“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: […] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.” —Jonathan Swift
Damn, then it’s depressingly unfunny.
If I make some shit up and post it in /c/politicalmemes without actually trying to be funny, can I similarly write it off as “jk bro don’t take everything so seriously” whenever someone points out that it’s bullshit? Did we not learn our lesson from “it’s just a meme bro” as a justification after 2016 when disinformation in memes got a white supremacist conman elected president?
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Followed by no source. I don’t know if this is supposed to be a joke, but it presents as a statement of fact. “Fox News has been advised” by literally who, and what numbers do we have that the viewers “are finding it appealing”? Anyone can “advise Fox News”. Fox News, if you’re listening: get more fiber in your diet. Make sure you take breaks to stand up and walk around if sitting for prolonged periods.
(Crocodilians are not, taxonomically, dinosaurs. Both are archosaurs, but dinosaurs are in a different intradivision of archosaurs. Either way, “fuck people, man.”)
I think the counter to that is that:
they completely dropped the ball with her toward the end of the show. She went from, I think, a great allegory for a religious radical right wing capitalizing off her people’s suffering but in a way she could genuinely warp her beliefs into thinking was for the greater good…
… to, I mean, come on… Having her go totally crazed with power and disavowing the Prophets wasn’t the problem; it’s that it was stupid, egregiously paced, totally unearned MacGuffin power without grounded stakes that only served to make an already-rushed resolution to the show feel even more rushed.
He looks like a Viltrumite with a meth addiction.
Social media users need to be plied with meaningless imagery to keep them focused for the three seconds it takes to read this. It’s absolutely fucking pathetic.
Also tells me this is 100% a barely functioning piece of trash they whipped up with an LLM like a whiny, shit-smearing toddler.
Go Map!! is the one on iOS that I know of; seems similar to Vespucci on Android. I haven’t ever used it not having used iOS, so I can’t speak to it, but it seems to have a lot going for it.
Wheelbender my beloved
Absolutely, and I forgot to mention that in the US, we do keep up with Flock. In my experience, mappers have been surprisingly prompt with it too, which makes me really happy.
Oh, okay, so you’re not even going to acknowledge you had no idea what you were talking aboutand claimed the 3.8% didn’t include food and energy.
Cool.
Oh, okay, so you’re just talking out of your ass. You’re thinking of the Core CPI, but there are others, just as valid, that take it into account and which are used in things like legislation. It is because they’re too volatile, and you want Core CPI to give a more stable understanding of which direction the economy is generally moving. Such a crazy, whacky idea to have multiple metrics that take into account different factors; fucking bonkers, honestly. What will those filthy, mustache-twirling government economists think of next?
And by the way: 3.8% does include all items. 3.8% is not the Core CPI you have sand in your groin over; it’s the CPI-U.
Maybe you can make fun of the “respected economist” when you’re ready to present a macroecon 101-level or higher understanding of CPI and get your facts straight about the article I’m sure you actually read.
Edit: Here’s the press release, for context. Less food and energy is 2.8%.
Edit 2: Zero acknowledgement they’re objectively wrong about food and energy not being included in the 3.8%. Very cool, Lemmy.
Unequivocally, yes, very helpful. The strength of projects like OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia comes from their numbers– from parallelism.
Think of it like a race against the physical infrastructure: looking at the specific things you contribute, you are vastly outpacing the infrastructure. If you notice a speed limit has changed and correct it, that’s probably set for an extremely long time relative to the age of the project. You’ve fixed in 30 seconds what will remain for perhaps a decade. Once you’re maintaining the infrastructure and not just building it out, the race is won on breadth of effort, being able to quickly respond to small issues. Small issues only consistently get noticed if there are a lot of people on the look-out. You’re one of those people.
Source: seen too much shit.
Just keep in mind this was just a bunch of random ideas, so it’s all very surface-level and not at all a guide. None of these actually fully tell you how to do the thing, so being confused is 100% normal.
I mean, yes, I did win an argument on the Internet; it’s just not something to be proud of. Wrapping getting your point destroyed in a warm, fuzzy blanket of “the other person pointing out an obvious contradiction I left dangling almost like a baited fishing hook must be a loser lol” is unsurprisingly pathetic and insecure.
You mean like how you spelled “proofreading” as “proof reading”, not even the uncommon variant – “proof-reading” – that uses a hyphen?
France’s health minister, Stéphanie Rist, said on Tuesday that while it wasn’t currently clear whether the hantavirus strain involved in the outbreak may have mutated, officials were “rather reassured”.
Rist told the National Assembly: “There are things … we do not know about this virus. We do not yet have the complete sequencing of the virus, which allows us to say with certainty today, even if we are rather reassured to date … that this virus has not yet mutated.”
It’s quite literally a joke about the Antarctica trip. There was one who changed their mind and was heavily ostracized for it.
Mamdani making T. Swizzle pay NYC taxes was the reason he balanced the budget? I thought it’s because he negotiated with NY state for aid (which, fair game; NYC pays more in taxes than it gets back), delayed the city pension, and is finalizing a pied-à-terre tax.
What meaningful raise on Taylor Swift’s taxes has Zohran Mamdani imposed? Did she not pay taxes before? What’s the source here?
The real world is allowed to be complicated and messy, and ironically, reducing it to “hurr durr he taxed Taylor Swift” is doing a disservice to what Mamdani actually managed to work out to balance the budget – which is imperfect, but he inherited a $12 billion deficit from a grifter. It’s good for what it is.