Nah, I’m with them. The average Lemmy user is stupid as fuck and willing to believe anything that even vaguely conforms to their biases, and I 100% believe the majority of upvotes are from people who thought this screenshot is real.

Several weeks ago, there was this post in a news community to a BBC News article. It was a real article; no tricks, correct headline. But the link was a 404. When I found it, it was upvoted about 20–0. I downvoted it as obviously nonfunctional but also commented remarking that it’s a 404 and giving the OP the correct link. When I came back to that post a couple hours later hoping to upvote a fixed link, the link was unchanged, it was upvoted 50–1 (my downvote), and it had one comment (mine) upvoted 1–0. (Edit: I checked, to preemptively clarify, that this wasn’t a “me” problem.)

The lack of scrutiny Lemmy applies as a collective is fucking appalling, and the level of introspection they have about it is somehow even worse.

“There’s more than a 50% chance that Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen were sexually molested by multiple (you decided to pluralize it; not me) Epstein affiliates in Hollywood” is a massive stretch that you present zero evidence for and confidently assert. It’s becoming increasingly clear with your responses that you genuinely have a problem.

Did I make you uncomfortable with consuming the lives of the Olsen twins like a cheap and disposable drug?

Dude holy shit, seek help. I have never once in my life given an iota of a shit about the Olsen twins or anything they’ve been involved with. I might’ve seen one episode of Full House by coincidence, and I played an nth-hand copy of Mary-Kate and Ashley: Sweet 16 – Licensed to Drive for the PS2 two decades after its release (when the twins were nearly 40 and the publisher and developer had been defunct for years) for about 30 minutes as a gag. This is the first time I can remember seeing a picture of the Olsen twins in years, and I only responded to your comment because it’s so insane (I genuinely knew so little that I assumed I’d completely missed out on a scandal and tried in good faith to find out what happened).

Your willingness to assume anything without evidence as long as it feels correct to you is staggering.

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my SPECULATIVE STATEMENT.

Pfffffffffffffft. What a chode. “I hedged with ‘most likely’ bro so you can’t poke holes in the ridiculous bullshit I’m asserting with zero evidence.” You’d be really good at JAQing off. “Were the Olsen twins sold into sex slavery on Epstein’s Island? We can’t say for sure, but it’s impossible to rule out.”

Yeah, no, I totally agree that sexualization by the public when they were underage (even as adults) probably took a psychological toll, as it probably does on a lot of teen stars (and IIRC it was quite bad with Mary-Kate & Ashley).

That is a completely different statement from “they were most likely molested by some of Epstein’s Hollywood buddies”.

That’s a seriously bold claim that you don’t bother to support at all and just take as common knowledge. After doing a few minutes of searching: what the absolute fuck are you even talking about?

Genuinely the most I can find are a small handful of trashy outlets like The Sun (at the least trashy) talking about a baseless Twitter accusation against Bob Saget after his death and then – even as trashy as they are – unanimously arriving at the conclusion that Saget unequivocally did nothing to them. (To that end, I can’t even find anything about Saget having ever interacted with Epstein, so there’s a baseless, nonsense Twitter accusation – only discussed by the trashiest outlets who have every incentive to imply that it’s true for clicks but instead deny it completely – about a man with no connection to Epstein.)

No names, no sources (probably because there’s jack shit), no anything, so what exactly the fuck are you basing “most likely” on?

Probably. Often it’s a corner store around sprawling middle-class suburban areas on the outskirts of cities with few shops (zoning in the US is fucked), somewhat denser but low-income urban areas, and often it’ll be the only place besides a gas station in rural towns where you can get groceries without driving miles to a larger town. Unsurprisingly, they’re parasites.

Here’s an interior shot from their own website, so if you can imagine that but more soulless in reality, you have a Dollar General. I actually don’t consider myself that biased against DG in particular; the situation in America is kind of just that bad.

I was going to ask why Dollar General is selling Internet Explorer and Outlook Express out of an ice merchandiser.

• Argumentative essay full of genericisms (edit: they don’t even say what the restrictions are despite calling them “these restrictions”, which is ludicrous for an essay of this length). Please read this blog post if you haven’t; the arguments are excruciatingly generic, and the wording is robotic and soulless.
• Brand-new account posting for a brand-new blog website (claiming authorship for it, so I believe it’s them because nobody’s ever heard of this site).
• No credited author.
• AI-generated thumbnails (I loved my Lakebird Buf computer in the 90s).
• Frequent blog posts from one person on an ostensibly unmonetized site with similar article formats:
  • The Long Road to CachyOS: Why I Finally Quit the Microsoft Ecosystem (29 March)
  • From Betamax to Bare Metal: The Origin of The Unknown Universe (30 March)
  • From WordPress Overwhelm to Publii Simplicity: Setting Up My Son’s First Blog (31 March)
  • This represents 3/5 of the articles so far.
• Uses em-dashes constantly through articles (fine, I use en-dashes a ton) but then, despite flawless grammar everywhere, suddenly switches from “blah — blah” in the articles to “blah—blah” here. Both are grammatically correct, but for someone to suddenly switch after sticking to one would be weird; it’s hard to explain to someone who doesn’t use them, but using the first near-exclusively shows a clear preference to the point the second would likely look and feel weird to write. If you write with perfect or effectively perfect grammar (even here, so it’s not just blog proofreading), you would notice.

Not related to the LLM thing: “I don’t use social media, as it conflicts with my FOSS and privacy principles.” but then linking a Mastodon account on the website, having a “Share this post” bar with Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, and Bluesky, and posting this here is chef’s kiss.

We shouldn’t let them control the vocabulary of our digital freedom.

You’re apparently taking an LLM controlling your vocabulary just fine, though, given both this comment and post were transparently written by one.

Obviously, I wasn’t about to spend $3000 and hours of my time to find out whether this particular report was an exception

I’d wager my kidneys to a pack of gum that you didn’t even know there was a full, paywalled report behind this before you commented (the PC Gamer article you quoted never cites $3000). If you did, this line of reasoning would be an interesting way to save face had, again, a bulleted description and table of contents not been freely available, making laughably obvious what minimal critical thought went into your mischaracterization of the report.

And frankly, if you did know, that’s even wilder, because you fully assumed you knew better; you didn’t even try to qualify it. You just outright said they failed to account for it without knowing what was in the report. Which is somehow even worse.

I can’t say I’m impressed with their research, which neglects to account for graphics card prices tripling around the start of this decade and never returning to normal I read a magazine article about a small press release for and made a completely unfounded assumption about

These quarterly press releases from Jon Peddie Research mainly just go over more recent developments in high-level detail. The actual report, which yes is $3000 because it’s meant for enterprise customers, covers all of this, which you can verify by reading its description and ToC.

Such unfounded confidence that a professional report studying the cost of GPUs fails to account for some basic shit someone would tell you on Reddit is just arrogance; there’s no other word for it.

I will inform you that this excerpt is correct English. There needn’t be an article like “a” or “the” before “possibility”. It reads awkwardly in everyday language, but that really is just innocent “legalese” phrasing.

No, beyond the legalese. For example, the comma placement in:

which, unknown to them threatens,

The comma should go after “them”, because “unknown to them” constitutes the entire aside.

If you delete the aside in this, it reads “which national security”, whereas it should read “which threatens national security”.

This is just the first one I found; I didn’t go hunting for them. It’s one of those grammatical mistakes that actively ruins the cadence of the sentence as you read it in your head.

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I’ve never seen Magic Earth, but as an OSM contributor, I don’t understand why I’d use a subscription service when all the underlying data is free (as in beer and freedom) and contributed by volunteers (and likely not the app devs). One-time app purchases like OsmAnd I understand because you’re doing stuff with the data like routing, overlays, etc., and that requires development work. But a subscription seems absurd.

The developers’ page on GOG.

A shame that GamingOnLinux only links to Steam when some of their games are available DRM-free on GOG – pretty goddamn relevant when the games are set to be delisted in like 10 days.

That’d be really weird given how detailed the crab is, because the astacids – lobsters and crayfish – are globally distributed like crabs. The E.T. thing doesn’t even have the right number of limbs, which is why I had to either invoke infraorder Anomura or assume a bilateral congenital limb defect.

It’s actually like the product of trisexual reproduction between E.T., a lobster, and an arachnid.

Not fair. I also see a non-mussel bivalve, a crab, a gastropod, uhhhh… what looks like the offspring between E.T. and an anomuran decapod, I can’t even fathom a guess at those cockroach mice things…?

Edit: On reinspection, the red demon has the most “it’s a living”-ass face possible.