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- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 2 days ago:
GenX here. I wanted to reassure you that it didn’t come naturally to me and i grew up when this was still taught in school. The real answer is practice. Read a clock several times a day for a few weeks. Take a moment to think about the mintue hand. Is it about 2/5 of the way to the next digit? 3/5? After a while, you won’t have to think. You will just recognize.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 3 weeks ago:
Still, not sure I completely get it. Same. One legitimate criticism of how rich people interact with the economy is that rich people have a tendency to hoard their money instead of pumping it back into the economy. Spending all your dough may look tacky and ostentatious, but it creates more jobs than piling it up in a vault.
So this guy’s thinking is contorted in fascinating ways. I am starting to wonder, though, does being a bad thinker make you more likely to be racist? Or does racism harm your thinking? Both?
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 3 weeks ago:
This is crazy, but i read the news on paper. I have a couple of subscriptions to magazines with good reporting, but you could also hit up your library to read for free. For one thing, print journalism is a lot more in-depth and balanced than the outrage-mill crap i find online.
On Lemmy i read headlines only in case something happens that i stay current, but i rarely read a whole article. This contains my news consumption to a small portion of my day.
Plus, Trump says 64 stupid lthings a week. I read all 64 in 1 hour each week and get it over with, instead of poisoning myself with it several times a day.
- Comment on Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded 3 weeks ago:
Canada, too. For the last two years, Canada has entrusted sensitive statistical information to Microsoft. We should be treating MS with the same skepticism we currently reserve for Huawei.
- Comment on When will we have reached enough productivity? 4 weeks ago:
There is a hole in the heart of every rich person. They try to fill that hole with money, but the hole is never full.
When Elon Musk and every person like him says, “I have enough money”: that is when the people who actually produce value will have reached enough productivity. Not before.
- Comment on Everything is a problem 4 weeks ago:
My experience is pretty limited and I might just be lucky in that everything worked for me, but installing linux was exactly as hard as installing windows. If anything, I found it less annoying because with Windows I tend to decline a lot of their services (no cloud, no office, etc) and I profoundly resent being nagged by MS to use services that don’t interest me.
If I bought my laptop with linux preinstalled, I wouldn’t say that it has been less usable than a windows machine. there is some missing support, but I had similar issues with switching from mac to windows and back.
- Comment on Everything is a problem 4 weeks ago:
My poor tv is like, “connect to the internet? I need to call home! Help, i’ve been abducted by a luddite!”
Tv, you are never getting my wifi password.
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 5 weeks ago:
I love German legowordmakingkraft.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 5 weeks ago:
Well, I guess i am going to be regularly updating the metadata on my most recent selfie.
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 5 weeks ago:
Yep. You pirate one movie, you face criminal charges. You pirate the entire corpus of images on the internet, you got Forbes Person of the Year.
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 5 weeks ago:
intensifenshittification
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 5 weeks ago:
Anyone who wants to own what they create and doesn’t want their work stolen for some startup’s plagiarism engine. Anyone who is interested in privacy. Anyone who wants a consistent user experience. Anyone who wants to be exempt from sinister targeted advertising. Anyone who is worried about censorship.
- Comment on We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why: 5 weeks ago:
I have been referring to LLMs and image generators as “Plagiarism Engines” for some time. Even SI seems too generous.
- Comment on What are you doing when you call someone, don't leave a voicemail or text, they call you back right away but you don't answer? 5 weeks ago:
fair enough, i guess it depends on how fast you call back
- Comment on It’s the little things 5 weeks ago:
at least it wouldn’t wet your socks. i think capillary action relies on surface tension
- Comment on What are you doing when you call someone, don't leave a voicemail or text, they call you back right away but you don't answer? 5 weeks ago:
probably moving on to the next task in my to do list. my phone is not attached to my hand
- Comment on Why doesn't the Trump administration simply edit the Epstein files and release them? 5 weeks ago:
The guy who killed himself, did nothing wrong, and never existed?
- Comment on Why doesn't the Trump administration simply edit the Epstein files and release them? 5 weeks ago:
Bondi said in a hidden camera recording that there were videos depicting CSA among the files - the supposed blackmail material. Now that material is in the possession of Trump et al. If they publish the videos, they become useless as blackmail material.
Source: APNews
- Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior 5 weeks ago:
NGL, this is hot.
- Comment on Missouri AG: Any AI That Doesn’t Praise Donald Trump Might Be “Consumer Fraud” (No, Really) 1 month ago:
Well that’s ok, Donny LOVES fraud.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names. 1 month ago:
It’s a cycle to move the window on acceptable discourse. This is at least the third time Grok has been configured to say something outrageous: holocaust denial, white genocide, now Mechahitler. When people react with outrage, they dial it back a little (but not all the way back). Repeat.
Trump does the same thing: go too far, backtrack partially, go even further, backtrack partially. Each time, the transgression is a little less shocking.
Grok is working as intended.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names. 1 month ago:
Yeah. Grok is working as intended.
- Comment on Perspective 1 month ago:
Yes.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 1 month ago:
Yes! When I read that, I immediately thought “curtailing developer choice is exactly the point.”
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yeah, I don’t know if OP is in the USA, but having someone like Donald Trump elected to high office is 100% part of a crash already in progress. Inequality got so bad that democracy is not functioning. In a healthy society, Trump would be an unelectable laughing stock.
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 1 month ago:
Rookie numbers! Let’s pump them up!
To match their tech bro hypers, the should be wrong at least 90% of the time.
- Comment on Having the ability to lie and manipulate with no remorse will get you much further in this world than having morals and being correct 1 month ago:
This is only true in a world that is mostly full of people with morals. A society built on lying and manipulation inevitably collapses - look at what is happening to the United States. They elected an amoral lying manipulator and in just six months their society is unraveling. They just passed a law that took money away from hungry children and sick people so that their psychopathic leader can better persecute his enemies: that is, anyone who opposes him. ICE just became the best-funded “law” enforcement agency ever created. It is obvious to everyone except a handful of naive idiots that ICE will be used against US citizens to consolidate MAGA’s power in an attempt to create a permanent regime. These states always collapse sooner or later, though, because morality is the foundation of law. No one is going to invest in a country where their assets can be seized and they can be imprisoned on the caprice of a senile madman. You can’t have trade without trust - all that is left in places like the US are predators and prey.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Man, I sure hope not. I will never understand why people are willing to read or view content on that tiny screen. Give me my desktop any day. I can’t even tolerate laptops unless I’m on the road.
- Comment on Reading is consciousness-altering and a bit toxic. 2 months ago:
Honestly, that’s a weird take. Through reading i have learned about so many things i would never have the chance to experience in person. Having your perspective altered (i would say, expanded) by reading is essential for emotional and intellectual growth. The only thing you risk losing is ignorance.
- Comment on Fediverse for teens 2 months ago:
Lol. Like corporate social media isn’t creepy.
