aesthelete

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aesthelete ,

Are we not better than that?

I think it's abundantly clear that we are not better than that.

aesthelete ,

If people want storage space they should buy a station wagon. If they want to transport for work they should buy a Caddy type. If they want to go outdoors offroading then they should get a licence on how to drive offroad and how to prevent front-over accidents etc.

Most people buying one of these expended exactly zero seconds of thought on what they need from an automobile.

If someone even managed to get any law in place like what you're suggesting (which they won't because it goes against the interests of business), the right wing idiot backlash would be furious and cacophonous and the net result would be Florida marking a day on the calendar as state wide "Ford-fuck-you-mobile" day.

Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks ( apnews.com )

The company says in the documents that the front windshield wiper motor controller can stop working because it’s getting too much electrical current. A wiper that fails can cut visibility, increasing the risk of a crash. The Austin, Texas, company says it knows of no crashes or injuries caused by the problem....

aesthelete ,

Not like these people had any warning that they might be buying a shitty product designed and sold by a pathological liar /s:

And the glass is virtually indestructible instantly smashes

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    aesthelete , (edited )

    Not the OP, but gain a little experience and then be willing to change areas (markets). I've found counterintuitively that working in high cost of living (col) markets with larger salaries is better than working in low col markets where nobody is willing to pay anything.

    But my advice there might be stale as i bought a condo right before the 2020 price hikes. Being a new entry to a high priced market may no longer net the same amount of benefit. But you can run the numbers. For instance, if you move to a place where your rent doubles from 12k to 24k a year but your salary also doubles 55k to 110k, that's losing 12k post tax to make 55k pre tax so it's likely worth it.

    But some markets have gotten very unaffordable, so the math may not always work. High col areas often find people unwilling or unable to move into them as well which lowers the competition a little.

    I have other recommendations i could throw toward people looking to scrimp and save, but honestly none of them had as much effect on my financial life. Making more money by changing markets and job hopping made it so that i now am pretty financially stable in what's considered a very unaffordable city.

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    It's pretty obvious that people created every form of God we've conceived of, spoke of, or written about since the dawn of humanity.

    The motivations are even clear. And God isn't a semi-hairless primate. Why would he be? What of God's infinite duties and abilities would be made easier or more possible by being similar to a semi-hairless primate, other than to be easily thought up by a semi-hairless primate?

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    Humans aren't mostly rational. Lots of people aren't rational at all.

    aesthelete ,

    This is me on the West Coast as all of the East Coast fucks set meeting times.

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    In my particular case, I also have Indian time zones they're trying to accommodate.

    Software is basically hell now.

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    A lot of the West Coasters in my company start at like 7am. Including me. Against my will.

    We don't need this much overlapping time or meetings.

    Let me sleep till fucking 8am for a change.

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    Feminism suffers from being very broad.

    Bah dum tiss 🥁

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    Andrea Dworkin: No, I wasn't saying that and I didn't say that, then or ever. There is a long section in Right-Wing Women on intercourse in marriage. My point was that as long as the law allows statutory exemption for a husband from rape charges, no married woman has legal protection from rape. I also argued, based on a reading of our laws, that marriage mandated intercourse—it was compulsory, part of the marriage contract. Under the circumstances, I said, it was impossible to view sexual intercourse in marriage as the free act of a free woman. I said that when we look at sexual liberation and the law, we need to look not only at which sexual acts are forbidden, but which are compelled.

    The whole issue of intercourse as this culture's penultimate expression of male dominance became more and more interesting to me. In Intercourse I decided to approach the subject as a social practice, material reality. This may be my history, but I think the social explanation of the "all sex is rape" slander is different and probably simple. Most men and a good number of women experience sexual pleasure in inequality. Since the paradigm for sex has been one of conquest, possession, and violation, I think many men believe they need an unfair advantage, which at its extreme would be called rape. I don't think they need it. I think both intercourse and sexual pleasure can and will survive equality.

    It's important to say, too, that the pornographers, especially Playboy, have published the "all sex is rape" slander repeatedly over the years, and it's been taken up by others like Time who, when challenged, cannot cite a source in my work.

    http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/MoorcockInterview.html

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    Yep the best way to start a new moral panic is by recycling tired tropes from an older one (drug / weed panic of the 80s-90s).

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    All she’s saying is that she meant maritial sex is a form of violence because maritial rape was legal, which wasn’t even true.

    She's saying women cannot legally consent to sex in marriage when marital rape is legal. She wasn't saying that all sex was violent, she was saying it was all not the "free act of a free woman" because wives were property of their husbands and could be legally raped even if they denied sexual consent.

    Also, marital rape was fully legal in the entirety of the US until the 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marital_rape_in_the_United_States

    You seem to have a pretty loose grasp on the issues here. I get that you didn't like the Barbie movie, but that all that means is that you didn't like the Barbie movie.

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    But defenders like you

    Lol, I literally have never heard of the lady until this thread, but sure it's me with an agenda.

    With better reading comprehension instead of "man get real angry when word men used to describe things men do generally" even those quotes aren't saying what you think they're saying...and that's with no attribution or sources so I don't even know if they're misquotes.

    EDIT: Also you sidestepped your completely invalid claim that marital rape was illegal always because you argue in bad faith

    aesthelete ,

    Nio

    Ugh, looks like they designed their door handles just like Tesla did. Are EVs in general adopting that design standard? Cuz thanks I hate it.

    aesthelete ,

    This is America in general.

    aesthelete ,

    The model "ate the onion".

    ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time: Study ( gizmodo.com )

    The research from Purdue University, first spotted by news outlet Futurism, was presented earlier this month at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference in Hawaii and looked at 517 programming questions on Stack Overflow that were then fed to ChatGPT....

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    Sounds low

    aesthelete ,

    The early version of what's now Microsoft's game suite in Windows was one of the coolest things I've seen on the Internet. It was a virtual gaming village where you could go sit at tables and play chess or checkers or cards with people from around the world. It worked 100% fine on 14.4k dialup.

    Microsoft bought whatever that was and completely ruined it, just like they ruin everything else they buy.

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    Nature is healing, etc.

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    Needless to say she asked for the bull's manager.

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    I will pay exactly zero dollars, thanks!

    aesthelete ,

    The movie is actually pretty non-dystopian and kind of sweet. It's basically a romcom, just one with a very creative premise.

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    Meanwhile, I'm at my job trying to get an instance of a machine that can automatically SFTP somewhere as part of a script like it's 1998 and I need a shell account from my dialup connection.

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    Are there any guarantees that harmful images weren’t used in these AI models?

    Lol, highly doubt it. These AI assholes pretend that all the training data randomly fell into the model (off the back of a truck) and that they cannot possibly be held responsible for that or know anything about it because they were too busy innovating.

    There's no guarantee that most regular porn sites don't contain csam or other exploitative imagery and video (sex trafficking victims). There's absolutely zero chance that there's any kind of guarantee.

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    The only thing this will be able to recall is me formatting the device and installing Linux.

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    Ok based upon one dude's opinion I'll purposely create a communication problem between me and anyone who ever tries to discuss this stuff with me.

    Or I could just toss this opinion in the garbage...

    Decisions decisions

    aesthelete ,

    It was two xl bully Yorkies I'm guessing.

    aesthelete ,

    Her degeneration into the type of Nazi she'd parody in her books is almost complete.

    aesthelete ,

    Aww, how great, the nerds finally invented themselves a friend.

    aesthelete ,

    Having some free drugs at a party isn't the same thing as "the first baggie being free".

    I would be very surprised if you could just walk up to drug dealers on the street and get free drugs like the urban / astroturf / DARE / LEO myth suggests.

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    But what’s the plan here, which path leads to a different world?

    Do you really think someone's going to have the answer to a question like that from a bear vs man meme lemmy thread?

    One of the things I find so irritating about social media is that people pretend like we can use it to solve all of the world's issues when in obvious reality if you think about it for a moment it's just a time wasting spot for people to go chatter about things (and apparently get big angry a lot of the time).

    Social media is a snake eating its own tail, or perhaps more accurately, a thing that disappears up its own butthole.

    It's similar to how Hollywood perceives itself at awards shows as being the center of the universe. Changing the world into a better one isn't making a movie that blows peoples' minds, having a music festival, and it (to an even lesser extent) isn't writing up a catchy Lemmy / Mastodon / Facebook / Xitter / Blog post.

    These things can be inspiring. Creativity is fun, and media can feel cathartic to the audience...but ultimately media in and of itself tends to change very little.

    aesthelete ,

    lower your cost of living with this one simple trick (landlords hate this)

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    They suck ass. Stop paying them money.

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    It is.

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    Good.

    aesthelete ,

    It also is going to take another leap in algorithm.

    It was a hard problem to solve when Google's founders cracked it, but it's an even harder problem to solve now that you have state of the art spam bots filling the Internet full of shit that looks like it was composed by humans.

    If someone cracks how to figure out whether something is ai or not (for real, not the fake solutions we have now) and adds that to a good search algorithm and filters the fake shit by default, they will have a hell of a product on their hands.

    aesthelete ,

    I'm going rock so I can charge my phone.

    aesthelete ,

    There’s satisfaction to be found when labour results in a tangible and lasting result.

    That's where I would recommend one thing to other software people as a software person myself: make your own tools.

    I started writing a little notepad type thing just so I could have a cross platform tool with a set bunch of capabilities no matter what OS I'm on.

    It's very rewarding to just want something, make it, and use it.

    It can be simple, it can be complicated... It can work like everything else does or only in a way that works for you.

    It's very freeing to work on something where you don't have to ask fifteen people what the requirements are and then have them change under you. If your tool is useful and you use it you don't even need testing overhead either.

    I highly recommend it. Build your own tools when you find the existing ones to be frustrating. Or just for fun to see if you can.

    aesthelete ,

    You'd be like this guy if you made furniture: https://youtu.be/dTcvmmOkqJI

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    Nope. I might buy a shotgun though.

    aesthelete ,

    Dude it's an android app they are trying to sell for $200. Why apologize for this thing? Get some better expectations.

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    And in 10 years everyone will have similar ai-enhanced devices.

    In 10 years (or actually 0 years because it's already kinda true) people will have an AI enhanced device... And it'll be their phone.

    Also, you're arguing something I'm going to name the inevitability fallacy (for my own amusement). It's not inevitable that everyone will have one of these particular type of devices in the same way it wasn't inevitable that everyone would start watching 3d TV in their houses.

    This is just another in a long line of things that supply side economics driven companies are trying to sell us. There's next to no need or demand for this thing, and there's no guarantee that there will be.

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    It’s an experimental device and by buying it you invest into r&d.

    This is laughably untrue. By buying this you've proven to them that their marketing oriented approach to product development is correct, and that customers will throw away good money on half-designed, disposable shit.

    By the looks of this shitty project, they spent most of their money on design idiots that think they're the next coming of Steve Jobs, and blathering marketing morons that think if they say AI and "the future" enough that it doesn't matter that the products they actually deliver are half-done, also-ran, clout-chasing garbage with hardware from the clearance section of Alibaba.

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    Would you pay $200 for an android app?

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    I don't know how you don't understand how this is different. You could literally buy a better phone that can run lots of other Android apps faster for $200.

    Everything else you listed there has unique attributes, it's not just a crippled, crappy phone running a single app. A drone flies, a smart HVAC control....controls your HVAC... Do I have to continue?🤦‍♂️

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    Maybe they're sentient and actively suicidal.

    aesthelete ,

    Will everything be a subscription?! Hopefully not. Like and subscribe.

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