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The type of content, the length of content, the method of ingesting the content, the different motivations/precursors to TV watching vs online watching (since the study doesn't determine causation only correlation) lots of things.

Science doesn't work by looking at things and saying what's "obvious" or "common sense", because what's supposedly obvious or common sense is often actually false.

Re:Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb's New Universe on Saturday July 04, 2026 @05:01PM (#48789066)
The big bang isn't a theory about how the universe began, so I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of these topics.
Re:US Government releases first batch of UAP documents on Saturday May 09, 2026 @08:52PM (#48079894)
>Obama and Biden didn’t release any though. Not one.

... Right, and I was addressing why that was the case. That's the discussion that was being had here. Seriously, are you aware of the comment chain you're commenting in?

>You must have seen files I haven’t. Please link to a file that implicates Trump in wrong doing.

Did you actually search at all? This was incredibly easy to find, and there are plenty more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g0dzg6e4mo

Re:US Government releases first batch of UAP documents on Saturday May 09, 2026 @01:14AM (#48072011)
Sorry, did you forget the comment chain you were commenting on? This wasn't about files that were currently unreleased, it was discussing why Biden didn't release them during his presidency.

As far as Trump goes, yes, he's implicated all over the files. A simple search on any search engine will find plenty of examples for you.

Re:US Government releases first batch of UAP documents on Friday May 08, 2026 @01:34PM (#48066283)
Because he legally was not allowed to as they were still in active use in legal proceedings.
Are we really still pushing bomber mafia nonsense 80 years later?
Re:The Epistemology of Microphysics on Sunday March 29, 2026 @03:27PM (#47566344)
>Science can't tell us so far what really exists.

Only inasmuch as nothing can tell us what "really" exists. By any practical definitions of any of the words in that sentence science is the best way of determining what exists.

Re:We reduced a container image from 800GB to 2GB on Monday November 03, 2025 @01:55AM (#45796494)
>the example in the article is an 11GB image that was amplified by copying behaviors

It's not, it's an 800GB image caused by multiple full writes of an 11GB file into the image's layers. I read the article.

Re:US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s on Sunday March 09, 2025 @05:34PM (#43314118)
>Even Donald Trump now admits that stalling NATO expansion and not treating Russian security concerns with utter contempt could have prevented this.

I'm confused why you would phrase it as "even Donald Trump", as if we should somehow expect Trump to not buy in to Putin's propaganda line? The fact that Trump "admits" that he agrees with Putin should not give any weight to what Putin claims.

Re:“It appears that Twitter is DDoSing itself” on Saturday July 01, 2023 @05:30PM (#36555448)
>I prefer Twitter in the sense that it's more laissez faire in terms of what kinds of speech get you banned.

Musk literally just said that the term 'cis' is a slur that will get you banned.

Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th on Thursday June 08, 2023 @04:05PM (#36248005)
Except the way Reddit works increasing the volume of users, even if they aren't seeing ads, provides the entirety of the value of the site that the users who are seeing ads come to see.

This 100% reeks of business people who don't even care to understand what Reddit is coming in and seeing the raw metrics of "% of users who aren't seeing ads" and the "lost" revenue.

Re:Alex Jones to pay $965M to Sandy Hook victims on Thursday October 13, 2022 @08:21PM (#33198228)
In fact he was just doing his show, showing the verdict being read, and mocking the father of one of the slain children's reaction. I can think of no stronger proof that any apologies given were not genuine.
Re:Alex Jones to pay $965M to Sandy Hook victims on Thursday October 13, 2022 @08:20PM (#33198217)
>While plausible, it hasn't really been proven that he ever even looked at his google Analytics

This is not true. Evidence was shown in the trials that InfoWars looked at and responded to traffic analytics.

Re:Alex Jones to pay $965M to Sandy Hook victims on Thursday October 13, 2022 @08:01PM (#33198077)
>Don't assume everyone who was acquitted is guilty because of the few exceptions of injustice such as OJ.

No one was. Even you said

>So since OJ got off you assume everyone acquitted may still be guilty?

which is not the same thing.

No one is pronounced innocent in the US justice system, so by definition yes, anyone who is found not guilty "may still be guilty".

Re:Alex Jones to pay $965M to Sandy Hook victims on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:48PM (#33183966)
Calling what Jones did "say the wrong words" is not anywhere close to reality.
Re:Everything in Japan is next level on Monday June 20, 2022 @08:33PM (#31818198)
This seems like a very strange fetishization of Japan.
Re:LaMDA is not sentient on Monday June 13, 2022 @02:42AM (#31722034)
No one ever think the things they think are blasphemy.
You can "agree" to any number of terms that they could put in there that aren't going to hold up to any legal scrutiny.
Re:Defund the Police meets the crime wave on Thursday December 09, 2021 @07:14PM (#29504930)
So the excuse is that the police are allowing shootings and other crimes because they aren't motivated enough? Because they might be held to a higher standard? Because they might not get their awesome new toys? Stop treating them like children. I'm amazed when people will go to any lengths to excuse the police.
Re:Defund the Police meets the crime wave on Thursday December 09, 2021 @05:36PM (#29503968)
Except they're still paying for it and the police weren't defunded

https://www.ktvu.com/news/oakland-didnt-cut-any-money-from-t...

Re:ConstitutionDAO on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @04:52PM (#29259324)
That's not a real thing.
Re:ConstitutionDAO on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @04:31PM (#29259080)
This seems like a ridiculous idea borne of the fetishization of crypto/blockchains/nft/whatever nonsense.

There is fundamentally no act of preservation in destroying a physical object, you have to twist all logic and reality to think so.

Presumably so someone installing for the first time can install an older version where they can set the toggle before upgrading to when the toggle is removed?
Does it really need libc6 >= 2.31? Having problems installing it on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS because of that dependency.
Re:When pop history bombs: a response to Malcolm Gladwell on Thursday June 17, 2021 @01:44AM (#27536420)
I think there's a valid distinction between "using the politics of the time to better understand history" and "pushing personal politics through the teaching of history"
Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff on Monday January 20, 2020 @05:02PM (#22102448)
How is that a contradiction? Assuming one thing is not claiming I have the entire story.
Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff on Friday January 17, 2020 @07:01PM (#22081032)
I would assume such things were considered. You should also wonder how many people weren't fired because they did switch directions. Don't assume you have the entire story.
Re:Kerbal Space Program 2 on Monday August 19, 2019 @08:41PM (#20742952)
>Add to that that Steam forces you to update games if you wanna play them

Not true. KSP has previous versions you can pin to in Steam and play just fine.

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