Seriously, if you’re motivated enough to do this, you should give programming a try. Python or Ruby or Javascript are ideal for this kind of thing, and you can solve problems like this in a few lines of code… just look up “word frequency in Python” or whatever language for examples.

If you want to see what the next level of this kind of analysis looks like, watch a few videos about how Elasticsearch works… not so much so you can USE Elasticsearch (although you can, it’s free), but just to get a sense of how they approach problems like this: Like imagine instead of just counting word occurrences, you kept track of WHERE in the text the word was. You could still count the number of occurrences, but also find surrounding text and do a bunch of other interesting things too.

Whale sharks are primarily filter feeders, so if anything, he’s just slurping a layer of nutritious plankton off of the net that has negative value to the human fishers anyway.

They’re actually kinda helping each other out.

Just in case you can’t watch the video for some reason:

• 1488 - Arguably the original dog whistle. “14” = The 14 words of some popular racist slogan; “88” = 8th letter of the alphabet is H, so HH, so Heil Hitler. “14” and “88” are also used just on their own sometimes, meaning the same thing.
• \\\ (3 backslashes) - Associated with “Diagolon,” a white nationalist group in Canada… appears in Twitter bios and stuff.
• Canada’s Red Ensign flag - Just Canada’s old flag… but co-opted by white nationalists in like a “good old days” kind of way.
• Totenkopf - Just a skull (crossbones optional). But it was used as a symbol by the Nazi SS, and is sometimes used in that context.
• Sunnengrad/Black Sun/Sun Wheel - Apparently just straight up a Nazi symbol, just a more obscure one. Shakira used it by accident once.

Most of these were actually new to me, so TIL. Also picked up the term “irony poisoning” which is a useful way to label a thing that I’ve observed. Video is worth a watch if you can.

He was also off of YouTube for a few years cause Spotify had an exclusivity deal for his stuff… so lots of longtime viewers went over there and didn’t come back.

Which denominations implement idempotent baptisms?

You can’t hear the scream, but apparently you can hear the “Bam!” of a nut kick.

Waitwaitwait… The homophobic men displaying arousal: Yeah, sure, of course.

But NONE of the non-homophobic men got even a little ruffled? That’s the real surprise here.

You know what?

Yes.

Oh interesting-- Yeah gaming the recommendation/search algorithms is another, related explanation. Like I know someone with an Etsy store who says that various things, like running out of stock or putting your store in “vacation mode” will hurt your store’s visibility, so people find ways to game it. Totally makes sense that the same kind of thing would be going on on Amazon.

Weird that they’d allocate ad spend at the same time that they were out of stock, but like I said, the algorithms are pretty coarse and probably just not that coordinated.

There’s more than one article about this?!

At least this one actually calls out the fact that this is a nothing story.

Lots of vendors set their prices algorithmically… So like when competitors raise their prices or demand seems high for some reason or something, the price will auto-adjust to theoretically maximize profits. The algorithms are often pretty dumb.

So sometimes when you see something like this, you’re witnessing a dynamic pricing algorithm spiraling out of control because it wasn’t implemented very well, and nobody’s paying attention.

I was wondering that too. Not arguing or denying, just not sure what they’re referring to.

One thousand percent. The different mechanics and environments and stuff were varied and often interesting (if simple), the production quality was obviously quite high…

But man, the story and characters were distractingly bad. The dialogue was super generic shitty 90s sitcom cringe, and nobody was actually likeable. Then the payoff at the end was like… what? My SO and I were like “Wait so that was the end?” Did they just like… run out of budget like the end of Monty Python’s Holy Grail, so it needed to end abruptly?

We finished it, but yikes. Overrated is right.

Once you figure out the iframes it’s actually pretty easy.

Okay maybe OR-- and just hear me out here-- Maybe the problem is not enough money in politics?

Whoa do “percent” and “percentage points” actually refer to different things?

Yo I just saw a real estate listing on one of the islands near Vancouver Island for one of these. If it wasn’t a million dollars and isolated from pretty much everything, I would definitely be tempted!

Oh I gotchu now 👌

It’s Vitamin D. There was this whole thing during the COVID pandemic about how the FDA/CDC were SUSPICIOUSLY QUIET about how impactful Vitamin D levels were on COVID outcomes or something and how that’s how you know that… something something sinister ulterior motives.

So like the idea was that everybody going outside and getting some sun was actually the best thing for public health, but THEY were telling you to languish inside under lockdowns, because clearly they didn’t want you to be healthy.

Not. Even. Once.