Wife and I got COVID last fall, despite being vaxxed. But god knows how bad it could have been without. I have mild emphysema, that shit can kill me.

And no, neither one of us kept up with the vax schedule. That’s on us.

Same with evolution. “The eyeball is too complex to evolve as a whole unit!” Well, that’s absolutely correct. First, start with a patch of light sensitive cells, iterate.

Fevers always work out great for me. I’ll be all shivery and crash under a pile of blankets. Wake up a few hours later, soaking wet, I mean really, truly gross, and it’s over, all better.

What are the population densities and technology levels among these magical indigenous peoples? This is the Magical Negro trope all over again.

You will love this:

“Fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain and they each heard something rustling in the grass. The first one thought it was a tiger, and he ran like hell, and it was a tiger but the guy got away. The second one thought the rustling was a tiger and he ran like hell, but it was only the wind and his friends all laughed at him for being such a chickenshit. But the third guy thought it was only the wind, so he shrugged it off and the tiger had him for dinner. And the same thing happened a million times across ten thousand generations - and after a while everyone was seeing tigers in the grass even when there weren’t any tigers, because even chickenshits have more kids than corpses do. And from those humble beginnings we learn to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favours the paranoid. Even here in the 21st century we can make people more honest just by scribbling a pair of eyes on the wall with a Sharpie. Even now we are wired to believe that unseen things are watching us.”

― Peter Watts, Echopraxia

I’ve seen 100 shitty job postings for rating AI results. It’s rather complicated and pays pennies.

Zuck must have taken the lizard man jibes to heart. At some point he completely changed his image. Bet money he was coached and practiced smiling in the mirror, not even being funny.

There are sites where you just plug in the URL and the video downloads.

Florida here, gotta use my VPN anyway to get to PH. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Imgur bans my IP from a Digital Ocean droplet of my own build. Just sayin’, they’re not only operating from known IP ranges.

Oh! I hadn’t thought that through. Guess we don’t have laws to cover hold AI responsible and the company can simply dodge responsibility.

In America:

Section 230 of the Communications Act provides immunity for online platforms and users, stating they generally aren’t liable for content posted by others, allowing them to host third-party information without being treated as the “publisher or speaker”.

I’m guessing Europe has a similar provision.

I’m screaming this every day, and lemmy is especially ridiculous given our views on capitalism.

In a thread about fast food prices last year, I was told I was privileged for suggesting that, “maybe stop buying their shit?”

If every American had my wife and I’s spending habits, the economy would collapse in 3-4 months.

MS doesn’t care about home users, hasn’t in a long, long time. Notice how they quit fighting piracy ages ago? The money is in commercial use.

If you’re running a Windows ecosystem, you can fine tune every aspect. If MS takes any of that tuning away, such as forcing AI, they risk killing the cash cow.

I know that’s a serious scene, but I can’t stop giggling

Yep!

Don’t know about your jurisdiction, but we vote those people in and out around here. Well…

We used to have a quasi-private/public power company. County commissioners voted us out of that. (Still our fault.) We do still have such a water setup. For now.

This shit is a failure of local and state governments, and the people who elect them. Now that AI costs are hitting citizen pocket books, many municipalities are fighting back.

“All politics is local.”

Yeah, weird in-between dining model. Still beats McDonald’s inside where they have purposefully run off dining customers in favor of drive thru.

Still, way better food, brought to you and cleaned up, same price.

For business, they’re locked into Excel, there is no substitute. I can see MS blowing out the remaining home users though.