I spent an unhealthy amount of time on Reddit. Getting bored of Lemmy is a feature, not a bug. Embrace it.

Trump voters: “Trump is the most peaceful president ever. We need to bring the defence spending to Ukraine home. America first”.

Trump is elected and inevitably drags the US into yet another war in in the Middle East

Trump voters: Pikachu face

Nah. Just kidding about that last part. It was all just empty rhetoric to justify the grift and looting all the way down as the country burns to the ground in the background.

In a democracy, the correct approach is to hold the majority accountable for their leader’s actions, especially when the leader is doing exactly what they said they would do. Non voters are also complicit by standing by silently, so I’m not opposed to holding them accountable too.

This is what the American people voted for. They voted to give their money away to people who don’t need it.

We’ve been warning people of this for more than 8 years now, trying to soften the blow. At some point we gotta realize that protecting these people might not actually be helping, it might just be enabling the grift by providing convenient cover.

Maybe we ought to just step aside and let these voters suffer the full consequences of their actions. Democrats need to learn that unlike them, many people only learn about consequences by experiencing them.

Sure, many others who voted against will suffer the consequences too. What are we going to do about it? This is how democracy is designed to work.

Whataboutism and a straw man in the same sentence. Smells like speed running trolling.

The point, in one sentence:

If you are the product, not the paying customer, then not only is there no incentive to cater to your needs, there exists incentive to make the product worse for you if it means the paying customer extracts more from you.

Users of freemium software are basically nothing more than willing cattle. Housed and fed for free only to be slaughtered.

Maybe people just can’t help themselves? I fear we can’t have a fair and free market if people are so easily manipulated.

Democracy only works when parties hold each other accountable for the good of the country. Republicans have abandoned this since before Clinton. Blaming the Democrats for the Republicans moving the goalposts is the cancer at the heart of US politics.

I dunno. You could throw yourself down the stairs. It’s an awful choice, but you could still do it…

The point is, a choice with all kinds of negative consequences to it isn’t really a choice.

How about we ban software in cars in general, beyond basic engine control.

If it’s such a problem, maybe we just collectively move on to ES or TypeScript nomenclature?

“Should you have to pay for online privacy?”

This is the wrong question to ask. The obvious answer is no.

The real question to ask is: would you prefer to pay for an online service with currency, or with your private data?

The concrete won’t even be cured by the time they need em.

An outcome that was on everyone’s bingo card.

FAFO almost 2 and a half years in the making.

The insulation was supposedly improperly installed. There, saved you a click.

Generative AI is not smart to begin with. LLM are basically just compressed versions of the internet that predict statistically what a sentence needs to be to look “right”. There’s a big difference between appearing right and being right. Without a critical approach to information, independent reasoning, individual sensing, these AI’s are incapable of any meaningful intelligence.

In my experience, the emperor and most people around them still has not figured this out yet.

It’s dysfunctional because the us electorate, the media, and the politicians all decided together that an election should look and work like a superbowl instead of a free market of policies with negotiation and team work.

Divided we fall.

I suspect rebasing makes sequential commit IDs not really work in practice.

I’ll take garden variety disagreements about economic policies over power seizure any day of the week. Compromise and not getting all the things you want is a hallmark of a healthy democracy.

This is how low the bar is and I lay 100% blame on authoritarians more interested in grabbing power than compromising themselves.

You use LLMs for everything? Seems strange, as they don’t reason. They are specifically designed to mimic human speech. So they are great for tasks that require presenting information that looks intelligible, or at least are very easily testable, but beyond that you run into serious issues with hallucination fast…

Or do you mean “AI” as in data science and automation? That’s a very different thing which is a bit off topic. That Kind of “AI” is neither new nor has the hallucination/ecological/cost/training effort issues associated with it

I dunno dude, all your answers talk about “AI” in suspiciously vague terms. “I use AI to …” is the new “built with blockchain”. Skip the marketing terms and talk shop.