skisnow
@skisnow@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Reddit lost it 22 hours ago:
I think the most pathetic aspect of crushing on an AI is that they’re notoriously sycophantic and will support whatever dumb shit you say, so to fall for that you’d have to be really desperate for a level of validation that no real person would ever give you.
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 1 day ago:
So it turns out that the Statue of Liberty never represented the opinions of all Americans to begin with
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 3 days ago:
Yeah 2005 was good.
It felt like maybe the 2nd Gulf War was starting to wind down a bit, and there was some hope that maybe both the US and Al-Qaeda/Islamic State were going to chill their boots a little.
The internet was at its peak in terms of usefulness versus not having been taken over and enshittified by a tiny collection of megacorporations.
TV was getting pretty good as well.
Yeah, the 90s were still best, but 2005 was the best year since then.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 1 week ago:
Looks like you got downvoted by 9 pedophiles
- Comment on mmmm yes undoubtedly 1 week ago:
I’ll raise you Image
- Comment on mmmm yes undoubtedly 1 week ago:
also, dentistry is more accessible in the UK; free treatment is available to a bigger chunk of the population, and private dental care is cheaper as well.
So, in terms of severe complications stemming from lack of dental care, the US is worse, but the obsession with straightening & whitening means that people who have got it together enough to appear in the media generally have superficially nicer teeth.
It’s like most things in America - if you’re doing ok then it’s great, and if you’re not then the rest of the country just pretends you don’t exist.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 2 weeks ago:
Sure but (and this goes to the other person who replied with much the same thing) there’s an order of magnitude of difference going on there, plus usually when someone says something wrong on a forum others usually show up to correct them.
AI responses have so far been very clearly a step down in reliability, so don’t be treating it as a binary.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 2 weeks ago:
Let’s say I scraped a guide you wrote about something you spent a lot of time researching, and then republished it as a Kindle eBook for $5 with my name listed as the author, whilst at the same time the site you posted it to went bust due to losing all its traffic to Google’s AI summaries. Would you consider it petty to object? After all, I’m increasing its audience for you.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 2 weeks ago:
Written grammatically correct English you are, which what LLMs thrive on is.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 2 weeks ago:
At least A.I might preserve some knowledge.
Big oof when you realize that literally nothing an AI tells you can be trusted, and you still have to find a proper source for it.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. The vinegar is rich in hydrocarbons, which improve the fuel/air ratio during combustion whilst also keeping the engine smelling nice.
- Comment on 🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡 2 weeks ago:
I thought one of the fundamental principles of a PhD was that you were no longer expected to have information spoon-fed to you. Dude failed two different tests at the same time.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I get the impression from the other comments that a popular YouTuber made a recent video about it, where I’m guessing he tried to be a smartass about some of the implications of “fish” being ambiguously defined, and a bunch of his more credulous viewers have got the wrong end of the stick and ran with it?
I mainly know the idea from an old QI episode that explained it as “there’s no such thing, biologically speaking”, which in turn became the title of the show’s researchers’ long-running podcast “No Such Thing As A Fish”.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Continuing a long proud tradition of “midwit” memes being made exclusively by people who think they’re the 145 IQ guy, but are actually the the 55 IQ guy.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
you’re a tree
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 2 weeks ago:
A lot of problems in the world can be attributed to people who think “if I don’t understand something, it must be because the experts saying it are all wrong”.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I imagine it’s quite cosy being able to live that lifestyle if things are going well, and you have the option of bailing as soon as things don’t go your way.
- Comment on Anon tries to meet girls at college 2 weeks ago:
It does seem to be a very 21st century thing to treat an unwanted romantic conversational overture as a form of assault.
I suspect it’s even more so with terminally online people who are too socially awkward to be able to just brush someone off and move on, without being haunted by it for the next four decades.
I get that sometimes there are men who go too far and make a situation untenable, and absolutely fuck those guys, but overall I think we’re going in the wrong direction in society where people just don’t talk to each other any more.
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 2 weeks ago:
yeah, the only one of the Beatitudes in Matthew they seem to like is the one where they get to adopt a persecution complex. The stuff about being meek and merciful is damned un-American.
- Comment on State names of the US if there were no letters "A" "M" "E" "R" "I" "C" "A" 2 weeks ago:
The moment I saw the title and thumbnail I KNEW that OP would have deliberately made at least one mistake in order to gin up engagement. The internet sucks now and I hate OP
- Comment on When Americans Fly Economy, They're Actually Paying for Someone Else to Fly Private 3 weeks ago:
Also based on an experience I had at work with a visiting American who point blank refused to get the tram, there seems to be a vicious cycle where public transport is seen as unsafe because only poor people get it, and only poor people get it because it’s seen as unsafe.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 3 weeks ago:
Owning a car used to be nice. Heck, even the notion of living in a Capitalist country used to be nice.
- Comment on sponsored by raycon 3 weeks ago:
Not just from Wish. I’d like to take a moment to say a massive Fuck You to the turbo thundercunt at Apple who decided it would be a good idea to make the iPhone headphone volume exposure limit warning LOUDER than the audio it was warning me about, and also to provide no method of adjusting either volume to match what my headphones actually output. That’s some fucking Grade-A trolling right there. Twats.
- Comment on Better Watch Out Eddy 3 weeks ago:
There’s a gentleman with the same surname and first initial as me, who keeps giving my email address to everything he signs up for. I’ve got enough documentation on his life to pretty much take it over if I wanted.
- Comment on Marie Curie 3 weeks ago:
If it’s any consolation I can guarantee that nobody will remember that.
- Comment on Marie Curie 3 weeks ago:
Posts like this always make me wonder how many people are telling stories of deadpan jokes I made in their presence, that they didn’t realize were jokes.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 3 weeks ago:
Their methodology is so astonishingly flawed at the most fundamental level I had to read it twice.
They got a ton of LLMs to simulate how they thought real people would react to changes in their feeds.
The entire study is built on less than sand.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, we often see the entire non-terrorist Muslim population being held responsible for not doing enough to condemn terrorism, but Christians are let off the hook for the atrocities of their fundamentalists.
- Comment on 💀 💀 💀 3 weeks ago:
Normally I wouldn’t make fun, but he even typed the word Celsius in his reply. It’s almost like some small part of his brain was trying to throw him a clue.
- Comment on Anon goes home 3 weeks ago:
It’s negative, yeah, but that’s not the same thing either. I can’t believe I’m having to defend the position that not changing at all in 30 years could be seen as anything less than ideal. Did I touch a nerve or something?
