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[–] Fleur_@lemm.ee 60 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The evil version of this is when people cite a click bait article, you go to the article and read the attached study and the study is not backing up their claims in any meaningful way. Like come on bro you clearly haven't read this study don't cite it and claim I need to educate myself.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Average YouTube influencer for me.

It's gotten even worse in the past year. Most of them sound like they're parroting AI summaries of blog posts and sprinkling stupid ass cutaway gags to memes. Like rather than actually consuming the entire body of context around a subject and having an informed take, they're just giving shallow thoughts and trying to monetize.

Any YouTuber whose whole angle is to spicy commentary on current events in tech/programming is definitely part of the trash heap.

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 55 points 1 month ago

The sources are released under a source-available license, you are legally prohibited from reading them

[–] IHeartBadCode@fedia.io 44 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I literally had to cite the page number from the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 Public Law 117-328 that covered how the $800M that Trump keeps telling everyone FEMA spent on migrants was a completely different fund than the disaster relief fund that FEMA uses for hurricanes. Which the DRF was established originally as it's own fund in the Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act of 1988 Public Law 100-707

It's page 4,730 where that item is located for anyone wondering.

I fucking hate what online interactions have become. I think I've easily read over 200,000 pages of government legislation, federal regulation, and legal proceedings since June because of the lies one orange shit stain keeps telling. I really do hope that the Republicans can move past that fucker, it was a lot easier to talk politics.

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

MrFilmKritic on Twitter has the answer for you.

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 month ago

The hero we deserve.

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[–] abbenm@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I bet they saw the source and said "oh, yes, thank you for the source, I have updated my opinion based on this new information."

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[–] Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The one on the right is a bearded 8 year old who never saw snow. He has a beard due to micro plastics. He thinks all pictures online of snow are AI generated. He’s also an asshole to everyone and rightfully so because his life and planet has been doomed. Welcome to 2034.

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

True neckbeards are born with it. It's only the posers that get theirs by injecting PFAS into their balls.

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[–] Nyanix@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ngl, I don't comment nearly as often anymore out of concern for anything I say to be misconstrued, argued, or wanting verification like this meme. Ya'll, I've got a job and a life, I can't/don't want to sit here and fight people. The worst gets assumed of anything and it gets difficult to have productive, much less positive discourse online.

[–] Darkenfolk@dormi.zone 6 points 1 month ago

What, feeling too good for an unproductive Internet fight with strangers who probably would agree with you if they could read?

[–] elvith@feddit.org 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Already feels like this sometimes

Source?

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Since this is an opinion statement, you're actually quoting the primary source right there!

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Let's not vilify people asking for citations. With AI it's more important than ever to verify what you're reading.

[–] abbenm@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 month ago

I'm absolutely okay with vilifying people asking for sources on the historical existence of snow.

[–] _bonbon_@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago
[–] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Winter is on its way out due to climate change. In around the year 2100, it's estimated that there will only be 3 seasons left, no winter. And summer will be much longer and much hotter. So the 3 seasons will be spring, then a 2-season long summer basically, then fall. That's it.

But you can already see the disappearance of winter today because there's much less snow and it's much warmer than like 30 years ago. (Speaking for Germany)

[–] Deello@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] abcd@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

30 years ago we definitely had snow in winter. Sometimes more, sometimes less. But I remember playing in snow basically every winter as a kid. And I’m living in a very mild region of Germany. Now I’m considering all season tires (just for legal purposes) to not change wheels twice a year, since there is maybe some snow for one week in total.

Spoke with a guy this week who was born in the 30s. He said winter back then was much harder. Whole lakes or even rivers were frozen solid. I can’t imagine being able to walk to the other side of a major river…

[–] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

I remember ice-skating every winter as a kid. Rivers were frozen over solid, too. Sometimes, there were two separate layers of ice on top of each other, each being several cm thick. It kind of went away in the late 90s. I guess everybody just thought the ice and snow would return someday. Now even snow has gotten really, really rare where I live.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] pfm@scribe.disroot.org 3 points 1 month ago

Obviously, that's what the "arms race" refers to. Birds used to have very strong arms which they used while racing in their super-fast arm bikes.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 16 points 1 month ago

I asked my employer provided AI assistant if this is true and it assured me that natural snowfall was disinformation invented by leftists in order to destroy our capitalist utopia.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (11 children)

Or when you bring sources and they straight up ignore them entirely...

I understand not wanting to read or go through the entire Marxist-Leninist books I recommend, not everybody has the time for that, but a 5-20 minute article? You waste more time debating me after the fact than you would have just reading the article, at least do me the courtesy of skimming it and trying to engage with my points.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And their own sources are so heavily butchered or even lied about. I cannot count the amount of times people provided me with 'sources' that they claim were ironclad in their favor only for them to completely debunk their shit...

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[–] adelita2938@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Family Member: Russia needs to invade Ukraine because they need a shield against NATO.

Me: But NATO wasn't going to attack them. It's a defensive organization.

That's what THEY want you to believe. (Was not able to clarify who "they" were during conversation, but got the impression it wasn't nato)

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 weeks ago

Even if you believe Russia to be 100% in the wrong, the idea that NATO is a defensive organization is laughable. Not only has it historically been led by Nazis, the member-states are the most imperialist countries on the planet. It serves to protect an inherently violent status quo of brutal looting and exploitation of the Global South, and that's without getting into aggressive operations from NATO.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

No, that's the current trend here (Switzerland plains).

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

I think it's totally reasonable to ask for a source about a historical claim if something hasn't been true for over a decade?

EDIT: My source for this opinion is here

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 points 4 weeks ago

You get people who believe jet contrails only started appearing in the 90s even though that they didn’t is literally within living memory.

[–] stealingtime@mstdn.social 8 points 1 month ago

@sharkfucker420 We would have flying cars and spaceships in future

The future:

[–] root_beer@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hidden panel: guy on left saying “google it yourself, don’t expect me to have to teach you anything”

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

"Do you have a source?" means, "I already know you are wrong but you won't believe me unless you find out for yourself."

[–] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If somebody would ask for a source it would already be a big improvement. Usually you are just classified as idiot if you dare to have a different view.

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[–] Mesa@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

It's gotten to a point where I just go ahead append a warning that I have no source and am just making casual conversation.

Source: my previous comment on Lemmy.

[–] The_Che_Banana 5 points 1 month ago

Cool meme.

Source?

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago
[–] Hundun 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"My source is that I MADE IT THE FUCK UP"

  • President of the USA (probably in a videogame)
[–] Shark_Ra_Thanos@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Don't worry. It won't happen like this. There will be no one left.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

F'real I think my kids have had maybe one snow day so far, and my oldest is in second grade. We live in southeast Mass.

I thought about buying a new snowblower, but the fact is that I think we had maybe one storm in the past 5 or 6 years where I actually would've used my old one. The little dustings we had were easily cared for by a shovel.

I also have a part of my driveway that has a lot of tree overhang and never really gets much snow on it. It also happens that the winter morning sun has a direct path to this patch of asphalt, so if we get only an inch or two, it'll all melt away as soon as the sun comes up. Assuming it's not too overcast.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 1 month ago

I would like to see the source for this meme.

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