Seems like a very mean spirited and spiteful person would have their day made by other people having problems.

If a miserable old man wants to hatekeep an entire art style then he’s someone that I can safely and happily disrespect.

Rich people like him do not have feelings that matter, he’s wealthy enough to solve real problems but instead he protects his personal legacy and wealth.

Defend capitalism and try to increase the power of the wealthy if you like but I’ll always be on the side of people being free to express themselves regardless of the feelings of a rich old man.

I half agree but also I think with every extra step reddit takes like banning people for upvoting posts that mention Luigi we see more people interested in a freer alternative.

What lemmy needs is some new use cases reddit doesn’t have, I’ve been thinking about making an adversary debate platform that basically just offers a different format to a thread designed to make understanding events easier. Also I want to try making gamified chat modes where the main image is altered based on agreement or disagreement in the thread, basically an info graphic of the thread.

I’d love to make some game experiences on it too, I was thinking of a similar collaborative experience where user interactions in the thread alter the main image gameboard - would be great to use the existing floss infrastructure to make something open and fun.

There was a guy who used to rev his obnoxiously loud bike super early and super late round my way, it was so loud it would leave your ears ringing even inside with the windows shut.

He died in a bike accident and everyone was happy, so many neighbour’s I’ve barely spoken to shared a quiet comment about it.

We do though get a ride through every year from the chapter of the gang he was in because he died ‘a heros death’ according to them as he had been fighting a different group of manchildren on motorbikes earlier that day and they were possibly chasing him at the time.

The family have a shrine to him by the road (not where he died, just near their house) with empty beer cans, burnt out candles, biker patches, cheap plastic skulls, and slogans about how tough or cool bikers are. It’s a fascinating testament to how we form groups and make our own reality, I think he and they really believe that when we saw him on that stupidly loud bike we wished we could be as cool as him rather than everyone viewing him as nothing but an annoyance.

Living in this rapidly changing world and pretending tech development doesn’t happen is so bizarre I don’t even know where to begin.

Your the type that was saying online shopping wouldn’t catch on in 2010 when it was already huge, or that computers were a fad in 1995.

You’re going to live in a world with increasingly good ai and the more to pretend its not happening the sillier you’ll look.

One of my biggest fears is being murdered and the true crime podcasts all go into deep dives calling me a loser and talking everything out of context to make me a good victim for their show.

There was one I saw about a girl murdered by some weird boy she knew and they’d gone deep into everything she was doing in the weeks leading upto it, how her diary showed she had a crush on someone but then they went into details about how that guy didn’t like her… it didn’t even add anything to motive or means, it was just an aside about the vixtim being unpopular.

Yeah it’s weird a lot of people are stuck on fat off on either sides of the sensible opinion - some people seem to think that their ten min with Chat gpt 3.5 was enough to demonstrate that the whole concept of LLMs is stupid while others think it shows them that it’s a godlike technology incapable of error.

Reality is there’s a lot of great ways AI and especially LLMs can currently help education but we’re far from it being ready to replace human teachers. Probably in five years it’ll be a standard part of most educations systems much like how online homework portals and study guides have become since my own time in school, maybe by 2035 well have moved to systems where ai education tools are in every school and providing higher quality education than most human teachers, possibly by 2040-50 home schooling via ai tools will be a more common option than other forms of education.

Though I wouldn’t be too shocked if it happened sooner it will require new developments in AI that aren’t yet in the development stage.

That all said I bet this article is exaggerating reality and they will have human teachers involved at every step and overseeing activities.

I’ve seen it mentioned on communities related to.suicide also, the desire to climb in a trash bin and od because it removes the risk of being discovered by children or similar. I think the assumption in they’ll just get buried in lamdfil and forgotten about

Yeah, couldn’t agree more. He doesn’t sound like he even likes women, just feels he should own one and probably wants regular sex (on his terms only). I almost feel guilty writing a post trying to help him.

Also we don’t really know why they did it, could have been religious or a punishment for all we know

It’s surprisingly common considering how ubiquitous pills are, not just for the oddballs here

Without new investment, Exxon sees oil supply falling 70% to 30 million barrels a day by 2030, sending crude prices soaring and decimating the global economy.

They just want money, they want the government to invest in them instead of alternatives because if we invest in alternatives they lose money.

Of course they don’t think the alternatives can compete, largely because their projections are based on them not being funded because we continue to fund oil with heavily subsidies instead.

Big fan of the free info for the world, state funded open source solutions targeted at shitty companies would be good too - I’d probably start by utterly destroying Adobe snd then an open source printer that’s easy to manufacture on fllosh machines to kill HP and the rest of the awful junk companies.

Why was it so hot 400 years ago?

Article does nothing but advertise a.book, no answers are suggested - just a lot of repeated words to meet the count.

OK so a massive tax hike to pay for it but how much coverage is the Tram network going to have? And is it a 24 hour service? What capacity should it have, how many people will need to travel at peek times?

If you want to cover everywhere and serve everyone when needed then you need a big network of trams that sync somewhat conveniently for passengers, due to the nature of the infrastructure this means you’ll be running a lot of unused capacity most the time especially if usage patterns change.

This is why busses are more popular with transport authorities outside high volume consistent use routes, the bus routes in my area change regularly to match demand. There’s also a considerable portion of journeys that are unsuitable for tram or bus, taking trash to the tip or collecting six small trees for example.

There are solutions to these issues but we need to be aware of the problems that need solving and work towards intermediary steps so transition is possible. What we build now should be working towards an integrated transit network that’s able to evolve towards efficient and complete mass transit where and when appropriate. Trams have places they work really well, we should be identifying them and highlighting them, pushing for trams everywhere is a mistake though.

Their original moto and focus was about how fun drink driving is, the restaurant guide is to convince you to go on a daytrip

So let Elon keep all his ill-gotten gains but we talk in a contrived and awkward way so that in six generations they might be so used to it that they’re no longer able to describe the inequity in which they live?

Do you have a practical example of words we can switch out rather than taxing the billionaires?

Yep and the message it sends to 99% of the population that isn’t deep in Elon derangement syndrome is that green movements are just more leftwing circlejerking idiots that are completely unserious about the causes they profess to fight for.

Yes I would love america to have better trains and better public transport but short of a magic wand that’s not going to happen this decade, if we want to improve things then we need to live in the world we’re in. Cybertruck is great for converting rich idiots who’d otherwise be ICE obsessives, they’ll all be getting solar roofs too so they can brag and preaching to their budies about being secure in disasters and price spikes. Though let’s be honest these protesters will likely have the opposite effect to their aims and increase Elons popularity amoung the right.

It’s sad to me these people who profess to care so much about climate change or whatever always and only do aggressive, destructive and easy acts - they never put the work in to come up with creative, constructive and genuinely positive acts which help people or projects working to improve things.

Absolutely, I think general people being able to participate with testing and design ideas would be a huge boost for those that design stuff, it’s so difficult having to work out what to try and determining what works, also building information about the product, researching methods and comparing them, etc. I think it could be a really interesting system where there’s useful work to be done at every level.