“But don’t you remember Chernobyl?!”

Its the same old story. If there’s ONE accident the whole technology needs to be banned. It doesn’t matter if we learned from it or how much safer things are compared to the alternative. I don’t understand the mindset that massive improvements are never good enough. It has to be perfect otherwise we’re better off with the status quo, despite the status quo being catastrophically worse in every sense.

Same reason why the US healthcare system is so bad.

Reading this (or trying to) is like being on drugs. You go from “What in god’s name is the author smoking?” to some kind of nirvana.

I had some abdominal issues that caused me to be buckled over in severe pain most of the day. I was unable to eat anything for days at a time. I was constantly feeling faint and nauseous and vomiting frequently. I did a video appointment with my doctor and he referred me to get an abdominal ultrasound.

It took about a week for the office to call me to schedule the tests. They told me the next available appointment they had was 8 months out.

I wound up getting better on my own after about 6 weeks of hell. I never did find out what was wrong.

BTW I’m not in Canada I’m in the good old US of A where we “Don’t experience delays” and have “Top-Notch Healthcare” thanks to out non socialized systems. I even had good insurance.

The healthcare system in the US is in shambles. It is extremely inefficient and absolutely resistant to any kind of change, because as bad as things are right now, change introduces risk that might make it worse. No matter how slim the chance or how much the benefits outweigh the risks, nobody wants to accept meaningful changes.

I think at some point language as a whole will shift. Most languages have had a concept of masculine/feminine and differentiating between genders for most if not all of their history. This seems pretty weird as a concept in modern times since it serves no real benefit. If we were to develop a language from scratch today I don’t think it would have such features.

Its going to take a pretty long time (hundreds of years) but language is constantly evolving. I think it will get there. In the meantime things are going to remain at least a little confusing.

I have a few transgender friends and its still a bit if a mental hurdle to see them as who they want to be identified as sometimes. I sometimes slip up and will call them by their old name or use the wrong pronoun. It’s never intentional of course, but sometimes my mental auto-correct isn’t working at full capacity. If I meet the person post-transition then its never really a problem as I always see them as that gender.

Ah yes, if we can’t currently explain it then logically it must be aliens.

I wasn’t really referring to nuances as those are pretty difficult to expect to get right. As long as the general idea is correctly portrayed then it’s reasonably good journalism.

Im talking mostly about clickbait/ragebait BS. Sometimes critical information is intentionally omitted or inaccurately portrayed just to get more clicks on the article. Often times the article itself even contradicts the headline.

One example was an article making rounds in the UK months ago where some flooding had totaled some electrical components in a car. All the headlines said “Electric vehicle receives thousands in damages from a few inches of water” or some variation of it on a few dozen news sites. Each one had long comment chains about how electric cars are going to kill us all and are completely useless to everyone. The car in question was actually an early-2010s diesel.

Or “Self-Driving Tesla slams in to firetruck”. When the Tesla involved in the incident was a 2014 Model S. Which wasn’t equipped with self-driving tech.

Or the recent mozilla foundation article where they say that cars are “Monitoring facial expressions” when what it actually means is that the car is using infrared cameras to make sure the driver’s eyes are on the road.

This is amazing! I had no idea there was an actual term for this. But yeah I frequently encounter flat out misinformation in most news sources and always have the thought: “If I know these parts are BS, how many of the things I’m not familiar with are also BS?!”

Sadly I can only upvote this once

100%! Cathedrals and Temples especially are some of the most amazing pieces of architecture. You can’t walk in to a historic European cathedral with the ceiling reaching to the sky and stained glass windows and not feel something.

An Incinuendo?

Exactly my point. Proficiency in language isn’t that important and pointing out minor mistakes knowing full well you understood what was intended is a combative and pedantic attitude. It serves no purpose other than to elevate yourself and try to make others feel dumber.

The language did its job in portraying information. Not everything needs to be made by an english PHD. Especially not in the world of internet comments.

https://youtu.be/J7E-aoXLZGY?si=lkWFvrmgMlaAHb2d

found the not smart one. they took the bait.

Anyone who says their smart overestimates themselves. Anyone who says their dumb underestimates themselves. How does anyone even answer this question?

Pedants who choose to make big deals over minor issues are always out to prove something and are objectively not smart.

Totally. I don’t pirate games because steam exists. Im just so sick and tired of the constantly changing content of streaming services, or companies taking away purchased content, or worse forcing ads. I would also like to watch the things I purchased without an internet connection on any device I want. Give me that and I’ll gladly pay for it.

WHAT? SORRY I CANT HEAR ANYMORE

100%

woah bluetooth signals can be tapped?

It really depends on the field, lots of jobs just like to see that you went to college and got some kind of higher education. Its OK if you don’t necessarily use 100% of what you learned it just more demonstrates that you have the capacity and drive to constantly better yourself. Did you have a particular kind of career in mind when picking these majors?

I mean there are obviously exceptions, like if you want to be a doctor you’d better have gone to med school.

Samsung.

I had bought a new Samsung TV from best buy and after getting it home and setting it up, I noticed that any time there was high/low contrast content moving across the screen, the image would just smear across. This made a lot of content completely unwatchable. In LCDs this is usually a result of horrendously bad response time but this was so bad that something seemed clearly wrong/malfunctioning with the unit, so I called samsung for warranty repair.

Over the next few months I had a tech come out to replace the main board on the TV, but it still had the same problem. I booked another repair appointment. The same tech came to my house a few weeks after that and replaced the entire screen. Still the same problem. There was a thread that I found by this time on AVSForum of people with the same TV all complaining of the same issue.

At this point, Samsung’s official response to me was “That’s just how the TV is”. I was really not happy about the idea of keeping the TV since I was outside the return period, so they gave me a phone number to call with a case number to escalate or hopefully resolve the issue. Its wild that they would ever even sell a TV like this.

Here’s where it gets bad:

The next day I call the number around 10AM. I sit on hold for 7 hours, then at 5PM there is a message “Our office is now closed, goodbye” then it hangs up on me. No voicemail, no callback options, nothing. There is no option to email this department, they will only take phone calls.

The day after I call the number a little earlier, around 9 AM. This time I sit on hold for 8 hours, then again there is a message at 5PM that they are now closed and hang up on me.

I wait 2 days and call back around 9AM again. at 4:45 PM I get in touch with a human, but they aren’t able to find any record of my case number and can’t help me. They’re about to close anyway, so I should just call back tomorrow. They hang up.

The next business day I got up at 7AM and called immediately when they opened, sat on hold for 8 hours and demanded to speak to someone who could actually help me. I sat on hold for another hour and eventually spoke to a manager who miraculously found my case number and acknowledged receipt that I called.

Samsung sent a company to come pick up the TV and gave me my money back about 2 months after that call. I had to spend 4 entire work days on hold with them to get them to acknowledge and take back their TV that was effectively useless garbage. I replaced it with a Sony and have been 100% happy ever since, its been working for several years now.

I have another one - Xfinity.

There was an issue in my neighborhood where an outage was reported that lasted months, only problem was that this was completely in error and there was no outage. Normally this isn’t an issue but Xfinity’s big-brain move is if there’s an outage detected in your area, you are 100% unable to get in touch with anyone. Not by phone, chat, email, or anything. As soon as you give your service address it says “An agent will not be able to help you. Goodbye” then hangs up on you or closes the chat.

During this time my modem died and I had to get and activate a new one. I had to look up a fake address outside of the “outage” and give them a fake number to talk to an actual human. When I explained the situation and gave them my actual address, the agent started the process of getting me off the phone because there was nothing she could do. Eventually after pleading they were able to activate my new modem in about a minute.

This whole process took over a day and I lost a whole day of work because of it. They gave me a $10 credit on my bill to say sorry.