minorkeys
@minorkeys@lemmy.world
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
We could all stop them. What’s the hold up?
- Comment on Palantir accuses British doctors of choosing ‘ideology over patient interest’ in NHS data row 1 week ago:
K.
So one group has trained for decades to heal the sick and provide guidance to be more healthy and the other spent it’s time learning how to take as much as possible from their customers.
Which one is more likely to align with the patient’s interest?
- Comment on Take a deep breath and think about it 1 week ago:
You hope for it in the future because it doesn’t exist in the present.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
I’m not voluntarily giving up jack shit unless the wealthy who devised and profit off the systems that make carbon footprints matter, are brought to heel. If the wealthy can’t be stopped, we’re all dead anyways. It’s their fucking mess, they can be the ones to sacrifice to fix it.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 1 week ago:
So like…makeup?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
If the economy doesn’t need 25% of the populace to keep functioning…what happens?
- Comment on Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans 2 weeks ago:
So somewhere they feel safe to do so. Says something pretty fucked up about our culture that men don’t feel safe to open up anywhere. And no, it’s not their own fault.
- Comment on It's a tragedeigh 2 weeks ago:
Just not this one.
- Comment on It's a tragedeigh 2 weeks ago:
Really digging deep into the tickle trunk to find something to hate straight people for…
- Comment on It's a tragedeigh 2 weeks ago:
Bigot
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 2 weeks ago:
Consumer activism kills businesses and products regularly. We call it ‘trends’.
But manufacturing a boycott for long enough to work is almost certainly going to fail. But like you say, it has a role to play, just not by itself. It must be an action used with precision as part of a larger strategy. We have plenty of tools, but nobody puts them together. It’s always an isolated boycott that flairs up and inevitably fades away. The company just waits it out. We also can’t boycott necessities, and that’s where they really get us. Consumer activism doesn’t work all in those cases.
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 2 weeks ago:
Of course we have to have a way to manually check the training data, in detail, as well. Not privacy, just verifying training data.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 2 weeks ago:
Yet we keep empowering them with every purchase we make and half of the consumer base will never see an issue doing so. Some purchases we have no choice but to make, and that’s where they really have control of our lives. They seized the means of production, distribution and access of things necessary for life and leverage access to those necessities for access to more parts of our private lives. The majority appear to be naive morons who will happily sell all of us down the river for more camera filters and some pretty shoes. Basically, toys.
- Comment on the seven deadly companies 3 weeks ago:
That sounds more like gluttony, which isn’t exclusive to food
- Comment on the seven deadly companies 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, probably.
- Comment on the seven deadly companies 3 weeks ago:
Amazon doesn’t really fit imo. All the others allow the user to pursue the sin, Amazon isn’t letting users pursue greed. RobinHood or betting apps would be better.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 3 weeks ago:
We will take the entire library of human knowledge, cleans it, and ensure our version is the only record available.
The only comfort I have is knowing anything that is true can be relearned by observing reality through the lense of science, which is itself reproducible from observing how we observe reality.
- Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads 4 weeks ago:
Nothing better than having a private conversation with my friends and having some dude lean in to remind us that Brawndo, the thirst mutilator, has electrolytes.
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 5 weeks ago:
You have NASA FFS. Just fund it.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 5 weeks ago:
They will always want you to watch more ads. Doesn’t matter that you literally pay them not to. Manipulating your purchase habits is more profitable than your subscription is because your tolerance for ads sets the amount they can sell.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 1 month ago:
For many, small talk does not strengthen or maintain a relationship. It is something that works for some people. Others endure it for the sake of the one who does but it doesn’t hold the same role for them and is not a necessity to have a loving and healthy relationship for everyone. Just as we express and receive love differently, small talk doesn’t serve the same role in everyone’s life. If it does for you, that’s great, hopefully you’re getting what you need.
As for the double duty, that is true of all communication, whether small or not. As noted above, it may be an expression of love for some people, but it’s far from universal.
Not everyone finds the smaller, and often repetitive, experiences of their day to be important or valuable and people are perfectly capable of having time for the other person’s life and feelings without the focus being those topics or experiences.
It sounds like you value smalltalk in your life but may not accept that it isn’t as widespread as you seem to imply. I don’t doubt it does what you claim for yourself and others you know.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 1 month ago:
Only for those who spend time engaged with existential topics rather than shopping though.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 1 month ago:
Need for small talk suggests the contents of your thoughts revolves around topics and depth of thought suitable for small talk, I wish you the best in finding someone similar who can appreciate its value to your life. I’ll be elsewhere and hope you wish me the same luck.
- Comment on A 19-year old cis lesbian woman was beaten unconscious and robbed after she tried to use the women's restroom at a McDonald's in Carpentersville, Illinois 1 month ago:
How can there be a cis lesbian?
- Comment on Tesla Full-Self Driving Veers Off Road, Hits Tree, and Flips Car for No Obvious Reason (No Serious Injuries, but Scary) 1 month ago:
No idea how that will turn out. Fully auto, but you have to maintain the vehicle and ensure it’s road worthy as the owner.
- Comment on Tesla Full-Self Driving Veers Off Road, Hits Tree, and Flips Car for No Obvious Reason (No Serious Injuries, but Scary) 1 month ago:
Depends on the issue at hand. To get these approved and widespread, better than humans may be the bar.
- Comment on Tesla Full-Self Driving Veers Off Road, Hits Tree, and Flips Car for No Obvious Reason (No Serious Injuries, but Scary) 1 month ago:
But does it do it less often than humans?
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 2 months ago:
Then she can run Linux.
- Comment on i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies. 2 months ago:
Advertising exists to manipulate behavior beneficial to clients, out of target groups. It is propaganda and psychological manipulation. The days of simply informing people of products and services is a fairy tale. Maddison Avenue was built off of Nazi Germany’s mass media propaganda strategies.
- Comment on Microsoft's AI Secretly Copying All Your Private Messages 2 months ago:
How is this possibly going to be tolerated in business environments?