FPOWorld

FPOWorld t1_itwjtt9 wrote

Here’s a quick vid about the history of dark matter:

https://youtu.be/lNmRHccI4Z8

It wasn’t gravitational lensing that made scientists think there was matter they couldn’t see, that was something they discovered later that reinforced the idea that dark matter exists. What initially made them realize dark matter existed is that the stars on the outer edges of a galaxy weren’t being flung out of the galaxy as math predicted they should. Some force they couldn’t see was holding galaxies together…hence dark matter. There has been more confirmation of evidence that it it exists via lensing for example, but we still have no idea what is actually doing the work. Dark isn’t describing the color, it’s more of an indication that it’s completely invisible to science. It’s really just a placeholder until someone figures out where this invisible force is being generated from.

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FPOWorld t1_isd33r1 wrote

Do you work for Facebook?

I’m well aware of what A/B testing is, as I mentioned, I’m a computer engineer. Why did they apologize for an A/B test, which as you know is almost an industry standard practice? Finding which widget gets the most clicks is an A/B test, not inflicting sadness on users as part of a psy op.

Sure this was not the only factor, but it’s hard to argue that it wasn’t a critical one. It’s especially egregious as it was done in the process of committing a crime that FB covered up. They deserve 0 trust.

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FPOWorld t1_isd0ql2 wrote

No, I mean where they did an experiment to manipulate users’ emotions: https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/02/facebook-sorry-secret-psychological-experiment-users

Stealing a US presidential election that led to the outlawing of abortion, nationwide voter suppression, and the community spread of Covid and a million dead Americans is right up there with anything I can think of.

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FPOWorld t1_iscywk2 wrote

NOW we can trust them? This is after they secretly ran psychological experiments on users without their consent (among many other scandals). They didn’t even suspend CA from using Facebook until after the whistleblower. They knew CA broke the law and covered it up for years. They didn’t follow their own policies, were an accessory to one of the greatest crimes of my lifetime, did nothing to stop what CA did with the data, and now we can trust they’re going to start following the rules?

The rot is at the top. There’s no fixing that as long as Zuck the conqueror is running the show. I won’t give meta a goddamn dollar or a click.

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FPOWorld t1_iscuq1v wrote

CA jacked a bunch of data illegally, Facebook knew for years and didn’t disclose what happened until after that data was used to jack the election for Trump.

Edit: if you can call it a disclosure after it only came out via whistleblower complaint

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