Comment Re:Opening with a spudger (Score 1) 24
Put caps lock on the bottom
Comment Figures (Score 0) 7
Murrica
Comment Re:Pornhub is Canadian (Score 1) 81
No sex please. We're British.
Comment Recalling when they came on the scene (Score -1, Redundant) 93
They sucked from the word go. The rest of us were already listening to Floyd, Sabbath, Zeppelin, etc. There was no comparison.
Comment Re:Definitely there is minimal free market at work (Score 3, Interesting) 148
I do 90% of my Canadian shopping from sidewalk markets here in Vancouver. Family owned, prices are at least 30% cheaper than major chains. I will go to the no-frills for paper towels though. It looks like a free market to me.
Comment Re:dietary omega3 not supplements? (Score 1) 65
I meant there's lots of studies, not lots of difference
Comment dietary omega3 not supplements? (Score 1) 65
"observational findings are based on omega-3 levels in the diet, not from supplement use, some experts say"
Here's a study showing no difference between dietary and supplemental (there's lots). Which makes sense - it's a lipid, just take with food. It's used therapeutically routinely.
https://www.ahajournals.org/do...
Comment Re: Anonymity HELPS? (Score 1) 293
People that merely donated to the truckers also had thier bank accounts frozen. That's pretty wild.
Not true, although the emergency measures act allows for that. They froze the accounts of the grifters, not the marks.
Comment Re:That is not how you get a corporation to listen (Score 1) 170
... After the Canadian government froze the bank accounts of people who contributed to the truck protest, you'd have to be a complete moron to give them your data.
Who told you that? And why did you believe it?
Comment Re:Fuck off Canada (Score 2) 170
The Freedom Convoy was the voice of the people in all its glory and Trudeau managed to poison even that in the minds of many, probably 40%.
Voice of the people??? 40%??? The Freedom Convoy was an anti-vax fringe movement with support numbers in the single digits if that. They got all wound up in their Internet bubble and decided to take it on the road to the Nation's capital. The result was a farce, although they raised lots of money because that's what grifters do.
Conservatives Bombarded With Facebook Misinformation Far More Than Liberals In 2020 Election, Study Suggests (forbes.com) 424
According to new research published Thursday, conservatives on Facebook during the 2020 presidential election were more isolated and saw more misinformation than the platform's liberal users -- though Facebook widely affected users' political content in different ways. Slashdot reader RUs1729 shared one of the four peer-reviewed studies, appearing in the journals Science and Nature. Forbes reports: The study, led by two researchers from the University of Texas and New York University, had hundreds of thousands of participants and analyzed mass amounts of Facebook user data. One of the study's papers, which used aggregated data for 208 million U.S. Facebook users, found that most misinformation on Facebook existed within conservative echo chambers, which did not have an equivalent on the liberal side of the platform. The paper found that news outlets on the right post a higher fraction of news stories rated false by Meta's third-party fact-checking program, meaning conservative audiences are more exposed to unreliable news.
In a separate paper that assigned users to Facebook and Instagram feeds chronologically instead of algorithm-based feeds, which are the platforms' default feed types, researchers found users on chronological feeds were less engaged and saw more political content compared to those viewing algorithm-based feeds, along with more content from untrustworthy sources and more content from ideologically moderate friends and sources with mixed audiences. However, the feed analysis noted replacing algorithmic feeds with chronological ones did not create any detectable changes in political attitudes, knowledge or offline behavior.
Another paper assigned nearly 9,000 U.S.-based Facebook users feeds with no reshares, later concluding that the removal of reshared content "substantially" lessened the amount of political news, and content from all untrustworthy sources decreased overall. The two lead researchers and 15 other academics, who had control rights for the study's papers, declined compensation from Meta to ensure an ethical study was completed.
In a separate paper that assigned users to Facebook and Instagram feeds chronologically instead of algorithm-based feeds, which are the platforms' default feed types, researchers found users on chronological feeds were less engaged and saw more political content compared to those viewing algorithm-based feeds, along with more content from untrustworthy sources and more content from ideologically moderate friends and sources with mixed audiences. However, the feed analysis noted replacing algorithmic feeds with chronological ones did not create any detectable changes in political attitudes, knowledge or offline behavior.
Another paper assigned nearly 9,000 U.S.-based Facebook users feeds with no reshares, later concluding that the removal of reshared content "substantially" lessened the amount of political news, and content from all untrustworthy sources decreased overall. The two lead researchers and 15 other academics, who had control rights for the study's papers, declined compensation from Meta to ensure an ethical study was completed.
Comment Re:Twitter situation (Score 1) 160
Musk isn't a pedo guy, Musk *called* someone a pedo guy, which is modern slang for "old creepy guy" and has nothing to do with pedophilia. We know this is correct because it went to court and that's what the court decided.
Son, "lecher" is the word you are grasping for. It means old creepy guy. "Pedo" is an abbreviation of pedophile, and no it is not a synonym for lecher. Contact the school you went to and demand a refund.
Comment Re:Who said replace? (Score 2) 143
Just because Poettering wrote systemd and pulseaudio doesn’t mean you have to use them. Oh wait..,
Slackware over here. What is this systemd of which you speak?
Comment Lisp (Score 1) 81
I like the Common Lisp part.
Comment Re:Edge Browser qu'est-ce c'est? (Score 1) 72
My point being Edge is a horrendous branding decision and one should always check the Urban Dictionary first.
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