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  1. Re:How Motherboards makes money on clickbait garba on How Etsy Sellers and Big Business Make Money on Public Domain Art (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Like posting on /., right? Yeesh.

  2. Re:Where does ANY information come from? on Do Social Media Bots Have a Right To Free Speech? (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    Pretty much everything that is written online has some element of "coming from a computer".

    Not in the way normal, everyday people understand that phrase. Only pedants tread that far. The rest is further pedantry.

  3. No, you dumbfuck. on Do Social Media Bots Have a Right To Free Speech? (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 2

    They're goddamn programs.

  4. Re:Oh Lord no, on People Older Than 65 Share the Most Fake News, Study Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Older folk are more set in their ways and are far more likely to accept a story, that they have a built in bias and inclination for.

    I was unaware that the bulk of polisci and women's studies students were older people.

  5. Re:Changing times on People Older Than 65 Share the Most Fake News, Study Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    But the noise-to-signal ratio was still WAY better than what we have today.

    I was there. No it wasn't.

    Old-school news were actually news, later it was replaced with opinion pieces

    Duranty. Cronkite.

  6. Re:Also ignores the fact... on Cancer in America Is Way Down, For the Wealthy Anyway (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. People tend to 'debate' these things as if they occur in isolation. We see more cancer because we've (mostly) wiped polio, tuberculosis, whooping cough, measles, flu (again mostly), pneumonia and many other killers. What we have left is basically what we haven't conquered - cancer.

  7. Re:Cancer going away for wealthy soon on Cancer in America Is Way Down, For the Wealthy Anyway (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Cancer existed in 1 out of 100 humans a century ago.

    Yeah, no. "Read up. "Anti-cancer drugs made their entrance in the 1940s."(from second) Very nice step-by-step timeline of all the milestones in the second.

    We simply detect much more of it earlier and are more successful in the treatment now.

  8. China's population problem is due to their birth policies. It supports neither side of this debate.

  9. Re:I'd eat vat grown or irradiated beef before thi on The Impossible Burger 2.0 Is a Plant-Based Beef Replacement That Uses Soy Instead Wheat Protein To Take On New Forms (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Just as there are hidden subsidies for soy and corn. Don't pretend either side is lacking.

  10. That may be what you tell yours, but I'll cook up a real meat burger for mine.

  11. Re:Social media just died for political use on Politicians Cannot Block Social Media Foes, US Appeals Court Rules (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    What you described them doing *is* part of controlling the narrative.

  12. What YouTube channels you addicted yourself to to arrive at those views is disturbing. Re your current rating: you're either trolling or very seriously deluded.

  13. Re:Pretty easy fix: on National Parks Face Years of Damage From Government Shutdown (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Your mistake is that it wouldn't be a waste.

  14. Re:Fake is not a catch all word on FBI Investigating Fake Texts Sent To GOP House Members (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dear Mr Pedant: fake is in common use as a synonym for fraudulent and has been for many decades.

  15. Re:Only if the Medium was Reasonably Negligent on Grindr Harassment Victim Asks: Are Tech Companies Immune From Product Liablity Laws? (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    How can a dating site reasonably protect people from misuse?

    Perhaps by honoring the court ordered restraining order against Grindr that required the company to disable the impersonating profiles? Not doing so is what ya call being "reasonably negligent".

  16. Summary pointed to no such thing. This case is about Grindr ignoring the law. From NBC.

    The alleged harassment continued for months, even after Herrick obtained a temporary restraining order against Grindr that required the company to disable the impersonating profiles.

    Emphasis mine. Had Grindr simply flagged and disabled the harassing profiles, this case wouldn't exist.

    Spout your open source screed somewhere it applies.

  17. Re:Speak a language they can understand on Anti-Tesla Pickup Truck Drivers Take Over a Supercharger Station -- Again (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    LOLOL You're a posing liar. Great preening though.

  18. Re:Time to split the USA on Anti-Tesla Pickup Truck Drivers Take Over a Supercharger Station -- Again (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't get all that high and mighty about who is the most polluting. Of the ten top polluted cities, CA has 8 and the other two are Phoenix and New York City.

    The only river I've ever seen on fire was in the upper east coast, not the middle or south.

  19. Re:Time to split the USA on Anti-Tesla Pickup Truck Drivers Take Over a Supercharger Station -- Again (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Your second sentence has it backwards. The "completely different view of gov't" was around before Fox, et al.

  20. Dude, you're harshing the narrative.

  21. Re:Extreme dumbassery on both sides. on Anti-Tesla Pickup Truck Drivers Take Over a Supercharger Station -- Again (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Self-assumed victim preening.

  22. Re:LOLZ - mostly not happening on Anti-Tesla Pickup Truck Drivers Take Over a Supercharger Station -- Again (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    So you agree, the article is bullshit spin.

  23. Re:I really don’t get it on Anti-Tesla Pickup Truck Drivers Take Over a Supercharger Station -- Again (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Oh fucking please. You're just spouting enclave paranoias. As another commenter said, people usually own one vehicle. If it's a pickup, that's what they drive. A million pickups plus sold each year; the numbers say you're hysterical.

  24. Re: What if they (plants) use up all the oxygen? on Scientists Have 'Hacked Photosynthesis' To Boost Crop Growth By 40 Percent (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Neither of those links support your assertion that at night plants consume all (or even most) of the O2 they produce during the day ("more or less balances with what they release in the day").

  25. Re:What if they (plants) use up all the oxygen? on Scientists Have 'Hacked Photosynthesis' To Boost Crop Growth By 40 Percent (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Yeow. Back to school with you, sir. If what you say were true, animals would deplete the O2 and we'd all be dead.