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- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 3 days ago:
The border with the ocean probably, humans love to live on the crust of the land
- Comment on You wanted the secret to getting rich? Here it is 2 weeks ago:
The $1m isn’t in cash… You forget that the average house price in London is around $900k, and for Sydney it’s $981k.
That means your pool for your car, furnishings, investments etc. are either minimal, or you have a mortgage, and definitely can’t live passively off $30-40k per year unless you’re living in cheaper than average housing (one would call this “not super wealthy”) and definitely not if you’re supporting a family.
- Comment on You wanted the secret to getting rich? Here it is 2 weeks ago:
Most, sure, but Europe, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and more are still a significant part of the world where $1M puts you firmly in the same “well-off and comfortable, but certainly not rich in the way billionaires are” territory you’d be in the US
Worldwide, I think it’s definitely safe to say most millionaires’ lifestyles are much closer to average than they are to billionaires’ (ie still having to make regular payments for housing, but mortgage rather than rent, and still having to perform most tasks for themselves rather than having PAs to do it for them)
- Comment on Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming 2 weeks ago:
Would it though?
If the requirement is “worth paying 50% more for than the average worker” then instead of picking someone worse for cheaper at random then you’re making sure that only jobs where there likely isn’t an adequate supply for due to how bell curves work,
- Comment on Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming 2 weeks ago:
The H1-B visa is fundamentally broken though, so you apply for just under 10x as many as you need and end up with the number you want, so it’s not Microsoft’s fault the US Government is actively encouraging importing cheaper, average employees by using a lottery rather than filtering based on “you must earn n% more than the median income in that sector” or a similar metric to avoid reducing wages for Americans and companies using them to cut costs…
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 3 weeks ago:
There’s no need to instantly hate on Christianity without further context. If you’re going to one of the cultish hate-spreading or profit-driven churches, sure, but there are also many community-focused denominations which are good to go to as a place you’ll be welcomed at a low point in your life. I don’t attend any and am not particularly religious, but I imagine if I felt truly alone and had nowhere else to turn that an Episcopal/Methodist/similar church would be quite high on the list of physical places it’d be good to go.
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 3 weeks ago:
They’re popular because they’re broadly appealing and inoffensive, so for people who are passionate about music they’re likely comparatively boring, whereas people who don’t really care about music aren’t going to go out of their way to support or defend them.
- Comment on Age + BUN = Lasix dose 3 weeks ago:
looks like a zoom + colour change of his left foot (on the right side of the image)?
- Comment on Jeremy Corbyn confirms new ‘socialist alternative’ before next election to fight Starmer 4 weeks ago:
The Greens also have a terrible name, they’re a left wing party that don’t particularly care about environmental issues. Meanwhile the Lib Dems just stand for whatever the government doesn’t, which changes depending on who’s in power.
- Comment on Why does everyone hate Income tax ? 5 weeks ago:
Idk about you but if the government took 24% of my money I’d be ecstatic, currently it’s much closer to 55-60%, a too-big percentage of which goes on privatising profit and nationalising losses.
- Comment on I get scared of a girl who approached me 1 month ago:
So for context, I’m an asexual guy who had one girl in his classes at high school & went to a 75% male university on a course that was 94% male…
Right after graduating I had the same issues you’re describing, just from “new experiences” more than anything, but when you go out into the world and start interacting with people you’ll be fine - it’s somewhat normal especially if you didn’t have a drive to seek out women previously or even just didn’t have the self confidence to
Also though, that sounds like a bit of a weird interaction as an introvert anyway, I don’t think I’d have been super comfortable either way as I’d be expecting to be robbed or scammed or something, but if someone is expressing interest in something you’re passionate about then they very clearly want to hear about it, so just say things about it even if it’s cringe or not perfect
- Comment on Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus 1 month ago:
The intersection between Authoritarianism and Socialism:
- Comment on :-) 1 month ago:
Infected road rash all up your right arm is so much worse too, and I imagine there’s probably worse things than that once you get into spinal pain
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 2 months ago:
The difference between reasoning models and normal models is reasoning models are two steps, to oversimplify it a little they prompt “how would you go about responding to this” then prompt “write the response”
It’s still predicting the most likely thing to come next, but the difference is that it gives the chance for the model to write the most likely instructions to follow for the task, then the most likely result of following the instructions - both of which are much more conformant to patterns than a single jump from prompt to response.
- Comment on testing how this site handles videos 2 months ago:
Works fine on eternity
- Comment on Business Insider will lay off 21% of staff amid AI disruption and “extreme traffic drops” 2 months ago:
Yeah, now AI can produce infinite slop there’s no need for human-produced slop anymore
- Comment on Owners of second homes in Wales are having to sell up. That’s no disaster: it’s a godsend 2 months ago:
Why not just tax based on the number of homes, isn’t that a better idea?
If someone owns three £10M mansions, they’re potentially depriving two families of homes but way of scarsity, but frankly if you can afford a £10M mansion is it really an issue, as you’re not being deprived of a home?
If they instead own one £10M mansion and forty £200k flats/terraces, they’re potentially depriving forty families of homes and so should probably be charged twenty times as much to dissuade people from buying up the cheapest homes.
- Comment on hexbear users are the rick and morty fanbase of lemmy instances 2 months ago:
In the US? None, but the Libertarians probably come closest.
The US is built on imperialism so of course no party is anti-imperialist, being anti-government is as close as you can get.
Within Europe there are some parties that lean more anti-imperialist, generally green and liberal parties, but the traditional major conservative and leftist parties rarely are.
- Comment on hexbear users are the rick and morty fanbase of lemmy instances 2 months ago:
The USSR rivals the US, Japan and Germany for the most imperialist state in the past 100 years, so no, leftists are not anti-imperialist by default, that’s closer to liberals. Leftists are anti-capitalist by default.
- Comment on Who should america be more concerned about MS-13 or Russia? 3 months ago:
Threats to the US
A lapdog isn’t a threat except to reputation, even if they’re not on your side. Same reason North Korea isn’t on the list of threats.
- Comment on And then I'll sell my AI, so everyone can make drawings - EVERYONE can be an artist! And when everyone's an artist... no one will be 3 months ago:
A lot of what we consider ‘artists’ weren’t really making art
I think that’s extrapolating too far… I think the overwhelming majority made art outside of their job, with with minorities making art for their job and a minority not making any art at all. It’s hard to create commissioned works without a strong skillset which overlaps significantly with that required for art, just that if they were just taking a commission without going above and beyond, that isn’t art.
- Comment on And then I'll sell my AI, so everyone can make drawings - EVERYONE can be an artist! And when everyone's an artist... no one will be 3 months ago:
I’m not convinced your take is different - drawing an accurate sketch of a hand isn’t art, telling AI to generate a hand isn’t art, it requires someone creative or expressing something to be art, regardless of the medium(s), including diffusion/noise removal models being a medium
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
the joke is 0300pm => 3pm = 15:00
You’re taking miltary time but putting it on a 12 hour clock, so you have to specify am or pm
- Comment on And then I'll sell my AI, so everyone can make drawings - EVERYONE can be an artist! And when everyone's an artist... no one will be 3 months ago:
Art isn’t about making something pretty, nor is it really about design, it’s about wanting to do or make something with no ulterior motive, or going beyond what you have to go make something inspiring (these are the same thing when you think about it).
Clip art, a lot of corporate design, a lot of architecture and more isn’t meant to be art, it’s meant to fulfill a purpose and maybe look pretty doing it. That’s not what art is.
Cameras largely killed off commissioned portrait because people don’t care about the process, they just want a picture of themselves, therefore the portrait wasn’t art, it was utility.
That doesn’t mean that it’s impossible for a portrait to be art, nor that photography isn’t art, just that unskilled people were suddenly able to make what they were looking for to a “good enough” standard much more conveniently.
The same can be seen for so many things, including AI being used for clip art or supplementary images in articles. In the case of AI, if all you want is any picture that help support part of an article you’re writing, you didn’t want art in the first place. If you use AI to help you make a statement, or to match a vision you have in your head, or even do things like poke around at the internals to distort the output, then that is art.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 3 months ago:
Obviously UK consumer protection is different so they may not have the “feature” here, but cars get their milage recorded yearly (after the first 3 years) as part of roadworthiness testing, available online given the licence plate, so I can see I did 7041 miles in the last year.
Does the DMV not have something similar?
- Comment on Change the Rainbow 3 months ago:
I think there’s something to be said for removing the power of their symbols by using them for other things, but of course some things are too far yes
- Comment on The name "edgar" has really fallen off as of recently. 3 months ago:
There’s a few like this, when’s the last time you met a nigel?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
On the /s, I somewhat unironically agree woth that more than the case of just obtaining citizenship
- Comment on The new 3B "fully open source" model from AMD 5 months ago:
Every AI model outperforms every other model in the same weight class when you cherry pick the metrics… Although it’s always good to have more to choose from
- Comment on DOJ's final remedy proposal for Google: Keeping bid for Chrome divestiture and search default agreement ban, but dropping requests to block Google's investments in AI companies. 5 months ago:
Google haven’t so much been destroyed by their own technology as hustlers have learnt to game it. Search as a whole has become worse as a whole as a result which is one reason people are looking to LLMs more as unreliable as they are, as they’re easier and way better than mfa/seo content
