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paddirn, in Oh No, anyway

“Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, their side, and the truth.”

Cano,

My side is that vaccines do NOT cause autism.

Their side is that vaccines DO cause autism.

So the truth is that vaccines cause autism sometimes?

30p87, (edited )

Plot twist: Autism is causing vaccines /s

haui_lemmy,

Not even that far fetched. A lot of inventors are thought to have been autistic.

lolcatnip,

There’s an xkcd about precisely that observation.

milicent_bystandr, (edited )

Just to be safe, I’m going to assume cancer causes mobile phones.

HikingVet, (edited )

No, Autism isn’t caused by vaccines but the risk of vaccines for everyone is not zero. It’s just the amount of people affected are in the .00X% or .000X% range.

Cano,

Yeah I know, I tried (and failed?) to be funny

blanketswithsmallpox,

No, you had it just fine. You’ll find that an abnormally large amount of ND people hang out on Lemmy though. So many angry comments from people who used to reddit but they’re just angrily agreeing with you the whole time. Like… K lol.

CoggyMcFee,

You succeeded. Your audience failed to have a sense of humor.

cooopsspace,

My side is that many great doctors are autistic, therefore autism causes vaccines.

Retrograde,
@Retrograde@lemmy.world avatar

Nice

Johanno,

No the truth is scientifically proven that they don’t(at least those that are certified in the EU)

Your side may overlap with the truth.

ivanafterall,
@ivanafterall@kbin.social avatar

Understanding sounds a little more like an M1917 trench knife with its triangular stiletto blade.

Melody, (edited ) in Skipping along, missing most of the beats...

Just because someone skips a track doesn’t mean that track was wrong for that playlist. It just means the time was wrong for that track. The mood.

I don’t know if anyone else has noticed; but “Shuffle” used to be a good thing! Now; it frequently just isn’t good at it’s job. There’s no control over the “Randomness” of the shuffle anymore, and there’s no way to turn off any “Algorithm” that promises it can pick the next song better than random shuffling can.

Sometimes that experience of a truly random or an algorithmic shuffle is good; and sometimes it delivers bad options, and being able to say “Nah, I’m just not into this track today, NEXT!” is something I regard as a fundamental right, and something that you too, should do. Skips shouldn’t be precious actions. Your mental heath shouldn’t be impacted by an unlucky shuffle, nor should your mood.

Music is a deep, and almost primal form of expression; and it can express many things. Sooo…Being able to skip the emotional equivalent of a 💩 pile of poo 💩 is actually pretty important…even if it doesn’t 🌹 always (metaphorically) smell 🌸 like poo to you all the time.

Knusper, (edited )

I was only vaguely aware of the algorithm on Spotify and that not being allowed to skip very often is a thing there, and man, this comment read like a completely deranged monologue from some sort of alternative, dystopian reality.

SternburgExport,

algorithm… not being able to skip… Glad I went back to a dedicated mp3 player.

Vuraniute,
@Vuraniute@thelemmy.club avatar

OOTL here, Spotify hasnt done that for me yet.

Knusper, (edited )

I think, it’s only in the free version of Spotify. So, if you’re paying for Spotify Premium, you wouldn’t have that problem.

But I mean, I’m obviously completely out of the Spotify loop, so definitely take that one with a grain of salt…

Transporter_Room_3,
@Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website avatar

Random shuffle really wants me to listen to a specific group of songs on revanced music.

Doesnt matter if I’m listening to rock, musicals, soundtracks, or medieval versions of “pumped up kicks”, it always brings me back to a handful of pop songs after one or two songs.

InfiniWheel,

I remember when I used spotify and it just kept insisting on putting and seemingly prioritizing popular pop songs in its generated playlists if I ever liked just one or two. Even in my own playlist if prioritized them a lot over the songs I did hear over and over again. And like, why??

baltakatei, (edited )

I am fond of a partial shuffle algorithm I wrote in Bash for my music playlists that often preserves neighbors of the input list in the output list.

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  • Blue: input sequence.
  • Red: complete shuffle.
  • Green: partial shuffle.

The result is like skipping through my media library in order but occasionally randomly enabling shuffle to jump to a new place. Since the input list clumps albums together and since albums often have a similar vibe, if I want several similar songs of a particular feel to play one after another, I just have to manually advance through the outputted playlist until I hit a song that has what I’m looking for; then I can let the playlist continue automatically since each subsequent song is likely to be similar to the previous song (until another random jump occurs).

Melody,

Nice. Once upon a time Winamp had a functional preferences slider that controlled the “Shuffle Morph Rate” and I can imagine it likely used a similar algorithm to shuffle.

I only wish this existed in more software in general…and that music players would let you select what method the randomization is achieved with.

ThatWeirdGuy1001,
@ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world avatar

Bro I’m fine with emojis but your placement choice is whack

txmyx, in venture capitalism goes brrr

I really like the update 🤷‍♂️

doublejay1999, in If you needed motivation
@doublejay1999@lemmy.world avatar

LinkedIn vibes

cantstopthesignal, in America: Getting ready for another election. Rest of the world:

Most of us are right there with you. What’s most important though is that most of us in like 4 swing states are also right there with you.

catfish,

lets hope they dont get distracted with the economy or some other shit

tacosplease,

Did you know that Biden is like three and a half years older than Trump? I mean. What were his parents thinking?

anarchy79,
@anarchy79@lemmy.world avatar

Biden? Hah, he can barely string together a coherent sentence! Trump? Uh… USA! USA! USA!

boomzilla, (edited )

Yeah sure. His speeches must be AI generated or he’s already replaced by an android then. Yeah I know what a teleprompter is but he obviously doesn’t read off of them in most of his speeches.

youtu.be/tyLbudG8Z_wyoutu.be/b1ukaC9cSKQwww.youtube.com/live/7qhw0htNtzQ

What’s not coherent about those speeches? Compared to Trump it’s day and night.

spacesweedkid27,

Prolly even like in some red states as well.

The American election system has so many flaws, that I am surprised that no politician cares enough for that to change.

ignotum, (edited )

I saw a video of republicans outraged because someone was apparently trying to change the voting system to use ranked voting, and this would destroy the two-party system (yt link) which apparently would be a horrible thing to happen

Strange that they worship the founding fathers so much and insist that the system they put in place is perfect and must never be changed when John Adams wrote (google books link):

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.

AnarchoSnowPlow,

Things work really well here for you if you’re amoral and wealthy. So like 99% of elected officials.

FlashMobOfOne, in They aren't, and I'm sick of being told they are
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

Private companies are why Flint still has lead water pipes, and why Texas doesn’t have a working power grid, and why you and I are facing a 30%-50% increase in our cost of living.

There needs to be MORE regulation. Not less.

punkwalrus, in They aren't, and I'm sick of being told they are
@punkwalrus@lemmy.world avatar

Having worked for both, I would say that most government offices are eternal, whereas private companies can vanish quickly. Sometimes without warning. Its really hard to kill a government office.

Makes me wonder, how did a necessary office survive during a junta or an overthrow? For example, how did the office of a postal clerk change from 1925 to 1955 in, say, Berlin? How does the average Salvadoran DMV worker view the changes in El Salvador since 1980?

How was a tax office run in ancient Babylon versus a modern one today?

I bet there’s some weird insights into human civilization to be found in those stories.

_danny,

My understanding is that the more removed you are from the “top” of the government pyramid, the less you are affected by disruptions of that position. Largely when a new face or party takes over (by force or otherwise) very seldom do they want to rebuild everything from the ground up and will keep most of the bipartisan offices untouched.

If a very violent coup is successful and they’re planning punishments for all “government officials” the postman in a rural village is going to be pretty low on that list.

lolcatnip,

Same as any other large organization, I suspect.

saltnotsugar, in Me Too, me too...

In the kitchen it hums with delight,

A mischievous microwave, quite a sight.

With a twist of its dial, a dance begins,

Uneven warmth, where chaos wins.

kambusha,

With a flicker and a sarcastic hum,

Microwave, oh marvel, where chaos is spun.

A promise of warmth, a comedic jest,

In your reheating quest, you give us the rest.

FinishingDutch, in do you guys have this movie?
@FinishingDutch@lemmy.world avatar

Heck, even if you subscribed to every streaming service out there, some companies simply refuse to make shit available to you.

I once gave Crunchyroll a try here in Europe. I figured there’d at least be something on there that I’d watch, right? Turns out, everything halfway decent wasn’t available in my region. And you COULD get the good stuff on some other service… except that one’s region locked as well, so you can’t get that one here. Oh and even if you think of buying anime on Blu-Ray? Tough luck, that’s not sold in your region due to rights fuckery. Basically, there’s no way for me to legally watch and/or buy particular content.

Piracy is and always has been an access problem. If you make it impossible to acquire legally, well, people will do it illegally.

Morphior,

That’s why so few people yarrr music. It’s pretty much accessible everywhere, on different platforms, for reasonable prices, with mostly good UIs. I mean, there’s always that person who has 10+ TB of FLAC files on their server and good for them but most people just pay the [equivalent of 10 USD] per month (or less on a family plan) to get access to everything at a reasonable quality (I mean, you get 1400 Kbit/s FLACs with Deezer Premium). As other people here have said, it’s always an access and convenience thing.

FinishingDutch,
@FinishingDutch@lemmy.world avatar

Exactly. I used to carry an iPod with loads of music on it. So did everyone else. But these days, nobody even uses an MP3 player. Heck, I don’t have a single MP3 on my phone. Streaming through YouTube Music is all I really need. And it works great for my normie taste in music.

Now, my brother is really into video game midi music and such, so he does have a digital collection of files. But for us normal people, downloading music is simply a thing of the past.

CowsLookLikeMaps, in Need to update the meme

Kissinger, the Forrest Gump of war crimes.

BaronVonBort,

My mama always said life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what country’s sovereignty you’re gonna violate.

AceFuzzLord, (edited ) in I'm gonna pee in a Hot Topic

Yo! I’d absolutely be down to see a super edgy Shadow who just happens to be that way because he’s closeted and ends up having feelings for Sonic! I doubt they have enough balls to do it, but I’d love to see it!

That, or because of his edge and being in some sort of suspended animation chamber for too long, Shadow is severely out of date with what he can and cannot say and do, similar to Abraham Lincoln in the Clone High reboot.

Edit: I accidentally mistook Abe for George Washington

mindbleach,

Shadow to be voiced by Brendan Fraser?

Sky_Lobster, in I'll do it tomorrow I swear

With kids this is too real. I’m so tired of folding tiny shirts and tiny pants. 😭

lobut,

I do it while watching TV or something. It never seems to stop though. Even better when the kids spill something on the couch or wet the bed and you have to do impromptu laundry in the middle of the non-stop laundry.

agamemnonymous, (edited )
@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works avatar

If they’re too young to fold their own, they’re small enough that their clothes should be able to just lay flat in the drawer.

blanketswithsmallpox,

You fold your toddlers laundry lol?

Yeah they get immediately stuffed into their corresponding drawers. They rip half them out anyway.

As for when they get older for school… Their shit is getting rolled just like mine. Way easier, more compact, and able to see what’s what immediately after opening your drawer. They’ll be helping the whole time.

lichtmetzger, (edited ) in Because customers don't need to easily filter away some stuff from their searches

Aliexpress search is just the worst in that regard. “Hey I want to buy microchip X123457” - “Sure, here are some other totally different chips and a few iPhone cases for you”.

Without site:aliexpress.com and search engines I would never find anything on there.

ICastFist,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

Not to mention that it changes the actual results if you decide to use any of its shitty filters or even order by price. Like, if your search result had 4 pages and you order by price, suddenly it’s now 2 pages. My bet is shady assholery to fuck with sellers that aren’t paying enough, much like Amazon

hh93, in Take that YouTube

Or use adnauseam and fuck up their ad-tracking infrastructure beyond just blocking the ads

programmer_belch,
@programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

A miniscule amount of tomfoolery

Wxnzxn,
@Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml avatar

I actually had to get rid of adnauseam because YT detected it pretty consistently, ublock origin as of this comment still works fine on YT though.

takeda,

From what I understand AdNauseum is built on top of uBlockOrigin so you supposed use it instead. The thing is that it isn’t as frequently updated and due to recent YouTube wars this is currently required.

deadcatbounce, in Japan is on its own wavelength.
@deadcatbounce@reddthat.com avatar

When you’re naming a file, you can’t use anything else.

LemmyKnowsBest,

You’re not wrong. through much trial and error in the 1990s I learned this was the most efficient & accurate & chronologically searchable way to date things.

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