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bobbyfiend

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  • Is life really as awful as politics and the Internet make it out to be?

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  • There are lots of things going on at once and all of them are valid. I struggle, too. My life is pretty good, from a global standard, while many, many others' lives are much worse. Happiness is wildly unevenly distributed.

  • NSFW

    If I had to see it, so do you

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  • Well, I guess I was warned.

  • ‘We created a monster’: companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgets — Amazon, Walmart and Uber are among early adopters that have introduced caps or discouraged wasteful activity

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  • Reasonable take, but the last part ("faster-growing") is huge here. The sheer scale and multipliers on the bad things caused by AI are far beyond most (all?) previous technologies used by capitalists.

  • ‘We created a monster’: companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgets — Amazon, Walmart and Uber are among early adopters that have introduced caps or discouraged wasteful activity

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  • This, plus if we had any kind of political will or intelligence (as a nation; meaning the USA) we'd force AI companies to pay their extenalities: treat and sanitize every drop of water they use, and build the infrastructure to bring it back to communities; pay for their electrical infrastructure in advance and pay their electricity bills to the tune of "nobody else's bill goes up"; some kind of massive carbon capture tax for their use (this one might not be possible to actually do; it's too much); and of course paying royalties and copyright violation fines.

    As at least one AI CEO has said, if they had to pay for all the laws they've broken and resources they've stolen, all AI companies currently existing would go out of business. let's say they didn't: The cost per token would be quite high, and very few people would use it.

    It runs on theft and planet-scale destruction.

  • What's one highly extolled piece of media that you absolutely cannot stand in any way shape or form.

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  • You call it "boxing," probably. It's where two people get into a "ring" (which is a square) and "sock" (i.e., hit) each other a lot.

  • What's one highly extolled piece of media that you absolutely cannot stand in any way shape or form.

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  • I'm just here to see if anyone has any wrong opinions about something I love.

  • Evidence shows Trump admin caused Reflecting Pool damage it blamed on sabotage: ex-insider

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  • I repaired pools one summer. Pools tend toward algae. Pools half-saturated with chlorine develop algal blooms. Pools with heat-absorbing paint on the bottom, absent or insufficient water filtering, and location in a literal semitropical swamp are a constant (very careful, with lots of water testing) battle to prevent algal blooms. Then you go dumping peroxide in... It seems unlikely this could have gone any other way.

  • How do you do a fried egg sandwich?

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  • chili crisp

    You and my ex. She hit perimenopause a couple of years ago and suddenly went from "that mild salsa hurts my mouth" to "MORE SPICE." On a whim I bought some chili crisp and within a week she had perfected her morning routine: one egg fried in chili crsip. It's quite good and the house smells awesome for an hour.

  • How do you do a fried egg sandwich?

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  • I think it's the frying.