cjoll4 @ cjoll4 @lemmy.world

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A constant problem with autotldr is that it uses pronouns which refer to someone who hasn't been mentioned yet in the abridged article. It makes it look like Biden "has encouraged a growing and well-organized conservative backlash" when that makes no sense. In the original article, "He" actually refers to Donald Trump, but autotldr skipped over the sentence that introduced Trump's involvement. Similarly, "That finding" does not refer to the major survey mentioned in the previous sentence.

Honestly I hate this bot and I downvote it every time I see it. This sort of thing is easy to catch when it says something wildly out of character like this. But the same thing happens all the time in ways that are not-so-easy to spot, and wildly misleading to readers. And the pronoun thing is one tiny example. This bot might as well be selecting sentences at random, for all the important context it omits.

Just read the original article or skip it. Please don't rely on a program that butchers the original article for the sake of making it shorter. This is the kind of thing that makes us lazy and vulnerable to misinformation.

Crackers are crisp and brittle by definition. "Floppy Cracker" is an oxymoron (and potentially a good name for a garage band?).

Most participants in this debate are far too preoccupied with the shape or structure of the sandwich, to the point of neglecting what a sandwich is all about. It's simple. A sandwich is when you use bread as a handheld base for prepared foods that would otherwise be too messy to eat with your fingers. A tortilla is a flat bread, ergo handheld burritos and soft tacos are sandwiches.

"Then why isn't pizza an open-faced sandwich?" Because pizza has a crust, not bread. When you take raw dough and bake it along with its toppings or fillings, it may be a pie or a pastry or a pizza or a casserole or some other category I don't care to quibble over. It's not a sandwich.

Obviously there are many sub-categories of sandwiches. A dish isn't necessarily excluded from being a sandwich just because it's also another type of food.

Well it's a good thing we're not talking about a human child, we're talking about a body of text consisting of several distinct documents that were introduced over a span of more than two centuries. Context is tricky, I know.

I just want to point out that the 11th Amendment isn't included either; just the first 10, according to the article. The original Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It makes the dividing line seem a little less arbitrary that way.

I agree with the points you've made, though.

The fact that the sales description lists the Bill of Rights separately from the US Constitution logically implies that "The US Constitution" isn't meant to include its amendments in the context of the book's contents.

The writer of the headline wants us to assume that Trump cherry-picked the 13th and 19th amendments to be excluded, when that's obviously not the case. The 11th through 27th Amendments were all left out.

The only "cherry picking" being done is by the writer of the headline. This Bible doesn't include Amendments 11 - 27 (everything that came after the Bill of Rights). It's not advertised to contain those amendments, either. It contains the original Constitution of the United States and it contains the Bill of Rights. The fact that the book description lists the Bill of Rights separately from the US Constitution logically implies that "US Constitution" doesn't include its amendments in the context of the book's contents.

The headline suggests that two very specific amendments were omitted in such a way to evoke outrage and paint Trump in a bad light.

I despise Donald Trump and would rather see him in prison than in the White House again, but propaganda is propaganda.

Ah, so it's basically soccer, using hands instead of feet, while swimming. Looks like it would be a fun casual sport to play with friends and family (but in a much smaller pool lol).

All right, your enthusiasm has convinced me. I don't know anything about water polo, but I'll look up a game on YouTube. Time to broaden my horizons!

Good. Let's do everything we can to prevent enforcement of these unethical, discriminatory laws.

Schmidt sting pain index

Thanks for prompting me to look up and learn something new today! And now I know why the cazador is based specifically on the tarantula hawk.

I'll fucken do it again!

Total Party Kill - i.e. every member of the adventuring party dies.

Thanks for the clarification!

The image he shared was one that had already been circulating for months. Can you find an example of the Secret Service going after anyone else who retweeted it? Did they even go after the person driving the vehicle in the picture, or the company that produces the tailgate wrap?

Pretty sure this is protected free speech. Nobody in their right mind would see this as a credible threat to kidnap Joe Biden; it's just a humorous way of showing displeasure toward a politician.

Good catch. Combined two decades between three authors... so an average of 6.6 years of experience.

It doesn't invalidate their point, though. It's insane that she's refusing to extradite a murder suspect.