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- Comment on Why didn't the mother just use her private doctor on her yacht? 1 week ago:
Whether you are a hardcore capitalist, or any other political ideology, I just don’t understand how anybody can be against social policies.
In my country, people complain that our benefits system is crippling us. SOME people take advantage of our disabilities and childcare benefits, but it’s a small price to pay for having them – at the end of the day, if I had a disability which meant I could not work, my country would take care of me. For that, I am more than happy to pay more tax.
This extends to healthcare, childcare, education, etc. it’s easy to sit and grumble when you see the tax bill every month, but god forbid you ever actually need these services. I am VERY happy I do not require disability benefits, and I am VERY happy that I pay into a system that makes this (and other services) available for those who do.
- Comment on A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump. 1 week ago:
Yep, should go without saying! I didn’t list every company but there are plenty more who belong there.
- Comment on A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump. 1 week ago:
not just chatgpt.
Stop using Amazon, Meta products, Netflix, Spotify, etc.
All of these massive corporations are actively making life worse for people, and it will only get worse and worse as people continue to stay subscribed.
The only option is to log off and find an alternative.
- Comment on The world is trying to log off U.S. tech 2 weeks ago:
As a QA, I raised the very real risk that should tensions with America escalate, they could effectively cut us off and our business would be kaputt.
What happens if AWS goes down? We use Google. What happens if both go down (or cut us off)? We’re fucked.
The answer to me raising the risk was a, “Haha, yeah, true, we’d be in big trouble…” but there’s no actual appetite to do anything about it. We’re so tied up in AWS that I can’t imagine there ever will be.
- Comment on It gets easier from here(?) 4 weeks ago:
I feel I’m too old for this meme now. The Christmas period passed me by like a breeze, and then January vanished behind it.
In roughly two or so days I’ll be saying, “I can’t believe it’s 2027 already” whilst 2030 waits around the corner to whack me over the head with a baseball bat.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 4 weeks ago:
thing you just can’t buy elsewhere anymore
Yes and no. For example I had to buy double-sided tape and went into four different stores in different areas of my city and only found it in the fourth store after researching.
I checked on Amazon after the fact, and could have had it delivered to my door same-day lol.
I don’t believe there’s anything you can only buy on Amazon… but it IS so bloody convenient.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 4 weeks ago:
I am looking at using Eufy, no subscription. Unsure of potential of it joining the darkside.
- Comment on groceries 5 weeks ago:
Unironically a sack of potatoes should be an S tier ranked grocery. They are extremely versatile, can be as healthy or as unhealthy as you want them to be, make some incredible delicious things, and are also one of the cheapest things by weight.
- Comment on Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck 1 month ago:
There is a small bit of intrigue here, imagine you get to a boss and think, ‘this is impossible’ but there is an ability to observe a ghost of your character taking the boss on in your gear.
Bare in mind as well that ‘AI’ has existed as a word in gaming for decades and has nothing to do with LLMs, surely this is achieveable purely with the gaming definition of ‘AI’ simply coding the PC also as an NPC that reacts to things.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 1 month ago:
I don’t think there is any problem with using AI art as a placeholder until the real art is ready.
I also don’t think there is any problem with being disqualified from a competition that says “No AI Art” for doing so.
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 2 months ago:
The answer to this post, and almost everything, is to tax the wealthy.
AI is not ruining anything. The people in control of it are.
- Comment on Insulin 2 months ago:
How is it even possible to afford $800 for insulin? It boggles the mind
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 3 months ago:
It makes more sense that a god is a creator and not a omniscient controller, if we could grow life in a petri dish and set the scientific boundaries for that life - we would also sit back and watch what happens, for good and for bad.
- Comment on If God was real (just go with it), then how he's portrayed in the Bible might not even be how he actually is. 3 months ago:
If you stop viewing Jesus as a deity and start viewing him as just a really nice guy, and you ignore much of the rest of that book, then I think he is a good role model.
Strangely, all of the good things he said and did are ignored by the people that worship him.
Turn the other cheek - nope, let’s blow people up in the ocean just in case they’re doing something wrong.
Love thy neighbour, the story of the good Samaritan - nope, fuck anybody that’s not rich and definitely fuck immigrants.