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Please, tell us more about Russia minding its own business.

Sometimes exciting conspiracies hide boring ones. Wuhan is the epicentre of the Chinese wildlife exploitation industry, where endangered animals like pangolins and bats are factory-farmed in disgraceful conditions for folk medicine—conditions that are perfect for naturally accelerating evolution of coronaviruses. The CCP and regional government understandably knew this would look bad if there was global coverage of it, so they kept foreign journalists out.

Unfortunately, some (Facebook-loving) Americans took this tacit admission of wrongdoing and let their imaginations run wild because, true or not, the claim served their political agenda. There's plenty of blame to be heaped at the feet of both Chinese society and the Chinese government for allowing this to happen, but the circlejerk of accusation and hatred keeping the topic in the public consciousness isn't about accountability, so it has no time for anything less than the most salacious and sensational claims.

And to disable thumbnails. And to hide drive letters. And...

I am somewhat appalled at the Ars writer for pretending these options somehow constitute obstruction of progress. No, expecting a prompt before merging folders does not cause random outdated Windows 95 interface elements to burst out of every corner of the OS.

I think the point here is not that Ukraine is a "nazi" country. Parent is drawing a comparison with this statement:

e.g. one can't say DeSantis is a nazi just because some white nationalists support him, any more than you can say Ukraine is nazi because some 'nazis' support the Ukraine. People should be judged by what they say/do, not by who supports them. There are plenty reasons to dislike Santis, but him being supported by some mentally ill people is not one of them.

It may be worth mentioning that if you go west far enough from Australia, you'll eventually reach New Zealand.

It's New Zealand you Muppet. We don't use pounds.

While it's easy to wax poetic about the virtues of the Slashdot moderation system, it can't fix a bland news feed or an ageing community. It's also not entirely immune to bad actors, as the meta-moderation process takes time to work, and an abusive user can still bully you within the scope of a single thread. Take a look at one of the multi-thousand-comment Slashdot stories about political issues and you'll see plenty of people who got voted "-1, Fuck You" by folks that were otherwise upstanding moderators because the other threads, where their reputations for good moderation were built, never really tested their ability to remain impartial—essentially the Slashdot system has the potential to give out fake credentials for sobriety.

I'm afraid I'm a horrifyingly real person and have a pretty long comment history, which you definitely could have read instead of posting this comment.

I dunno. Most of the time I find the YCombinator "Hacker News" feed decent. It might not be your cup of tea if you're genuinely allergic to machine learning, but despite its close association with venture capitalism, it seems to me to be almost entirely free from sponsored bullshit and articles that are obviously motivated by people trying to manipulate investors. While modern Slashdot's AI stories are invariably low-quality second-hand journalism about ethical dilemmas or self-driving, the posts on HN tend to be actually technical. (Like they used to be on Slashdot!) This is something SoylentNews never really attained, since it was emulating a Slashdot that was already pretty run down by the time of the Beta crisis.

I can't help but wonder if Slashdot would have gone down a different path if it had been more Firehose and less "posted-by-editor-so-and-so", but perhaps it's really just found a local minimum where an ageing, ad-clicking readership is kept content with a glorified RSS feed aggregator that just reposts soft, tech-curious Ars Technica, Engadget, and Wired articles without any voice or soul of its own.

Reminder: Pluton and plutocracy share the same root.

I presume he means the TikTok Web page, not your link.

How hard is it for an interviewer to laugh at what is likely a joke then rephrase the question? I wouldn't want to work somewhere where they have no sense of humour.

Unfortunately, that is not how GPT algorithms work.

Like Julian Assange?