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Rhaedas

@ Rhaedas @fedia.io

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There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.

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  • Porn hasn't helped it either. It's a popular topic but you only see the brief moments and not the after, and like you said, it takes both compatible people AND an agreement on expectations. One person strays from that, and you've messed things up for probably everyone involved with each other. I think it would only work if each person cared for the others at the same level, and not one being an "extra".

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  • I met my wife 40 years ago simply from a casual message that I could have missed or ignored. The thing you have to remember is, it's not that you had some destiny together that you almost lost out on, but that it's simply how things worked out, and if you're happy with it, it worked well.

    See Tim Minchin's "If I Didn't Have You" song.

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  • That's been their business model for a while now. "Here's something you also didn't ask for"

  • What was the most recent thing that made you cry as an adult?

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  • It is a slippery slope. But the difference is that in a story you're only given what the writer gives you, and you have to work the rest out. In reality you can show there limitations in what we have now.

    It is a problem with our AI because like with anything else, people are easily convinced and marketed to for what they want to see, and they usually don't want to dig too deep to find the truth in what they want to be true. Caveat emptor is Latin because selling something based on appearances has been around a long time. Today's AI is our snake oil. It can be useful, but only if you understand what its limitations are, and how to best utilize its power while not getting sucked into its falsehoods.

  • The future is now.

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  • "The future is now" has been used in a lot of places, but I always think of the movie "The Time Machine", and it being piggybacked with the later line, "We went too far." Seems to work with this meme.

  • What was the most recent thing that made you cry as an adult?

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  • I've rewatched Andor a few times now. Quite a few scenes still hit me hard, even after knowing they're coming.

    I could say the same for LotR also.

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  • What got me was the ending scene, that was the result of that decision. Full circle.

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  • I'm still a believer that his Joi was different. Or maybe any of them could be, with the right environment. Much like Sam in Her wasn't probably designed to go as far as she did, but they all (or many) ended up becoming something more. What was designed to be an AI girlfriend became aware in some aspects. Not saying what we have in reality is similar, just that emergence is still something to discuss even in a world of fakery to sell a product that isn't really aware.

    And it can be argued that even the tells of her being more could be saying what the user wants to hear, but... it may not be either. And that's good writing, letting the reader have to fill in some of the ambiguous things on their own afterwards.

    I want to believe. Maybe partially because it's that much more tragic. His Joi wasn't destroyed, she was murdered.

  • GoDaddy Gave a Domain to a Stranger Without Any Documentation

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  • That's the sole reason marketing exists. Just having a good product isn't enough, and better marketing will help worse things dominate.

    Then if you do dominate and still market well, competition isn't a problem at all, no matter how good they are.

  • What is your favourite moon(s) in the Solar System?

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  • Europa Clipper is on the way!

  • What is your favourite moon(s) in the Solar System?

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  • All of the classics have to be read with the time period and science knowledge of the when they were written. I love Heinlein, even though he doesn't do female characters well. When I read him as a kid, I didn't pick up on that, plus I'm more of a realist reader for the hard science and don't always see the deeper stuff.

  • Google will invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic

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  • Probably like Apple and Microsoft working together in the past. Competition, but sharing some tech as well to further both sides. Or maybe it's just money.

  • Looking at Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed - do we have any idea how many active users there are in aggregate?

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  • The active chart would be really useful if it showed both active posting and active logged in (reading). I can't find anywhere in the websites or the github what "active" means, and while I would guess it means by posts, maybe that's optimistic since any platform anywhere can have accounts that are "dead".

  • xkcd #3237: Husband and Wife

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  • A solution is "my partner". Although I don't use it myself, I think it's a better term, if the relationship is a good one.

  • How would you survive a zombie apocalypse?

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  • Not well, based on James Burke's Connections episode

  • Oh, Brother [@jasonadamk]

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  • The HPs before that were solid. We had an HP 5P that would not quit. The toner cartridge was pricy, but it did last, so it was more of something to plan for than a constant cost. And you could shake it around a lot and get a few thousand more pages before it got bad, so it gave a fair warning.

  • Trump's spiritual advisor says that saying no to him is like saying no to God

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  • Her standards for an all-powerful, all-knowing god are pretty low. Or to quote Hulk, "puny god".

  • 👴🚀🔀👴🌀

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  • A downhill slide from the good Captain Andrew Bogomil.

    Even Kinsey knew when to quit; it just took a Supreme Commander to do it.

  • Engineering shenanigans

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  • Scotty: "You're not supposed to give the secrets away, laddie!"

  • Ruh roh!

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  • Not that unusual. Hate to blow their cover, but look closer at all the nerdy women...