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- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 2 weeks ago:
Chat GPT makes up everything it says. It’s just good at guessing and bullshitting.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 2 weeks ago:
Chat GPT makes up everything it says. It’s just good at guessing and bullshitting.
- Comment on monthly challenge 2 weeks ago:
It’s correctly used in the text.
Number of steps < 500 is equivalent to 500 > number of steps.
- Comment on Standing desks are like gym memberships. Plenty of people (and offices) pay for them but never use them 2 weeks ago:
Start with it standing in the morning. Lower it when you feel like it. Then after lunch start standing again, lower over time.
- Comment on Crypto mogul Do Kwon, known as ‘the cryptocurrency king,’ pleads guilty to fraud charges 2 weeks ago:
I agree with you.
- Comment on Crypto mogul Do Kwon, known as ‘the cryptocurrency king,’ pleads guilty to fraud charges 2 weeks ago:
Yes, banks are used for crimes on a massive scale. Usually that’s not available to small time people.
Crypto can be used for criminal activity with a low barrier to entry. There are several use cases where things maybe should not be illegal in the first place. Like buying drugs for example.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 1 month ago:
The more taboo a topic, the more it gets people agitated, sometimes this is channeled sexually.
- Comment on Is the cure to male loneliness shitposting? 1 month ago:
Toxic place that suppresses all dissent and thus is unable to change, adapt, or even recognize problems.
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 1 month ago:
Never give them evidence against you. They should do the work themselves.
- Comment on Germans must be pretty happy. 1 month ago:
What country are you talking about?
- Comment on Germans must be pretty happy. 1 month ago:
Israel has actual protests against the government ongoing. It’s not clear if Netanyahu will manage to win the next election.
There are no protests in Russia at all and elections are a farce.
- Comment on Let people enjoy things 🙄 1 month ago:
Lemmings in shambles.
- Comment on Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast 2 months ago:
I organized pen and paper RPG conventions back when D&D 4 came out. We banned D20 based games even then as a boycott of WotC.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 2 months ago:
I read posts just like yours ten years ago.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 3 months ago:
The best new use of woke is the woke right.
The author James Lindsay has defined it in similar terms, as “a victimhood-based identity politics” whose “victim groups are whites, Christians, men, and straight people”. He argues that the movement is “roughly intersectional” insofar as it is obsessed with identity politics and a grievance relating to anti-white racism. “Like their counterparts on the Woke Left,” Lindsay writes, “the Woke Right have accepted as fact that there’s a conspiracy against people like them and that their only real hope is to lean into the identity grouping and advocate for collective power under that heading”. In these terms, the “woke right” is a kind of ideological doppelgänger, whose members exhibit the same precisionist and absolutist tendencies of their leftist counterparts.
Pierce Morgan uses it more and more often against right wingers to great effect.
- Comment on YSK some cities in the US are starting to build an affordable community built wifi network that goes around big telecom companies 3 months ago:
I see freifunk networks more rarely nowadays. They also are notoriously slow. Usually the mobile phone network is faster, even in Germany.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 3 months ago:
Woke is now a synonym for Social Justice warrior.
A person or movement prioritizing moralizing outrage about minor grievances over actual effective societal change.
As my half Nigerian cousin likes to say on issues like white people wearing dreadlocks: “That’s something only white privileged women care about.”
- Comment on i broke 3 months ago:
Allow yourself to feel something first.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 3 months ago:
Is it that long ago already? I thought they had kept it around. Thank you for updating me.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
We felt poorer, so economists should be lynched!
The contrast between people’s experiences in their everyday lives and what politicians or experts say is important.
If the economy is supposedly doing great but I can afford less and less and my life gets worse, that’s a contradiction.
The USA is moving more to something like the gilded age with more wealth disparity, more suffering for the poor, more violence.
The anti-intellectualism and anti-elitism of the cultural revolution was far more extreme. You are right that there are some similar ideas brewing.
When the political and economic system is no longer delivering for the population, it will turn against the (perceived) leaders. Trump and the right spins this very well by directing the anger against „woke“ liberal academics, foreigners, and away from the billionaires.
The „woke“ elites are also in crisis. The Democratic Party is in shambles.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 3 months ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
often people know that, for example, elections are fraudulent, but they are too scared to say anything
People might vaguely understand that elections don’t produce good outcomes or have systemic bias. That’s then condensed to „elections are rigged“, regardless of the facts and details.
Most people know little about most things. It’s difficult to even have good fundamentals about most things in our complex world. So people will defer to their personal experience and information seeped into their minds by osmosis/exposure.
Things like an economy or political system are extremely complex already and not fully understood even by experts.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 3 months ago:
Samsung has it own OS on some phones.
- Comment on At some point, kids watching older cartoons will no longer understand why putting a thermometer under a desk lamp was a way to skip school. 4 months ago:
Skill issue. I practiced and was able to hit 38-39 °C consistently.
- Comment on I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game 4 months ago:
Try a different genre than you usually play.
Tetris Effect Connected
A Short Hike
Cult of the Lamb
What Remains of Edith Finch?
- Comment on What do you guys suggest i should watch? 4 months ago:
What genres are you interested in?
- Comment on What do you guys suggest i should watch? 4 months ago:
Classic anime sci-fi movies Ghost in the Shell and Akira are must watch.
- Comment on What do you guys suggest i should watch? 4 months ago:
I can also highly recommend Planetes and Cowboy Bebop.
- Comment on Do you use other federated software besides Lemmy (e.g. Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc.), if so which? 4 months ago:
Mastodon. It’s much better than Lemmy.
- Comment on Glue used to be rare and magical. 4 months ago:
Egg is pretty good.