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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even if it sounds smart, it might be dumb.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why you try to filter out signifiers of credibility that are just word choices. What’s the actual idea being expressed, and what’s backing it up, that is what to pay attention to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Retirees 'stunned' as market turmoil over tariffs shrinks their 401(k)s⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how many people living below the poverty line have substantial investments in the stock market though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would be concerned about the privacy implications, but imo it is ok to do if it makes you feel better and isn’t causing problems in your life. Seems kind of similar to something like writing fanfiction or keeping a diary, only you have a tool to help prompt what you write.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jacksepticeye Reveals He Was Working on an Unannounced Soma Animated Show but It Fell Apart 'Out of Nowhere'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree about Soma being an isolated setting, there are actually lots of characters, it’s just that they’re all insane cyborgs who mostly happen to have their own personal reasons for attacking you.

  I can’t seem to find them, but before the game came out there was a series of live action video shorts made in association with it to help establish the concept and setting, I’d imagine a show being along the lines of those but fleshed out more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Madison Square Garden’s surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design. And he didn’t even wear it to the venue.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Perfect example of how censorship is still dangerous even if it isn’t the government doing it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet it would be pretty good if their family is desperately poor and needs the extra money to survive…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah he is just being a huge asshole in this presentation, basically shitting on all art that plays on reactions of horror to uncanny movements, there’s no meaningful commentary on technology here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young Americans lose trust in the state⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While the Gallup poll does not cover the direct repercussions of US President Donald Trump’s second term, experts believe that rising political polarisation is likely to lead to a sharp drop in trust in future surveys.

  And the survey doesn’t even take this recent shit into account, soon literally nobody will trust the government

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous "Educated Proletariat”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “If not,” Freeman continued, “we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people.”

  It did turn out that way anyway right

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need to be an “absolutist” to believe in free speech. Open exchange of ideas is valuable. Not needing to be suspicious of everyone hiding what they really think out of fear is valuable. Censorship powers are very tempting to abuse and the consequences of their abuse are terrible. Believing in free speech can just be understanding this stuff and having a bias against shutting people up as a go-to solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you know they are going to reduce military influence?

  I don’t, but it seems like other countries are getting the message that they can’t count on the US to defend them and their alliance is shaky, which seems like it could lead to working towards replacing our role and becoming less dependent, which would be great, because again, we’re the bad guys.

  How are tariffs going to help people who are struggling to afford anything as it is?

  They are not going to help with that, unfortunately. A worse economy is the price of cutting back on free trade, and the current administration will put as much of that price as they can on the people least able to afford it. Done right, it would be in combination with redistribution to the people who are worst off.

  If the goal is to get people to buy American, what is stopping everything from only being controlled or made by corrupted people or corporations who set up on American soil?

  To me, the desired outcome of inevitably mutual tariffs isn’t getting people to buy American, it’s reducing the leverage and influence of international corporations, which are malevolent and can use that influence in harmful ways. If local companies have a built in advantage, divide and conquer tactics shouldn’t work as well (ie. cut safety regulations or face retaliatory job loss). The typical corporate pattern of building up a monopoly and then using that leverage to extract money by fucking everyone over shouldn’t work as well on an international scale. Free trade agreements that give companies rights at the expense of people will hopefully have less appeal and make less sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not accelerationist, I think tariffs are genuinely a good direction to go, and so is reducing US military influence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a republican, but from my perspective the US empire has been a force for evil in the world for almost all of its existence. International free trade elevates the power of corporations above countries (ex. international IP law enforcement). The neoliberal status quo sucks, and even if tariffs and pressuring US allies to build up their own militaries and not rely on us are being done for the wrong reasons and not in the right way, they still act to dismantle it. I can see it being better than the alternative in the long run, at least for the world if not for those of us living in the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nets⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Straws become the focus because people like them and find them useful and make them a part of their culture and then proposed bans threaten to take them away. People do focus on them, I’ve seen plenty of online arguments about straw bans and the ethics of straws, which happens because they are a part of the lives of the people arguing about them, unlike fishing nets which they never use or see.

  There is a side of environmentalism that comes off as being smugly superior about your lifestyle and disparaging and seeking to shame and control in small ways (usually poorer) people who don’t live that way, with the pretext that it’s about saving the planet. To me that sort of thing seems like it’s mainly just a dumpster fire of political capital, purely counterproductive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub - vogler/free-games-claimer: Automatically claims free games on the Epic Games Store, Amazon Prime Gaming and GOG.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me I get prompted on redeeming a game, almost every time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub - vogler/free-games-claimer: Automatically claims free games on the Epic Games Store, Amazon Prime Gaming and GOG.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How would it get past the captcha? EGS always has a complicated captcha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tetrapods⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Humans are also tetrapods

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People can easily self host email, file backup, etc but pay for service anyway

  Who pays for email? Who pays subscriptions for file backup? Why would you when you can just use another companies service that is free? Self hosting AI is increasingly viable, but that isn’t even the problem for companies hoping to make billions on it, the problem is that as soon as they try to put the squeeze on their customers they will just go somewhere else that offers the same thing. Look at what happened with Deepseek; OpenAI can’t maintain dominance.

  AI will be prohibitively expensive to self host for a very very long time.

  It already isn’t, there are tiny models that are practical for some things that will run on basically anything, and there is a lot you can do with a mid to high end graphics card. Nvidia is artificially limiting vram but that’s not going to remain the limitation for long. But even if AI running on datacenter hardware maintains a big advantage, that’s not enough for these companies to make huge profits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife uses AI to write complex Excel spreadsheet formulas saving hours. She still has to double check them but it saves enormous time. My friend uses it to write proposals. Again it needs to be checked and again it saves hours of time.

  AI doesn’t replace people. It provides a productivity boost and it has been doing it for 2 years now.

  To me it’s obvious that AI is and will be really useful, but one of the great things about it is that it looks like a lot of that won’t be possible to gatekeep. Which seems like it would also mean that efforts to monetize it will fail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I almost never use my phone, mostly just when I need it for authentication stuff. Hoping to be able to get rid of it at some point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon boss Jeff Bezos could face prison over knife sales to children⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  UK politics is its own brand of out there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic sues Fortnite cheater, donates his winnings to charity, forces him to publicly apologise, bans him for life, and all but sends him to his room without dinner⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That seems kind of shitty, if he only cheated to qualify but otherwise won the prize without cheating

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have and I think it makes a lot of sense that psychedelics could potentially help with OP’s specific problem

  LSD is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be. -Albert Hofmann

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grocery stores are rationing eggs as supply falls and prices rise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It is too much, I’m going to go without eggs for a while

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seagate's fraudulent hard drives scandal deepens as clues point at Chinese Chia mining farms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m skeptical the market is ever going to have principles, for every person that has gotten burned and become personally aware of shady practices, there are many more that aren’t aware and don’t have the incentive or ability to do research to find out. Seems like the sort of thing where the system is rigged in favor of scammers if consumer choice is the only regulation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir CEO Sures Seems Pleased His Tech Is Capable Of Getting People Killed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone know who Palantir is killing and how, I’m not that familiar with that company

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the many reasons to care about online privacy and free speech

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Medical Device Company Tells Hospitals They're No Longer Allowed to Fix Machine That Costs Six Figures⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To me that still sounds like an insane scenario where potentially something expensive with nothing actually wrong with it is trashed because of some kind of escalating arms race for avoiding the possibility of blame. Affordability should have moral weight here too, nobody is held liable for the deaths of people who were deterred or unable to get treatment to begin with because of cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ellison made the comments as he spoke to investors earlier this week during an Oracle financial analysts meeting …

  Ellison said AI would be used in the future to constantly watch and analyze vast surveillance systems, like security cameras, police body cameras, doorbell cameras, and vehicle dashboard cameras.

  “We’re going to have supervision,” Ellison said. “Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there’s a problem, AI will report that problem and report it to the appropriate person. Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.”

  Ellison also expects AI drones to replace police cars in high-speed chases. “You just have a drone follow the car,” Ellison said. “It’s very simple in the age of autonomous drones.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fake Grannies vs Actual Grannies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Frieren reminds me a little of my great aunt, I buy that she’s old