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fuck_all_you_people t1_j6k7mcj wrote

Reply to comment by mayormcskeeze in The internet has become essentially 5 giants sites all sharing screen shots of each other and not much else. by DominosFan4Life69

Fake sites created by other companies to fake rank best products and game the algorithm by putting their products first. Google should penalize people that game the spiders by making fake ratings websites and websites that explain basic shit and then refer [company x]

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MellyMoo2010 t1_j6k77bi wrote

Reply to Having a day off to do nothing is considered bad if you’re depressed but good if you’re not depressed by themetahumancrusader

There's nothing I like more on my day off than doing as little as possible for as long as possible. I say this to colleagues who ask what I got up to on my day off and they usually follow it up with "Sounds like you're depressed," I'm not depressed. Far from it. I work bloody hard all week and I'll be damned if I have to do shit on my day off just to please society. Duvet Days with endless supplies of biscuits and cups of tea watching some crappy boxset on Netflix needs to be normalised!

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Sloloem t1_j6k6pco wrote

Reply to comment by Fluid_Amphibian3860 in It seems like black cops abusing power may bring about laws to keep cops as a WHOLE in check. by Sol-eks

I looked at a lot of numbers from various watchdog groups right after the huge push in the wake of George Floyd's murder and the interesting takeaway was that encounters with the police end in murder at pretty much the same rate regardless of the races of either the officers or victims. When controlling for population demographics it was more likely for a black or hispanic person to have that encounter than others, but once the cop was targeting you it was about even odds.

The real stark contrast was when you drew the lines by income. If you were sufficiently wealthy your odds of being hurt or killed in an encounter with a police officer regardless of anyone's race dropped to effectively 0 while if you were poor (or the police thought you were) you were in serious trouble.

Not saying this is a good way to look at the data but if you don't break anything down at all and just look at all police shootings equally the least likely kind of person to be on that list is a rich asian lady while the most likely victim is actually a dog...because police kill roughly 10x more pets than people every year.

It's about class, yes, but fuck me the scared little babies popping off rounds at dog parks because wagging tails threaten them need to learn some goddamned discipline and de-escalation tactics.

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rhymes_with_chicken t1_j6k5opn wrote

Reply to The internet has become essentially 5 giants sites all sharing screen shots of each other and not much else. by DominosFan4Life69

If all you do is social media, ya. I only do Reddit, socially (too often, admittedly).

Aside from that it is the largest source of global information that has ever existed in the history of mankind. If you want, you can shut that other shit down and use it the way it was intended.

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AxialGem t1_j6k4ytc wrote

Reply to Considering the size and age of the universe, there must have been a situation where atoms moved in a way so they recreated the shrek movie in 1920x1080 quality somewhere. by Rat_Ramsay

That doesn't necessarily follow, right? It's not enough to know the size and age of the universe, you also have to know the chance of atoms moving that way. Of course, we live in a universe where that did happen, because, uh, that film exists. But that doesn't mean it's likely to happen ofc. It's like saying: given how many grains of sand there are on this beach, one of them must be an exact replica of the Taj Mahal down to the atom. When in fact, the number of possible arrangements of atoms in a grain of sand is vastly more than the number of grains of sand on the beach

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