rayquetzalcoatl

@rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyclist injuries dropped by half after “hated” cycle lane installed, but mayor still claims scrapped lane largely used as “bike run” for drug dealers to “get through traffic"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  As opposed to the road, because nobody has ever dealt in or from their car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and 'technological updates'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  We just did a project involving translating a website for multiple regions for a big company. We used a translation service that doesn’t use humans. The Belgian, Dutch, German, French, and Italian team complained that the translation was extremely weird and they had to manually overwrite the automated translations for the majority of the site (at least dozens of thousands of words) before launch.

  We’re still a ways off, judging by that anecdote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk seeks to sell power to UK households within months⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  British Gas is a mess, although we’d still have to deal with that regardless of what Tesla does; they have no plans to offer gas at the moment, just electricity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk seeks to sell power to UK households within months⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems like Tesla has already been doing some work in the UK with Octopus. I’m also curious as to what the subterfuge is, but I won’t touch anything Musk is involved in with a ten-foot bargepole if I can help it. I’m not naïve enough to believe there’s no subterfuge going on, and a man who openly supports Tommy Robinson (AKA Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon) has absolutely no business being anywhere near any important infrastructure, in my opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmm which one I guess?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the double bonus will vary based on how “keto-ish” you go; you will still need to enter and maintain ketosis!

  I “tried” keto for ages but kept giving myself little treats (and vodka) which kept me out of ketosis… Still lost weight, but it wasn’t really keto 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk seeks to sell power to UK households within months⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah just like how he planned to go to mars within his lifetime or planned to get that hyperloop scam working within the decade, or self driving cars, or whatever other obvious and blatant lie to get taxpayer money funneled to him because he is a leech

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk is not as bad as he seems, he's playing a character.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Very strange post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Most Popular Baby Names From the Past Year Have Officially Been Announced⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hahaha that’s totally jogged a memory for me - there’s this right wing guy on YouTube called Tim Pool, and he went on a weird little rant like a year or two ago about how he saw this AI video of a room with a glass wall, overlooking a village in Christmas time. It’s snowing outside, but it’s cosy inside the room, with a TV playing old cartoons, something like that – he’s going on and on about how nostalgic that is and then he’s like:

  “…and that’s all going away. Because people keep calling their kids Mohammed.”

  Absolutely laughed my arse off, you honestly couldn’t write a character like that 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Barclays Joins Wall Street-Led Exodus From Net-Zero Alliance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Shartclays

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Barclays Joins Wall Street-Led Exodus From Net-Zero Alliance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You will have neither

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha, awesome. Have a good day ✌️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that your opinion, in the same way that it might be the author’s opinion that Disco Elysium is the greatest RPG ever?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why did this incite anger in you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BBC investigates alleged cocaine use by two Strictly Come Dancing stars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  …well, yeah

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revealed: Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really hard to not feel disheartened by the naked and blatant corruption that rich people can just get away with.

  It’s very difficult not to feel as though there are no legal routes to any sort of justice for the way some people take advantage of others.

  I know I should grow up, but it still makes me sad to see how happy some people are to screw over others.

  Our water is being poisoned for money.

  Our world is burning for money.

  It’s just a very miserable day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was I born as a singularity built need and desperation?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I really do enjoy seeing this kind of stuff. It’s much more interesting than the usual fare lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was I born as a singularity built need and desperation?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh hey it’s you! Did you end up growing wings in the end or no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not reading that, since nobody wrote it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah! I forgot about the bigger fool of it all, true. I guess it’s all just bluster and marketing then. God, what a nightmare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I legitimately don’t understand money at this scale. Especially not in this context particularly, the context being “rich men investing in parlour-trick technology that most sane people recognise as off-putting and largely useless and yet somehow, presumably, keeps giving them a return on their investment”.

  Where does the return come from? Where does the money go? Who has this much money? Who needs more when they have so much? Why aren’t they just enjoying a thoroughly lavish midlife crisis instead?? Haven’t they got hair plugs to pay for?? Why can’t they invest in something cool, if they simply must invest?? Were the men who are investing in this nonsense ever children with human hearts and heads full of dreams? Do they not have passions that they’d like to share with the world? Are they simply joyless bean-counters that continue to live day after day just for the sake of knowing that they’re gaining more uncountable digital money?

  Sorry, I think I got off-track there. This whole thing is distasteful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you combat boredom?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I totally see that your comment was friendly and there wasn’t any ill will, and I can definitely understand reading their comment as a bit accusatory - but the word “prejudice” isn’t the same as how I think we’re viewing being “prejudiced”.

  I don’t think they were intending to be hostile, is all I’m saying. I think it’s just a case of crossed wires tbh - but I hope you’re well and have a good day! ✌️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you combat boredom?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think they were calling you “prejudiced” as it were, they were just outlining that judging whether something counts as a “real” hobby or just succumbing to boredom is flavoured a bit by our own views and opinions :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Christian group wins legal battle over preaching ban in west London⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah there’s a couple of these wackos on my street too. They get out and film themselves standing around yelling out and talking. They’ve said stuff to me and my ex before. It’s pretty weird but they’re harmless - I don’t mind a few harmless weirdos to be honest, it brightens the place up lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you combat boredom?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Family II

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The low-cost creative revolution: How technology is making art accessible to everyone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we’re disagreeing on some fundamental things here. I don’t really care what other industries might recognise as art; I care about what I recognise as art.

  Brick textures, for example, do have a potentially massive impact on the atmosphere of your game. If you’re playing a game set in a city, where there’s a lot of brick around, the difference between grimy, slimy, dark brown bricks being everywhere and gleaming white/yellow sandstone bricks is absolutely enormous. That’s an artistic choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The low-cost creative revolution: How technology is making art accessible to everyone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lumping “free software” and “AI” together here makes me think somebody high up in this rag has investment in AI.

  Art is accessible to everyone. Art comes in so many forms, and can be enjoyed in so many different ways. Everybody can make art. It won’t always be the best thing you’ve ever seen or heard or experienced, but practice will make anyone better at art. You can do art for free.

  Making a robot do art for you is not doing art. That’s the robot compiling other people’s art and exporting it for you. Nothing valuable, interesting, or human in there any more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Confirms a New First-Person Ghost Recon Game is in Development⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, Ubisoft? The big famous sex crimes company?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We face nationalisation if we’re not let off fines, Thames Water warns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They fucked around with our water, and now are moaning that there’s consequences? I hope they get nationalised. Can’t happen quickly enough. It’s a shame that the people at the top of Thames Water can just make off with their ill-gotten gains, and all have golden parachutes. Some community service wouldn’t go amiss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England’s great artificial water crisis of 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Southern Water nearly doubled their CEO pay to £1.4m because bonuses were banned. Just thought that is a nice little cherry on top for us poors :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Southern Water nearly doubles CEO pay to £1.4m despite bonus ban⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hahahahaha of course they did. Hope the fucker gets all the water he can handle and more some day.