Anon should have said chemistry class instead of math class, those have slick floors and sometimes eyewash stations with no drain

Mostly just for torrents, one machine on my local network is always using a VPN to connect to the external internet. I would use it for more things like private web browsing, but without substantial additional setup I think my web browsing is guaranteed to be fingerprinted regardless of whether I conceal my IP so until I bother to set that up it doesn’t seem like there is much point.

Here’s a formatted version of the transcript: https://rentry.org/9a9sm9ds, although it lacks images that are probably important to knowing what parts of the car are where.

initially meant to protect against corporate/capitalism over reach like this

The article makes this argument much better than I can summarize, so I really recommend reading it, but the idea is that the promise of intellectual property rights as a protection for creative workers is fundamentally flawed and is not fit for that purpose even if it seems to be on the surface, rather than being an otherwise good idea that has been corrupted by corporate influence.

Better to push for something difficult that could actually help workers than something some corporate factions are ok with precisely because they know it won’t.

Psychedelics/weed

You might also look at https://peer.xyz/, which seems to have a roughly similar concept to Payram. The website seems a little sketchy in some ways but at least the git repo has code in it and there’s a chatroom that was active last I checked.

Better discovery systems would be nice, with the huge amount of media out there I’ve never heard of, there has to be a large subset of it that I would love but just isn’t on my radar

I used to have a few drinks every day, and put a lot of effort into cutting back to fewer, and not every day. It was a struggle because I felt like, there is something suffocating and claustrophobic about my default existence, and sometimes being drunk could alter it enough that I felt like myself. Although this was increasingly rare, the possibility made it feel worth it to roll the dice, so I felt very conflicted about cutting back, even though physically it made me feel like shit in general.

Then I tried better drugs and meditation and very abruptly it didn’t feel like a struggle at all because it turns out alcohol is next to useless for that purpose. Now I have a drink every few months or if social situations call for it, most of the time I just don’t want to.

This video doesn’t seem to be making a moral or political judgment, it’s an advertisement arguing that subsidy cuts and supply exceeding demand will cause solar producers to go bankrupt which is why you should use their middleman business to connect you with ones that won’t to make your large solar panel orders from, and do it now because prices will go up. The bias here is a commercial one.

The closest example to that given in the blog post is the writer’s guild strike:

If we’re workers, then we derive our power from labor rights. The Writers Guild – the only creative workers in world history to have comprehensively beaten AI in their workplace – won their AI fight with a strike:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/01/how-the-writers-guild-sunk-ais-ship/

The Hollywood guilds are able to pursue a limited form of “sectoral bargaining” (where all the workers in a field bargain with all its bosses) called “multi-employer bargaining.” Bosses hate sectoral bargaining, and in 1947 they got it banned outright through the Taft-Hartley Act.

In general it makes the argument that it would make much more sense for people to be fighting for labor and privacy rights related to AI instead of IP rights which will ultimately fail to prevent it from harming their livelihoods.

Based on the articles I’ve seen from HR News linked on Lemmy I’m pretty sure it’s AI generated, although they do it somewhat more competently than other more blatantly generated news content. The links backing up its arguments at least have a vague connection to the claim in the article, but it’s still pretty questionable, for instance they say “free education” and then link to this page which gives a single data point from 2008 that says NK has a “100%” literacy rate, information credited to “World Bank”. There’s a claim that the country has universal free healthcare, and then in the next sentence links a wikipedia article that contradicts that claim in the second paragraph. You don’t even need to say these claims are definitively false to realize this is lazy journalism at best.

Seems like a good idea, although this

we must ensure that what we create is genuine content, not slop. We want communities that are actually enjoyable to browse and interact with, not just higher numbers.

might be tricky. I think a lot of what makes up the best content on Reddit is people who have a high depth of personal expertise, motivated interest, etc. with the given topic. So maybe a good approach would be to try to identify if there are any less-explored topics that people here already have that for, but aren’t posting about because no one else is.

Is it even ethical to begin with to sincerely assist a company to accomplish what it is trying to do? It seems like it would be more ethical to prioritize your own interests if the company isn’t itself altruistic.

This hasn’t really been my experience, even as someone who often buys the cheapest available product. There’s some notable exceptions but for the most part all my basic tools and appliances have just worked as they are supposed to and still work after years of use, and are as good or better than what was available in the past (love my lithium battery drill, mower, staple gun, plumbing tech that lets me do basically any upgrade or repair without soldering, air fryer, silicone cooking utensils, etc).

There are aspects of the typical design of old products that are objectively worse than what is standard now, for instance comparing my drill to the decades old one my parents have, aside from the clear improvement not needing an extension cord, it has a button on the top of the handle that can be pressed from either side to switch modes between clockwise, counterclockwise, and locked, which is directly next to where your thumb and index finger are. This is really good design imo and most modern drills seem to use it, but the old one does it a worse way, iirc there is a switch on the side in a less accessible area that you need to use your other hand to reach. It was also much more expensive. There are lots of subtle improvements like this that have gotten standardized, including safety features (ie. space heaters that will turn off if they tip over).

Enshittification is real, but I think it mostly applies to online services, and the products most affected are the ones that rely on them.

I thought this bill did that, but it looks like they crossed out the consumer circumvention clauses anyway.

Applies to people too

Grasshoppers liked my lettuce way too much. They can eat the plants outside of the net.

Maybe in hopes that youtubers and streamers will play the game on their channels if they got it for free? That’s probably what is meant by ‘to get content on our game’.

I don’t think it’s outrage bait because again, often the context is someone talking about themselves, and no arguments are started. But this didn’t used to be a thing, so what changed?