it's slightly maddening that "the economy" as a metric in the US usually just means how the top 1% of the country is feeling, vibes wise
similar to how "the market" is just the richest 10%, who own 95% of all stocks
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it's slightly maddening that "the economy" as a metric in the US usually just means how the top 1% of the country is feeling, vibes wise
similar to how "the market" is just the richest 10%, who own 95% of all stocks
honestly getting to the point where i feel like there should be rules and regulation against LLMs pretending to be people, speaking in first person, fake apologizing, and constantly ego fluffing the prompter for their insightful questions
it's fucking people up, like legitimate psychosis
man, the future is kind of butts
05.08.2025 06:04 β π 20 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0dealing with grief is rough, and people do wild things to cope
this feels so... wrong though, it's extremely hard to excuse, especially from the side of actually conducting an interview with a LLM told to pretend to be a dead kid
don't like it, nope
i know what will humanize this tragedy
soulless machines!
discord is a cool app for organizing game and movie nights with your group of like, 10 friends
discord as social media or a replacement for community forums and fandoms is just the absolute worst
Duke gets a lil excited sometimes. Classic audio by @bagofjoe_
#dragon #ocanimation #toonboomharmony #2danimation #girlpower
it definitely can be pretty cathartic to explore scary and otherwise disturbing concepts
28.07.2025 14:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0i wonder how much they paid to the consultants that recommended this
i hate the democrats so much
finally paid off a multi-year loan, never missing a payment, and the next week i got a notification that my credit score went down
cool, cool cool, this system is great
the tiny local grocery across the street didn't have chicken nuggies on the hotplate today, so i bought a lunchable for the boyfriend instead
the look of betrayal he gave me when i came home and showed it to him
he ate it anyway :>
we are both in our mid 30s
my most controversial opinion is that the courtesy of free speech should not extend to explicitly anti free speech ideologies
free speech necessitates a mutual, societal agreement, and breaking said agreement should be met with scorn and negative social consequence
don't platform nazis yo
calls you a slur, affectionately
20.07.2025 17:13 β π 31 π 5 π¬ 3 π 0i've got attorneys in the family, and something i've heard on numerous occasions now has been how basically every law firm is forcing through ai tooling, to use for anything from court briefs to case analysis
i can promise you that this is going to keep happening
apparently the horse girl racing gacha game has caused renewed popularity for the worst racing horse
donations to her retirement have surged and she's getting lots of additional attention, affection and tasty treats
a screenshot of the horsegirl haru urara from the mobile racing game umamusume pretty derby, featuring real life racehorses as anime waifus
a screen capture from wikipedia showing the retired racehorse haru urara, and specifically detailing her losing streak of 113 losses to zero wins. despite this the horse has immense popularity, and has become a symbol of perseverance and tenacity
this is a haru urara horse girl stan account
we bet on losing horses
i liked superman
15.07.2025 01:48 β π 18 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0how do you feel about the opera gx extreme gamer cringe meme advertisement campaign
i honestly kind of respect it
reminds me of 90s game adverts that were inexplicably about sex and shoving a ferret down your pants
me looking smug as people abandon chrome due to its strict anti-adblock stance and privacy concerns, having always used firefox
(all browsers are shit)
the best part about grok turning into hitler is that musk is still trying to sue media matters for reporting that there's nazi content on twitter
wonder how that's going
@gork is this true
08.07.2025 22:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0that's cute concern trolling, does that often work for you?
07.07.2025 06:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0a comment i recently encountered was that libertarianism is otherwise well off white men getting upset at being told what to do
that's it, that's the entire ideology
i can tell most of my friend group are in their mid 30s to 40s by the fact that i'm trying to organize an online watch party, and half these fuckers are having afternoon naps
07.07.2025 00:12 β π 64 π 7 π¬ 6 π 1i wonder if anyone has gotten this done as a tattoo
someone must have
i used to enjoy putting together little markov chain chat bots to spew nonsense, but it just feels awkward and gross to do now that LLMs are prevalent
04.07.2025 13:05 β π 16 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0did you know the arabic word for war is harb
oooOoooooOOOo, it's scary, sounds foreign, and its been said in every large scale islamic conflict! so many dead!
at a certain point it's just fearmongering about an incredibly common word because it literally means conflict
it's a word that means rebellion, uprising, resistance, struggle
that's it
the easter rising was an intifada, the warsaw ghetto uprising was an intifada
it's like fearmongering about the word revolt because some revolts were bad
intifada just means struggle / uprising, and is often used in arabic translations of non-muslim revolts as well
you're miming clutching pearls entirely because it's a scary muslim word, making up whole swathes outrage you don't actually believe
utterly pathetic