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vk6flab , to asklemmy in Where can I see how much karma I have? I want to sell this account to either the Russians, or some shady advertising group for millions of dollars. /s
@vk6flab@lemmy.radio avatar

Here’s a tip:

Set-up your own instance, create your own account and set your karma to whatever number you think will attract the highest bids …

… also, you’ll have to write a karma module …

… and find a way to convince the rest of the world to use it …

… good luck with that …

user224 ,

… also, you’ll have to write a karma module …

It used to be in the Lemmy API in the past.

vk6flab ,
@vk6flab@lemmy.radio avatar

Easy … fork the code and get everyone to adopt it.

Melatonin OP ,

Diabolical! Now all I have to do is find a corporation who is desperate for good PR, and is dumb enough to fall for something this dumb.

Does anyone know Intel or Boeing’s phone number?

vk6flab ,
@vk6flab@lemmy.radio avatar

There’s a couple of people up on the ISS who can get in touch with Boeing, mind you, the number they’re calling has been engaged for weeks.

Reverendender ,

Have you considered the Trump campaign?

The_Che_Banana ,
vk6flab ,
@vk6flab@lemmy.radio avatar

Ooh, silver!

Mischala , to memes in It's like a not very liberal regime

Make you own community. Presumably with blackjack and hookers

HelixDab2 , to world in Media Bias Fact Check - Automation

While I love the idea, I KNOW that there are certain groups that will refuse to accept that factual information. Tankies, for instance, will refuse to accept any criticism of their preferred sources. (As will Russian-asset Jimmy Dore.) Far-right conservatives will do the same, only on the other end of the spectrum.

Deceptichum ,
@Deceptichum@quokk.au avatar

MBFC is not factual.

It’s subjective. The opinion of one random man on the internet and his supposed volunteers.

I’ve seen it rate Indian papers low and add comments like “Never once reported anything false.” Meanwhile some US garbage will be ranked as reliable and the comments are an essay on all the times they’ve been busted lying.

Carrolade ,

Got an example of a US source being rated reliable despite failed fact checks? I’d be interested in seeing that.

catloaf ,

Someone up-thread posted an MSN story about Hamas killing babies, and MSN’s high rating. As we now know, that story was an Israeli fabrication.

Carrolade ,

That won’t quite qualify.

Dozens of babies were brutally murdered — some even decapitated — by Hamas terrorists inside a kibbutz in southern Israel during Saturday’s shocking assault on Israeli civilians, according to journalists who were let in to see the aftermath of the massacre and corroborated by the Israeli Defense Forces

The key is that according to journalists part. If the sources lied to the outlet, then the sources lied. This is not the fault of the outlet, and does not mean they shouldn’t have reported it. That said, that probably does deserve a retraction.

To fail a fact check, you have to publish something known at the time to be misleading. Otherwise it’s a mistake, and should just be corrected when more accurate information arises.

I am disappointed that the article has not been corrected by now, however.

Deceptichum , (edited )
@Deceptichum@quokk.au avatar

They failed an Al Jazeera fact check because they published an article using data from the South African government that was later updated long after the article.

So yeah, it qualifies to this trash tier site.

Carrolade ,

The only fact check failure I can see with that SA article seems to be them citing their source as a UN report, when no UN source ever made any such report.

africacheck.org/…/no-murder-rate-women-south-afri…

Otherwise you are right, and this would not qualify. You cannot cite the UN when the UN is not where you are getting your data though, that is blatant misrepresentation.

aleph , (edited )
@aleph@lemm.ee avatar

I have another one - MBFC rates a site called UNWatch as “highly credible” when in fact they run trash-tier hit pieces on UN officials who criticize Israel. Their articles have been removed from [email protected] for disinformation.

I debunked one of their articles last month. If you want to see the kind of crap they publish, see a screenshot of my critique here.

Carrolade ,

Yeah that’s concerning. You could send the MBFC people an email with your evidence and see if they can take another look at the source, that’s a pretty niche one they probably won’t re-check very often unless someone requests it.

mediabiasfactcheck.com/contact/

Mischala , to memes in Australia takes home the gold!

I’m not a crazed gunman, Dad; I’m an assassin!

intensely_human , to asklemmy in Honest question, how many of you watch the autoplaying videos on websites ?

We all do.

SuperSpruce , to piracy in Fallacies of Youtube

My idea is to allow premium users to have third-party apps that can be more customizable. Google barely has to lift a finger, premium would get more popular, and the experience would be so much better.

smokebuddy , to nottheonion in J.D. Vance Told His Son to ‘Shut The Hell Up’ About Pokemon While Talking to Trump

Isn’t it weird that the only member of the NELK Boys who has birthed a child is also the one kinda banished for being a compulsive gambler? I think a podcast featuring JD Vance with the main purpose to sell “Happy Dad” booze with the male hosts who are childless is pretty weird.

Drunemeton ,
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So you’re saying that JD Vance is weird?

Sadbutdru , to asklemmy in Who is the GOATest GOAT?

Me, obvs!

Zoop ,

As the WOATest WOAT, I’ve got the other end on lock! We’re killing it, buddy!

colonelp4nic , to selfhosted in too slow speed through wireguard

Where is your VPS located, and which Wire Guard server are you connecting to?

someoneFromInternet OP ,

Romania, and I didn’t understand your second question.

ego_death , to memes in If you beat *THIS* mission, you probably are a gaming God
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How old are ya’ll exactly?

Dkarma ,

Old enough to DRIVE, KID.

ego_death ,
@ego_death@lemmy.ml avatar

I’m going to tell my mommy on you

dumbass ,
@dumbass@leminal.space avatar

She told me to tell you to goto bed.

MJKee9 ,

Old enough to prefer Driver 2 to Driver 1 because it had better graphics.

Socsa , to mildlyinfuriating in Youtube's web UX team is a joke.

I have literally never experienced this.

Croquette ,

Pretty much all of google products do that. I have to work with gsuite, and when you go to chat, you click on the person you want to talk to, start typing as you see the box, but then, for whatever reason, it switches to a search on the right, or bring you back to the chat home page.

On YouTube, you see a video, you click on it and then for whatever fucking reason, the video moves right and you click on a dumb ad or a video you don’t want to watch. Go back once and the video isn’t there anymore.

It’s a shit show

jasep , to android in I want to move to a degoogled rom, what do I need to know?

Fellow Moto chop and twist gestures 💪🏻

Cosmos7349 , to mildlyinfuriating in Youtube's web UX team is a joke.

it’s not that they’re “completely incapable of making a functional website”. It’s that making a good website might take traffic away from their apps, where they have more power to collect metrics and bypass ad blocking.

Droechai ,

Wouldn’t that require the app the a better experience?

intensely_human ,

According to the guys down in analytics, the worse the app is the more money we make

Ghostalmedia , to mildlyinfuriating in Youtube's web UX team is a joke.
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

The UX team is almost never to blame for this shit. It’s almost always the monetization folks and PM forcing the UX team’s hand.

You can quit if you don’t like it, but the market for UX is shit right now. So you grumble and draw the dark patterns so you can pay your mortgage while you casually browse LinkedIn for a new gig.

henfredemars ,

Engineers are successful in spite of management not because of it.

nobleshift ,
@nobleshift@lemmy.world avatar

Every engineer of every type in every discipline in my experience

intensely_human ,

Contrary to popular belief among creatives, it is creatives job not only to do their own work, but also to keep everyone else’s hands off it.

I was a developer once, and when I was complaining that management just didn’t understand why this thing was needed, a very successful coder friend of told me “It’s your job to make them understand”.

This is why everyone needs to know politics. Part of your job, whether it’s documented or not, is to keep your boss from giving you stupid orders.

Thorny_Insight , to lemmyshitpost in Why is it so easy to avoid nettles as an adult?

I’ve wondered the same thing about wasps. Just don’t grab them into your fist and they’ll leave you alone.

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