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PeriodicallyPedantic

@ PeriodicallyPedantic @lemmy.ca

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  • In my experience when I try to have a nuanced take, people (intentionally?) misinterpret my nuance and use it to put words in my mouth and build a straw man.

    Also hot takes are just way more entertaining, and what is social media if not a new form of entertainment?

  • Of all modern Sci-Fi Dystopia depicted in movies, which do you think our world will most resemble or already does resemble?

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  • Not too far away yet.

    There is a squid games reality show which is based on a game where they kill people, and they pretend to kill them in the show so it's being normalized.

    And Mr beast has his gameshow which is similar, where they treat the contestants inhumanly just for the convenience of the production.

  • Of all modern Sci-Fi Dystopia depicted in movies, which do you think our world will most resemble or already does resemble?

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  • Also the cops can do whatever they want with impunity.

    By the end, judy is BFs with the biggest mob boss in town, who she knows kills people.

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  • You'll never see me say this, CSIS

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  • I mean, where is the line between what is and isn't a drug?

    Sugar affects how you feel and is habit forming. Seems on par with caffine

  • That walk with the cousins

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  • That's a level of pedantry not even I would touch

  • How do I explain my reluctance to use generative AI in good faith?

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  • Depending on how hardcore you are about it, you can't.

    Are you getting up in people's face to tell them not to use it, or are you answering why you choose not to use it? Are you extremely strict in your adherence? Or are you more forgiving based on the application or user?

    There are two general points I like to make:

    1. Big companies are using it to steal the work of the powerless, en masse. It is making copyright strictly the tool of the powerful to use against the powerless.
    2. If these companies aren't lying and will actually deliver what they say they're going to deliver in the timeline they stated, then it's going to cause mass unemployment, because even if (IF) this creates new jobs for every job it destroys, the market can't move fast enough to invent these new careers in the timeline described. So either they're lying or they're going to cause great suffering, and a massive increase in wealth inequality.

    Energy usage honestly never seems to be a concern for people, so I don't even try to make that argument.

  • Welcome to our town :) …now leave

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  • Ah, ok. Yeah. If it was symbiotic, it wouldn't be called a parasite, typically, so yeah.

    It's not good, but also it's too late to do anything about it.

  • Welcome to our town :) …now leave

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  • I think you can safely remove most parasites, if that's what you mean?

  • What's your favourite story from history that is actually false or exaggerated?

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  • How much yo momma weighed

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    I see the difference...

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  • What am I looking at here? I picture of some dude and then a picture of him 10 years later? What's the point?

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    I see the difference...

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  • I mean, you don't have to be on here. Go make your own instance with blackjack and hookers.

    It's not really surprising that self hosted decentralized open source platforms became popular with the Linux crowd, and it's not really surprising that the Linux crowd are leftists.

    But they were nice enough to let you use their work for free so you can make your own little part of the Internet that has the things you want

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    I see the difference...

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  • I kinda feel the opposite.

    Self censorship is when you refrain from engaging in certain topics, not when you do blatantly obvious word replacement. Censorship is about preventing the dissemination of ideas, not the dissemination of words.

  • Congrats on living long enough to complain about it

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  • That's what they're saying.

    They're saying that you say you did that as a kid. But many kids did that, and unlike you, didn't survive it, so now kids aren't allowed to do that.

  • Congrats on living long enough to complain about it

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  • True, but also fun and growth involves risk.

    We want to remove the kind of risk you don't recover from, but a lot of folks seem to want to remove any risk that could possibly cause injury.

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  • But now that they've let it into their economy, it has grown like a parasite the type of which cannot be removed without also killing the host.

  • Whats a band/artist who's music all sounds the same?

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  • Idk, I feel like their first few albums sounded pretty different to the ones that came later.

  • CVS style

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  • I think that describes everyone, if you are edgy enough.

  • CVS style

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  • I think probably boredom in most cases

    Some "vandals" can be very clever and creative