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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon overdoes it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Nofap propaganda mastermind strikes again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you people read books?⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I read mainly in bed (with my kobo) but finding it tricky and I am turning into a hunchback

  I do the same but it’s not uncomfortable or causes me to strain my back, I lay on my side and prop the ereader up with pillows

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI will make people work more, but they’ll be happy about it, Sam Altman says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “We think of new things to do, to create for each other, to want for ourselves. People are very focused on how they’re doing relative to other people,” he said.

  “I expect that to keep going. I think we’re all going to be much busier than we thought we’d be in a post-super-intelligence world, and we’re still going to complain about it. But secretly we’re going to be happy,”

  What a cynical asshole, can’t imagine people caring about anything beyond wealth and status. I’m not sure what he’s implying about whether they will have any choice (does “we’re still going to complain about it” mean we will not?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the rarest Steam achievement you got?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there an easy way to tell, I don’t pay attention to those usually

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An american on Reddit wrote: "I’m not sure it’s really a good idea to let legislation through on a 51-49 vote: making a change should really take more consensus than that"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC there’s also a larger majority required to pass legislation if the president vetoes it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gary Stevenson to quit YouTube channel, citing health concerns⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Retiring with burnout and disillusioned by the City, the self-styled anti-inequality campaigner argued for a 2% tax on individual wealth over £10m, which he said would raise £24bn a year for the Treasury.

  Cool idea

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I may be wrong here. Isn't AI only as smart as the user putting in the information or commands? What's the big deal?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As smart for what? What does that mean

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a tourist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  4chan is extremely racist against Indian people

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supreme Court will review Alaska's bid to seize pilot's plane over 6-pack of beer: "This case isn't just about me" - CBS News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Alcohol abuse is a serious problem in rural Alaska, and airplanes are sometimes the only realistic means to commit the crime of alcohol importation,” they wrote.

  Fermenting alcohol is in fact very, very easy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Buying a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS Pre-Installed Dangerous?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was honestly surprised how user friendly the install process is, they’ve got a web installer that basically does everything, you just follow a small number of extremely simple instructions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concentric Firmament Formation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  woah

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The specific text of the survey:

  legislation that would require artificial intelligence companies to transfer 50% of their stock to a fund owned by the American public

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At least if more people ended up doing this on their own hardware with open source software, it would cut off a lot of the opportunities this presents for companies to abuse people’s privacy and manipulate them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tests their IQ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But then you’d be tempted to become someone who tells people their IQ

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These corpos who feel entitled to Open Source code⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In a way, I like to think about these maintainers kind of like 18th century weavers in North of England. Uh these weavers were kind of known as Luddites. They were specialty weavers. They built uh they wove amazing clothes. They were the best in the world at what they did. And then, British colonialism happened. They were replaced with machines. And these well-compensated weavers uh that lived on nice for farms in Yorkshire, they were forced to move to London and live in cramped housing and eat stale bread.

  So, the future of open source maintainers is moving to London and eating stale bread.

  Potentially.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People have a lot of good points here, but I want to add that it’s ok and normal to be afraid of death, even if it isn’t rational. We’re animals, that’s just how we are built to feel about it. You can come to terms with it and obsess less, but it’s likely always going to be there anyway, which isn’t always a bad thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you need a portable reader, is there any reason to choose an e-reader over your phone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to read books after I wake up, but also not keep my phone in my room.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The way my partner eats avocado.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a better way to use a butter knife, which is to slice a grid into the half avocado, after which you can use a spoon or your fingers to pop the cubes off into a bowl. Then you can put those in a bag in the freezer to have ripe avocado anytime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settle a debate can potato's and noodles go together and taste great with sauce and other things? (I say it can) However my mother says two starches should never be cooked because it's too much.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pasta and potatoes are not the same thing, but you can cook and eat them together. Just cut the potatoes into chunks and add them to the water before you boil it, then add the pasta after it is boiling, then they should be finished cooking around the same time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would it be better to just have a lot of society be underground?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also radon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨holding sex⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If people are are ambivalent about the censorship, they probably also don’t care that people are complaining about it. To me it’s a mildly interesting quirk for an image to be self censored like that, but I’m also not going to downvote people who don’t like it since I don’t have any problem with their opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to bring back physical media on PC?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any service could leverage their pre-existing DRM scheme to let you sell your copy to someone else

  But this would not be interoperable with other services, and to make it interoperable would require mutual trust and coordination between them that does not exist. Not to say that NFTs specifically are a solution here (video games are fungible after all, and porting physical ownership properties to digital goods is a problem these companies don’t want to solve to begin with), but there are actual reasons to use credibly neutral infrastructure and standards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not just a comic, it's a meme⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So to use — in conversation, do you just say “em dash” or what

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America continues to fall behind the rest of the world⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It cannot exist with a species like ours that is hardwired for greediness and self-preservation.

  In general this is a myth, being a self interested economic agent is something we’re trained to conform to, not something we do instinctually. Which isn’t to say we are naturally suited for large scale cooperation, but what the Hobbesian perspective misses is that whatever behavior you’re assuming is human nature has a context, and that context could be made very different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dawn Desert Gate⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool aesthetic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there hope for humanity? Or are we just destined or designed to wipe our own selves out?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We made it through this much already didn’t we? We’re in a period of accelerating change and large scale organizational dysfunction is threatening our chances of navigating it safely, but we’re not all dead yet and it’s up to us to figure it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think about the dead internet theory?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that a lot of it is a result of forms of interaction that are easy to falsify and which real people are not expected to exercise judgment on. Fake likes, views, and upvotes involve little that can be scrutinized at the user level and are mainly a negotiation between spammers and a social media company. Those companies favor organizing their sites around these sorts of shallow metrics, and selling a passive experience that confers or requires next to no social agency, because they want to be able to treat the people using their services as commodities they own.

  These problems would be greatly diminished with social networks that are actually social.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Money laundering?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone played Punk?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This makes sense as a way to think about it. This game probably does shift the balance a little away from micro in various ways, for instance there’s some autoaim, and usually ways to cheese boss fights a little so you don’t have to do precise dodges

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone played Punk?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been playing with mouse and keyboard, but I just checked and it works with a gamepad