Octavio

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landlords are parasites⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  High speed rail such a great way to travel medium distances anyway it’s downright criminal the US hasn’t figured it out yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landlords are parasites⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You know how California got sick of greedy companies ripping off people for insulin so now they’re going to sell insulin themselves at a reasonable price? Yeah, they should do that with apartments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the theory is that the people who contribute and/or donate are a subset of the people who frequently visit. The smaller the superset, the smaller the subset is likely to be. I could be wrong; I’m not part of the subset that reads the articles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There is again, but there was, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The funny thing about people who say it’s not a bubble because AI has value is that the asset category having value doesn’t prevent valuation bubbles from forming.

  Houses have value: you can live in them. Yet there was a housing bubble.

  The internet has value: you can watch cat videos on it. Yet there was a dot com bubble.

  Tulip bulbs have value: you can grow pretty flowers with them. Yet there was a tulip bulb bubble.

  In my experience, whenever you start reading news stories asking if something is a bubble and quoting investment bankers say, “no, it’s not a bubble,” well, usually it’s a bubble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I regret ever getting mixed up with Amazon in the first place. I canceled Prime, stopped ordering from Amazon.com, found a Kindle alternative, pulled the plug on my IoT crap, and unplugged my Echoes. No regrets. YMMV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado delenda est⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know. Here I am occupying my day explaining to strangers that a map posted to something literally called “Lemmy Shitpost” is not scientifically accurate. I think I’m probably not clever enough to operate in the future. I hate the future. It sucks. Where’s my flying car?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado delenda est⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, this again? Come on. That’s not what scientists say. It’s a map of the Mediterranean Sea superimposed on the US. It’s a joke. Florida is going to be submerged way before the Rocky Mountains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it keeps the wrinkles out, but I’m in a damp climate. I don’t want mildew.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if it had gone perfectly, what would it have proved? That with the magic of AI, anyone can make Korean inspired barbecue sauce, as long as they are in a well-appointed kitchen that happens to have the right amount all the ingredients of Korean inspired barbecue sauce all laid out in front of them. I mean, if you know to go get all that stuff, you pretty much know how to make Korean inspired barbecue sauce already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, yes, I 100% agree with this. I’m shocked and horrified every time I get curious enough to poke my head back in there and see how it’s going. Yeah, I only meant they are doing fine in terms of weathering the boycott efforts financially. The Reddit I knew and loved is long gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would normally agree with that, but in this case it’s really the only appropriate response. Did you even see the absolute idiocy khaleer was responding to? I mean, WTF, LOL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of us are only here because we wanted to join a consumer action against Reddit. The first few months I was on Lemmy every post was about how Reddit users were fleeing in droves and we were going to show those big bad corporate clowns over at Reddit not to mess with us and Reddit would collapse within weeks.

  Welp. Reddit is doing just fine, so yeah, color me cynical as well. I like it better here though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung brings ads to US fridges⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I need my fridge to maintain a cold temperature on the inside. That’s it. That’s 100% of what I need from a fridge. The last one I bought was $300 and there’s no place to put an ad. I have no idea why y’all were hooking your appliances up to the internet in the first place, but I’m sorry you’re having a bad time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 tomatoes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Management has no incentive to field a competitive team. They are the worst team in baseball, haven’t been any good since 2007, and they are currently 9th in attendance, in a not-so-huge market.