Eh, why not, why shouldn’t I have a 10th deviled egg?

“We’re funding numerous infrastructure projects to finally modernise our infrastructure!”

“WHAT ABOUT POTHOLES!!! ARE YOU ROAD PHOBIC!!! THE RADICAL LEFT HAS DONE IT AGAIN, FUNNELING MONEY INTO CORRUPTION!!!”

Olympus has fallen in my ass

I remember one of my peers from high school dropped out to start gambling his money on the stock market (ASX), and didn’t have any other plans for careers or anything. I wonder how it’s going for him.

I’d say all generations are affected by this.

My dad (gen X) for example, he has tiktok, Instagram and Facebook on his phone and watches YouTube shorts on his tablet. It’s everyday life for him to scroll on these platforms for over 8 hours per day. It’s like he becomes brain-dead every time he comes into contact with a glass sandwich.

For myself (gen Z), I used to scroll Instagram reels for at most 2 hours per day when I was in high school, but now I barely touch it, instead I prefer long form YouTube documentaries and sandbox games. The worst of it is my around 5 minutes or less of YouTube shorts daily and browsing lemmy for around tops 2 hours per day but effectively 1 on average.

I also believe that the stereotyping of gen Z being addicted to everything digital is a bit dubious, since we’ve lived through life as “digital natives” and are likely more able to avoid addiction. The ones I worry about are the older generations, since many fall into the trap of accidentally integrating these addictive services into their routines and get more severe health consequences such as early Alzheimer’s or putting too much faith into LLMs and for example change their medication dosages without actual approval from their doctor, and many other examples.

Reminds me of the chill ass cat I saw on a walk a few days ago. My siblings and I thought it was a stray until the door of the house the cat was outside of opened and the owner sternly told it to come back inside.

Bro was just trying to eat some grass in peace

Or if you’re short enough they won’t see your baldness from the sun reflecting and blinding them

Ironic how this article forces you to agree to personalised advertising

I’ve got a cracked screen so it looked like you said “try renting an apple”, I almost cackled

Then, by all means elaborate on your perspective.

I personally view this issue as a fight between energy technology and energy resources.

If the main energy system is based on a technology that utilises the environment, such as solar, wind, hydro, tidal and others, of course energy output fluctuates due to conditions, but you can mass manufacture and slowly iterate on them overtime, just like how solar pricing has dropped almost exponentially.

If the main energy system is based on utilising a resource, such as natural gas, coal, uranium, thorium and others, of course you’ll get a ton of energy output and systems within can keep it perfectly stable, but the downside is that emissions, accidents, centralisation and the ethics of mining these resources are a pretty substantial issue.

Ideally, we should have an energy grid mostly consisting of passive technology based energy systems, with suitable resource based energy systems coming in second, since we can have the benefits of decentralisation allowing building based and community micro grids to continue functioning, while also having the redundancy of resource energy systems to account for any defects caused by environmental issues, such as volcanic ash blocking the sun in certain areas, but realistically the need for resource energy systems would be low, as the whole environment can’t be nullified by conditions. If there isn’t sun, there would likely still be wind, tidal and hydro, and vice versa for all.

It’d be interesting to see your take.

Fair enough honestly, it’s unfortunate how large of a pool of AI images aren’t labelled as such, and that the only feasible way to get them labelled after the fact is [at least in the case of duckduckgo,] to gather feedback data given by people who search and know that there is the “flag AI generated image” button.

I suppose indentifying AI images is easier said than done, and requires at training and good enough pattern recognition, so it doesn’t mean everyone has to become an expert at recognising them, it really means that these images are flooding everywhere and are a great reason to fervently oppose generative AI.

At this point, I’d say if you want to avoid AI images, you need to see enough of them to find what makes them look off, and with enough time it becomes second nature to discriminate images based on how real they appear.

Why use an AI image for the folding phone when they’re are literally tens of thousands of images of foldables elsewhere?

There is honestly no real justification for creating slop images for a meme or really anything. Last I checked, stock image companies or image copyrighters don’t file lawsuits against creators of memes for badly cropping a stock photo and putting text on top of it.

I genuinely don’t understand people like this who are so averse to thinking that they go out of their way to prompt a language model to get an answer that they should’ve known already.

People in my life say I think to much despite the fact I’m naturally a deep thinker, quick is disappointing to hear from them because I know they use LLMs for “research”, which really means to ask tops 3 questions and think you’re informed.

Well hey, at least the rich can be unthinking dumbasses too

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