SocialMediaRefugee
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- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 3 days ago:
That would require companies roll profits back into development and their employees instead of pocketing it all, schemes like stock buybacks and wall st traders.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 3 days ago:
The same thing happened in the 80s with Japan. The Japanese were no longer making crappy cars but small and very reliable, affordable cars. Detroit was still making rust buckets, obsessing over powerful engines with bodies that rotted out and defects galore. Detroit got beaten up badly (Chrysler had to get a gov bailout) until they cleaned up their act and improved their products. Protecting Detroit from competition would’ve just saddled US consumers with decades more of crappy, overpriced, low quality, cars.
- Comment on Palantir accuses British doctors of choosing ‘ideology over patient interest’ in NHS data row 4 days ago:
He has previously said the British public’s affection for the NHS is a case of “Stockholm syndrome”
Wtf does that mean? “You are crazy for caring about your healthcare.” lol
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 4 days ago:
Never go full Hitler
- Comment on Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters” 4 days ago:
Now I do so it got some free advertising.
- Comment on Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters” 4 days ago:
Why? This is giving it more attention than it deserves.
- 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 5 days ago:
Being alive is bad for the environment.
- Comment on Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters” 5 days ago:
I’ve never heard of “Grok”.
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 5 days ago:
I’ve had good results being very specific, like “Generate some python 3 code for me that converts X to Y, recursively through all subdirectories, and converts the files in place.”
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 5 days ago:
And let it suck up 10% or so of all of the power in the region.
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 5 days ago:
I use it for very specific tasks and give as much information as possible. I usually have to give it more feedback to get to the desired goal. For instance I will ask it how to resolve an error message. I’ve even asked it for some short python code. I almost always get good feedback when doing that. Asking it about basic facts works too like science questions.
One thing I have had problems with is if the error is sort of an oddball it will give me suggestions that don’t work with my OS/app version. Then I give it feedback and eventually it will loop back to its original suggestions, so it couldn’t come up with an answer.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Slapping on tariffs at a time with inflation, high consumer anxiety, and wage stagnation is going to be looked on as one of the worst moves a president has made.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I remember during the big housing bubble in the early 2000s people were telling me “Oh you better buy now” even though down payments were insanely high and I kept thinking “The cost of housing is totally out of whack with incomes. There is no way this can keep going up.” Surprise, surprise the whole thing blew up and lots of people were then left with mortgages that cost more than their homes so they were stuck. On top of that the prices were still out of whack with incomes and I still couldn’t afford a house unless it was a wreck. I eventually just moved out of the state.
I was just reading how the normal “escape cities”, like Miami, for people fleeing high cost areas like San Francisco and Boston/NYC are now almost as expensive. Guess people will have to go to St Louis and Des Moines.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 1 week ago:
Well you can’t stop everyone from being foolish. Before this they copied stuff on tv.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 1 week ago:
Won’t someone think of the poor influencers!? Sorry, “creators”. Just like Van Gogh and Stanley Kubrick.
- Comment on My reason for wanting HomeAssistant and a locked down VLAN... 1 week ago:
It got hacked and now I’m really, really dry.
- Comment on My reason for wanting HomeAssistant and a locked down VLAN... 1 week ago:
Dehydrate you
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 1 week ago:
Just pop some health potions
- Comment on YSK that 158 families made up 50% of all US Presidential Campaign Spending 2 weeks ago:
They visit each others mansions so they can make sure they are still keeping up with the other billionaires.
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 2 weeks ago:
Have you tried just eating food? Every time I do that in games it heals me. :P
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 2 weeks ago:
What healthcare?
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 2 weeks ago:
And in the US we just block foreign options because it is gov policy to artificially support specific corporations.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 2 weeks ago:
If I remember correctly they were convicted of embezzlement. Narcissists and psychopaths get mad when they are held accountable.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 2 weeks ago:
Because criminals get out of jail and can go after their families. We had someone leave a bomb on the doorstep of a judge in our neighborhood.
- Comment on The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists 2 weeks ago:
The tech behind the tool conceals the fact that messaging is taking place at all. It makes the communication indistinguishable from data sent to and from the app by our millions of regular users.
Reminds me of how the Germans in WW1 knew they couldn’t trust their diplomatic codes anymore so they just sent the important messages in the normal, innocuous telegraph system and diplomatic pouches. They knew that foreign intelligence would be focused on the bogus secure messages.
- Comment on 'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community 2 weeks ago:
Thank god our power is being sucked up for cheating and generating AI porn.
- Comment on 'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community 2 weeks ago:
So we spent decades working on energy conservation, switching to LED light bulbs, efficient AC, etc just to see it all get sucked into these fucking data and AI centers.
- Comment on Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer? 3 weeks ago:
This drives me nuts with the news cycle. “The US won’t get involved in X”. The media shows how awful fighting/revolt/etc are in X. “Why won’t the US do something about the horror in X!?” The US gets involved and, of course, some civilians die. This is guaranteed in war. The media then goes “The US is awful for killing civilians in X!” The US pulls out of X. The media goes “Why has the US abandoned X!?”
- Comment on Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer? 3 weeks ago:
After WW2 the US became addicted to being the world police and many other countries were happy to have the US cover the cost of their defense or income from hosting US bases.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 3 weeks ago:
Wait until they get kidney stones from being chronically dehydrated