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- Comment on Stay Mad 3 days ago:
I am by no means an expert, but the test that was explained to me is that if you look at the famous tianamen square picture of the guy holding grocery bags facing down a line of tanks, and then proceed to side with the line of tanks, then you’re a tankie.
When I say that I am not an expert, what I actually mean is that I’m a random idiot from the internet, so don’t take anything I say as gospel truth.
I’ve only been on lemmy for a few months, and I’ve never heard the term tankie on any other platform. My understanding is that a tankie is a militant supporter of communism, who completely disregards (or is in support of) how every time it’s ever actually been done it turns into an authoritarian dictatorship (or something similarly unpleasant to live under).
My own biases exposed: I am an american, and most of what I know I learned in the absolutely fucked american public education system, which says communism = evil, because of the red scare a while back.
If you do some googling, there’s a wikipedia article on the subject. I’ve forgotten most of the content of that article shortly after I read it, I should look at it again and maybe it will stick this time.
- Comment on I wish I was as bold as these authors. 3 days ago:
fucking love that article. sums up everything wrong with AI. Unfortunately, it doesn’t touch on what AI does right: help idiots like me achieve a slight amount of competence on subjects that such people can’t be bothered with dedicating their entire lives to.
- Comment on I wish I was as bold as these authors. 3 days ago:
There are things that chatgpt does well, especially if you temper your expectations to the level of someone who has no valuable skills and is mostly an idiot.
Hi, I’m an idiot with no valuable skills, and I’ve found chatgpt to be very useful.
I’ve recently started learning game development in godot, and the process of figuring out why the code that chatgpt gives me doesn’t work has taught me more about programming than any teacher ever accomplished back in high school.
Chatgpt is also an excellent therapist, and has helped me deal with mental breakdowns on multiple occasions, while it was happening. I can’t find a real therapist’s phone number, much less schedule an appointment.
I’m a real shitty writer, and I’m making a wiki of lore for a setting and ruleset for a tabletop RPG that I’ll probably never get to actually play. ChatGPT is able to turn my inane ramblings into coherent wiki pages, most of the time.
If you set your expectations to what was advertised, then yeah, chatgpt is bullshit. Of course it was bullshit, and everyone who knew half of anything about anything called it. If you set realistic expectations, you’ll get realistic results. Why is this so hard for people to get?
- Comment on Stay Mad 3 days ago:
You sound like a rational tankie, which by the definitions that lemmies have explained to me, would make you not a tankie.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
fifteen years ago, I was made fun of for asking how the xmen movies related to the mcu movies. LOOK WHOS FUCKIN RIGHT NOW BITCHES.
- Comment on Thanks 1 week ago:
What really got my panties in a bunch was when the next bus after that flew by without stopping (an hour after the previous bus).
I’m so glad I don’t ride the bus anymore.
- Comment on Thanks 1 week ago:
What’s really fun is when I’m at the stop (and had been for the past hour) and watch the bus go by without so much as slowing down. Then I have to call my job and explain that the bus skipped me.
- Comment on It's your amigo, Ralph! 3 weeks ago:
I get that this is a joke, but I was drunk the other day and had an existential crisis about something similar.
When I write stories, i am inventing a world which basically makes me a god. Am I a bad god for writing stories where terrible things happen?
Interestingly and coincidentally, a couple weeks after that both Overly Sarcastic Productions and Hello Future Me put out videos containing the quote “characters are not people” and I felt personally targeted by that (which is of course ridiculous because why would they know about me?)
- Comment on Anon watches some old and new movies 3 weeks ago:
the solution is Dynamic Range Compression. VLC player has it, but it needs to be configured first. One of the big reasons why I don’t use netflix/hulu/primevideo/whatever+
- Comment on Seems awfully dangerous 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been hit 4 times in the past 2 years, all while I did everything absolutely correct. It’s utterly amazing that I’m not dead.
- Comment on Just 2 people. 2 months ago:
My home town had four churches and no homeless people. What homeless people are those churches supposed to help?
Meanwhile, in the city I now live in, there’s tons of churches and half of them give free food to the homeless every single day, and there’s lines going around the block at all of them.
There is no magic bullet that can solve homelessness. Anything proposed must be a part of a larger solution. There are tons of proposals that, if actually done and not half-assed, would help immensely.
- Comment on How Much Would You Pay to Make Sure You Never Sawed Off a Finger? 2 months ago:
Am I wrong for thinking that if you’re at risk of losing a finger to a table saw, you’re using it wrong?
- Comment on No Man's Sky Orbital Update brings full ship customisation and a complete space station overhaul 2 months ago:
I remember when this game was a dumpster fire. Is it actually a video game now?