I typed this whole comment about how and why sociology is a science, and realized they probably don't give a shit.

Yes, but I'm more annoyed with posts and conversations about it that are like this one. People on Lemmy swear they hate how uninformed and stupid the average person is when it comes to AI, they hate the click bait articles etc etc. Aaand then there's at least 5 different posts about it on the front page every. single. day., with all the comments saying exactly the same thing they said the day before, which is:

"Users are idiots for trusting a tech company, it's not Google's responsibility to keep your private data safe." "No one understands what 'AI' actually means except me." "Every middle-America dad, grandma and 10 year old should have their very own self hosted xyz whatever LLM, and they're morons if they don't and they deserve to have their data leaked." And can't forget the ubiquitous arguments about what "copyright infringement" means when all the comments are actually in agreement, but they still just keep repeating themselves over and over.

I'm sure the average person is totally capable of doing that, or even knowing about it /s. Jfc.

Why is it that whenever a corporation loses or otherwise leaks sensitive user data that was their responsibility to keep private, all of Lemmy comes out to comment about how it's the users who are idiots?

Except it's never just about that. Every comment has to make it known that they would never allow that to happen to them because they're super smart. It's honestly one of the most self-righteous, tone deaf takes I see on here.

No, no one is fully ok with it. This entire thread is like the emperor's new clothes or something.

And yet every other comment on this post is "just have confidence; change how you act and look and you'll stop being rejected."

It's so silly to keep acting like attractiveness has zero to do with dating and likeability. Especially when there are permanent issues that are genetic or medical or whatever that go beyond "get a haircut and buy new clothes." American society is super judgemental in general when it comes to appearance and aging (especially toward women), and identity. It gets much worse in the dating scene, especially now that it's so frequently based on swiping left or right on a single photo and you're competing with filters. Yes, there's always the possibility of finding a group of people or a person that you fit in with, and you should always put work into finding that (if that's something you want - not everyone wants to be paired off) but let's stop throwing realism completely out the window ffs.

-- a woman

Would expect nothing less from an MA program.

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Damn, well said.

There's also Gigantopithecus

It primarily lived in subtropical to tropical forest, and went extinct about 300,000 years ago likely because of the retreat of preferred habitat due to climate change, and potentially archaic human activity. Gigantopithecus has become popular in cryptozoology circles as the identity of the Tibetan yeti or the American bigfoot, apelike creatures in local folklore.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantopithecus

I'm pretty sure they don't get paid anywhere near what they're worth. Same old story in the US: anything that's important to society, has to do with people's health, safety, education, and so on.