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the lines on the economy graphs are basically cursive written by the hand of the free market
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Apr 18, 2023 06:12
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Naming a new company slack channel #pity-city in her honor.
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Apr 18, 2023 06:12
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Notification: you have left #pity-city
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Apr 18, 2023 06:26
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Makes sense. I would want to be behind walls and guards too. I assume the general response was lots of hashtag you go girl, slay queen and girlboss. I don't use twitter, I just assume thats the sort of thing people say in response to things like this.
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Apr 18, 2023 08:27
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IME people say nothing, dead quiet, and then when meeting is over do private channels and say "what the gently caress was that poo poo"
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Apr 18, 2023 08:55
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Frosted Flake posted:I have a question about this I brought up in the Ukraine thread. DuckDuckGo explicitly said that it was going to downgrade search results from certain "pro-Russia" sources in the wake of the 2022 invasion. so we know for a fact that duckduckgo, at least, has an ideological agenda underpinning its search results. simply assume that all other search engines are more cagey about it.
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Apr 18, 2023 09:06
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The wilder internet is excellent if you want to do online shopping, anything else not so much. We're never going back to how it was back in the good old days. (shitloads of viruses and such aside of course)
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Apr 18, 2023 09:07
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Jaxyon posted:IME people say nothing, dead quiet, and then when meeting is over do private channels and say "what the gently caress was that poo poo" we had a chorus of raised eyebrows when they said something really insane covid was fun because every meeting had management and their beautiful living spaces in the background, while all the worker's backdrops were tiny apartments or the office itself. everything laid out in a tiny grid for you.
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Apr 18, 2023 09:13
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Durf posted:we had a chorus of raised eyebrows when they said something really insane This is why its important to only run your zoom calls from a podium backlit in red and black with banners behind you, flanked by masked armed guards carrying sci-fi weapons of unknown origin. Running your zoom calls from your pleasure bath the size of a swimming pool full of bubble bath as you chase lost grapes in the suds just doesn't have the same motivational impact.
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Apr 18, 2023 09:18
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haha UK is now officially pushing to privatize NHS. get hosed brits https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/sunak-backs-greater-role-for-private-sector-in-providing-nhs-care/ar-AA19P1PLquote:Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suggested there should be a greater role for the private sector in the NHS as he set out how he wanted to win voters’ trust on the issue.
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Apr 18, 2023 09:29
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Xaris posted:good. the wedding industrial complex is insane and should be destroyed. i've been with my partner for like 13 years and we're defacto married except not actually; i have zero desire or interest in a "trad" wedding that just completely wipes out our entire bank account. i'd rather just put the money towards a nice vacation instead. we did something similar and our friends had such a good time some even admitted to copying us for their own. no gifts or pressure just booze, food, nature and company. conversely another friend was forced to have a massive traditional italian wedding and it was an absolute nightmare. nothing classier than the parents sending letters afterwards haranguing guests for gifting under $200 value
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Apr 18, 2023 09:32
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from what ive gathered, london is essentially a cloud forest and cant be burned properly or it would have by now
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Apr 18, 2023 09:36
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Durf posted:nothing classier than the parents sending letters afterwards haranguing guests for gifting under $200 value yeah the thought of a bunch of gift registries and expensive venues and stressing out lining up a zillion different businesses like invitations, photographer, flowers, dresses, religious iconography, venue, food catering, drink catering, transportation shuttles, and being on a tight time schedule for everything sounds absolutely miserable. i guess if i was obscenely filthy rich and just had someone do all that poo poo for me and all I had to do was show up and gently caress off, sure.
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Apr 18, 2023 09:42
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Xaris posted:haha UK is now officially pushing to privatize NHS. get hosed brits https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/sunak-backs-greater-role-for-private-sector-in-providing-nhs-care/ar-AA19P1PL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owI7DOeO_yg
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Apr 18, 2023 09:43
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Ammanas posted:i really doubt this is true but ok Unemployment Insurance has a typically absurd funding scheme. The Feds provide a trench of money in block grants to States that is "raised" by the tax on employers, along with additional funding for specific oversight programs (always about clawing back "improper" overpayments, never about correcting underpayments) mandated by laws like the Improper Payment Recovery Act (or some poo poo like that) which started under Carter but continue to be built on like a poo poo tower under a park toilet. States are then left to their own devices for a whole bunch of poo poo. Most of them make their programs worse. Minnesota might be the exception proving that rule.
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Apr 18, 2023 10:03
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Bitcoin back to the moon?!
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Apr 18, 2023 10:22
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Xaris posted:haha UK is now officially pushing to privatize NHS. get hosed brits https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/sunak-backs-greater-role-for-private-sector-in-providing-nhs-care/ar-AA19P1PL All the stories have been told Of kings and days of old But there's no England now (there's no England now) All the wars that were won and lost Somehow don't seem to matter very much anymore
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Apr 18, 2023 11:39
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Xaris posted:good. the wedding industrial complex is insane and should be destroyed. i've been with my partner for like 13 years and we're defacto married except not actually; i have zero desire or interest in a "trad" wedding that just completely wipes out our entire bank account. i'd rather just put the money towards a nice vacation instead. Average wedding cost is like $30k, what an obscene waste of money. Lots of people don’t seem to consider that it’s too expensive either, it’s just accepted that a wedding costs that much and going into debt for it is normal behavior.
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Apr 18, 2023 11:42
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Frosted Flake posted:Did GIS results also get much, much worse? yep. even just recently they got worse. Frosted Flake posted:I have a question about this I brought up in the Ukraine thread. if I had to bet I'd bet on it being commercial/technical. Google has kind of obliterated any search results beyond page 7 in most cases. also sometimes it just does not pick up actual articles. actually, wasn't there a spat between google and canada that resulted in google just not showing news articles in some cases for canada? any chance that's it? i really doubt it's ideological. historically google doesn't really do that for long. you can go find a lot of previously big "google finally blocked x" poo poo in search results again. I think search is really just tipping into actual unusability now
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Apr 18, 2023 11:45
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Cuttlefush posted:BERT's inclusion in google's search has probably been responsible for a good chunk of its increasing shitness since 2018 (https://blog.google/products/search/search-language-understanding-bert/). BERT isn't exactly the same as the GPT/LaMDA but they both use the same underlying math. it's become pretty difficult to drill down and refine results since around then that whatever bullshit these LLMs bring when incorporated might actually be better. probably not, but it'd be hard to be worse. other way around, i mean LLM's ability to rattle off bullshit when prompted will be a sea-change in the scale of SEO that google is already barely able to keep up with. if any scammer anywhere wants specific search results to go to their malware page, it's dirt cheap and there's nothing google can do to stop them. the sheer amount of correctly-toned words LLMs can generate while saying absolutely nothing will dominate search.
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Apr 18, 2023 11:47
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How much, if any, does the manipulation of search results (companies that advertise getting your name to the top of the results) have to do with it? e: I mean in the sense that it is permanently changing the way the algorithm organizes results?
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Apr 18, 2023 11:49
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Harik posted:other way around, i mean LLM's ability to rattle off bullshit when prompted will be a sea-change in the scale of SEO that google is already barely able to keep up with. if any scammer anywhere wants specific search results to go to their malware page, it's dirt cheap and there's nothing google can do to stop them. the sheer amount of correctly-toned words LLMs can generate while saying absolutely nothing will dominate search. i don't think that's predictable until it happens. it really depends on specifics. at the moment you can filter out egregious SEO poo poo if you really need to, but you cannot actually refind searches in some cases. seo is annoying but you can dig through it. some queries you just can't actually make like you used to. in this case it's usually pretty technical where there is no SEO poo poo in the results, but the results are for something kind of like the actual query you made. i cant think of any good examples but it happens to me a lot when looking up like author + paper titles. that's not really an issue since google scholar or whatever else can always find them. but yeah i cant think of any times I got stumped but with a bunch of seo results Gorson posted:How much, if any, does the manipulation of search results (companies that advertise getting your name to the top of the results) have to do with it? e: I mean in the sense that it is permanently changing the way the algorithm organizes results? seo is annoying but i think ultimate google could unfuck it if they wanted. i don't buy the argument that they just can't deal with seo spam. the things they optimize search for, like zero-click searches, just don't care or benefit from the current state of things. Cuttlefush has issued a correction as of 11:57 on Apr 18, 2023 |
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Apr 18, 2023 11:55
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The Pity City Titty Committee
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Apr 18, 2023 12:07
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/TripInChina/status/1647890894392287232 https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1500864070433574916
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Apr 18, 2023 12:16
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Penisaurus Sex posted:Spirits are also very heavily consolidated. also it's all ethanol with artificial flavor additives now. I'm not sure where the line is drawn when we're talking large-scale distilling but it's very much industrial production. I'd say it's processed crap because the same factory produces all the types of alcohol from the same base stock + additives the way a soda fountain adds flavors to carbonated water.
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Apr 18, 2023 12:19
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Floor is lava posted:twitter.com/nypost/status/1500864070433574916 all the links in that article are dead/broken now. tiktok account gone.
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Apr 18, 2023 12:21
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gradenko_2000 posted:DuckDuckGo explicitly said that it was going to downgrade search results from certain "pro-Russia" sources in the wake of the 2022 invasion. how much SEO do CNN and the like do? is it as much as russia today et al?
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Apr 18, 2023 12:21
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Cuttlefush posted:all the links in that article are dead/broken now. tiktok account gone. makes you think
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Apr 18, 2023 12:30
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Xaris posted:haha UK is now officially pushing to privatize NHS. get hosed brits https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/sunak-backs-greater-role-for-private-sector-in-providing-nhs-care/ar-AA19P1PL Introducing a bunch of profit seeking middle men will make care faster without sacrificing the quality of service, common Tory W
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Apr 18, 2023 12:38
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Floor is lava posted:makes you think he gets roasted in the amazon warehouse subreddit. https://old.reddit.com/r/AmazonFC/comments/t9wp62/amazon_employee_films_himself_getting_trapped_by/ top post is apparently loss prevention. there are some posts lower from people who say that it happens all the time, it's a hazard, phones are being taken to prevent whistleblowing. not a whole lot of them. reading that is more grim than the trapped by robot thing
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Apr 18, 2023 12:38
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https://twitter.com/lisaabramowicz1/status/1648289090733785088
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Apr 18, 2023 12:57
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Harik posted:also it's all ethanol with artificial flavor additives now. I'm not sure where the line is drawn when we're talking large-scale distilling but it's very much industrial production. I'd say it's processed crap because the same factory produces all the types of alcohol from the same base stock + additives the way a soda fountain adds flavors to carbonated water. I mean, how else would you make flavored liquors at scale?
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Apr 18, 2023 12:57
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everyone is just waiting for the dip?
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Apr 18, 2023 13:08
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the economy keeps not crashing. very concerning for potential growth
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Apr 18, 2023 13:09
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Jel Shaker posted:everyone is just waiting for the dip? At what point did Zimbabwe dip? I'm serious I don't know.
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Apr 18, 2023 13:10
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Xaris posted:haha UK is now officially pushing to privatize NHS. get hosed brits https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/sunak-backs-greater-role-for-private-sector-in-providing-nhs-care/ar-AA19P1PL thank you uk for not becoming a banana republic
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Apr 18, 2023 13:12
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And yet the economy has never been better Mr Hootington has issued a correction as of 13:17 on Apr 18, 2023 |
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Apr 18, 2023 13:12
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I'm pretty sure this is still lower than how much inflation is rising by, so no surprise people aren't buying bonds you aren't getting a return on.
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Apr 18, 2023 13:15
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OhFunny posted:I'm pretty sure this is still lower than how much inflation is rising by, so no surprise people aren't buying bonds you aren't getting a return on. Short term T-bills usually don't beat inflation, though. They're the lowest risk / lowest return option, but this is enough to make sure the banking crisis continues because all the bank savings accounts are still paying 0.5% or some poo poo.
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Apr 18, 2023 13:23
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Twerk from Home posted:Short term T-bills usually don't beat inflation, though. They're the lowest risk / lowest return option, but this is enough to make sure the banking crisis continues because all the bank savings accounts are still paying 0.5% or some poo poo. last time i checked it was like 0.1% but yeah lol
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Apr 18, 2023 13:24
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