Someone somewhere, is going to decide “AI is great to lead scientific studies!” just like that terrible idea someone had about bringing AI into the surgery room.

And it is already happening but will be rampant, AI-revisionists re-writing history for propaganda purposes. People are already instilling historical figures for AI to recreate down to the voice for them to say things that they never would’ve said originally or at all, just to push a political message.

This shit will be all over campaigns in any election.

I don’t think it is that healthy. You’d otherwise be screaming into yet another void.

That’s why I use filing software, preferably if free. Nobody can fuck up a W-2 when that’s all you have.

Filing taxes.

Social media is social media, regardless of the host.

I’m repeating myself by saying that, AI has a place. It is just not the be-all application to everything like it is being treated.

I rarely upvote. I downvote and block someone who is just an antagonizing prick, though. I don’t give a shit what criteria I personally meet that’ll get people to react to this silly internet toy. My importance is that I’m able to say what I want to say at all than be restricted.

No, no, no. The pro move is, you pirate a game you think you want and don’t have the buyer’s remorse feeling.

That’s the pro move.

Then you ‘demo’ the game. It’s all on you though should you buy the game anyways.

I don’t know why this kind of thing is normalized.

I’m missing the times when questions were thought-provoking and fun to answer.

This one is anything but.

My thing is, is that it isn’t so much about the things I use rather than what these platforms expect me to be which is a good capitalist doggy. One that feels the need to always CONSOOOM, at any given time. I’m not really about that, for I value what money I get. So I go out and thrift, I don’t subscribe to twenty different subscription services. I don’t just buy things for the sake of buying.

It’s all a big mental game.

What made W dangerous, isn’t actually so much him, himself. But, how much leverage others got through him and his background as the ideal republican model of the time, being white, christian and straight so maybe a little himself. Trump is merely dangerous because he’s throwing everyone in a loop, he’s too unpredictable. But Trump is one person, who can be managed and mitigated as evidenced by what Congress has done against him and even people he helped get appointed to in Supreme Court seats.

W was dangerous because, his entire administration was competent and worked with him in a competent manner. That is when Republicans are dangerous the most, is when they’re all collectively organized.

Trump’s admin is about as dangerous collectively as well, but his instability is what is undoing their hold. W might’ve been an idiot, but he was an idiot that somehow kept things in his party under control until late into his second term after the recession when Republicans needed a scapegoat because they all scapegoat everybody.

sigh Rule 5…

The stupid karma scoring system doesn’t help matters. When Lemmy and the Fediverse began, I was hopeful that we’d be rid of such things. Sadly, people feel we need to still have them and look where that has gotten us. Are you trying to be Reddit or not trying to be Reddit? Because if you’re aiming for the latter, you’ve fundamentally failed.

I hear so many excuses why we have scoring systems, but none of them add up. People will upvote anything they feel fits their world view and downvote things they feel doesn’t. It creates artificial engagement. It does nothing for the ecosystem as a whole.

I would put George W Bush down in F as well.

Red Pandas

You could have the most cuddlest creature with you.

With Linux, you can actually take out software you don’t truly need. With Windows, most of the time you’ll only just disable it and only remove a handful of software. Microsoft gives you the illusion of owning your PC.

It starts becoming an issue though because of what I mentioned about what Valve does with Steam. For the longest time, people used Windows XP out of protest because they didn’t like Vista or they’ll use 7 out of protest for 8.1 or even 10. Then Valve one day decided to axe Windows XP support for Steam. Then they did it for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1.

We see this happen all of the time with browsers, there will eventually become a point where you have to force yourself to either upgrade or jump ship.

For me it’s not about whether it is more work or not. It is more along the lines of, tolerating microsoft’s bullshit for any longer. Windows 10 in more ways than one, has teetered me towards the edge of switching. Because I hate stupid mandatory updates, I hate how insultingly stupid it is to use a Windows system these days and every dumb decision Microsoft has made that has turned Windows into what it is and what it will be in the future.

I won’t mind a little work to use my machine, long as it frees me from all of that bullshit.

Okay so the problem with space travel is numerous and I don’t believe we’ll see anything beyond reaching Mars and the Moon in our lifetime.

First thing, we need everyone on board to back NASA and be intelligent enough to figure out where exactly what we want to do. We keep finding these earth-like exoplanets, so why not start there?

The other thing is, to achieve the level of space travel we need, on the levels of where Voyager-1 and Voyager-2 is going in length of space, we’d need to spend significant time and resources building the materials and ships needed for that kind of travel.

Like I said, this won’t be done in our lifetime. We’re probably several lifetimes out.