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Maybe the central problem is racing to put other people out of work period, regardless of who they are. Maybe putting people out of work is not a net benefit for society, it’s actually negative in the long run, and only truly a benefit for shareholders. They don’t need any more of those at the expense of the working class.

Oh, so /r/drama shitposting is here now? Wonderful.

I know it’s not the point, but I love the completely arbitrary bit where they’re walking down a road together, and has absolutely no bearing on anything the happens.

Should probably also be acknowledged that the sample size is not going to be the same.

You’re going to get a bunch of people piling in to highly rate the early episodes that they remember watching when they were kids, but a significantly lower number are going to be voting on the episodes that came later.

Really the whole premise of trying to compare and contrast the seasons for such a long running show that existed before IMDb even started is flawed on many levels.

Why are you assuming that there’s some uniform rating standard that every person is committing to?

Thank you for actually acknowledging this.

The way the Internet talks about the Simpsons is so damn annoying. The vast, vast majority of them haven’t actually watched an episode and formed their own opinion on it in over a decade, they just keep repeating the same tired meme over and over again.

Long running shows have different writers coming and going, therefore quality fluctuates up and down over time. That’s one of the nice things about a long running show: it gets to experiment and let new blood invigorate new life into it. There is no singular “death”, there’s just hills and valleys.

Since when are IMDB ratings a serious metric of quality?

How do you know they suck ass if you haven’t watched them?

Legitimately, what is it about the Internet and this show specifically where people feel compelled to sound off on something they are not actually watching, and haven’t watched in years?

That’s just a classic issue with most tech people: they either forget or don’t know how to adjust their speech for a different audience than themselves. Often they don’t even comprehend just how much “common knowledge” isn’t actually common outside their social spaces.

Then there’s some that are deliberately refusing to help uninformed people understand, or are even outright hostile to them.

Yep, the timing lines up. As part of the buyout offer, they probably had to demonstrate an effort to cripple the open source fork of the thing IBM wants to buy.

Be thankful it didn’t take an explosive shit.

They’re not going to invest in it if they don’t own it, and frankly I’m happy they don’t.

Like how they fucked up with the antenna on Voyager 2 last year. They eventually sent a correction signal out, but even if they hadn’t been able to, they are set to autonomously reorient the antenna back to Earth every so often, as a failsafe against that very error.

It never occurred to me until now to wonder how Voyager knows it’s picking up a signal from NASA. Theoretically, if some bad actors had the means to get it beyond the heliosphere, could a rogue signal be sent to make Voyager brick itself?

I appreciate the imgur links and not direct images.

Honestly, the automatic datetime conversion is the worst part if you’re just trying to keep it text. It’s idiotic there isn’t a simple way to turn off that off. That’s not formatting, that’s actually changing the data in those cells which may not be what you want.

2012? The LHC black hole shit was the mid 2000s, around 2008 is when it peaked.

Which itself was a repeat of the same concerns that were thrown around in 2003, when CERN thoroughly debunked them the first time.

And I have full confidence we’ll see a return of them once this project gets closer to fruition.

That would go to shit immediately. The sheer level of moderation that would be required to prevent that from being abused and corrupted would be insane, and then that kind of moderation would in turn invalidate the whole project because the moderation itself would have its own biases.

But it especially wouldn’t work in a federated space. Are you suggesting that people can just open their own instance of that? If there are multiple different instances for this kind of thing, that’s even more abusable.

Part of the reason Wikipedia works is it is centralized, relatively neutral, and you need sources on facts. It’s run by people that adhere to a strict standard, and everyone that contributes is required to adhere to that exact same standard.

What would be the scholarly criteria for the sort of thing that you’re talking about? What is the standard? And how do you enforce that standard in a federated space?

Because if it’s anything like how federation works around Lemmy, there can be no standard. Instances are going to do whatever they like based on the biases of each admin, which undermines the entire concept.

Could also just be losing a strand or two in packaging. It happens. That’s why they’re allowed some wiggle room on the packaging weight, and 8 grams is a pretty reasonable margin of error for a product like this.

Shrinkflation is definitely a thing, but this isn’t a good example.

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