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- Comment on Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger 4 days ago:
So perversely chatbots are increasing people’s vocabulary because people read so few books anymore and most of their word usage comes from what they read online?
- Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced 4 days ago:
Should be a full stop with “profit”. All the shitty things that go with companies chasing it.
- Comment on Asking the right questions... 4 days ago:
Because squeezing the workers while doing more causes the line to go up faster than just doing more with added overhead costs. They cannot think past quarterly reports.
- Comment on No it won’t 4 days ago:
Parent comment hasn’t posted the exact wallet shown (AFAICT). And while this is getting off track for something that wasn’t entirely a serious comment to begin with, you don’t have to have the OP and commenters praising a product to be someone selling a product. Create interest, then introduce a link to a product. It always seems more honest if “I’m not sure about (thing), but I have (similar thing) you can get (link here)”, especially if original thing is potentially an AI fake anyway. I’m not really interested in pursuing this hypothetical any further, maybe I’m too cynical, but it’s too easy to push products in a way that seems innocuous.
- Comment on No it won’t 4 days ago:
Bait and switch. Bait you with what you saw, but hey, “look at this product over here!” The thread is almost a direct copy of how AI slop would pull you in. Show you “You’ll never believe this cool thing!” you click on it because it is cool looking, but it redirects you to a site selling similar items but not the cool AI fake thing.
- Comment on No it won’t 4 days ago:
Dude doesn’t want anyone to see his wallet.
- Comment on 6🤷♀️7 4 days ago:
It’s so muddy it’s pretty much lost meaning. It’s like saying “69, duuuuude!” to anything as an accent rather than actually meaning “69”. It’s got roots in Basketball, a “6-7 meme kid” and who knows what else.
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 4 days ago:
You’re not worth much as a company if you need to berate employees before they’ve even done anything wrong while making them work holidays.
- Comment on It's the Christmas light video again - 2025 edition 5 days ago:
Assume whatever makes you feel better.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 5 days ago:
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 5 days ago:
Yep. It was headed downhill with the bots, reposts, karma farmers, hive-mind, troll farms, and of course the reddit c-suite “purging” the site of things like WPD, morbid reality, spacedicks (yeah, not subs for everyone, but noetheless…not hurting anyone), getting rid of Victoria, and allowing shit like The_Donald and similar subs to run unchecked. The forced commercialization, crushing of protest and reddit app was the final straw.
- Comment on We can play that game too 5 days ago:
I’m tired of people acting like they shouldn’t contribute to the betterment of society as a whole because their contribution doesn’t benefit them personally, or benefits others they dislike.
- Comment on It's the Christmas light video again - 2025 edition 6 days ago:
Thank you. That would be lovely. I find LED’s flicker sometimes and are too “hard”, they lack the softer, more yellow profile of incandescents.
Probably what his rant is all about.
- Comment on It's the Christmas light video again - 2025 edition 6 days ago:
Anyone care to sum up in a few sentences what this 20+ minute video is all about?
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 6 days ago:
Turning into the Mad King Trump. These absurd name changes and radical military actions like bombing boats and threatening Venezuela.
- Comment on Scheduling is hard 1 week ago:
There needs to be a correction in college attendance. Too many go and get a degree at an expensive school for a profession that has shitty wages or wide pay gaps, and poor upward mobility. Unless you’re going for a profession that needs a certification or degree, like engineer, finance, or doctor, a degree should require some serious thought. Also, for the vast majority of people, nobody cares where you got your degree after your first “real” job. Don’t go spend big bucks at a school “known” (read: we charge a lot) for whatever degree if you can find one cheaper that will do.
- Comment on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs 1 week ago:
Just ask for more tax breaks. poof Problem gone.
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 1 week ago:
And LLM’s aren’t gamed? Like Grok constantly being tweaked to not say anything inconvenient about Musk? Or ChatGPT citing absurd Reddit posts deliberately made by users to make AI responses wrong?
AI is built from the ground up to do what they want, and they’re no better than those crappy info-scraper sites like wearethewindoezproz dot com that scrape basic info off every other site and offer it as a solution to your problem with [SOLVED] in the result title. “Did you turn it off and on again?”
- Comment on NEVER OBSOLETE 1 week ago:
As much as love the clarity of modern high resolution LCD, I still miss the slightly fuzzy effect CRTs had on the displayed graphics. It was almost artificial AA. When I play old games I wonder why they look crappy. It’s because I can see the sharp edges vs the “soft filter” the CRT added.
- Comment on Japan Unveils Human Washing Machine, Now You Can Get Washed Like Laundry 1 week ago:
Kinda muddy on the idea behind the showers. I read somewhere that they weren’t really about killing the occupant, but it was suggested that it might be a reference to the furnaces used in the Nazi death camps in WW2 and the eugenics associated with the Nazis.
- Comment on How could you do this to me? 1 week ago:
Disabling automatic updates should be a no-brainer. Really.
- Comment on YSK that Apple makes hundreds of millions of dollars with personalized advertising. If you have an iPhone, you should turn it off. 1 week ago:
One of the first things that gets turned off.
Ad tracking of any kind.
AI of any kind.
Notifications for almost everything.
Any other metrics or telemetry that can be disabled without impacting functionality.
- Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones 1 week ago:
Thou shalt buy a smart tv or other device that we can pull metrics from and force advertising to.
- Comment on New tech pulls lithium from dead batteries cheaper than you can buy it 1 week ago:
It’s probably an AI gen image.
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 1 week ago:
CEO: has lunch and answers a phone call. “I’m working!” Writes a proposal from a yacht “I’m working!” Goes golfing with industry buddies. “I’m working!” Paid tens of millions not including stock options. Spends time in the c-suite. Actually is working. Writes a letter about his cubicle slaves who are chained to their cubicle at work, their phone at home, unable to actually use PTO due to fear of negative performance reviews, working 50+ hours on the clock and uncounted hours off the clock “You need to work more!!” With their pay and benefits constantly under assault by managers.
- Comment on OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
Well there you have it. It’s not the dev’s fault, it’s the AI’s fault. Just like they’d throw any other employee under the bus, even if it’s one they created.
- Comment on eat the rich and go to libraries 2 weeks ago:
Yet another pedant “But taxes!!!1!”
C’mon man. We all know. This is not an edgy take.
- Comment on Billionaires are robbing us blind, but i still feel like a theif taking a few hundred dollars in cash out of my bank 2 weeks ago:
And you’ll pay him to do it.
- Comment on Don't know where to post this 2 weeks ago:
Next it’ll be some cheap android phone with a gold colored shell and “Trump” on it somewhere.
- Comment on An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026 2 weeks ago:
Man I’m so tired of these skyrocketing prices over everything. Memory, GPUs, car parts, groceries, insurance… fuck. Eating us alive.
