#unhelpful — Public Fediverse posts

@markhburton I feel like we could all talk about #money and #banks more often ?

Banks are not neutral and money is root of all #evil / pays for it / enables others to take the good money (all money passing through #rich people's hands) and use it for very #unhelpful things in life...

Banks = #Negative #Equations #Maths / #Immoral #Math

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@markhburton I feel like we could all talk about #money and #banks more often ?

Banks are not neutral and money is root of all #evil / pays for it / enables others to take the good money (all money passing through #rich people's hands) and use it for very #unhelpful things in life...

Banks = #Negative #Equations #Maths / #Immoral #Math

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I wanted to check something about "them's the breaks."

I used Ecosia.

It helpfully responded with a page of results that opens with a translation from English to English.

Thank you Ecosia. I did not already know that "them's the breaks" is expressed as "them's the breaks" in English.

:holdthepain:

#ecosia #translation #useless #unhelpful

Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...

One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.

One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.

It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.

Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".

These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.

You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?

#Linguists. Students of language.

You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.

#FFS.

#pedant #unhelpful #rant

Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...

One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.

One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.

It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.

Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".

These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.

You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?

#Linguists. Students of language.

You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.

#FFS.

#pedant #unhelpful #rant

@eWalthert @letterror #TypicalFediversAnswer #Unhelpful

@eWalthert @letterror #TypicalFediversAnswer #Unhelpful

that thing where step 1 of the 10-page, 7-step "step-by-step guide" PDF tells you to "sign in", but doesn't tell you WHAT you're supposed to sign in to #unhelpful #ux #documentation

#JohnKennedy is now accusing the #FBI of a #CoverUp, the investigation isn’t even 12 hours old.

#ConspiracyTheory #ConspiracyTheorist #Republican #MAGA #FearMongering
#SickPoliticization #Unhelpful #grotesque
#NewOrleans #NOLA #terrorism #DomesticTerrorism #US #NationalSecurity #Truth

#JohnKennedy is now accusing the #FBI of a #CoverUp, the investigation isn’t even 12 hours old.

#ConspiracyTheory #ConspiracyTheorist #Republican #MAGA #FearMongering
#SickPoliticization #Unhelpful #grotesque
#NewOrleans #NOLA #terrorism #DomesticTerrorism #US #NationalSecurity #Truth

OMG the inanity just spewed by freak show #ConspiracyTheory disseminator & guzzler Republican #JohnKennedy at the #NOLA press conference 🤦🏼‍♀️

He’s a hardcore Conspiracy Theorist who needs help. He actually just indicated the US federal government (Biden / Harris) was involved in this. Idiot. Asshole. Vote him out.

#SickPoliticization #Unhelpful #grotesque
#NewOrleans #terrorism #DomesticTerrorism #US #NationalSecurity #Truth

OMG the inanity just spewed by freak show #ConspiracyTheory disseminator & guzzler Republican #JohnKennedy at the #NOLA press conference 🤦🏼‍♀️

He’s a hardcore Conspiracy Theorist who needs help. He actually just indicated the US federal government (Biden / Harris) was involved in this. Idiot. Asshole. Vote him out.

#SickPoliticization #Unhelpful #grotesque
#NewOrleans #terrorism #DomesticTerrorism #US #NationalSecurity #Truth

Specifically for the folks who get annoyed at what ends up happening when they've avoided input:

Maybe you didn't know what you wanted at the time! That happens. Sadly, it's still on you, An Adult™️, to deal with the fact that you prioritised "not being difficult" over interrogating your likely feelings.

It's also on you to accept that your actions led to the #organizer doing what they could to plan around your totally #unhelpful responses and reigning in your #jit emotional response. Making it anyone else's problem is also deeply unkind.

I think #google just made their "make a URL link" function stupider in #googleDocuments etc.

Previously: highlight text --> CTRL+K --> CTRL+V (paste the URL on your clipboard)

Now: Highlight text --> CTRL+K [if what you highlighted looks like a URL already, Docs/Impress just creates that URL, even if that's not your link, and it takes some fucking around to get the actual link to paste]

Ugh.

#UnHelpful #downgrade

I want to read this because I have been feeling as if the web and other worlds of media I experience have been shrinking thanks to algorithms that both shove too much of the same thing into my recommendations and don’t surface enough other things I would like to see/read/listen to/etc. 🙄 How about teaching AI to actually know what I want or might be interested in, instead of whatever else you’re making it do? 😒

https://hyperallergic.com/864904/can-we-free-ourselves-from-algorithms-filterworld-kyle-chayka/

#algorithms #tech #annoying #unhelpful

I want to read this because I have been feeling as if the web and other worlds of media I experience have been shrinking thanks to algorithms that both shove too much of the same thing into my recommendations and don’t surface enough other things I would like to see/read/listen to/etc. 🙄 How about teaching AI to actually know what I want or might be interested in, instead of whatever else you’re making it do? 😒

https://hyperallergic.com/864904/can-we-free-ourselves-from-algorithms-filterworld-kyle-chayka/

#algorithms #tech #annoying #unhelpful

I try to make #AllMyToots as #Informative / #Entertaining and as #Unhelpful as #Possible... There's an #Art to #IT | #IT's #True...! #TrueTrueTuesday

#YouAreWelcome

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@cassidy @garrett Sorry to hear. #unhelpful but Xbox cloud gaming works fairly well actually.

@cassidy @garrett Sorry to hear. #unhelpful but Xbox cloud gaming works fairly well actually.

@coolbutuseless #unhelpful advice I know, but that's one of the many reasons I use a proper code editor, #sublimetext, 99% of the time.

To be fair I used to code in #RStats / bash / groovy / python thus the need for a more general editor.

@coolbutuseless #unhelpful advice I know, but that's one of the many reasons I use a proper code editor, #sublimetext, 99% of the time.

To be fair I used to code in #RStats / bash / groovy / python thus the need for a more general editor.

@GreenFire @TonyStark @seldear @MariaHill There are those, with whatever label, who refuse to support the Bidens and Gores, and instead go with Ralph Nader and Jill Stein. #Unhelpful

@GreenFire @TonyStark @seldear @MariaHill There are those, with whatever label, who refuse to support the Bidens and Gores, and instead go with Ralph Nader and Jill Stein. #Unhelpful

The #marginalisation of #trans #people by the #gay #community is beyond #unhelpful – here’s why

#Women #Transgender #Lesbians #LGBTQIA #UK #TERFS #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Transphobia #TERFFails #TERFIsland

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/lgbt-trans-debate-lesbian-dyke-project-b2312572.html

@aeva

#unhelpful

The style guide of people I know who write in Lua is Fennel.