TaiCrunch

I really hope there comes a day where all this nonsense builds up and finally ends with "algorithms" imploding on themselves.

An unrealistic hope, but a hope nonetheless.

I had a long, exhausting conversation with my father-in-law last week where my son and I both had to explain to him the basic fundamentals of what science actually is, how the scientific method works, and why and how the NSF awards grants.

We also kept having to explain that just because there's some junk science put out by bad actors to line up with an agenda, that doesn't mean all science is junk. We also, also, kept having to explain that there isn't some "the government" conspiracy manipulating all science behind the scenes to push out things that will kill us (that's good old capitalism, baby!)

AND the fact that science rarely gives you a hard, definite answer one way or the other because it's not meant to. And that continuously changing scientific consensus is not only a good thing, but that's how it's supposed to work.

AND! why the Joe Rogan thought process of "every conclusion is equally as valid regardless of evidence or actual knowledge" is not only invalid but incredibly dangerous, and further explaining the idea of the hierarchy of evidence, and that individual people are not sources, even if they're a PhD at Harvard or Stanford.

All that to say he stills sees this as a great thing. Because Fox News and Newsmax.

It's not a tax break. Emissions standards for vehicles were established a couple decades ago. Some lobbying happened, as it does, and an exception was given to pickup trucks. Not an exception carving out work trucks in particular, just all pickups. Then someone had the idea to build a minivan around a pickup truck chassis and now we have SUVs everywhere.

Same way that kid with the hot mom felt?

I'd rather see Chrono Break revived.

I can say, at least in government, that open source is almost entirely used as a cost-saving measure, but it's implemented so poorly (by the time a piece of software makes it through the proper channels for verification, it's already several major releases behind. Which explains why CentOS is still so prevalent) that the general opinion becomes "open-source is just a cheap substitute for a superior commercial product."

The second a platform becomes a viable avenue for advertisement is when it stops being viable for any kind of quality.

Not that AI does a lot good at that, anyway.

Now's the time to host your own mirror: https://github.com/pirate/wikipedia-mirror

Meh, it's a modern wholesome retelling of the ISIS was/was joke. It's acceptable.

Or just buy it.

Or a good old USB stick!

Were you looking in 2001?