aesthelete
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- Comment on Do you eat shrimp shells when eating shrimp? 15 hours ago:
No it’s gross
- Comment on Switch 2 mouse mode (such potential) 23 hours ago:
Nintendo shop regularly runs deals similar to steam. Usually at around the same times of year. Same with PlayStation. I run games on all three platforms. You have to be kind of a sucker these days to buy a game at full price when it’s first released. But none of what I said makes $80 games reasonably priced.
- Comment on The case against conversational interfaces « julian.digital 2 days ago:
When I used those things, I absolutely understood why a CEO would want those to be the future. It’s everything they’re looking for: a strident, confident yes man machine who will produce without consternation any kind of spin (unethical or not) to any kind of content requested.
- Comment on The case against conversational interfaces « julian.digital 2 days ago:
The obsession with conversational interfaces likely stems from two places: sci-fi and CEOs who are used to ordering people around.
- Comment on Madison Square Garden’s surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design. And he didn’t even wear it to the venue. 4 days ago:
Stadiums are getting increasingly fascist. My response will be to stop going to them.
- Comment on 'X' Marks xAI's Spot: xAI has acquired X in an all-stock transaction. The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion. 6 days ago:
Lol neither are worth that much.
- Comment on If these mother fuckers are trying to make me pay for Healthcare to talk to fucking ChatGPT I swear to god ChatGPT is going to write me so many scripts for opioids its won't be funny. 6 days ago:
Dude within ten years people in the US will be lucky if they have potable water.
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 6 days ago:
And despite all of its other programs, it’s still not even profitable.
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- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 week ago:
Yeah, maybe it’s a case of software Stockholm syndrome or something.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 week ago:
Microsoft sucks and so does Outlook. My dad uses Outlook personally and I just can’t imagine that. It’s like taking your torture rack home with you for personal usage.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
At one point, it seemed like we were getting smarter, and then it very didn’t.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m a hunching it up a bit. But there’s some amount of absurdity in expecting large amounts of scientific rigor in lemmy comments when those leading purportedly scientific bodies are being led by vaccine-denying simpletons.
That ubiquitous expectation of powerless individuals to reason and behave perfectly while ultra-powerful people can behave like spoiled five year olds is foundational in making life fucking miserable for me personally.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Every country suffers from what? Mass stupidity?
Maybe that’s true but it certainly seems like we are more individualistic and stupid than most…and I don’t think those two things are entirely unrelated.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
America is more car-oriented than most other western countries and leaded gas is how we did the majority of our poisoning.
Yes, of course microplastics are everywhere, but I’ve read studies saying that internationally they’re eating about the same amount of plastic as we did years ago, but they kind of plateaued whereas here in the good ol USA people still don’t know that it’s not a good idea to eat three meals a day of microwaved food cooked in plastic containers.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Read the book “bowling alone” if you’re interested in someone’s attempt at researching why we went from collectivism to individualism as a country. There are a large amount of factors but if I were to take a crack at it, I’d list a few: TV, the Internet, smart phones, air conditioning, capitalism, and (last but certainly not least) racism. Racism is foundational to the country and its history.
As far as the stupidity, some of the same factors apply, but there are also additional ones like environmental factors (US citizens eat more microplastics than any other major country since like 2016 and we lead poisoned ourselves for a century), a deep-seeded anti-intellectualism, and we’re a large part cultist/religious idiots that see everything through the lense of “some guy” being the best thing ever and the source of all truth.
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 2 weeks ago:
They’re right
- Comment on The billionaires and politicians did it 3 weeks ago:
And this despite giving billionaires everything they asked for including the tax breaks that made them exist in the first place.
- Comment on “They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
I’m old enough to remember people lying that compact discs were practically indestructible.
- Comment on Ten reasons to avoid Amazon | Ethical Consumer 3 weeks ago:
Also like solar wind and water power also function using science? As do coal plants? So like, really WTF are we even talking about with science functioning?
- Comment on Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think 3 weeks ago:
It’s almost like…one is the leader of the richest country in the world and the other is running a government office that’s dismantling the government.
Seriously, if you guys were alive in the 1930s you’d be there like “I just can’t pick up the paper anymore without talk of this Hitler guy!”.
- Comment on Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think 3 weeks ago:
If you limit yourself exclusively to communities where the “no politics” rule is actually enforced, you’ll exhaust new content within about two minutes each day.
It’s almost like US politics are a historic fucking shit show and that affects many other things.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 3 weeks ago:
You can be a content creator. It’s not that difficult to post a meme. Content creators aren’t another species.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I guess I left out “lottery winner”
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
It’s simple to be successful:
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have rich parents that can give you money
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have easy access to loan programs because you’re white and have rich parents
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- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 3 weeks ago:
Honestly lemmy specifically is good enough to scratch my Reddit itch. We may not be able to post our way out of fascism, but we can certainly post our way out of the centralized, enshittified platforms like Reddit where we came from.
I think it’s more difficult in applications where you want or have to bring a lot of friends to make the apps useful, but in the case of lemmy specifically if there’s a baseline level of activity that’s enough to fulfill 90% of what i used Reddit for (i.e. snarky memes and random back and forths with relative strangers).
- Comment on What's the best way for Elon to remove the parasite class? 🤔 4 weeks ago:
Sydney Sweeney should sue the bastard
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 4 weeks ago:
It didn’t have to be this way; in a different kind of society it could have been a boon to everyone.
Please hold onto this viewpoint even under serious argument from those opposing it. Technology isn’t inevitably shit. There are other types of software we can write, and other types of technology we can develop that isn’t the result of some sweaty CTO hovering over our shoulders demanding that we make the software shittier for the sake of the shareholders.
We have to imagine better choices. We have to imagine that we can change the course of things.
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 4 weeks ago:
The overwhelming majority of software ever written is fucking terrible and causes more problems than it solves.
Since software is easily copiable and mutable, that small sliver of good software gets replicated all over the place and serves as a foundation for other software, both good – and at the risk of repeating myself – and mostly bad.
People would be better off considering new tech as the tool it is rather than seeing every piece of software as inherently better than the thing it replaces.
- Comment on What happened to cylindrical plugs? 4 weeks ago:
I agree, but somehow the low end portable monitors seem to already have USB-C support. I bought a monitor for like $60 and it had USB-C.
I’m not quite sure why regular size monitors are lacking the support.
