Just a reminder, a judge decided this guy should go free: https://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/12/the-affluenza-defense-judge-rules-rich-kids-rich-kid-ness-makes-him-not-liable-for-deadly-drunk-driving-accident/

So what if it is? Is his whole personality to be a judgemental prick? If you are in a conversation you find boring and this is the best you can do to try to move on, you probably are, no matter how right you are.

Getting to know other cultures and realize how much of a bubble your society lives in = Russian “LGBT propaganda”

Trump beginning his administration with suggestions of conquering both Greenland and Canada out of the blue where already dog whistling a plan that had clearly been hatched in advance with other neocolonialist global powers and their oligarchs. The Trump admin is still in the consolidating power of its budding dictatorship. It’s still too susceptible to politics from its traditional oligarchy, although given the waters they’ve tested and what they’ve gotten away with they won’t really have to worry about it for too long.

This was the latest from Huffman: https://www.npr.org/2023/06/15/1182457366/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-its-time-we-grow-up-and-behave-like-an-adult-company

Basically, rather than focus on quality, they just shifted to the same subjective engagement bait that also happens to be easy to manipulate on the backend and almost impossible to prove that’s plaguing all major social networks. It’s easy to see too, they let major subs go to hell by letting special interests and the power hungry just go nuts, and they now only show up if you really search for them. Do things like adding a sub like r/conservative, and the whole world view it feeds you is completely different and tailored by troll factories, bots, and the like. They are crowd sourcing propaganda bubbles just so they can feed off of the scraps, and sadly I have no doubt it is very effective against the younger generation that’s just getting exposed to these sort of platforms.

This is more of a wild tangent, so I’ll leave this hanging as a reply instead.

We have the gullible joining forces with the billionaires/future trillionaires on this. AI itself is supposed to become a means for this, a direct scaffold between all the resources needed and all the rich people who will benefit from it - fear AGI, it will topple societies.

Just wait until the consumer market AGIcorps that are no longer needed because the need for the common human horse has been eradicated is turned against the luxury / power market AGIcorps. There will be no shortage of rich assholes willing to let go off the reins purely out of spite, it will be the necroevolution of the AGIcorp consumer market against the remaining AGIcorps, who centralized as they may be are still going to have to duke it out. Hint: humans will be the weakest link in that chain of decision, and evolution will dictate they be eliminated.

The funny thing is that hyperintelligent life isn’t a threat to humanity. Mutations with several times the brain and processing power haven’t just taken over, animals don’t just go for bigger brains. The threat to humanity is that this life will follow in its tradition of “I don’t care as long as I get mine” that has fueled the rise of billionaires. Life finds many ways, it’s all about how the individual cells and parts can cooperate to form part of something bigger, and when they can’t. The cancer, the cancer does what it always does, it hogs all the resources and leads to the decline of the entire system until it’s in a state where only the parasites survive. Oh, hi US.

It’s artificial - this is what happens when the capitalist leader goes full corrupt in late stage capitalism, cartels and oligarchies follow suit since they know they are not going to be punished. The factories that make RAM have literally stopped making it, at least for the general public. This is a closed market that has a few key players based in the US/Taiwan/South Korea and China, and they are all trying to keep their closed markets while the world suffers.

Consumers don’t matter when they can appeal to an even more gullible group that buys on masse, and, soft of like what is happening with the housing market, the late stage capitalism end result of it all will be a shift from owning your own PC to owning the barest minimum you need as a terminal so they can milk you with services.

Some people wanted to join Russia, the majority didn’t, and it varies year per year per whatever issue is making the rounds. Funny thing about independent movements though, they don’t really care about the percentage of people and sub-regions who didn’t want to leave or what they thought.

It is, but the alternative is that everything would get pirated instead. And like Trump, Russia is fishing for a “woke” escape goat to continue to come up with excuses to shut down exposure outside of the state controlled media, which Steam provides.

If Steam goes out of Russia, there will be a state sanctioned pirate streaming service for games, and it will include spyware. Steam isn’t just one entity, it is an entity for every country it decides to operate in.

Still, I’m not going to complete defend Valve on this, but at least they aren’t pulling a “many gamers complained about this and we listened” card. They also didn’t remove the game from the store in its entirely just because Russia was complaining, but limited access to it locally.

Maybe Valve should get out of Russia, but I don’t see this negatively affecting Russians as much as it will make the bubble they live in even more closed off. VPNs would be an alternative if Russia wasn’t criminalizing them.

“Person violated the TOS when they used the magic lamp to make the genie do bad things.”

You still made the magic lamp and the genie capable of doing those bad things. That’s the thing with intelligence, even the artificial variety. A chainsaw isn’t going to get up and begin a chainsaw massacre just because you throw the right prompt injection at it. It may just reply with words, but words have power.

that is completely correct! it’s awe—inspiring to see this level of rigorous investigation. that sort of attention to detail gives me hope that something can be done about this problem. this post fills me with hope for humanity

Do you intentionally rage bait with subjective assessments? Do you even care about how many links I could provide that would disagree with you? The industry might love you, but the reality still is what it is, which is why you haven’t argued against any of the points I made.

To be fair, I don’t think there is any other way you could have made a counterargument than to be pedantic and saying a vehicle that is effectively more dangerous than the other should be legal over it purely due to grammar Nazi polysemy blind logic. Car touchscreen controls also aren’t phones, you are right.

There’s been so many of these in recent years.

• Seats being outlawed from electric scooters in a lot of countries, suggesting it’s somehow safer to drive standing up trying to maintain your own balance than sitting down. I can guarantee you there have been deaths that could have been spared because of this. - Wait, I’m actually wrong - You can use seats, they just have to be used on the much more dangerous self-balancing unicycle ones.

• Ebikes that are capped at 25km/h but aren’t legal because they don’t have pedals even though pedal bycicles can easily go faster, have slower reaction time when the byciclist has to build up speed again after a full stop, and a byciclist is generally just more exhausted from pedaling while also having to be aware of the road.

• A lot of countries go after car cameras because GDPR and “recording public spaces”, all the while not just permitting companies like Tesla to have them, but even shamelessly subpoena the evidence because it literally could have recorded crimes not related to it thus making their rationale in all other cases fall apart.

• Prohibiting phones actually make sense because of how people abuse the privilege, but replacing all controls with a touch screen with absolutely no tactile sense or feedback in a way that people literally have to look away from the road instead of being able to hold the phone while looking at the road could is way worse. And because these are a lot of the controls for the car itself, people won’t just be able to ignore it.

It all starts making a lot more sense when you begin to realize a lot of it is to protect traditional/big money transportation markets and industries. Laws on ebikes and escooters add bureacracy that safeguards existing stocks and puts a brake on innovations that were set to come out. It it’s an innovation like solar panels on a car or bus, most of the consumer level stuff has gone bankrupt after it crashed right into the bureaucratic wall protecting traditional transportation markets and industries, but when it comes to features that benefit them due to cost savings and features that they can derive a premium on as a luxury because they realize the demand is there, their lobbyists help fast track them all through the red tape.

Car manufacturers getting most if not all of their supplies from China? A-ok. Consumers getting their cars from China? Unacceptable, it will break our economy, because apparently we have no problem allowing it to depend on private companies.

If only there were some device built into all cars to block out the sun and clean your windshield while driving!

Let me get this straight.

No to Devotion. Wishlisted like hell.

No to Nine Sols. Wishlisted like hell.

Yes to girls riding naked men wearing horse masks and videos of horses having sex. Not even a wishlist page.

Al’righty then. Guess “many gamers” want their pedophilia mixed in with their zoophilia.

I saw a Black Friday sale for a 5080 for around €1k, a decent OC model too. I have no interest in supporting NVIDIA or their fire hazards with the way they’ve been acting.

It was not a mistake, it should have been an obligation. It says a lot when the complaints are going to the people who made an effort to bring transparency to the public even when it didn’t make them look good, specially when they were in no way the worst culprits of the accusations they are trying to frame on them.

Because I’m so frigging hot, I’m so frigging thirsty, I’m so hungry, that I think I’m hallucinating the turtle. I’ve been trudging through a desert way and now a turtle pops up in the desert out of nowhere. Is the turtle even real, can I not distinguish reality anymore … would eating it help quench my thirst and anger? Is it wrong to feel no emotion?

I don’t think the test itself is designed to measure emotional response so much as the emotional nuance and the 35 ms latency delay glitch in the Nexus-5 models when dealing with it.

Were they, or were they simply more desperate because after centuries of mismanagement they no longer had the luxury of the inherited power, wealth, and resources they had relied on, being left with only the ineffectual slogans they had been brainwashed with instead?

Solution, begin requiring students to work inside a monitored room where they have to log in to access and have to write down everything by hand on paper that remains in the room. No electronics allowed inside, only notes regarding the research they may have done are allowed. These notes would have a similar process to be gathered, you’d have to register your access to the reference you are going to be sourcing, likely limited to those printed in the library, and save them there to be used when writing the report. Make them go through metal detectors on the way and get rid of any piece of electronics they could cheat off of.

Who am I kidding, Idiocracy seems to have been spot on.