rhetorical question, I do realize im not unique in that but its more to make the point that this idea seems flawed even beyond the tech not being up to it yet.

I know I can’t be the only one that, even if AI was up to doing all this reliably, wouldn’t want AI spending my money on it’s own like this, surely? Like, I can be pretty picky and tend to spend a lot of time shopping around for things. A significant fraction of the time I end up deciding not to buy anything because I can’t find exactly what I want at a price I’m willing to spend for it. I think I’d get hella stressed out that my AI would just buy the first thing that fit a category, or the cheapest, or whatever some company paid the AI developer to have it prefer, or such like that, and not to mention the worry that I might suggest buying something as a joke to someone else and have the AI hear and take it seriously or something and then my money’s gone before I realize.

Which means that playing it is also free, no?

Free to play depends on what the operating model actually is I’d say. Some pay to win mobile game is worse than free with paid cosmetics, which in turn is worse than something like freeciv.

Because of inflation and such, but the important aspect of them is being super rich compared to everyone else (hence we don’t count people that have a billion of some much less valuable currency), and that’s a very old problem.

Billionaires aren’t new. I also don’t really think LLMs will be as impactful as they get hyped or feared to be, and actually think AI as a whole outside mere chatbots will be positive if not the revolution it gets hyped as.

Honestly I do think there has been an improvement. It might not seem like that when viewing the past, but the past is easy to overestimate- we don’t have to live it anymore.

As to civil rights, it should be pointed out that while recent years have seen regression in the US, its not always a regression to the point that things were at back then, and more importantly, the rest of the world does not necessarily share the political woes of the US.

Mastodon might not be legally exempt, but depending on how much effort the UK government puts into enforcing this, large swaths of it might be functionally so. Most instances presumably arent hosted in the UK, and while some of those outside that country might block traffic there or be big enough for the UK government to order ISPs there to block them for noncompliance, theres a decent chance that some smaller, foreign run instances might simply ignore whatever the UK is doing, and if a UK user signs up to one of these, or uses a VPN to use one that does block the UK, and can still get the content from the rest of the network due to federation anyway, then the platform as a whole could potentially get away with ignoring those rules in a way that a single large site couldnt.

The sheer irony of stonetoss comparing something to facism

tbh just with how the fediverse works I would not trust vote counts here whatsoever. The downside of having no central authority over the network is that anything that lets one instance affect the whole network, like votes from bots on one instance being federated, cant be entirely trusted.

Im probably guilty of writing a lot of those tbh. Its always a toss up if I get a joke, think I get a joke but get it completely wrong, dont get a joke, or dont even realize something is a joke.

I feel like I’m the reverse, I used to find salt and vinegar a decent flavor if not the best, but can no longer stand it.

In my view, any fabric stiff enough to hold noticeable wrinkles and creases is also too stiff to be comfortable, so this one might not be so relevant for the sorts of clothes I own I guess.

I feel the same way about folding laundry. The clothes are still clean after going through the wash regardless of if theyre folded up in a specific way afterwards.

The implication I rarely see explored of the meme that “everyone (presumably excluding the FBI agents) has an FBI agent watching specifically them (and not just a whole group of people, which would presumably mean they were watching someone else most of the time) at all times”, is that half the population would have to be FBI agents.

I know these are generally fake, but they always grind my gears a bit. Literally just screenshot the full message with the “not delivered” part and resend the screenshot until it goes through.

Honestly, I don’t think very many of them could really be described as such, as at the very least most hobbies either don’t have a person or group that could be called it’s leader, or if they do, it’s generally some business that owns some relevant IP that very much isn’t considered unquestionable and above criticism. You could get cults that emerge within some hobby group instead of taking up the whole subculture, but given even things as mundane as exercise groups have had this happen before, I’d guess that can technically happen in just about any of them.

Good luck getting a cat to wear it tho

Is there literally anything that would be worse to use financing to buy than DLC?

Am I supposed to understand what this is, or is it one of those surreal memes you’re not really supposed to get?