I’m thinking that double checking is slightly faster than doing the research yourself.

As opposed to Google searching manually, which always has accurate outputs and never outputs falsehoods as fact. 🙂

As long as you double check the source of an answer I don’t see an issue.

Huh, I always assumed it was referring to dogs eating cat shit.

Do they have a choice? By hosting an instance, they open themselves up to liability if someone posts child porn. What else could they do?

Gimme Newspeak already. The world isn’t cyberpunk enough yet.

Yahoo answers held on for decades after it was relevant, I’m sure Reddit will be around in 15 years.

Sadly, Remindbot will be reminding a ghost town populated only by other bots

I’m not so sure Musk is actually motivated by his own hype, I think that’s part of his professional self branding that he relies on to juice the valuation of his companies. Seen through that lens, taking control of the main public square is a way to juice his rep further and make even more money.

I’m skeptical of ascribing immaterial motives to billionaires.

EDIT Oh! Also, I think the reason enshitification has accelerated so much recently is because of high interest rates. It’s why Silicon Valley Bank imploded, after all. Companies are scrambling to be profitable after the free investor cash has dried up. It’s not good enough to be maybe profitable in an undefined future, they need to be profitable now so they can justify investment. The bubble is deflating - though fortunately, it seems like it’s going to be a soft landing instead of a pop.

The only person in the world you can ever truly know is yourself.

So when I ask myself “If I were spez/zuck/musk why would I do this?”

The answer is usually “because someone gave me a lot of money”

There’s a theory that, at one time, “man” was a gender neutral term for persons and we called males “weremen” and obviously women “women”

That probably isn’t true, but it’s fun to think about a world where that was reversed.

EDIT Also evidently there was wifmann and wapman, which is an even funnier world to imagine.

Count me in that 30%

Russia’s invasion was wrong, but it goes back to the Euromaiden government upheaval and that should be considered. Russia isn’t just a crazy warband of orcs that wanted to restart the Tsar’s empire for no reason. What’s brainwashed about that?

A bunch of other countries, like China, which had 75% of people polled stating that the Russia/Ukraine conflict was good for China.

It kinda is in some ways because it’s basically left China as Russia’s only option for a lot of import/export, so China gets a ton of leverage in determining prices. It’s also solidifying China as a regional hegemon and opens up a lot of opportunities for China diplomatically.

I wouldn’t go as far as to say the conflict is good, but there are benefits and it’s not as simple as “people are brainwashed”

It won’t (my personal totally empty prediction). To get humidity in larger scale it means getting air flow. Air flow in sufficient numbers doesn’t come out of no where. Usually with this kind of stuff one quickly finds one needs just insane amount of flow to scale meaning big blower fans and then you find you spend all the energy you produce running the fans and other needed ancillary equipment.

It’s possible to use direct mechanical power harvested from renewables to turn the fans, though depending on the effiency it might make more sense to just convert that mechanical power directly into electricity. But, for example, a windmill (as opposed to a wind turbine) could harvest large scale natural air flow and then mechanically leverage that to move humid air at a smaller scale. Same with dams.

As a hard materialist, I don’t see art as separate from materialism. What art does is materially express immaterial things - a good piece of art isn’t just an image or description of events, it’s an idea or concept that has been made into a material form.

Art isn’t just a description of the world. The point of art is to change it.

“AI art doesn’t have the imperfections of the human touch.”

Except when it gives people six fingers and shit lol

Art hadn’t been properly commodified yet because the technology for mass produced art didn’t exist. They still needed artisans and artists, so they had to fund the arts if they wanted to see any created. They didn’t appreciate art more, per se, but they saw it as fundamentally different from other widgets.

This is no longer the case. With the advent of photography, film, digital information, and of course the internet we now see profitable “art” without any need to fund it with philanthropy. Aside from one-off public works projects they can fund by stealing public funds, they can only imagine art through the lens of profitability and have no understanding of the amount of free time and energy that has gone into creating so much of the art that exists today.

There is no Medicis in 2023. Instead you get Marvel.

This might not compel you to, but the only way to keep Lemmy from turning into Reddit 2 is by donating so they don’t have to seek out investors. We all have to do what we can to help out - that said, by posting you are creating content for the website. That’s not nothing.

I hope without karma we can do away with vote fuzzing.

It fails to do what I want, and that’s basically the same when I’m irritated lol

My point is that Lemmy being different and sometimes frustrating isn’t a big deal because none of us need it to work.

Municipal👏 Social👏 Media👏

It’s a little different, because people tend to get pissed because of the context of their routines. If I am trying to do work for school or for a corp, I’m going to be extra irritated when my software fails and I have to relearn something on top of doing work I already don’t want to do.

Lemmy is just for fun. I think people might be more forgiving.