JFC, this is terrifying:

The view of young people and TikTok users is particularly frightening at fundamental scientific findings.

For example, only 71 percent of those under 29 years old agree that vaccines have helped save millions of lives. Among TikTok users, the approval is even lower with 69 percent. More than 20 percent of young people, and around a quarter of all TikTok users, even openly doubt this decades-long insight.

Young people and the population as a whole seem to be shockingly agreed on the issue of climate change alone: only 64 percent of respondents and 67 percent of young people agree that climate change is caused by human activities. Among TikTok users, it is only a little more than half.

And the corona pandemic also remains a source of conspiracy theories. A quarter of the total population agrees with the statement that the pandemic was deliberately created by governments or elites in order to be able to control the population more. This dangerous narrative seems to be particularly widespread on TikTok: there, almost 44 percent of users agree with it.

I know this was a throwaway comment:

a country that still hasn’t managed to shed all the fascism it obtained during the World War II years.

But it shows the author doesn’t know much about Italy, and may be surprised to learn they nearly elected a communist government in the 70s.

Lead gen spam in particular is the bane of my existence for the past year. I get 4-5 per day. If you’re so good at getting qualified leads for others, why are you spamming random recipients for yourself?

I’m a longtime ThinkPad user and TBH I find the trackpoint pretty annoying to use. It always seems too fast or too slow and it’s very uncomfortable.

That’s true, I was being too reductive with my comment. What you’re describing is the Steve Bannon “flood the zone with shit” strategy.

Is that true? Because I was under the impression that even the darkest “blacks” from a projector, are still made from the light coming from the device

You’re probably thinking of contrast, which is the ability of the projector to avoid bleeding light into areas that shouldn’t have any. But as far as the darkness of the black levels, that’s down to room treatment (and the screen surface, to a lesser extent). After all, a projector emits light, and darkness is simply the absence of light. You can’t “make” darkness, you can only remove light.

That’s a room treatment issue. You need to control light and reflections, because your “black” is just however dark the projector screen is.

What DDG needs to do is modify the G! switch to include “&udm=14”.

You can do this in Firefox by adding Google (in your list of search engines) like this: google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s

the acceptance of marginal information by the masses. Anything that fits someone’s personal narrative is championed and distributed as truth

This is the much bigger issue IMO. The quantity of disinformation is irrelevant if people don’t fall for it, and Americans fall for it in far greater numbers that other western countries. That points to a failure of education and perspicacity at the individual level.

Same. It seems weird not to mention that in the article, since it`s a very popular use case for them.

ChatGPT-ass article. Is all news going to be like this now?

Absolutely outrageous! It’s obviously Fish GNU/Linux, or as I’ve taken to calling it, Fish GNU plus Linux.

Don’t look directly at it, or you will be monetized!

That doesn’t mean the 10 million nonvoters are kind, welcoming people.