As a person near the great lakes: No, they shouldn’t.
As a person near the great lakes: No, they shouldn’t.
Sometimes I see comments/headlines and I think: “Is this AI?” And then I think: “Or is this person just stupid?”
I’ve always assumed it was AI, but maybe “the kids” today can’t write a coherent lemmy comment.
I don’t think of it in terms of the action being virtuous, but that they are signaling what they think is virtuous.
We can’t imagine why the company is upset about an extremely popular replacement firmware for their hardware
It’s because their app spies on you and they sell that data. (No evidence, just a guess.)
I interviewed a bunch of years ago with a company called “xmode social” (I was in desperate need of a job. I fortunately did not get that one.) They had a framework that they paid app publishers in to include in their apps. That framework collected your location data and sent it to xmode who sold that data. That was their entire business AFAIK.
There don’t need to be any shared features for companies to include shit like that in their apps. They just need a way to make the line go up.
What I love most about the phrase “virtue signaling” is that when people accuse you of it they are themselves virtue signaling.
About five years ago the exhaust fan on my furnace started making noise. It sounded like a bearing issue, so I figured out the correct replacement part, ordered it and installed it myself.
It cost a little under $200 all told. I know that the service call would have been at least $500.
So many of the things we own are made of generic parts that you can buy off of amazon for less than the cost of getting a guy to come look at it.
Self awareness is the only path to being a better person.
I was thinking about this movie just the other day. I had no idea that was Jack Black.
This thread is full of people comparing OPs hypothetical about 10 years from now with last year’s capability.
Will AI progress that fast? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It probably won’t get that good, but it doesn’t matter. If it gets as good as your average junior that’s going to mean something like 100% increase in productivity, which means 50% as many jobs and that’s going to be a BIG FUCKING DEAL.
Especially when it’s going to be replacing a lot of other types of office workers. What kind of job is your average software dev going to transition to? Tech support? Not anymore. UI Designer? LOL. Manager? And who are you going to be managing?
If the US doesn’t hit 15-20% unemployment in the next 10 years I’ll eat my hat. I’ll be eating it either way because I’ll be starving to death.
No, clearly Apple is spying on OP and sending all that valuable tracking data into the Fediverse because they’re secretly communists. Or something.
People who were 10 when Self Esteem came out probably think that, yeah.
I’m sorry but if someone is pretending to be a Republican
to gain favor with Trump, skirt antitrust laws, and ultimately ‘rip off consumers and crush competitors’
doesn’t that just make them… a Republican?
My dude. Things cost money. That’s a basic fact of life. A rec league needs to rent space to play in. You need gear to play. If those facts taint the activity for you I’m not sure how you can even handle the horrific crassness of paying for a place to live. You should probably live in a hovel the woods. One that you didn’t pay for.
I have to say that, in spite of surely well earned the reputation furries have for being nice people, that is one of the weirdest suggestions I’ve ever heard.
Substitute furries for any other sexual endeavor.
Look up BDSM groups around you. No, you don’t have to be a dom/sub to go to one.
Look up gender transition groups around you. No, you don’t have to be trans to go to one.
YES, YOU FUCKING DO!
I don’t even know if I’m being sarcastic
Compare it to some other public space and see how ludicrous it sounds:
You’d go to the bar to see friends? I don’t even know if I’m being sarcastic.
You’d go to the coffee shop to see friends? I don’t even know if I’m being sarcastic.
See? You’re used to people doing those things so it sounds normal, but exercising with your friends is just as normal as drinking with your friends.
People do all sorts of things with their friends, but the reasons they do them invariably include “I like spending time with my friends.” Hell, I help my friends do home improvement projects because it’s just nice to do something productive with my friends. I’m certainly not going to install a new door on a friend’s house if they’re going to be away at work, so clearly the real reason is that I like spending time with my friends.
The problem is the inability to be attracted to “regular looking” people.
The problem is that you’re shallow. That’s a personality problem. Improve your personality until you see the people around you as more than objects.
’ll remind you that all 3 Back to the Future movies originally were supposed to be one movie. Then they realized it was waaaaay too long, and chopped it up into 3 movies, and added some padding on the 3rd movie.
That’s retroactive marketing bullshit. “It was always envisioned as a trilogy, which is why the first one is a standalone movie and the second and third are two halves of a movie” Once you notice this talk you see it everywhere. The Matrix, Pirates of the Caribbean… really any big hit that they cashed in on with two more sequels.
Just like Lucas’ nine part saga BS, when really he hadn’t thought past the end of A New Hope.
It sounds like what your friend is attracted to is attention.
Agreed.
The people who apply for permits are the ones who’ll obey the law.
I guess that means that permits are not an effective deterrent and that we should just ban guns altogether.