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  1. Comment on ‘The Super Mario Bros Movie’ levels all the way up to win Deadline’s 2023 Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament in ~movies

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    Thanks for including some tags, @cloud_loud. Genuinely appreciated. :)

    Thanks for including some tags, @cloud_loud. Genuinely appreciated. :)

    1 vote

  2. Comment on MIT scraps diversity statements in faculty-hiring process in ~humanities

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    Thanks, CBS is far more reputable. Although dismissing every anti-Israel protest happening on campuses around the US as being "antisemitic" due to a few isolated incidents of actual antisemitism...

    Thanks, CBS is far more reputable. Although dismissing every anti-Israel protest happening on campuses around the US as being "antisemitic" due to a few isolated incidents of actual antisemitism and violence is rather absurd, IMO.

    10 votes

  3. Comment on MIT scraps diversity statements in faculty-hiring process in ~humanities

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    Got a better source than "Campus Reform"? From their about section: See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership_Institute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus_Reform

    Got a better source than "Campus Reform"? From their about section:

    Mission

    Campus Reform, a project of the Leadership Institute, is America’s leading site for college news.

    As a conservative watchdog to the nation’s higher education system, Campus Reform exposes liberal bias and abuse on the nation’s college campuses. Our team of professional journalists works alongside student activists and student journalists to report on the conduct and misconduct of campus administrators, faculty, and students. Campus Reform holds itself to rigorous journalism standards and strives to present each story with accuracy, objectivity, and public accountability.

    See also:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership_Institute
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus_Reform

    4 votes

  4. Comment on MIT scraps diversity statements in faculty-hiring process in ~humanities

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    Maybe you should do more than just skim... The deliberate framing and wording of nearly everything in the article is blatantly biased as fuck, IMO. Criticism of Israel's recent actions in Gaza...

    I briefly skimmed the story itself.... Did you see anything wrong with it?

    Maybe you should do more than just skim... The deliberate framing and wording of nearly everything in the article is blatantly biased as fuck, IMO.

    The campus climate at MIT and Korbluth herself came under intense scrutiny when she testified before Congress last year and struggled to say definitively if calls for genocide against Jews violated campus policies. She testified alongside former University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill and former Harvard University president Claudine Gay about the explosion of campus antisemitism following Hamas’s civilian massacre in Israel.

    Criticism of Israel's recent actions in Gaza does not necessarily = antisemitism. And funny how the article only mentions Hamas' actions but not Israel's, which is what is generally being protested on campuses.

    During her testimony, Kornbluth said she does not believe “speech codes” work to promote an environment of free expression on campus.

    Magill resigned shortly after she gave similar testimony to Kornbluth’s regarding campus antisemitism. Similarly, Claudine Gay resigned in disgrace after her congressional testimony on antisemitism and a plagiarism scandal that implicated much of Gay’s academic output.

    The "plagiarism scandal" started by this shithead? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/14/christopher-rufo-jonatan-pallesen-eugenics-racism-claudine-gay-harvard

    IIRC, you even posted an article yourself about how Rufo's allegations of plagiarism were BS:
    https://samkriss.substack.com/p/before-i-reach-my-enemy-bring-me

    House lawmakers on the Education and Workforce Committee are now investigating antisemitism at MIT and other elite colleges and universities. Anti-Israel tent encampments have sprouted at numerous college campuses over the past few weeks as Israel continues its war effort against Hamas.

    Anti-Israel tent encampments... seriously?

    Required diversity statements have received significant criticism for making prospective faculty members pledge allegiance to diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology. These statements appear to violate principles of academic freedom and intellectual diversity in higher education by mandating adherence to progressive orthodoxy.

    "Pledge allegiance to DEI ideology", "adherence to progressive orthodoxy"... seriously?

    Yeah, no bias here! No siree! /s

    14 votes

  5. Comment on MIT scraps diversity statements in faculty-hiring process in ~humanities

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    https://www.nationalreview.com/author/james-lynch/ Author's previous articles for the Daily Caller (Tucker Carlson's former rag): https://dailycaller.com/author/JLynch/ Wow, that sure is a lot of...
    • Exemplary

    https://www.nationalreview.com/author/james-lynch/

    James Lynch is a News Writer for National Review. He was previously a reporter for the Daily Caller.

    Author's previous articles for the Daily Caller (Tucker Carlson's former rag):
    https://dailycaller.com/author/JLynch/

    Wow, that sure is a lot of Hunter Biden shit... But I'm sure this latest National Review article by the same author will be "fair and balanced", and totally not biased at all! /s

    p.s. Posting a blatantly right-wing biased National Review article, on a rather contentious subject, to Tildes after the comment section about it already went to shit on HN.... WTF, @Adys?

    33 votes

  6. Comment on The unbreakable Kryptos code in ~misc

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    Yeah, even if the final passage is the result of a mistake, and can't ever be properly unencrypted because of that, I don't think it takes away from it as a piece of art. IMO it's still quite...

    Yeah, even if the final passage is the result of a mistake, and can't ever be properly unencrypted because of that, I don't think it takes away from it as a piece of art. IMO it's still quite beautiful, and the story behind it is still intriguing... especially given its location.

    If the final passage is unsolvable because of trolling, then that would be pretty epic though. :P

    1 vote

  7. Comment on ‘The Fall Guy’ box office disappointment hurts more than opening weekend in ~movies

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    Yup, even just including a few tags about the article's primary subject matter (e.g. including box office for box office focused articles) helps a great deal, and would be appreciated. Even if the...

    Yup, even just including a few tags about the article's primary subject matter (e.g. including box office for box office focused articles) helps a great deal, and would be appreciated.

    Even if the tags people include on their submissions end up needing to be edited to conform to the established standards, IMO, that's still way better than leaving the tags entirely blank. I would much rather correct a few tagging mistakes than be forced to actually read dozens of articles per day about subjects I have absolutely no interest in, just to extract all the appropriate tags myself.

    p.s. But just to be clear, finding and submitting interesting articles is still by far the most important thing. And if people don't have the time, ability, or inclination to add any tags on their submissions, it's not the end of the world. Any help with tags would genuinely be appreciated though.

    cc: @cloud_loud

    14 votes

  8. Comment on The unbreakable Kryptos code in ~misc

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    He could have also simply made another mistake, like he did in some of the other passages too. But unlike the other minor mistakes, the mistake in the last passage might have been made during the...

    He could have also simply made another mistake, like he did in some of the other passages too. But unlike the other minor mistakes, the mistake in the last passage might have been made during the encryption process and so rendered that portion actually unsolvable now. The fact that he has already released several supposedly "solved" words in the final passage as hints, but even with those hints the rest of the passage still hasn't been solved by anyone yet kinda suggests that might be the case, IMO.

    And maybe that's why he is waiting until after he dies to release the full "solution" to the final passage... to save himself from publicly admitting to having made a huge mistake. Or having to admit he was trolling everyone. Who knows? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    6 votes

  12. Comment on Over ten years after its Kickstarter campaign and Alpha launch, 7 Days to Die is finally leaving Early Access in ~games

  13. Comment on The surprising reason few Americans are getting chips jobs now in ~tech

  14. Comment on US senior homes refuse to pick up fallen residents, dial 911. ‘Why are they calling us?’ in ~health

  15. Comment on Funding shortfall for new tech endangers rural cell service, US FCC says in ~tech

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  17. Comment on The biggest box office bombs of 2023; Disney leads with four entries in ~movies

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    In his Hot Ones interview Matt Damon talked about how the industry has changed. It used to be that if movies didn't do well in theaters it didn't really matter that much since they could still...

    In his Hot Ones interview Matt Damon talked about how the industry has changed. It used to be that if movies didn't do well in theaters it didn't really matter that much since they could still make loads of money off DVD sales afterwards. But with the collapse of the physical media market that is no longer the case, and it's pretty much all or nothing now come box office time, which has caused studios to become far more risk averse.

    So, sure, there have been bunch of films in the past that had long and profitable afterlives after flopping in theaters. And that can still happen in terms of a movie's popularity... However, a flop these days means the studio will likely never make their money back, even if the movie eventually becomes a cult classic. And I think that's probably what the author meant about these flops having no afterlives, given the primarily financial focus of the article.

    17 votes

  18. Comment on Can old, poorly wired electrical outlets cause a PC to freeze? in ~tech

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    My sister's last house was a foreclosure that had been mistreated for quite some time, so a similar situation. Great value, and no doubt a great feeling once you actually finish fixing it up, but...

    My sister's last house was a foreclosure that had been mistreated for quite some time, so a similar situation. Great value, and no doubt a great feeling once you actually finish fixing it up, but a massive PITA to deal with when you first arrive. ;)

    2 votes

  19. Comment on Can old, poorly wired electrical outlets cause a PC to freeze? in ~tech

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    Does she know which outlets are on which circuits in her house? Simply plugging the computer into another outlet on the same circuit is unlikely to fix anything, if the wiring/power fluctuations...

    Does she know which outlets are on which circuits in her house? Simply plugging the computer into another outlet on the same circuit is unlikely to fix anything, if the wiring/power fluctuations is the cause, but moving it to another circuit might.

    p.s. I would still highly recommend getting her a UPS though. They're not that expensive (~$200), and provide a great deal of added protection. But I am also rather paranoid about that sort of thing, since I have a pretty stupid expensive PC and monitors that I want to keep thoroughly protected. That, and I also live in a rural area with lots of trees, so we experience outtages annoyingly frequently. ;)

    5 votes

  20. Comment on Can old, poorly wired electrical outlets cause a PC to freeze? in ~tech

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    Not saying it's necessarily the cause, but yes, unstable power can absolutely cause system lock ups, all sorts of other random seeming, hard-to-diagnose issues, and even lead to early component...

    Not saying it's necessarily the cause, but yes, unstable power can absolutely cause system lock ups, all sorts of other random seeming, hard-to-diagnose issues, and even lead to early component failure. That's one of the reasons why buying high-quality, properly certified PSUs from reputable brands is so important when building a PC. And also why when a PSU is faulty or starts failing it is often very hard to determine it's the cause of the issues, because of how randomly timed, and seemingly unrelated all the issues can appear to be.

    As for your sister-in-law's issues, IMO the easiest solution would be to buy her an Uninterruptible Power Supply for the computer, which can keep the power more stable using the battery as a buffer. And if that doesn't solve the issues then at least you know it wasn't the house's wiring, and a UPS is still useful to have even if you have good wiring.

    7 votes