HotpieTargaryen
HotpieTargaryen t1_iyd26zy wrote
Reply to Please excuse dirty Mario's awful socks by xyzerb
Enough memes about elementary school math.
HotpieTargaryen t1_ixrvv9n wrote
Reply to Do you attempt to read the award winners? Which award do you like the most? by Don_Quixotel
Booker shortlist is always a good set of reads every year.
HotpieTargaryen t1_ixcxfog wrote
Reply to Cloud Cuckoo Land - wow by CrochetNerd_
One of my favorite books of the last ten years. Somehow evokes a feeling of lightness despite being weighty physically and narratively. I enjoy the excitement with which Doerr writes.
HotpieTargaryen t1_iwg9wdo wrote
Reply to comment by Landlubber77 in TIL Of the Bre-X fraud. The Canadian mining company was a penny stock that reportedly found billions of dollars of gold in Indonesia. The stock skyrocketed but collapsed following the suicide of one of the geologists and discovery that the core samples were salted. by jamescookenotthatone
This is a really profound sediment.
HotpieTargaryen t1_ivay7xl wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Attorney General Bonta Calls on Social Media Companies to Stop the Spread of Disinformation Ahead of 2022 Midterm Elections by Wagamaga
On lying about facts. Not free speech, just misinformation and propaganda. You can relax your “concern.”
HotpieTargaryen t1_iujohj8 wrote
Reply to comment by Legitimate-Cow-6859 in Russia recruiting U.S.-trained Afghan commandos, vets say by 29PiecesOfSilver
Nah, but a much slower, controlled drawdown without an artificial and impossible timeline would have been much safer.
HotpieTargaryen t1_iujngoa wrote
Reply to comment by Legitimate-Cow-6859 in Russia recruiting U.S.-trained Afghan commandos, vets say by 29PiecesOfSilver
Afghanistan was going to be a nightmare to withdraw from regardless, but Trump’s surrender killed so many troops and allies that the legacy of Afghanistan will be devastating.
HotpieTargaryen t1_iuipymy wrote
Reply to comment by some-guy_00 in Russia recruiting U.S.-trained Afghan commandos, vets say by 29PiecesOfSilver
I don’t believe the fault lay with the troops on the ground there.
HotpieTargaryen t1_iui6plj wrote
Once again, HBO has explained this. Succession is Game of Thrones without dragons. House of the Dragon is Succession, but they added the dragons back in.
HotpieTargaryen t1_iu6avxs wrote
Reply to comment by cleuseau in Social Media Giants Systemically Fail on Hate and Disinformation, Report Says by HowMyDictates
The reddit mod system is passing the buck and not taking responsibility. I do believe you can control for misinformation and hate on the internet, but not by giving control to random groups of anonymous people that squatted on a topic first and happen to be slightly more clever at promoting toxicity than the true sewage subs that gets banned. Twitter has no excuse.
HotpieTargaryen t1_iu67ojx wrote
Reply to comment by unresolved_m in Social Media Giants Systemically Fail on Hate and Disinformation, Report Says by HowMyDictates
The moderator system encourages misinformation and hate in many subs and there is no real oversight.
HotpieTargaryen t1_iu67gof wrote
Reply to comment by dontpet in Social Media Giants Systemically Fail on Hate and Disinformation, Report Says by HowMyDictates
Yeah, but it’s the unmonitored sub/moderator system that allows this garbage to continue. r/politics mods have rules in place to protect political troll accounts and ban anyone that calls them out and there is zero oversight. Reddit isn’t better, it just hides the ball better.
HotpieTargaryen t1_ituw0oc wrote
Reply to Greg Berlanti’s ‘Green Lantern’ HBO Max Series Being Redeveloped, Loses Writer by MarvelsGrantMan136
Well you can’t make Green Lantern without a budget so might as well backdoor cancel this one.
HotpieTargaryen t1_itsfjlc wrote
Reply to FX has greenlit “Never Let Me Go,” a drama series inspired by Kazuo Ishiguro’s science fiction novel of the same name. by HumanOrAlien
Tough book to adapt.
HotpieTargaryen t1_iszovg3 wrote
Reply to TIL the price of textbooks increases by an average of 12% with each new edition by ExperienceKCC
Education has become a total scam in this country.
HotpieTargaryen t1_iydm82p wrote
Reply to 5 - 4 * 8 by Fluffiddy
Why is everybody obsessed with elementary school math shorthand that has no real life applications? Order of operations is determined by function; you’re just showing off poorly written numbers and a fifth grade understanding of math. Enough order of operation memes.