People talk about echo chambers a lot, but I’ve found it nearly impossible to keep politics and general doom content out. I’m rapidly losing my interest in the Internet as a whole simply because it seems to bring mostly pointless suffering to myself.
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Honestly, given the ID requirements this feels like more efforts to track everything everyone does. It means any app with sufficient user base is trackable back to a real person. A real person they can arrest, bully or otherwise deal with if they don’t like what they’ve built.
He doubled down when called out. Claimed ‘anyone else would do the same’ and threatened to sue anyone criticizing his actions. Zero remorse or reflection.
If you leverage all the workarounds and utilities available, the best you can get is still a mostly senile chatbot. It’ll constantly forget stuff and get details wrong, but I suppose if you’re deep into psychosis, then you’d pass that off as just being ‘a little forgetful’.
The absolute best ones available still are basically the same as zoning out in a meeting and then trying to respond when asked a question by wild guessing and a handful of context clues. You might get lucky and say something reasonable a few times, but the longer it goes on the more apparent it is that you haven’t been paying attention at all.
I feel like Linux works for hardcore users and extremely casual users, but it doesn’t work that great for medium savvy users.
Like sure if I’m barely using the computer for anything other than a web browser then it’ll work fine.
And if I’m willing to do a whole lot of research I can also make it work for power user setups (at an even better outcome than Windows).
But if I’m just a gamer who’s smart enough to do some modding and run a couple of game servers and maybe some other utilities, but I’m not incredibly tech savvy otherwise? Not a great fit.
Ok but this statement would refer to the 0.01% not the 10%
They don’t just want more people. They want more people born into poverty and incable of understanding it’s better to wait and pay in cash than use credit and pay interest.
So the .01% are the ones you’re saying that are planning decades ahead. I don’t think that’s true, they don’t have some sort of master plan for society.
I think we’ve entered the era of the rich running out of good exploits for the peasants, so we’re seeing them self-cannibalize each other. All of our current economy has moved beyond screwing over workers and customers and is now based on the .01% screwing over the 10% that they pretended was part of their class for awhile.
They only have the most half hearted approach to what comes after that process is complete. They might build a dumb bunker or cosplay at being a post apocalypse warlord, but their ‘plans’ aren’t much beyond a tabletop game roleplay.
This has been my experience. There was that whole aspect to reddit that you’d be in a sub and some random 20 year expert would chime in with extremely in depth advice.
Now I feel like everywhere on Reddit is nothing but 14 year olds (or people that never matured past 14). It’s not that reddit didn’t have a ton of these people before, but now it’s all that’s left.
Combined with their decision to ‘suggest’ posts from subs you aren’t subscribed to resulting in many subs getting totally uninterested people commenting and the whole magic spark of Reddit is all but gone. The community aspect is dead in favor of yet another engagement algorithm.
It’s rapidly becoming Facebook, but for millennials.
The wealthy plan decades ahead.
Sometimes. Most of them seem totally happy to kill the golden goose. They’re running both the economy and the planet into the ground for short term gains.
They’d rather have half a personal sized pizza than a regular slice of an XXL pizza, even if that’s objectively less pizza.
I think many of them would be totally down to return to medieval feudalism with lords and peasants, even if that meant giving up day to day luxuries simply because they’d feel more powerful.
It’s a mental sickness, not an understandable or rational desire for wealth.
I think we’re far too comfortable with group punishment instead of actually punishing just the bad actors. I get that it’s not always possible or worth the effort, but I think the pendulum has swung way too far in favor of just taking away anything good that someone might abuse.
Somewhere along the way we built a system that doesn’t actually require you to do or make anything. And that’s been absolutely horrible.
Several adult friendly platforms have come and gone. Many of them very profitable and self sustaining. They all eventually get screwed by inability to process payments.
And when people try to create their own payment methods not subject to arbitrary morality rules, the full weight of the existing banking system comes down hard and strangles them in the cradle.
We could absolutely have safe, profitable, self sustaining adult friendly spaces, but the powers that be don’t want that to exist and work hard to undermine that from every possible angle.
It’s really no different than all those efforts to ban local fiber ISP coops or how abortion clinics get shut down by arbitrary full hospital regulations because they couldn’t ban them legally.
Cloud everything, saas, and offshore workers are all still things that have been negatively affecting people for years and never really went away even if the hype died down.
I’m not really against age verification, the problem is that I’m very, very against having a government backed database of all porn I visit. Nobodies really assured me that current implementations aren’t doing that.
Plus, at the rate we’re going I’m not really sure how much longer porn will be legal, free speech rights be damned. Both the right and the left and the younger generation seem fully invested in ‘save the kids’ mentality these days.
I mean it’s kind of classic issues with unions. It doesn’t work if only place is doing it, but the more that do, the less market they have access to. Europe is a pretty decent sized market, so it may still hurt. And if they do leave, well China certainly has a lot of their own homegrown solutions, so that’s not an entirely unreasonable option.
I still think this is disingenuous. It’s not a choice between being shot or stabbed. It’s a choice between being fined and getting gassed to death.
I’m not sure what, if anything, Dems are doing that counts as actually getting hurt. They’re just very ineffective. At worst they’re the useless bystander screaming instead of doing anything productive.
I’ve never repacked a console in its original box, even when I’ve had it.
What if some of the locals want it taken away for protection, but the government wants it destroyed?
There’s no clear ‘owner’ in many cases. I think it places where it’s uncertain, then we should prioritize saving the artifacts over the ones that seek to destroy them.
Who do you recognize as the authority to make that decision though? If the locals are currently ruled by a terrorist group or Nazis or whatever, do they get to decide? What about the locals that disagree with the government currently in power?
And an answer of ‘if we just didn’t needlessly meddle’ might be the ideal, but it’s ignoring the realities that we have meddled and some countries are unlikely to stop doing so. We have to accept the world we have not the one we wished we had.
I think AI will go more the route of ‘the cloud’ rather than 3D movies. It has valid use cases, but by now no one’s really hyping up the cloud anymore. It just exists for the scenarios it makes sense and most of the bullshit use cases have died off to one degree or another. AI will eventually lose its appeal as a buzzword and then it’ll just be there for the stuff that’s worth the cost.
The big die off will happen when companies stop subsidizing it and try to charge what it’s actually costing them to run.