Weird, I thought they sounded like a professional that doesn’t want untrained randos stepping in and throwing off their work flow.

You [adjective] [plural noun] who never lived one day under [adjective] threat can now [verb] upon your [adjective] [noun].

You made quite the [adjective] fuss to save the world from [adjective] [adjective] [noun].

There, now we can all play Mad Libs!

I thought it was a joke about the software making work much less efficient?

There’s a substantial number of Lemmy users who reflexively downvote anything that even mentions the word “vegan,” regardless of the context, tone, or point of a comment. You got downvoted, I’m gonna get downvoted, and it just goes to show that even in such a seemingly leftist space, the spirit of “reflexively dismiss anything I disagree with” is alive and well.

ONE STROKE, 99 cuts!

Like shaving with an old razor blade.

I unironically love this and can’t stop laughing. It’s like the “technically correct” of dog drawings.

It’s kinda early to make that call for the younger generations, don’t you think? Imagine if the legacy of Boomers was tied to what they did in their youth. We’d know them as little more than peace-talking hippies (on one end), to consumerist yuppies (on the other end.) In the decades since their 20s, Boomers have solidified a very different self image. Now, nearing the end of their influence (at least, I fucking hope so), their legacy is basically sealed.

In turn, the current generation of youngin’s still has many, many years to make a name for themselves. We have to wait and see until the kids even younger than them grow up, because as the people who will be around longer than the rest of us, they will be the ones choosing what the rest of our legacies are.

Sigh I’ve heard my parents and their neighbors complain about “all the Jews” buying houses to rent to “all the Mexicans” who now live in their neighborhood. (Hint: there is no way that 100% of the “Mexicans” they refer to are actually Mexican. But being so nuanced isn’t a skill racists tend to have.)

I hate houses being bought up by big landlords, too, and I know that being constantly bugged by realtors (who just want to turn around and rent those houses out anyway) is something that bothers those particular home owners. I would be great if we could talk about those problems for what they are, without bringing in people’s religion, culture, or national origin. The only war is a class war, and although even these people agree that a class war of some type exists, it seems that some people love to hate so much that it just gets added to a pile of things to hate.

It’s almost like they’re the opposite of polyamorous, some kind of poly-misery, where they can’t hate just one group. Ugh.

Yesterday I drove into my home town, where I grew up. It’s been hard to go there since MAGA erupted. In a usually-blue state, my home town (and the surrounding area) goes deep red. I wish I could say it was inexplicable, but I grew up around these people - their current authoritarian boot-licking matches up with everything I always knew about them.

How wonderful this news could’ve been to hear on the TV 12 hours ago, when I was back in that town, sitting in a waiting room. There was only one other person in the room, a middle-aged white guy who kept loudly saying things in response to the news on the TV. I’m pretty sure he was just trying to chat with someone, but I know how easy it is to accidentally set some people off, and I’m not about to make small talk about the news with a stranger in that town.

So I ignored him. He kept making unsolicited commentary. I kept reading my phone. Thankfully, someone eventually entered the room with a dog, and that gave the man a chance to start a conversation about the good boi, which the dog’s owner happily obliged. But now I wonder what he would have said if this story had been on the news at that time. It might have actually been entertaining.

Which is why we should all be joining up with supportive local community groups, like, yesterday. Under this administration, one should best assume that there is no official safety net anymore. The dictator-in-chief can sign an executive order and remove everything on a whim.

We’re going to be reliant on our neighbors in a way we haven’t seen in generations. Get involved and start making connections now. There are organizations across the country that serve their own communities.

One quick note - be mindful of how those organizations are funded. If they rely on government funding, that means they’re beholden to the government. To this government. Which can choose to withhold funding or to attach ridiculous strings to it. On the other hand, if they’re completely donation-based by the local community, they can remain faithful to their members’ interests and keep running regardless of which politicians are in charge. Just something to keep in mind.

I imagining a mix of grunge and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Not sure how that would work, but I’m sure you’d find a way to rock it.

I’ve been an editor on Wikipedia for decades now. I’ve followed sources to clarify information, fix broken links, and remove inaccurate information. I know how it works.

It’s always worth a double check.

That’s exactly my point. Wikipedia is transparent about where it gets its information. You can double-check citations, and if the citations don’t exist or don’t support a relevant claim, you can discard them (or edit them to flag that fact, or go above and beyond to provide a new source, if you’re so willing.) With AI summaries, you can’t do any of that. You’re given a summation without automatic citations (or sometimes, with bogus made-up ones), and you can’t do anything to correct any misinformation you encounter. Maybe you can report it, but you can’t do anything in real time to prevent others from finding that same inaccurate information - not in the way that you can to immediately correct an inaccuracy on Wikipedia.

Hint: if it’s a thing that unions push for, don’t be surprised if it doesn’t exist in the U.S.

It’s not a coincidence at all, this place absolutely hates empowered workers.

AI summaries put another layer of interpretation between the reader and the source material. When having accurate and properly-sourced information matters, it’s just not trustworthy enough. At least with Wikipedia, it tells you when there is potentially biased or improperly sourced material. Search AI will confidently assert their summaries as though they are factual, regardless of how reliable or unreliable their own sources are.

And the fact that we could see his ear days afterwards without a scratch on it.

I hate how easily I can imagine religious folks seeing this as a positive sign, instead of as a suspicious one.

I pay for an emby share personally.

I read this as “enby share” and thought, “Is that like a queer polyamorous social group? If so, I want in.”

(BTW I use emby share to pirate too, so no need to explain. My brain just expects the word “enby” first.)

Yeah, what an awful mom for not knowing enough about the brand new technology her 14 year old discovered. How dare busy parents not know everything about extremely recent technological developments! Every parent should not only 100% know everything their 14 year old is doing online at all times, but they should also be at least as up-to-date on tech news as you are. Any less than that should be considered negligence!

Oh, but the company in control of the service doesn’t need to provide any sort of safeguards to prevent this sort of tragedy. It’s not like other mentally-ill individuals (children and adults alike) will get hurt by AI chatbots affirming their delusions. And if they do, there’s always someone besides the company that can be blamed!

You’re right, there are definitely individuals who do it all as performance, like how Boris Johnson purposely made himself look shabby as part of his image.

I don’t believe that’s the case for every politician. I do, however, believe there are more “men behind the curtain,” so to speak, who we don’t see but who know exactly what they’re doing. Even if those on camera are fools, the people making up “the face” of the organization aren’t necessarily the same people making up “the brain.” Which brings us back to your point - it’s important to pay attention to more than the façade these people express. The oligarchs pulling the strings are well-practiced in this game.

Way to go with meeting your needs! I know how hard that is - my mom also trained me to put myself second, and treats me as an extension of herself. I recently (within the last year) realized that not only do I not reach out for help when I need it, but I don’t even recognize when I need help. It took my old manager seeing I was stressed and saying she wanted to help me, but that she’s “not a mind-reader” and I have to actually ask her for it, for me to step back and realize that my approach isn’t typical. It turns out I’m so accustomed to having to go through shit entirely by myself, that the thought that somebody else might be able to help doesn’t even occur to me.

By coincidence, guess who dismissed me as a child anytime I went to her for help? Yep, dear ol’ Mommy, telling me shit like “you’re just too sensitive” and “the bullies won’t remember [that awful rumor they made up and are currently spreading against me] years from now.” Mmhmm, surefire solutions right there that definitely demonstrate concern and understanding of my issues.

Why yes, I am still bitter, why do you ask?

It’s such a shame how the word “holistic” has been co-opted by the woo-woo brigade. The concept it’s meant to represent, which is simply “the idea that the whole is more than merely the sum of its parts,” makes sense on its own, and is applied in legit medicine.

However, the word has been associated with snake oil so much that it’s hard to take it seriously anymore. I was in my mid-20s by the time I learned the actual meaning of the word; until then I assumed it was akin to “homeopathy” or some other garbage.