demlet
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- Comment on SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million 1 year ago:
Probably not but it would be funny.
- Comment on SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million 1 year ago:
I say we let him build up a huge satellite fleet and then force him to sell a huge chunk of it under antitrust law.
- Comment on SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million 1 year ago:
They just need to try and land on one, that’s the trick.
- Comment on The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center 1 year ago:
Well, I drive a Kia Soul, so I’m probably not one to be throwing stones.
- Comment on The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center 1 year ago:
For real. I love those ugly things.
- Comment on The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center 1 year ago:
Nope. Once upon a time long ago I thought I wanted a Tesla. Now? I’d rather drive a Ford Focus.
- Comment on X appears to throttle New York Times 1 year ago:
Genuinely curious, this isn’t snark, what do you suggest in the US that’s better than the NY Times? I mean, NPR, of course, but I can’t really detect much of a difference between the two.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Meh, if it drops it drops. I’ll never have the relationship to social media I used to, because I don’t want it anymore. If Lemmy can give me a few posts a day of things I might not normally see, that’s enough for me. It doesn’t need to be the next Reddit or whatever. After quitting Reddit I’m getting back into things I haven’t done in years. I don’t need that again.
- Comment on Streaming Has Reached Its Sad, Predictable Fate | What should I watch? is now a much easier question than How do I watch it? 1 year ago:
Seriously. There’s way too much content and no way most of it is worth my time. If it is, people will still be talking about it in a couple decades, and then I’ll think about it.
- Comment on ChatGPT is losing some of its hype, as traffic falls for the third month in a row 1 year ago:
You may be right now that I reread their comment.
- Comment on ChatGPT is losing some of its hype, as traffic falls for the third month in a row 1 year ago:
Just wait until we find out what the US military has.
- Comment on ChatGPT is losing some of its hype, as traffic falls for the third month in a row 1 year ago:
Yikes, I would be very scared to take anything ChatGPT says as accurate. Google keeps trying to get me to use theirs when I do searches, and I refuse.
- Comment on Carmakers are failing the privacy test. Owners have little to no control of the data they hand over 1 year ago:
So maybe you were joking and I didn’t catch it?
- Comment on AOL Pretends to be the Internet - The History of the Web 1 year ago:
Ha, literally no one under thirty has any idea. Imagine trolling a bunch of faceless people online and then you actually get to meet them. Good times.
- Comment on AOL Pretends to be the Internet - The History of the Web 1 year ago:
Very different…
- Comment on Carmakers are failing the privacy test. Owners have little to no control of the data they hand over 1 year ago:
How ironic. I guess you haven’t been on Reddit in the past decade.
- Comment on Carmakers are failing the privacy test. Owners have little to no control of the data they hand over 1 year ago:
Hmm, you’re kind of sounding a little pissed though…
I’ve been on Reddit for years and never seen Americans claiming we’re number one. Quite the opposite actually. Same here so far. Not sure where you’re hanging out that you’re hearing Americans saying that, but I would argue that it’s a minority view. As far as converting for us, I would say, don’t. The sooner Americans have to go do it themselves, the sooner everyone else in the world can stop caring about it.
- Comment on Carmakers are failing the privacy test. Owners have little to no control of the data they hand over 1 year ago:
What I don’t get is the intensity. I can’t tell if it’s sarcasm maybe, or just a cultural difference in how people talk? Like, I can take a good ribbing about using weird units of measurement, but some non-Americans seem genuinely pissed off about it. Seems like a waste of energy for something that almost never affects you if you’re not American. I mean, most of us Americans were born with it, it’s not like we got a say or anything. We kind of have more pressing matters right now, maybe give us a few decades before we worry about our measurement system?
- Comment on Carmakers are failing the privacy test. Owners have little to no control of the data they hand over 1 year ago:
Also, as long as people perceive it as a net benefit they’ll put up with all kinds of privacy invasions. Being part of a society is always a tradeoff of certain liberties for certain securities.
- Comment on Carmakers are failing the privacy test. Owners have little to no control of the data they hand over 1 year ago:
I can assure you that miles are quite useful for determining distance, I do it nearly every day. Other than that you’re spot on.
- Comment on “AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator 1 year ago:
I hope you’re right. Something about the scope and type of change we’re seeing here feels quite different. It can be mistake too to assume that things will go the way they usually have. I wouldn’t advise anyone to be complacent. We had to have something close to a second civil war in the US to get things like an 8 hour day.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I vaguely remember that they were being held captive and the devices would punish them for misbehaving. Like, some guy lived with a bunch of female robot slaves or something and the episode ended with him having to live with a robot version of his deceased henpecking wife? Shit I don’t know, it’s been like 30 years since I watched the original series…
- Comment on victims of the poloygyny :( 1 year ago:
Well this is borderline unintelligible, I’ll see myself out I guess. Carry on, people.
- Comment on What was taken I cannot get back 1 year ago:
Wow that’s very organized of you all.
- Comment on What was taken I cannot get back 1 year ago:
As an American I can unequivocally state that differing time zones are one thing we do get. It’s a very wide place.
- Comment on In China, It’s Already Cheaper to Buy EVs Than Gasoline Cars 1 year ago:
No, what I’m saying is that American car makers aren’t producing small electric vehicles because Americans refuse to drive small cars, which makes the ridiculously large ones prohibitively expensive because the batteries have to be enormous.
- Comment on The Kids Online Safety Act is Still A Huge Danger to Our Rights Online. 1 year ago:
More like a next move. If I remember correctly, there was language in the TikTok bill a while back that would have effectively made using a VPN illegal. Maybe I’m misremembering that. I have no doubt there are people who want to make it happen.
- Comment on In China, It’s Already Cheaper to Buy EVs Than Gasoline Cars 1 year ago:
Yeah, American here. This isn’t a huge mystery. Electric cars here are expensive because people refuse to give up their giant vehicles. American culture is so gross…
- Comment on The Kids Online Safety Act is Still A Huge Danger to Our Rights Online. 1 year ago:
Save the puppies and kids!
- Comment on The Kids Online Safety Act is Still A Huge Danger to Our Rights Online. 1 year ago:
They plan to make VPNs illegal.