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Software developer by day, insomniac by night. Send me pictures of baby bats to make my day.
The problem is hierarchies. The entire point of feudalism was to create a caste system where the ruler of each segment won’t be touched by the people below them. That’s exactly what modern society by and large looks like.
Until everyone’s equal, no one is. Hierarchical systems are antithetical to peace and equality.
Right, so DeepSeek proved that you can make slop more efficiently and at a lower cost than what the American companies are doing, which obviously is a threat to the massive amounts of money that they’re pretending to throw around. If you can make it more efficient you won’t need billions for data centres, or trillions for GPUs.
So I can see how this is a problem for Big Slop.
Die mad about it.
They’re doing this again, pushing to be a kind of market place and data gathering tool for games.
Yes, finally! I’m ready for this shitty platform to fucking die already.
Being a parent has often had this virtuous narrative attached to it, and I think a lot of society is clinging to that. It’s undisputable that bringing a child into existence cannot be done consensually, and equally so you cannot do that and guarantee that they won’t suffer. To exist is to suffer, the two are intrinsically linked.
However, people don’t like to have their world views upturned, so it’s easier to dismiss, diminish, or ridicule an argument that you don’t have a proper response to, than it is to absorb it and consider that perhaps it carries some merit.
I’d sooner post them some cash and pirate it, honestly.
Well yeah, I’m not going to argue that a well made game that respects the player isn’t going to do well. But that doesn’t matter to the publishers and their shareholders when they can pump out AI slop garbage year after year and still have people that drink it up. Just look at the yearly shooters and sports games, they sell enough.
Besides, what happens when this sort of slop has been normalised? Look at the mobile market, no one bats an eye at the intensely predatory microtransactions, and you’ll even find people defending things like gacha games.
There was a time where people scoffed at the notion of paying $2~ for some shitty cosmetics, but now people don’t even blink at the idea. Hell, it’s downright cheap in some cases. The AAA industry just has to slop things up for long enough for people to stop caring, because they will stop caring and then continue to shell out for the dubious privilege of guzzling their mediocre, uninspiring garbage.
It’s the “we need to know and judge everything you think, do, and say” kind.
People buy AAA games all the time. Look at Starfield. Garbage game, still sold well.
Maybe they’re just anti-Rockstar, which everyone in their right mind should be.
Orion is great. You can install Firefox extensions on it, and use the full desktop version of uBlock Origin if you’d like. Hell you can install Chromium extensions as well, if you for whatever reason feel the need to have those gutted useless things.
We can’t opt out of the system either because too much of it is necessary. Can anyone truly say they don’t need google? ever?
Yes. I switched to Qwant some years ago, and about a year back I switched to Kagi. Haven’t seen the Google Search page in years at this point.
The only thing I use from Google still is YouTube. There are also alternatives, I’ve spent some time with PeerTube and found things I enjoy, and I don’t mind supporting Nebula, which is also a nice platform. That said, I could probably just cut it all off. It frees up time to do something else.
The problem here is that you lose nuance.
Yes, a lot of datacentres use evaporative cooling, meaning that the heat is taken away as the water evaporates. It’s a cheap and effective way of doing things and the water returns to the water cycle and doesn’t really get locked up anywhere. So it’s not really a problem, right?
Well yes, in a vacuum that’s fantastic. However there’s two caveats to this: evaporative cooling works best in arid areas, because the air can hold more water. Thus they build these AI datacentres in naturally arid areas. Smart, they’re using physics to their advantage!
What’s the second problem then? They’re now using up the ground water in those arid areas to cool their datacentres and thus ruining it for the people that live there, leaving them without safe water to drink.
Also I don’t know how many anti-AI people will be all “bUt gOlF CoUrSeS ArE OkAy, We lOvE ThOsE!!” These things exist purely for rich people that don’t contribute anything, so we could get rid of both and the world would be a better place.
Homeopathic burgers.
It’s not enshittified because the Switch was already shit.
Ah, I’m talking about Frankenstein and 1984 as stories. Frankenstein still a fun read, 1984 is definitely not. But yeah, that’s obviously a subjective thing.
Well, I think it fails from a storytelling perspective. Some argue that at the time the ideas were novel, but like… Orwell drew inspiration from Nazi Germany so it can’t have been that novel. As far as Orwell goes, I think Animal Farm was a better read.
I can see this, but at the same time there are classics that still hold up great. Frankenstein for example is still a good read. Paradise Lost can be a big hard to digest, but I really enjoyed it.
Then again I don’t really read much Bible fanfic.
Yeah, like how Elong Musk is poisoning Memphis with his illegal generators spewing smog all over the place.