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- Comment on In the future, it will be considered unbelievable that repairing a product used to be more expensive than buying a new one 1 week ago:
If that’s the case, it probably means you just get to “own” products as a subscription; which collectively covers supposed “refurbished” product replacements when they break.
- Comment on You can ask any question to the people of year 3000, but can only receive information in the form of a single bit. What's your question? 1 week ago:
Assuming quantum computing has finally delivered on its promises by that time, how would I interpret that single bit?
- Comment on The issue with mainstream media and fragmented news communities isnt just limited to the disparity of facts. We also suffer from not "riding the same roller coaster." 1 week ago:
I agree. But on the other hand, it also means mass-manipulation should, in theory, become more complicated.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Because if you guilt-trip the population into believing, their misfortune is due to majority vote, being in favor of controversial policy (which is bipartisan); they will fight amongst each other, as opposed to their monarch. But with today’s surveillance technology, a monarch would be able to avoid mass protest: by impairing leaders during the early stages of their movements; prohibiting these from snowballing out of control. This would further simplify the process of control, as opposed to having to ensure corruption, in the binary left-right politics.
- Comment on it's really a bummer that ~creation~ has such a good synergy with content-consumption culture 1 week ago:
If you mean: in a constant stream of content, people rarely appreciate the tremendous work, that went into the creation of such pieces? I agree, and it’s especially offensive when quickly washed away, with low effort garbage like AI “content”.
- Comment on Tot be heard 1 week ago:
So not just speech, but any sound one could be responsible for? Like screaming, loud music in the middle of the night, or ripping a fat fart. Sounds like a solid idea
- Comment on Bread mattress: so my sleepy ass can partially eat it, as I'm in the lengthy process of waking up (possibly improving efficiency) 1 week ago:
Just like memory foam :)
- Comment on Bread mattress: so my sleepy ass can partially eat it, as I'm in the lengthy process of waking up (possibly improving efficiency) 1 week ago:
Word
- Comment on Bread mattress: so my sleepy ass can partially eat it, as I'm in the lengthy process of waking up (possibly improving efficiency) 1 week ago:
My sweaty butt crack alone would create a soggy portal to another dimension
- Submitted 1 week ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on 'Fake it till you make it' insinuates fakers stop being fake, once they make it; reality seems to suggest otherwise 1 week ago:
That’s another angle I didn’t consider. So you mean the traits one initially fakes, may become part of their personality (and therefore doesn’t require faking anymore)?
- Comment on 'Fake it till you make it' insinuates fakers stop being fake, once they make it; reality seems to suggest otherwise 1 week ago:
‘Till you make it’ suggests to me, one ceases to be fake after success. Which either means they return to their pre-faking state, or the faking becomes part of their personality (and therefore doesn’t require faking anymore).
- Comment on 'Fake it till you make it' insinuates fakers stop being fake, once they make it; reality seems to suggest otherwise 1 week ago:
That could be a valid explanation: they’re just never satisfied, which is why they keep faking.
- Submitted 1 week ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on There should be a 'Political Showerthoughts': so there's a place for such thoughts 1 week ago:
Both: I used the bulb and droplets and colors of the Showerthoughts icon, and did the pencil part myself. Thanks for the compliment though! :)
- Comment on There should be a 'Political Showerthoughts': so there's a place for such thoughts 2 weeks ago:
I even made an icon for it (with a voting pencil instead). Is there anyone who would be interested in making this thing a reality? As stated in the body of the post, I’m not politically involved enough to be a mod for the community.
- Comment on There should be a 'Political Showerthoughts': so there's a place for such thoughts 2 weeks ago:
It seems the mods have decided otherwise, whereas a dedicated community can set its own rules. Like I said in the body, I’m not interested in constantly being bombarded with political posts; ideally only when I explicitly choose to visit such communities.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 16 comments
- Comment on Income Tax Is Theft 2 weeks ago:
If you want citizens to keep working their ass off, you minimize worker capital through taxes, fines, profit, or any other artificial expenses; so they’re stuck in a perpetual struggle for stability. And as a byproduct, the parasitic upper class can live royally, of the working class’ hard work.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
If you mean to say: there’s too much politically charged posts on here, despite rule number 3 being ‘No politics’; I wholly agree.
- Comment on There are people out there who could utterly smash world records but no-one will never know as they haven't taken up that sport. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it seems I made a quite ignorant comment; as taking these factors into account, would make it an entirely different showdown. Perhaps putting both in a simulator, sim drivers might outperform the drivers; but would challenge just a select set of abilities.
- Comment on There are people out there who could utterly smash world records but no-one will never know as they haven't taken up that sport. 2 weeks ago:
I would love to see F1 drivers being crushed by sim drivers
- Comment on In a future that will hold robotic police there will surely be robotic house burglars. 2 weeks ago:
For real haha
- Comment on In a future that will hold robotic police there will surely be robotic house burglars. 2 weeks ago:
All you’d have to do is hijack the home robot, to simply hand you over the subscription-based slop
- Comment on You can't legally drink and drive, but you have to present your driver's license to prove you're old enough to drink. 2 weeks ago:
At least you ensure they’re licensed to drive, when they go drink and drive… What if it’s just damage prevention?
- Comment on Los Angeles aims to ban single-use printer cartridges — new ordinance will target ink and toner that can't be properly recycled 2 weeks ago:
Which in practice will simply drive up the price: like refundable deposits
- Comment on Mozilla is Building an AI 'Rebel Alliance' To Take on Industry Heavweights OpenAI, Anthropic 3 weeks ago:
Deploying its roughly $1.4 billion worth of reserves to support “mission driven” tech businesses and nonprofits, including its own
I mean, how else can you deplete a non-profits reserves?
- Comment on When I upvote a post and it increments by more than 1, I feel good knowing someone else was reading and up-voting it at about the same time. 3 weeks ago:
What you’re describing is what I meant to communicate; but may not have used the correct word for it.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I guess if you want users to keep sharing “confessions, [] difficult debases, or silly inside jokes” through a platform you’ve acquired, E2EE might give the WhatsApp user the false sense of privacy required.
- Comment on There are 4 types of people out there. Those that are for a cause, those that are against a cause, those that don't care either way, and those that don't understand what the cause is to begin with. 3 weeks ago:
In team sports, I suspect the dynamics between different players, and their inventiveness to outperform the opposing team, is what creates an interesting match; it’s quite strategic really. Team sports I enjoy most are: ice hockey (got to love the obnoxious truck horns and organ music haha), curling (the weird sport with the brooms: which affect the trajectory and placement quite a bit), doubles tennis (especially when front players duel intensively and the back players providing support).
If Alice argues all should be black, and Bob argues all should be white, Carol may add further context to the argument: creating a grey area if you will. In this case: Alice could argue all team sports suck, Bob could argue all team sports are great, and Carol may argue things are bit more “nuanced” than that: taking into consideration, both her interest in curling and her aversion to narcissistic soccer players, dropping themselves to the floor; like every 10 minutes.
