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The problem with not voting
  • I should add, everyone absolutely should vote. Even if you feel compelled to abstain from either candidate, casting a blank ballot or voting "abstain" is a much clearer message of dissatisfaction.

  • The problem with not voting
  • counter-point: Voting for someone that does not represent you because you are more scared of the other guy is indistinguishable, as a signal, from someone that fully supports them. By voting against your own interests you are actively undermining the democratic process.

  • Why are Americans getting shorter?
  • Obvs I don't know for sure but it seems like the only data they collected was self reported height and weight. They probably used the standard BMI calculation to get obesity which, among it's many other problems, does not account for muscle mass. Not that I think every cop is a body builder but every body builder would be obese if that's how you calculated it.

  • Radicale is the simplest CalDAV/CardDAV server I've ever set up
  • Ive experimented with it over the last couple weeks but it ended up not being what I was looking for.

    The use case for me was making my sonarr calendar public while keeping sonarr itself private. It would have been nice to point radicale to my local address for sonarr to fetch calendar updates then make them publicly accessible but that didn't seem (easily) possible.

    What I ended up doing instead was running a cron script to wget the sonarr calendar and place it in my caddy directory.

  • Which games do you dislike, but the rest of the world loves them?
  • roguelike deckbuilders are my favorite genre (i know, im the problem) and i hate slay the spire. dont get me wrong, i appreciate that it built the genre but newer games have iterated and innovated to the point where going back to sts is unbearable. it's more like a tutorial for the rest of the genre.

  • An advertising industry worker's take on adblockers
  • My go-to example for my less technically inclined friends is that time Target deduced a teen pregnancy before her father did (forbes). That was back in 2012 and used some basic statistical analysis algorithms. I shudder to think what modern ML algorithms are doing/can do with my data.

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  • It's been a shit year for comp games for me. I've been playing csgo since release day and source before that but with cs2 my entire friend group had to shift away because comp no longer works for us (tried yesterday and got 2 matches over 8.5 hours of queue). for a couple of months we just stopped playing cs and because of that basically stopped talking entirely. i'd never played league before and never wanted to, but they were all into it so i thought it was better to do something with them that i didn't like than nothing at all. I spent 3 months learning it and got somewhat up to their level (on one role with like 3 characters only).... and then this. so now we are back to cs2 purgatory queues until valve caves to those morons that think vanguard is good. why even bother putting time into a comp game anymore. rise above, morty, play tetris.

  • The 4 best Reddit alternatives: Top picks to replace your subreddits - Lemmy is listed first!
  • This reminded me of some management training I went through for a fast food company years ago. They tell managers to always back up the decisions of team members (unless illegal) regardless of if they were in the right or not. then, if possible without undermining the employee, appease the customer, then educate the team member in a 1 on 1.

    All the decent mods left Reddit during the blackout and Reddit is treating the new batch with fast-food "we are a family" retention tactics. It makes people feel indebted despite being under-paid, over-worked, and generally exploited. Indebted people are less likely to start future blackouts or do anything against the wishes of the corporation they owe. Just one more reason to trust Reddit even less

  • TELL ME YOUR SECRETS
  • I don't think so? If the diameter of the coin is wider than the gap between two nubs then you couldn't fit it in. If it's thinner than the gap, the coin wouldn't stay in once it was between all three. That might make for a good puzzle idea but it would need some trick to work, like a detachable knob

  • Incels need more mental health help - Swansea University report
  • "People are saying that the reason that incels struggle to find relationships and sex is because their standards are too high, and what we were able to demonstrate here is, compared to our group of men that weren't incel, actually their minimum mate preferences were a lot lower. " the article and the study are more interesting than the headline

  • Incels need more mental health help - Swansea University report
  • I'm gonna take issue with that last point because one of the easiest ways to identify an incel is how much they watch Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, or Andrew Tate. All of which built their brand by preaching self-help tips (fucking awful self-help tips and always laced with violent hateful rhetoric but still). I think they desperately want to improve but they've built up so much internal constraint and flawed ideology that no advice catered to that toxic mindset is going to be effective at what they really want to accomplish. What they actually need is a real mental health professional to lead them to identifying and breaking down those ideologies and frameworks for themselves. But therapy is for Betas and real Alphas are hyper independent or whatever.

  • Lifesaving AEDs are being increasingly mandated across states -- but bystanders aren't using them, study finds
  • they did ads for over a decade on CPR, it showed up on late night shows, ad breaks, tv shows, etc. the public outreach was expensive and effective. there is nothing like that for AEDs. not only would it not cross my mind, but if it was right in front of me I wouldn't even have a cursory knowledge of how or when to use it. It seems more like a liability to me (and most of the general public, apparently)

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  • Baking. People say it's the science of the kitchen but those people just don't use proper measurements when cooking. What they really mean is that it's fiddly as fuck and even following a recipe perfectly isn't a guaranteed success. There's always some shit about "maybe your room temperature was off?" "what altitude did you try the recipe at?". Fuckers. Science doesn't burn me like this. If I follow a scientific procedure where those variables can completely destroy the end result, they get mentioned in the procedure. Baking itself is a science, but it is absolutely not practiced like a science. Baking is a skill for 99% of us. And I'm sick of pretending like it's not.

  • When somebody laughes at your Facebook post, but you were being serious
  • No, read the citation. and I didn't say known to me to be an idiot, I said known idiot, which they are based on the results of googling them. But Instead of thinking "that doesn't sound right, better check that to make sure" I think "this follows the same pattern of other conspiracy theories and when i've researched them in the past they have all been misleading or false". I've gone down that rabbit hole before and it always ends the same way. Professional misinformation is designed to be difficult to debunk but that doesn't make it correct. and I'm not calling you an idiot for reading or believing it. I would suggest you dig a little deeper though, because that is at the very least a conspiracy (if true) and at worst blatantly misleading. either way, facebook is evil enough in daylight for me to wage war so I don't really need to lie to myself to be more angry at them.

  • When somebody laughes at your Facebook post, but you were being serious
  • oh neat, the author (and owner of the website) has a podcast, "Whitney Webb on deep diving into Epstein, 9/11, Covid, and more" "Whitney Webb is a researcher and a proper journalist."

    Now, I hate ethos based rhetoric as much as the next guy, but I think if someone hangs a neon sign on their chest that says "im an idiot" then I can just dismiss their ideas without thoroughly debunking them. I mean, I'm certainly not wasting an afternoon and the alternative is blindly believing a wall of text written by a known idiot. So I'm kind of backed into a corner here.

  • 23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users
  • That might be true about DNA data but these places gather every public genealogy record available. If your country has a census, for example, they probably already know more about your family then you do.