Posts by imanidiot

Re: Delighted ...

Shirley that's mostly a surfeit of gasBAGS. Mostly found in and around the Houses of Parliament.

Re: Couple of things

"but when you tell a regulatory agency to suck your cock... the gloves come off."

Depends on the regulatory agency. For some of them the (blue latex) gloves might be snapped ON. (and you'll be firmly told to bend over and cough if you catch my drift.)

Unless I missed it skimming the paper, I see no mention of any of these measures being taken. It's unclear if and how previous video watching history would impact the skew of videos, nor if there was any attempt to mitigate this.

The whole point about echo chambers is that selection bias is the whole thing about having an echo chamber. People aren't random, the normal function of the algorithm and it's relation to any echo chamber effect. Putting any conclusion on this is pointless exactly BECAUSE there is no selection bias at all to feed the algorithm one way or the other. 20 videos is probably not enough (especially on a "fresh" adsense account) for the algorithm to do much else but show random videos so ofcourse any "skew" is going to be limited.

Using Reddit for nearly anything is a terrible idea, using it for anything political doubly so. The place is a shitshow and a cesspool on all sides and it's so full of trolls it's often harder to distinguish the real posts from the shit-posting and trolling than on even 4chan.

As for my bright idea for these researchers, go and learn a real area of science and get a proper job. Social "sciences" very very very rarely actually science. There is no way to research this objectively and scientifically.

The YT algorithm vastly out-recommending thumbnails with a wacky face and clickbaity titles is a well documented fact by this point. Plenty of youtube video's about it too. You CAN break through this though, I hardly get any clickbaity titles with stupid thumbnails because (by-and-large) I ignore them at all times.

As to the gun thing, it seems that YouTube tried something silly like screening off anything gun related into a separate bubble, but the end effect of that is that once you (or the algorithm) accidentally stumble over the (very low) garden fence and into the moat around the pit, you're suddenly trapped in there.

Re: Do NOT rinse after brushing - re-mineralization proceeds for at least 30 minutes

I would if they would stop making every single smegging toothpaste so minty it makes me want to gag. I want that shit out of my mouth asap. And because of the addition of those useless foaming agents it usually also means having to rinse like 10 times because it just keeps sticking around.

It's easy to let people think you have a 100% success rate if you never tell them about all the launch attempts that exploded on the pad or seconds into flight.

Re: Screw them

"That's what happens when we keep voting for Tories."

No, that's what happens when all you have to vote for is idiot career politicians who have no idea how the real world works. Tories might be a tad worse for one fraction of the populace, while Labour is a tad worse for a different bit of the populace but overall the message is always "bend over and take it pleb". No matter the political affiliation.

Re: As an adult….

Discord, IF properly monitored by the parents can be fine. I don't know if it has parental controls (like locking which discord groups the sprog can join) but if it's just a limited group of classmates or friends it's probably easier to monitor their activities on that discord than it would be if they were hanging out somewhere IRL. It's only a cesspool if the groups the child is in is a cesspool, making it potentially less harmful (or more so, since peer groups amongst kids can be brutal) I understand the caution but Discord nowadays seems to be the digital equivalent of hanging out at the local playground for many kids, so preventing them from joining might make it more difficult for them to socialize with their peers.

I see far fewer redeeming qualities, if any at all, in the majority of the other "social" media platforms.

Re: @Neil Barnes

As said before, even if it's not a reason for Russia to invade, Ukraine's extremist Nazi/nationalist problem is real

Re: It's really easy to spot Putin's shills after they get going

"why would they not let Putin bring himself down?"

Because the people waiting in the wings to put the dagger in his back are probably far worse. NATO's interest stop at making sure Russia will not get any bright ideas about invading NATO countries. Backing Ukraine with weapons and materiel helps make sure Russia loses much of it's teeth with (comparatively) little cost to NATO countries (Not counting the Ukrainians ofcourse) .

Re: Russian appeasement

If the Russia has 1000 nukes (they have more but anyway) and only 10% of them works that's still 100 nuclear explosions. Certainly not a prospect that falls under "we could risk it" in any way.

Re: Russian appeasement

" Ukraine has to content itself with shelling an NPP instead"

Both Ukraine and Russia have been firing on NPPs. Russian forces in all their well-trained wisdom even dug trenches (by hand) and other fortifications around Chernobyl, probably giving a lot of them radiation poisoning in the process. Russian forces also seem to have no qualms about hiding equipment and possibly even firing artillery from the grounds of Zaporizhia which is just asking for trouble too.

"Russia's last demand was for Ukraine's neutrality, and setting up DPR & LPR as autonomous regions". And if Russia hadn't been threatening Ukraine continuously with invasion and feeding weapons and funds to radical independence groups/rebels in said regions Ukraine might actually have remained neutral. Right up until the last invasion (even after the unlawful annexation of Crimea) most of Europe (and Ukraine itself) wanted to remain neutral. But Russia had other plans. Even if DPR and LPR had become autonomous regions Moscow would just have continued stirring shit until they "voluntarily" fell under Russian control.

There isn't going to be peace by acquiescing to Russias demands and feeding the beast. It's about time the EU frees itself from the clutches of Russia and the USA, but I doubt that's going to happen (Few seem to realize the influence of the US). And yes, it's going to be a painful, potentially deadly to some process. We're going to end up in a war otherwise, which would be worse.

Re: Nice one, Zelensky and Putin. Well Played, Sirs. We thank you for your Service

The only thing that economically killed Greece is Greece. Economically Greece is now in a far better and far more stable place than it has been for decades and it's no longer even one of the nations I'd be worried about bringing the collapse of the EU and Euro zone (Italy, Spain and France will get us there probably).

There was plenty of solidarity from the EU (and still is) with untold billions from those bail-out packages and the economic funds set up to bail out Greece and other nations now weighing on the economic necks of EU nations like a mill stone. But somehow saying: "You can get the money only if you get your shit together so we won't have to do this again" makes it a "piranha infested toilet bowl"...

Re: Nice one, Zelensky and Putin. Well Played, Sirs. We thank you for your Service

US lend-lease was by no means as magnanimous as you make it out to be. It purposefully indebted nations to the US so they couldn't be an economic threat post war.

gemeinnützig -> "For the benefit of society" is probably the closest english translation afaik

Re: Has anybody thought..

If we ever encounter space rocks moving at relativistic speeds we'd certainly have a lot of problems (or never have problems again probably). At those speeds even a tiny bit of rock can be a planet killer.

Re: Has anybody thought..

It's not even an 18 second change on the orbit of 770 days I think as most of the velocity change of dimorphos is it's orbital velocity around the parent body, for the total system I think that only equates to a small change in angular velocity so likely it'll only change the rotational speed or wobble of Didymos. It's orbital period is probably less affected.

Re: Follower pics?

You're thinking of LICIAcube. The first pictures have been downloaded but it's a slow process and only a few of them have been released at this time

(https://www.nasa.gov/feature/first-images-from-italian-space-agency-s-liciacube-satellite). Due to the small size of the cubesat and the distance involved, downlink speeds are very low and it'll take a few more weeks to get all the data back.

The problem is that lately it seems like payment processors (like Paypal or credit card processors like Master and Maestro) are starting to band together and coordinate such things, which makes it basically impossible for some even legit businesses (like porn producers) to find a non-sketchy payment processor to do business with.Such coordinated actions basically make it impossible for groups to operate. Right now its mostly fringe loons like those FSU and UST, but it sets a precedent and a very slippery slope I for one would prefer we didn't tread on.

Re: Good luck getting another job

In the Netherlands this sort if thing is pretty normal, it happens more often. His name isn't widely out there to find attached to the case like it would be in the US (because we have sensible privacy laws) and even if it was, unless his next employer is planning to break the law in the same way they have nothing to fear. The vast majority of dismissals happen more or less amicably without the courts involved, but if a company pulls a stunt like this a fired worker isn't usually blamed for getting what he is due under the law.

Also, asking about or even using something like this against a person when hiring is also considered unlawful discrimination so... few companies who actually now how to operate in the Netherlands would even consider it.. Easier and cheaper to just stick to the law