This really sucks; it was very very VERY helpful to be able to quickly download attachments for a given release

This doesn’t make sense? They’re giving out a mother of pearl spoon, ~$125 worth of caviar, crème fraiche, and a $25 gift card on top of that for free?

This has been a thing for years although it used to be sketchy blogs (and probably still is tbf in addition to this). Back in the days of rapid share, mega before Kim dotcom got busted, etc. some people just can’t figure out torrents or they live in a situation where torrents can’t be used (isp shaping, internet controlled by a 3rd party that blocks torrenting, etc) and usually http downloads are fine in those situations.

If you ever have to rely on this get jdownloader at least

I worked in a hospital for years that did shifts as 8-8-8-16. The 16 was rough but you got used to it and a permanent 3 day weekend was amaaaaaazing to the point that my life since has been very unsatisfactory. A 2 day weekend is utter bullshit especially as you get older. It’s barely enough time to recover

The man whose campaign took huge contributions from Tyson is suddenly gung ho on beef despite its demonstrated health and ecological risks? Shocker.

The health pyramid has always been compromised by industry and is never a helpful guideline, though schools and medical institutions are then forced to utilize it in curricula and meal planning (thus the push and lobbying from industry to corrupt it). America is a joke

Another “I want to have my cake and eat it too” comedian hack.

No one has ever stopped you from making racist, sexist, transphobic, etc jokes. You want to be able to make them with impunity; in a way where someone can never say “I disagree with what you say”. You demand for freedom of speech to use it in the ugliest way possible and then you receive consequences your gut instinct is to deny that same right to your critics. Coward.

I’m sure he’s right up there with Dave chappelle and similar folks where he will moan about cancel culture. There is maybe some nuance to this issue for someone who works at Arby’s to pay for a studio apartment they share and gets caught on a bad day in a viral video or something. This is not that and unfortunately those instances let these people weaponize this shit: “it could happen to YOU”. MAGA turds eat it up because they’re always 10 seconds away from calling someone a slur.

These pricks are already wealthy beyond the wildest dreams of the majority of human beings. If they never earned another dime they’d be fine, except they’d maybe not be able to buy everyone in the family a fully loaded new Mercedes every year anymore. So sad. This rhetoric is therefore deflection to again avoid consequence and silence criticism

This took the joy out of everything.

“Oh you write music? You should make an album and sell it” “oh you cook? You should make a ghost kitchen/foodtruck/marketplace” “oh you do 3d printing? You should model stuff for people or make a print farm” “oh you do open source stuff? Why don’t you work in coding or at least do fiverr coding jobs?” “Oh this home server is cool you should set these up for people for money”

FUCK YOU

And then when they find out I just like, post recipes or code or models or whatever online for free because I want to contribute back to the communities that taught me a lot they’re like “you’re crazy”. Maybe I don’t want to fucking monetize everything. Maybe I’m sick of everything being monetized. Maybe I believe information should be free and this hustle culture tech bro bullshit that took over the Internet post 2006-08 or so where everything has to be paywalled or monetized is absolutely cancerous and should be destroyed.

Our greed will destroy us all

Depends on your setup. You can dvr iptv streams and watch later

Kininatteru Hito ga Otoko ja Nakatta/The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn’t a Guy at All is one people are getting more enthusiastic about these days. The “green yuri”, as it’s known.

Tsukiatte Agetemo Ii Kana/How Do We Relationship? Just ended its run after 7 years and it’s pretty great and down to earth. (Sidebar: absolutely horrible title translation. A more literal translation of 付き合ってあげてもいいかな would be something like “so you wanna date, or…” or “I guess I could date you” and these capture the tone a lot better. I normally despise the chuds that are like “translators that use any kind of slang or artistic license/interpretation are shit! Translation should be literal! I completely don’t understand how Japanese works!” But this title choice, imo, is just bad and the work is great)

anyone involved in the Trump admin is obviously trash but chers argument is basically appeal to authority and discredit the other delivered in sassy tone that you like because she’s on “your team”. Both are garbage and if you upvote something like this you’re part of the reactionary tribalism ruining the world, fuck you. Absolutely nothing was debated here, boomer facebook trash.

Force people to justify their positions with coherent arguments, not just sassy doublespeak that says nothing yet you trust in it because they’re an authority figure or aligned with your cause. If they can’t do that then ignore them and don’t give them power

Replication as you describe isn’t done in most fields, that’s part of the “serious effort and funding” I mentioned. If I am applying for a grant to do research what do you think gets funded? Novel proposition or rudimentary replication? Funders want to be a part of glory just as much as institutions which is part of the systemic issue here.

There are researchers that aim to replicate but the numbers of them have shrunk across all fields because funders and universities are pushing for novel research.

Aside from this though one does not need to fully replicate a study to disprove it. In both the studies I pointed out people were sounding alarms for years about discrepancies in the data that in wakefields case should not have passed peer review. The lesne paper is more subtle and one could argue it still should’ve been caught in peer review. But in both cases it took ages of people saying “hey hey hey this shit is fucked” and that is the problem. In the case of Wakefield it was more decisive, in the case of lesne it was more insidious (kind of a sunk cost fallacy because the field bought into the hypothesis without verifying so hard)

It takes AGES for malfeasance to get consequences. The Wakefield MMR study (responsible for energizing the modern anti vaccination movement), published in 1998, wasn’t retracted until 2010. (He was also stripped of his license to practice medicine and has consistently doubled down since which has paid off dearly, marrying supermodels and being a literal millionaire).

The amyloid plaque hypothesis for Alzheimer’s that was based on falsified data from 2006 wasn’t retracted until 2024. This had thousands of citations, possibly tens of thousands, and the first author continues to defend the data manipulation as overblown. Essentially something like that the underlying experiments were sound, we just edited the images for clarity, there was no intent, all (8!) of my coauthors agreed to the retraction because they’re laaaaame, basically every drug made based on this hypothesis doesn’t work because of some other reason, trust me bro.

It’s very difficult to counter this. It takes serious effort to generate data contrary to the evidence presented. However, funding would help. But additionally this is something where criminal charges would be merited. Wakefield has created a world in which we moved backward for his own financial enrichment. One could argue that the children dead from measles outbreaks are in part his fault. He lost his license, sure, but this is meaningless. He is an antivax icon, he married Elle McPherson, he does podcasts and documentaries, speaking engagements, etc. he is paid far more than many doctors with none of the stress and liability. And it’s fairly clear his original intent was to discourage people from the MMR vaccine to push them towards a product he had a vested financial interest in. The antivax stuff was not his goal but it worked out because he is a sociopathic grifter.

Lesne is different. He is a scientist that is probably pushed to publish at all costs and did so. Perhaps he is honest and his manipulation was simply to improve clarity. If it was not and he was pushing to get an influential paper out then he is guilty of wasting billions in funding and tens of thousands of hours of researcher time as well as countless lives wasted doing clinical trials for treatments that were never worth exploring.

What’s a viable consequence for these people? Life in prison? This is such a huge crime against society. Similarly the Monsanto and Coca Cola ghost writing research, everything involved in tobacco, Purdue and OxyContin addiction, etc. the last one was treated as a civil matter but are these not criminal? Countless lives were destroyed

Didn’t watch the video, tailscale is a cloud. Use headscale

How fast do you shrink back to normal? Is it like immediately once removed from water? Once you towel off? Or do you have to hang out in the sun for a bit. Could you keep the size going with like putting your hand in a bucket of water

529 or UGMA/UTMA generally depending on goals then stuff like a normal brokerage in the kids name (but this isn’t tax advantaged) if you want to go further

As to other reply: what times has vote with your wallet truly worked? Especially in terms of anti consumer decisions and not just culture war bullshit where the sales trends are almost always temporary and linked to collective groups that apply pressure onto retailers.

People educating themselves doesn’t happen, is the point. People don’t want to do this about every fucking thing. You’re on lemmy. You’re a fucking nerd. I’m not disparaging you, I’m here too. I like researching my product purchases and I get angry about this shit. But my partner? My parents? My neighbors? My siblings? Most of the people I work with? They don’t give a fuck. They don’t want to be bothered. They want to just buy a tv and watch it. We are the minority.

This pipe dream that an overwhelming majority of consumers will suddenly become extremely conscious and educated is, at best, misguided. So let’s say you set up the framework for it: it’s already mostly there, obviously, since you and I can find this info. But then you need to address why most people don’t care. Education? Resources? Other systemic issues? Good luck doing that on a timeline that isn’t generational. In the meantime big tech tightens their stranglehold significantly on the systems that control the majority of the fucking world.

I have seen how regulatory oversight can work. It’s a fight and a battle to keep it working, of course, with constant attacks. That’s why regulatory states that have seen some success, like the EU, are failing, and others that are seeing increasing success, like China, are demonized continually even though they are quickly outranking the USA in almost every major quality of life metric

This is my response, how often do companies acquiesce to consumer pressure in any meaningful way? This is like asking to prove a negative

Well shit, consider me corrected

See how well that has worked over the past 40 years? I mean don’t buy shit you don’t support obviously but don’t expect a personal boycott or even advocating heavily for others to the same to have any kind of impact whatsoever.

It’s because the average consumer is dumb but this isn’t an indictment of the average consumer, necessarily. The average consumer doesn’t want to have to do research on every fucking thing they buy to find out the nefarious bullshit about it. Oh the tv doesn’t support open connection standards, oh my phone is a walled garden built for data collection, oh this smart lightbulb is a privacy nightmare with bullshit tos and also has security issues, etc. They just want to go on amazon or to home depot or whatever and buy shit that looks like it will do what they need for a price point they can afford.

That’s where regulatory oversight comes in: given the above and a consistent lack of consumer ability to enforce standards we need political oversight to pick up the slack. This is a unified arm where a consumer frustration can turn into action much more quickly, even if sales continue because of market fuckery (eg tvs still selling because you can only buy hdmi TVs). But unfortunately we live in a country where the tech industry has performed a near and total regulatory capture and has no fear that regulatory oversight will ever occur, and they’re probably right, at least for now.

So you’re wrong that it’s the only way, and I would argue it’s the most ineffective and inefficient way. It just feels like it’s the only way because of our failed state political situation where even a regulatory concern that should be a slam dunk like right to repair often either fails or only passes in a greatly neutered state because the local politicians thought Microsoft and Apple made some great points about preventing local jobs so that tech billionaires could continue to make even more money

This ethical position is such crap in the modern era and if you take it you simply aren’t going to be contributing to this conversation much longer. Unless you go full stallman and get a specific laptop from 15 years ago with very specific hardware that you can flash and install very specific software onto it you have to make peace with the fact that as a modern consumer the landscape has fucked you.

Your choices are to moderate how fucked yoh get in terms of anticonsumer bullshit because the market is stacked against you and the illusion of choice is always there. HDMI is a great example, smartphone platforms outside of android and ios is another. Are their options outside of these walled gardens? Technically but they’re generally much worse and often cost more than a comparable model.

It’s just you can refuse to buy an iphone, you can refuse to buy an android, but you can’t really refuse to buy a smartphone in the modern era. You can refuse to buy a tv but you can’t really refuse to buy a display of some kind. You might think you beat the system if you just get a laptop or computer monitor I guess but not really, monitors increasingly don’t have DP and frankly the whole “vote with your wallet” thing is stupid anyway. Consumers are idiots who will continually vote to fuck themselves. We need regulatory oversight.