Are we saying Yes to AI or yes to Dolores?

Because if the latter… 🤤

“Elon Musk and Donald Trump were individuals?”

(people in 2035, who were not around during the Cronenberg-ing of Musk & Trump in 2028)

Pretty much.

Every person who was surprised that “Biden isn’t running?” During the votes is part of the problem of why Trump got re-elected.

Everyone knows the dark grey heavy duty bags are the best.

I used to say I wanted to test an idea, open up a terminal, run some basic commands like ls and grep. Then ask them to do a restart so none of my tests would “cause a conflict”.

Works constantly.

I laughed way too hard at this.

I love wine, but it is a depressant, and without a more normal amount of food to help blunt the effects of alcohol, I think I was experiencing a little bit of that “sad drunk girl crying in the bathroom” syndrome many of us observed (or experienced, no judgment!) in college.

Joplin.

Ive been paying for Workflowy and honestly, I’ve reached my limit of cost vs value.

I needed a way to do more than just bullets, like Evernote without the bloat, or OneNote/Notes without the megacorp, something I can export and read 100 years from now.

I was surprised how often I use it, and slowly weening off of Workflowy.

Same. I used to shop there daily. It was my go-to grocery store.

Then they kept bowing down to conservative snowflakes.

After a while, I just stopped going.

reddit legally owns our posts and identity

(Laughs in web scraping)

Me working with small businesses to switch off of Instagram

Gateway learning.

I learned Spanish to write love letters in 2nd grade.

And now 30 years later, I know like a dozen languages at a basic level, but still good enough to be sent all over the world on business trips for free.

For like 3 hours, it was glorious as my friend group wondered what part of the Cybertruck could have spontaneously combusted.

Then video came out and there’s colorful lights and we still weren’t sure.

It took a official report before we accepted it was a car bomb.

PR machine already going out to protect the rich.

Hey what the heck? How did you get my Lemmy password?

Mark my words.

For many of us, this is a “No shit Sherlock” moment.

But in 10 years, we will have young people going “Uh what really?”

Remember when we used to say, “Don’t put your name on the internet?” And now it’s everywhere?

It’s about delivery. What they’re doing is lying to people, and then dumping them randomly in downtowns or in places unprepared to provide services. Not to mention, the cost of this political theater is significantly more than just… You know, helping them directly.

If this was done with actual humanitarian goals and compassion, states can coordinate and actually help people.

You don’t think once Lemmy hits mainstream, companies won’t start polluting Lemmy and harvest data here?

I was at a tech conference job fair and chatting with a bunch of former game programmers.

I absolutely messed up when I asked one guy who worked on a famous game why they decided to do X feature, and if that was the reason for the game’s failure.

He looked me in the eyes and said something like, “I get orders from the business execs. So even if their ideas are obviously bad, if I don’t do it, I get replaced. After the game is released, good or bad, I get replaced. If the game doesn’t even get enough funding, I get replaced.”

Gaming industry seems so toxic.

¥1590/month.

Rough $11/month in freedom dollars. That’s not bad!

Still pricey for a solo use. What is your use cases? Lurking or a frequent poster?

They literally explained their backstory.

They rub one out then reply. It’s not rocket science.