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TommySoda

@ TommySoda @lemmy.world

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  • US planning to halt immigration at 'sanctuary city' airports

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  • The majority of international airports in the US lie within sanctuary cities. The majority of legal immigration in the US occurs within sanctuary cities through said international airports.

    I thought they were only punishing those that were illegal? /s

  • DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode

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  • I switch between the two depending on what I'm looking for but I've been leaning towards DuckDuckGo. The only problem with DuckDuckGo is that it actually works like a search engine so I have to go back to Google when I wanna find an obscure reddit post that solves my issue because it's the best way to search for tech problems through Reddit. That's literally all Google is these days, AI and Reddit.

  • US law enforcement warns of “anti-tech extremism” as AI hatred grows

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  • "The majority of people are against this? Nah, we're right and this is just some kind of extremism."

  • Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache

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  • In my opinion, it's not even meant to stop kids from using the internet. I believe it's to collect data on people that don't know any better or don't care about uploading their ID or face to some mysterious server. The type of people that click "accept all" for cookies when they go to a website and those that live in the "if you don't have anything to hide than it shouldn't be a problem" camp. I have a friend like this that whenever I bring it up he simply does not give a single shit about his own privacy on the internet and just calls the whole thing, in his own words, a "nothingburger."

    Explaining this to the layman is honestly infuriating. They just tell you that you are overreacting and that it's not a big deal. That if you have nothing to hide than you shouldn't have to worry. An analogy I came up with that sometimes helps is removing all the doors in public bathrooms. If you have nothing to hide than you shouldn't be worried, right? Are you comfortable with your mom or employer knowing your browsing habits with your ID and/or face attached to it? What about that time you posted a meme to your friends discord server making fun of Donald Trump?

  • Meta data center allegedly muddies Georgia town's drinking water, investigation underway — EPA promises immediate investigation after congresswoman brings dirty jars of water to hearing

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  • Brown water means its got more minerals which are good for ya.

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    The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam - Booed commencement speakers, blocked data centers, plummeting poll numbers: Fast-growing industry has a faster-growing crisis

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  • In my mind it's the same idea as burning down your house to cook a burger. Yeah, you cooked the burger, but you literally destroyed everything else just to make it. Or you could just cook it on the stove.

    With AI companies it seems they'd rather destroy the planet and poison the internet to a point of unusability just to make their AI models. Yeah, they'll get their result, but they literally destroyed everything just to make it.

    Personally I have nothing against AI and the practicality of it. I do, however, have a problem with AI companies destroying everything to achieve their vague goals of "the future."

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    The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam - Booed commencement speakers, blocked data centers, plummeting poll numbers: Fast-growing industry has a faster-growing crisis

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  • The only place I ever run into people that love AI is on the internet and old people posting "memes" on Facebook. Younger people especially hate AI.

  • Cruz says Trump Accounts offer path to Social Security privatization

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  • I will never undersatnd that amount of cognitive dissonance that MAGA voters have. If there's one thing the majority of Americans agree on it's that corporations are ruining lives yet they cheer whenever things like this happen. I remember when the whole thing with Luigi happened and even MAGA had the same mindset as everyone else.

  • Same

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  • Hell yeah

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  • I'm down from 228 to 220. Not really that great, but I'll keep you posted lmao

    I miss the days of being 150 lbs. I felt like I had so much energy I could run a marathon. Now I feel like a quick run could kill me. :D

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  • This used to be my mentality in regards to work for the majority of my early twenties. Turns out pretty much every job out there will give you more work to do if you are too efficient. Eventually it reaches a point where you have too much on your plate and start getting burned out fairly quickly yet you've set the bar so high that anything less than maximum efficiency is considered lazy.

    My new method is to work at 50%-70% efficiency while at work and I take my time on everything I'm asked to do. I've worked my ass off for about a decade at various jobs and was only rewarded with more work. I'll save my efficiency for the things I actually care about in my life.

    I have a coworker that is currently in the situation I was in five years ago. He's working late every single day and barely has any time for personal business because he worked too hard at the beginning to "climb the ladder" that he's now overworked and miserable as more things keep getting piled on top. I was talking to him the other day and he was saying that he started working on the weekends because he has so much shit he has to do.

  • Amazon stuck with months of repairs after drone strikes on data centers - Ars Technica

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  • They'll just lay off a bunch of people to cover the cost and have it rebuilt pretty quickly.

  • Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI

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  • They've been using it as an infinite money glitch for awhile now. Make AI slop music and make a bunch of bots listen to it for the ad revenue. Nobody makes the music, nobody listens to the music, nobody listens to the ads, but Spotify gets paid. They'll never crack down on this unless they themselves have to stop. Until than, they'll just "assume" everything is made by people and play dumb when questioned.

  • The Men Who Spend Hours Talking to Porn Bots— “It’s just nice to feel heard.”

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  • Yeah, that's kinda what the article is about. People choosing chatbots over real people. I'm just saying that it's not good for your mental health and even worse for developing social skills.

  • The Men Who Spend Hours Talking to Porn Bots— “It’s just nice to feel heard.”

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  • Pretty much, yeah. It's like reading fan fiction and assuming that's how real people talk to each other. Similar to watching porn and assuming that's how sex works when in reality sex is clunky and often times gross.

  • The Men Who Spend Hours Talking to Porn Bots— “It’s just nice to feel heard.”

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  • The issue arises when you don't have anyone to talk to. Having something to talk, even though it's not a real person, can be enticing to sate the need to communicate with people. The problem is that people that don't have a lot of real life experience in communication fall into the trap of thinking it's better because it's always agreeable and "listens" better than normal people. To me that sounds like someone that has difficulties with oversharing and has poor social skills. What these people should actually be doing in order to feel more satisfied socially is to work on their social skills instead of only talk to chatbots that can't say no. If the types of relationships people have with chatbots were translated into human relationships most people would consider them toxic. And how many people do you know that for some reason seek out and always end up in toxic relationships?

  • The Men Who Spend Hours Talking to Porn Bots— “It’s just nice to feel heard.”

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  • I tried one just for shits a giggles awhile back to see if there is any merit to the widespread use of them. The only way you'd find these even remotely realistic or interesting is if you've never had any kind of sexual encounter with a real person before, whether in person or through text. After about five minutes of "chatting" with one of these bots it started to respond like half baked fan fiction that didn't understand the basics of sex or even anatomy. The cadence is very predictable and it tends to repeat the same wording and phrasing constantly. If you have real world experience with people, it just feels like a generic chatbot.

    In my opinion, this is more proof that these people need to interact with real humans. If these chat bots seem at all human to you, you need to interact with more actual humans.

  • To End ‘New Gilded Age,’ House Progressives Unveil Bill to Raise Federal Minimum Wage to $25 Per Hour

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  • Why do you say that?