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gedaliyah , 7 months ago

…like blaming tobacco companies for lung cancer?

“Hey, you can’t hold us responsible if we deliberately make and market an addictive product. It’s clearly the fault of the people who purchase and use our product exactly as designed and intended.”

gedaliyah OP , 7 months ago

I’m guessing there’s some kind of terminology in the original agreement that says something like we reserve the right to change this agreement at any time and you agree to be notified of any changes by the email address on your file.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer

gedaliyah OP , 7 months ago

Wow, this just gets sketchier and sketchier. Thanks for sharing!

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

As nice as it would be to have all my messaging in one app rather than across a half dozen, I just can’t picture paying a monthly fee to do it.

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

I’m not sure why there is so much anti-Mozilla hate. I know they’re far from perfect but they do an awful lot for the open source world. Having an open database for voice training seems like something that the world can use to do some good.

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

I’ve been using this CV Project app for months whenever I have a few minutes.

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

But when I donate my voice, it’s not going to some vault at Mozilla. It becomes part of an open resource that anyone can use to build models, libraries, etc.

Just because it is organized by a company that may or may not have nefarious goals, isn’t that still a good thing to exist?

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

Ahem. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/194df58f-adca-4a9f-bf10-e820db6e43c5.webp

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

Of the 46 trackers ABC News and nine ABC-owned stations and affiliates secured to bundles of “recyclable” plastic bags and dropped off at Walmart and Target stores across the country, the vast majority – after months of tracking – had not ended up at locations associated with plastic bag recycling. Half the trackers launched last pinged at landfills or trash incinerators, while seven stopped pinging at transfer stations that do not recycle, sort, or transfer plastic bags to recycling facilities, and six last pinged at the store where they were dropped off and hadn’t been heard from in months.cycling

The locations of three other trackers in the U.S. were inconclusive, while a further three trackers last pinged thousands of miles overseas – in Asia. By May, 2023, only four of ABC’s 46 trackers last pinged from U.S. facilities that say they are involved with recycling plastic bags.

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

For me it was a VHS of the first four episodes of the Swamp Thing animated cartoon

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

Fievel was the goat. Well, mouse at least.

gedaliyah OP , 7 months ago

I know, it’s an unhealthy habit.

gedaliyah OP , 7 months ago

Thank you. It’s not so much about the fake points, but when people start to get stalkery like that it makes me uncomfortable. I guess I could try to stop having unpopular opinions but it doesn’t seem likely.

gedaliyah OP , 7 months ago

So does that mean someone I’ve blocked will continue to see and interact with my content but I just wouldn’t see their replies? Am I understanding it correctly?

gedaliyah OP , 7 months ago

Just for clarity, it’s not the number of downvotes. I don’t really care about that. However, I was looking through some of my old posts and I noticed that all of a sudden every single post had exactly one more down vote, which especially stands out on posts that literally nobody saw or voted on from months ago.

It doesn’t take a detective to see that an individual went through and downvoted every single post regardless of the topic or community.

I had hoped to see who the person was and just block them from seeing my content, but it looks like that is not how blocking works on Lemmy anyway. It seems more like muting somebody.

gedaliyah OP , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Lol, no it seems that I’ve misunderstood how blocking works on Lemmy. I had hoped to block them from seeing my content in the future since it clearly bothers them so much. From the responses here it seems like there’s nothing productive to be done.

gedaliyah OP , 7 months ago

It could be, but I have content on a lot of different communities and topics. I know that the political stuff can be controversial, and that’s fine if people don’t like what they see. When someone goes through and is down voting comments that I made on stupid memes in a different community, that’s a little bit of a red flag.

In any case, it seems like there’s nothing productive to be done about it based on how lemmy works. At least I understand a little bit more about blocking and voting on this platform now. Always happy to learn.

gedaliyah OP , 7 months ago

I tend to respond in a tone I’m addressed with, but I am trying to do better.

gedaliyah OP , 7 months ago

Well, they can’t all be hits.

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

Few voters could be seen at voting centres, but the National Electoral Council claimed more than 10.5 million ballots were cast in the country of 20 million eligible voters.

😬

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

Do a web search for “What Is It Like to Be a Bat.”

But be warned: this rabbit-hole goes much deeper than you can imagine.

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

Reportedly by whom? The only source listed is the GHM/Hamas.

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

So just to be clear, you think that Reuters is reporting that Reuters is reporting it? Or did you misread the article?

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

The GHM is a branch of Hamas. There are international organizations/observers that are quoted in many articles, so no it is not “quoted by basically all organizations.”

It has been proven an unreliable source in this conflict, like when they claimed 500 were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a hospital and it turned out it wasn’t Israel, there weren’t 500 killed, and the misfired PIJ (Palestinian) rocket didn’t even hit the hospital, but a parking structure near the hospital.

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

The Reuters article uses the word “reportedly,” which is news-speak for “this has been reported by a group or individual but not independently verified.” It’s basic media literacy. They use specific terminology when it is information that is not coming from their reporters, but from an unverified third party.

If the source is generally reliable, then a reader might consider such an early report likely to be accurate. If it is a source like the Gaza Health Ministry (a branch of Hamas), then one should consider their unreliable record.

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

So many incorrectly half-remembered statements in this but here, take your pick of source that GHM is Hamas.

The Guardian

CNN

ABC

Barrons

The Week

BBC

CBS

WSJ

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

Yes, as you’ve mentioned their statistical information about the number of deaths is the only available information, and is relied upon by International organizations in the absence of any other source. That doesn’t mean that they should be considered trustworthy with reporting attacks in progress, as is the case here. The most obvious example is the reporting of deaths around a hospital that they claimed was bombed by Israel, which turned out to be a rocket from inside Gaza, most likely PIJ.

There are reporters on the ground and international intelligence agencies and satellite photography. Unlike the tragic casualty statistics, which are only reported by Hamas and their Health Ministry, we have other and more reliable sources for developing news.

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

Please see my other replies and links. They famously fabricated 500 deaths and an Israeli airstrike against Al Ahli hospital, that turned out to not be Israeli, not be the hospital, and not be 500 deaths.

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

Re your edit:

Again, the article post is not about number of casualties. It is about a reported attack in progress. Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry is not a reliable source for this information.

Edit: Also please check the dates for the articles that I’ve linked. They are not all up to date, but they all make clear from various sources that the Gaza Health Ministry is a part of Hamas.

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

The only Hamas reports the world should rely on are total figures killed, since they alone have access to the hospital and morgue records that reporting agencies would need. Unfortunately, they don’t indicate how many of those killed were combatants, or how many Palestinians have been killed by Hamas or PIJ. Reuters reports that there are 40,000 Hamas militants. Israel estimates fewer, and that about 4,000 have been killed in the fighting so far.

the CNN article that counters the Al-Shifa hospital bombing

What CNN article are you talking about? Please link.

Hamas established the Gaza Health Ministry. I’m not really sure what you mean by the statement that they have been around before Hamas. I don’t know how many staff may predate the 2007 Hamas takeover of Gaza, but I’d be interested in learning if you have information about it. Here are articles from French, Canadian, US intelligence agencies independently verifying that Hamas (Gaza Health Ministry) lied about the al-Ahli hospital bombing.

They all concluded it was a misfired rocket from Gaza.

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

Machete, first aid, water purifier, flashlight

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

My conspiracy theory is that AI is already running OpenAI, which explains all the weird erratic decisions

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

And here I’ve been spending just 2/3 of my life in productive wage earning hours like a moron

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

That’s not true, there’s also my lack of ability to be born to rich parents

gedaliyah , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

See, we made the holes in the d’s look like little talking bubbles. We’re not evil. We’re cuuuuuute. Money please!

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9ea9da74-1e7a-49bc-a3ad-60a6fd7a20c9.jpeg

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

Who says there’s not enough musical innovation right now

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

Is it also the longest title?

gedaliyah , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Old meme? (Drake shaking head)

Classic meme! (Drake pointing in approval)

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

?

I don’t get it. Is there something wrong with Drake? I was just referencing the classic meme format.

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

Some groups argue that higher production of biofuels risks worsening deforestation and food scarcity, and say reducing the number of flights taken is the only way to cut aviation’s environmental impact, which contributes to around 2% of manmade CO2 emissions.

gedaliyah , 7 months ago

But what if - hypothetically - the chaotic incompetent is also putting kids in cages, empowering global dictatorship, amplifying domestic terrorism, and undermining the pillars of democracy? Hypothetically.