KarsicKarl

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This was a mistake in the bill which he retracted, amended and resubmitted.

The first cousins are safe, legally anyway.

What I don't get is I assume they had a law so why was this needed?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The myth goes deeper.
The story of Lisa Holst originating this myth as a spoof fact is also a myth.

Neither the supposed journalists, Lisa Holst, nor the magazine, PC Professional, exist.

The hunt is on for the earliest reference. Probably on a newsnet group.

https://www.snopes.com/lisa-birgit-holst/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I used to do it a lot.
Typically this would be responding to someone being provocative.
I decided that they were angry people just trying to make other people angry.
So now I write articles mocking them.
I am much more relaxed now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Having tools in matching colours is definitely a sign of youth.
As you get older and lose some, lend some (and the a-hole doesn't return them - yes I'm talking about you John Pinder) then you get some replacements that don't match. Eventually after many years you have an eclectic mix.

How are you on collecting random nuts and screws that might just come in handy one day? That is the true art of the cave.

https://daily-twerk.com/general/bloke-finally-finds-a-use-for-a-nut-and-bolt-from-his-collection/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Poor Dolly Parton.

She help fund a vaccine and no one is banging on about her vaccine causing you to get a large blonde hairdo (we all know it's a wig), and large breasts.

There is no democracy in the targeting of people who've helped fund development. I think they've missed a trick.

Think I've just had an idea about an article taking the piss out of anti -vaxers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds good to me.

We all make choices about the company we keep.

I choose not to hang out in biker bars because for me a motorbike is a form of transport and really not interesting to talk about. I get really bored.
My brother is a bike enthusiast with the tattoos etc and he can go on about bikes....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The only danger they pose is to themselves and the witless.

Having said that, they can be really boring and monotonous. Their arguments are gormless at best, and don't have the intelligence to know when their vacuous arguments have been shot between the water line.

Will they learn anything. Nope. They are immune to intelligence (see what I did there?).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What scraping can get is very little public information.

There's a lot of information that servers keep contained such as IP addresses of where you are when you made a post. Other info such as your email address remains contained within your own instance. Meta cannot get at that information. No other Fediverse server can get at that.

This blog from Gargoron (Eugen Rochko) who essentially created ActivityPub that underpin all these Fediverse systems including Mastodon, Calckey, Pixelfed, kbin, Lemmy etc.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Will be interesting.
More likely to be noticed by calckey,misskey/friendica users who are on platforms.more similar to Facebook. Probably noticed by Mastodon users.

Not sure if kbin/Lemmy users will notice. This is based on me not noticing posts from these servers on Mastodon, calckey etc

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My initial response was a recollection of the plot of The Kingsman.

Sticking implants in brains for fun is stupidity on a stick.

Implants are already used to control some forms of epilepsy, however these are on the vagus nerve and not in the brain. This sort of application makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Oliphant maintains a minimum block list that most systems take as a starter list.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Each instance admin decides which servers to block for themselves. If you visit the info pages of some systems they will list blocked systems, and there are a lot of them.

There are some very unsavoury communities out there. Blocking usually revolves around how effective moderation is.

As an example you can see a list of servers blocked by mastodonapp.uk on the About page.

https://mastodonapp.uk/about

 

Will it be when journalists from tabloid newspapers start putting articles on their Facebook pages saying 'after a fallout with the neighbours/school/bride/boss one angry mother/homeowner/parent took to kbin/Lemmy to ask others what they think'.

I suspect that most tabloid journalists would find the concept of instances and different systems showing the same content too mind-blowing.

 

bad science

In 1912 Henry Herber Goddard published a book called "The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness".

This purported to demonstrate that 'feeble mindedness' was hereditary. It was very popular at the time and played to the growing pseudo-science of #eugenics

It was also featured in Nazi propaganda.

Unfortunately the lineage of the Kallikak family that led to the 'feeble minded' girl who supposedly started the investigation was a fabrication. Goddard had invented a liaison with a feedle minded barmaid as the source of the 'feeble minded' gene.

https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/6220

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001g927?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

#science

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