mic_check_one_two

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[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

And yet you know damned well what they meant, otherwise you wouldn’t have responded with the “well akshually” type of comment.

It’s an extremely common misconception, and why I bothered pointing it out at all. People will get a scratch from rust, and immediately panic about tetanus. In reality, tetanus is basically everywhere. Rust is simply a good carrier because it has lots of rough surface area and is good at poking people.

But also, people will inevitably get affected by AI as well and people will drift towards sounding more like AI too.

The “AI checkers” that schools/unis use has found a strong correlation between neurodiversity and sounding like AI. Basically, AI sounds autistic, so autistic people get flagged as AI.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

But also, tetanus is commonly misunderstood. Scapes and scratches are extremely unlikely to result in tetanus, regardless of what causes it. Rust isn’t any more likely to transmit tetanus.

Tetanus is an anaerobic microbe that can only really survive in deep cuts and punctures where air isn’t able to reach the wound. The spores are basically everywhere… But the spores only bloom and become dangerous when they come into contact with blood. Once they bloom, oxygen will kill them. So you don’t need to worry about it for surface-level scratches and scrapes, because the air will kill off any blooms. The only reason it is commonly associated with rust is because one of the more common puncture wounds is from stepping on rusty things.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Accelerationism hasn’t proven to be an effective method of dealing with him so far. There’s no reason to believe that pattern would change because of this.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 15 hours ago (16 children)

In America, the reason is basically “religion”. There are architectural standards which designers refer to for guidance, and the dude who did the architectural standard for restrooms was super hardcore religious. His standard called for big gaps in all the seams, to prevent people from masturbating in the stalls. Basically, he wanted people to be able to peek into stalls, as a sort of modesty check. And eventually, it just became accepted as normal, even though everyone (including Americans who were born and raised with them as the standard) hates the huge gaps.

In modern day, they’re mostly done to deter drug use. I guess the reasoning is similar, with the large gaps intended to allow people to peek into the stalls and see if someone is doing drugs.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, newer generations have been raised on tech that “just worked” consistently. They never had to do any deep troubleshooting, because they never encountered any major issues. They grew up in a world where the hard problems were already figured out, so they were insulated from a lot of the issues that allowed millennials to learn.

They never got a BSOD from a faulty USB driver. They never had to reinstall an OS after using Limewire to download “Linkin_Park-Numb.mp3.exe” on the family computer. Or hell, even if they did get tricked by a malicious download, the computer’s anti-virus automatically killed it before they were even able to open it. They never had to manually install OS updates. They never had to figure out how to get their sound card working with a new game. They never had to manually configure their network settings.

All of these things were chances for millennials to learn. But since the younger generations never encountered any issues, they never had to figure their own shit out.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, Biden’s term was simply quiet. For the most part, the government ran properly and things didn’t break. But he also refused to actually spur the DOJ into action, because he didn’t want it to be seen as a frivolous witch hunt. He was more focused on keeping the peace than he was on actually protecting the country from domestic threats.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

To be precise, that’s a cogwheel. There are six cogs around the cogwheel in your image. The word “cog” refers specifically to the teeth around the wheel, not the wheel itself. The cogwheel may be colloquially called a cog, but it’s technically inaccurate; If you told a watchmaker that their watch was missing a single cog, it would have a very different meaning than if you told them it was missing a single cogwheel.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

It’s splitting hairs, but that would technically be a cogwheel. The actual cogs would be the teeth around the wheel.

If you have a cogwheel with a broken cog, it would be accurate to say “the cogwheel is missing a cog.” That doesn’t mean the entire wheel is missing from the system; The system is only missing a single tooth.

.ml tends to moderate things before they get outrageous. The biggest issue is simply the censorship that happens quietly. It’s less “extremists screaming at each other/into the heavens” and more “Big Brother is ensuring you don’t accidentally post anything that goes against the officially approved narrative.” The heavy censorship ensures the echo chamber remains polite (because they leave very little room for disagreement) but very echo-y.

So as an outsider looking in, you tend to see a bunch of polite discussion. It isn’t until you dig deeper (and see a bunch of the removed comments, and users who got banned for totally mundane things) that you actually begin to see the whole picture.

New Mexico license plates specifically say “New Mexico USA” because so many New Mexican residents kept getting pulled over for having “foreign” plates when traveling throughout the US.

 
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