kbal

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

Cross-country skiing is fun! I think so, anyway. Take it easy, don't expect to be super good at it right away, et cetera, but maybe try out whichever winter sports appeal to you. What everyone else said, but also don't forget to go outside and enjoy yourself sometimes.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 18 points 2 weeks ago

The Featured Snippet quoted an article from the Mayo Clinic, highlighting the words "Caffeine may cause a short, but dramatic increase in your blood pressure." But when she looked up "no link between coffee and hypertension", the Featured Snippet cited a contradictory line from the very same Mayo Clinic article: "Caffeine doesn't have a long-term effect on blood pressure and is not linked with a higher risk of high blood pressure".

On the one hand, Google sucks. On the other hand, if people are unable to a) understand how those two snippets are not contradictory, and b) read at least one very short simplified-for-laymen Mayo Clinic article about the topic before thinking they've learned anything at all about medicine, it's hard to see the problem as being primarily due to Google. There is something deeper, and worse, going wrong when people habitually take that kind of extreme shortcut to thinking that they know the right answer about almost anything, and it has little to do with whether any one-sentence snippets they're given are biased or accurate.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 4 points 2 weeks ago

Overclocking

[–] kbal@fedia.io 12 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

... and people calling themselves communist still leaping to its defence, for some inexplicable reason.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 26 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Any talk of communism is a "red" herring when it comes to this topic. Russia isn't in any way officially, notionally, or superficially communist.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 11 points 2 weeks ago

Is there any truth to the allegations? Beats me, but seeing the possibility dismissed as as a preposterous notion that can only be part of a "New Red Scare" does not decrease my estimation of the chances of it.

This was just last month.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 3 weeks ago

Town square vs a bush behind the abandoned lighthouse.

"Town square"? More like shopping mall food court. What self-respecting anarchist wouldn't go for the abandoned lighthouse instead? It can only be that they're unaware that it exists and even has working plumbing sometimes.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 6 points 3 weeks ago

Just think of all the juicy benefits of replacing journalists with machines. They'll never stumble or cough while presenting the news, they'll never call in sick, never age, never get mad as hell and decide to not take it any more, never resign from the editorial board in protest no matter what garbage you tell them is the news. Machines are just better suited to the job, it's inevitable.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They're Canadian politicians. Their entire careers have been built in a world where everyone who matters believes that party loyalty is super important, or at least acts as if they believe it. They're trying to do what they think is best for the Liberal party.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 3 weeks ago

Iceraven is one alternative worth considering.

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