What episode is this?

Conservatives will think the same about any public figure who’s any degree to the left. It’s just a human cognitive bias at play that we’re all susceptible to. If you think someone is a shitty person, that’s going to cause you to overemphasize whatever physical features you find negative about them. The danger of this is that you might in turn start using those negative features as an unreliable heuristic to judge the character of other people before you even get to really know them.

The different fashion/makeup trends among people across the political spectrum can also come into play similarly.

There are conventionally unattractive public figures on the left too, but if you know beforehand that they’re on your “team”, you probably won’t even take particular notice to these “defects”. In some mirror universe where MTG was as far left as AOC, you’d probably wouldn’t think she looked “evil”.

I could actually use one of these.

Generally you post onto the public “federated” timeline. With Mastodon this timeline contains posts from many different Mastodon servers that are all federated with each other, but it appears as one single timeline.

Hashtags are really central to the Mastodon experience. There is no algorithm that automatically suggests posts and accounts like on mainstream centralized services. Instead you gotta purposely use hashtags to discover posts and people. Add descriptive hashtags to your posts, the more the better. This helps people searching for specific topics find your posts.

You can follow people and they can follow you. Posts from people you follow will appear on your home feed. You can also follow hashtags and posts containing those hashtags will appear in your home feed. At the moment there’s no official support for communities like with Lemmy; following hashtags on topics you like is the closest you can get to that functionality. (You can also make separate lists of hashtags outside of your home feed).

The people and interests on Mastodon has a lot of overlap with Lemmy.

Here are a couple of resources you might find helpful: https://fedi.tips/ https://fedi.directory/

Do you happen to have a source for this claim? I did some cursory searches on this just now and found nothing except for one reddit thread where one person said the same thing but again with no source.

Increasing diagnoses of depression, not depression itself.

I feel like every year Anker is recalling one of their power banks. Couple of years ago I had to return one of mine, but I have two other Anker models. Does Anker do more recalls than other brands?

A few months ago I was looking at the menu of a vietnamese restaurant on UberEats. Every description for every item was AI generated (it had a little disclaimer informing you of this). I wonder if the restaurant was even aware of this? Do they get a choice?

The descriptions listed ingredients. I feel like it could be a liability issue if the AI generated descriptions leaves off an ingredient that could be an allergen for someone.

edit: found an example:

Could someone explain this please? I’m still a noob.

It’s really easy now to scan an entire book with your phone. There are apps (eg Scanner Pro) that can take pictures of two pages at once and split them into individual pdf pages.

I done this with several books over the years. I place my phone on a tripod, point it down on a well lit book, and start scanning. A 300 page book might take about an hour to scan.

It depends on your needs. The typography and image quality is much superior for print than ebooks usually. That being said, I still get ebooks for large reference books so I can search them and copy/paste, eg programming related books. I also read foreign language ebooks so I can lookup the meaning of any word I don’t know with my phone’s dictionaries, or translate a phrase or sentence.

It’s a bit tenuous to me to say that it’s “made of shit”. Made from shit yes, but it’s no longer shit at that point. It’s made from atoms that were originally part of molecules that comprised shit.

Fertilizer is often (most often?) made from shit. Would you say the plants that grow from shit are “made of shit”?

“White Mirror” as a name makes no sense. A screen doesn’t turn white when it’s off.

As Wi-Fi is a form of radio technology, we still basically do this today.

However, I’d expect businesses would also want to reduce cold and covid’s impact on employee productivity? Wouldn’t fewer employees needing to take sick time because of cold/covid increase their profits? Outside of businesses that profit from cold/covid, I don’t see what the motivation for businesses would be against this vaccination.

Is this edition of Looney Tunes available on blu-ray? The Max version was a 4k restoration based off new scans of the film iirc.

What country are its servers located?

The peak of AI for me was generating images Muppet versions of the Breaking Bad cast; it’s been downhill since.

Wow, I didn’t know iCab was still being developed. I remember it from like 20 years ago.

Its iOS app store page says it doesn’t collect any information, so that’s promising. The recent reviews as of version 11 aren’t great; lots of bugs apparently. I might try it nevertheless.

Thanks for the recommendation!

While the rendering engine (WebKit) is the same across iOS browsers, WebKit is an open source project. To my knowledge there isn’t any telemetry baked into WebKit that reports back to Apple or whomever about user identity or behavior; tracking would have to be added by the developers making use of WebKit for their browser, I think? So in terms of privacy, it should make a difference which iOS you select.