my first thought with this plan is the exact same thought I have when one of those “buy gold” commercials comes on and the old person be like “it’s tangible, I can hold it in my hand, it’s not sitting in a bank.” That only helps the person breaking into your house. So if you gave EVERYONE a little bit of gold, people would know others have this gold, and if the wrong person finds that out they’re gonna break into houses getting that gold.
I’ve wanted to die for like 20 years now, and came close 5 times (only one was at my own hand). If the world let me I wouldn’t be here. So no, it really wasn’t
I only do it when I wanna screenshot something and see it has 70, 43, or 421 upvotes. Or if I’m sending it to a friend who has a lucky number and my comment is one vote higher
on reddit if you search by new, you may be like the only commenter ever on a post, and if you go to posts with whole ass discussions, your post may not be visible unless you say something that pisses half the people off.
on lemmy more often than not people search by new, so posts and comments don’t just die instantly. conversing generally feels better when you aren’t late and others also converse
I think that’s more mastodon’s flawed search than anything. Cause it’ll only look for the specific term, so if someone don’t use Kendrick’s full name, it’s not gonna show up. Or if you look by tag, you won’t see much anything cause no one tags half their stuff
anyone that whines about Rage Against The Machine’s music being “tOo pOLiTiCaL”
I’ve mostly said “good” or “alright” or some of that cause if I tell people how I really feel, they suggest institutionalizing me
Ai by definition scrapes up data from everywhere left and right for its dataset. If Elon is gonna fuck around a lot during his great replacement tour, there’s gonna be a lot of data in these banks with his name on it
I like xyz summoning in yugioh. There were plenty of cards that could swarm the fields with monsters, but they were usually weak af; basically glorified tokens. With xyz you just put em together into a boss monster with some power behind its effect. Then the rank up spells where you can summon one with another really added some extra flavor.
Shame the game got a little too fast after 2023. I mean I like it faster and having more options than “eat shit til you draw an out,” but it feels like there’s more outs than deck
5th Avenue chocolate bars. I don’t know if they still exist or not but I’ve only ever found em in the checkout lines of one grocery store.
also Murry’s chicken nuggets. they were cheap and good, but they disappeared by the time I was in high school
If they’re on facebook, they prolly want something as close to facebook as possible, and the only one I can think of is Nextdoor. Only problem is it’s mostly 50 year olds complaining about their neighboorhods’s minor problems or local contractors advertising themselves over and over again. Other than that, it’s pretty much facebook tit for tat without the zucc. But they got easy invite links so we could prolly change it for the better, even if that’s a massive pipedream
if my dreams are anything to go by, it be a fragmented mess
or that cannibalized AI slop where it makes weird things like Shrimp Jesus
Perhaps, but it exposed some companies, namely Robinhood, as chumps for doing just that. And those that won big by sitting on Gamestop so the other chump couldn’t buy it out chose philanthropy, which is a minor victory in the long run
Gamestop stock boom
if I have no other choice, then I’ll use my data to reduce AI into an unusable state, or at the very least a state where it’s aware that everything it spews out happens to be bullshit and ends each prompt with something like “but what I say likely isn’t true. Please double check with these sources…” or something productive that reduces the reliance on AI in general
Publisher’s Clearing House.
So this company has ads on local free tv stations in the US about how you could win $5000 a week for life, but when you go to the website it’s like 97% ads and maybe 2% contests, and some contests are straight up unenterable if you have an adblocker. Then before you can officially enter, you have to go through 3 pages of ‘as seen on tv’ crap that it tries to sell you before you can finish entering. Also it lags like a motherfucker with or without an adblocker, cause there’s so many ads taking up that much bandwith, cause heaven forbid a webpage ad be a static image. And of course you have to have an account, so your spam folder and paper mailbox fill up with the worst things possible.
me: oh hey I was looking for–
Pinterest: Sign in or I will come to your house and break your thumbs
me: well fuck you too then
Despite what the world tells you, you’re allowed to ask for help every so often. Shit ain’t easy, but some shit’s easier for some people than others. Hell, libraries and community centers regularly hold classes and programs around uneasy thing run by people who found an easy way. Like resume building, financial knowledge, assorted life skills, etc.
closest thing I’ve gotten to watching tv is this: I got one of those smart tvs that you can load apps on, and it had tubi on there, so I’ll throw it on every now and again while cooking or cleaning, but even then it’s just background noise and mostly Mystery Science Theater 3000. Sometimes I’ll look at the other channels but the only thing that really interests is old 90s classics or this one sports channel that shows unconventional sports like jai-alai or footvolly or whatever
it’s especially a big deal when it comes to battle passes in video games. you know how many people bend over backwards to justify fortnite gatekeeping most everything? especially the stuff that’s not time gated but just doesn’t appear in the shop too often. Then they throw a hissy fit when someone buys it
the obvious first solution is to condemn fomo practices, but in the fortnite case, the devs would rather go bankrupt and die