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- Comment on doot doot 2 weeks ago:
Guessing you also know that isn’t a harmonica though?
- Comment on Skateboarding is just "The Floor is Lava" on wheels 1 month ago:
Shields innit
- Comment on "BeReal." FOSS alternative? Yes please! 1 month ago:
I’m smashing that follow button!
- Comment on "BeReal." FOSS alternative? Yes please! 1 month ago:
I mean, it’s only dumb for people who aren’t interested.
The world is full of things that I’d hate that other people love. That doesn’t make them dumb. To each their own, you know?
Chilli in ice cream, I mean wtf?
- Comment on Amazon Customer Service has become awful 1 month ago:
Dude I think you need to get some meds for all that rage.
Maybe they have some on Amazon, I heard they have fantastic next day shipping as it’s such an urgently needed item!
- Comment on Once you reach a certain age, all hairs are pubes because you grew them post-puberty 1 month ago:
They’re pubic because they grow from the moms pubis, no?
- Submitted 2 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on Are we the "Cold Ones" to our dogs? 2 months ago:
For anyone else reading this that also doesn’t know F to C conversion like me…
101F = 38.33333C
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 2 months ago:
I had been considering a Roku stick instead of an Amazon fire stick to try and get out of the Amazon bubble.
I now see that Roku basically want to create their own bubble too so probably better to only let one shitty company (Amazon) get my viewing habits.
- Comment on Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform 4 months ago:
I’d argue, oddly, that it’s easier to hold a single corporate entity accountable for data breaches than mastodon instance owners.
It’s likely the case that both of are bad from a data security point of view, but at least with the corporations you know who to shout at.
- Comment on Young adults set an earlier bedtime as they navigate economic fatigue, wellness trends, and a loneliness epidemic 4 months ago:
:D yeah just making a joke. I am currently trying to convince my wife that we should get expensive feather down pillows. A hotel we stayed in had them and the comfort was amazing!
- Comment on Young adults set an earlier bedtime as they navigate economic fatigue, wellness trends, and a loneliness epidemic 4 months ago:
BigPillow corp is that you?
- Comment on Upon careful analysis of the top posts, I believe lemmy needs more unhinged text posts 4 months ago:
I think wit is hard over text. To you it’s obvious you’re joking, and that your joke is that this comment is ridiculous.
To others it can read as someone making a joke with little respect for the Original post.
Take the meth one for example, I can see you being downvoted for that if the original post was serious.
The UK one just sounds stupid though, but then again mods of a Lemmy instance are likely to be people that take things (like Reddit fucking their API) quite seriously. This means our population pool may be a little skewed towards the serious.
On the other hand, I’ve seen lots of humour here. Especially from the AI generated community with their, a’hem, themes.
- Comment on Brexit has completely failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons – poll 5 months ago:
What’s the alternative? With fptp it’s labour or Tories and it takes a major shift to make one of the other parties a threat.
Labour and Tories both benefit from fptp so there’s no way theyre ever going to change it.
- Comment on Truly inspirational 6 months ago:
Haha I don’t think it’s about fear. It’s probably about having hundreds of years of using those metrics, and it being very baked in to the language used between people to communicate.
Nobody wants to have to translate between kg and stone all the time. It’s tedious. If you live in a country where all your interactions are going to be in one measurement then you’re probably just going to go along with everyone else.
Even down to ‘goin down the pub for a pint’ being a commonly used phrase which doesn’t have the same ring when it’s '‘goin down the pub for a half litre’.
- Comment on apparently Google isn't sure... 7 months ago:
You can even see the guardian reporting on bing in this image. Turns out people don’t even look at the image they’re commenting on, let alone clicking on links.
- Comment on Business owner 'hires' ChatGPT for customer service, then fires the humans 8 months ago:
I’d say at best it’s an upgrade to scripted customer service. A lot of the scripted ones are slower than AI and often have stronger accented people making it more difficult for the customer to understand the script entry being read back to them, leading to more frustration.
If your problem falls outside the realm of the script, I just hope it recognises the script isn’t solving the issue and redirects you to a human. Oftentimes I’ve noticed chatgpt not learning from the current conversation (if you ask it about this it will say that it does not do this). In this scenario it just regurgitates the same 3 scripts back to me when I tell it it’s wrong. In my scenario this isn’t so bad as I can just turn to a search engine but in a customer service scenario this would be extremely frustrating.
- Comment on Disney’s password-sharing crackdown has begun 8 months ago:
I’m not back to pirating
Not or now?