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BygoneNeutrino

@ BygoneNeutrino @lemmy.world

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  • Straight people, would you date a non-binary person?

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  • As long as their physical anatomy was identical to my gender of choice, yes.

  • ‘We lose the midterms’: Republicans worry Iran might have already cost them Congress

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  • I don't have much faith in the Democrats. I'm reading Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. It's a great book, and everyone should give it a read. It basically sums up the entire history of America from a Liberal law professor's point of view.

    ... regardless. In terms of taxes, Democrats are largely responsible for increasing taxes on the poor and subsidizing the rich. They at the same time give weak concessions to the lower class, but these are flimsy enough to be overturned the minute Republicans are in charge.

    He summed it up in one sentence:

    In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn.

  • How do we reduce toxicity on the Fediverse, and on the wider internet?

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  • If we block and ban everyone that thinks differently from us, we can create a utopian paradise where everyone thinks the same. This might go on for years-decades maybe-until Elon Musk perfects his Neurolink protocol. At that point we will merge our thoughts, creating the ultimate Unity.

    There will be no more hunger, no more pain. Dissent will be unthinkable. We will become....One.

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  • Whenever I see an update on these sort of articles, the planet always ends up being a tide-locked hell-scape full of toxic chemicals.

  • Scam Altman says it’ll take another year before ChatGPT can start a timer. An $852 billion company, ladies and gentlemen.

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  • I feel as though people in 3rd world countries will be hit the hardest. Most of the jobs in first world countries can already be done much, much cheaper by foreign workers. Although we could outsource everything, it feels like we give people jobs just to keep people busy.

    In the next two decades, I'm convinced that the countries that can't afford to invest in AI and automation will be hit the hardest. The value of their work will be reduced, and richer nations will not freely share the technology.

    ...it was my point about world hunger. Things are set up to where the global poor have just enough money to by food and shelter. Their low wages are why people in my country have such a high standard of living.

  • Scam Altman says it’ll take another year before ChatGPT can start a timer. An $852 billion company, ladies and gentlemen.

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  • YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!

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  • Also, somehow preventing adblock would trigger the creation of a corporate competing product. This is a bigger threat to Google than people stealing their bandwidth.

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  • I'm pretty sure it's common for people to write phonetically. I commonly write "are" instead of "our", but I fix most of my mistakes during an edit. The "it's" mistake is also common, although that's usually a problem with my phone's auto complete.

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  • Hygiene literally means practices that maintain health. Saying "we are healthy by maintaining better hygiene" literally means "We maintained our health by engaging in practices that maintained our health."

  • Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI

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  • I'm pretty sure the vast majority of the people who are anonymous are robots and stealth marketers. Normal people aren't usually willing to put in the effort to maintain their privacy. They use their "anonymous" social media and AI accounts on devices tied to their verified credentials (Google, Amazon, Walmart, Microsoft, etc.)

    My theory is that these companies want identity verification to prevent swarms of bot farms from clogging up their servers. Up until this point, the drawbacks of identity verification outweighed the positives.

  • Pentagon To Host Good Friday Service Just For Protestants, Not Catholics

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  • I don't buy this. Controlling firearms and restricting who exactly can join a militia was a common strategy for preventing rebellions at the time the United States was founded.

    The 2nd amendment has nothing to do with giving armies firearms. The people responsible for putting down slave revolts were always armed.

  • Trump Just Lost a War for America — No One's Done That Since Nixon

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  • ...I'm not sure Europe would be better off if Iran was controlled by Russia, and I'm not sure if an independent Iran is a realistic option. At the end of the day, it seems like Europe needs the oil more than America does.

    I sort of agree though. I haven't heard a compelling argument as to why we are interfering in Europe's problems. They have the strength of character to take on countries like Iran and Russia.

  • Someone finally did it: a high-end TV with a DisplayPort connection actually is coming this year, including 4K 180Hz support

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  • Does anything useful even come in 8K at this point? I saw it as a spec last time I went television shopping, but it seemed like something that wouldn't be useful for another decade.

  • Australia’s teen social media ban is a flop. But there’s no joy in ‘I told you so’

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  • ... people have a tendency to underestimate how prone they are to manipulation. We should amend our constitutions to include freedom of thought as a fundamental human right.

  • Microsoft wants Edge to automatically open by default every time you turn on your Windows 11 PC

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  • Good for them. Chrome needs a corporate competitor, and the recent lawsuits that (I think) prevent Google from giving FireFox hundred million dollar bribes might lead to a diminished product.

  • Pentagon To Host Good Friday Service Just For Protestants, Not Catholics

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  • They have their advantages. They aren't particularly good at protecting a person since a person that owns or wields a firearm is much, much, much more likely to be stabbed or shot. The other person in the altercation needs to kill or disable them to preserve their own life.

    Firearms do, however, make a great store of wealth. If a gun owner ever needs money, they can easily make a profit...especially on the black market. This is arguably one of the most important benefits from the perspective of gun owners. The value of a gun increases with inflation.

  • In private, Trump has plans for unspeakable violence. I know because he told me

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  • It would honestly depend on the melting point of the tar and what it's mixed with. I guess they could just heat pure wood tar, but they had the technical know how to mix it with volatile plant oils to make it more liquid.

    The goal is to humiliate a person; running around like a chicken is more humiliating than being a dead chicken. Since they wanted a show, they would have went out of their way to make it less deadly.

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  • ...the argument your making about the 2nd amendment is why it's now obsolete. When America was founded, firearms could actually be used to overthrow a corrupt government. They had practical utility. At this point, however, half the population armed with assault rifles wouldn't make a difference. A combination of the government's mass surveillance and superior firepower would put down the rebellion before it got off the ground

    I'm of the opinion that the constitution should adjust to changing times. 18th century laws aren't geared to solve 21st century issues.

  • How do I block a community I was banned from?

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  • Let me reframe my comment. Tell me if you still think it's trolling. Assume I'm responding to:

    "Those woke people are getting what they deserve at the gas pump. They voted for Sleepy Joe Biden, they get what they deserve."

    …I’ve never met a “Woke” person in real life. I know a bunch of Democrats, but not the stereotype obsessed over on social media. It’s reminiscent of the McCarthy era and communism. Everyone talked about communists all day, every day, but they were sooo good at blending in that nobody saw them.

    What does "Woke" even refer to? People who think the benefits of diversity outweigh the negatives? People who are annoyed with the people online ranting about the right to life and abortion? If this were the case, then a lot of the Republicans i know are apparently "Woke".

    ...if you no longer think I'm trolling, then you just don't agree with my original opinion.

    I haven't met many people that conform to the MAGA stereotype. It seems to mostly be used as a slur to dehumanize Republicans. I'm a centrist; I'd have made a similar argument if the majority was dehumanizing Democrats.