Having cars the size of tanks and buildings made of paper-mache doesn’t seem to be a good combination…

I would say she should lead by example, but no animal deserves this much plastic.

Yes I agree, but we can’t improve things if all we care about is “look at these dumb peasants and the dumb mistakes they are making. They deserve to suffer for their mistakes”.

The thing is that in these cases usually the statistics hide a huge wealth inequality gap.

So the people is power are not really poor more often they are even richer and more powerful than rich people in countries with working governments/economies.

And the poor people are really fucked. So in essence what you are advocating for is not even collective punishment because the people responsible are not punished.

Boat mating season

defend our nation

From what?

The article also made claims. Did you check them?

Generative AI specifically, AI as a whole can be useful even tho currently it’s overhyped.

How to blow up a pipeline has a chapter on the topic.

You can also read the original book and check the examples.

P.C. this is article about the fourth mentioned protest in the article, and literally the second paragraph is about clashes. There are 11 casualties during this series of protests.

But you knew that with your high standards of verifying information right?

Why Civil Resistance Works the book that 2x figure comes from has some major controversy about cherry picking data as well as playing with the definition of peaceful protest.

If peaceful protests worked (as good as this article suggestions) the BBC wouldn’t be writing about them.

I do not oppose improving connectivity in lemmy, I oppose doing it using AI.

There are already sites that help you explore lemmy communities like this one.

And there are a lot of ethical and technical concerns of using AI. On this you can see this video. Or read anything in !fuck_ai@lemmy.world

I don’t think that is the case, but let’s for the sake of argument assume it’s so. Will populating lemmy with bots help this in any way?

Isn’t better solution to make the spaces and be the person who interacts with others?

I do not look at this as problem to be optimised and solved, we are in a social media, the idea is to talk with people, to feel connected and to exchange ideas. It is not perfectly optimal, but it also shouldn’t be.

Please do not, fuck ai

I read somewhere about that and the theory was that this is intentional, a big chunk of his base are functionally illiterate and talking like this makes him just understandable. Add to this the fact that speaking like this makes him sound very nonpatronizing. Finally it’s good marketing, it’s the same thing Ben Shapiro does in his annoying argument voice. Now that I think about it even Obama has a very easily distinguishable way of speaking.

All that to say, it is a conscious choice imo.

I am once again called to praise orgzly.

The idea is simple, it keeps all your info in plain text files on device. It allows tags for whatever you need, recipes, articles, books to read, whatever you like.

Keeping it in sync with a PC is possible in several ways, I use syncthing.

It is for sure not the easiest solution, but it’s all open source, all plain text and gets the work done.

P.S. on PC I use logseq to edit my org files, but there are other options.

P.S.2 I read the question again and I had missed the part with the e-reader. I doubt my approach will help there, but I will leave the comment in case it is helpful to someone.

Sorry but I will not take infrastructure advice from someone with the last name “carr”… /s

“It’s simply meth”

Yeah, you don’t need weed to have a good time!

FOR SURE DO NOT DRIVE, if this is your first time smoking you will not be able to navigate to the toilet let alone drive.

Depending on your situation you can ask for a ride, or walk back? Or even call your parents to pick you up. I would be much calmer if a friend of mine(cuz I don’t have kids) calls and tells me I got a bit drunk I am afraid to drive.

I use my note taking app with a specific tag for “read later”