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Instagram has it’s fair share of blame for the trend, but I don’t think they were the progenitor, as it were. Snapchat was far more heavy-handed with face altering filters from the get-go, as I remember it. Instagram was mostly just the “old-school” sepia tone, black-and-white type filters for the most part until that picked up.

Evolution being slow is a good thing. Trying to shortcut it would just be a more direct way to destroy the species. Also a great example of the kind of thing I’m referring to.

Yeah, I’ve wondered if it’s something like that. Seems like a fairly easy trap to fall into, but hard to say for sure with only our singular reference point.

If you’re not going to make a point related to the comment you responded to, why comment?

Not remotely related to what they said.

Using the second definition, I’d still clarify as “false rhetoric” or something. Maybe that’s just me shrug

Had to look it up myself. I saw both, but went with the hyphen for clarity.

Is everybody else using ‘rhetoric’ wrong or am I the one off base? Afaik, it just means ‘speech’, or maybe ‘eloquence’ in certain contexts, but I’ve never seen it used to mean ‘lie’ until jd opened his mouth and everybody else followed along.

Just to clarify, 50,000 years is 50 millennia. If you meant millions if years, the term for that is mega-anna. And eons for billions.

Other than that, I more or less agree. Humans have developed technologically much faster than we’ve been able to evolve/adapt to the changes we’re creating, and the stress from that is growing. Occasionally I wonder if it’ll prove too much for us in the end.

They’ve already declared the highest level of security in the city for that day, fwiw.

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Afaik, there’s currently no instance-neutral way to link to a post unfortunately. As for the link icon, that’s used to turn part of a comment into a link without posting the whole url for space and/or aesthetic reasons. Like this.

Also, it looks like there’s still an issue on the Lemmy-UI with that url. I wonder what’s up with that.

Something about hyperlinking a link twice seems to have messed with it, at least on my end. I’d suggest just posting the link as is without the formatting.

If I’m being generous, it does resemble an abstract cat face.

Literal “dog caught the car” moment.

You’re under the impression LLMs don’t produce incorrect grammar?

“Breaking News” 🤦‍♂️ Ugggghhhh.

*I guess nobody else is tired of celebrities holding the US political system hostage.

It is absolutely neutral. You’re mixing up neutrality with equivalence. Just because a neutral party reports on something that’s clearly incorrect doesn’t mean they are sponsoring or supporting it over something else, nor is it saying they are equally valid claims.

The purpose of neutral reporting is to have a record of what happened, not to judge it right or wrong. Unfortunately, sometimes (a lot of the time, nowadays) noteworthy events involve unpleasant and/or malicious actors, but we can’t just shun them from history because their purposes are ignoble.

A “Scarlet P” as it were isn’t defensible, but a name-only system seems ripe for abuse. Unless the employee can keep track of every student, all it takes is a greedy and/or cruel student to use someone else’s name and they don’t get a lunch that day.

Best method, imo, is free lunch for every student. No fuss, no muss. That children are held responsible for the economic welfare of their family (and there are people fighting to keep it that way) is atrocious. Just feed the children, easy as.

But I thought “the black people” loved him because he…*checks notes*… has been indicted numerous times and sells shoes. Are you telling me that’s not true? I am shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

Marshawn Lynch voice: “I’m just here so I won’t get lynched.”