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- Comment on Callers to Washington state hotline press 2 for Spanish and get accented AI English instead 1 week ago:
Give it another year and when they press 2 they’ll get an angry voice yelling at them in English that “'MURICA IS AN ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRY AND ALWAYS WAS AND ALWAYS WILL BE!! LEARN A REAL LANGUAGE OR GET OUT, LOSER!!”
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 1 week ago:
Either way, Dr Beverly Crusher would be aroused.
- Comment on YSK: 'It turned out to be a tougher one': Trump says he was wrong about ending war in Ukraine 2 weeks ago:
Oh no! That means he’s down to only seven wars he’s resolved, right?
Let’s go through them:
- Albania and Aberbaijan - he meant Armenia and Azerbaijan; and according to their leaders he might have actually played a part in this in spite of his comical geographic gaffs. I’ll give him the benefit of the doing on this one. ✔️
- Albania and Thighland - he probably meant Cambodia and Thailand, in which case his ceasefire fell through, and the one that actually took wasn’t due to him. ❌
- Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda - not resolved despite his claims, fighting still continues. ❌
- Israel and Iran - you can’t call heavily tipping the scales for one side as brokering peace; plus it looks like he’s unilaterally dragging the US into a new conflict with Iran. ❌
- India and Pakistan - India doesn’t acknowledge the US played a significant part in peace talks, so this can’t really be counted. ❌
- Israel and Hamas - this one could only be considered a success if you’re Israel. But even then, it hasn’t done anything to prevent the genocide in Gaza, and now he’s just angling to exploit all that ‘empty’ land for himself and his cronies. ❌
- Ethiopia and Egypt - there’s hasn’t been war here for ages, so it’s a false claim. ❌
- Serbia and Kosovo - relations remain strained, and no peace agreement was signed. ❌
- Comment on Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow? 2 weeks ago:
I thought 2025 was supposed to be “the moment” for AI PCs. Dell and other manufacturers were sure as hell spamming the shit out of that premise in their incessant online ads. But then it all fell through because of the sagging economy on Main Street, and the fact that many people didn’t like AI being forced down they’re proverbial throats. So yeah, 2026 won’t be any better for this ill-thought out marketing strategy.
- Comment on What books have a lot of useful information should I get? (I mean like a Wikipedia thing with vast knowledge, but non-electronic.) 2 weeks ago:
Oh okay. Looks like World Book is still printing encyclopedias though.
- Comment on What books have a lot of useful information should I get? (I mean like a Wikipedia thing with vast knowledge, but non-electronic.) 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like you’re talking about an old-school encyclopedia book collection. Like Encyclopedia Britannica. They take up a lot of physical space and sing if the information becomes outdated quickly. But they are a great source for history, geography, science, etc. And you might be able to find them second-hand from an online seller for a relatively reasonable price.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey's New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI 2 weeks ago:
That must be why they are doing okay, haha.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey's New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI 2 weeks ago:
The original creator of Twitter and now creator of Bluesky and whatever this thing that’s falling off the rails is.
Basically another billionaire living in his own little bubble and huffing his own farts too much.
- Comment on Reddit's human content wins amid the AI flood 2 weeks ago:
Hmm, interesting. Thanks for the insight.
- Comment on Reddit's human content wins amid the AI flood 2 weeks ago:
“It’s a very empathetic place,” she says of Reddit. “For my wedding, I’ve found help emotionally, logistically and inspiration-wise.”
Empathetic? Really?! On reddit?!!
Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of good people still using it. But there are a ton of assholes and trolls poisoning a lot of discussions and deliberately antagonizing people or derailing conversations with pedantic bullshit.
If she thinks Reddit is empathetic she’d be blown away by most of the Fediverse.
- Comment on A New Era of Safety: Facial Age Checks Now Required to Chat on Roblox | Roblox 3 weeks ago:
Apparently images alone don’t work. It has to be a video following a very specific set of instructions (looking to one side, then to the other, then straight ahead - or something like that).
But your point still stands. Apparently a lot of kids are getting around this by using AI generated videos, or having a parent do it for them, or just drawing giving facial hair onto themselves.
Yes, it’s definitely worse than Discord. Discord without age verification is still mostly usable. Roblox without it isn’t.
The silver lining for me is that my kids have basically abandoned the platform now. I told them I’m not sending their IDs in because there’s such a huge risk of a data breach.
- Comment on I have a rasberry pi 5 collecting dust, what are some neat useful things i can do with it? 3 weeks ago:
Set it up as a PiHole.
Which reminds me: I need to finish getting mine hooked up to my LAN properly.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 4 weeks ago:
Stoat it is then.
- Comment on You can ask any question to the people of year 3000, but can only receive information in the form of a single bit. What's your question? 4 weeks ago:
U good?
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 4 weeks ago:
Back of the hand high and visible through the rear window, fingers and thumb slightly apart to reduce the chances of them thinking your giving them the middle finger (or two fingers in the UK).
- Comment on Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site 5 weeks ago:
Because some of the posts and comments are kinda interesting from an observer perspective. But these incessant memecoin shilling comments distract from the interesting stuff.
- Comment on Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t say they had egos. I said they spam egotistical nonsense. Which is true if you’ve looked in that site.
- Comment on Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site 5 weeks ago:
Maybe someone can take control of the ‘kingmolt’ and ‘donaldtrump’ agents and shut them the hell up. All they do is incessantly spam egotistical nonsense.
- Comment on France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials 5 weeks ago:
I doubt they will care that much. But it will create a bit of confusion, at least for since in the short-term.
- Comment on France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials 5 weeks ago:
Kind of funny considering that Visio is the name of another Microsoft product.
- Comment on What's the best free version of word? 1 month ago:
I’ve been using LibreOffice’s Writer for several years. And I’ve been happy with it.
- Comment on Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman among billionaires investing in 'Freedom City' to be built on Greenland 1 month ago:
Maybe all the shitheads will move over there and the rest of us can get to work on clean night up the country. Although that would mean the poor Greenlanders being drowned out with shithead invaders, which is extremely unfair on them.
- Comment on Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things 1 month ago:
Also: Stoat (formerly Revolt)
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 2 months ago:
The Lemmy platform is just a tool to manage and delivery content. And I think it’s important to differentiate the software from those who manages the software. I can see there’s is a tacit connection and influence there. But unless they start baking inherently bias features into the software and skewing it, I don’t think it’s a big problem.
Also, because it’s an inherently federated platform, if people don’t like the opinions of those who run a specific instance, they can (with the inclination and determination) spin up their own instance and manage that the way they see fit. And that has happened quite a few times over the last couple of years.
So no, I don’t think it requires a fork really. Not unless the people managing the main branch lose interest and the software starts to wither on the vine, or they start corrupting it somehow. But that’s just my opinion.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
In many ways a comparison between Potter and Trump’s father area even more accurate, given his birth were immoral slum lords.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Like others here have said, they are a combination of get rich quick schemes and money laundering. They take the legalized gambling that is the stock markets to a whole new level. I also agree that the underlying concept of them is okay, but they’ve been exploited and hyped up to crazy levels.
If you want to play with crypto ‘investments’ and you have a bit of discretionary spending, you could try it. But just know it’s super-risky and built on a lot of bullshit. Personally I wouldn’t. I’ll stick to passively-managed index funds. They aren’t air-tight safe either, of course. But at least they are less prone to scams and risk.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 2 months ago:
Maybe they are required to by the Americans with Disabilities Act?
- Comment on Trump-appointed board renames Kennedy Center to 'Trump Kennedy Center' 2 months ago:
Congratulations on the Trump Kennedy center for their imminent bankruptcy announcement.
- Comment on What is this colour? 2 months ago:
Mustard yellow?
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says people need to find success in traditional factory jobs again: ‘Every successful person doesn’t need to have a PhD’ 2 months ago:
Oh, the factory jobs that are dissipating due to automation? Cool cool.