I can only imagine that EU is just quietly finding ways to not be dependent on the US right now.

What Trump is doing/does is unacceptable. But US citizens have been groomed to accept everything from their perceived leader.

EU has not been groomed to accept these things. They know to just ignore while they can and get ready for a trade war, cold war, or any sort of war.

Good.

Fuck my country. Never been proud of it, and how I am only ashamed of it even more.

This must be a personal hell. Growing up, I wanted to get out of my small town because I hated being surrounded by idiots. So I did.

Now… well… there is no escape apparently.

Yeah no shit. Then the new ones literally have less features than the old one. Like connecting SharePoint calendars

This is the main reason why am I have a tiny bit of hope.

They are just so so so incompetent. And you can’t say they this is for show to make us think that, this is just ridiculous.

To be a cruel leader, you NEED to be effective. And they are not effective.

Can you imagine what was going through his mind?

Alright, time to go to work and be a bodyguard for the president. Gotta do my best. He’s giving a speech today. Martial law? Must be one of those politician words, he is pretty knowledgeable.

Wait… why is everyone freaking out? This isn’t normal. Why is everyone whispering? Why is everyone giving my boss the death glare? Looks like everyone wants home gone? Maybe I should take a look at this Martial law thing?

It’s probably just some sort of everyday law that is just a little controversial…

Fuck. I have to guard this guy with my life?

Step 1: put in touchscreens Step 2: touchscreens good because = smart Step 3: … Step 4: Profit?

Who knew you could just gaslight our AI overlords?

This is Not the Onion territory.

If only we had regulations…

Home assistant is currently in development for their own prebuilt ‘Alexas’. But they are only in their ‘preview’ stage for selected devs and influencers. No announced target date when it is commercially available.

If we had actual regulation here this would be illegal for distracting driving.

Illegal to look at phone (I know everyone does it and isn’t enforced, but still illegal on paper) but not illegal to watch this short message from our sponsors?

I hate living through a bad joke. Much rather read about this shit and laugh then wondering what the next stupid thing is.

I just don’t get why they haven’t put AI in the already established ‘assistants’ yet.

Why isn’t siri or google home not integrated? Why make new things instead of improving the tech you already have?

If I had to guess, its either because of branding, or because they know it doesn’t work that well yet. Probably both.

Good article, does bring up concerns. But I don’t like this argument.

Though this content could flourish in pockets of the fediverse, the scary scenario of prevalent child sexual abuse material is not the case.

It assumes that non-fediverse sites don’t have this problem. But the few articles I read about this news, Facebook is usually the way they share this disgusting content. So while yes we need to do something to stop it, it is not like traditional social media has solved it either.

Why… the two chess websites? That seems really random. I know chess has boomed within the past 5 years, but really? Both of them?

Religion, in my honest opinion, did help humanity progress way back in the day. But has been outdated and overstayed it’s welcome.

Take the story of Moses (assuming the general story is true of him freeing slaves). He freed slaves, how? Through religion. Was there another way to do this? Not really. Slaves didn’t know how to read or write, so communicating privately was difficult. Besides, they were stupid by design, they couldn’t even think of a way to escape together. They couldn’t organize together to free themselves. But religion bypassed all of that. And that, is powerful.

And then once they were free, it evolved into a moral/judicial system to once again help them organize and able to live with each other. We simply don’t need it anymore. And since it is essentially a “vibes based” law system, it gets in the way of actual progress now. Also kind of the point of the New Testament, “forgot the old testament, that’s bad now”. We need a ‘modern testament’ that basically says, “good job, you all made it out of the shithole together, you don’t need me (God) anymore.”

AI is useless for most people because it does not solve any problems for day to day people. The most common use is to make their emails sound less angry and frustrated.

AI is useful for tech people, makes reading documentation or learning anything new a million times better. And when the AI does get something wrong, you’ll know eventually because what you learned from the AI won’t work in real life, which is part of the normal learning process anyways.

It is great as a custom tutor, but other than that it really doesn’t make anything of substance by itself.

I am completely honest, this is an open question, why do we care what his opinion is? Does he hold any real power in this?

I never thought I would say this, but thank god there are a bunch of car hobbiest in my area.

If this type of invasive shit becomes mainstream, I at least know that the auto community around me will be able to fix anything that gets put into my travel device.

No real info, so I am not hopeful and cynical.

My guess the new superpower is AI stuff or a shop to give them money for the memes.

I’ve just described to you a person that really wanted to learn something, and did it. Put in hours of mental and physical effort. And your response is that nobody wants to learn, and that people only learn what they want to learn? Which is self-evident and vacuous.

No need to be rude man. You also described the same person as unwilling to learn something. And I didn’t say that person wanted to learn or not, I generalized and said people don’t want to learn.

I believe we are both trying to say the same thing with different emphasis.

You are emphasizing that people do like to learn, but there are external forces that encourage/convince them not to.

I am emphasizing that people don’t like to learn, unless they want to overcome the external forces. I just don’t buy the excuse of external factors stopping people from learning, that’s part of the learning process.

Your example talks about a person building a pc. Yes it takes time, energy, money, and learning. But it also has A TON of resources to help with that on the internet, definitely makes it easier. It is now a famously recommended project for anybody, even kids. It was also something that is ‘new’ to them, I assume.

Typing this out made me realize a distinction I failed to bring up. People do like to learn, but people HATE to UN-learn ideas. The person in your example wanted to learn something new, but did not want to unlearn the iphone walled garden.

Okay this is so fucking cool.