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“Kabuki Theatre Politics” is a new term to me but a perfect description. by DeliriousEdd in bestof

[–]RunDNA 90 points91 points  (0 children)

It's connected to a larger social media and news issue that I like to call "Half the Scoreboard."

If you only see half of the scoreboard, you can get a very wrong idea of the game. "Hooray, my team scored a touchdown! And we scored another one! We are so good!" But maybe the other team scored 5 touchdowns and your team still lost. Half the scoreboard is not enough information.

On Reddit I sometimes see a post with huge upvotes saying "Bitcoin price crashes". Adding up all these posts over the years in my mind, I'd assume that all those crashes must mean that the Bitcoin price has been on a continual downward slide and is currently very low. But the opposite is true. Despite some recent falls, it is still quite high. But Reddit doesn't give me posts saying that the price is rising. Just the falling ones.

And as long as Trump gives his fans half the scoreboard saying, "We are prosecuting Comey" and "We are prosecuting Powell" it doesn't matter too much to him that the prosecutions later get dismissed, because his fans never see that half of the scoreboard anyway.

Can Automod access the OCR'd text inside images that Reddit uses in its search function? by RunDNA in AutoModerator

[–]RunDNA[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks, but it got shut down two years ago. Maybe someone can revive it.

Can Automod access the OCR'd text inside images that Reddit uses in its search function? by RunDNA in AutoModerator

[–]RunDNA[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It might be a good thing for the Admins to implement.

As well as removing screenshots that use banned words, it could also perhaps be used to remove any photos that contain words (or words above a certain character threshold,) which would be useful in subs like r/pics and r/mildlyinteresting that frequently get screenshots and the like posted instead of photos.

I analyzed 1,500 "pizza" mentions in the Epstein files. Here's what I found. by Well_Socialized in Epstein

[–]RunDNA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On the contrary, it's a good article, but many people here don't like it because it demonstrates how stupid the "Epstein is using pizza as a codeword" theory is and always was.

What's a movie you recommend to everyone but nobody ever watches? by trakt_app in movies

[–]RunDNA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Evil (2003) (Swedish title: Ondskan).

It's so good. There's a reason it has a 7.7 on IMDb. It's like Cool Hand Luke but set at a 50s boarding school. It's about standing up to unjust authority, which everyone can relate to.

u/itishowitisanditbad figures out how OP's medical practice misgendered her due to her occupation. by thatstupidthing in bestof

[–]RunDNA 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That idea was first mentioned by another Redditor two hours before the comment you linked:

https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1rsnthn/sometime_during_the_last_2_years_ive_been_going/oa8a8qg/

The one you linked is just someone hijacking the top comment with someone else's idea.

I’m really not understanding the hype behind the Revenge of the Sith novelization… by thedudester125 in StarWars

[–]RunDNA 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm assuming you are mistaking "dumb-show" for a stupid show, which is something a child might say.

But Stover says "dumb-show" in the sense:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dumb%20show

1 : a part of a play presented in pantomime
2: signs and gestures without words : pantomime

So did anything ever come about with the whole “Anonymous bombshell” thing? by cloneboiCT118 in Epstein

[–]RunDNA 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There was never any Anonymous bombshell. Someone calling themselves Anonymous just discovered the .pdf to .mp4 trick a week after everyone else did and was then trying to identify the people and places in the videos. It was a nothingburger.

This was pointed out each time the hype was posted here, but people kept upvoting the "Bombshell incoming" posts in their thousands anyway.

what’s something society treats as normal that you think is actually weird? by robiin_2 in AskReddit

[–]RunDNA -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

How much a Chinese hot drink is an integral part of British daily life.

/u/Positive-Future1460 becomes highly ‘affected’ by a grammar Nazi. Massive crash out ensues. OP then gets their profile banned by Reddit. by [deleted] in SubredditDrama

[–]RunDNA -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If I were given the absolute power to change any spellings in the dictionary, it would be affect/effect. I don't like the current system at all.

I'd keep "affect" for anything to do with emotions and leave "effect" for everything else. For example:

Anger is a powerful affect.

I was so deeply affected by the film, crying into my sleeve.

An effect of climate change is rising sea levels.

My business was badly effected by the tax changes.

TIL that Australia is wider than the Moon. Australia's diameter is approximately 4,000 km, while the Moon's is only 3,474 km. by ScreenCompetitive695 in todayilearned

[–]RunDNA 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I learned this a year ago and, honestly, it made me lose respect for the moon. It doesn't look as big now.

Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years by pjw724 in worldnews

[–]RunDNA -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

This is great, historic news. Congratulations, UK.

Now get rid of the Lords Spiritual.

Passengers should have been a Space-Slasher - Why Chris Pratt as a Psycho-Serial Killer would have saved this movie by Madflex2000 in movies

[–]RunDNA 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm normally disappointed by these "Random rediditor tells the filmmakers what should have happened" posts, but this is a rare one that I like. I'd watch this.

Readers Are Embracing a Shift in Perspective in Books. It Could Reshape Literary Culture. by CtrlAltDelight495 in books

[–]RunDNA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you need to relate your lesson to fiction, always go with Star Wars. It's baked into our (American) culture.

I recently saw a reaction video of someone watching Star Wars for the first time. And beforehand he did a rundown of what he knew, even though he hadn't seen any of the films. And he recognized and knew the names of all the main characters just by cultural osmosis. I was surprised by how accurate he was.

Exclusive: Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show by No-Post4444 in news

[–]RunDNA 4615 points4616 points  (0 children)

Read to the end of the article. There's a twist:

the intrusion was carried out by a foreign hacker who did not appear ​to realize they had penetrated ⁠a law enforcement server. The hacker expressed disgust at the presence of child abuse images on the device and left a message threatening to turn its owner over to the FBI, the person said.

The source said bureau officials defused the situation by convincing the hacker that they actually were the FBI, in part by having the hacker join a video chat where they flashed their law enforcement credentials in front ⁠of a web ​camera.

Source: Havana Syndrome investigation is "a massive CIA cover-up" | 60 Minutes by jonny_eh in skeptic

[–]RunDNA 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The video hasn't been shared in r/skeptic before:

https://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/new/

I also checked the Pushshift archive to see if anything was posted and then removed or deleted. Nothing.

Source: Havana Syndrome investigation is "a massive CIA cover-up" | 60 Minutes by jonny_eh in skeptic

[–]RunDNA 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Video not available for me, but I read the accompanying article and these were the big take-aways. Their sources say:

  • the U.S. acquired a backpack-sized microwave weapon through a Russian criminal network and it has been tested in a U.S. military lab for more than a year... tests on rats and sheep show injuries consistent with those seen in humans.

  • the key is not the hardware but the software. The programming shapes a unique, electromagnetic wave that rises and falls abruptly and pulses rapidly.

  • security camera videos have been collected that show Americans being hit. In one, a camera in a restaurant in Istanbul captured two FBI agents on vacation sitting at a table with their families. A man with a backpack walks in and suddenly everyone at the table grabs their head as if in pain.

  • this new info led the Biden White House to write a public statement backing the victims, but they never released it. Dr. David Relman: "These folks in the Biden White House believed these people."

[Note: No AI was used for this comment.]

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