BreadstickNinja

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BreadstickNinja,

I’ve found AI useful just for programming examples. I think it’s a decent programming resource especially when working in an unfamiliar language.

Outside of that it’s right now a net negative in almost every case where I’ve seen it used. Google results are already polluted by AI-generated hallucinated crap and the bots will feast on their own excrement until it dominates the entire internet.

Let’s be honest about the two reasons why the industry is pushing it. Number one, it has the potential to replace human workers at low cost and therefore is attractive to the investor class. Number two, tech investment is down in a high interest rate business climate and after the dud of VR the tech companies need a new buzzword to attract capital.

They are certainly not cramming it into your OS because they think you will actually find it useful.

BreadstickNinja,

The only part that annoys me about that complaint is that it’s not “stealing.” I think it’s very reasonable for artists to ask for compensation if their works are used in the creation of a commercial product, but it never has and never will be theft. Equating copyright infringement with theft is entertainment industry anti-piracy propaganda, and Hollywood really doesn’t need you to be their unpaid spokesperson.

If you’re an independent artist who wants to be compensated when your art is used in AI training, then do yourself the favor of understanding what you actually need to ask for. Specifically, legislation to clarify that incorporation of copyrighted materials into an AI training data set is a protected use under copyright law and requires compensation, and/or that AI image models should be established as derivative works of the images in their training. That’s the legislative change they should be pushing for rather than inaccurately claiming “theft” and “stealing art.”

Stealing art is when you have a painting and I don’t, and then I take it, and now I have a painting and you don’t. It has nothing to do with AI. Artists who oppose AI would be better advocates for themselves if they offered their criticism in accurate terminology.

BreadstickNinja,

He’s not going to “fail” in his second term. If anything, we should be glad his first term failed - that due to the chaos and incompetence of his administration they failed to achieve any of the horrific shit he had discussed on the campaign trail. His only legislative win was a tax cut for the wealthy.

Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 will make sure that doesn’t happen during a second administration. They will purge the civil service and restaff with party loyalists who won’t be held up by due process or legality.

The terrifying thing is not another Trump failure. The terrifying thing is if he and the Christian nationalists backing him succeed.

BreadstickNinja,

But what if you’re not in london

BreadstickNinja,

You should offer her a free punctuation class in return.

BreadstickNinja,

The airport authority leans into these. When they were doing construction on the terminal they put up signs that said stuff like “Pardon our dust, we’re drilling a hole to the realm of the lizard people.” Pretty good

BreadstickNinja,

Few things are more American than sending off massive bombs to be dropped on destitute brown people.

BreadstickNinja,

The death of creativity. Every game will be Starfield, overhyped and underconceived.

BreadstickNinja,

This is what, their fourth?

BreadstickNinja,

This is happening in the House that is controlled by Republicans. Unfortunately a lot of Democrats voted for it too, but the only meaningful opposition also came from Dems. So Dems are split while Rs are all in on the genocide.

BreadstickNinja,

95 Dems voted yes. 92 voted “present,” 13 voted “nay,” and 13 did not vote.

Republicans - who again control the chamber - voted 216-1 in favor.

I stand by the accuracy of my comment.

BreadstickNinja,

Yeah that combined with him checking every single risk factor for obstructive sleep apnea.

BreadstickNinja,

Fuck you, Togo.

BreadstickNinja,

From Wiki, sadly: “President Richard Nixon, who is criticized in the song, won a landslide reelection in 1972, which included winning the 1972 United States presidential election in Ohio by a margin of over 21%.”

BreadstickNinja,

Funny how the Israelis are called “settlers” and the Palestinians are called “terrorists.”

BreadstickNinja,

Truly incredible that we are still able to operate and even remotely repair a piece of 1970s technology traveling well outside the heliopause. Remarkable craft with great engineers behind it!

BreadstickNinja,

I use a Gen 1 Nissan Leaf as a commuter car that I got for $9k. The average sales price for a new vehicle in general is around $40k these days. Get a used Chevy Bolt would be my recommendation, better range than the Leaf, CCS charging, and the price is probably around $12-14k.

BreadstickNinja,

I wish it were longer but the environments look incredible. Fun platforming and puzzles, decent combat too.

BreadstickNinja,

Unpopular opinion but the simple fact is that you’re right. Turnout reflects enthusiasm and “status quo” and “you’ll be voting against the other worse guy” simply do not turn out voters.

I’m going to vote, I always vote, but I am deeply concerned about the Democrats’ electoral strategy. Trump promises to blow things up. He’s full of shit and his plans will make everything worse for a lot of people, including his own voters, but the promise of radical change in itself is enticing for a disaffected electorate.

The promise of more of the same is exactly the opposite of what motivates a disaffected electorate. The sometimes-voters will stay home if they aren’t given any reason to be enthusiastic.

BreadstickNinja,

They were QuickTime .mov files on the original version. Myst came out six years before Bink video existed.

BreadstickNinja,

I work 60 hours a week and had to move an hour outside the city to find a townhouse I could afford. And I’m one of the lucky ones.

BreadstickNinja,

Only since 2018. Before then I was born on 1/1/1990.

BreadstickNinja,

There is no truth to this. A win in Oregon does not increase or decrease the chances of a future win in Oregon. The probabilities are fully independent of one another. There is no plausible means by which the probability of a future drawing selecting a ticket held in a particular state is affected by the residences of previous winning ticket holders.

The idea that “X just won, therefore X is on a roll and will continue to win” and “X hasn’t won in a long time, therefore X is overdue for a win and should win in the near future” are both examples of the Gambler’s Fallacy.

BreadstickNinja,

Yeah but how bout all our Marxist hurricanes that keep hitting the Gulf Coast? Our storms do way more damage than your bourgeois quakes.

BreadstickNinja,

But people won’t want to slave away for my megacorp for starvation wages if we pay them not to work!

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