[-] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 37 points 1 month ago

the search model is helpful to is all

You answered your own question. The search engine indexes your page to send traffic to you. The AI bot indexes your page to plagiarize your content.

Anecdotally, AI also routinely ignores sites' robots.txt and spoof their agents to try to hide what they're doing. A lot of site owners are complaining about the costs of delivering content to web scrapers. Where search indexes might hit a site every day, some AI bots are running every hour and just wasting their bandwidth.

[-] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 35 points 1 month ago

This is odd to say when the YouTube algorithm has been proven to push right wing propaganda.

The concept of "conspiracies" is a bit off. It's not a "conspiracy" when Bezos kills the Washington Post's endorsement of Harris, or fires journalists who criticize him. YouTube doesn't need to remove a video if the algorithm never shows it to anybody.

It is kinda crazy to imagine a secret cabal of rich people who surreptitiously run the world, rather than the well known cabal of rich people who openly run the world.

[-] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 35 points 1 month ago

There are good criticisms of other economic systems that have been tried, but capitalism really seems designed to transfer the most power and resources to the greediest and least ethical.

[-] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 41 points 2 months ago

If mailing 70 lbs of unstable particles that can't exist outside of a lab is wrong, I don't wanna be right.

[-] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 43 points 3 months ago

Socialism works in theory, but in practice they have not solved the problem of CIA death squads murdering their leaders and fomenting a coup.

[-] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 44 points 3 months ago

If you were foolish enough to buy a Tesla, and too dumb to get rid of it already, make another poor decision and go to https://stealmytesla.com/ for the final solution to your problem.

[-] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 38 points 3 months ago

DIN B125 is the class of manhole covers designated for Light to moderate loads. DIN 4271 is the standard for B125 covers that have vents. Obviously. Did you forget everything from German Manhole Cover Standards class at school? ;)

[-] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 45 points 4 months ago

I think 10% of people believe nearly anything. It's basically the rounding error for a survey.

Honestly, if you had asked me 10 minutes ago "Is MacOS based on Linux?" I would have gotten it wrong. But if you asked "Is MacOS based on UNIX or Linux?" I would have gotten it right.

[-] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 35 points 8 months ago

The video on cancel looks like QVC. The "Trump Combat Knife" and banner promoting patriotaddictdeals.com just sum up the Republican party so well.

[-] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

6,000 crickets released directly in the audience. (I hope from multiple points.) This is glorious. 😁

Maybe you don't mind if a cricket jumps on you. I'd shudder and shake it off, demonstrating my lack of courage and dexterity. A lot of people will scream, jump around, or run.

Picture these assholes attending their favorite panel at TransphobiaCon. A cricket jumps on someone, she brushes it away in disgust. Another just feels something caught in her hair. She bats at it, looks into it's beady, insectoid eyes and screams. More screams. The Transphobe in Charge can't hold the audience's attention.

There is some sort of insect infestation. Are they harmful? They don't know. But they have to cancel their homophobia speech because nobody wants to sit in a room with thousands of crickets.

This is straight out of an 80's movie and I am here for it!

[-] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 43 points 9 months ago

Didn't he say full self drive was two years away at least 5 years ago?

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