You ask it about the Tiananmen Square Massacre

Yes I agree completely. I was using DuckDuckGo for like 10 years but it’s gotten to the point where it’s genuinely unusable. Even if AI turned off, basically all the results are AI slop blog posts. I was basically impossible to find an answer to any question. I’ve switch to Ecosia and it’s noticeably better, but still, this is a problem every search engine is grappling with right now.

AI slop is like toxic sludge that polluting the online commons. Places like Lemmy are one of the last intact ecosystems that haven’t been destroyed by the sludge.

Interesting, thanks for the explanation

Which is pretty par for the course so far as scientific classifications go.

Well yes I don’t necessarily disagree with you there. But there are some cases where it’s more obvious than others. A good example would be ring species: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species

I’d say planets are about the same level of arbitrariness as far as scientific categories go

Yeah Manitoba was the trend setter, BC and Alberta (which I forgot to mention) followed after the Manitoba NDO made the announcement

Are you from Manitoba or BC?

I mean that these descriptions are somewhat arbitrary. Roughly round is not a very precise delineation, there will be edge cases where it’s not clear which category they fall into

Not the exact situation you are discussing, but: Members of the united Conservative Party in Alberta met with the US to discuss Alberta being a sovereign country. Canada has not sent any of these people to jail for extended periods of time.

Also let’s consider the fact that Joshua Wong is campaigning for democracy.

I know you’re probably gonna come back with some tankie vitriol. I don’t even know why I both responding to you, ur probably just a shill working overseas for some Russian bot farm or something. But maybe this comment will give some context for anyone reading this.

I am not going to respond to you after this, because I’ve learnt through experience that arguing with you guys is a waste of time and energy.

Wow that’s amazing. How did you learn how to do this?

It is convenient to classify it as a dwarf planet but that doesn’t mean that “dwarf planet” and “planet” are scientific categories in the purest sense of the term

Why are the colours different?

god damn

What’s up with dragonflies?

Well, that’s no fun

He had ramps removed and he’s in a wheelchair?

👍 if you say so

There’s a way to block posts with certain key words, if you go to your settings

but some people here definitely have a ridiculously absolutist stance towards it

I was talking to a guy on here who was comparing AI to nuclear bombs.

Yes the lack of subtly in the thinking here can be really jarring sometimes

Chill out man you’re overthinking this