AI might be useful to find some bugs that might otherwise have been missed, but you still need to do the manual work to make sure it’s actually valid and produce a proof of concept.

That’s a really weird way to use graphs. The data being presented is really just a timeline, I don’t quite understand the thought process that led to presenting this as a horizontal bar graph. There is no second dimension here, so you don’t need a two-dimensional graph.

I don’t think he’s right about America’s founding ideas. Free enterprise, maybe. But capitalism is a different beast, and only came to America much later. The young country’s first taste of real capitalism was the East India Company and their tea trading business. And look how they reacted to that.

I don’t think capitalism was what the USA’s founding fathers had in mind at all. I do think the linguistic conflation of “free market” with “capitalism” is an intentional large scale psy-op designed to make people forget that. And it’s working.

Well, it was supposed to be mainly a hazelnut cream with some sugar, cocoa and maybe a few other minor ingredients. And in fact, when it was new and conquering markets, that was what it was.

I think the decades starting with the early 1990s had desensitized a lot of us to enormous amounts of sugar, and in the end we didn’t even consciously notice anymore how sweet that stuff had gotten.

I’m not surprised by it any more, but only because I’ve known this for a while now. When I first saw this breakdown (and looked at other sources to confirm), I was caught a bit off guard by the realization that this stuff is well over 50% sugar. The palm oil is not exactly a plus, either.

It’s up to Lemmy to safeguard that, not the OP.

Uhm, yes? The discussion was never about anything else?

Reddit changes the stuff to [Deleted] or something like that.

I know, and I think that’s preferable. Gives the OP a way to delete their own stuff while not destroying arbitrary amounts of other people’s conversations and arguments.

This is about data posted by other people, though.

Honestly, this is a major weakness of Lemmy. The OP of a thread can destroy a lot of content by other people, and they often do. I really don’t get the reasoning behind allowing them that power.

The emergence of a deadly new disease

Wishy-washy question. New diseases emerge all the time, and what do you mean by “deadly”? Almost all diseases can be deadly some of the time, almost none of them are always deadly. We’ve had several “new” diseases that are deadly often enough to be worrying, but no wide spread new ones that are as deadly as rabies. Also, what does it mean for a disease to be “new”? Because of a lack of sexual procreation, and therefore lateral gene transfer, neither viruses nor bacteria are species-forming. Every new individual ever is a new diverging point for a line of successors, and that line will never, can never merge back with the rest of the population. The point at which a strain has mutated enough to be called a new disease is basically a matter of opinion.

Gay marriages will be commonplace

Again, wishy-washy question. What is commonplace? I don’t know a lot of people who would still object to gay people’s right to marry, but I personally don’t know a single married gay couple. Is it commonplace? I can’t tell.

Country will have elected a black president

Clear yes. A big part of the country had a very dangerous and still going meltdown over it, but still, the answer is a clear yes.

Country will have elected a woman president

Clear no, if by a small margin on two occasions.

Illicit drug use, such as marijuana and cocaine, will be commonplace

Again with the “commonplace”. It’s hard to define. I’m going by “illicit drugs” meaning drugs that were illegal on a federal level in 1998 (not that this will make that much difference). By my gut feeling, I would say this was already “commonplace” in the eighties and nineties. Though it does seem to have increased since then.

AIDS will be cured

There have been a small number of cases where it actually worked, but to my knowledge nothing universally applicable. AIDS treatments, however, have become so good that the disease is no longer seen as a major problem of our times.

Cancer will be cured

That was always a non-starter, and even people in 1998 should have known that. Cancer is not one disease, at best you can cure a small specific subset of cancers.

Most stores will be replaced by shopping on the Internet

Brick and mortar stores have become fewer, but it’s hard to tell how much of that was Internet shopping and how much was market consolidation into powerful big-box stores.

Most people will do their jobs from home.

We didn’t even come close to “most” during Covid. Most jobs just cannot be done from home.

United States will be involved in a full scale war

What’s “full scale”? There were certainly a few that were “full-scale” for the other side. Shit, there only just was one shortly before this poll was conducted…

Why does the lower-case n in your caption look like it’s on the wrong baseline? Did you arrange those letters manually?

Finally someone who sees things the way I do. I always hated it when after sports/p.e. my classmates would add the smell of cheap deodorant to the smell of their sweat. The sweat smell on its own would have been less offensive. (Provided it was relatively fresh sweat. But even in the case of days old rancid sweat, nothing can really take the place of plain old washing yourself.)

Why not just microwave the butter?

It costs more than the real Gameboy did in the early 90ies. (Not adjusted for Inflation, though.)

If any person actually typed that they aren’t sane at all.

That doesn’t actually rule out anything.

Maybe he means that he took that photo on the sly, through a keyhole or something? In that case, “peeked” makes sense again.

I don’t know, they’re demanding quite a lot of expensive stuff there. Of course, it depends on what the contract the says, or of there even if a contract at that point. If the contract allows for that stuff, or if they’re willing to pay hefty additional fees for all that, than that’s okay. If not, they are acting unreasonably entitled here.

* Edit: Just saw the second pic. It’s still wild but they are offering to pay as much as it takes, so as far as I’m concerned, they’re in the clear.

So are mine – but the power use is becoming a problem. More modern screens use less than half that at the same size and brightness. Replacement will be necessary soon.

Older Millenial here. It was definitely GenX that paved the way for the computer world I learned, and it was mostly GenX who wrote the books and taught the lessons (often informal) that brought us what knowledge we have, at least in the beginning. Plus a small selection of exceptional individuals from older generations, including, dare I say it,… the baby boomers.

“They’re a private company” (with a state-sponsored monopoly on an essential good).

I don’t know how anybody is surprised by this. Who do you think would buy a privatized municipal water supplier, other than people trying to squeeze as much money as possible from a population with no recourse and no say in the matter?

Why does he look like Leonardo DiCaprio?