nymwit

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Where were you in '91? You could have won Randi's prize! wikipedia on Dowsing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Good linking. The book says it's for a quarter acre, not a tenth. This was on reddit the other day (and it's credited as such). Exact same wording and everything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Where I was going was: effects can be different even if all choices and results are unethical. If one cares about the possible impacts of ones actions, consideration beyond "well it's all unethical, so whatever" could be warranted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

are all unethical choices equal? Surely there are better and worse things?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just criticises? Not "slams", "destroys", or eviscerates? Weak. No rage click from me.

[–] [email protected] 141 points 10 months ago (12 children)

groan

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know ~~Just Made A Great Point~~ uses the comma the way you think it should be used

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It does smack of hypocrisy but I've been feeling more it's a paradox of tolerance thing. Which itself a sort of hypocrisy now that I'm thinking about it. Huh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If I don't show you a video because I don't think you'd enjoy it, that's different from not showing it to you because I don't want you to see it.

I wouldn't disagree those are different reasons for not wanting to show a video but both are curations based on biases.

I guess I just have a more neutral connotation for bias than "biased against you for others' own interests" and so I didn't find bias to be a useful term here to distinguish the reasons behind curation choices.

Nothing really in disagreement here, just fiddling with common usage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

hey it says "in" not "up". Just gotta lay down or maybe go inverted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

...looks like she's trying to persuade people concerned with climate change?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

How is bias not inherent to curation? Preference for one thing over another is bias. Curation is literally showing you things it thinks you're biased to like. These groups aren't revealing their secret sauce for curation algorithms so we'd never know anyway.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (18 children)

Antivax crowd no longer drinking milk I guess

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