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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Does the existence of a field of study called "Human-Computer interactions for social good" imply the existence of "Human-Computer Interactions for Social Evil"?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

That's a convulated way to say corporate backed social media

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sure, but you do not need a separate field for that because you can take the results of the former and just swap the polarity.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Interesting how this is basically a completely different strip from the German version. I suppose the original was untranslatable.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I suppose the original was untranslatable.

Utterly. I tried to still keep the topic of "so many applied fields in comp sci" though.

Interesting that people notice. You made my day a little brighter here :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I just checked out and liked the german one (hyphens/no-hyphens), but I'm lost on the "bielefeld-informatik" punchline. I only know the memes about Bielefeld, but not why it deserves a hyphen when the rest dont

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

just you hold my organic beer