But he can see Jesus?

“I can’t see germs so they aren’t real” sounds like the kind of meaningless strawman “got 'em!” argument he might make against atheism or whatever. It would be stupid then, too.

But no, he of course did the more sincere, more stupider straightforward version of that statement.

We all know his history and how ridiculous it is that he has the job he has, etc.

But to read an article from a handful of years ago talking about him as the random worthless propaganda TV host he was at the time… it somehow still stings.

You can run a LOT of Windows applications in Linux with how good compatibility layers have gotten. And there are also VMs as a heavier option.

Granted, for work stuff maybe it would be more convenient not to switch, but it might be interesting to experiment!

Oh it was a long time ago, but not so long ago that it’s suspicious.

Are they really such amazing actors

Unfortunately I don’t think they need to be good actors in the first place.

One of the lessons of the last decade of the shit show that we call human society has been that awful and/or stupid people rise to positions of power and influence every day by acting confident and promising things they can’t deliver.

The modern confidence man isn’t the thief of the street but the legitimate executive.

I’m imagining Microsoft taking it all the way and when you buy a Win13 license key, it basically installs a custom theme in KDE Plasma or maybe Cinnamon.

It might be worse for their profits long term than sticking with their locked down bullshit, but it’s kind of funny to think that they would first make billions of dollars of sales on their linux distro.

AI will replace workers. AI will replace people who make art and music, and write things.

This part made me think how I’ve commented recently that AI does the thing it was designed to do, but that the thing it was designed to do is generate something you could believe somebody wrote on the internet.

That doesn’t mean the answer is correct, of course. It’s often confidently wrong, just like real people online!

But when it comes to artistic expression, there is no clear right or wrong. Music, art, and the written word are some of the most human things we have, but you are absolutely right that they will be replaced. If a marketing director can pay Google a few dollars to generate a hundred concept drawings so they can do “I’ll know it when I see it” design, that’s a human artist job they won’t budget for.

Yep. My disdain for the combination of fascist government where everything is surveillance, and sociopathic corporations and billionaires where everything is a cynical cash grab, overcame me excitement for tech “products” a long time ago. I’m in the US so it’s especially bad.

I still have a smart phone that’s 4-5 years old, and I do of course use it every day, but I consciously avoid using it every hour. I love when I misplace it in my own house, to then not look for it for hours. The only person who is going to message me anything urgent is my wife and she knows where to find me.

Constant phone addiction is one of those situations where when you remove yourself from it you can more easily see it in others. It’s like there’s a new form of body language where when you see that slight forward tilt of the head you know they are in the Phone Zone without even seeing the rest of their body.

They are the starters for the entire Eastern United States!

If we work together comrades, maybe we can get the government’s new death ray to destroy the Orphan Crushing Machine that has been causing issues.

The point is less about those specific activities and more about how roads enable commerce, trade, services, and general economic activity that’s necessary for society.

Roads are not the only solution, of course, but at least where I live it’s the solution that was already built into the infrastructure and city/town layout.

I hear that if you super-upgrade to the enterprise plan, they will promise your legal department to be totally cool with ALL your data and prompts!

That’s the neat part when you blur the lines between the government and the private sector. So-called leaders who are interested in power, control, and “winning” more than upholding their oaths of office can just use the private sector to do the things the government is restricted from doing. Then when their businesses can’t compete on their own, they can lean on the legal + force options the government has.

I’m starting to think this habit we have of electing selfish sociopathic bad-faith actors to powerful positions of service is less than optimal.

One hand yeah. I fortunately run Linux at work and most of Microsoft’s fuckups are just fun Lemmy threads for me.

But the company is a Dell + M365 corporation like the last few places I’ve worked, so I DO get the privilege of using Teams and Outlook in a browser. Good lord has it been slow lately, but good on them at least for the functionality being there.

It seems like a pretty common thing for people to expect that the luxuries of modern technology include not having to do anything you don’t want to, including being present for your own life.

People make self-destructive choices every day. (insert “always have been” 🌏🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀)

You gotta have somebody with an established, honorable bloodline. Somebody like a Wormtongue!

HEADLINE: Millions die and economies implode in the bloody war to create the planet’s newest, poorest nation.

Now there’s a term I have to find a way to use at work tomorrow!

Why don’t presidents fight the war?

Well, if Apple is getting a new CEO then Microsoft should go all in and hire Xzibit to sell copilot.