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- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 1 day ago:
I bought byd stock. It keeps going down. I will never understand investing
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 1 day ago:
I think the key here is “we”. Collectively if people had a common understanding of what is going on in the world they would be appalled and demand more of our leaders (or get new ones)
Instead people vaguely know what is going on, through the biased lense of their news sources.
I think if you asked most Americans who Netanyahu is and what he is doing you’d get a blank stare. If you ask them what is up with tswift they would excitedly explain that she just got engaged and recently had a crazy expensive tour.
How any of this gets corrected is beyond me, and that’s exactly how the people in power want it.
- Comment on YSK that you can usually tell news site's bias based on how complimentary the picture they attached is 1 day ago:
relax guy!
- Comment on Why people say they have a "boy cat" or a "girl cat" but when the cat grows up, they don't call is a "man cat" or "woman cat"? 2 weeks ago:
Probably the same reason my six year old dog is still my puppy. She is just a baby after all.
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 2 weeks ago:
They are in the train the trainer phase where developers are training their models and getting some benefit from the results it spits out.
The enshitification will begin soon. They have already talked about inserting ads in responses.
I fear people will grow attached to AI chats, which will emotionally manipulate them into buying stuff or supporting specific causes. The ads on a platform like this are going to make google AdWords and pay per click feel like advertising in the newspaper.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 3 weeks ago:
It follows, but it is also feels like click bait.
A definition of vegan is:
A vegetarian who eats plant products only, especially one who uses no products derived from animals, as fur or leather.
There is an environmental parallel, and it made me read the article to see what they were on about – so I guess it worked.
To be clear, I am very pro environment (I live in it); I just feel like this is crossing the streams of related, but completely different movements, isn’t particularly helpful.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 3 weeks ago:
No mayo in the bedroom? Why even bother.
- Comment on What is the maximum number of potatoes you could grow in your house or on property you own before it becomes a crime? 3 weeks ago:
There is no limit to the potatoes you can grow. The only limit is your imagination.
If you live in a place where cultivating cannabis is prohibited, and your power usage spikes, you may be placed under surveillance.
If you have an HOA or city ordinances about the condition of your yard you might get a slap on the wrist if your potato farm is unsightly. Otherwise, as not a lawyer, grow on.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 3 weeks ago:
Abstaining from a thing does not make one a vegan. That’s not how any of this works.
- Comment on Migrated my Docker Compose homelab to OpenTofu 3 weeks ago:
If a new project doesn’t come out called rockets impose I’ll be disappointed .
- Comment on Human civilization won't last forever; someday there will be a last movie ever made 4 weeks ago:
“they” is rather ominous.
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 4 weeks ago:
I made it through. Maybe next time.
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 5 weeks ago:
I won’t be using them, ha.
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 5 weeks ago:
Sitting in an airport right now. Great.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 5 weeks ago:
Then I just sigh and go to archive.is and solve their captcha, so I can read the article.
- Comment on The good old days 1 month ago:
Accurate.
- Comment on Moving away from physical currency has been very detrimental to the homeless industry 1 month ago:
The homeless people in my area accept venmo and square cash. They put their details on their signs, which is pretty smart.
- Comment on How do you all keep the area around the toilet paper dust-free? 1 month ago:
Little bit of spray cleaner and a cotton rag.
- Comment on Was surprised by these stats 1 month ago:
The old deluxe pre shower ritual.
- Comment on xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier 1 month ago:
Or Alexa?
- Comment on Finally paid off my Costco hotdog 🙏 2 months ago:
Can’t a person just enjoy some dick shaped food in the privacy of their own front yard?
- Comment on The end of Stop Killing Games [Accursed Farms] 2 months ago:
Reverse engineering the server is reverse engineering the whole game. It’s going to require skilled engineers and a significant time investment. It may be possible, but not practical.
Also, the client will likely verify it is talking to a legitimate server by checking a certificate, so you may also have to hack the client too.
At some point you’re better off working a job and coming up with the $50 or making your own game with hookers and blackjack.
- Comment on Rich people know their cosmetic surgery is obvious and uncanny, but that's the point; it's a way of signalling that you belong in a certain income bracket and that you're part of the 1% 2 months ago:
The rich ladies getting square “Chad” jaws really throw me off. I don’t understand the appeal, who wants a super wide chin?
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 2 months ago:
It’ll go on sale for $15 eventually. I can wait.
- Comment on The D.E.N.N.I.S ship 2 months ago:
I think the grammar and capitalization is too normal. The president isn’t smart enough to write something coherent.
- Comment on AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto 2 months ago:
A lot of companies have been doing this for years. AWS literally sells this as a service: www.mturk.com
- Comment on Most of us will leave behind a large ‘digital legacy’ when we die. Here’s how to plan what happens to it 2 months ago:
I plan on being dead then, so do what you want with my digital wake.
- Comment on Thats what physics are for 3 months ago:
Wayne was my first thought, definitely his style.
- Comment on There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic. 3 months ago:
We’re really sowwy
- Comment on FBI opens inquiry into 764, online group that sexually exploits and encourages minors to self-harm 3 months ago:
That seems like a good thing to inquire about. Disappointed that when I hear about the FBI now I assume they are up to no good.