What kind of emergency is more important than the lives of people that might be killed by a drunk driver’s mistake? And how is it impossible to find an alternative solution?

Leads to my favorite punchline/rebuttal combo “do you need the robot to fuck your wife for you too?”

It’s such a different beast being a kid now, if your journal was misplaced it would probably get plastered all over social media and laughed at for being cringe. Obv kids have always had the capacity to be cruel, but the instant access and wide reach has such a punishing effect on outspoken individuality

I used to use Spotify but got sick of their recommendations. Vastly different genre playlists would still get top100 songs recommended. Sabrina Carpenter in all my playlists.

I moved to Pandora, their recommendation engine is way less biased. Fewer features in the app, tho

Ah. Well you see I was raised to think that the US was an egalitarian society, that hard work leads to success, that people should be measured by their actions.

And I believed it. My bad, that’s on me.

I figured out a couple years ago that pointing out the hypocrisy doesn’t phase them. Some of them even enjoy having some leftie mad at them, it emboldens them.

Pharaoh moans

Earthworm Jim

I love tech, just not the tech companies.

Your individual apathy to their surveillance may not mean much to anyone, but the collective apathy has allowed these companies to build business and make money off of surveiling the public, eroding our right to privacy, and paving a way for state surveillance

My new LG didn’t require it, but the settings menu and ‘home’ screen nag about lack of connectivity.

“Why did you buy a smart TV if you didn’t want the smart features” brother, it was the best tv in that price range and few true dumb ones exist in that range. IMO the smart features should be considered optional but I guess these companies don’t agree

Windows is only “easy” because you’re used to it. Coming to it fresh, windows 11 is such a shit show sometimes.

Minecraft works on Linux,

FFXIV works on Linux (it works on the steam deck which runs Linux, so it will work natively just like in windows),

Steam itself works on Linux just the same.

They’ve sold their XPS line with Ubuntu as an option for like 10 years. Maybe they stopped for some time, but it’s not new

Is the rest of the world as lobby -able as the US? Guess we’ll find out

you understand the context, and can implicitly understand the need to drive to the car wash’, but these glorified auto-complete machines will latch on to the “should I walk there” and the small distance quantity. It even seems to parrot words about not wanting to drive after having your car washed. There’s no ‘thinking’ about the whole thought, and apparently no logical linking of two separate ideas

You’re assuming AI “think” “logically”.

Well, maybe you aren’t, but the AI companies sure hope we do