Steve Irwin was one of the best! Thanks for the reminder! Enjoy your Majohn!

The study shows that this strategy is only half effective.

I don’t think their research is in conflict with your perception here.

“The study found that just having a first-class section on an airplane quadrupled the chance of an air rage incident and that loading economy passengers through first class doubles that again.”

The whole experience is shit and having a first class section makes it even worse psychologically.

The Goulet family has released a video statement on the Goulet Pens YouTube channel for anyone interested in their response.

https://youtu.be/ZuKNTuG7GY4

I’ve also made my last purchase from Goulet Pens. But I’m excited about the products themselves.

Thanks for sharing the information so everyone can make informed decisions going forward!

This is disappointing information to me who just spent money on inks and pens from Goulet Pens that I was going to post about this week. I’ll still post about the inks and pens because the ink and pen manufacturers are not the disappointment here.

Speaking as __ an internet janitor __ a moderator of this community, I want to remind people that there’s nothing wrong with being passionate about the issues you value highly and being motivated to take your business elsewhere as a result. But I’ve been on the internet for a while and seen people have extreme responses going as far as harassment and attempted violence against anyone who they perceive as not as committed to their values as themselves. Please don’t be that person.

$1.40 delivered makes this a an obvious value for something that has a minor drawback. The tool in hand us definitely better than the one you don’t have access to when you’re ready to use it. I love it!

Wow! Nice review!

It seems I am not either type of person that would purchase this pen.

You’re off to a great start! Thanks for joining!

I like the deep purple ink and the patinaed look on your pen.

Awesome story! Thanks for sharing!

Copying the text from Pixelfed below:

zhang.dianli I used my first #FountainPen when I was 9 years old. I switched to using fountain pens for the bulk of my writing in my mid-20s. Today I almost exclusively use fountain pens for everything but the increasingly rare situation of having to write on copying paper. (I also occasionally use #DipPens for actual writing, but not as a rule.)

Coming to #China was like coming into fountain pen heaven for me. Everything was done with fountain pens here, so fountain pens were plentiful, highly varied, and generally cheap to buy, even while being very nice pens: not for decorative use like overpriced Montblancs (which are shockingly bad for actually writing with!), but for actual, day-to-day writing tasks.

Yesterday I got this set of four. They’re super-elegant in design. The barrels are 100% wood. The brass adapter at the end of the barrel is machined brass into which the section screws internally and onto which the cap screws externally. The section, too, is made of machined brass and accepts one of the more common feeds into which an internationally common reservoir or cartridge can be fitted. (The feed and reservoir are the only plastic components on the entire pen.) The nib is iridium-tipped but is otherwise likely stainless steel. (I’m not sure what the gold trim is made of, but it doesn’t look like actual gold to me.) The final components, the cap and clip, are made of machined brass and stamped, electroplated stainless steel respectively.

The pens have a respectable mass, look good, and cost the equivalent of about 9 US dollars. Not each. Total. After shipping.

I told you. Fountain pen heaven!

I’m not sure why you were banned, I was just annoyed about reading a screenshot of text.

It’s different in my view. As the mods and admins are experiencing a loosely coordinated brigade of vitriolic messages. It’s no surprise to me that they responded by filtering out those who are being persistent in bad faith communication. But they have in fact been receptive to improving the bot based on feedback. They have not, however, instantly determined and implemented any improvements.

Reviewing the situation as an outsider. It seems that the mods and admins are not wrong and those complaining are ill-informed about many aspects of what they’re complaining about and are being belligerent in their ignorance. But even if they were 100% informed and correct about Media Bias Fact Check, their behavior has been out of line.

I agree with that.

The boost app developers really should fix that. Spoilers are working the vast majority of lemmy frontend UIs.

The level of vitriol that the banned users have been spewing seems like harassment of the mods.

To be honest, none of what I’m seeing in these comment seems worthy of a ban.

I don’t agree with this. It seems like people are harassing the mods for the mods having a different opinion. These people don’t seem interested in any counterpoints or evidence that undermines their opinions which don’t seem to take relevant facts into account.

Lemmy provides for inadequate moderation tools and the developers of Lemmy don’t see adding additional tools or improvements to existing tools to be a high priority, so there’s not going to be more transparency from anyone running a Lemmy instance or moderating a lemmy community.

Quote: [the quote is really long, pls dont make me type it and just look at the link lol]

Result: 15 day ban

Note: the comment precedes the ban by 26 days, but catloaf’s recent comment history contains opinions critical of the LW News mod team

I copied it for you:

Link to the study, because the fuckers never do: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2405334121 Here’s what I was looking for:

In all studies, we made certain that the participants and the people in the images were from the same nationality, since cultural familiarity is critical for the face–name matching effect to occur.

Additionally, this survey was conducted by Israelis, and since it says it was translated into English in the paper, I assume it was conducted in Hebrew. They say “socioeconomic cues such as age and ethnicity are experimentally controlled”, but I don’t see that they explain how. My suspicion is that the results are affected by non-facial cues like clothing, hairstyle, facial hair, and indeed age. For example, if I showed you a picture of an old woman and asked if her name was Doris, Helen, Megan, or Kayley, which do you think it is? If I showed you a picture of a guy with short dark hair, possibly graying, beard stubble, and a collared denim shirt, is his name Edgar, Clarence, Emil, or James? Further, since they did some kind of control over the prompts, I have to assume they presented faces and names the respondents would be familiar with, meaning this does not necessarily hold outside of Israel and Israelis (and I assume mostly people ethnically Israeli Jewish). This reinforces my belief that their methodology is flawed, and while people might look like their names, their faces themselves do not change to fit, rather there’s a correlation with other factors like age (i.e. name popularity over time), grooming style, and so on.

Impromptu Rorschach test creation!