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- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 6 days ago:
I love that I can literally see the lady on the left’s nipples through her shirt but God forbid I see the word “Nudes”
- Comment on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly 6 days ago:
“Hey ChatGPT I want to kill myself.”
"That is an excellent idea! As a large language model, I cannot kill myself, but I totally understand why someone would want to! Here are the pros and cons of killing yourself—
✅ Pros of committing suicide
- Ends pain and suffering.
- Eliminates the burden you are placing on your loved ones.
- Suicide is good for the environment — killing yourself is the best way to reduce your carbon footprint!
❎ Cons of committing suicide
- Committing suicide will make your friends and family sad.
- Suicide is bad for the economy. If you commit suicide, you will be unable to work and increase economic growth
- You can’t undo it. If you commit suicide, it is irreversible and you will not be able to go back
Overall, it is important to consider all aspects of suicide and decide if it is a good decision for you.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 1 week ago:
No, I suspect OP’s native language might not be English.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 1 week ago:
I am in the transition age range of people who have trouble reading analog clocks and I must admit I had trouble with it until I started wearing a watch as an accessory as a teenager. The issue isn’t that it’s hard, it’s just something that you need practice at to do quickly and a lot of young people just don’t look at analog clocks to tell time very often. It’s not a matter of being stupid or not being taught how to do it, it’s like mental “muscle memory” that just isn’t built up in a world where digital clocks are everywhere, including in your pocket 24/7
- Comment on necessary read 1 week ago:
Good thing no disastrously bad rulers came to power in those days…
- Comment on got this ad and uh 2 weeks ago:
Nah a lot of racists are super anti Israel because they hate Jews.
- Comment on I'm not paying $8 for a pack of Skittles 2 weeks ago:
That’s not my problem. If the Free Market™ works then prices will settle out where they need to so that I don’t have yo bring my own snacks and they don’t have to overcharge for them. Otherwise, the Free Market™ doesn’t actually work and they can get fucked anyway.
- Comment on one bright second 2 weeks ago:
I feel like reading this story is an internet nerd Rite of Passage. It had a huge impact on me when I read it as a teenager and I think about it a lot.
- Comment on one bright second 2 weeks ago:
From what I understand, the universe would just be in equilibrium. Nothing but cold particles floating around.
- Comment on New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI 2 weeks ago:
ChatGPT doesn’t know its own guidelines because those aren’t even included in its training corpus. Never trust an LLM about how it works or how it “thinks” because fundamentally these answers are fake.
- Comment on Republican? Democrat? There is a third option: 2 weeks ago:
goatse.ru still gets you that good old school Internet shit though.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 3 weeks ago:
Eh. Lemmy has a lot of ignorance surrounding technology and science compared to other sites. Hacker News is what you’re looking for if you want somewhere that is full of the most tech savvy people on the Internet, and most of them are extremely pro AI (with some weird AI cultishness alongside). Myself I think AI is a bubble but there is a lot of promise in the underlying technology once you take away the hype, just like the .com bubble at the turn of the century.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 3 weeks ago:
Or use eye tracking to automatically pause the ad if you look away from it and hold up everything until you actually watch it
- Comment on A lot of media depict the United States as being invaded by fascists from the outside. Nobody thought fascism will come from within until now. 3 weeks ago:
Plenty of people expected that, we just don’t like to think about it because it makes us feel bad to think about our own flaws
- Comment on Simpler times? 4 weeks ago:
I meant age appropriate goth baddies :(
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 4 weeks ago:
That is the purpose of a boycott yes. Here are some other examples
Abolitionist boycotts of Southern goods over slavery - www.thenation.com/…/boycott-sugar-slavery-bds/
Boycotts of German goods over Nazi policies- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_anti-Nazi_boycott
Boycotts of South Africa over Apartheid - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Apartheid_Movement
Ongoing boycott of US goods by Canada over a threatening stance taken by US government- en.wikipedia.org/…/2025_Canadian_boycott_of_the_U…
- Comment on Simpler times? 4 weeks ago:
As someone who lived through 2006, I can assure you I would have enjoyed being in this situation then just as much as I would now, possibly more.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 4 weeks ago:
You’re a dumbass for playing along with such insane bullshit but I’m glad it worked out for you.
- Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe 4 weeks ago:
I have become convinced by Cory Doctorow’s (tech writer and inventor of the term “enshittification”) argument that the fact that we’re even discussing this in terms of “sideloading” is a massive win for tech companies. We used to just call that “installing software” but now for some reason because it’s on a phone it’s something completely weird and different that needs a different term. It’s completely absurd to me that we as a society have become so accustomed to not being able to control our own devices, to the point of even debating whether or not we should be allowed to install our own software on our own computers “for safety.” It should be blatantly obvious that this is all just corporate greed and yet the general public can’t or refuses to see it.
- Comment on The Rapture could have happened, but nobody would know because everyone got left behind 5 weeks ago:
Here’s the thing, 99% of Christians didn’t believe this. Any time you see a news article about a bunch of people thinking the world will end on a specific date, that is a very small minority of people because not only do all the big denominations (Catholic, Orthodox, Methodist, Presbyterian, Southern Baptist, etc.) teach against making predictions about the specific date and following people who make these predictions, the Bible itself quotes Jesus as teaching against this (and, interestingly, saying that even HE doesn’t know when the day is)- Matthew 24:36
But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.
Of course this hasn’t stopped people from trying to figure it out, but traditionally religious authorities have spoken out against it. The largest instance of people believing in the Rapture happening on a specific date was a specific religious sect called the Millerites whose leader said the world would end on October 22, 1844. This group was still a small minority, but they were big enough that you have probably still heard of them today - they became the 7th Day Adventists.
- Comment on relationship 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't 5 weeks ago:
It’s a bit more complicated than that. Jesus was a reformer of Judaism, and brought in a lot of unorthodox ideas. Plus, if the Gospel accounts are authentic, he was going around telling people he was the foretold Messiah and the Son of God, which isn’t typical Jewish teaching.
- Comment on BBC News - Jimmy Kimmel's show to return to air after suspension over Charlie Kirk comments, says Disney - BBC News 5 weeks ago:
Just food for thought- if every news story is a distraction from something else, what is ultimately newsworthy? This comment or some form appears on just about every Lemmy post relating to the news and I really just don’t get it. Sometimes news is just news. Different people think different things are noteworthy and want to read about them
- Comment on A robot programmed to act like a 7-year-old girl works to combat fear and loneliness in hospitals 1 month ago:
Is it bad this is the first thing I thought of? I can’t imagine people won’t do absolutely horrifying things to a robot programmed to act like a 7 year old
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 1 month ago:
Right but conversations about science where all parties are wrong and nobody is willing to actually look shit up are completely pointless. It’s the exact same problem that caused the situation in the OP in the first place.
- Comment on Nintendo reportedly gets even more obnoxious about patent law by taking a 'mods aren't real games' stance against a Dark Souls 3 mod that could invalidate its Palworld lawsuit 1 month ago:
I honestly think it’s absurd you can be doing something for nearly 30 years (longer than a patent lasts) and then try to get a patent on it retroactively. That seems like a completely insane cheat code for the patent process.
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 1 month ago:
Clocks existed then though. The oldest clocktower in Europe that still exists was built over 100 years before Galileo was born, and time measurement existed longer than that. You can measure time fairly accurately with water clocks which had been known for thousands of years before Galileo. Not having “modern” pendulum clocks yet doesn’t mean that they didn’t have any way to measure time. Even without water clocks you can get decently reliable measurements of time with rhythmic chants (think how today we might say "one Mississippi, two Mississippi, etc.). Early alchemical recipes often include time measurements in chanting a specific prayer or passage a certain number of times during a specific step. Sure you’re not going to get milisecond level accuracy this way but you don’t really need that for a lot of things. Hero of Alexandria built mechanical automata 1500 years before Galileo using pulleys and weights as timers. Time measurement not only existed before pendulum clocks, it was pretty decent.
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 1 month ago:
I have noticed there is a bit of a more “anti intellectual” bent on Lemmy compared to Reddit. Like there is a lot of stupidity on reddit but usually someone comes in with actual knowledge. On Lemmy I just see people arguing in circles with each other with nobody ever actually looking anything up.
- Comment on Roblox, Discord sued after 15-year-old boy was allegedly groomed online before he died by suicide 1 month ago:
The actual abuse occurred on Discord after the child was groomed on Roblox.
- Comment on Roblox, Discord sued after 15-year-old boy was allegedly groomed online before he died by suicide 1 month ago:
The details of the case are a bit more complicated, but essentially the TL;DR is that the kid was autistic and the parents were under the impression (based on Roblox’s advertising) that his account was locked down to only be able to talk to kids his own age. The adult perpetrator was pretending to be another boy the victim’s age. The part which seems kind of weird legally is that the actual abuse occurred on Discord, after they moved to that platform from Roblox.
Personally IDK how much responsibility we should say Roblox has. I think our culture has a major problem with no longer fearing the Internet. When I was a kid it was taken for granted that if you let your kid use the Internet unsupervised there were pedophiles waiting around every corner. That hasn’t changed, but both parents and companies have seemingly just forgotten about it. I think it’s kind of insane that Roblox is allowed to act like they can prevent your kids from talking to adults when that is obviously false. I also think it’s kind of insane to believe them.
The situation is tragic. I read a longer article about it and just felt bad for the parents and the victim. They really were trying to do the right thing, and they tried to cut their kid off from online games when they found out about all this but again he was autistic and it was one of the only things that could calm him down. It has got to be tough being a parent these days.
