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Are there any occupations you uniquely oppose the existence of?
  • Bug bounties refer to specific programs that companies put in place to essentially reward white hat hackers for doing freelance offensive security audits.

    I get what you're trying to say, but you're specifically referring to black hat hackers. Referencing bug bounties is muddying your meaning.

  • Selective rage
  • Roma people have historically been very persecuted because of racism and ethnocentrism. Case in point: the holocaust killed up to 500,000 Romani people, but the actual figures are not known. Roma people are among the groups that are rarely talked about when the Holocaust is mentioned, despite losing up to 50% of their total population at the time.

    Arab and North African folks are usually considered white on the US census but that isn't really an accurate picture.

    Race is a social construct that doesn't have clear borders. Racial categories mostly exist as a way of creating division and limiting access to resources, to flatten the diversity of individual cultures represented by a racial category... or to inflict direct and systemic violence. The experience of being a racialized person is entirely the creation of the society that a person lives within; for example, African folks usually don't self-identify as "black," within Africa, but that's an important racialized experience that people can speak to in a place like the US.

  • Secret calculator hack brings ChatGPT to the TI-84, enabling easy cheating
  • Calculators have pretty minimal system resources. I sometimes run LLMs locally on my fairly powerful laptop and they run slowly. I can only imagine if you're in a classroom just staring at your calculator for many minutes at a time before answering your question would do the following: 1. Rouse suspicion pretty quickly. 2. If you were depending on it to answer more than one question, eat up most of the allotted time for an exam.

    I don't think this is a real concern. I think it's just some CS student's idea of a fun project.

  • The wonders of the human body
  • That most likely is due to you being fixated on your thumb. We can and do consistently wire our nervous systems, and in this case you've probably wired yours to produce a pain sensation in your thumb.

    In a nutshell, this is how chronic pain works. There most likely is nothing physically wrong with your thumb.

  • The wonders of the human body
  • It's highly innervated (sensitive) and it's cartilaginous. Cartilage is mostly nonvascular, meaning that it doesn't have blood flow to it, and which also means healing takes forever.

    Because it tends to hurt for a while due to the actual physical trauma, our nervous systems also tend to send the pain messaging well after the actual trauma, even if healing has taken place. This specific pain presentation is a form of chronic pain (mostly a nervous system disorder) that is usually onset by some sort of physical trauma.

  • The wonders of the human body
  • Probably that's a combination of placebo and the result of the fact that collagen is a protein supplement. You can most likely get the same result by using whey or other proteins for much lower cost.

  • The wonders of the human body
  • The efficacy of taking collagen specifically is very much in question. It seems to be about as effective (but much more expensive) than just increasing protein consumption.

    There are things you can do, like apply heat and to an extent certain supplements can help (glucosamine and turmeric are the notable ones that have evidence to support them). That said the main thing that really helps is doing dedicated and systematic strength and mobily training for your ankle.

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene rages at Mike Johnson and calls to fund government with Dems
  • Pretty hopeful news actually.

    MTG is among the most seemingly dedicated to being a horrible, bigoted piece of shit, and yet even she is recognizing that a platform of being a horrible, bigoted piece of shit is no longer serving her.

    Fuck her forever. But I'll take this specific brand of opportunism as a positive sign.

  • Unnatural disasters are not an act of god, change my mind
  • Yes. And also the explanation for why they're worsening is not exclusively because of fossil fuels/climate change. That is a factor, but others include terrible forestry practices (including, somewhat paradoxically, fire mitigation and fighting).

    Not trying to let oil and gas companies off the hook. It's just an issue that has a lot of shared blame between different industries.