zbyte64
@zbyte64@awful.systems
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 3 days ago:
How exactly was it brilliant of him to say Mamdani can call him a fascist?
- Comment on THIS is real. There is an app that allows you to text with Jesus 1 week ago:
First the pope throws a rave, now this 🤦
- Comment on Meta - There's Levels To This Shit 1 week ago:
Apply this logic to the hospitality industry, where Trump famously got his start. Your hotel hosts dignitaries around the world. If you find out one of your guests invited prostitutes or did drugs you could have leverage over some very powerful people. If there is sewage surveillance, you will see it at the hotels first.
- Comment on Why aren't people harassing marketers? 2 weeks ago:
Being right isn’t as important as doing right. I have better things to do with my time, unlike marketers.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 4 weeks ago:
The truck says “War” on it. This is why voucher schools exists, so that I, as a parent, don’t need to deal with this kind of parent and their kids.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 4 weeks ago:
Where I am at there’s triple digit hear warnings, so there is a logic to this. On the other I have used my bicycle to pick up my daughter under such conditions so it is possible, but then she rightfully complains about the heat.
- Comment on Insuranace is a joke 1 month ago:
Needing to own a car to exist in society is a tax.
- Comment on Why do people hate reality? 1 month ago:
With you on all but makeup. I don’t do it but I know enough to know it is an art form and I also know there’s a paradox of self-expression that is intertwined with camp and seduction. These things are not inherently bad, but they are destructive when they are commoditized so that we start to think we have to pay admission to express ourself
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 2 months ago:
Oh, you actually serious?
I don’t care enough about this to debate his motives, I just know stupidity when I see it.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 2 months ago:
Lol. That was good but you need to double down on the irony at the end or else people might think you’re serious. Maybe rift on him crossing state lines.
- Comment on An AI Social Coach Is Teaching Empathy to People with Autism 2 months ago:
Saying that you’re not worth the time to train someone to interact with you better but here’s a product you can buy is a platitude. You failed the empathy test.
- Comment on An AI Social Coach Is Teaching Empathy to People with Autism 2 months ago:
Additionally, AI will only be getting better,
It might get cheaper, but that doesn’t mean it’s doing a better job.
if the alternative is telling people that are struggling and have no other options that they have to tough it out
That’s just it, if you’re talking to someone who’s is struggling with this there is already a better option: showing empathy. I suspect our perceived lack of empathy is a reflection of how society treats people in general, we are just more honest about it.
- Comment on An AI Social Coach Is Teaching Empathy to People with Autism 2 months ago:
I’ll be honest, I find the framing of the study offensive and I’m not sure if I have the words but I’ll try.
It’s less about this study comparing itself to no intervention instead of comparing to existing interventions, but the social context of AI being pushed as a way to make care giving more efficient while sacrificing quality.
- Comment on An AI Social Coach Is Teaching Empathy to People with Autism 2 months ago:
half were assigned to use Noora for four weeks and half received no intervention.
If only they gave a control group an off-the-shelf social game like LA Noire…
- Comment on The devil made me do it 2 months ago:
Ever tried siracha deviled eggs? Or with grey puopon? I wonder what the price of eggs are now…
- Comment on I love bpd girls 2 months ago:
Wishing you the best therapist she can find. “Integrated Family Systems” could be of help.
- Comment on Help. 3 months ago:
… With whatever corporations is providing the bot. When the business decides to change the model or impose a technical limit that impacts their experience negatively, well you get the idea. There is a material, exploitive capital machine on the other end, and it wants your time.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Across the pond there were families that took in those refugees, invited Dietrich to speak to congregations, and stored his letters he sent from prison. In short, we should echo the voices of dissent and give them material support if possible.
- Comment on It's all a game for them and we are always the losers 3 months ago:
Imagine if the players could rewrite the rules of the game.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was murdered by the SS because he didn’t stand idle as his country went full Nazi. He helped with multiple plots to assassinate Hitler, smuggled vulnerable people out of Germany and founded a church that rejected nazification that was later deemed illegal by the Mazis. The guy was a pastor. Do you honestly think he was dogshit for not doing enough?
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 3 months ago:
Hukuo in modern China could be perceived as prioritizing the right to have a home over choosing to have none. “At what cost” includes homelessness and higher unemployment rates. We are quick to highlight where there is a lack of right in China but not how it reflects on our own lack of rights.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 3 months ago:
I don’t know about Canada but the USA has been pro-child factory work lately. China’s wages have been rising faster than expected so they have gone all-in on automation. So when I see people claim their stuff is cheap because of “slavery” or human rights, it reads like projection.
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 3 months ago:
For the Epstein list to be released and for all the wealthy pesos to be executed.
- Comment on The struggle 4 months ago:
Get a squatty potty and it will flow with more ease
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 4 months ago:
And what do interesting things are the Uighurs are making that is so interesting?
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 4 months ago:
Did you know that most of China’s debt is held domestically?
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 4 months ago:
I mean so does the United States thanks to the 13th amendment but we don’t have anywhere near the same infrastructure to show for it
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 4 months ago:
Overproduction of commodities is certainly a problem for capitalists. But the workers get to enjoy a lower cost of living. Like I would much prefer we built ghost cities (Chengdu was derided as a ghost city at one point) than have a decades long housing crisis with no signs of improving unless we deport millions of people.
- Comment on Neighbors take back Southeast Portland street, replacing RVs with community garden 4 months ago:
The RVs are people’s homes because there is a shortage of housing. They move their RV from time to time to avoid tickets/police. The vehicles usually look worn down because people are literally living out of them. Eventually the RV won’t work anymore and it gets towed and the family that was living out of it has to find somewhere else to sleep. Usually nothing illegal is happening because most of them understand they’re living off the good graces of others. But there are a lot of people that feel uncomfortable around unhoused people and would rather vilify their neighbors than take a hard look at that discomfort.
- Comment on Self starter 4 months ago:
Ehh, it is not that our dopamine receptors are fried. We are all wired to seek out information. But most of what we get is starving us for actual useful information so we have to wade through an endless sea of slop. The “instant gratification” is largely us not wanting to deal with the bullshit and get straight to what is useful.