The entire reason we have a philosophy of science and peer-review and the null hypothesis, is this. Reality doesn't conform to your beliefs. If it did, people could wish shit into existence. Wish in one hand and shit in the other. Which fills up first?

Senses are fallible, too. Setup 3 buckets of water with cold, lukewarm, and hot water. Stick your hands in the cold and the hot water. Wait 5-10 minutes. Put both hands in the lukewarm water. Your hands will *NOT* report the same temperature. These people need to learn, not be lied to.

Additionally, the title is misleading. You don't lie to people when you want to express the truth. You tell them the truth. That they reject the truth indicates they lack critical thinking skills. Teach them.

I don't think lying to the gullible is a solution. Indeed, the article supports this: "Philosopher Byron Hyde and author of the study suggests that public trust could be improved not by sugarcoating reality, but by educating people to expect imperfection and understand how science actually works."

How is that proposing lying to the people who lack mental tools? The title is straight up misleading.

Teach them. Engage with them. Some might be incapable, but that does NOT support that they should be lied to. This is terrible reporting.

In my country court proceedings are secret, as their disclosure can harm ongoing investigations, or simply violate someone's constitutional right to privacy.
Accusations are not convictions. And even if you were convicted of something that's no one else's business. You pay your debt to society, you have the right to a clean slate. Never hear of the Right to be Forgotten laws?
If the US does not protect its I'm sure that one day it will get finally get rid of the media circus bullshit and let people have their dignity.
You're the record holders for bible-thumping, how about "Judge not lest ye be judged" etc.

The /. synopsis reads like every original dot com bubble bankruptcy (man I miss fuckedcompany dot com, great insight form the people who were there) statement.
"We grew too large too fast, but this restructuring will allow us to emerge stronger than ever!"
Less than a year later they were just another footnote in the every-growing pile of stupid/failed dot com companies.

Where is the +1 "Terrifying thought" mod when you need it?

You think that's bad? In the year 2035 they banned teeth in jolly ol' England. Too many drive-by bitings, you see. You will have a government loiscensed tooth-bearer masticate your food for you, and give you the old baby bird treatment. And you will be happy.

I made this Slashdot account 20 years ago when signing up for anything pretty much guaranteed you'd be spammed to Hell and back. I merely presumed Slashdot would do the same thing.

Sorry I think I meant to click reply on some ridiculous post by rsilvergun and you got caught in the crossfire. At any rate, I'm not sure this is a problem with or a feature of capitalism, which as an economic theory embraces competition as a means to provide the best goods and services at the best price. I see the situation an inverse of co--a fascistic (for lack of a better term) syndicate/oligopoly due to the corporate/government dynamic we enjoy.

VPNSecure.

I too bought a "lifetime" VPN from them through Slashdot deals. Started off great, then one by one they shut down their nodes til only 5 eyes locations remained. By that point I'd switched to something else, but they sent out a long "woe is us" e.mail explaining why lifetime didn't mean that and if you'd be so kind as to buy it again at ~20$/year, we'd be ever so grateful.

You could make the same argument: "that's why Nike uses child labor and in third world countries" because they can't find an American willing to work for unsustainable, veritable slave labor wages in a miserable sweatshop. Well, no shit, Sherlock.

No. The real problem is your framing of the situation is at odds with reality. The reality is that American citizens could be employed to do all of these things (as they have been in the past) and and in reasonable working conditions at living wages, but that idea is at odds with the idea of multi-billionaire individuals, and trillion dollar companies who collect disproportionately to their risks and efforts.

If you have a problem with the Bezoses and the Musks of the world, I agree with you: that class of wealth should be basically unobtainable; it's only through exploitation that it's possible in the first place.

A recent visit to my local county head office is enough to tell me the government is drastically over staffed, with rare exception. In researching some real estate issues, after doing everything I could via the internet and being bounced around on the phone with zero success, I had to take a trip down to the county office--a modest size county, far from the biggest in my state. I witnessed dozens of workers idling away doing nothing productive, even visibly playing on their phones while directing visitors from one office to the next, and even from one building to the next, giving conflicting instructions and taking no accountability to the obvious dysfunction.

Given stories I've heard from friends and family who worked in the government, I can extrapolate the average federal government department is vastly less accountable and infinitely more wasteful. Undoubtedly many thousands of times over, just due to being that much less visible.

What happened? Necromancy? I haven't heard of it in like 20 years.

That's pretty bad that my 1985 Alfa Romeo GTV6 lasted longer than your Ford. I got 250k before it needed major work.

They're throwing shit at us because they're bored and their AI is so inbred after several generations of consuming its ancestors' slop that it hallucinates frequently and so the asteroids miss Earth.

Our gov't windows 11 images, provided by an outside private company, will BSoD if you look at them sideways. Not Windows 11 fault to be clear, but a bad image (and the company is slow to admit fault, much less fix this issue) and it's a daily issue here.

Very frustrating.

Dunno, but trying to delete the built-in apps (again, Chess comes readily to mind) can't be done and it wouldn't even let me move them, I could create an alias all day long, but the original icon/program? No go.