That’s alarmist nonsense. There will always be people still doing all those things. AI, in general, is just another tool. There will always be someone who changes the status quo. Always.

I hate that AI is controlled by a few huge corporations and that it consumes ungodly amounts of resources. Otherwise I’d be completely fine with it. At least 90% of anything is shit anyway and everything humans create is built on what came before, so I think AI just mimics what we’ve been doing since forever. But as it is controlled by just a few assholes who burn the planet down even faster I am against it.

It was simple for me. 40 minutes after I was called out of the waiting room I already left the clinic and 0 pain and 0 complications. The two tests afterwards found no sperm, so it was a success. I would always recommend it, because it was so east and painless.

This is an ancient joke. I don’t remember exactly where I heard it first, but it was definitely before Whitehall told it on Graham Norton.

Sounds like we’re the same age. And what you describe sounds like the general impression people get as they age. Morals decline, nothing means anything anymore, blabla. That’s been literally said throughout the history of the human race. My experience at least with what people on the internet argue (and not actual behavior) is a tendency towards moral absolutes. Which is something I am strictly against and I might have picked the wrong comment to start my soap box rant.

Oh fuck off. I am not being contrarian. I am just too old to believe in absolutes. Things change, people change. That’s just life. And having seen multiple people die of cancer over the years, that shit is no fucking joke and will absolutely ruin the lives of everyone involved. If someone just cannot handle that, it’s OK to leave that awful situation. Yes, it does suck even more for the person who’s actually ill. But I really don’t see a point in ruining multiple lives because of one person’s illness. Again, if people want to step up and be there, that is amazing and laudable. But if you step away simply to protect yourself, you will probably feel bad and wish you could do more. But sometimes you just can’t. Once more: that’s simply how life is.

That whole “'til death do us part” is some ancient bullshit. People change, situations change. Sticking with a bad situation because you once said “in good times and bad times” even if it is destroying you is some toxic-ass bullshit.

Yeah, exactly. I don’t see this as black and white as it’s made out to be. Where’s the point in cancer or another serious disease ruining two lives? Sure, sometimes people leave for selfish reasons. But protecting yourself is not selfish, it’s essential for survival. If you stay and support a sick person, that makes you a good person. Leaving someone because you cannot handle dealing with the disease emotionally or financially doesn’t automatically make you a bad person.

I consider myself very far left, but hearing all the time that fire bombing cities to target civilians was justified (which I read on Lemmy just a few days ago) makes me sick. Targeting civilians is always a war crime. I don’t even care if people went on trial for that. I just want it to be taught and talked about at what it was. Of course the fucking fascists needed to be stopped, just like the Japanese did. They were committing atrocious crimes, far worse than what the Allies did. And so it was decided to commit some more war crimes and over all it worked. But that doesn’t fucking change the fact that fire bombing cities like Dresden or Hamburg or Tokyo or dropping the nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren’t also fucking war crimes. You can’t win a war like this and claim everything you did was fine and dandy and completely justified. That you can’t find that annoying without being called a neonazi is seriously fucked up.

The only thing I complain about is that the Allies won’t admit they committed war crimes. It’s only a crime if you lose the war. Just live up to it. There is no such thing as a “clean” war, everybody plays dirty.

I wish. I lost my 1TB drive of somewhat sorted MP3s and it took all the energy of collecting music with it. I’ve been using Spotify since then. But I still miss that drive.

Is it truly satire if it’s the truth?

Exactly this. It’s 10km to my gym, it’s two towns over. But there is no designated bike path so I’d have to drive on the road, getting passed by cars going 100kmh. The roads here are already lined with crosses for people who died there, I’d rather not have my family have to add one for me.

Oh, damn. RIP. I just rediscovered Mastodon like two weeks ago.

A trifle.

Rowling spends her considerable fortune to actively influence policy to hurt trans people.

Personally, I think wishing harm on people that cause harm is completely OK. As for my wishes, those are inconveniences at most.

I wish that her socks always feel damp.

I wish that her sleeves always get wet when she’s washing her hands.

I wish that she always loses when gambling on a fart.

Does he have sex with his “wife”? Are they legally married? There’s a lot I’d like to know about Truman’s world.

Du musst nur an die richtigen Orte fahren. Vor ein paar Jahren hatten wir auch eine Hitzewelle und eine Kollegin fand das ganz angenehm, weil sie gerade aus dem Death Valley kam und da ein paar Tage knapp 50 Grad hatte.