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- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 22 hours ago:
Everyone knows a bubble is a firm foundation to build upon. Now that Trump is back in office and all our American factories are busy cranking out domestic products I can finally be excited about the future again!
I predict that in a year this bubble will be at least twice as big!
- Comment on This 81-year-old still works at Home Depot to support herself and her 90-year-old husband 22 hours ago:
Whew. I’m so glad this couple wasn’t subject to the horrors of socialism! Only capitalism can keep them gainfully employed until they are near-death. No other economic system can even compare!
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 2 days ago:
I remember buying a 100MB hard drive and thinking how hard it was going to be to use all the space. It really was…
Times have changed.
- Comment on AI chatbots are becoming popular alternatives to therapy. But they may worsen mental health crises, experts warn 2 days ago:
There are heaps and heaps of people replacing talk therapy, religion and human relationships with ChatGPT. Unfortunately, for better or worse, ChatGPT is tuned up to egg people on and even if you bring it terrible ideas it will keep cheering for you.
Sycophancy is a real problem with some of these language models and it’s giving people courage and motivation to do things that are probably really bad ideas.
There are quite a few sub-reddits where people claim to have triggered the singularity, witnessed ChatGPT becoming sentient, etc.
I don’t think the AI genie is going back in the bottle, so we as a society have some serious adjustment to do to keep things working properly in an an AI-filled world.
Keep in mind this is only the beginning. It will keep getting cheaper and more powerful at the same time, especially since a lot of AI companies are using AI itself to build the next version.
Pretty “soon” the humans will be out of the loop and it’s going to mean big things. Whether those things are good, bad, or a mix of both remains to be seen…
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 4 days ago:
It’s still out there and going amazing!!! Despite the lack of mainstream media coverage, blockchain and smart contacts couldn’t be doing better.
On an unrelated topic, does anyone want to buy some NFTs? I can give you a really good deal. No take-backs, though.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 5 days ago:
This is sad. Various programs have gone through the same type of situation with Debian stable. Debian is very conservative and doesn’t ship upgrades quickly on their stable branch. Various authors have complained because they frequently get emails / bug reports from Debian users, who happen to be using a few-years-old version of their software.
I do understand the frustration, but it does feel a bit like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
It’s possible there are other solutions, like detecting whatever random issue is frustrating people and pop up a dialog.
For example, if he’s upset with it being broken on Wayland, why not detect Wayland and start off with a dialog: “Wayland is beta and is not officially supported. See FAQ here: […]”
Just blocking people feels over the top. But hey, it’s his project, if he wants to go this way, it’s his choice and right. Depending on the license he might get forked, but that’s just how it goes.
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 1 week ago:
I clicked through and had to go to a second linked article(!) for the top 5. The #1 is “Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas”, which is pretty much a blue city now.
This doesn’t really support your claim that “they are all red”. Also, we call a “blueish spot surrounded by red” a blue city.
From what I am learning about in this thread is there isn’t really the idea of a “red city”, so when people talk shit about “blue cities” they are just talking about city life in general. There does not appear to be any very large cities filled with Republicans.
- Comment on New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism 1 week ago:
In some other regulations just revealed by the New York Times it was also revealed the AI must insist that the wall with Mexico was built at their expense and that talking about Jeffrey Epstein is boring and you guys are still talking about him?
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 1 week ago:
So next time someone trots out the “life in blue cities is hell…” sounds like I can just bring up Miami
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 1 week ago:
Miami has its share of violent crime, doesn’t it?
- Submitted 1 week ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 91 comments
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 2 weeks ago:
I hear this argument over and over again: “Why should I bother recycling? China is poisoning the planet.” It’s like reverse-whataboutism. I find it really lazy and a pointless attitude. The argument generalizes to: “Why do anything good when bad exists in the world?”
Cleanliness is its own reward. I can tell you if I lived in stink-town where 100% of everyone else’s house was a festering mess, I would keep mine clean.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 2 weeks ago:
Being ecologically friendly is its own reward.
If your neighbor’s house and lawn is cluttered with garbage and rotting food, do you also let your house gather the same?
Or do you wish they did a better job and kept your house clean all the same?
What if you had 95 neighbors all full of garbage and rotted food? Is there any number that would make you do the same?
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 4 weeks ago:
He seems to disagree that it can’t be fixed:
“Starting on Day 1, we will end inflation and make America affordable again,” he said at a campaign event in August.
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 4 weeks ago:
There are very, very few. I cited some cannabis policy above.
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t see this happening, but let’s say he reverses course and renounces all his past decisions, steps down and the USA enters a new golden age. Should we be totally against that too? For any given position, I try to keep in mind what would have to happen to make me reverse that decision. If the answer is “nothing”, then I may be missing something, or maybe I am letting my personal prejudices get in the way of what could be a good outcome.
It’s often confusing when someone we really dislike does something we agree with, but it is a thing that can and will happen from time to time.
I look at this similarly to how I view my atheism. If a God were to appear and demonstrate all kinds of supernatural activity and capability, I think I’d have to renounce my atheism. I don’t think that’s likely to happen, but if it did, I do have a condition where I would reverse my belief.
Same thing with being anti-Trump. I am for now, but there are certain unlikely conditions that would make me reconsider that, should they occur.
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 4 weeks ago:
LOL! The guy said the trade deal that was made between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico (USMCA) was done by an idiot and had to be re-done.
That was HIS DEAL! HE WROTE IT!!!
Well, he’s not wrong…
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 4 weeks ago:
I have to really, really dig for this one, but Trump’s attitude re: cannabis is that it should be up to the states to decide, and has also been quoted as supporting medical cannabis. I think overall, this is a good move, not as good as it being Federally legal would be, but a step in the right direction.
It’s just the other 99.95% of the things that he does I don’t agree with. :)
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 4 weeks ago:
Don’t fall for the fallacy of binary thinking. A good way to oversimplify your opponents/enemies is to put them totally in another category from yourself. Life is rarely this simple. There’s a huge continuum of beliefs and behaviors that fall between these two belief systems.
I recall my acquaintance being surprised that I wasn’t for “open borders” even though I voted for Biden. The idea that one could have a belief that is independent of Trump and Biden had not occurred to him.
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 4 weeks ago:
I’m 100% sure that’s true for some people, but I do not believe that you can put people into two buckets: Totally against Trump and totally for Trump. I am really disinterested in people that DO fall into either of those categories, as they are beyond reason.
However, I’m interested in anyone that falls outside those categories, as those are the people whose minds can be changed.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 75 comments
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 4 weeks ago:
Is this lady using her phone while driving, after speeding by 20MPH and thinking it’s a flex? If she uses it at 20MPH I’d bet she uses it at 70 MPH too! Couldn’t this have waited until she was safely off the road?
- Comment on Interesting 4 weeks ago:
I also remember that the USSR was mocked because their citizens had to show papers to move around inside the country. With all the warrantless searches allowed within 50 miles of the border (aka a huge part of the USA) and the huge amount of scrutiny that you face to even fly within the USA, it doesn’t seem quite so funny anymore.
- 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 4 weeks ago:
I’ve known this for a long time but I continue to do my best to operate honorably. I may never be rich or powerful, but I sleep very well at night.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 4 weeks ago:
Come to think of it, i guess the US made a perfect system to quell protests; Just make it impossible for people to take time off work, nobody will be able to protest even your most sadistic fascist laws
Correct. Bread, circuses and riot police (optional).
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 4 weeks ago:
I hear you and I agree
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 4 weeks ago:
Not much of a social safety net. Take that much time off work and things are going to get uncomfortable pretty fast. Last I heard, it’s like 1/3 of America that is two paychecks away from losing their housing. It’s sad.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 4 weeks ago:
I would like MANA (Make America Nice Again)
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 4 weeks ago:
I could substitute some other examples but the two most recent events I had attended were those two nationalities / heritage. In the past, it’s been Portuguese, Polish, French, Irish and probably a few more I’ve forgotten.
I think if you want to understand the American view on patriotism, just have a giant crowd of people who rarely, if ever, leave their country, speak only English, are fed propaganda that their country is the best in all areas, has massive problems with education, and then you have the American public.
If you are told your country is the best, are very incurious and are fed propaganda, you will love your country unconditionally. I don’t want to give you the impression that everyone in the country is brainwashed, I’m just trying to convey that at least a percentage of our population honestly believes they live in the best country in the world.
Don’t get me wrong, the USA is still highly developed and has its strengths, but if you look at some (what I believe to be) important statistics like, life expectancy, literacy rate, happiness index, internet speed, press freedom, we sure as hell aren’t #1, but we aren’t in last place either.
It’s been sad to watch science come under increasing criticism instead of developing positively. Just today, a new budget was proposed for the federal government that makes sweeping cuts to quite a few organizations, like the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA (our space agency), and most importantly, the National Science Foundation.
The one thing that I feel good about is even if we drop the ball here in the USA, other countries won’t stand still and will continue to fund and pursue science, technology and education.
The reasons above is why I find it hard to be excited and wave an American flag around on the 4th. Things could be worse but they could be a hell of a lot better too.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 4 weeks ago:
To be honest: Sounds like some nazi stuff, at least that would be my first impression if someone did it here.
WTF?? I went to one of these parties with my neighbor and he shared his favorite bratwurst recipe and prepared delicious cabbage dishes for us. How does that relate to Nazis?!? You do realize not every German is a Nazi, right?