skisnow

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 35 points 3 weeks ago

“Come on Kash, let’s take a picture to show them you’re doing a great job!’” Leavitt wrote, attaching a photo of the pair smiling and giving a thumbs up.

The fact that they think a photo of them smiling shows they're doing a great job, tells you everything you need to know about their competence.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The problem there is that a religious text loses its authority if it’s full of demonstrably incorrect statements. Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus.

Once you’ve decided that you can just ignore anything that looks wrong, the Bible stops being a source of truth and becomes a Rorschach ink blot for you to see whatever you want in it.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 weeks ago

Reddit moderation has been pretty comprehensively captured by bad actors.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

My 3rd generation iPad became functionally useless after only 6-7 years even though the hardware was pristine. Almost half of the apps on it, including some major ones like YouTube, started refusing to run because they had a mandatory Update, and the App Store wouldn't provide updates for the newest iOS version that the 3rd gen could support.

Meanwhile my Windows laptop that I bought at the same time is still in service after 12 years. Windows going out of support just means you don't get the security updates; Apple going out of support means they'll brick your machine.

Fuck Apple to infinity.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

That said, I support disclosing that AI was used in making the game

Which was the whole point of the original post.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You use the lines of the chart that are relevant to the kind of journey you want to make. This should not need explaining.

You're just being argumentative for its own sake.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'd still measure both by ability to move dirt if my objective is to move dirt. This chart compares modes of transport; if your purpose for riding a bicycle is pleasure or cost or whatever then you can make your own personal adjustments, but if you want to decide what's the safest way to do a daily 10 mile commute then this chart will give you that.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They spend over £50,000,000/year on care, research, and conservation.

A significant portion of what we know about the ancient world is a direct result of their research sharing and activities; for example when the Rosetta Stone was in French hands they kept it to themselves, when it was in Egypt they did nothing with it, but when it came to Britain it was shared with research departments across Europe as well as in Britain, resulting in our ability today to read hieroglyphics and demotic script.

Think about that for a second: if the Rosetta Stone had been left in Egypt, there's every possibility that Egyptians today would still have no idea about most of their own history or how to read their own ancient texts. You might dismiss this as paternalistic or white-savioury, but it's true nonetheless.

Even as recently as last year we had researchers finding things like https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/babylonian-map-world-0021631 that simply wouldn't have happened without the British Museum's work. So, I'm inclined to cut them some slack.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

Some of those are astonishing.

Safety Index: 71st, lower than Belarus, Lebanon, and Egypt.

Healthcare: 39th, worse than Argentina, Sri Lanka and Mexico

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

People give the British Museum a lot of shit, but it's free all year round for everyone.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Because being in debt to the US and Europe has worked so many wonders for Africa...

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'm not sure how legit that account is. I'm not on Twitter, but I've definitely seen that handle at the top of a few other "magat gets their comeuppance" reposts.

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