Reading your comment made me read the life story and yes. It is a really fucked up life story.

90s and early aughts are in a weird place radio-wise, maybe because they’re still touring in many cases. So I’ll hear them on a station dedicated to older rock, alongside GnR, Doors, whatever; turn to a contemporary alt station and it’s 90s bands alongside newer stuff like Tame Impala or Sombr.

Then there’s Sublime which… uh, kinda unique because the dead lead singers son is the new singer and they sound exactly the same so it’s like they time traveled from 90s to today. Lol

Glad I’ve got close friends in Chile, cause the North hemisphere ain’t looking so hot.

Let’s say hypothetically, a person like myself went full dictator in the US and seized hundreds of oil tankers across the world these in the name of fighting global warming. What would happen?

There’s lower hanging fruit like kidnapping billionaires and whatnot, but it’s a fun thought experiment if the left actually had someone the way the right pretends they do.

We’re on Lemmy and no one has suggested Red Hat Chili Peppers? For shame.

Then again, I use Arch…tic Monkeys.

That’s a bummer to bring up. Except he admitted to what he did (which by 2025 standards is super benign) and felt shame over it. I don’t get the same sense here. What did Franken end up doing anyway? Podcasting?

Thinking about it, it’s probably not a terrible move on his part, overall. Dems can probably retain the governorship and this frees him to do other things. His replacement is probably worse, but it’s not like he’s retiring (although with how awful people are to him and his family, taking a break might be a good personal move… he has compassion and the attacks on his family probably really hurt).

A Hello Kittypede Ouroboros. I like it. Sounds symbolic for late stage capitalism.

Useful information. That said, it’s probably a little more dangerous in this case because too many people are personifying LLM behavior. I don’t think any people assume The Spirit of Ukraine is a sentient being, for instance.

But I concede that the people pushing AI certainly can be, especially since their influence has ruined so many lives already and is poised to ruin many more, both directly and indirectly.

Well, no, they also condemn good guys. They’re just right in this case, lol

Almost all of my clandestine spy tactics started with… 🌽.

Volume mute. Family members schedule memorized. Escape route established. Contingency windows tab ready after alt F4. Several alibis established. Elaborate excuses on the ready. Disguises and new identity ready in case my position is compromised.

Now I want a shirt with that pattern to really screw with people. Then again, where I live (the US) that’s probably not a good idea.

Yeah I was gonna say, also didn’t he just rip off what Valve was sharing for free from their VR lab experimentation like 10 years ago?

Yup! Return to normal was such a dumb rallying cry for Biden. I was rather vocal about that to people I knew during the 2020 primary but by the time my state got to vote, he was pretty much the candidate.

Honestly I figured the reason they caved in was that party leaders knew it would fuel midterms to make people suffer, but they themselves didn’t want to look that way so they had safe seats to be the fall guys. So yeah, duh.

Pretty sure people here can see the writing on the wall and will at least vote in the primary. Not sure what good it’ll do since tactics like that work way too well on average voters, but might as well try.

How is that even possible? The only clocks on display in my house are analog. Do people not have wall clocks? Do kids grow up never knowing what time it is? That’s a standard household furnishing.

Then again, it does say some students, so I probably should assume it’s a minority who never asked their parents what the fuck that thing on the wall was.

I’ve done the math for my area. $200 at Trader Joe’s covers family of four for about 7 to 10 days, breakfast, snacks, dinner and coffee. Lunch is usually leftovers. Even eating cheaply at my local Vietnamese place is like $8 a meal, and while the kids can split a pho, that’s still over $30 after tax and tip. And that’s cheapest - other places easily hit over $80 per meal.

Just tonight we made pesto pasta with chicken sausage and portabella mushrooms. $1 pasta, $3 sauce (or make your own, basil is about that price), $3 mushrooms, $4 sausage. Kids love it, cooks very easy, and saves well. It’s not the healthiest, but they had apples earlier so it wasn’t all bad.

Even if it’s just for one, all the ingredients can be halved and saved for a while, unless you love leftovers (and I do love leftovers). Just always prioritize breads asap, and freeze meats you don’t use unless they’re preserved like sausage. Frozen veggies are much easier to work with, too. Easy money.

Agreed, and a good literature review will dig up that chain. Although it won’t ever be perfectly accurate since the point is paraphrasing the literature to build a structure around what you’re doing, that doesn’t mean your secondary source understood the original (and their reviewers, who can very much be hit or miss).

And don’t get me started on authors misunderstanding quantitative data, haha. I haven’t been doing much academic research since my kids were born, but the number of “they made that shit up” cases were wild in education research. Like arbitrary spline models, misused propensity score matching, a SEM model with cherry picked factors, you name it.

… And this comment chain is way next level for this community. Hahaha

Actually, are you sure a meta analysis isn’t a primary source? Having worked on one in the past, you’re often having to reanalyze data and the finished product is quite unique.

Even “structured literature reviews” I think count as primary sources, since the author adds to the literature their own perspective and they are generally peer reviewed.

That said, when you cite things professionally, you will often have hundreds of sources. Most researchers, legal scholars, etc., just keep a database of their citations for easy callback. It’s important because at the upper levels, different authors might speak of the same objective findings in two different ways and with two different frameworks, so the aggregate loses that.

It’s not something non-professionals necessarily need to care about, but you do want to train undergraduates on that proper methods so they’re ready if and when they go to graduate school.

Honestly I think it comes from a misunderstanding regarding secondary sources vs primary ones. Wikipedia, as well as encyclopedias and textbooks, are secondary sources. It’s not good practice to cite secondary sources without primary ones, but a lot of people (namely, teachers) don’t grasp why which leads these sources to get classified as bad.

That, plus Wikipedia is accessible without the usual gatekeeping and money behind what textbooks and encyclopedias have, which adds to the sources “credibility.” Money means marketing, including constant email campaigns targeting people like me trying to validate whatever textbook they’re peddling. (And in case you wonder if they’re evil, they sometimes offer kickbacks to adopt their expensive textbooks for my university classes).

Fedi users already get that, though, as that’s a common problem FOSS usually has. Point is, wiki lives in a weird place because no, you shouldn’t cite it just like you shouldn’t cite textbooks, but yes, it’s perfectly valid so long as you check those sources. And, speaking from experience, some students really don’t understand as I see citations for so much worse.