Oh, I agree. I’m right there with you.

I was specifically addressing butthurt white males.

I, personally, couldn’t give a shit what race/gender anyone is, they’re a living human deserving of respect, the kind that isn’t demonstrated by the asshole in the subject comic.

The only reason I’m calling out white males, specifically those that feel butthurt by the comic and have no sense of humor, is because the previous poster specifically cited that group. I’m a member of the white/male group, so I wanted to speak bluntly “man to man” style to any future visitors. Oh my, there are so many issues with referring to it that way; I’m just going to leave it and hope it comes across correctly.

In any case, anyone, regardless of their race, or gender or anything else you can classify people using, has different behaviors or thinks differently (better or worse) about others based on gender/race/whatever, then they’re an asshole.

I will judge others based on the content of their character. That doesn’t make me better than anyone else, I’m only stating my intent. If the content of your character is trash, then I will judge you for the trash you are. If you’re trying to do right, despite falling/failing sometimes, then thats worthy of more consideration than the trash humans mentioned earlier.

I couldn’t possibly give any fewer fucks what color your skin is, or what you have in your pants. Be whatever you want to be, just don’t be an asshole.

As a white male, I’m not going to disagree with you on any of this.

Related to the content: personally I like opinionated, loud mouthed women. I don’t classify myself as a “high value” male or anything. I mean, who the fuck is that arrogant? I’m not poor, but I’m certainly not rich. I’m much closer to being poor than I am to being rich… But that doesn’t say much.

In any case, the content is funny. It’s an exaggeration of the kind of reaction that people tend to have to dickwads sharing their unsolicited opinions with strangers who don’t care what you think.

I love that it is shining a big fat spotlight on the shitty behaviors that self proclaimed “high value men” think is ok. It’s not ok. Stop it. Get some help.

It’s shameful to share a gender with these degenerates. I am ashamed of my gender because people like the one depicted in the comic, exist. And they’re not a trivial amount either. There’s a good number of them, and it’s fucking embarrassing.

To anyone butthurt about the contents of the comic: first, relax, it’s a joke. Second, how about you treat everyone like they’re a fucking human being? Instead of putting people into little boxes like “high value” or “male” or “female” or whatever, how about you throw all that bullshit out and just see humans. Regardless of race, gender, preferences, religion, anatomical features, disabilities… They’re all human beings deserving of some measure of respect. And don’t give me any shit about “respect is earned”… Fuck you. You need to have a basic level of respect before you can prove yourself as someone deserving of respect; otherwise any action you take will be seen as the feeble flailings of someone nobody cares about to earn some kind of clout.

Everyone should be given a base level of respect until they prove that the respect granted to them for being a human in our society, isn’t deserved.

For everyone else who may still be reading and didn’t get butthurt by a comic: stay frosty.

I did my part. Now hopefully the rest of you all don’t fuck it up.

I suppose it depends on where you live …

I must ask why; the prohibition of it doesn’t make any sense to me at all. It’s all but proven fact that it’s not any more harmful than either smoking cigarettes, or drinking alcohol.

Both of which are completely legal to consume all day, every day.

Weed simply doesn’t deserve the status it is given, it was placed on schedule 1 as a gigantic middle finger from the ruling class, against the working class. They did it to punish those they saw as their lessers, and so they could have the police rough up anyone because they owned a small amount of the substance. But the cigarettes and alcohol they’ve enjoyed for decades and many of them have profited from? Those are fine. This new thing (at the time) that they aren’t profiting off of? Let’s make it illegal, so we can force everyone to use the things we do profit from.

That’s basically the backstory here.

Why you, or anyone would oppose lifting that prohibition is confusing at best, racist/classest at worst.

I’m genuinely curious how you have come to have the position you do. If you don’t like it, nobody is going to force you to use the stuff, same with alcohol and cigarettes. So why do you care?

Successful in mass media, sure.

I wish someone would go through the effort of learning how to pilot a helicopter just so I can be free…

The NRA has entered the chat.

This is very true.

I mean, the same can be said for “new” teams.

Though… “Teams classic” was an electron app, and I’m not sure that’s better.

Outlook “classic”, as far as I’m concerned, is the last actual email client program that Microsoft will make. From here on out, it’s all webapps.

Honestly, so much of their stuff runs in a web browser that you might as well just just google apps… It also negates any requirement to run their bloated shitware OS.

I would say that fixing the taxes that the rich are (not) paying, would be more… Prevention for the future.

Heads in baskets is more, paying for the sins of the past.

Time will tell, if nothing else.

I think the tech has merit, but not nearly to the extent that companies are investing into it right now.

It’s moving so fast that it’s going to be hard to curb it when things start going wrong.

Here comes sky net? I guess?

I don’t mind people using it for boiler plate stuff, and/or rough drafts to get a lot of the words typed out, so you can editorialize what’s there.

When doing a lot of similar things, it can save a ton of time just having someone or something draw up a draft/starting point.

Any uses beyond this, are a non-starter for me when it comes to actual business use cases. The information that AI spits out in response to a query, is not, and should not be considered to be, complete in any way, shape, or form. It absolutely will need to be reviewed, edited, checked for accuracy and finalized by a human, before it is ready to be submitted for others to ingest. Zero AI content should be sent to anyone else until it has been reviewed and fully vetted by the person using AI to generate the content.

This has not been the goal to date. A lot of AI is trying to essentially eliminate entire segments of job markets, and bluntly, it’s an insane mistake to think that, especially in its current form, that it could possibly do that, or even come close in any capacity.

It’s at best a first-draft machine, but more likely it’s a novelty that isn’t worth the risk of using in production.

That’s fair.

I apologize to the parrot community. Clearly parrots are better than what we currently call AI.

From the wording, it looks like they’re just going to georestrict their content to places that are not Turkey.

Far from a problem, unless of course, your primary following is from Turkey; or that’s where you live.

I don’t blame bluesky here, they operate internationally, and they have to obey the laws of the locations they operate in. Personally I’m wondering what kind of Internet posts are restricted in Turkey? Who has laws to say you can, or cannot say things on the Internet? Besides… I guess, China, and obviously illegal things like CP…

Were they posting CP?

IDK, I’ve never used bluesky. I barely used xitter, back when it was relevant, if I were to use anything as a replacement it would be Mastodon.

Anyways.

It will eventually, when people realize it’s just a giant and complex statistical response machine. It’s really just giving you the words and/or set of pixels back that are the usual response to the words you provided. If there was no training data, there would be no AI.

It’s like a parrot, but more complex and requires nuclear power plants to generate enough power to keep it going.

AI generated stuff is fine as long as it’s not the same type of content I make.

Yup, I can confirm that fog machines use basically the same components, technology and ingredients as vapes, aside from the obvious (, nicotine/flavoring).

They’re just… Industrial sized.

Honestly, I was at an indoor event with live music just this past weekend. They had a fog machine (a real one, that’s not a metaphor), and I saw at least one person get up on stage during one of the performances, and in the middle of the performances, they whipped out their vape and took a big rip literally in front of hundreds of people, including staff at the facility and everything. Nobody gave a shit.

If you’re just sitting in a corridor and chugging on a vape, I’m pretty sure someone will care, but if you take the odd puff, and you’re not in people’s faces about it then it’s unlikely anyone will give enough of a shit to say anything.

Aside from that, I want to amplify that there is a residue from vaping, it is very little compared to cigarettes or any other combustible tobacco/nicotine product. I usually notice it the most in my car. It makes the windows look almost oily…

I wouldn’t say it’s particularly difficult to get off of the surfaces, after all, e-juice is water soluble. I’m not saying it’s easy, just not hard, especially if you compare to the tar from combustible tobacco products…