Already feels like this sometimes

- Average YouTube influencer for me.
  It's gotten even worse in the past year. Most of them sound like they're parroting AI summaries of blog posts and sprinkling stupid ass cutaway gags to memes. Like rather than actually consuming the entire body of context around a subject and having an informed take, they're just giving shallow thoughts and trying to monetize.
  Any YouTuber whose whole angle is to spicy commentary on current events in tech/programming is definitely part of the trash heap.
  
  Problem here is you're watching "influencers."
- Spoken like someone who’s never experienced the ancient healing frequencies :p

The sources are released under a source-available license, you are legally prohibited from reading them
- Or you can get a monthly subscription for only $39.9!
  
  That subscription allows you to ask the question to an AI that may or may not hallucinate.
  
  Well, then... At least we will have apparently made enough progress by then to have eliminated the penny from circulation.
  
  59.99 and you can get them ad free!

The one on the right is a bearded 8 year old who never saw snow. He has a beard due to micro plastics. He thinks all pictures online of snow are AI generated. He’s also an asshole to everyone and rightfully so because his life and planet has been doomed. Welcome to 2034.
- True neckbeards are born with it. It's only the posers that get theirs by injecting PFAS into their balls.
- he’s also adversarial ai
- and his willy is 8 inches long but he's insecure because his ai girlfriend told him its small
- 70s, 80s and 90s were absolute peak humanity and things like these comments are the proof of that.
- Seriously, though, not fair. Want a way out of this hell.

I literally had to cite the page number from the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 Public Law 117-328 that covered how the $800M that Trump keeps telling everyone FEMA spent on migrants was a completely different fund than the disaster relief fund that FEMA uses for hurricanes. Which the DRF was established originally as it's own fund in the Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act of 1988 Public Law 100-707
It's page 4,730 where that item is located for anyone wondering.
I fucking hate what online interactions have become. I think I've easily read over 200,000 pages of government legislation, federal regulation, and legal proceedings since June because of the lies one orange shit stain keeps telling. I really do hope that the Republicans can move past that fucker, it was a lot easier to talk politics.
- MrFilmKritic on Twitter has the answer for you.
  
  Yeah, I decided this a couple years ago unless someone seems unusually reasonable. No source will ever be good enough. The block button is the best way forward for most people who ask for a source. Because you can tell most people think asking for one is "winning" as soon as it's asked
  
  Twitter is bad.
  
  a claim made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence
  
  Lets not forget that it's about more than just that person. It's about the massive pile of data on the internet that will be read in the future and trawled for chatbot training.
- Because they want to exhaust the person engaging in a good faith discussion. It’s far more labor intensive to have to look for, find, verify for contextual correctness, quote and link said sources, then argue why one’s position is factually correct.
  And all the other person has to do is cite some patently false bullshit in 5 seconds and disregard the argument.
  
  Aka, "Why Don't You Respond to Criticism?"
  It all boils down to bad faith. They don't care what argument you make, you'll never sway them. They're not interested in the debate with you as much as as they are just getting their bullshit out there for randos to read. Like you say, while you're finding sources and making sure everyone agrees on terminology they've already said 3 more things that are completely wrong.
  
  Ding ding ding. I actively refuse to do homework from randos on the internet.
- I bet they saw the source and said "oh, yes, thank you for the source, I have updated my opinion based on this new information."
- what do any of us do when logical, good faith arguments fail and the future of the world depends on convincing idiots that the sky is blue? serious question.
  
  Let it go. Move on to those more receptive.
  
  Use illogical, bad faith arguments to trick them into believing that the sky is blue, of course. People fall for horrible stupid dumb propaganda, it's the nature of humanity. Only like 5% of people are really gonna bother to go actually read studies and shit, I don't even really do that, I just look at the abstracts and then hope that the scientists didn't fuck up and run the study wrong or engage in p-hacking or something. I couldn't afford to go to college and take a statistics course, and my only form of education beyond that is watching 3brown1blue videos at 2x speed interspersed with useless escapist brainrot.
  Everyone wants to believe that humans are some highly logical computer creatures that can just be convinced if we get hit with enough rigorous logical argumentation. We're really not. You can make something much more convincing to someone if you validate their ego, or if you incentivize someone into believing a certain kind of truth as a result of their survival in a certain context, right. Even if we were purely logical beings, that wouldn't even really solve the problem, because we're all exposed to vastly different information landscapes, i.e. every MAGA guy you run into has probably be tweaking out to AM radio for 8 contiguous hours at their job, or socializing with a bunch of insularly sexist, homophobic, or racist good old boys in an echo chamber for most hours of the day, or whatever else, right. So, what hope can you have to change their minds over the course of a 1 or 2 hour conversation? If even that. And double this for everyone out there that spends their time listening to NPR, or has milder takes about things, or even just spends their time passively absorbing whatever propaganda floats at them through pop culture and escapist media consumption.
- I remember when one conservative parent was absolutely furious with GW Bush over invading Iraq. Then they were all in MAGA for nine years. They've finally disavowed that one, but I don't know how much time they have to come further left, or how the trajectory may shift. We actually had a pleasant few days together, with each of us clenching our teeth and walking away a few times, but that's any relationship. Some things we (everyone) feel strongly about really aren't worth that argument. In fact, a lot of them.
- Well that's why the point of arguing with other people isn't really to convince them, but just to make yourself smarter and more informed by reading 200,000 pages of government legislation for fun, like it's just another tuesday. Light work for a person like you

- Republicans have a hard time understanding nonliterals, it's honestly weird and one of the most common denominators between them I've noticed
  
  They seem to be fine with euphemisms and dog whistles.
  
  Weird to think that human civilization will collapse out of a misplaced sense of fairness where we think it's better for uninformed people to have a choice even if that choice dooms us all. Liberalism is going to collapse in the silliest way

ngl, I don't comment nearly as often anymore out of concern for anything I say to be misconstrued, argued, or wanting verification like this meme. Ya'll, I've got a job and a life, I can't/don't want to sit here and fight people. The worst gets assumed of anything and it gets difficult to have productive, much less positive discourse online.
- This is also due to a distinct drop in reader comprehension. One of the largest parts of reading comprehension is being able to infer the intended audience for a particular piece of work. You should be able to read a news article, see a commercial, read a comment, etc and infer who it is aimed at. And the answer is usually not “me”.
  People have become accustomed to having an algorithm that is laser focused to their specific preferences. So when they see something that’s not aimed at them it is jarring, and they tend to get upset. Instead of going “oh this clearly isn’t aimed at me, but I can infer who the intended audience is. I’ll move on.” Now they tend to jump on the creator with whataboutisms and imagined offense.
  Maybe you make a post about the proper way to throw a football. You’ll inevitably get a few “bUT wHaT abOUt WhEElcHaiR uSerS, I hAvE a baD ShoUlDer aNd cAn’T thROW SO wHaT abOUt me, I haTE FoOtbAll wHY aRe yOU SHowiNG tHIs to Me, etc” types of comments. It’s because those users have lost the ability to infer an intended audience. They automatically assume everything they see is aimed at them, and get offended when it isn’t.
  I have even noticed this started to affect the way media is written. Creators tend to make it a point to outright state their intended audience, just to avoid the negative comments.
  
  Hmm good point. Never realized there could be connection with hyper curated algorithm and main character syndrome.
  Now I kinda understand why "just look away" makes no sense to these kinda people.
  
  This is a very interesting idea. It would certainly explain why people seem to constantly "infill" everything everone says with whatever gets them the most angry - the algo feeds them ragebait, so that's what they see.
  
  I'm wondering how many people skipped your comment because it was too long.
  I've had people go "I don't have time to read 3 paragraphs!", as though that's some kind of argument against the point I'm trying to make. Attention spans are down.
  
  "If it doesn't apply, let it fly." "Hit dogs holler."
  
  This is my first exposure to this idea and it's quite compelling. Couple that with the perceived tone being argumentative instead of inquisitive or ignorant and that's a recipe for disaster.
  The fact the algorithms only care about engagement, positive or negative, means rage bait takes over too so that doesn't help the perception that a question is actually an attack.
- What, feeling too good for an unproductive Internet fight with strangers who probably would agree with you if they could read?

Already feels like this sometimes
Source?
- Since this is an opinion statement, you're actually quoting the primary source right there!
- Yeah here you go!

I've already had people demand "source?" for the most mundane facts. Why yes steroids do enhance physical ability.
- source?
  
  Read the comment above yours, that's where I learned about it

Let's not vilify people asking for citations. With AI it's more important than ever to verify what you're reading.
- I'm absolutely okay with vilifying people asking for sources on the historical existence of snow.
  
  The historical existence of snow depends on where you’re talking about. Climate is changing but not every manifestation of that will cause less snow. It’s possible some places start getting more as rising temperatures create more moisture in the air in places that are historically cold and dry. For example, parts of the mountains here in Nevada had unusually high snowfall, like Lee’s Canyon While looking at (what appears to be) the historical data for the US overall doesn’t seem to show a significant deviation at a cursory glance.
  Saying these things are obviously true while not bothering to check if they’re factually accurate is misrepresenting the problem and leaves openings for climate denialists to make themselves more credible. “You said snowfall was going down but it just saw record snowfall in the news!” Which is a bad argument but a convincing one to people who aren’t inclined to deal with a global apocalyptic problem.
- Pretty bold comment for someone with no sources.
- Sealioning is not about citations. It's bad-faith harassment.
  Bad faith only works because it resembles good faith. Calling it out is not somehow a condemnation of good faith.
- Source please
- amen

Winter is on its way out due to climate change. In around the year 2100, it's estimated that there will only be 3 seasons left, no winter. And summer will be much longer and much hotter. So the 3 seasons will be spring, then a 2-season long summer basically, then fall. That's it.
But you can already see the disappearance of winter today because there's much less snow and it's much warmer than like 30 years ago. (Speaking for Germany)
- Winter isn't coming
  
  Brace yourselves. [Winter isn't coming] is coming. That's the winter. The new winter. That's the bad news.
- nah, we still have winter. i know this because it still gets dark.
  we'll still have four seasons: summer, hellfire, second summer, moist dark.
- 30 years ago we definitely had snow in winter. Sometimes more, sometimes less. But I remember playing in snow basically every winter as a kid. And I’m living in a very mild region of Germany. Now I’m considering all season tires (just for legal purposes) to not change wheels twice a year, since there is maybe some snow for one week in total.
  Spoke with a guy this week who was born in the 30s. He said winter back then was much harder. Whole lakes or even rivers were frozen solid. I can’t imagine being able to walk to the other side of a major river…
  
  I remember ice-skating every winter as a kid. Rivers were frozen over solid, too. Sometimes, there were two separate layers of ice on top of each other, each being several cm thick. It kind of went away in the late 90s. I guess everybody just thought the ice and snow would return someday. Now even snow has gotten really, really rare where I live.
- I grew up in Ohio in the 1970s (which was admittedly a rough decade as far as cold weather was concerned). Generally, the first snowfall was some time in September and at some point in October the ground would be completely covered in snow and you wouldn't see grass again until April. The snow wasn't completely gone until May. So essentially it was six months of Winter, three months of Summer and a month and a half each for Spring and Fall. It is certainly not anything like that any more.
- Oh yeah if summers so great why hasn't there be a summer II?
- then a 2-season long summer basically, then fall. That’s it.
  Like in the tropics, dry season and rain season. Or drought and flooding season of we're unlucky.

People are interested in sourcing of information in 2034? I see that as an absolute win.
- I agree! Don't run your mouth in public then complain when someone asks you how do you know the thing you're running your mouth about is true. If in 2034 someone who has never seen snow wants more evidence than some idiot on the Internet's feelings on the topic then asking is totally justified.

birds used to be real
- And they had arms
  
  Obviously, that's what the "arms race" refers to. Birds used to have very strong arms which they used while racing in their super-fast arm bikes.
- Source? Because that's so not true. Birds are an invention by the government, they are robots to spy on us. The government wants us to believe they always existed. It's all fabricated lies created by the government. Source
  I fucking hate newsletter emails but this is the only site I registered for one. I'm launching my ass off every single time. 😂 I love satire haha

I asked my employer provided AI assistant if this is true and it assured me that natural snowfall was disinformation invented by leftists in order to destroy our capitalist utopia.

I've heard a saying, two things you should never do on the Internet are argue or explain. It takes up a lot of mental energy and time to do it for no reward.
- I think in many cases the people who explain things are doing a huge service. They’re silently appreciated by many. The true GOATs of the internet.
  I’ve read so many great explanations on Reddit for things in math, science, literature, etc and I feel very grateful to the people who explained them.
  
  Yes. The thing to remember is in many cases you aren't explaining for the person you are debating with or answering a question for. You are doing it for others who may read the conversation.
  I've had things brought to light in online discussion change my mind or educate me many times. When I see someone claim these conversations are useless or a waste of time, I just think they are really setting weird criteria for what constitutes a waste of time.
  Sure, sometimes I ain't got no time for that, but other times I do, and I figure the same is true for many others as well.
  
  Askhistorians is king.
- Source?!
  /s
  
  Is that what the s stands for?
- Oh you don't understand how much reward i get on tiktok for proving my point so much that i get blocked.
  It brings me unfathomable joy
- Also trolls and propagandists employ bad faith tactics specifically to make their opposition do the bulk of the world, which they either ignore after or they just laugh at for some bullshit reason they claim is a gotcha.
  There is an Islamophobic author who has been employing shit like in his books since the 90s. It isn't new at all.

"The sky is blue"
"No stupid that's woke liberal propaganda Trump 2024"
- What, you're saying that the sky is owned by democrats now? Give sources, cause my sky is Republican Red! /S
  
  (Infuriating TikTok voice:) "These red states are putting atmospheric additives in their coal plants to turn the sky red! Wow!"

No, that's the current trend here (Switzerland plains).
- Same here in Slovenia. 15 years ago we had at least 30cm of snow each winter that would stick around. Now if we even get any snowfall and not just rain it either rains the same day and the snow is gone, or the rain comes a day later and the snow is once again gone.
  Also the local lake used to freeze every year. It has froten once in the last 15 years.
  
  There must be a way to have winter back. We have to do it for future generations at any cost. I refuse to live in a tropical hell just because some CEOs couldn't fuck off.

I’ve definitely noticed people who challenge anything you say by asking for a source, but make tons of unsourced claims themselves.
- Sealion infestations are problematic. Be sure to call your local exterminator promptly whenever you encounter one.
- My source is that I made it the fuck up
- Where's your source for this? I've never noticed it so it just not be happening

Or when you bring sources and they straight up ignore them entirely...
I understand not wanting to read or go through the entire Marxist-Leninist books I recommend, not everybody has the time for that, but a 5-20 minute article? You waste more time debating me after the fact than you would have just reading the article, at least do me the courtesy of skimming it and trying to engage with my points.
- And their own sources are so heavily butchered or even lied about. I cannot count the amount of times people provided me with 'sources' that they claim were ironclad in their favor only for them to completely debunk their shit...
  
  It's called a "gish gallop" mixed with a disagreement about what this platform is, with a healthy mix of "ain't nobody got time for that". To some people this is a legitimate place of discussion, to others it's a place to shit post. One thing that Reddit did get right was seperating the two groups from each other. Lemmy doesn't do that as well unless you ask it to and for some people, they ain't got time for that. That still leaves the people who are gish galloping but they're not going anywhere so might as well adapt.
- Marxist-Leninist books I recommend
  Such as? Need a book to read next.
  
  Depends, how familiar are you with Marxism?
- Perhaps peppering responses with links is counterproductive. Why not follow a more consistent strategy? Such an approach would for example summarize the opposition's view in good faith, give a name to the fallacies in it, and respond not only by providing a link, but a short synopsis of what the link is and how it refutes those fallacies. This approach helps not only rebut the opponent, who may be unwilling to listen to reason, but everyone following the conversation in real time or in the future. For this reason it is also great to use archived versions of links, whenever you can.
  
  Oh, don't get me wrong, I generally offer specific reading recommendations and explanations for why, the only time I "pepper" is if it's to add supporting evidence that might be immediately disregarded otherwise. I don't usually send a large reading list, usually it's one article or book with an explanation of why it's relevant. You can see my comment history for examples if you want.

Guilty. Show me the almanac. I don’t trust nobody on the internet. Everybody speaks like they’re an expert.
- I'm an expert on internets and this guy is wrong.
  
  Source?
- Can confirm: am expert at experting.

And that's the same person who makes wild absurd claims but well just go off the rails and tell you to do your own research
- And the sources they claim to have heavily researched often never say what they claim they say or are utterly full of shit.
- "Of course they would say that. Those Liberal, left wing universities, with their peer review, aren't to be trusted.
  These hard-right think tanks (masquerading as anything other than a glorified PR firm they are) on the other hand are the definition of unbiased knowledge"

I think it's totally reasonable to ask for a source about a historical claim if something hasn't been true for over a decade?
EDIT: My source for this opinion is here

If somebody would ask for a source it would already be a big improvement. Usually you are just classified as idiot if you dare to have a different view.
- Eh. By now I'm pretty sure most people just interact with the internet in order to reconfirm their already held beliefs because they expect the algorithm to give them exactly what they want and a few "wrong" things to dunk on easily for bonus points.
  They don't need sources they are already right.
  
  I'm rather certain that a good chunk has no clue about any algorithms and just beliefs that their point of view reflects reality

Family Member: Russia needs to invade Ukraine because they need a shield against NATO.
Me: But NATO wasn't going to attack them. It's a defensive organization.
That's what THEY want you to believe. (Was not able to clarify who "they" were during conversation, but got the impression it wasn't nato)
- Even if you believe Russia to be 100% in the wrong, the idea that NATO is a defensive organization is laughable. Not only has it historically been led by Nazis, the member-states are the most imperialist countries on the planet. It serves to protect an inherently violent status quo of brutal looting and exploitation of the Global South, and that's without getting into aggressive operations from NATO.
  
  It’s also hypocritical. NATO is willing to allow Ukraine to join, but not Russia:
  The archives show irrefutably that the U.S. and German governments repeatedly promised to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not move “one inch eastward” when the Soviet Union disbanded the Warsaw Pact military alliance. Nonetheless, U.S. planning for NATO expansion began early in the 1990s, well before Vladimir Putin was Russia’s president. In 1997, national security expert Zbigniew Brzezinski spelled out the NATO expansion timeline with remarkable precision.

@sharkfucker420 We would have flying cars and spaceships in future
The future:
- That's a bit unfair. You can actually buy a flying car today. A few companies recently got their vehicle fully certified and are doing commercial sales. It's not cheap. If you can't afford a second Ferrari don't bother.
  The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed.
  
  Yeah it's called a helicopter.
  Most of the extremely wealthy use then to avoid traffic and occasionally die in them cause flying is more complicated than SciFi made it seem.
  Look at the mansions and companies that all include landing pads. They aren't just for die hard movies.
  
  @SlopppyEngineer Ok so define flying car? How is a flying car possible lol. Shape of car will be aerodynamic maybe

It's gotten to a point where I just go ahead append a warning that I have no source and am just making casual conversation.
Source: my previous comment on Lemmy.

I rather have a source to support a claim instead of "but it's how I feel so it's real! Scientists don't know anything, stop debunk my feelings with facts because I know I'm right! I read it on Facebook!"
We need more reliable and supported sources and less fake news.

You get people who believe jet contrails only started appearing in the 90s even though that they didn’t is literally within living memory.

Isn’t 2034 when we start 1970 again? Except without water.
- Ah a brand new cycle in the Matrix simulation. I hope in the next one, we catch Jeffrey Dahmer. and the James Cameron Avatar films doesn't suck.
- when we start 1970 again
  I fucking wish.

terrifying

RL has been like that for a while

Cool meme.
Source?

Don't worry. It won't happen like this. There will be no one left.
- SOURc......

F'real I think my kids have had maybe one snow day so far, and my oldest is in second grade. We live in southeast Mass.
I thought about buying a new snowblower, but the fact is that I think we had maybe one storm in the past 5 or 6 years where I actually would've used my old one. The little dustings we had were easily cared for by a shovel.
I also have a part of my driveway that has a lot of tree overhang and never really gets much snow on it. It also happens that the winter morning sun has a direct path to this patch of asphalt, so if we get only an inch or two, it'll all melt away as soon as the sun comes up. Assuming it's not too overcast.
- Covid killed snow days around here, they are now e-learning days. They figure if teachers could handle an entire year of e-learning one day is nothing.

Source: The clouds.

True 💀

Hidden panel: guy on left saying “google it yourself, don’t expect me to have to teach you anything”
Why should anyone ever have to substantiate their claims???
- I would just assume that anyone who needed a cite for really obvious stuff is just trolling.
  
  Yeah, I suppose the obvious stuff, sure
  Guess I’m just rankled by seeing so many people making baseless claims and then telling everyone to figure it out themselves when they get called out on it, and it’s not the same as this.

"My source is that I MADE IT THE FUCK UP"
President of the USA (probably in a videogame)

I would like to see the source for this meme.

Just give me back the fucking 80s and 90s.
- Fuck that. That got us here by not fixing any problems and just hiding issues in the beginning of social identity politics.
  
  Still better than today.

Hashtag Rule'34

We lost all the ice in the polar regions back in 2013. And the hole in the ozone layer killed everyone back in the 1990s

People who make memes mocking the expectation of a source are the ones responsible for the downfall of society
- Not everything needs a source. There is such thing as "common knowledge" . Things get very out of hand and very messy if you try to source EVERY claim. Obviously there are limits to this and I put common knowledge in quotes for a reason but seriously I mean it when I say not everything needs a source.
  
  Boo hoo.
- Source?

"Do you have a source?" means, "I already know you are wrong but you won't believe me unless you find out for yourself."
- Do you have a source for that claim?