stonerboner
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- Comment on McDonald’s posts biggest decline in global sales in four years 3 weeks ago:
Because McDonalds is now expensive with a shitty small menu. I can get an amazing meal at The Habit (truly good burgers grilled on a flame in front of you) for the exact same price. I’d have to be stupid, or EXTREMELY strapped for time and options to agree to eat McD’s
- Comment on THICC 1 month ago:
Furthermore, additional C’s and/or spaces between each letter requires the gesticulations to include the outer bounds of the Y-axis
- Comment on THICC 1 month ago:
You can absolutely tell the difference because “thicc” comes with gesticulations indicating the outer bounds of the x-axis of the subject’s frame
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 3 months ago:
He pointed at Twitter’s “success” after Elon took it over as reasons why he is enshittifying Reddit. That comment is why I left Reddit and haven’t looked back.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
You’re hilarious, thanks!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Ah, that’s a liberal problem so conservatives must care so much about their candidate’s past huh? So what you’re suggesting is they vote for Trump because he is a racist, rapist and fraud?
I bet you still shit in diapers since people are incapable of changing lmao
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Weird, because Biden publicly and through action changed his views on those very same prison sentences.
But sure, let’s shine a flashlight and the least dangerous candidate and ignore the party actively trying to delete queerness
- Comment on Sex work would probably be less stigmatized in a currencyless society 4 months ago:
That’s not prostitution because the gift was not for the sex, but instead not to be cannibalized. It’s very clearly a case of “extortion under the threat of cannibalization!” 🤓
- Comment on Sex work would probably be less stigmatized in a currencyless society 4 months ago:
Even in post scarcity, bartering would resume and the stigma would persist. Either way, how the transaction unfolds in not where wrist-wringers get caught up
- Comment on Sex work would probably be less stigmatized in a currencyless society 4 months ago:
I don’t think changing the mode of payment would curb any stigma. The stigma isn’t about the transaction, it’s about autonomy and the only path to removing stigma is normalizing that autonomy. And protecting it.
- Comment on Sex work would probably be less stigmatized in a currencyless society 4 months ago:
We are talking about the world’s oldest profession here. Prostitution far predates the invention of currency, as transactional sex goes farther back than recorded history.
Currency is not needed for prostitution. All that is required is payment, in any form. This occurs during transaction, which constitutes trade.
I don’t think making prostitution more difficult by requiring barter solves anything at all.
- Comment on Sex work would probably be less stigmatized in a currencyless society 4 months ago:
I’d counter that prostitution is sex work in exchange for something of value, and chickens still 100% qualify. I don’t think splitting hairs on currency vs. chickens changes anything here
- Comment on Sex work would probably be less stigmatized in a currencyless society 4 months ago:
Big doubt. Sex work was stigmatized back when there was only bartering. The stigma isn’t about the money at all. It’s about the nerve of someone to use their body to get by. Until people stop caring what other people do with their body, this issue will remain.
- Comment on What's Happened Since Time Dropped Its Paywall 1 Year Ago 4 months ago:
Ok, techbro lmao. Crypto using more fossil fuels in 2020 than AI will three years from now is a heck of a hill to die on.
- Comment on What's Happened Since Time Dropped Its Paywall 1 Year Ago 4 months ago:
So any other fiat currency not your own is not real?
No, any currency that is not widely accepted and is not able to be used to pay for necessities is not a real currency. Fiat currency is government issued. Crypto is in no way a fiat currency.
If you end up with “real” money, where’s the scam?
Let’s see… extreme volatility, lack of regulation, lack of consumer protection, the fact that many ICO’s have turned out to be scams really points to crypto being a scam. Not to mention that whatever profit you think you made in no way offsets the damage to the Earth from using more non-renewable energy than even AI (which is saying A LOT).
Got evidence to support that? Sure, you can also confirm with 30 seconds of Duck Duck Go.
Bitcoin- 173.42 terawatt-hours used in 2020-2021. It has increased since then.
UN Study: unu.edu/…/un-study-reveals-hidden-environmental-i…
AI is estimated to ramp up to using 134 terawatt-hours by 2027. This means they use much less than that now, and are estimated to be below 2020’s bitcoin power consumption after ramping up for 3 more years.
Study, paywalled but with sources listed:
www.cell.com/joule/…/S2542-4351(23)00365-3?_retur…
Bitcoin also uses over 60% non-renewable resources compared to AI which much more heavily leans into renewable in data centers. It’s not even a contest, crypto is extremely bad for the environment.
- Comment on What's Happened Since Time Dropped Its Paywall 1 Year Ago 4 months ago:
Oh, are you talking about the insanely high non-renewable energy used to mine coin and distribute, which is way beyond even AI?
Because I think it’s pretty evident that the coin halving heavily impacts our environment as it now takes twice as much energy to create the same value.
Actually giving a shit about the Earth 101 for ya.
- Comment on What's Happened Since Time Dropped Its Paywall 1 Year Ago 4 months ago:
Ah, making a mistake is spouting misinformation. I see you love hyperbole! I’ll be sure to tell my high school students when they get quiz question wrong their answers are misinformation because they didn’t study. See, I like hyperbole, too
- Comment on What's Happened Since Time Dropped Its Paywall 1 Year Ago 4 months ago:
If I can’t buy groceries, pay rent or medical bills with it, it’s in not a real currency. If I can’t bail myself out with it, it’s not a real currency. But sure, somehow paying money to get faux money that can’t really practically pay for my needs, and then needs to be reconverted to real currency to take care of my needs is somehow not a scam.
Also, I’m sure you’re super cool with the insane non-renewable energy cost of bitcoin mining and distribution. It far outweighs the energy cost of AI that everyone is complaining about.
- Comment on What's Happened Since Time Dropped Its Paywall 1 Year Ago 4 months ago:
Ah, so the people creating essentially get paid half for the same amount of work. That’s WAY better lol. Yeah, I’m not super into knowing so much about faux currency. I tend to deal with the real kind. So please pardon my mistake 🙏
- Comment on What's Happened Since Time Dropped Its Paywall 1 Year Ago 4 months ago:
What, you mean I read a headline and repeated it in the wrong context? Damnit. I totally should have wasted 20 minutes reading further about a faux currency that I can’t even buy groceries with
- Comment on What's Happened Since Time Dropped Its Paywall 1 Year Ago 4 months ago:
I mean, I don’t think accepting crypto would make or break any organization beyond a niche mom and pop operation. If they would die without accepting crypto, they are likely not going to be saved by it. I doubt there are many people, especially in the USA, who would or could only donate via that option.
In my personal opinion, crypto IS a scam and every organization would be best served dealing in real currency.
- Comment on What's Happened Since Time Dropped Its Paywall 1 Year Ago 4 months ago:
Probably because the overwhelming majority of people see crypto as a scam, and the market share for its use is trivial and better facilitated by actual currency. As well, it’s extremely volatile and recently halted itself. It’s probably one of the worst things a company can accept in exchange for goods or services.
- Comment on SITREP 6/23/24: Coordinated Terror Attacks by Ukraine and Friends Seek to Sow Instability 4 months ago:
Better title: Antagonistic Assholes a Little Upset The Country They Are Invading Pushes Back
- Comment on Sense of Urgency About Climate Change Is Declining Among Youth, Poll Finds 6 months ago:
There’s a huge difference in how people process/accept/protest when the conversation changes from “if we keep doing what we’re doing, we’ll kill the earth” to “the earth is already fucked, best of luck.”
There’s a certain point where optimism degrades into hopelessness.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 6 months ago:
This. I use LLM for work, primarily to help create extremely complex nested functions.
I don’t count on LLM’s to create anything new for me, or to provide any data points. I provide the logic, and explain exactly what I want in the end.
I take a process which normally takes 45 minutes daily, test it once, and now I have reclaimed 43 extra minutes of my time each day.
It’s easy and safe to test before I apply it to real data.
It’s missed the mark a few times as I learned how to properly work with it, but now I’m consistently getting good results.
Other use cases are up for debate, but I agree when used properly hallucinations are not much of a problem. When I see people complain about them, that tells me they’re using the tool to generate data, which of course is stupid.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Switching gears to Apple, I had heard of AppleTV but never was aware of the shows. I got it bundled when I switched music apps, and holy shit Ted Lasso and Foundation are amazing. I’m pleasantly surprised with the quality, though it doesn’t have as much content as the other services. But there’s also a lot less bullshit to sift through to find something good.
If you are at all interested, try just a month. You could watch most of the things that interest you in that timeframe most likely.
I’m about a month in and finished out two full series and working on a third.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I switched to Apple Music. It’s not my fav, but the bundle with other apple services made the price right for a family plan.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Twitter was hardly profitable, but Spotify has never posted a profit. In fact, they are more negative in regard to profit every year. Twitter and Spotify are very similar in that their main success is volume, but not profitability.
I have no doubt Spotify could or would sell and get even worse. Just like Twitter.
People use it BECAUSE it was free and feature rich. When they start taking away the latter to bolster the former, you’ll see a migration to the next best free, feature rich service. I quit Spotify 4 months ago, and I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Yes I feel the same way about YouTube, and I’m confident many others do as well.
You can pretend that users who trade their time listening to and viewing ads don’t deserve the to be upset with enshittification, but I wholeheartedly disagree. That line of thinking tracks very well with Musk’s approach to X, another service that was the “biggest” but not profitable. Look how they have done moving features behind paywalls and upending the expectations of their user base.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Apple has many more subscribers than in the USA, I know Europe uses Spotify more.
But the funny thing is that even with a larger user base, Spotify has NEVER posted a profit (which gets significantly more negative each year). They also have been loosing a substantial percentage of their revenue per user each year as they further enshittify their platform.
They should be VERY concerned about losing users, and taking away features will end up doing just that.