blackbelt352

I broadly agree with your analysis, the luddite comparison is apt and I think you'll find that quite a few people on here do in fact understand they were anti exploitation, not anti tech. And yeah the root problem of all this can be boiled down to "capitalism requires profit at all costs" but I'm so frustrated with the absolutely correct answer being "because capitalism" but with no real actionable plan at the present moment to actually mitigate the harm beyond, "end capitalism and share resources fairly"

I don't think lemmy users are necessarily naive, I think that most of us are tired of everything collapsing around us and are looking for literally anything that can give us even some modicum of relief from the horrors.

I also don't hate AI because it's new technology, hell I found a lot of the early experiments by people online into neural networks and training them. I enjoyed the CaryKH and Jabrils and CodeBullet videos building small neural networks to race cars around a track or play flappy bird or get massive high scores in tetris and 3Blue1Brown and Numberphile and Computerphole videos breaking down how the math and computer science theory worked. I hate that it's only use has been to flood the internet with randomly generated garbage at best, and is now just a tool of mass misinformation on a scale unprecedented in a time of economic instability in a deeply divided world where there are dozens of countries with enough nuclear warheads to end the planet 30 times over.

Unfortunately we can't wait for that secret third thing to reveal itself. We can't sit around hoping that letting the capitalists run rampant will bring us that secret third thing before our air becomes unbreathable, our climate is inhospitable, and our lakes and rivers and aquifers are tainted with toxic chemicals and heavy metals.

I'll always side against the oppressor, the one with the power. Personally I don't hate religion because it's religion, I hate religion because it's used by the powerful to lie to the masses and manipulate them into behaving how the powerful want you to behave, monarchy was the ruler ordained by God because God is a king and rules over all creation and the monarch is God's tool of power over the world, just like how in the west capitalism is ordained by God because God loves freedom and the free market and that is the best way to care for his people.

As far as I can tell, these pastors weren't particularly harming anyone this is just ideological crackdown.

Ralphie, with the hubcap in the snow.

Because you're defending the person who kept prompting the water and energy wasting machine over and over to get the look how they wanted to instead of being moderately competent with photoshop. Just because someone put a lot of time and effort into refining a prompt doesn't take away from the fact that prompting the water and energy wasting machine is wasting water and energy.

It's very "boys will be boys" coded.

The entire problem is that llms are trillions of dollars dropped into a money pit, wasting water, pumping carbon into the air at a faster rate than ever to do exactly what a 14 year old with a cracked copy of Photoshop could do.

Edit: adding some more

It's not much different than slightly better Photoshop at the end of the day.

That's exactly the problem all the data scraping, all the plagiarism, all the water and energy to make this, just to be what can be done in photoshop with a modicum of skill.

If I pickle them in vinegar, they turn bright pink, if I alkalize them in baking soda, they turn blue, if I cook them slowly in butter they turn a deep brown color.

I guess? But like, phone apps can let you use emoji as stickers, like it's absurdly easy. It doesn't take a professional to stick some bullet hole adjacent emoji over an image in a phone app.

Eh maybe? Idk what bullet holes look like a default pen tool in most image editing programs.

Part engagement bait, part algorithmic dodging on other platforms to get around potential algorithmic censorship.

CGP Gray has a good explanation how FPTP works and how it breaks down and ends up typically collapsing down into a 2 party system or is wildly unrepresentative in multi party systems.

https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo

Basically fptp is a winner take all system, whoever gets the most votes wins and beats everyone else in the race. It doesn't matter if you won by 1 vote or by 1 million votes the result is the same, you won. So if one party can maintain just a slim plurality across numerous districts, they win those districts despite not getting the majority of votes and everyone else's votes essentially do not count in the greater whole.

It depends but technically yes. American cheese is pretty simple, one or multiple cheeses blended with sodium citrate and some milk to create a very smoothly melting cheese. I actually made some myself last night by melting a bunch of very sharp cheddar cheese into some milk and adding a few slices of a decent American cheese to get the sodium citrate. I basically made a really good borderline cheese whiz for the sandwiches I made.

Kraft Singles, (which is what everyone likely has in mind for plastic fake cheese) however don't contain enough cheese as an ingredient to call the final product an actual cheese, there is a lot of milk powder added in that tips the ratios into cheese product territory.

Stats don't lie and there are a lot of closeted Republicans on Grindr