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This Robin Williams scene perfectly encapsulates why AI is fundamentally shitty ( www.youtube.com )
My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore ( www.howtogeek.com )
Having to score strangers on their 'empathy' and 'courtesy' and 'knowledge' (anything less than a 5 star is a 'bad grade', I am sure) ( lemmy.world )
by that i mean, those are intangible, effervescent parts of a human being that should not be quantized down to a fucking amazon star system. the 'anything less than 5 stars is actually bad' thing is disgusting as well - all modern companies do this.
TIL Hunter S. Thomson got an early honorable discharge from the air force in part because, "Sometimes his rebel and superior attitude seems to rub off on other airmen staff members." ( en.wikipedia.org )
From Wikipedia:...
I cannot stand how social interactions are valorized in media and advertising to make us feel wrong for being alone.
If you go somewhere alone, say, a restaurant, that's an ostensible bad vibe, plus you're taking up valuable real estate and time, when you could iNvItE your bUdDiEs and make it more worth the restaurant's while, so 'fun'-based companies have all been subliminally forcing us for 100+ years to only consume their products with...
Justice Thomas raked in staggering $2.4 million in gifts, watchdog says ( www.independent.co.uk )
Fix the Court, the group that released the findings, calculated the total in gifts from January 2004 to December 2023 and said the nine current justices received 344 gifts totaling nearly $3million....
Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important ( www.techdirt.com )
The key problem is that copyright infringement by a private individual is regarded by the court as something so serious that it negates the right to privacy. It’s a sign of the twisted values that copyright has succeeded on imposing on many legal systems. It equates the mere copying of a digital file with serious crimes that...
'I'll lose the debate on purpose': Trump tries to lower expectations for Biden showdown ( www.rawstory.com )
I hate how reddit lies to you about if your post was actually posted on a subreddit
i posted a fairly obscure support request on an obscure sub and instead of just saying the post isn't live, etc etc, it'll fake-show me the post as #1 on the hot page of the sub, #1 on the new, but then if I open the sub in a private window it isn't there -- so it either wasn't approved at all, or hasn't been approved yet. why...
Why isn't jerking off more valorized as an easy dopamine hit that's also literally good for you?
people have been demonizing it for most of the AD years i think but it's quite pleasant really. are there any proven negative effects?
When watching a film, do you generally try to empathize with the lead and immerse yourself, or do you try to watch it more objectively?
i feel like when i was younger i exclusively did the first thing, just relate to the main character. but now it's more fascinating to zoom out more....
Why does it feel like too much effort just to go from sitting around looking at garbage online to simply watching a film or playing a video game?
this is stupid. something about activation energy? are there any activation energy hacks?
Sure, but how many books can you kill at one time? ( lemmy.world )
This stuff about the price reductions after 4 years of blatant gouging is really freaking me out
I mean, that’s 4 years of our lives taken! 4 years of opportunities that were more challenging because they wanted a number on a computer to go up! 4 years of feeling worse than necessary about my finances and management of them and general personhood because i felt like i couldn’t afford anything because everything was...
Private Equity–Backed Firm Bowlero Is Ruining Bowling ( jacobin.com )
For the most part, Bowlero doesn’t build its own centers. Instead, it purchases existing ones and makes them over in the Bowlero style: dim lights, loud music, expensive cocktails. At Bowleros, bowling isn’t bowling. It’s “upscale entertainment.”...
Sandwich: fried egg (broken), spinach (hidden), tomato (walmart), colby jack, on white (burger bun (previously frozen)) ( lemmy.world )
This is what I learned on tiktok today. I obviously have my algorithm very finely tuned but I don't see anything this insightful on any other social media site. ( lemmy.world )
full disclosure i was accidentally logged out today and scrolled for 5 minutes and it was pure pure absolute uncut dogshit i mean god awful bad. so i don't blame people. but on my account it knows what i want
We constantly have spit in our mouth 100% of the time but if we were made to drink any amount of our spit it'd be disgusting. Why?
when google bought datasets from reddit ( lemmy.world )
we love google (and LLMs)
TIL one of the oldest TV shows was simply called "Sea Stories" on the BBC, featuring Royal Navy Commander A.B. Campbell describing the personalities and places he had seen. No known footage exists. ( en.wikipedia.org )
aired from 1936-1937. if anyone has a copy pls lemme know
Going insane watching conservatives realize that sometimes cops go insane for no good reason ( lemmy.world )
I feel like one story is pretty unequivocally both more horrifying and more interesting ( lemmy.world )
is anyone meaningfully following this hush money thing? ooh he fell asleep in the 1000th trial he's been to ok. obviously his side is lying that's the strategy....
Not only is this not how anyone writes, I do not understand why anyone would want to read anything that sounds anything like this ( lemmy.world )
hey there fellow posters...
‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services ( www.theguardian.com )
*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...
The cost-of-living crisis is so bleak that some Gen Zers genuinely fear becoming homeless ( fortune.com )
Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds ( www.washingtonpost.com )
Without paywall: https://archive.ph/0KvTq
Take the day off, it's Mother's Day ( i.ibb.co )
I think it's extremely invasive that amazon is telling me this ( lemmy.world )
even the name is too much imo, when i delivered pizza some places had their system like this, i don't like strangers knowing that. it's too personal....
Analysis Finds Nearly 100% of Campus Gaza Protests Have Been Peaceful ( www.commondreams.org )
Biden Says Trump Will Not Accept 2024 Result: ‘I Promise You He Won’t’ ( www.huffpost.com )
“The guy is not a democrat with a small d,” the president told CNN's Erin Burnett....
Where do I look when seated at a restaurant to seem normal?
(when seated in a group with others, i should clarify. if i'm by myself i'm absolutely happy to be on my phone or book)...
Two newborn twins need a one-dose treatment that would save their lives: Zolgensma, a $2.1M drug. Insurance (also the mother's employer) cut coverage of the drug the day after they were born. ( www.wbtv.com )
america is so fucking based man...
People get addicted to delivery apps cause it lets you pretend you're on vacation all the time
it feels similar in egregious price to getting room service, and you don't even have to talk to the guy, and you can convince yourself it's nice to treat yourself you've been working hard etc etc. you don't have to do any dishes or think about all the rotten shit in the fridge. it can feel like a legitimate mental break,...
What documentaries feel the most like strolling through a calming art museum on a pleasant spring day?
i wanna go to a real one but they're open like 5 hours a day...
Shouldn't most religious people in theory be excited to die because then they get to experience the afterlife?
esp if you're one of the devout ones who think they've been really good
Reddit has become the face of enshittification ( lemmy.world )
I just wanted to peek at the front page. I guess they don't want people to use their shit anymore. I'm starting to believe in the dead internet theory.
WTF is going on with the world? Why are there so many manufacturing jobs that require rotating schedules? Are they just trying to destroy your soul and your health? ( sh.itjust.works )
I have been looking for manufacturing, assembly, production positions all over the Midwest. It's absolutely shocking how many of them want you to work rotating shifts....
Walmart frozen burrito w enchilada sauce, homemade pico ( lemmy.world )
What do you miss from the old internet?
i think we need Cracked-style articles back. desperately. or like, a guy doing a weird thing and writing a piece on it. sites like those are declining faster than the glaciers.
Does everyone buy little things here and there so as to not go insane?
you know -- this is always represented in the news/etc as 'a starbucks a day' but i mean moreso a gadget or a shirt. i'm splurging on deodorant right now. is that immoral? are you meant to have a mostly austere budget until you're a boomer with a house and a fence?...
What gets you downvoted?
What sort of post or comment gets you downvoted the most? Especially if you don't think it's bad behavior in the first place, or don't care. Does not have to be on Lemmy, but we are here......
There is no such thing as "unskilled labor" ( lemmy.world )