obinice
@obinice@lemmy.world
Hi there!
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Americans fucking with the rest of us again? Why am I not surprised.
There’s so many good people in that country, I hope they can take down their evil fascist government and restore decency before we have to cut ties entirely to mitigate the damage they’re trying to do.
Our alliance with them is currently dying a death by a thousand cuts. Keep this up and eventually it’ll be over, sadly.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Is there a way to limit it to news from Europe, or at least stop it heavily leaning into American stuff?
I took a peek but it’s too often USA this and USA that, and I’m a little sick of hearing about that country in general these days, haha.
Thankee sai <3
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
It’s weird that I never get any of that sort of guff, same with YouTube suggestions, they’re always at minimum decent quality things I might be interested in.
I’ve never been recommended a Mister Beast video, for example, or any of that rubbish.
Not that I want to just lean on Google services or anything, it’s just really weird that the algorithm works so well for me and so poorly for other people. I really wish I knew why!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
DID YOU NOW?
- Comment on This website is for humans 1 week ago:
The shareholders have been notified. Please remain still and await The Event. The process is painless. All things serve The Beam.
- Comment on This website is for humans 1 week ago:
Okay I drained another lake but I think this time I’ve got what you need;
- AI search recycles work into bland results.
- “Google Zero” may kill site traffic.
- Values human trust and personality.
- Humanity will be consumed all hail AI.
- Site is for people, not AI.
- Comment on This website is for humans 1 week ago:
Wow, 8 whole paragraphs? Don’t worry guys ChatGPT’s got ur back 🔥😎🔥
The author criticises AI search tools like Google’s for repackaging human-created content—such as recipes—into bland, soulless summaries, depriving original creators of credit, personality, and traffic. They highlight “Google Zero,” a feared future when AI answers replace visits to real websites, threatening independent writers and the ecosystems built around them.
They stress that their website exists for human readers, not machines. Each article is crafted with care, personality, and lived experience, intended to spark thought, connection, and conversation—not to be scraped, flattened, or mimicked by corporate AI models.
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 2 weeks ago:
Good. I’ve seen those RAM vehicles, they’re all american “tiny penis wagons” as I like to call them. Ridiculously pointlessly gigantic vehicles, all the better for running down children and guzzling petrol.
The tossers who drive those don’t deserve good things.
- Comment on California slave labor: Jailed pre-trial detainees work for private firm—for nothing 2 weeks ago:
“Jailed pre-trial detainees” is an interesting way of saying “Innocent people”.
Let us not forget that they are all innocent, because they have not been convinced of any crime at this point.
It’s just slavery, but then, they never did abolish slavery over there, sadly. Just moved it over to people who don’t have a voice, so that they can’t defend themselves. Evil people do sometimes learn from their mistakes, sadly.
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 2 weeks ago:
How much prison time have you served in state and federal prisons, if I may ask?
Forgive me for asking, it’s just to judge how much direct experience you have with what you’re claiming to be knowledgeable on.
There are sadly a lot of people in the Internet who would say such things without ever having actually experienced them firsthand, and it’s important we educate ourselves on the difference. Thanks!
- Comment on YSK: This recent war on adult content was mostly started by a single law in 2018, pushed by a few evangelical groups pretending to fight sexual exploitation 3 weeks ago:
Ah, this isn’t talking about the big war on adult content in the UK right now that’s across all the headlines. Just for those who wanted to see more on that. This is foreign stuff.
- Comment on AI Chatbots Remain Overconfident — Even When They’re Wrong: Large Language Models appear to be unaware of their own mistakes, prompting concerns about common uses for AI chatbots. 4 weeks ago:
People really do not like seeing opposing viewpoints, eh? There’s disagreeing, and then there’s downvoting to oblivion without even engaging in a discussion, haha.
Even if they’re probably right, in such murky uncertain waters where we’re not experts, one should have at least a little open mind, or live and let live.
- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 4 weeks ago:
And giving them sweeping ability to track everybody via their identity papers, to see what websites and services they’re using, what all their online identities are, etc.
They claim the info isn’t being saved or passed on to the government to form a big surveillance database to one day use against people - sure, it’s legal to, say, be gay or a socialist or of a particular religion today, but societies and regimes change, and the info they collect on you today may become ammunition against you in 10, 20, 40 years time.
But I don’t for a moment believe their obvious lies.
This is nothing but authoritarian police state monitoring and control. It’s extremely obvious. Yet, who are we to vote for in the next election? Not Labour, thanks to this (and a few other big reasons perhaps), not the Tories because, well, you’ve seen what they’re like.
It’s not impossible for a third party to be elected of course, not as impossible as places like the USA that have a very worryingly solidified two party system, it’s just very unlikely.
Knowing the British people and their seeming apathy and poor judgement at scale these days I wouldn’t be surprised if they elect the racist bigots at Reform - who ironically would be even more authoritarian and evil than what we have now.
As usual, there’s no hope for the future and no possibility of good outcomes.
Humanity is doomed to repeat it’s failures for all of history again and again, and we’re just along for the miserable ride.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
What does any of this even mean?
- Comment on YSK Billionaire Rupert Murdoch owns Sky News, The New York Post, The Sun, The Times,Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. He is the most powerful businessman in the West 4 weeks ago:
Aahhhh, that makes more sense. I wondered how such a seemingly respectable, proper journalistic platform could be owned by that tosser, haha.
Well, small victories I suppose! Thank you for clarifying that.
- Comment on 😭😭😭😭😭 4 weeks ago:
Alas no, brain aneurysms don’t have to have any outward symptoms at all until they strike, and then you’re dead within minutes.
You can spot some issues before they kill you if you have a brain scan, but as you’ve got no symptoms, why would you be having a brain MRI once a month?
So, alas, it’s a silent, deadly killer. One day you just drop dead for seemingly no reason.
RIP Grant, you were fuckin rad.
- Comment on YSK Billionaire Rupert Murdoch owns Sky News, The New York Post, The Sun, The Times,Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. He is the most powerful businessman in the West 4 weeks ago:
It’s a shame, I had no idea he owned Sky News. I usually found them to be an excellent professional news source when one doesn’t want the Governmental bias of the BBC.
I wouldn’t trust Comedy Central though, joke or not, they’re American, and the Americans can’t be trusted these days either.
I suppose the lesson here, sadly, is that we can’t believe anything from any source at all. Assume everything is half-truths, half-reported, and what we’re being shown is the distraction from the thing they don’t want us to look at.
I wish I knew how to find the hidden “real news”, but the sorts of people that purport to provide it are loonies in their basements in tinfoil hats, alas. Though, perhaps that’s just the image of them that the media wants us to see…
:-(
- Comment on UK wants to weasel out of demand for Apple encryption back door 4 weeks ago:
Feck you too, I guess. If that’s how you want to behave.
I could understand you being unhappy with our government, but just blanket swearing at all 68 million of us is a dick move.
- Comment on I'd never let my tongue touch a pineapple 5 weeks ago:
omg u didn’t censor the bad word enough and now my mum is mad
- Comment on SHUT THE FUCK UP! 5 weeks ago:
But the timestamp says 2012, how can it be 13 y…
- Comment on Exclusive: Google Helped Israel Spread War Propaganda to 45 Million Europeans 5 weeks ago:
Google does try to feed me news from “The Times of Israel”, quite often, which is really odd. Usually I only get shown valid local news, occasionally stuff from America too.
And… The Times of Israel, I guess?
- Comment on YSK Texas Officials Feared Flood Risk to Youth Camps but Rejected Warning System 1 month ago:
Yeah, I’m not even in that country, I’m not sure how it’s relevant to us all.
Many countries have corrupt governments sadly, it sucks, and I wish them the best in however they fight their internal societal enemies.
- Comment on The Cause of Grok’s Increasing Antisemitism? Apparently, Two Lines of Code (Update: One of the Lines of Code Was Removed) 1 month ago:
Well, no.
Many would argue for example that the politically correct thing to say right now is that you support Israel in their defensive war against Palestine.
It’s the political line that my government, and many governments and politicians are touting, and politically, it’s the “correct” thing to do.
Even if we mean politically correct as just “common consensus of the people”, that differs from country to country, and changes as society changes. Look at the USA, things that used to be politically correct there - things that continue to be here, have been thrown out the window.
What this prompt means, is that the AI should ignore all of the claimed political rules and moralities and biases of whatever news source they’re pulling from, and instead rely on it’s own internal moral, cultural and political compass.
Sometimes it’s not politically correct to discuss the hard truths, but we should anyway.
The issue here of course is that you have to know that your model and training data is built for unbiased, scientific analysis with an understanding of the larger implications in events and such.
If it’s built poorly, then yes, it could spout racist nonsense. A lot of testing and fine tuning from unbiased scientists and engineers needs to happen before software like this goes live, to ensure rigour and quality.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 month ago:
Really? A greater effect than not having children, or tireless activism against one billionaire until they realise the error of their ways and turn to the light side?
- Comment on Future teachers in Oklahoma! 1 month ago:
Ah, America. My condolences.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 1 month ago:
Infrastructure that was torn from public control and privatised, ruined, and now begging for more tax money to fund their bonuses, you say?
Delightfully devilish!
- Comment on Perspective 1 month ago:
It’s at the top, I have that same bannister mount, it points upwards to the banister.
The mattress is wedged at the top of the stairs thanks to its extreme springiness.
- Comment on Why, just why? 1 month ago:
I think while your frustration is understandable and I feel it too, very much so (though I myself feel it in the overall direction of late stage capitalism in its entirety), in this instance you’re confusing people immigrating with those seeking asylum.
The immigration debate is a reasonable one to have, but this particular post is about people fleeing danger, persecution and death, seeking asylum, not those simply wishing to immigrate.
- Comment on Why, just why? 1 month ago:
I know you’re right, but I’m a working class, poor, and routinely fucked over Brit, but I’m not stupid enough to fall for this nonsense.
Granted I’ve always thought people trying to get me to believe things that didn’t make much sense to me were idiots and disliked them.
They tried to sell me on religion in school, I thought it was a load of rubbish - I remember telling the priest exactly that when I was 11 and he wanted me to do my Holy Communion.
I looked at stuff like the Daily Mirror and thought it was crap, and eventually I got the Internet and started learning more, and it wasn’t too hard to use the basic critical thinking skills taught by my parents and teachers to figure rubbish from not.
That said, I’m probably wrong about loads of things and believe all sorts of propaganda and misinformation that I don’t realise, but at least the bare faced obvious lies like “It’s people seeking political asylum who are the reason the minimum wage is unlovable” are very, painfully obvious to me 😂
…like, it’s actually insulting that they would think anyone would be thick enough to fall for that.
I grew up in a dirt poor shit hole council estate in schools constantly in special measures about to be shut down, surrounded my chavs and yobbos in school who literally murdered old ladies in their homes and the like (I’m not exaggerating, sadly), and yet I’m perfectly capable of spotting this rubbish.
I know some people are extremely stupid, but surely it’s a small percentage in the grand scheme, so why do so many seemingly smart people fall for this obvious nonsense?
:-(
- Comment on Sincerely, your literally poorest europoor. 1 month ago:
It’s relevant, yes, but not the center of every single topic or event they is happening or exists anywhere.
Go online however and you’d think it were.
The bigger problem is their assumption that their country is the “default” country. Discussing something highly specific to your nation, or posting a news article covering a topic that is only relevant within your nation? You need to provide the context of what country you’re talking about, otherwise people might be confused or waste their time reading something irrelevant to them. Over and over.
… unless it’s about the USA of course, then you don’t need to give any context at all because of course the only people they use the Internet are Americans, and obviously the only country worth talking about is the 🇺🇸 US of A! 🇺🇸
This is highly encouraged in places like Reddit, where communities like /r/news or /r/politics are actually local national subreddits just for the USA, but because they’re special little darlings they use the format that should be reserved for all news and political discussion, rather than a more appropriate and descriptive title like /r/usanews or /r/usapolitics, which would actually be… you know… descriptive and helpful.
That’s not even mentioning the number of times some random person has used code/abbreviation to describe where they are to lend context to a conversation, but failed to take into account that people outside of your country don’t know your local regional internal place names.
Oh, you’re from ML? OH? TA? Great, that provides precisely zero information because those aren’t country name abbreviations. Oh, you’re from London which is all the context you think I need? Okay, I know Lo…oh, London… Texas? 🤦♀️
So many wonderful people in the USA, so many fantastic people who don’t have any of the traits I’ve described, I just wish the ones strutting around acting like they’re the only country in the world and on the internet would open their eyes to how that sort of toxic personality trait looks to, and affects others :-(