I’m slowly starting to believe that a US started world war can only be prevented by a US started US civil war.

This engine is woke.

The car was turning and accelerating. From his position, all he had to do to avoid getting hurt was exactly the same as he was doing, minus the gun. He just had to step aside. Which he did. Not like the car was going fast, and it was turning away from him already. The gun literally didn’t do anything to prevent a collision. If anything, she might have let the steering wheel go after the shot, making the car go straight instead of further turning away from the guy.

At the point of the last shot, he was basically making sure to send a bullet after her.

I’m not an expert copolist, and I’m almost sure this is not the only reason, but it seems somewhat easier to keep crime at bay when not every four year old can just carry an AR15 with a rocket launcher and plasma gun attachment.

Well, I didn’t necessary mean the structure of a song (that doesn’t have the complexity that would challenge an AI agent… in the early 2000’s, even), but more like coming up with their own lyrics that even make sense, and producing human speech with rhythm and musical tones.

Not closely related, but back when I was first reading the book, the idea of computer generated songs sounded like “flying future car” delusions, and learning AI in the early 2000’s even confirmed not the impossibility but the crazy limitations of all this.

I have just listened to a podcast last month that mentions how there are songs on Spotify made entirely by AI, and 97% of the people they asked couldn’t tell apart regular songs from the AI generated ones.

On one hand, it’s remarkable. On the other hand, we’re cooked. What’s even more depressing is that many-many, even more worrying things are getting pretty accurate in the book. Maybe not back in 1984, but we’re witnessing the convergence.

I was just thinking about ways to justify “have a ftp” server. The only defence I can think of is that they pronounce ‘ftp’ not as ‘eff-tee-pee’ but literally as ‘ftp’, a vowelless word.

Hol’ up, does that mean Venezuelan politics is mighty fine?

Yeah, everything checks out. He is two worlds and 6000 years old.

While I’m not an expert in economics, from my uneducated point of view it looks like they are an inevitable result of unregulated/improperly regulated capitalism. But I understand once you make strong enough regulations to try and prevent that, it might not be called capitalism anymore, but I guess it also depends on your (everyone’s?) very definition of capitalism.

Again, I might just be a dumb fuck in the matter, though.

To be fair, back when I made a decision of decreasing my meat consumption, it took off as “meatball Mondays”: I allowed myself to eat meat one, maybe two days a week (but not a must). It’s been ~6 years since. Last year at one point I tried to remember when it was the last time I had meat (it wasn’t that week or the one before). I couldn’t remember.

Meatball Mondays are still a good start.

On the one hand, his posts contain a non-negligible number of “boomer” style memes (could be stuff like wife bad, targeted at minorities, vegans, whatever - not necessarily actual examples, just trying to define “boomer” humour), and some of them end up getting downvoted into negatives.

On the other hand, he’s bringing content to Lemmy regularly. I’m not saying that’s enough on its own, but I can complain all day about niche communities being dead/empty, and then I don’t post shit. He does. More people should do that.

Just do it right, though.

Oh, whether it’s a bot or not: I’m not saying definitely not, but at least the posting history is showing changes. Started putting an NSFW tag on everything lately (probably to boost engagement, because wow, maybe boobs), and it seems like it stopped. Could still be experiments with a bot account, but there’s that.

Now that all the corn is gone… should we just all mark every single post as NSFW, regardless of the content? I guess it’s fine, since it’s been the case with Mickey7 for a while.

It’s like this ancient joke about the kid that says he and his dad know the answer to every question.

I suspected it was rage bait, starting with the British isles being coloured green, despite the existence of the word ‘toe’ there.

Why… why did that arm need to be digitally (ha!) added to the otherwise perfectly fine clip?

All I see is a zerg overlord.

You don’t need to, I can tell you what’s inside.

Iron.