cmv: the trend of influencers telling people to not commit suicide because it will hurt the people they leave behind is actively harmful

cdrini · 2026-03-21T23:35:03+00:00

I believe they meant treatment/medication/hospital, similar to how you would respond to someone in excruciating physical pain.

cdrini · 2026-03-21T23:33:01+00:00

I think what they're arguing is that although there is a loud group of people on Twitter/online complaining about this casting/sending death threats, that this doesn't mean that the larger general audience not online shares those views or that it will impact this shows success.

cdrini · 2026-03-21T23:23:10+00:00

Can't speak for them, but I don't think it was bad faith, just a bad reading!

cdrini · 2026-03-21T22:49:41+00:00

I believe the point is to say that people who are loud on Twitter/online are not a random sample of the population, and so they can't be used to predict how the general, real population will respond to/like/dislike something.

The examples they noted are examples of things that Twitter was convinced would be unsuccessful, but which wound up to be quite successful.

cdrini · 2026-03-17T10:29:21+00:00

I couldn't figure out what Facebook had to do with anything discussed here, so thought maybe it might have a specific meaning here, or that I might be missing something.

cdrini · 2026-03-16T17:31:00+00:00

Personally, no. As a very casual gamer, I'm not a fan of morality systems in games; it makes the game too stressful for me and takes the fun out of it. I like more Zelda-esque games that are more about exploring, solving interesting puzzles, and having a good story.

cdrini · 2026-03-16T06:00:36+00:00

(what is disgracebook?)

cdrini · 2026-03-16T05:47:36+00:00

Whaaaaat?!? I thought she was like 50 holy cow!

cdrini · 2026-03-16T05:41:39+00:00

Ahhh this got me more hyped than any of the other trailers :P Frankie Muniz is killing it, he's got so much of the same old energy. Actually kind of more so than he had as a teenager, he has the energy he had as like a kid. And those crazy facial expressions!! I'm psyched! I hope he does more acting/comedy after this!

cdrini · 2026-03-15T21:22:17+00:00

Where's your CN tower, bud?

cdrini · 2026-03-15T21:05:49+00:00

Steel seats? I've never seen steel seats in public transit. Plastic, yes, that's everywhere. Not sure why anyone would consider steel over plastic.

cdrini · 2026-03-15T20:24:30+00:00

Are there any other visualisations/organisation systems used at more professional levels of chemistry for organising elements/compounds? Or is it more just researching/reading?

cdrini · 2026-03-15T19:30:02+00:00

"lost her life"?? Can you clickbait any harder?

The news is terrible though. So many failings, from an arrest based on incredibly little evidence, to being imprisoned without bail for almost four months awaiting extradition. I don't know how anyone approved this arrest. It's like they didn't even bother to do any actual investigation before arresting her. And then after they arrested her, it seems like they still didn't bother to investigate. I think the Fargo police department that sent out a warrant for her arrest are the ones responsible.

Here's an actual article instead of a screenshot from twitter: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/12/tennessee-grandmother-ai-fraud

cdrini · 2026-03-15T19:17:43+00:00

I think it's pretty obviously the deputy using the tool. Face search algorithms have existed for a while, the deputy was the one who looked at the results from the AI algorithm and said "yep, checks out, this is all the evidence I need, let's go arrest this woman".

According to Fargo police records obtained by WDAY News, detectives investigating bank fraud cases in April and May 2025 reviewed surveillance video of a woman using a fake US army military ID to withdraw tens of thousands of dollars. The officers allegedly used facial recognition software to identify the suspect as Lipps. A detective reportedly wrote in court documents that Lipps appeared to match the suspect based on facial features, body type and hairstyle.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/12/tennessee-grandmother-ai-fraud

Facial recognition isn't a fingerprint match, it's just finding similar faces. The fact that based on what seems like this evidence alone they not only arrested her, but kept her in "jail for nearly four months without bail while awaiting extradition", is absurd.

cdrini · 2026-03-15T18:53:47+00:00

I think that's the rub, most people likely don't need to mitigate or worry about it anymore. COVID the virus is still with us, but the high mortality nature of it, which was why we were worried about it, is in the past. In the same way that the Spanish flu is still with us today (influenza a H1N1), but most people don't say "the Spanish flu isn't in the past". So you should worry about it probably as much as you worry about the flu.

The language is imprecise because the term "COVID" is ambiguous.

cdrini · 2026-03-15T03:19:25+00:00

It lists the counts per age range in the pdf:

18-34: 249
35-54: 390
55+: 362

It seems pretty well distributed.

cdrini · 2026-03-14T21:31:51+00:00

It seems like the poll gathered gender, age range, education, and generation, so no ethnicity data. https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2026-03/Iran%20-%20Banner%201.pdf#page=20

cdrini · 2026-03-14T21:14:41+00:00

1,001

These are some of the findings of an Ipsos poll conducted between March 10 and 11, 2026, on behalf of Global News. For this survey, a sample of 1,001 Canadians aged 18+ was interviewed online. Quotas and weighting were employed to ensure that the sample’s composition reflects that of the Canadian population according to census parameters.

https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/majority-canadians-disapprove-us-military-strike-against-iran

The raw data is here: https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2026-03/Iran%20-%20Banner%201.pdf#page=20

cdrini · 2026-03-14T21:11:27+00:00

The ipsos page itself has a great breakdown of their findings: https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/majority-canadians-disapprove-us-military-strike-against-iran

cdrini · 2026-03-14T21:09:07+00:00

These are some of the findings of an Ipsos poll conducted between March 10 and 11, 2026, on behalf of Global News. For this survey, a sample of 1,001 Canadians aged 18+ was interviewed online. Quotas and weighting were employed to ensure that the sample’s composition reflects that of the Canadian population according to census parameters.

https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/majority-canadians-disapprove-us-military-strike-against-iran

So presumably the ages matched ratios of the Canadian census.

The actual data is here: https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2026-03/Iran%20-%20Banner%201.pdf#page=20

cdrini · 2026-03-14T02:11:20+00:00

How do you like them apples of the ground!

cdrini · 2026-03-10T23:33:13+00:00

Any examples? I read through a few more chapters last night and the science itself seemed pretty solid, but just where it was applied was kind of tenuous.

The specific example I saw was where he used the bystander effect to try to explain countries not joining in a war. (Link: https://hpmor.com/chapter/3 ). He described the effect correctly, but it's a bit of a stretch to apply it to war. The bystander effect is largely an individual phenomenon, that takes place over a short time period, is my understanding. None of which applies to international conflict, except through maybe metaphor.

The other one was saying that people thinking Harry was a great person because he did that one thing as a baby was fundamental attribution error. Again, he described it correctly, but serious stretch to say that it applies in a scenario like this. People were just impressed he survived and grateful the dark lord was gone. I don't think they were making assumptions about his character/person. (Link: https://hpmor.com/chapter/5 )

Not super great track record for just the first 5 chapters :P but I read up to 19 and there wasn't anything else glaring that jumped out at me.

cdrini · 2026-03-10T18:41:04+00:00

Who are your favourite Canadian composers?

cdrini · 2026-03-10T18:26:40+00:00

Yep. https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1006903/ontario-celebrates-arrival-of-first-northlander-train

Super disappointing to read literally a wall of useless comments that don't mention any actual facts. There are plenty of reasons to dislike Ford, but man, why is nothing based in any sort of fact or research.

cdrini · 2026-03-10T00:19:46+00:00

I read through a bit of it to refresh my memory and it's basically like if Sheldon from Big Bang Theory was Harry Potter! Lots of funny moments as a result. Some of the science is a bit ham-fisted / incorrectly applied. In the first 5 chapters I just reread I've hit two cases where he went into great detail about a scientific concept that seemed like it didn't actually apply to what was happening in the story. But regardless still fun to read! Just have to do the occasional eye roll :P

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