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How to deal with Ancient aliens in the workplace?

Two of my coworkers frequently mention shows like “Encounters” or “Ancient apocalypse” or whatever. I’m not the best at debating or forming arguments against these though I do feel strongly that bold claims require better evidence than a blurry photo and an eyewitness account. How do you all go about this?...

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“Stilted”?

You sir, are one of those fucking amazing people who profusely apologize for not being a native English speaker and then blurt out 37 paragraphs of perfect English.

You have nothing to be ashamed of - your English is better than a lot of them native speakers ! And always remember this :

“You are speaking English because that is the only language you know; I am speaking English because that is the only language you know. We are not the same.”

And as to your original question - if I ever ask them “what evidence did you see which proves X happens?”, I have almost always been hit with the reply, “Oh yeah? What proof do you have that says X does not happen???”. And then I tell them the anecdote of the Invisible Dragon by Carl Sagan. Look it up if this is new to you, and for a more formal treatment, check out Karl Popper’s theory of Falsifiability.

I have personally converted at least one conspiracy theorist to being an Agnostic. So I know it works. Try them out, it’s fun.


And I also am not a native English speaker to be honest :-)

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Hey Boss -

Ever since TV remote was invented, you don’t even walk up to the TV to change the channel - why the fuck you need to call us back to the office and breath over our necks? Unless you are a pervert (a lot of you indeed are) - you don’t need to stare at our faces (or our asses) to assess our work, learn to embrace the zoom age !

You reportee (who is still hanging around because the pay is okay, I can work from home, and don’t have to bear your shitface every morning)

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I should have mentioned that I already have theluddite.org RSS in my reader, and I do enjoy your articles. Thanks !

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That lawsuit simply says : “acquire me, acquire me, O Holy Musk, acquire me…”

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I am not playing this Chicken until the Game crosses the road… Ah shoot…

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Musk got sued? Yeah, probably one out of the hundreds of lawsuits that bozo sees every day, and he’s going to weasel his way out of this too, because he is stinking rich.

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For torrents, a VPN might be the best bet as others have pointed out. But for direct download, just DoH should be enough.

Twitter is losing daily active users. CEO Linda Yaccarino confirmed it. (mashable.com)

By now, you may have heard about Elon Musk’s handpicked CEO for X, Linda Yaccarino, and her disastrous interview with CNBC’s Julia Boorstin at Vox Media’s Code 2023 event. However, somewhat overlooked amid some of the more viral moments of the discussion, Yaccarino dropped some previously unknown stats that don’t exactly...

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This is how my love for uBlock Origin grows day by day…

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The legendary ones show a “BREACH” at the target systems, in Red Bold Times New Roman font size 150.

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…worst platform for disinformation…

Is that a double negative, or am I hallucinating ?

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Now that makes sense.

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Europix for me above anything else. Netflix and Disney can go and self-serve their backsides…

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I use Jerboa as well as my main lemmy client (Voyager being the stand by). I like the vintage feel of Jerboa, at the same time can’t deny the fact that Jerboa is the oldest and battle-tested client among all.

The only thing Jerboa is missing is a complete search functionality (currently it just searches for communities).

As soon as the capability to search for posts and communities (IIRC a bug was raised in Jan 2022 for this by dessalines himself) - Jerboa will arguably be the best lemmy app around.

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Agreed.

One other thing that Jerboa has but very few other apps do - is the ability to automatically retrieve and put in the header of an article when you are about to post a URL of that article. IMO this is a basic feature that every app should have.

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Honestly, before reading this comment I never noticed that BlueSky shortens to BS, lol

The loss of dark skies is so painful, astronomers coined a new term for it (www.space.com)

Given the harmful effects of light pollution, a pair of astronomers has coined a new term to help focus efforts to combat it. Their term, as reported in a brief paper in the preprint database arXiv and a letter to the journal Science, is “noctalgia.” In general, it means “sky grief,” and it captures the collective pain...

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If you have seen that StarTalk episode, do you remember what Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s response to that? He seems like good people…

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That explains the downvotes, lol

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Last I checked, the “Big Crunch” hypothesis got rejected by scientists.

I am no expert, so can’t elaborate any further.

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Being jolly and appreciative of good jokes is a two-way street. I wonder how many people of faith are so.

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I do watch videos from YouTube because of its massive content, but I tend to use invidious or piped links - because I don’t want to provide YT any more traffic than they need.

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I will try to do an ELI5.

Piped is what is known as a “proxy”, or rather an interface to YouTube.

There is a very popular piece of code called NewPipeExtractor, which is used to scrape data from the YouTube website.

Piped utilizes NewPipeExtractor to set up an “intermediary”, a proxy website that looks and feels pretty much like YouTube.

The good thing about watching videos through the Piped proxy site is that YouTube doesn’t get to know your IP address. Which is why it is very popular among privacy advocates.

That is it in a nutshell. If interested, you will find more information in their GitHub page.

github.com/TeamPiped/Piped

Hope this helped.

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Reputation is a perishable commodity. It is very hard to replenish it once gone.

Xwitter and Reddit understood it the hard way. Even if Unity goes back to exactly where they were before this ruckus - people will think twice before trusting them again.

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I think they did, it’s just that they are way too egoistic and dick to admit that.

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But a seed has been planted. And if we care for it right. It will grow eventually.

Well put.

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Have tried out quite a few of the apps (was stuck the longest with Voyager, it’s awesome) - but I tend to come back to Jerboa ever so often - may be because it is the oldest Android client for Lemmy, so probably the most tried and tested.

I kinda like the vintage look of Jerboa (and the cool icon) - so as soon as Jerboa gets its search feature enhanced (right now it just searches for communities, not posts or comments - but I hear that work is in progress) - Jerboa will become the best Lemmy app out there, at least for me.

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Reddit, Xwitter, Unity…what next in the queue of “let me fuck myself” ?

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Nope, I didn’t. But they all being A-holes, show no sign of digging their own graves like Reddit, X, and Unity did.

Guess they are supervillains then, lol.

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OnePlus8 - pinky.

For most apps I have opted for “toolbar at the bottom”. Along with my pinky, it works at least for me.

And I have large hands too, but that’s besides the point.

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