Younger generations are now heavily into MBTI. And I mean heavily: you won't find a person under 35 or so who doesn't know their MBTI letters.
Readit NewsX/Twitter has became extremely prohibitive with just about everything since Elon took over. Their API pricing was antagonistic toward even indie developers. Elon is not a generous guy.
> Elon is not a generous guy
Why would he be?
newsbinator commented on The Unbearable Loudness of Chewing asteriskmag.com/issues/09... · Posted by u/k2enemy
I have found it useful to put all the emphasis on me. "Sorry, I have this issue with eating noises, so I'm going to step out for a bit". Nice people will generally pick up on this and work with me over time. I don't get so many defensive reactions any more.
I wouldn't dare say that to a colleague or friend, because although they might appear to take it well, I don't think I'd be doing our relationship any favors. I'd step out with an excuse instead.
But given my lifestyle, I almost never have to be around anybody who's eating, except in contexts in which I can't hear them eating (busy brunch, say).
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newsbinator commented on Meta scrapped factcheckers because systems were 'too complex' theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/vinni2
Some people will seemingly spend every waking hour moderating multiple large subreddits for free. They get something out of it, and it obviously isn't money.
A lot of them are autistic and they enjoy applying their version of "order" to a chaotic system.
The overlap between subreddit moderators and Dungeons & Dragons moderators is probably quite high.
newsbinator commented on Meta scrapped factcheckers because systems were 'too complex' theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/vinni2
If anything, Elon has largely increased the amount of censorship on his platform[1][2]. The only demographic whose voice got louder is the far right[3], in order to please the new presidency. Zuckerberg is going for the same strategy, facts and democracy be damned.
[1] https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-05-24/under-el...
[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/8/13/the-right-wing-l...
[3] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/04/elon-musk...
According to this chart, X is the most politically balanced social media platform:
newsbinator commented on Meta scrapped factcheckers because systems were 'too complex' theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/vinni2
Marc Zuckerberg: "I notice Elon has become much more popular than I am. Elon also owns an internet social platform. Elon has removed most of the censorship from his platform. Maybe if I do the same I will be popular again too?"
Also Marc Zuckerberg: "I notice Elon and Trump are 2 weeks away from running the primary government to which I'm more or less answerable... better batten down the hatches"
newsbinator commented on Willow, Our Quantum Chip blog.google/technology/re... · Posted by u/robflaherty
The many-worlds interpretation of quantum theory [1] is widely considered unfalsifiable and therefore mostly pseudoscientific. This article is way in over it's head in claiming such nonsense.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation
Unfalsifiable does not mean pseudoscientific. Plenty of things might be unfalsifiable for humans (e.g. humans lack the cognitive capacity to conceive of ways to falsify them), but then easily falsifiable for whatever comes after humans.
> Public confidence in scientists fell from 87 percent in April 2000 to a low of 73 percent in October 2023
It's incredible public confidence in scientists is still that high.
When the public turned to scientists with valid questions, they were met with "just trust me bro" and mockery for "doing your own research" in response to being dismissed.
Even worse: the "just trust me bro" people kept being wrong about one thing after another, then pretending a year later the opposite position was their position all along.
The general public isn't smart, but most people can remember life-and-death information they were given a year back.
Well if that's not a typical young Korean, then who is?