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  • this system can skew the average towards negative

    say someone found a hair in their soup but otherwise the experience was amazing - even if they’re peak karen they’d still probably give something like 3 stars, but if faced with a binary choice they’d probably pick the negative option

    unless you mean up/down vote per each quality like atmosphere, food, hygine, service etc then that’d preserve the nuance imo


  • yeah i get that this perspective can be helpful in specific contexts, what annoys me is that it’s presented as universal, “no such thing as fish”. i would appreciate added clarity as to the point of view of the speaker, so such statements don’t come off as general words everyone should just accept as truth


  • that’s a dumb way to categorise things, like it’s an attempt to create a categorisation system that works against how we use language. it’s less “either everything is a fish or nothing is a fish” and more “we decided to take the meaningful word “fish” and devoid it of meaning for the purpose of making our graphs make sense”, what about the definitions of the word “fish” that aren’t based entirely on one specific point of view of a subgroup of scientist?





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    5 days ago

    some episodes of Black Mirror struck terror into my heart like no other. They were grim warmings for the possible future masquerading as fiction, as grim warnings often do. Though what the show could not forsee was how fast it would come true. And it could not forsee how wide a scale would be affected, those were singular stories from those worlds, the effect of the technology showcased on the lives of a few, a pinhole view into the dystopia

    if you haven’t already, watch the episode Be Right Back. you better start believing in sci-fi dystopias, we’re in one