I took the money I was going to spend on a TV and bought a 50 inch on facebook market place. Then, I got a last-gen gaming PC. Is it tedious? yes, but I can play video games and watch whatever I want without getting spied on so its a fucking win. *ads from changing the inputs and channels on your own device?" fuck you. I hope this tv lasts the next two decades.
I’m really not that invested. I haven’t used an Uber for years, I’m not a woman, and I don’t work for Uber.
I wish only safety for those that use it but my dog isn’t in this fight. All woman ride sharing? Cool. I see some issue with male drivers lying. Women drivers getting for-sure trapped by it but being that neither of the situations are likely to happen to me, and my theoreticals aren’t backed up by anything but worry and pessimism.
The idea gets a thumbs up from me. Just curious how reality and human nature will find a way to ruin good intention.
Those were supposed to be a surgeon’s hands. He’s sketching more like a butcher.
(Jk Way better than my skill level)
Hey ChatGPT, respond to all of my inquiries like my toxic abusive uncle. The more vicious the response the better. Withhold praise. Pretend it’s opposite day and give me your best compliments in the form of the life-long truama that I have come to associate with authority figures.
Here’s my code. What do you think?
Posting the same exact statement with the exact same syntax. Are you a bot or just lazy?
Thanks, scrolling on lunch. Will read when home. I perfer deep reading at the computer over the cell phone.
14.8…BILLION! FOR A WEBSITE WHERE BOTS TALK TO EACH OTHER!
I remember a time when people used to listen to each other speak instead of talk over each other to poison the sound bite. I miss that. Two opposing parties having an actual conversation.
Been communist mostly.
Yeah, I’m tired and got snippy myself. It’s late and I should be asleep. There’s a thread-bare line between keeping a line of dialogue open and being suseptible to brainwashing. It’s hard to self-regulate sometimes.
Sorry about that. The instinct to just bark at someone online is pavlovian. Trained into us by doom scrooling and positive reinforcement from having the behavior upvoted.
I wrote a paper on it actually. More people should try to be aware of how many ways they’re getting happy chemicals from comments and upvotes.
I try to keep social media (in general) framed as a casino.
I try not to lock myself into a community like that. I like data and fact supported by evidence. I tend to filter myself as needed. Federation has a tribalism problem but I haven’t seen it as toxicity present in most of the main spaces. The fringe server like hexbear…sure. I keep my nose there too. They’re funny. The smart phone and social media in general has wrecked our ability to self regulate in public digital spaces. And the algorithm broke the upvote system that used to help show a level of class solidarity between people in different backgrounds. I can’t say how much was intentional and how much we slipped into, but we all need to make an effort to regulate ourselves.
Tribalism is the enemy of progress.
Yep. I try not to do that. Discussion is good when done in good faith. It’s too bad the disinformation age also has AI agents and censorship. Man. It’s just wild. The censorship. We educated ourselves and now we have the next generation growing up in slop but not knowing their in slop. Or worse, knowing but having know way to escape it as all methods of escape are cut off. So many sides of digital enlightenment being attacked. I don’t know if we’ll escape it. Information has become entertainment. Activism is just performance.
People aren’t mad enough.
I hope you’re right though. I hope we find a way. Likely the US is fucked but that doesn’t mean humanity is fucked. Action still has inpact. It’s hard to remember that, but it does.
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I recently blocked a childhood friend on Facebook over this. They shared one of those stupid Biden stickers with a $5 a gallon price Tag.
Their point was, of course, the democrats made it worse than Trump ever did. I don’t know how this happened. How people got so turned around. Arguing with him seemed pointless. Pointing out that Biden didn’t do that. Pointing out that it’s going to get worse. Pointing out that democrats in general are just status quo bitches…
I just blocked him. I can’t fix whatever shit has pickled peoples brains.
I was born in the 90s and for better and worse had open internet. I’m no fool. I’m just tired.
Also Money Pit deserves rewatch.
Cool. Now that the Tech companies have pilfered it they’re going to shut it down. There are a ton of books on there that aren’t even worth money anymore. They’re out of print or 1-2 editions behind the scholarly current.
This is just bullshit
I got access to a bunch of pay-walled scholarly papers on Anna’s
“Mostly…pretty much, I mean…like… half way…Sigh it’s going to be a few more years”
I’m already pissy about them constantly trying to have my cc data everytime I make on online purchase. Windows asks, Google asks, ebay ask, and then my browser asks.
The answer is always no.
To ID verification, My discord is a decade old. If you can’t do math well enough to guess that I wasn’t 8 when I made it then that’s a you problem.
It’s possible the comms system has preferential ties to the command crew. Maybe crewmen can just set favorites so the system is always half-ready to connect. Like an ensign will always have a passive comm line to their CO and various members of their shift etc. We never see a random crewman get a communication from outside of their inner circle or vastly outside of the chain of command in those moments.
So it could make theoretical sense that there is a smaller always on list of ‘fast-dial’ contacts. Or that comms on all badges for on duty officers are always listening but muted unless the full connecting phrase is states.
That’s not to say the whole ship is listening to everyone else, but if you combine the two concepts it makes sense. You’re essentially on one big voice with all relevant members of your team and the ship’s computer acts like an Alexa or Google device and just unmutes the two relevant parties when the command is given.
I suspect part of the lack of outrage is the fact that you don’t have to change your inputs much these days. If you only stream content from a gaming console with apps then you’re never changing the channel or the inputs. and if you ARE changing the channel, they could easily seem like just regular TV ads.
I don’t think the average 20 something or 30 something is channel surfing like they used to in the old days either way. If you’re changing a channel you likely know what you want to watch and what channel it’s on. So, each change of the channel is one or two ads every hour or so. because even with cable you have the cable based TV guide interface.