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Re:Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru on Monday September 08, 2025 @02:02AM (#45165050)
"capitalistic hellscape"

get a grip lmao

Re:I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack on Friday September 05, 2025 @02:06AM (#45135428)
People don't actually care about answering this question, they just want to steal music and keep a 'clean' conscience.
Re:Anthropic raises $13B Series F at $183B post-money valuation on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @09:42PM (#45111380)
>Because cloud monetization was awful

Citation needed

Do you like losing money?
Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks on Thursday July 24, 2025 @01:50AM (#44667368)
what a cringe comment
Re:I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022) on Thursday July 17, 2025 @01:34AM (#44590013)
Phones come in dozens of different sizes too, what are you on about? TVs come in a greater range of sizes because they're designed for different viewing distances and room configurations. Phones don't have this variable, you hold them in your hand.
Re:We’re secretly winning the war on cancer on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @12:15AM (#44244151)
Yes Trump and the capitalists are hiding the cure, you're right
Yes and also there is zero aesthetic thought put into japanese towns which is why they're so ugly, everything is functional
Re: on Thursday March 06, 2025 @03:27AM (#43277812)
There is no such thing as ‘capitalism’ it is a fake term fabricated by Marxists to give credence to their failed ideology.
Why would I want to do this?
>You're selling yourself for free.

I get to avail myself of their product for free

Because "they" will attack you economically by psychologically targetting you with advertising for items you don't actually need, but they will manipulate you into thinking you do.

Meaningless buzzwords, nobody is being 'economically attacked'

>Because "they" create an electronic copy of you with all this data. With AI and other existing / future technologies they could create a version of you to populate their metaverse.

Slippery slope fallacy. Does not exist

>"They" sell the electronic copy of you, and this can be bought by anyone, including governments. If the government of the day (which may change - boy howdy) don't like things you say or how you conduct yourself (or re-define what fraud anbd corruption means), then they can target and harass you much more specifically when armed with all this extra information that's extracted from your electronic trails.

>Another slippery slope argument.

Re:A Year of Telepathy on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @07:24PM (#43031373)
Severe case of MDS
No I'm not mad at Meta, keep up the great work.
>In 1960 the top tax rate was 91%

How many times does this need to be debunked?

Re:Is the World Becoming Uninsurable? on Thursday January 16, 2025 @11:24PM (#42734068)
>Plenty of places have had catastrophic droughts, famines, and plagues. Nearly half of Europe died a few times from plagues. Most natives in America were absolutely wiped out from disease and other issues. Tens of millions died of famine in China last century. Tsunamis washed away and killed hundreds of thousands in Indonesia and Japan this current century.

Conveniently you selected pre-technology examples. How curious.

Meanwhile the impending global famine(s) - (plural) of the 20th century never came to be because captitalism kept pumping out agriscience improvements to improve crop yields to 10 times what they were in 1900.

Re:The Size of BYD's Factory on Monday November 25, 2024 @02:59AM (#42234172)
It's amazing what happens when you don't have union inefficiencies holding back progress.
Re:Is Chrome the New IE? on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @12:27AM (#42180318)
Low IQ comment. The fix is iterating and improving on the actual solution, not regressing back to coins.
this is mostly fantastical nonsense. I go home at 6pm everyday. go outside at 6pm and you will see businesspeople everywhere also on the commute home.

also it is nearly impossible to fire anyone in Japan for anything

Re:Pagination widows, or, Why I'm embarrassed about my eBook on Monday November 04, 2024 @11:22PM (#42048586)
A lot of work for something everyone is just going to pirate from z-lib anyway
Re:New iMac with M4 on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @02:00AM (#41992241)
>No way that any technologically competent person can claim that the iPhone 16 is a massive and amazing improvement over the iPhone 15.

Kicking off with a logical fallacy, strong start.

>There is "change", sure - the chip is now every so slightly faster, it can do "AI things", it can take slightly better photos, etc.

Just say you're technologically uninformed.

>But any comparison of these changes with the previous model for an average use case

Kathy using Instagram while she waits in line at the supermarket is not a useful point of comparison when we're comparing iterative improvements, keep up.

>Apple could have easily skipped releasing a new model this year, packaged exactly the same hardware and released the iPhone 16 the next year and fundamentally nothing would've changed.

What an absolutely ridiculous statement.

>But the shareholders won't like that, will they?

Low IQ statement.

Re:New iMac with M4 on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @12:29AM (#41979386)
>There is very little change from one iPhone to the next

Visually, sure. Under the hood? Wrong.

>The business model is built on a revolving demand cycle that is unrelated to long term thinking, maintainability, efficiency, nor sustainability.

Sorry you need to qualify this statement. An iPhone 6S is still completely usable and almost certain to be in a functional condition assuming it has been looked after correctly. That's a 8-9 year old phone. Meanwhile my 2001 phone was hopelessly outdated e-waste in 2007.

Re:New iMac with M4 on Monday October 28, 2024 @10:04PM (#41978655)
Literally every comment is nerds complaining
Re:New iMac with M4 on Monday October 28, 2024 @10:03PM (#41978643)
They are built to last. I'm typing this comment on a 2015 MacBook Pro.
Re:New iMac with M4 on Monday October 28, 2024 @10:01PM (#41978632)
They can't correct for low IQ unfortunately
Re:New iMac with M4 on Monday October 28, 2024 @10:00PM (#41978624)
Why did you stupidly buy a product you KNEW would eventually land you in this situation?
Re:New iMac with M4 on Monday October 28, 2024 @09:58PM (#41978613)
Define "consumerism"
Sounds like a skill issue on your part
>I thought it was common knowledge that it was impossible to tell whether text was generated by AI.

Anyone who's been around AI generated content for more than five minutes can tell you what's legitimate and what isn't.

For example this: https://www.maersk.com/logistics-explained/transportation-an... is obviously an AI article.

"Content warning: This blog post references domestic abuse and violence but doesn’t go into specific detail.

I’m not an expert in that topic at all, so I may not use the preferred terminology in all instances. Sorry."

What the hell is this?

Re:Is the Attack Helicopter Dead? on Monday October 07, 2024 @08:33PM (#41772634)
Not related to the 'meat wave' myth I hope

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