I think you’re assuming people are having a knee jerk, ignorant response, because you have come to a different conclusion than they have.

My dislike of consumer AI is very well informed. I’ve built my own local models and used generative AI extensively for work (no choice). I was actually pretty excited for the technology before the corps started using it as their latest accelerationist cudgel in the class war.

As it stands, I think it’s hard to justify using AI, even as a casual consumer. For many reasons that are already well documented.

The comparison is bunk though.

The awareness of systemic oppression is not equivalent to a technology that produces text and images of dubious provenance.

Also if you get too much attention you’re hurting your own message

Also username

Seriously. And you will very quickly get used to it. Like you wouldn’t believe what happened to me when I started making red lentil dal on the regular, but after a while, my bowel movements went back to regular and no more “ring of fire.”

Nazis. I hate these guys.

I don’t understand your comment. What is a ngmi? It looks like an acronym for “not gonna make it”

Perception is so huge. Pre-pandemic, just looking around I assumed I was layoff-proof, but I got the axe anyway.

Last I heard there are two engineers and one manager sharing my old duties. 🙃

Never really thought of narcissisms in such a plural and mundane way. Is this a school of abnormal psychology or something?

Interesting lens to look through. I’ve always been a sucker for this kind of transactional analysis.

Enshitification

Fascinating. I never understood why the cuckolding fetish (fixation? obsession?) came with such a strong overlap with, I guess, race play? Feels like a charitable way to put it.

I didn’t believe it at first, but any quick web search will show that cuckolding largely is about the races of the people involved.

Which makes a lot more sense if seen through the framework you just described.

Yes yes, no ethical consumption under capitalism and all that, but I mean if you’re really rich, it’s harder to use the excuse that you you’re just a pawn stuck in the game.

There are several ways to destroy a billionaire. The easiest should be to just make them a millionaire.

Unfortunately, they’ve made that increasingly difficult, so that might not be the easiest way anymore.

But the minority is shrinking and it’s increasingly difficult to maintain a clear conscience while also benefiting from the bald exploitation of others.

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Happy birthday!!

Yes, a better car is a better car. That’s perfectly reasonable harm reduction logic.

I just would rather people not forget that that’s all it is, and know that there are much better communal solutions. Even if they seem utopian, they’re actually very sensible and pragmatic.

Materially speaking, we could start building a better world tomorrow morning. We don’t have to wait for tech to save us.

I want to ride it

Car culture evangelist in fuckcars community missing the point as always.

The point is that EVs are not a good solution to the problem with cars - they are just a better car. This individualizes what is a collective problem.

My city is adding six new lanes for cars in the coming years, meanwhile there are already intersections that a person has to jog to get across in time. Cars have their use, but it’s far far far less than people realise.

Valorizing EVs leads to perpetuating car centric designs, which is a negative across many dimensions - not only ecologically.

I am once again asking countries with low birthrates to increase immigration.