It won’t be long before the internet is just bots talking to each other and advertisers paying them to do so.

I vividly remember the Digg migration and Reddit is so very much like Digg these days.

I’m 50 and really don’t watch movies almost at all any more. They tend to be so formulaic and too long to watch at home at night. If I’m going to watch something it will likely be episodic tv series. I do still play video games on the regular though.

This was cringe even in the '90s.

I can’t imagine who would ever pay $700 to upgrade from a ps5 for this.

It’s the lack of anti trust enforcement in the USA that causes this. There is little to no competition left in many markets.

As much as I love seeing Trump get into hot water, how is this different than a TV station interviewing him?

It’s traceable but also possible to hide your identity, especially if you are a major criminal or government under sanctions. Especially when compared to the traditional finance system (in which they also tend to be pretty good at hiding their identities and transactions).

It’s a great platform for being able to transfer money that would otherwise be under sanctions and for storing criminal profits. And that’s probably what it will always be for.

The only way to get this rich is by exploiting others and almost definitely breaking laws. These people all have a screw loose somewhere.

Well if all the good mods leave and you only have the bad ones left or people who come in just to profit, you get this.

Shocker

The last 4 years were some of the best I’ve seen under any president in my lifetime so I wasn’t so concerned. I think a president is 99% who he surrounds himself with and his experience in pulling the levers of government (ie instincts), both of which were guaranteed to be far better than the alternative. If the dems lose because of this decision, it will surely be far worse for the country.

Legend

I agree. Best president since Carter. And I didn’t like him at all in the primaries.

It’s only a service if his replacement wins.

I dunno, they need to give something to centrists and independents to win. Kamala’s base is all totally united against trump already I think.

I hope you are right. Not fielding the incumbent is a mistake according to most people who have had good success of predicting elections.

I vote in a solidly blue state, so for about 20 years before the last election, I voted 3rd party generally as a protest to the platforms of the 2 parties, especially the drug war, mass incarceration, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and climate change.

Over time I think we’ve made considerable progress on these issues, and though we aren’t 100% where I want to be, I have no problem voting Biden in this and last election to show solidarity against Trump.

Even though I really disliked Biden last election I still voted against Trump and after seeing what he accomplished in his first term, which is probably more than any Democrat in my lifetime, I have no qualms about voting for him again. Obviously I don’t like his position on Israel, but it’s the same of every D in my lifetime, and when the alternative is a fascist USA which will likely lead to the loss of Europe also to fascism, I have to suck it up.

But to answer your question, yes I always consider the candidates. I have even registered R before to vote in their primary because I felt it meant more than voting in the D primary.

People who like Tump, by nature, must be easily hypnotized by word salad because there’s no other justification for his existence as a political candidate. I’ve never heard a coherent chain of sentences come out of the man’s mouth.

This is one area where I am vehemently in support of IP protection for all the writers and artists’ works being used. Unfortunately, unlike when it comes to suing individuals who copy something, the wholesale theft of generations of art and writing by AI companies is just being let slide.

Honestly I can’t argue with that. That’s the reality of the situation. But emotionally they still deserve a bigger piece of what they created.

The value of anything is what people are willing to pay for it, full stop.

The share price literally wouldn’t be what it was if people weren’t literally buying pieces of the company at that price. So it’s very literally saying what the company is worth on the open market. Even with all your obfuscation, that’s still the case.

The company’s valuation in a public company reflects the price that people pay for shares, so it shows the value of the company on the open market. The employees created this value, so it does indicate how much they each created quite accurately. And you would think that they’d at least get a representative percentage of that at least. I mean if you paint a painting and someone pays $1m for it, you get $1m gross. You make the software and IP that’s sold for $100m and you only get $100k a year, that’s kinda wack.

For movies I will go the extra mile and break out Kodi and go with the big file as I will usually watch it right away and then delete it. For TV, 4k streaming is plenty good enough.

I find 4k streaming to be absolutely good enough for general tv streaming. It’s a bit better on some services than others. Amazon and Netflix do it the best, but it’s generally pretty good on all of the,.

I find it easier to get 4k streaming than to download such large files.

Geographic restrictions. I live in Czechia. I can afford to pay for content and generally do if I can, but there is quite a lot of content I want that is not available via any content service whatsoever here. For that I sail the high seas.

I have a VM running as a seedbox with full time VPN on my synology NAS. I use that synology for lots of other stuff.

So another instance then?

That’s why there’s a downvote button

Her intentions were as clear as his in that video as far as I could see.

Isn’t the presumption here that if she is only interested in his money that she also plans to take advantage of him?

Because everything sucks now.

My issue with generative AI is not that it doesn’t have uses, but that it seems to me that the vast majority of those uses are nefarious.

As far as I can tell, it has the most potential for:

• Creating sock puppet accounts on social media to sway public opinion

• Make fake media/ identity theft

• Plagarize various art mediums and meld them together enough to make attribution difficult

Other positive use cases like summarization or reformatting seem to pale in comparison to the potential negative effects of the bad use cases. There are many marginal use cases like coding or law where you may save some time but the review required is likely not that much different than the time it would take for a good programmer or lawyer to just write it.

OK Tankie.

No they are separate packages. It’s not possible to vote on things separately if they are one package.

The $21b for Israel was a separate vote. Maybe you should go find a thread about that, unless you are a Tankie just trying to make anything that helps Ukraine look bad, in which case carry on in the most obvious way.

That’s not even true. The Ukraine funding was voted on separately from the Israel funding. So in this case I will celebrate the help to end one genocide in this thread while going to the appropriate thread to protest the funding of the other.