I would say everyone does it. Confirmation bias isn’t something you can completely avoid. You can try to recognise it in yourself, but most of the time it’s a lot more subtle. As simple as reading something you agree with and not going to check the source. We ALL do that.

Oh good, another world war

I really feel for the billions of people, including my fucking self, who didn’t get a vote but who still have to suffer the consequences of this.

Jesus fucking Christ not again

Rhyming slang isn’t really supposed to be funny, rather obfuscatory. It’s almost like a cipher, so that anyone not in the know doesn’t understand. That’s a theory, anyway.

It really seems like not only can’t they be touched, but everyone else is also so jaded by the situation that no one is even fucking trying.

This one was wild:

In an example they uncovered, a speaker said, “He, the boy, was going to, I’m not sure exactly, take the umbrella.”

But the transcription software added: “He took a big piece of a cross, a teeny, small piece … I’m sure he didn’t have a terror knife so he killed a number of people.”

From picking up and object to mass murder lmao. Not even close!

Oof, suggesting that the “absurdity” of the Bush administration would never be topped didn’t age well

If we ever see AR or implants overtake touch screens (unlikely imo because typing in AR fucking sucks) then I hope flips come back just for the talking part.

Ah, I miss flip phones. If I wasn’t totally hooked on my little screen box I would go back.

I have a colour one, I think the white is pretty white tbh? Or, I mean, it looks like paper. Off-white like a book.

I made a robot which is delighted about the idea of overthrowing capitalism and will enthusiastically explain how to take down your government.

Yeah I misread before I commented, I didn’t know robot taxis were a thing, Jesus…

Surely you can just take over? You can’t expect the car to run people over for you lol

What always annoyed me was having to draw charts by hand. Just let me put the data in a computer for god’s sake, the rest of the working is there… I did actually write a python function for one of my assignments which was fine, but they told me not to do it for the exam.

Yes that’s what I’m thinking, some modernised physical data storage technique.

Punch cards? Stored correctly there’s no reason they couldn’t last many human lifetimes. But… Yeah it’ll take a while to encode everything.

I would have thought that with modern technology we could come up with something like punch cards but more space/time efficient. Physical storage of data - only one write cycle of course, but extremely durable. Even just the same system as punch cards but using tiny, tiny holes very close together on a roll of paper. Could be punched or read by a machine at high speed (compared to a regular punch card, presumably still Ber slow compared to flash media).

MBAs should be renamed Master’s in Bullshit Administration.

Check the other comment thread from the parent, there’s a discussion which goes into it.

Great! Please, take them all.