HobbitFoot
@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club
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- Comment on Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap 9 hours ago:
I believe enough of them are American and Lemmy is a dumb place to create a bot army.
- Comment on Does the first-born child in a family "mature" faster than the later-born children? 15 hours ago:
Older siblings usually mature faster because they are typically pushed to be responsible for younger siblings in some form.
- Comment on Is it true that in the US we are a low context culture and In France, they are high context culture? The video I'm going to attach explains the differences. 18 hours ago:
The NYC area is very low context and high volume. A lot of the rest of the Northeast is the same way.
- Comment on Before social media/internet/cell phones/landlines/payphones; how would 2 friends living across the same city arrange in person meetings and stay in touch? 1 day ago:
Letters are only for those cross-continental, cross-oceanic relationships.
Letters were commonly written for people in the same city. Some posh neighborhoods in major cities would have hourly mail service.
- Comment on Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion? 1 day ago:
And this is why we all go to the bad place.
- Comment on What if the USA decided to use another language as its *de facto* national language at it's founding? How would it affect the world? 2 days ago:
If the USA was going to pick another language, it would be German.
- Comment on How does capitalism differ from crony capitalism? 2 days ago:
A lot of initial theory was written when the idea of complex markets and how they functioned was a relatively new idea. Compared to previous economic systems that were implemented, capitalism involved a lot less government involvement.
Crony Capitalism came about as an idea when established companies found it was cheaper to buy off the government for a better regulatory environment.
In theory you can have capitalism without crony capitalism, but it generally requires political power to be very diffuse and not concentrated in certain industries.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 2 days ago:
I feel like part of the problem was that Microsoft tried porting instant messaging and video calling services into the Office suite for decades and it didn’t stick. I remember previous attempts like Skype for business and Lync, with few people in the companies I worked at incorporating it into their workflows.
It took COVID and full remote work to push people into using a program like Zoom over SMS and phone calls. Once most of corporate America switched to using Zoom for conference calls, Microsoft had to rush out a new product that could unseat Zoom quickly.
- Comment on If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be? 3 days ago:
The official name for Mexico is the United Mexican States, a similar name to the United States of America but focused on the region of Mexico, the area which has Mexico City and the State of Mexico.
The problem with applying this to the USA is that, unlike Mexico, the USA was a collection of various colonies with different political and religious traditions coming together rather than the more unified viceroyality of Mexico.
Using words like Atlantic or Piedmont wouldn’t work well as the words described the colonies as is but the nation was partially rebelling to be able to settle lands on the other side of Appalachian Mountains.
Columbia might work as the word was used as a by label for the USA, so the United States of Columbia. This would likely cause Gran Colombia to choose a different name for their country.
Outside of Columbia, I can’t think of a name which would act as a label in which all colonies would agree.
- Comment on If the 2028 United States presidential election was held today, who would you vote for? 4 days ago:
The tactic hasn’t worked for the party, but it has worked for me.
- Comment on YSK grab a cup of coffee and read this article if you want to truly understand what's happening in Minnesota 4 days ago:
I feel like the administration has been trying to provoke violent retaliation against ICE and keep being disappointed that the only deaths are from the other side.
- Comment on One in 10 Japanese creatives see income fall due to generative AI 6 days ago:
Probably kinda.
I imagine that someone who can’t draw for crap using AI to create the visual component to their stories. They may also use AI to create character “voices” who say things in their specific manner
Manga production costs drop as a writer doesn’t need as many skills to write them and the AI handles more of the heavy lifting when it comes to generating content.
Eventually one of these slop mangas becomes popular enough to get animated. Since it is animated, it becomes a lot easier to make. My guess is that the beginning looks like AI empowered rotoscoping, human actors provide the movements which become the basis of animated characters. You can even do voice modulation too, so the vocal performance gets swapped to the right voice.
These animes might be less popular, but if they are being made at a fraction of the cost of human animation.
- Comment on "It is out of the question to let a boss run rampant" - Ubisoft workers strike against "disastrous" cutbacks 1 week ago:
It’s the bosses, but it appears to be an industry wide issue instead of just one company.
- Comment on Im stupid but have money 1 week ago:
It looks like you’re doing a great job at protecting yourself against a horrible life, but it looks like you haven’t planned out creating a good life.
I’d save your money and have it grow, but I’d start looking into low/no cost hobbies or something to add some joy in your life.
- Comment on "It is out of the question to let a boss run rampant" - Ubisoft workers strike against "disastrous" cutbacks 1 week ago:
Nah.
The problem is that AAA gaming hasn’t really innovated that much in the last decade while development costs go up to fund better visuals. Worse, consumers won’t pay for the higher development costs.
I’m surprised that the gaming industry is as large as it is.
- Comment on London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires 1 week ago:
A lot of people are like that. It is just that the rich are able to do something about it.
- Comment on Im stupid but have money 1 week ago:
No, but I have things I like to do outside of work and my work funds those activities.
Based on your responses, it seems like the only thing you like to do is to see your net worth go up. Any reason why you don’t have any hobbies?
- Comment on Im stupid but have money 1 week ago:
Do you like working?
- Comment on Im stupid but have money 1 week ago:
If you didn’t have to work, what would you do? Do you still want to work? Would you do something else? Do you have any hobbies?
I’m asking because I’m planning on taking a sabbatical from work because I’m tired of working and I want to enjoy some time away from work.
- Comment on How did Zohran Mamdani win conservative voters over without using the terms "socialism", "communism" or "capitalism"? 1 week ago:
He didn’t. Mamdani won a majority of NYC, but he lost the conservative parts to Cuomo.
That said, Mamdani got a decent amount of small business support for campaigning on streamlining a lot of the city’s regulations to bring down costs. This includes getting rid of the secondary market for various medallions.
- Comment on Have anyone here actually published a memoir or know of someone IRL (as in, you've met them face to face) that published a memoir? Do people actually read these? 1 week ago:
A grandparent did before they died. I read it; it was ok.
- Comment on How do I deliver an American eBay package to my hotel? 1 week ago:
So, there are people telling you how to ship packages to a hotel, which is fine. The issue is going to be if eBay will let you. Having packages sent to a hotel is likely going to trigger a lot of fraud warnings, especially as your account is from another country.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 1 week ago:
The Korean and Vietnam Wars were constrained by not trying to turn the Cold War hot. Also, Vietnam was as much about nation-building as it was fighting an enemy.
The invasion of Grenada met all military objectives.
The Gulf War was such a success that it changed war doctrine for those choosing to fight the USA after.
The USA intervention into Somalia fell apart as the government the USA supported collapsed.
The USA intervention into Yugoslavia got Serbia to withdrawal troops from Kosovo.
The Afghanistan War successfully toppled the previous Taliban government, the USA just couldn’t build a new government to replace the existing one.
The USA toppled Saddam Hussein rather quickly after the Iraq War; the current government is wildly different in form from the old one.
The USA successfully kidnapped the Venezuelan President.
Most of the USA’s war losses were due to attempts to nation-build. If the USA chooses not to nation-build, it can launch major military attacks to disable opponents. In those fights, the USA dominates.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 1 week ago:
- Comment on What does that mean ? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s a lot worse than OP implied.
- Comment on Do you think all monopolies should be split into different companies, and then given to the workers who would collectivize them? 2 weeks ago:
I think there are some natural monopolies where it makes sense to let them be run as monopolies with some form of government control. The energy grid is a good example, you can different suppliers providing electricity but the transmission of it should be within one company/system.
- Comment on What is Substack and why all the sudden do all the content creators seem to be on it? 2 weeks ago:
And the first part is why a lot of content creators are on it.
At a certain point, a blog becomes more than a hobby. When that happens, a platform like Substack helps people transition the hobby to a job
- Comment on If the protests in Iran win/topple the government what will it look like immediately afterwards? Also what would be the good or bad about installing a monarchy again? 2 weeks ago:
It seems like a descendent of the Shah is currently involved, but I imagine that the replacement government would likely be a constitutional monarchy or a revised republic.
In either case, I expect transfer of several executive powers to elected bodies including control of the military and police.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 2 weeks ago:
EU countries did underinvest, but the US is able to invest in multiple weapon platforms and logistics capabilities that wealthy but small countries can’t possibly afford on their own.
The Libyan War was a good example. The EU nations that wanted to intervene in the war needed the US to provide ATC duties and provide supplies after the countries’ missile reserves ran out.
- Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 2 weeks ago:
There has historically been a correlation. However, this bubble doesn’t require a lot of labor so wages have been stuck.
Hell, if it weren’t for the AI bubble, it is likely that the US economy would be in recession.