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  • All the other brands went along

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  • I used to be against losing the headphone jack, but now I'm without one, I honestly don't miss it.

    No more wires getting caught, tangled or damaged and the sound quality is just as good unless you're an audio engineer.

  • Would you rather be misinformed, disinformed, know a lot, know a little or know nothing?

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  • You make a very good point.

    However, some people would say despite the great suffering that some of us go through that ultimately, nothing matters. No matter the triumphs of humanity, a meteor could wipe it all out tomorrow and there would be but a trace that we ever even existed.

    Your point also implies that we have freewill, whereas others would suggest that we only have what appears to be freewill. Whether you help those in need or you don't, your path is set.

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    Probably the easiest boycott you could do, let's do it Lemmy!

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  • I agree that power zealous mods are shit, but it's also poor when well written comments and posts, made in good faith, are heavily downvoted for no other reason than not conforming to the consensus of the hive mind, which definitely happens here.

    We should be encouraging discussion, not discouraging wrong think.

  • ‘Thirsty’ ChatGPT uses four times more water than previously thought

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  • This is the most pedantic reply so far.

  • ‘Thirsty’ ChatGPT uses four times more water than previously thought

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  • Is the insinuation here that the AI industry is unregulated? Because I'm not against regulations that would drive these improvements.

  • ‘Thirsty’ ChatGPT uses four times more water than previously thought

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  • I think it's exactly what I'm thinking about, unless I'm missing something specific that you'd like to put forward?

    If I own a bottled drinks company and the energy cost is 10p a bottle but a new, more efficient process is invented that would lower my energy cost to 5p a bottle, that's going to be looking like a wise investment to make. A few pence over several thousand products adds up pretty quickly.

    I could either pocket the difference as extra profit, lower my unit price to the consumer to make my product more competitive in the market, or a bit of both.

  • ‘Thirsty’ ChatGPT uses four times more water than previously thought

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  • I think it's fair to say that pretty much every industry is more efficient and cleaner than it used to be and I don't see why AI would be an exception to that.

  • ‘Thirsty’ ChatGPT uses four times more water than previously thought

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  • I don't understand the hate for AI. It's a new technology that has some teething issues, but it's only going to get better and more efficient.

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    Probably the easiest boycott you could do, let's do it Lemmy!

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  • Every community is an echo chamber except for mine!

  • Would you rather be misinformed, disinformed, know a lot, know a little or know nothing?

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  • The worlds a magical place when things just work and stuff just happens. Never study engineering lol.

  • Would you rather be misinformed, disinformed, know a lot, know a little or know nothing?

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  • If it makes you feel any better, on a universal scale we're as insignificant as bugs and I'm sure quite nearly as ignorant.

    In the late 1800's someone said that we nearly know all that there is to know, look at what's happened since and I wouldn't be surprised at all if knowledge continued to increase a such a rate.

  • Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe

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  • The first thought that comes to my mind is that the people in Twitter are just going to migrate to another social network. It won't be problem solved, it'll be problem moved.

    The second thought I have is the amount of hate and comments full of misinformation on sites like Facebook. Should we ban Facebook too? And if so, where does it stop and who is it that gets to decide that a site is getting banned for "wrong think".

    Personally, I believe this isn't so much a petition against X, but a petition against Musk, who I think wouldn't be absolutely gutted even if X went out of business. I think he bought it with the aim of derailing anyway.

  • Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe

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  • As with hate speech, the harm needs to be quantifiable. "I don't like that people are sharing ideas and opinions that I personally disagree with" doesn't cut it.

    The price of freedom of speech is needing to hear things that make you uncomfortable every now and again. Deciding what people can and can't write on the internet is a slippery slope.

  • Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe

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  • If someone told me "I don't like Musk, I'm going to stop using Twitter", I'd say "good for you". I think it's great when people stand up for their beliefs and put their money where their mouth is.

    If someone told me "I don't like Musk, so you're not allowed to use Twitter", I'd tell them to go fuck themselves. It's none of their business whether they personally like what it is that I want to do as long as I'm not hurting anyone.

    Inb4: I'm not a Twitter user and probably never will be, but I believe very strongly in the freedom of expression, even when that means I have to hear things that I don't like.

  • Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe

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  • I actually can't remember the last time I saw someone under 60 buy a newspaper. I think the cross over in the venn diagram is going to be pretty small.

  • Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe

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  • How about "if you don't like Musk, don't use X or buy a Tesla?"

    I personally don't really like any billionaires at all, but I'm not going to get in to a hissy fit because someone uses Microsoft Windows or bought something from Amazon.

  • Denmark will plant 1 billion trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest

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  • As I understand it, they have to over plant as many of the trees won't survive to maturity.

    If they plant a billion and only a hundred million are still there in fifty years it's still a big win for the environment.

  • What was the dumbest way that you lost a friend?

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  • Fair enough

  • How young can you be when you irrevocably mess up your life? and How?

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  • I would argue that babies and toddlers wouldn't be held accountable for their bad choices, even though they could foreseeably be life changing for the worst, if they stuck their hand in a blender for example. Although you could argue that in this case a parent/carer should not leave a young child near a dangerous object.

    Most people would agree that a person that is fully accountable when they are considered an adult, we usually apply the arbitrary age of 18, although I do find it strange that a person that is 17 years, 364 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds old is a child and one second later they're magically an adult.

    There is definitely a grey area in the early teens or possibly even younger where you can definitely make a decision that ruins your life. An example that comes to mind is when two ten year old boys stole a toddler, then tortured, sexually assaulted and murdered him. They were judged as having the ability to act with criminal intent, found guilty and sentenced to prison.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger?wprov=sfla1