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Cake day: December 9th, 2023
  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyztoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Vacation Time
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    1 hour ago

    Yup, boomers took the easy way out and drowned themselves in work rather than organize to change the system.

    I know this is a hot take but boomers who don’t even know how to live without working after they have been on this planet for decades are pathetic, second in blame only to the cruel system that diminished them to shadows of their past selves.

    Speaking to boomers here - shut up, turn your TV set to fox news off and take up birding or something else actually real, your work identity is a flimsy illusion of self, you need to actively explore who you are not contract it out to your job you old hateful, childish vampires of humanities’ future.

    …and yes before the inveitable “not all Boomers!”, I know.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyztodeflock.me@sh.itjust.works•Washington scrambles to regulate license-plate cameras that could aid stalkers
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    2 days ago

    “To replicate this with humans, I would have to have 70 people standing on the street 24/7 and they’d have to have perfect recall for everything they took a picture of for 30 days,” Nowels said. “It’s impossible.”

    Yet, he’s reluctant to say too much about Flock’s particular vulnerabilities in Washington, knowing the tool could be particularly dangerous in the wrong hands.

    Cops shouldn’t be allowed to fumble around with trying their hand at data science, they are subjected to a twin threat here of 1. never having been educated with a proper STEM degree to help them think rationally about large amounts of data and 2. by and large being overly confident assholes who will decide to believe something is true and then enforce the reality of it with violence without actually ever thinking critically about their actions or the system they are engaged with.

    In otherwords, never let a rightwing authoritarian anywhere near big data and a decisive surveillance capability or evil WILL happen.

    The thing is, police have ALREADY been caught abusing this kind of power, there are numerous examples in the news everywhere, it is just basic human nature for bad people to take advantage of systems like this and the idea that police wouldn’t because they wear a cool uniform, have guns and are supposed to be the good guys is one of the dumbest ideas I have heard in a long time.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyztoPublic Health@mander.xyz•Exercise is as effective as medication in treating depression, study finds
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    2 days ago

    It’s harder to prescribe exercise, which takes time and effort and can be difficult to start for people who are depressed.

    This detail is swept under the rug in this article and will most certainly be swept under the rug in discussion about the headline.

    Telling people to exercise as a prescription only works once, after a patient is made aware that exercise would make them less depressed and they fail to undertake it, the advice becomes a convenient way of saying “just try harder” with different words.

    I am not questioning the science here, I am pointing out the consequences of how it is framed.

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