Do you know engines?

Clock speed is basically RPM. And core/threads are cylinders.

So a 4 cylinder 1.8L engine at 5k rpms isnt necessarily doing more than a 350 v8 at 4k rpms.

So the numbers do mean something but you can’t just pick the one with the biggest number either.

Tomshardware.com isn’t what it used to be, but they keep an updated cpu list of how good they are at different workloads.

Tell someone “don’t get upset” and they’re gonna lose their shit

Tell them “don’t panic” and they’ll listen most of the time.

Just look up real medical issues and pick the opposite of what looks real.

The algorithms will take care of the rest because people who fall for it don’t just look up their own conditions, they start down the rabbit hole of “all medicine is fake” because that’s easier to rationalize than doctor’s are only wrong with their condition.

That’s why it’s so dangerous, you don’t have to seek it out. Those videos get high engagement so the algorithm shoves them down everyone’s throat

Get Busy Committee has a really good song about what the 80s were like:

Shit was fucked up when Reagan was in office

Food stamps, government cheese, and cocaine

I never knew a single soul who owned a rope chain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO3NqMvinkU

It’s going to go full circle and start spitting out pictures of a Black George Washington again…

Ability scores of verbal reasoning (logic, vocabulary), matrix reasoning (visual problem solving, analogies), and letter and number series (computational/mathematical) dropped during the study period, but scores of 3D rotation (spatial reasoning) generally increased from 2011 to 2018, the study found. Composite ability scores (single scores derived from multiple pieces of information) were also lower for more recent samples. The differences in scores were present regardless of age, education or gender.

So we dropped in the areas removed from public education, and increased in the part video games help…

The downside to the Flynn effect is people think we naturally get smarter, when it was just being getting better educations.

The reason it dropped across education levels, is the issue is fundamental shit we’re supposed to learn in k-12

Even private schools de prioritized this stuff, because if it’s not a metric it’s a “waste” of resources.

And people still act surprised Republicans gained with the youth vote, we ain’t teaching them how to tell when something is bullshit anymore.

This is why people with Tourettes tend to use curse words.

And if I remember right it can apply to words like “fudge” or “cheese and rice” if you use them often enough as standins.

It’s not about the word, it’s about the feeling behind it.

.world defeterated with a couple of other instances accusing them of being tankies

Worth pointing out that those were very few who had little activity, and they’re still federated with lemmy.ml despite a pretty big portion of users not wanting that.

To make it sound like .world is missing a large volume of posts is just disingenuous

They used it all…

To the point it went extinct.

It wasn’t something people grew it was a wild plant. Started out common and all over the place, but Everytime someone saw it, they picked it

contraceptive and abortifacient.

The main reason it went extinct…

And what it was actually effective at. But the best way to convince a male dominated society that was important to make accessible was to convince them it made women horny.

When it just freed them of potentially serious consequences, like, a shit ton of women died a n childbirth until very recently. A one night stand could leave a women dead or shunned from her family with no source of income and a baby.

Reliable birth control would have been an absolute game changer.

During the four decades that passed between implementation and abolition, almost 63,000 Swedes were rendered infertile, in many cases in response to pressure from the state and sometimes as a result of outright compulsion. Furthermore, it was chiefly those regarded as “unproductive” who were the targets of that social policy.

So it sounds like the vast majority wasn’t compulsory…

But in a few rare cases it was, which were likely when the patient couldn’t legally give consent considering the subject.

Quick edit:

Was also in the 1930s when there was less options for non permanent birth control.

I hate people can even try to blame AI.

If I typo a couple extra zeroes because my laptop sucks, that doesn’t mean I didn’t fuck up. I fucked up because of a tool I was using, but I was still the human using that tool.

This is no different.

If a lawyer submits something to court that is fraudulent I don’t give a shit if he wrote it on a notepad or told the AI on his phone browser to do it.

He submitted it.

Start yanking law licenses and these lawyers will start re-evaluating if AI means they can fire all their human assistants and take on even more cases.

Stop acting like this shit is autonomous tools that strip responsibility from decisions, that’s literally how Elmo is about to literally dismantle our federal government.

And they’re 100% gonna blame the AI too.

I’m honestly surprised they haven’t claimed DOGE is run by AI yet

Blame politicians for not stopping number spoofing.

It’s insane that someone can pay to use existing numbers, and today it’s only really used by scammers.

If all these calls showed up as coming from a random foreign country, no one would ever answer them.

There’s a very easy solution to this.

In many cases the call ends after that. But why?

Because they auto call thousands of people, expecting very few people to even answer.

If they have 5 scammers crammed in a closet somewhere, and they’re all on a line, there’s nowhere for you to go, so the call disconnects if it can’t be transferred. Keeping you on hold costs money.

In some cases, I get someone with an accent I’d identify as Indian. But often the call is disconnected after just a few words.

Number spoofing and auto calls are cheap…

It’s a very low barrier of entry even in countries with low costs of living. It’s not like a scam center has to be on the ball and know what they’re doing.

Lots of them are just bad at it. But that’s still good enough to trick 80 years old enough to make it worth it.

Lots of places play loosely with the terminology, but in general:

Refurbished: they wipes the dust off

Recertified: had an issue, was sent back to manufacturer who fixed it and checked everything else.

Past advice was always buy new, but drives last much longer than they used to. And lots of business replace to be safe when a drive could last another decade just fine.

…

If people stopped buying stuff, it wouldn’t translate to immediate loss of wages except for gig economy workers.

It’s not like production or stores would no to stop immediately counting on starting back up at the exact right moment.

Although Gabby Petito’s parents gave permission for her voice to be recreated in the American Murder: Gabby Petito series currently streaming on Netflix, her mother tells The Independent that a fake version of her daughter’s voice was “weird.”

She agreed to it for $ and now regrets it.

I’d have sympathy if they didn’t give permission, but if your the type of person to cash on in your daughters murder after the media circus has died down, I got zero.

College women’s rugby is an insanely brutal sport.

The skill disparity is just waaaaay to high. Like, I saw a guy’s scrum half get his arm snapped like a twig by a prop who put maybe 30% into the tackle. But that was more a fluke than anything.

But there were women who could hold their own with the guys in full speed scrimmages who would just go out there and destroy everyone. In a women’s game one single player can be the strongest, fastest, most agile, and have the most endurance of anyone on the field. For Men’s it’s rare for someone to get two of those.

It’s like doing a pickup basketball game full of 50 year old dudes at the YMCA, but also Shaq is there. The only thing that matters is which team Shaq is on.

Just 80 minutes of highlight reel every game. It’s why I always legitimately like watching the women’s game more. I wanna see 5 stuff arms in a row then a 50 meter break that ends intentionally veering into the fullback for a sixth stiffarm.

Two guys I played rugby with collided in a game.

One dude got a tooth knocked out, the other guy got it stuck in his forehead.

Like, stuck in his head, I tried to pull it out and couldn’t. So the guy who lost the tooth drove the other guy to the hospital to get his tooth back so he could take it with him to a dentist.

I just remember a time when social media didn’t seem to have so many political stuff

No, you remember when what you saw on social media wasn’t political. Now you’re older and pay attention to it.

Social media was political since day 1.