taiyang

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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Seeing CA propositions get rigged with misinformation and tricky language suggests to me that direct democracy might also not work without proper safeguards.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 12 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

Fun social psych fact: research has shown group brainstorming to be an overall process loss. You're better off brainstorming alone and bringing your ideas to the table individually, ADHD or otherwise.

Lots of reasons why, but you can imagine some of the obvious ones, like only one person being able to speak at once, or groupthink issues where a person or group dominates the process.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

I found success just saying Alexa wasn't working and a bunch of stuff uses it. Not even that far from correct, at least?

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 55 points 1 day ago

Jokes on you, these were actually written by dogs enjoying the sweet scent of manass.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

She's a pretty popular figure on the left and might actually get a lot better turnout than Beto (although certainly less with racist white "moderates" but their turnout for Dems has been lackluster). Texas has been purple, but you wouldn't know it given all the voter suppression and gerrymandering.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Rare occasion where the headline is... pretty much it, at least as far as this article goes.

Sure, we could point out that the east wing is for events and it's the first lady's office (which obviously matters very little to MAGA) but NYT doesn't spend nearly enough time emphasizing that this is illegal, like most of the shit he does this past year.

They're probably trying to wreck as much stuff as possible before a judge, once again, puts a stop on it (only for an appeals court to shrug and say it's too late and allow it).

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Thanks, 2025.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My guess is they couldn't tell. A reasonably good photoshopper can make an image like this.

Edit, should add that a photoshopper would also do better with it since they'd use a real 20 and wouldn't have the text messed up.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Remember memes... though half a weeks gone by. Remember memes, even if work makes you cry. For even if it's far away, the weekends in my heart. I sing my silly songs to you each time we make meme art..."

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It might be because the moon is falling in 3 days.

Which... I guess is due to capitalism (Happy Mask Salesman peddling Majora's Mask) or maybe the male loneliness epidemic (Skull Kid has no friends).

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

Whatcha mean, I'm glad we've got a generation of IT and Sysadmin professionals.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Marketing weirdly effective, for one. They pump a large portion of their budgets into hype and they make just enough back to keep going. It's like the same people who watch an ad for a fast food place and go even though it's never as advertised.

And most isn't direct marketing. They very much pay influencers to buy this slop and worse. You pay a half million to a guy to make something look popular and it becomes popular. It's very annoying.

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