if you (not you specifically but anyone reading) find this happens often enough to be debilitating you may benefit from seeing a psychiatrist for anxiety/depression medication. My wife was like that and it made an immediate difference for her.

If anyone else just wanted this article to get to the fucking point already, here is the original nexus post:

https://forums.nexusmods.com/topic/13501488-publisher-approved-paid-modding-policy/

there is also a causation question. I’m similar to you, I don’t get sick much so I don’t have much reason to be obsessive about cleanliness (of course I am hygienic and practice normal food safety). but my wife gets sick often and that causes her to be extra super careful about foods she eats, cleaning, hand sanitizing, etc.

jfc I hope you reported that app.

yeah regulation enforcing something like this domestically would be nice, but obviously you can’t enforce it internationally. Adversarial states probably have their own GenAI platforms already.

Don’t read too much into articles like this using hyperbolic phrases. It’s not impossible. It doesn’t break the laws of physics. Our understanding of physics is just imperfect and gets refined as we gather new data.

So when a new instrument like JWST can see more stuff than we’ve ever seen before, of course we’re going to see some new wild shit. That’s the entire reason they made it.

actually impressive you did all that in an hour. I would not have the patience.

the high waist pants doesn’t help.

this is also likely explicitly outside their jurisdiction since it involves a federal election

states run federal elections though, plus there are probably local issues on the ballot too. why are police even there if it’s outside their jurisdiction? and how do you expect federal entities to enforce laws at every single poll in the country? it makes no sense.

to me this is just ex-post-facto justification for motivational reasoning or confirmation bias. people just look for the easiest possible way to resolve cognitive dissonance.

yeah and I’ve done a lot of chatting about amazon products online at reddit, forums, etc over the last 20 years or whatever and never once seen people get different prices on the same amazon link.

it doesn’t swing both ways. They are claiming the position of being “pro life” which is clearly hypocritical. No one on the other side is claiming to be “pro death” or “anti life”.

what kind of gun is that?

sign #8 that you might be a fascist.

Marjorie Taylor Greene

I’m talking mostly about the vibrant niche communities the comment above mentioned. That all happened well after the Digg and slashdot stuff. Niche communities grew on reddit relatively unchallenged.

Sure, reddit could have a similar meltdown to Digg, but I don’t think it’s a forgone conclusion. Social media has inertia. The bigger a platform is is the harder it is to lose people, because the mass is the feature.

But reddit also didn’t have that when I started using it.

reddit also didn’t have to compete with reddit.

So far this is just a hypothesis, with no empirical evidence to back it up. On the other hand the standard model is supported by lots of evidence. It says this pretty clearly at the bottom of the article.

It’s possible this guy is right but he has a long way to go to prove it. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, as Carl Sagan would say.

I think you’re conflating dark matter and dark energy, they are two different things. Dark Energy is what’s accelerating universal expansion. Dark Matter slows it down.

and I would actually classify them as “known unknowns” since they are holes in our understanding of physics that we’re aware of. A true unknown unknown wouldn’t be in scientific discussion at all or have even been given a name; it would be completely off our radar.

I would just ignore it once or twice, I don’t find it to be a big problem when browsing All. But if it becomes a repeat nuisance for you, since they seem to be two communities for basically the same thing, I would see if one is significantly more active than the other and block the less active one.