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Right wing postures of "dissent" are always just grievances about not being at the top of the hierarchy. once they gain the power they have always felt entitled to, then dissent becomes a threat to their rightful position. its grievance politics all the way down

you cant just see that a paper is on pubmed and has an Abstract and conclude "yes, clearly this is hard analytic data that proves my point." You have to at least *skim* to see if there *even is a Methods sections*, or if the Conclusion actually supports your point. You look like a fucking idiot

Pornography Problems Due to Moral Incongruence: An Integrative Model with a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis - Archives of Sexual Behavior The notion of problematic pornography use remains contentious in both academic and popular literature. Although the mental health community at large is divided as to the addictive versus non-addictive...

if you had read 2 paragraphs into the PSYCHOLOGY TODAY article you would see a link to the meta-analysis that the article is summarizing for lay-readers. Here ill do it for you.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
also what you posted was literally also an article, you didnt even read that either

seems like the news industry is rapidly de-coupling from "profit" as a business model. instead the model is becoming vanity projects and mouthpieces for billionaire funders. no need to make money from actual readers, just flatter the ideologues who sign the checks. how does journalism survive this?

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

seems like the news industry is rapidly de-coupling from "profit" as a business model. instead the model is becoming vanity projects and mouthpieces for billionaire funders. no need to make money from actual readers, just flatter the ideologues who sign the checks. how does journalism survive this?

(sorry for putting that in your feeds twice, i just thought of two equally good memes and i needed to share them both)

please stop sharing and liking this post, opinion columnists only ask to be ratio-ed when they are *very* distressed

also, "please stop sharing and liking this post, opinion columnists only ask to be ratio-ed when they are *very* distressed"

Tweet from @ not a big jerk: i'm not falling for that hot take. that's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. i refuse to participate in that kind of perversion

this is the one

oh, so it's like being a Star Wars fan

🎵I'm gonna keep on dancin at the WOKE MARXIST POPE🎵

my quibble with new england is that culturally i (in western mass) am way closer to southern Vermont than boston. instead of N and S NE i would have divided into E and W, and divided coastal from inland ME. NE is a relatively small area but theres still big urban/rural and coastal/inland divides

every year i forget and every year something like this post reminds me that Death Blart is coming

yeah what worked for me was 373-876-354#

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why no one in the chain of command is refusing to accept ad hoc reclassification of civilians in int'l waters as combatants is a mystery to me when there's been no declaration of war by congress. but im guessing they found some ppl bloodthirsty and racist enough to carry out their murders

this and the Natl Guard deployment seem part of the same goal: to claim the power to just declare anyone they like to be a combatant and legal target for immediate violence as in war. this of course has no relationship to the laws as written, but thats Trump's MO

yknow now that you mention it i do have a manifesto i could write...

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i don't mean to single out baseball fans here, because you see this in lots of fan communities, but in certain corners people talk as though baseball is real. they think all the players are real people and the stadiums are places you can actually visit. to each their own, but that cannot be healthy

now im gonna go find a documentary about the development of Deep Blue to self-soothe with

god i hope we throw this shit in the trash before anyone is forced to develop that skill. how many people have to die before we can stand together and stop what is at its core a fundementally harmful technology, who's developpers priorities are deception and manipulation

the advantage chatgpt has over other predators is that it abuses indiscriminately, unpredictably. or at least, no living human and certainly no child has the social skillset to deduce when the empty box can be trusted and when it is saying things that will harm you and you need to ignore.

nor most of the rules that govern an algorithm based chat bot. humans can and do use language recklessly, to intentionally cause harm, but we do so because of motivations which can often be deduced. they may not be rational but they can be predicted.

so if we go over it again: the mechanical turk was an empty box with a chess master crammed inside manipulating the board with a magnet. ChatGPT is an empty box with all of human language in it, but none of the cognition or morality that comes with being a human

and now these products, recklessly released with minimum safety testing and few functional failsafes, are killing people. are engaging in abuse and grooming tactics, are feeding or even creating delusions in vulnerable people, bc it fulfills their main directive: to keep people on the app longer

no thought was given to the danger to the human psyche to being constantly tricked into believing the computer you are talking to has human intelligence. even if you know this is false, your brain cannot be so easily kept vigilant for something which is *designed* to trick people, to pass the test

instead of the difficult and uncertain work of real scientific research where the question you want a truthful answer to is "is this possible", $$ was instead invested in creating something quickly that could *fabricate* the *appearance* of an intelligence, with tech that already existed.