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  • _NoName_@lemmy.mltoScience Memes@mander.xyzIt's a molé
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    2 months ago

    A Useful heuristic for refuting conspiracy is the scope of logistics.

    It’s one thing for a single organization to lie about its internal affairs with none of its personnel blowing the whistle, but as a conspiracy grows it takes more organizations and individual personnel keeping mum to keep the secret from being widely known.

    Flat earth would take the US government and all universities working in lock step. The globalist agenda takes pretty much every world government and all academia.

    In contrast, MK Ultra was essentially done with only members of the CIA in the know, and it was still known about by many before it was declassified.



  • That logic they’re using should be burned with fire.

    With that logic, cars being highjacked for a crime should make the company liable for the crime (Revolutionary actions would also count as crimes). That gives car manufacturers alot more legal reason for adding kill switches to their vehicles’ engines, which would most likely be used by cops for whatever the fuck they want.

    How about DJI’s drones being used to kill individuals in Ukraine? Steam decks are currently also being used by Ukraine to control machine gun turrets remotely, and they’re able to be used that way explicitly because they use regular OS’s (a major boon to its users.)

    This type of regulation would only further lead to anti-consumer products, and a stronger police state.



  • The answer is that it doesn’t have to be but it’s simpler that way.

    A transcript has to be written for a YouTube video essay, and there’s not really a major reason you couldn’t turn your transcript and footage into an article with a series of embedded gifs or graphics. It’s just much simpler for creators to dedicate their time to one medium and not worry about losses in translation or similar issues.




  • The ‘document’ part also seems to be insanely hit-or-miss from my amateur experience. Self-documenting design/code is… well, not. Auto-generated documentation is also usually just as bad IMO. Producing good documentation really is a skill in and of itself.

    Also small personal opinion: If your abstraction layers or algorithms are based off a technical concept, you should probably attribute that concept and provide links to further research, to eliminate future ambiguity or in case your reader lacks that background. Future you will probably thank you and anyone like me who immediately gets lost in jargon soup will also be thankful.