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Schubalts posted:Does bricking someone into a wall count as a block? Just grab the wine first.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Story based climate adventures are without equals 😉 Okay, name two good ones. Preferably on Steam
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poemdexter posted:I've never wanted to punch someone so hard in my life. A global pandemic and all they can think about is how to make money from it. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/2...ns-to-sue.shtml
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gently caress these people so hard, they deserve worse than a punch. "Sorry, you appear to be defective and we're issuing a manufacturer's recall." 
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Mar 18, 2020 14:26
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Story based climate adventures are without equals 😉 Love review like this: "The Most Depressing Game I Have Played."
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https://twitter.com/RMac18/status/1240778202475196416 https://twitter.com/RMac18/status/1240780617710624768 Twitter okaying the distribution of false information about Coronavirus to Musk's 32M followers. 
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Doggles posted:https://twitter.com/RMac18/status/1240778202475196416 Well, reading his language he states kids could contacting grandparents is highly risky. So it's not entirely incorrect. If he would have said Asymptomatic instead of "essentially immune", we wouldn't be calling it false.
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Mar 20, 2020 04:39
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Well, reading his language he states kids could contacting grandparents is highly risky. So it's not entirely incorrect. If he would have said Asymptomatic instead of "essentially immune", we wouldn't be calling it false. So true. If he had made a factual statement instead of a false one, we wouldn’t be calling it false. Really makes you think.
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Baronash posted:So true. If he had made a factual statement instead of a false one, we wouldn’t be calling it false. I'm just thinking this is more of a language problem than a fact vs fiction problem.
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Mar 20, 2020 04:56
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When Musk accused the diver who rescued those kids from that cave in Thailand of being a pedophile, that was just another example of a language problem.
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Mar 20, 2020 05:21
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:I'm just thinking this is more of a language problem than a fact vs fiction problem. And you are incorrect. Being incorrect, or just imprecise if you want to give it an unwarrantedly good slant, is low stakes on dead gay comedy forums. Not so much when you have 32 million followers on the platform you are spewing your poo poo on.
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Mar 20, 2020 05:22
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Lemme give the benefit of the doubt about the idiot that's been wrong about coronavirus constantly.
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Mar 20, 2020 21:28
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:I'm just thinking this is more of a language problem than a fact vs fiction problem. This is correct, if correct actually meant incorrect. Think of it as a language problem.
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Mar 22, 2020 02:51
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stop using twitter. This is an excellent example of why.
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So Vice and Fast Company have both had articles about a company Athena Security. This company is claiming a fever analytic. Find cases of corona virus by looking at a screen. Except there are some issues. First is the marketing material on their website is pictures from other products that they added a red bounding box and some text to. Also those images are from products that aren't theirs. Or in one case, they use a picture and testimonial from a company that no only isn't a client but filed a cease and desist order against them. And they have a couple of previous start ups with shady histories. The sales numbers they give are insane by industry standards. Those are thing are things I think it's pretty reasonable for a journalist to find. Most are just reverse image searches and looking at the wayback machine for a moment. But there are some other issues too. They are getting their cameras from a company called Hikvision which government agencies are prohibited from buying under the NDAA. And the model they are getting isn't remotely suitable for this task. It's accuracy is plus or minus 14 degrees. So it's accuracy is poo poo. It's a scam to drive sales to a company whose other product is sketchy on it's best days by taking advantage of panic. And it drives me nuts that tech journalists are just glorified PR hacks.
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Mar 25, 2020 00:50
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NaanViolence posted:stop using twitter. This is an excellent example of why. 
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Mar 25, 2020 02:46
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NaanViolence posted:stop using twitter. This is an excellent example of why. Making tweets auto embed and allowing people to make posts that are nothing but tweet links is one of the worst things to happen to these forums
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Mar 25, 2020 02:46
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Booourns posted:Making tweets auto embed and allowing people to make posts that are nothing but tweet links is one of the worst things to happen to these forums  https://twitter.com/noamscheiber/status/1242618624541671430
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Mar 25, 2020 03:41
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Booourns posted:Making tweets auto embed and allowing people to make posts that are nothing but tweet links is one of the worst things to happen to these forums https://twitter.com/dril/status/1240930345639276544
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Mar 25, 2020 03:52
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Thomamelas posted:So Vice and Fast Company have both had articles about a company Athena Security. This company is claiming a fever analytic. Find cases of corona virus by looking at a screen. Except there are some issues. First is the marketing material on their website is pictures from other products that they added a red bounding box and some text to. Also those images are from products that aren't theirs. Or in one case, they use a picture and testimonial from a company that no only isn't a client but filed a cease and desist order against them. And they have a couple of previous start ups with shady histories. The sales numbers they give are insane by industry standards. Those are thing are things I think it's pretty reasonable for a journalist to find. Most are just reverse image searches and looking at the wayback machine for a moment. But there are some other issues too. They are getting their cameras from a company called Hikvision which government agencies are prohibited from buying under the NDAA. And the model they are getting isn't remotely suitable for this task. It's accuracy is plus or minus 14 degrees. So it's accuracy is poo poo. That sounds like sponsored content rather than real articles.
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Mar 25, 2020 04:16
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Small mercies: Can you imagine how many people Elizabeth Holmes would be killing right now if her Ponzi scheme hadn’t been exposed before 2020?
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Absurd Alhazred posted:That sounds like sponsored content rather than real articles. It's not listed as sponsored content and it's in with their corona virus reporting. And it doesn't read as copy and paste of PR copy that sponsored stuff usually reads like.
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Mar 25, 2020 14:48
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Thomamelas posted:And it drives me nuts that tech journalists are just glorified PR hacks. Actual headline in today's New York Times: quote:Will Our Most Important Industry Survive the Coronavirus? Kara Swisher, ladies and germs.
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Mar 25, 2020 18:47
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Oh no not Airbnb and Über. How will civilized society ever recover.
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Mar 25, 2020 18:55
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Actual headline in today's New York Times: To be fair, that's the NYT Opinions section, which I feel is just a platform for idiots and chuds. Which I guess by extension, the NYT is a platform for idiots and chuds.
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GrandpaPants posted:To be fair, that's the NYT Opinions section, which I feel is just a platform for idiots and chuds. Which I guess by extension, the NYT is a platform for idiots and chuds. Agreed, but Kara Swisher is a technology reporter for the Times, so that speaks to tech journalism.
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Yelp pissing off restaurant owners, again: https://sf.eater.com/2020/3/27/21197236/yelp-dna-gofundme-wrecking-ball-coronavirus Is Yelp the most parasitic site for restaurants?
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GrandpaPants posted:Yelp pissing off restaurant owners, again: Aren't they the ones that created fake websites of their clients to guarantee a cut of orders?
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Booourns posted:Making tweets auto embed and allowing people to make posts that are nothing but tweet links is one of the worst things to happen to these forums This poster speaks wisdom.
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Booourns posted:Making tweets auto embed and allowing people to make posts that are nothing but tweet links is one of the worst things to happen to these forums I just wish it worked like the old link filter where it won't let you post the same link more than once a thread. On top of that sone additional text should be required.
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Mister Facetious posted:Aren't they the ones that created fake websites of their clients to guarantee a cut of orders? I thought they bought google listings to prevent redirects, but yeah.
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Mister Facetious posted:Aren't they the ones that created fake websites of their clients to guarantee a cut of orders? I'm not sure about fake websites, but I believe they did create fake phone numbers that redirected to the real one, but still gave them a cut of the profit.
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Karia posted:I'm not sure about fake websites, but I believe they did create fake phone numbers that redirected to the real one, but still gave them a cut of the profit. Yeah, it was phone numbers, so that Grubhub could bill them for marketing costs. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwebw/yelp-is-sneakily-replacing-restaurants-phone-numbers-so-grubhub-can-take-a-cut Edit: Actually, looks like they were doing websites too! https://thecounter.org/grubhub-domain-purchases-thousands-shadow-sites/ Sundae fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Mar 28, 2020 |
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E: nvm, that's GrubHub not Yelp.
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Sundae posted:Yeah, it was phone numbers, so that Grubhub could bill them for marketing costs. This is completely insane. It's anti-competitive and rent-seeking. How has GrubHub not been sued into oblivion because of this? I'm never doing business with GrubHub ever again. And Yelp is actively collaborating with them on this.
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WOWEE ZOWEE posted:E: nvm, that's GrubHub not Yelp. Grubhub has some sort of partnership with Yelp. They're in on that together.
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Sundae posted:Grubhub has some sort of partnership with Yelp. They're in on that together. Yeah, Yelp's delivery service is just an extension of GrubHub. I don't know if I can really just stop using Yelp though. Which service would be better for finding reviews? Google reviews are a joke. Foursquare?
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It's remarkable how much of SV "innovation" is "how to seek rent without owning property."
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WOWEE ZOWEE posted:Yeah, Yelp's delivery service is just an extension of GrubHub. have you tried going to the place and trying the food?
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Oneiros posted:have you tried going to the place and trying the food? You jest, but I'd rather not get sick or waste money on a crappy experience. Even without Yelp, people have always asked each other "what did you think of this place"? People want to avoid bad experiences, obviously. Yelp provides a service by aggregating reviews. The way it does it however is clearly bad for restaurants. America Inc. fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Mar 28, 2020 |
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