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  • What are some truly timeless songs?

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  • Aww, thank you very much for this comment, which not only has "time" in the title but is actually pretty timeless, beyond any meme value. Jim Croce even has several songs that have outlived his generation, such as "I Got a Name." Those are exactly the songs I was referring to - the ones that, decades later, continue to reach new audiences through movie soundtracks and such.

  • People born in the 1900s, what was life like back then?

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  • Yes, I may be younger, but I also feel that some things were lost because of the internet. It now seems to me that the oversupply of content has, unfortunately, led to a decline in the appreciation of content—or rather, in the value attributed to it.

    It’s a bit like Christmas for kids: you look forward to it for a long time, and finally the day comes when you get presents. Today, however, every day is Christmas, and the presents aren’t as special anymore because there are so many that you don’t even have time to really appreciate them—you can binge-watch one series after another and somehow lose your sense of proportion and the feeling of when enough is enough, or so it seems to me.

    This is certainly a nostalgic impression, yet it seems to me that “more” is only positive to a certain extent, since this “more” can easily turn into “too much,” which is more of a burden than a joy.

  • People born in the 1900s, what was life like back then?

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  • Perhaps it’s just nostalgic romanticization, but I seem to recall that product quality used to be far more important: Manufacturers vied for customers’ favor and therefore focused on offering the best value for money or innovative products to outdo the competition.

    This seems to me to have been lost to a large extent due to the fact that unbridled capitalism—likely exacerbated by the Internet’s tendency toward centralization—has led to increased monopolization, so that providers have now shifted to exploit their customers to the maximum, since they no longer have the option of switching to any provider other than perhaps two or three gigantic corporations that dominate their respective business sectors unchallenged.

    This seems to me to be a development that was certainly already in the making in the 1990s and early 2000s, but which has intensified—largely due to the internet’s trend toward globally centralized platforms—to such an extent that now even fewer, even more unscrupulous billionaires can abuse their unrestricted market power not just nationally or at least to some extent locally, but internationally.

    It seems to me that this development has to do with the fact that the internet represents a global market, but there are simply no global authorities that could counteract the formation of monopolies on an international level.

    It seems to me to be the logical consequence of the predominantly U.S.-led cutthroat capitalism that has essentially lost its social function of distributing goods in favor of becoming an instrument of power for the multi-billionaires who have become far too powerful. The result, it seems to me, is a kind of new monarchy of billionaires who have become so powerful that they have been able to place themselves above the community and the law—with fatal consequences for the general public.

    Of course, these immensely influential private individuals with their boundless greed already existed in the 1990s, but in my opinion, their influence wasn't quite as far-reaching back then.

  • Are there more pejorative and disparaging sayings about people who actually know things than about people who pretend to know things?

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  • Are there more pejorative and disparaging sayings about people who actually know things than about people who pretend to know things?

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  • No. It's just a question.

    You seem to see a pseudo-intellectual motive in this, but I don't quite understand why.

  • Are there more pejorative and disparaging sayings about people who actually know things than about people who pretend to know things?

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  • Yeah, sure, but I get the impression that these people are rarely referred to as such. Then again, maybe that’s just my impression.

    Just today I had a meeting with a whole delegation of management consultants: three highly paid people, and they all kept throwing out one buzzword after another. When I asked for clarification or rather for detail, however, it quickly became clear that not a single one of them had even a basic understanding of what they were talking about.

  • No energy whips though

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  • Opportunity plus instinct equals profit.

    (Rules of Acquisition: Rule 9; "The Storyteller" [DS9])

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  • 'A huge omission’: Everyone is baffled by the exclusion of Gaza in DNC autopsy

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  • This doesn't baffle anyone at all. On the contrary. It was entirely to be expected, given all the AIPAC money Israel uses to bribe politicians.

  • Another Cat-in-the-box!

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  • "...

    Are you ready? Hey, are you ready for this?

    Are you hanging on the edge of your seat?

    Out of the doorway, the bullets rip

    To the sound of the beat, yeah

    Another Cat-in-the-box

    Another Cat-in-the-box

    And another one gone, and another one gone

    Another Cat-in-the-box (yeah)

    Hey, I'm gonna get you, too

    Another Cat-in-the-box

    ..."

  • YouTube really showing top quality in recent update

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  • Yes, that's true, because of the network effect. But you can still rest on your laurels as long as there's no serious competition. Another motivation for PeerTube & Co.

    Regarding federated applications: I think they not only need content, but also have to become significantly more user-friendly to ever have a chance in the mainstream. It’s simply a reality that the average user doesn’t know the first thing about the applications they use—and, above all, that they never want to know. The essential and only “selling point” is and remains convenience—and even setting aside the lack of content, federated applications unfortunately can’t keep up. Not for technical reasons, but because the average internet user is such a complacent wimp.

  • YouTube really showing top quality in recent update

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  • Isn't it unbelievable how multi-billion-dollar corporations push out updates that should never have been released, despite the warnings from their undoubtedly highly competent developers?

    That alone says everything you need to know about the times we live in...

    It seems we've reached the end of the road for hyper-capitalism.

  • Management has historically been interested in boiling down complex issues to so-called KPIs, so that employee performance can seemingly be presented in a simple dashboard. Are there such KPIs for AI?

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  • It’s been almost 40 years since the late 1980s. That’s certainly a historical context, especially since it has had such a profound impact on the world we live in today - not for the better, if you ask me.

  • Management has historically been interested in boiling down complex issues to so-called KPIs, so that employee performance can seemingly be presented in a simple dashboard. Are there such KPIs for AI?

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  • Wouldn’t that mean that KPIs need to be applied to the output, just as they are to employees’ work? Otherwise, no comparison would be possible at all: To measure how much time an employee saves by using AI, one must measure the value of the AI’s output. If you don’t do that, the time savings could be attributed to any other factor - such as the employee working overtime because they don’t want to be replaced by AI, which in this scenario is simply not possible because, due to the lack of metrics, it is unknown whether AI can replace the employee at all.

  • Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones

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  • This is an approach that could never succeed in the U.S., because there the focus is always on throwing as much money as possible at the defense contractors so that the billionaires can get even richer.

    A current example: the war of aggression against Iran that the U.S. is waging in violation of international law.

    To my knowledge, not even a halfway plausible reason has been given for this. And so it becomes quite clear that this is simply about shifting state resources into the pockets of the super-rich - and U.S. citizens just go along with it, even though it isn’t even them who are dying by the thousands, but rather, among others, Iranian schoolchildren, hundreds of whom were murdered simply by a bombing of a school...

  • Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism"

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  • I think it would certainly be appropriate to socially isolate all these people so that they might finally realize what atrocities they are committing, since they themselves don’t seem to realize what crimes they are complicit in.

    Even the murder of 120 children still doesn’t seem terrible enough for these monsters to see the light.

    They are terrible people, and that is why they deserve nothing but contempt, for they have more than earned it.

  • What tv show has the best theme song?

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  • Meta staff protest surveillance software on work PCs

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  • I see, so the Meta employees have the typical conservative mindset: any misdeed is perfectly fine as long as it doesn’t affect you personally.

    That’s what I thought - it’s probably not just the employees of social media companies who feel this way, but also those at Palantir and similar. Not to mention the "defense" contractors and the like.

    I really wonder how these people can still look at themselves in the mirror.

  • ‘Pray With Me Please’: Pete Hegseth Reads Fake Bible Quote From ‘Pulp Fiction’ During Pentagon Prayer Service

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  • Does it even matter what these people say? Apparently not, because none of them has ever said anything even remotely intelligent, let alone productive. Nothing but hate and lies for years - this latest embarrassment hardly seems worth reporting, given all the crimes the U.S. regime is committing.

    But hey, politics works through entertainment, which the clever people behind these people naturally know. That’s why they've chosen a cabinet of clowns as straw men - because they’re so embarrassing that the relevant news doesn’t stand a chance against their entertainment factor.

    That’s unfortunately how our world works, and that’s why the worst of them all always get off scot-free: their crimes are simply too complicated to generate any interest.

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  • Hey, what a valuable initiative. I mean, it’s not like there are any real problems in the world...

    ...if there really were, that would just be a distraction...

    ...and that can’t possibly be the case...

    /s