It’s the screen(s) and the keyboard.
Squinting at the iPhone and then text typing sucks. PC is way more relaxing. Tablet is fine. With a case that turns it into a mini laptop and a cheap pencil.

Phones though? FFS why? If you can afford otherwise, why? I’m not sure how anyone reads an Apple Watch without a magnifying glass.

Most of all, it’s about control. I can’t stop YouTube ads on my phone. I don’t see them on the PC. Among other things.

And the halt on more accessible solar.

There’s no explaining it to the public at large in our forums. We already know. Unless people suddenly watch a couple trusted news sources en masse and those news sources choose to explain, ignorance will rule.

But then that’s the entire point of fracturing information like this. Fake news. Don’t trust science. That’s woke, don’t listen. Etc.

Loyal Moses has been on about this. Apparently the bills require third party cloud storage of the information in addition to an online requirement (for logging in???), and continuous telemetry to in use apps on the desktop environment.

Or Iran makes good on its threat re Netanyahu, no one stops it, and we watch a power shuffle to see if anything changes.

Whatever malignant narcissists do inside their false realities. Cluster B is no joke and yet 1/3 of the American people voted for this because (their thinking, not mine):

A: Trans is weird and incomprehensible

B: Women’s liberation is making me feel bad as a man and I don’t know how to cope with #life so I’m going to blame women’s lib for me being me. Oh, and birth rate, bitches need to get back to their real role…

C: We want Christianity to be rule of law.

D: See A.

E. He said he’d reduce cost of living and I believe him.

F. Immigrants suck and need to go.

He has (had) the brain of an impulsive child. Now, he very likely has the brain of a child with Alzheimer’s.

So, he loses rare batteries crucial to US defense, spikes oil prices world wide (long term for US), alienates the world even more, jump starts Russia’s economy, proves he’s Israel’s little dog on a leash, and kills some people, but doesn’t want to talk about it.

Probably. Let’s be real. If new tech can be monetized for sex, it will be.

I feel like we’re watching billionaires race yachts. One person bought a yacht so then they all had to have a yacht and now they’re racing them against one another because for some fucked up reason that competition really gets them off.

Only it’s AI/data centers instead of yachts.

Inertia is one of the primary negative forces that moves humanity.

So, now you can make money on onlyfans without ever appearing yourself.

They’ve been blowing up fishermen from afar as a test run for playing with these ”toys”. They don’t care.

They’re like little boys only with real instead of toy guns.

I realize younger people probably don’t feel this so viscerally, but shorts (not all, but many) are very in tune with old TV advertising format. It’s like an endless stream of Super Bowl ads, at best. Repetitive music. Designed for the short attention span. Makes you seek a product, in this case, more of itself.

Now, look at the “upcycled” (/s) version of YouTubr content. Reused video clips with a shiny, hyper-reactive talking head in front of it. Not human expression but caricatures thereof. Millions of views. Millions of viewers. For years. Not of human faces but caricatures of human faces. This garbage won’t go away because it’s consistantly being watched.

Now, after all that priming, introduce AI into the two most popular social medias, short form and long form.

How does this fully primed crowd know the difference? How would they suddenly feel the need to leave? Not you or me, but the people who consume the ad clones and charicaturized crap daily? The same people who slide their phones out of their pockets to scroll shorts, on automatic, whenever they have 5 free minutes at work. How do they even spot the difference after years of consuming garbage?

TLDR Less human interaction + more fake, caricaturized human vid content = where we are now, with AI on social media.

How is Bondi not disbarred yet?

Thanks. NYT is paywalled.

Man, I thought it was just us with these fascist dipshits in charge. We lost 92k. AI then?

I’m pretty sure the rest of them felt that way on day 1 / year 1 too.

The guy once stated that he doesn’t really feel his personality has changed since the first grade. This was probably one of his more honest statements.

It’s not effort or work you are seeing. It’s a child’s guile wrapped in an adult’s body.