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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • I mean, all the events leading to trump winning the first time seemed far fetched… and the second time… insane. Honestly it was over half way into the 2016 general that I realized… oh shit this isn’t just a meme and a joke of people ironically saying they support this lunatic, there’s actually enough serious supporters that he could win.



  • “Why should I trust a bunch of randos with it? Why should I give them my password? […]”

    lol that right there you should respond no one should have your PASSWORD (singular) to begin with. Companies large and small have data breaches all the time. If the same password is on more than 5-10 sites, you should assume it’s been compromised by now, and explain that they need a password manager.

    Far as it goes with professional companies, we are talking public posting social media, the differences between them are all public, the biggest thing is what they chose to censor. Twitters cool with letting nazi’s speak, but censoring the left. Most lemmy instances are the opposite, but there even are lemmy instances that are backwards with that… which is the point. We all have differing oppinions on where the line should be drawn on acceptable speech, Being able to custom pick one of 50 groups is more likely to find one that works for you, than picking one of 3 social media giants that will have their own rules.








  • Yeah was going to say, there’s certainly aversion to tech that can be paralleled assuming AI has a positive future state. But yeah, WIFI, Cellphones, television, radio waves, all things people feared without propor understanding, that are now standard parts of reality.

    If hypothetically AI etc… gets close to actual sentience, artificial life may begin the culture war of attempting for personhood, fight for rights etc… in which case there will be a discussion, and assuming like all past personhood battles in the end AI is decided to have reached actual status of living… then yes those who are late to the bandwaggon and continuing to fight will be viewed just like our racists homophobes etc… But there is very little evidence that any current day AI has anything resembling feelings, wants desires etc… and just because this may be the predicessor to an AI that will. doesn’t make hating chatgpt any worse than hating a doorbell.

    Hell if somehow we were to discover say chatgpt actually has sentience right now in it’s current used form… no one could be favorable in the current view, as even the staunchest supporters of AI, are only looking at it as slave work etc… There’s not even room or a case for letting AI’s be free for life, liberty and the pursuit of happyness (which, is because with our understandings none of those are applicable to it).



  • The actual history of the meme… it started as an MS paint sketch where they were looking to a flat earth. With just the first saying “WTF it’s flat” one behind saying “sorry fam”. The more popular follow up was one where they were looking, except the only land mass on earth was a giant state of ohio, and second astronaut responded with “always has been”.

    Oh as far as the idea that they didn’t look at it in transit, no idea… though I suppose it’s more reasonable that this is the first spacewalk or whatever. Would imagine most the trip up, you’d be looking ahead rather than back at earth. Also I suppose depends on the subtletly or lack there of of what earth is “all”.


  • More importantly even then… IE there’s absolutely been cases of streamers attracting crazy stalkers etc…

    But proportionally they are extremely few. Would be insanely unlikely for the kind of person that’s obsessed with them, also being a door dash driver, happening to have come across the streamers address. (from my recolection of my very brief time helping my GF door dash, when deciding which jobs to take, you only get the restraunt and the distance, only learn where the delivery is going after.

    So hypothetically even if I knew Logan Pauls address. I’d have to camp out near restaurants near him… time my working when he might be ordering, guess which restaurant he’s ordering from… Honestly it seems like a plan that would take years to hit all the boxes to go with… probably more efficiant to camp out on streets I think he’d walk down or break in to his house the old fashioned way if I already had that level of information.