LovableSidekick
@LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trump federally renames Alaska's Mt. Denali to mount mckinley, despite the objections from everyone who actually lives there 1 week ago:
Reminder, Harris would not do this.
- Comment on US president Trump pardons approximately 1,500 Capitol attack defendants 1 week ago:
Well, it is day one and he did warn us. Harris would not have done this, and the Gaza ceasefire seems to be working so far. Oh well.
- Comment on [sh.it.post] We're #5! We're #5! 1 week ago:
So? Is there a contest?
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 3 weeks ago:
It’s legitimate to question why we would want to replace human artistry with AI. Somebody might have asked the same question about replacing hand tools with power tools - I wouldn’t be a longtime woodworker if all I had to work with was hand tools. The work would be far too time consuming and the learning curve much too high. Or ask content creators who are able to get their ideas in front of the public without learning HTML, CSS or Javascript. Enabling millions of people to jump traditional entry barriers is a good thing, even if it means we no longer look at the creative process as being reserved for people with natural talent or years of training. TBH you might as well object to Bob Ross teaching people easier ways to paint, or to people who teach breadbaking on YouTube - it turns out bread is dead simple btw, you should try it.
But more to the point, the genie is out of the bottle, and no amount of objection is going to stuff it back in.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 3 weeks ago:
Doesn’t sound like a denial - I thought so!!!
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 3 weeks ago:
Why do people who post loaded questions enjoy tearing the legs off live kittens?
- Comment on FUTO just made a 14hrs long video introduction to Selfhosting! (plus a written version) 💾 3 weeks ago:
Same principle as, “A lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client?”
- Comment on What are your Homelab goals for 2025? 3 weeks ago:
Might get around to tidying this 20-year-old mess up a bit - tho I’m not sure where to start lol.
- Comment on Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund 3 weeks ago:
No matter how much money they spend on this party they’re still celebrating putting a convicted con man in the White House while the chumps who voted for him say, “What… my meds aren’t covered anymore?”
How “conservative” - congratulations on flushing your country down a solid gold toilet, jackasses!
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 3 weeks ago:
Yes it was sarcasm, although I’m not sure who you mean by “this guy”.
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 3 weeks ago:
That’s the spirit! Badassedness uber alles!
- Comment on Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop 3 weeks ago:
That’s the thing about the Age of Information - it’s also the Age of Misinformation. The invention of television was hailed as a landmark in worldwide education and bringing people together. Instead it became almost entirely whatever people were willing to sit through ads for to feed their growing addiction to entertainment. The Internet enabled anyone to broadcast whatever quality of content they feel like spewing out. It’s really not even intelligent to expect any random content to be true without doing any cross-checking, but few people do. Most just happily consume any material they already agree with, like Patrick sucking up SpongeBob’s grandma’s cookies.
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 3 weeks ago:
I see the justification in adding the tax on afterwards because putting it on stickers and menus imposes more work on the business whenever the sales tax changes. If you’ve ever done a store inventory you’ll get it. Also if you live in a place with sales tax, which in America means almost everywhere, you get used to mentally approximating it, or at least knowing it’s going to be added on - and a sales tax amount is mandated, it isn’t something you have to agonize over.
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 3 weeks ago:
Funny thing about “best behavior” is that it’s defined by whoever is in charge of the venue you’re in, whether it’s society ingeneral or a social media community. Somebody always dictates what’s okay or not okay to say.
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 3 weeks ago:
Right, because billionaires will just fall over and concede - they won’t impose draconian security and lockdown mentality on our whole society through their government puppets. Yes indeed, the movie character approach that makes you feel badass is a sure-fire winner.
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 3 weeks ago:
Until a sudden but inevitable betrayal.
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 3 weeks ago:
I either pick up the food myself or eat there and highly tip the server, because that’s how the system works right now - but long term it would be better if they got more wages and didn’t need to rely on generosity.
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 3 weeks ago:
The education and media literacy problem has been brewing for decades. Our culture is so entertainment addicted, lots of people can’t even take a shit without watching something on their phones. I had high hopes in a progressive victory and a slow turnaround, but Trump winning after everything that’s happened tells me we’ve gone over the event horizon into Idiocracy and collapse. Not looking forward to it.
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 3 weeks ago:
I don’t use them either.
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 3 weeks ago:
Reading comprehension dude - I specifically addressed the Harris question to people who are in both categories.
- Comment on The best “I told you so”s are the ones where you never have to say “I told you so” because the other person clearly knows you told them so 3 weeks ago:
I thought gloating was the whole point tho.
- Comment on The best “I told you so”s are the ones where you never have to say “I told you so” because the other person clearly knows you told them so 3 weeks ago:
Cop: Do you knw why our dog alerted on your car?
Me: [sticking my head out to look] He did what???
- Comment on People have no idea how understatimate is the New Year Eve celebration in Iceland! This is pure madness! People are just for the fun over here! Fireworks for hours and people plastered and happy 3 weeks ago:
Pretty pathetic this year in West Seattle. I heard a feeble burst of fireworks right at the stroke of midnight, then a couple minutes of sporadic booms and that was it. Usually it goes on for a good half hour.
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 3 weeks ago:
So how many lemmy users are going to stop using food delivery to avoid being complicit? Especially asking if you refused to vote for Kamala Harris because of Gaza - or you can rant about how it’s “not the same thing” lol.
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 3 weeks ago:
A Traveller character creation session.
- Comment on Will pilots-less airplanes happens first, or driver-less cars? Why? 4 weeks ago:
I would think airplanes - the accident rate per mile is far lower so there’s much less opportunity for failures, and airplane maintenance and use are much better regulated, making it easier to eliminate the autopilot as the cause if something does go wrong.
- Comment on is feeling disrespected reason good enough to change jobs? 4 weeks ago:
If you can find another job that makes you happier, there is no bad reason.
- Comment on We like music because our brains crave pattern recognition. 4 weeks ago:
As a speculation it’s really pretty good. Many years ago there was a Scientific American article about why people like music. It was long and complicated but the tl;dr would go something like:
Well-liked music of any genre tends to contain fractal patterns. If you probe our peripheral nervous system you get a lot of white noise, but the closer you get to the central nervous system the more fractal it becomes, as if our nervous system is filtering out the noise and letting the fractal part of our perceptions get through to our brains. This makes it very likely that our thoughts and memories are fractal patterns, which means that at the purely mathematical level there could be similarities between patterns that encode ideas that aren’t related by context - for example, when a piece of music makes you think of the ocean, or flying birds, or the big city, it’s probably because those patterns in your head are mathematically similar.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 4 weeks ago:
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: Oh HELL yes. - Comment on Equal under the law or something 4 weeks ago:
Willful ignorance can in fact be a tool for historians, so at least that part of the rationalization is true,
