between the title of the article and the contents. Starts out with weather forecasting is improved, but spends most of the article talking about how poor people and countries have other things to spend their money on than forecasting weather.

New comment by redavni in "Benzene Found in Acne Creams Including Proactiv, Clearasil"

redavni — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 21:28:19 +0000

No, but I breathe oxygen radicals 24 hours a day and so do you. A study about the free radical content of the air in a bag of Lay's Potato Chips is pretty pointless despite it being proven to cause cell death.

New comment by redavni in "Private company landing on the moon today"

redavni — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:56:06 +0000

> Note: one of my neighbors does this, by having an AP on every 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz channel.

Sounds like a fun and ethical excuse to DOS some WIFI routers.

New comment by redavni in "The Ultraviolet Myth"

redavni — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:58:54 +0000

It has been repeated by YouTube "science communicators" quite frequently and very recently.

New comment by redavni in "Receiving weather satellite images using SatDump"

redavni — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 21:05:10 +0000

Google Cloud and AWS host the netcdf GOES archives among others. They are all there.

https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/noaa-pu...

New comment by redavni in "Receiving weather satellite images using SatDump"

redavni — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 20:58:59 +0000

The Thought Emporium made a great series on this. There are more these days though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGWFg7EDnyY