People who are used to doing actual research and who understand the necessity of things like a peer review process understand how dangerous it is to have something that’s straight up confidently wrong 20% of the time, and yet have people who treat it like the ultimate authority on things. These people have likely seen AI be stunningly stupid in fields they know about and can extrapolate from there that it’s probably stunningly stupid about most things.

I recommend Connect to everyone. Free, no ads at all, Canadian developer who is super active and has responded to every issue I’ve raised right away and usually fixed it by the next day, tons of customization options, all around the best Lemmy app I’ve used for a number of different reasons.

I’ve pretty much seen the opposite. Windows fanboys love to come up with excuses for why they COULDNT POSSIBLY switch to Linux but most of the Linux users I’ve seen are constantly trying to convince people that it’s NOT that intimidating and that you DON’T need to be a super genius or nerd to use it.

Digg still exists? How is any of this relevant to the fediverse?

THERE. ARE. NO. MUSKETS!

Yeah SG1 is just consistently awesome. Super fun show that doesn’t take itself too seriously but still tells really thought provoking stories.

No like its a combination of fluids, but some only have a certain percentage of active ingredients. Like if you buy a liter of 97% isopropyl alcohol, it’s 3% water. If you then combine that liter with a liter of vodka (40% ethanol) you have a 2 liters of fluid. In the resulting mixture the percentages still don’t add up to 100. They’d actually half. Your finished product would be 48.5% isopropyl, 20% ethanol and the rest water (assuming its super pure vodka). Because the percentages didn’t describe the amount of each in the final mixture, they described the concentration of ‘active’ ingredient in each individual solution. Idk if that’s clear I think that’s the best way I can explain it though.

In case you’re not joking the percentages aren’t amounts of each chemical, they’re the concentration percentage of those chemicals.

I mean this is a super unfair characterization of both of them. While Arthur conan doyle may have believed in the supernatural, he was also a practising doctor. And according to the article, Koch, who had many other accomplishments as well, didn’t present his discovery as a cure at all, and was quick to retract his statement when it didn’t show much therapeutic value. It seems like this was more about the hype over his treatment getting blown out of proportion.

Oh yeah idk, thats the problem with those estimates is people don’t usually buy everything at full price, they rent or wait for sales or subscribe to a streaming service or gamepass, so even if you assume pepple would have bought everything they pirate, how do you assign a value to it. Like i wasn’t even thinking about movie tickets, i was thinking like 20 or 30 bucks for a bluray. Idk how much they are because i haven’t bought any in ages though lol.

Also 90% of the people who work on movies don’t usually get royalties. They’ve already been paid for their work, who cares if the production company CEO gets a few extta bucks?

Hi FBI. I will just say 5000 seems crazy low though, especially if you’re assuming a movie is $20-$30 and a game is like $10-$80. Dunno how you’d calculate tv shows but dvd/bluray seasons/box sets can get real expensive fast.

Junkies also say “i need this for work”. In fact i bet thats a major contributing factor in a lot of addictions - not having 2-7 days free where you can detox and be a sweaty emotional disgusting mess.

Connect (an amazing Canadian lemmy app) automatically shows all the communities a post has been crossposted to above the comments, and shows comment numbers for each of the cross posts. Its made my experience so much better. Theres a ton of other benefits to the app too, and the dev is super quick to respond to any issues. Can’t recommend it enough.

It seems like colony life is really only dangerous and rough when they’re first getting established. In enterprise and strange new worlds most of the colonies further from our solar system probably aren’t ideal, but by TNG there must be hundreds of well-established colonies with high quality of life that we just never see because nothing interesting happens there. I mean at the very least we see the one in the ghost fucking episode where everyone just decided they wanted to live like 1800s scotland, but they were safe and happy there for a long time and there’s no reason they couldn’t have had a more futuristic way of life. Their weather was fully controlled to simulate the highlands.

Yeah this one so much. I think its still amazing and the two seasons can each kinda stand on their own, and still have satisfying endings, but just knowing that they had an entire 5 season arc planned out drives me crazy considering how great that show was.

Blue prince was great, but I found that it got way too repetitive in the (post)endgame and didn’t have enough return on each playthrough to keep me engaged. Theres a real sense of diminishing returns on the exploration and secrets and it takes way too goddamn long to get anything done. I wish there was a way to make more persistent changes that carry through to the next day once you’ve reached the final room.

Iirc what.cd was freeleech for the first week, so i did go nuts. Downloaded anything that seemed popular that didn’t have a huge amount of seeders, and then after the freeleech period ended i downloaded basically every freeleech torrent i could find whether i wanted it or not, just for the seeding. This let me keep quite a good ratio despite having a terrible upload speed at the time. Alot of sites will also give bonus seeder points for uploading new torrents i think, especially if they have a request or bounty system.

Thats literally what everyone thought about hillary and about kamala the first time. I wouldnt bet on people’s dislike of trump who at least managed to win twice (somehow) to vote in kamala who has literally neve come close to winning.

Its literally a false review, designed to counter the multiple negative real reviews that have been left recently. Its a false narrative designed to induce the reader into doubting the ture narrative of the other genuine reviews, or possibly even influence a potential reviewer by coloring their actual experience with the app. Definitely fits the definition you posted, even if its inconsistent with the example they gave.