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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I looked up "yellow journalism". It seems to describe sensational articles, which this is, but that's very broad. I was wondering more about the exact placement of those two words to achieve that sensational effect.

What makes it biased isn't the truthfulness of the literal words, but what it communicates to the reader. There are ways to say that the perpetrator was wearing lipstick such that the reader understand either "transsexuals and crossdressers are violent people" or "this person happens to dress funny and their behaviour has no bearing on anyone else who does the same." Based on the reactions in the article's comment section, this is clearly an instance of the former.

So to summarize, it's not a problem that looks are being highlighted. The problem is that it's done in a way that puts a target on innocent people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

So is it sort of like shooting your self the foot long term?

I'm not sure what you're referring to here. Masking or not masking? I would say that masking all the time would qualify as shooting yourself in the foot long term. It's a lot of wasted energy that could be spent doing something else. When you get sufficient time to turn off and relax, it really does feel like autism is a superpower.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

To avoid exhaustion and burnout

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Very interesting to see how these articles are written. All it took was two words to take it from an unbiased report to a biased one: "lipstick-wearing".

Does anyone know if there is there a name for this technique?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Productivity is how fast I'm moving towards my goal. Its end goal is to reach my goal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

About three times per day during the work day makes for ~800 times per year. Seems to be on the right order of magnitude to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Easy enough to write. But reading and maintaining? That's the hard part.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I find it amazing how little space corn syrup takes up relative to how much is produced. It's no wonder we use it in everything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It's the only time where it's relevant to the conversation, no? Why would you bring it up anywhere else?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Milk first makes it possible to get the wrong ratio of cereal to milk because

  1. the cereal floats and you have no idea how much you put in there
  2. You can underestimate how much volume the cereal takes up and not leave enough room in your bowl
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ah, the age-old unpopularopinions dilemma. Do I upvote because I agree, or upvote because it is unpopular and I disagree?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The community I'm currently subscribed to for this: [email protected]

 

Following up on another question about open source funding, how does it usually work when there is funding to pay for the dev's work, then someone new joins in and makes significant contributions? Does the original dev still keep everything? Do you split the funds between the devs? If so, how do you decide how much each person gets? Are there examples of projects where something like this has happened?

 

There's many posts here with the purpose of convincing people to support electoral reform. Not so much that's actually actionable. What do we do if we want to change things? For a start, does anyone have information on who's responsible for the election system at each level of government in each of the major cities?

 

I think it's generally agreed upon that large files that change often do not belong while small files that never change are fine. But there's still a lot of middle ground where the answer is not so clear to me.

So what's your stance on this? Where do you draw the line?

 

I was looking up when babies can safely start eating untoasted bread and one of the images led me to this website that sells... stuff? Are they selling me the question? Who knows.

Then if you scroll down to the related products, you can buy a basketball club for $30, down from $15!

I'm guessing this is some phishing website looking to steal credit cards. I also still haven't found an answer to my original question.

 

Is it possible for posts to show the domain (TLD and SLD) of link posts?

Use case: I don't want to watch videos so I want to avoid clicking YouTube links. I would like to know that they are YouTube videos without having my phone spend the next minute trying to open YouTube.

 

Is there a community meant for anything that doesn't currently fit into the existing communities?

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