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- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 1 day ago:
It’s responsible for a lot of unnecessary death, and the splintering of a lot of organisations that could have done good otherwise. Often both at the same time. That’s because everyone has a slightly different idea of righteousness.
Shitty historical events seem to relate to either too much or not enough of it.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 2 days ago:
“AI businessperson suggests the future is AI”
If that infuriates you, you’ll be infuriated a lot.
- Comment on Working class neighborhoods are resisting data centers at 5 times the rate of wealthy ones 1 week ago:
Yeah, past experiences with the next great thing that actually turns out to be meh may very well be part of it. Especially if it’s an older person.
The whole “wifi causes cancer” thing is still out there too, and might be conflated with a datacenter.
- Comment on Working class neighborhoods are resisting data centers at 5 times the rate of wealthy ones 1 week ago:
No, but appreciating what a big generic building does could require education.
If there was any education behind making those slopcenters, they wouldn’t make them gas powered in a desert.
Yes, they’re definitely designed and built by illiterate cavemen. /s
Like, obviously you know engineers do that, and are educated and well compensated. It seems like you’ve drifted off to a different argument here.
- Comment on Working class neighborhoods are resisting data centers at 5 times the rate of wealthy ones 1 week ago:
The rich are also more educated. Lemmy hates AI, but other upper-middle-class types might just see it as a big box full of cool technology.
To plumbers and cashiers, it’s more of a new-fangled abomination we don’t need.
- Comment on Russia wants to legalize cars stolen in EU 2 months ago:
I’m not sure that’s infuriating at all, when they’re already blowing up and hacking neighboring countries. It might mean Europe has to spend more or regulate more to protect their cars, that’s it.
- Comment on It hurts. 2 months ago:
That’s true of a tree style layout, but only that, and those have problems of their own. The example about moving aside for a car going through a narrow European street was something I’ve actually experienced.
- Comment on It hurts. 2 months ago:
Ahh yes the good old days, when there was no urban planning, and empty land to develop on was always available because a section of town would just burn down.
/s, although it’s gone to far the other way at times.
- Comment on It hurts. 2 months ago:
Bingo. Allow me to introduce you to the colonial French seigneurial system.
- Comment on It hurts. 2 months ago:
And the ancient Romans, and Indus valley people another couple millennia earlier were both fond of grid plans.
They’re considered passe, but there’s real advantage in terms of easy scalability and adaptability to changing land uses.
- Comment on It hurts. 2 months ago:
I mean, you can organise grids to be more or less stroady, and if you have too much of this going - like you have a medieval street plan - you can get the opposite thing where cars are forced through areas only suited to pedestrians, and everyone has to flatten themselves against building walls to make room.
- Comment on It hurts. 2 months ago:
Yeah, someone deciding to clear out an area and develop it in a completely different way is possible, I guess, but seems a lot less likely. Maybe there’s a bit of both - something large like horse stables or a hospital was there, then it was replaced with a new self-contained development, and then they built out into the margin between the two later on yet.
In any case, somebody had a big urban planning idea of some kind, but it hasn’t really worked out as envisioned. The angle could be because one grid is aligned true north, and the other magnetic north.
- Comment on It hurts. 2 months ago:
There has to be some interesting history here.
A few other examples have been posted, but this is easily the wildest. It’s not even the same aspect ratio of grid, or at a normal angle. (And they’ve still managed to tie it in reasonably well)
- Comment on It hurts. 2 months ago:
Canada works this way too, interestingly enough.
- Comment on California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park 2 months ago:
Yeah, the crosswalk part was harmless, even if he technically wasn’t supposed to do the municipality’s job for them. The rest I’ll take your word for.
The charges include interfering with a traffic control device, grand theft, and vandalism exceeding $400
Actually reading the article, the first fits, but the rest is definitely the cops power tripping, lol.
- Comment on California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park 2 months ago:
Yeah, people also don’t want high-speed rail going past their house or whatever.
If the government doesn’t address it, the people will.
Good luck with that. Most people like cars a lot more than I do.
- Comment on California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park 2 months ago:
Good. Downvote all you want.
If you let everyone design their local traffic flow it will be impossible to go anywhere. It’s worse than everyone deciding if they want low-income housing in their neighborhood.
- Comment on Telling an AI model that it's an expert makes it worse 2 months ago:
Usually “I’m an expert” gets followed by “here’s why your question is stupid and I won’t answer it”. Non-powertripping experts just answer the question, or ignore it if it really is dumb.
- Comment on This fuckass ad keeps popping up while I'm trying to study Norwegian 2 months ago:
Now tell the AI to generate one weird trick to help her.
- Comment on Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next 3 months ago:
Yeah. Surveillance is covered already.
- Comment on Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next 3 months ago:
Overkill. Just find the illegal no-age-collection ISO. Installing with your middle finger raised is optional, but recommended.
- Comment on Block ditches 4,000 staff, because AI can do their jobs 3 months ago:
Again, that’s what the 6000 remaining employees would be for.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 3 months ago:
Public service announcement that if you use a VPN, a private browser and Invidious they can’t really track you.
I use Tor but it isn’t seamless, and you do have to go for a really low quality setting.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 3 months ago:
Oooh, the layers of psychology keep piling on. So they’re using a sex worker, who they probably believe is doing a bad thing if they’re MAGA, but are themselves into being sexually humiliated within the context of a private interaction.
Yeah, we’re an interesting species sometimes.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 3 months ago:
I can’t be the only person on here that’s fully off the algorithm/surveillance grid.
I can get caught in bubbles the old-fashioned way, but that’s pretty much it.
- Comment on Block ditches 4,000 staff, because AI can do their jobs 3 months ago:
No, it’s really not. Thus the 6000 remaining employees.
(Assuming this is a significant part of their business)
- Comment on Block ditches 4,000 staff, because AI can do their jobs 3 months ago:
Eh, I know this is the anti-AI instance, but reading and interpreting things like that is something you can verifiably get AI to do 90% of the time.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 3 months ago:
I didn’t notice that, it is an awful lot. I wonder if it’s a series of interviews recorded over days, rather than one big meeting.
It’s also possible there was one big video that was posted, and then a bunch of “best takedowns” compilations they actually push. Like how Charlie Kirk would do live debates (rarely with anyone who stood a chance, though).
- Comment on Block ditches 4,000 staff, because AI can do their jobs 3 months ago:
Financial services, so probably transcribing people’s shitty scribbled expense reports into actually usable structured data, and doing it flawlessly enough they don’t get sued.
- Comment on Block ditches 4,000 staff, because AI can do their jobs 3 months ago:
40%, to save others a click.
That might work out for them. AI has to be intensively supervised but it can be a decent force multiplier.