If my tool sucks, I will tell it so

So thanking your tools: dangerous on a humanity level scale

Telling your tool it sucks: Normal behaviour

I open my door, the warning goes off, and I say “thank you car.” It’s better for me mental well being than saying “oh fuck.”

And you FEEEEEEEEL like it doesn’t matter. What’s the difference?

I thank my car when it alerts me that I left the lights on or my keys in the ignition. I’m not anthropomorphizing my car, I’m practicing appreciation for the benefits my tools provide.

Advertising will always get out of control. It is the nature of the beast. 1 ad that is skippable after 5 seconds before a video was fine, now it’s multiple unskippable ads before and throughout the video.
“Subscribe for no ads” until the unsaitable desire for ad revenue becomes “Subscribe for fewer ads”.
I was online in the early days of the Internet and didn’t use an ad block for quite some time. I was fine with sites getting ad revenue from banner ads I would ignore. Then one day I encountered a banner ads the literally screamed at me through my speakers when I moused over it and I couldn’t download an ad blocker fast enough.

Advertising never stops at a reasonable level, is will always push further until it finds the level people won’t tolerate then pulls back jusssst a little. The only reasonable response is to not tolerate them at all.

I don’t think they’re suggesting we ask companies to “pretty please stop advertising”.

New executive order: contempt of court can be pardoned.

An innocent man with no charges filed against him was illegally deported on the 15th of March. Despite court orders trying to prevent it, or have him returned, nothing was done to stop this or fix this. He has spent 33 days illegally held and no one has faced any consequences for this so far.

“Courts are slow, this is fine.”

Tell that to the man being tortured for over a month if he’s still alive. I’m sure his family will be relieved when charges are filled against some scapegoat who offended Trump in 2028.

And then if Trump just pardons them?

what’s the point of disruption?

To force people ignoring the issue to engage with it. People who are fine with status quo and ignoring the issue now have to deal with it. Either they’re going to be people who agree to some degree with the protestors and will be more voices saying “just give them what they want FFS so this distribution can end” or they oppose the protestors at which point why would the protestors be upset that they have been disrupted?

That kind of infrastructure takes time to build. Nobody wants to invest in something that will take years to start producing if there’s a 50/50 chance that tomorrow Trump rolls over and China starts selling again within a month. It’s too risky with how unstable the world market is right now.

“he learned his lesson”

How’s it feel to live in the cyberpunk prequel?

Those who study history are doomed to watch as everyone else repeats it.

Okay, enjoy supporting sexist creators.

“You’re not allowed to post a meme unless you thoroughly research everything the memes creator has done in their life!”

So 38% have literally zero? That’s horrifying.

Interacting with you makes me sick.

Are you okay? This amount of time and anger spent interacting with someone who “makes you sick” because they dared to post

“Critique to build, not tear down”

Is not normal. Seek help.

My instance is right there in my name as a clue

Nope. My app doesn’t show your instance. Is blahaj.zone an instance for women only or something? A clue in your name also means nothing, that would also be “assuming gender”. You can declare your pronouns in your name if that is a concern for you. No one is is checking your profile before replying to you, especially if you’re being an asshole to them. Did you click my profile before responding to me?

You did something that should make you ashamed.

I should be ashamed of the phrase "Critique to build, not tear down”? Again, you might want to do some self analysis on why that would offend you.

I didn’t call names, I didn’t insult you. I told you that an action you took was socially unacceptable

Hey, same here! I didn’t call names, I didn’t insult you, I pointed out that your rant about hypocrisy had nothing to do about anything that had been said up to that point. That is civility. Just because I didn’t fellate you doesn’t mean I’ve wronged you.

“I don’t understand why I’m living in your head rent free. This genuinely started as a critique of awful behavior. I’ve no idea why you can’t take even the lightest criticism”

Sure, you can attribute that to me. Remarkable amount of self awareness to say I am living rent free in your head, (again, you might want to look into that).

I am telling off an asshole. I didn’t know that at the time of my first comment, but I certainly do now.

Oh now I am curious. Please quote the exact sentence where you determined I was an asshole. Let’s see who was an asshole first. I’ll start: It’s when you got offended at the statement “Critique to build, not tear down” and went off on a paragraph long rant about it.

You’re not perfect, you deserve criticism

Never claimed otherwise. This goes both ways.

I don’t want you to engage with me. I need you to grow a spine

Wouldn’t me not engaging with a bully be spineless? This is as non-nonsensical as claiming someone you’re communicating with through text is illiterate. You have a very shallow pool of insults and you are throwing all of them at me trying to make me go away, and it just doesn’t seem to be working. That’s because I have a policy of “Being an asshole to me doesn’t mean I give up. We just stop having the conversation you want”.

Trust me, I’m not still talking to you for me

Oh do tell, who are you still talking to me for?
Is it for me? Do you care about me that much? Because I promise you have successfully been enough of an asshole that you will be unable to convince me of anything other than that fact.
Is it for the nobody reading this comment chain? Again, your first reply in this chain was nonsense enough that I promise you nobody is reading any further.
Is it for your therapist? Because you might want to talk to them about this. They’ll recommend some better coping mechanisms for you.

Why do you ignore the steps required to get here?

Did OP build and train the models? This makes as much sense as blaming OP for using the Internet to spread their message, because the “steps required” to get to the Internet include massive contributions to global warming, abusing and stealing the labour of the working class, and the genocide of indigenous populations. Why does none of this matter to you?

“ffs, why do you want people to stop buying Nestlé where possible?”

If OP is paying for access to the AI generation then they should not do that and provide them with profit. There are plenty of methods to get it for free so there is no reason to assume OP paid for it.

Please don’t make comparisons to genocide joe. This isn’t the same

Of course it isn’t. Israel’s genocide is a real issue that people actively made worse because having Palestinians die is easier than making the mental effort of thinking through the consequences of their actions (or inaction), and considering that sometimes all you can do is prevent something from getting worse.

This is just people refusing to engage with helpful messaging intended to help organize group solidarity because of a knee-jerk reaction, instead of considering if this image actually contributed to the harm AI causes in any way.

Both are people being intellectually lazy and pretending they are morally superior.

Adding more faux outrage, cute.

I started out civil.

You haven’t been civil a single time. You call this civil:

this was a pathetic attempt and should never be repeated.How’s that? Build you up enough?

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You come in with an attitude of “I’m telling off an asshole to the discussion.” and you’re going to clutch your pearls when I don’t treat you like someone worthy of intellectual discourse? You came in like an asshole, you got responded to like an asshole. If you don’t like it don’t start with it.

This doesn’t need to be a whole thing.

“I don’t understand, I keep trying to verbally abuse you into not responding to me so I can pretend I won an argument and you’re not going away and letting me pretend I owned you so hard!!!”