I have a handful of tools and added skills that make it talk less like a human. They avoid marketing speak, passive voice, filter out annoying words and structures, etc. Worth it. It gets the job done and doesn’t try to pretend to be human. I don’t need coddling.

Getting desperate to have a normal functioning society instead of one flooded with slop?

I’m in a weird middle ground where I know how to use it well because work requires it and I require a paycheck. But I also hate it and consider it a path to the destruction of everything.

You can present AI cultists with all the data and information available to backup how bad it is for their brain and society. It won’t matter. They write it off and call you either a Luddite or a hater. That’s what happens when you allow technology to dumb down your brain. No study or hard data is going to deter them from half-assing their way to everything instead of actually learning.

A lil Skynet treat couldn’t hurt anyone…

The next article will be about how he’s rebranding himself as a born-again Christian.

And the people yelling “come and take it” while waving “don’t tread on me” flags voted the tyrants in.

there is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

Hell yeah, new communities! My people. 🤘

When I got to the doomed world where there was a timer, I dropped that game like a rock. I hate forced timers when I’m trying to have fun and explore.

Also, those goddamn harpies that would snatch you up in their talons and throw you off a cliff… They killed my entire party and the difficulty of it all felt insanely cruel.

I appreciate you expanding on examples. All of this paints a clear picture, and even Peter Thiel has said the quiet part out loud: the ruling class see democracy as a problem because it prevents them from owning everything and keeping us as wage slaves.

The headlines will always lean negative because it sells. So it’s healthy to always remember that good things are happening on a smaller scale in local communities, and we can’t forget about that. Even contributing to shared garden spaces and producing your own vegetables is a form of protest in its own way.

It’s essentially the same thing the US has done for ages in foreign countries, so it makes sense for other governments to do the same. That’s why it needs to be principled and smart, not reckless and ham fisted.

Can’t tell if this reply is praising or criticizing.

They’re not going to get any gun laws changed period if the system and the people that built it don’t want them to. Similar to how they had to create their own programs to feed children because the government refused to.

Edit: 2 relevant quotes attached.

We’re rapidly heading towards an inflection point where no amount of town halls, lawsuits, etc will fully halt the wave of destruction. So while these resistance campaigns are needed and should continue, how long are they going to work within the part of the timeline where democracy and all of the mechanisms have been fully eroded, reversed, and proven to be placebos?

I still find the meme funny, even if this is all far more nuanced. Some examples:

• A lot of cities are rejecting and shutting down Flock cameras, but in some cases the cameras quietly returned after the uproar died down. They simply waited for people to forget. At what point does it become justifiable to either cover all of the lenses or destroy them altogether?
• Similar with data centers. The billionaires are going to keep pushing them through, and in one case I saw recently, a town’s leadership even overturned votes against data centers, which was a clear-as-day example of democratic erosion. What good is democracy if it can be arbitrarily overridden? At which point is it justifiable to try and destroy a datacenter’s functionality in order to preserve life, especially when future generations are at stake?

I think eventually we’re going to need a combination of both, but it needs to be lead with structure and intelligence. Billionaires are going to continue to erode and ignore democracy, while a bunch of city officials will continue to fold to the almighty buck, similar to how AIPAC has turned tons of politicians into useless genocidal drones. We’re going to be pushed into a corner where we can either fight back with everything we have access to, or we can keep pulling on levers they’ve systematically destroyed in order to nullify our democratic power. It could be 5, 10, 20 years from now. We don’t know when but authoritarianism—especially now in such unknown times—makes it inevitable.

The TL;DR here is that we need to clearly define what counts as violence. Destroying Flock cameras and hindering data centers is in the same bucket and it’s self-defense, but it’s not violence in the sense that we think about it. If someone automatically thinks that “violence” means “overthrowing the government,” they’re willfully (or maybe not; probably a good time to educate and share knowledge with fellow working class folks) ignorant to a whole bunch of smaller, more focused acts.

Zoom meetings feel like a farce created by a demon to slowly extract our souls from our bodies over the span of years. That would explain why I’m so tired after “meeting-heavy” days.

I love how billionaires act like they’re arguing on behalf of the people they fleece, like they’re all in it together. It’s like a game of Lemmings. The ruling class leads them with rage bait and lies, and then walks them off a cliff when they’re done with them.

Working class people that think they’re in the big money club is as sad as it gets.

It’s also not in the spirit of what Lemmy is. Admins of instances are the ones that should have a say in their rules and tools. If you want to add a “Toxic Mode,” make it something the admin is not automatically opted into. Also, it’s pretty cowardly to not state the why behind any of this when it was created, and no community discussion. All the Tesseract dev has done is alienate themselves from the entire Lemmy community, except for the weird isolationist ones that just magically happen to have views that often align with conservatives and fascists.

Me neither and my instance URL is about sinking yachts lol.

Time to open a PR adding yourself lol.