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CleoTheWizard

@ CleoTheWizard @lemmy.world

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Hi, I’m Cleo! (he/they) I talk mostly about games and politics. My DMs are always open to chat! :)

  • Some people will do anything to win

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  • You’ve essentially described meme theory except your blaming the products of memes for the memes themselves. Trump isn’t the cancer, nor is musk or Putin or whoever. They all have supporters and a lot of them. Trumps approval rating is still near 45-50%. And the supporters aren’t something he grew or cultivated.

    Trump is the product of a meme. Conservatism isn’t the end point results of a meme, it’s an expression of an underlying cultural phenomenon where after much progress is achieved, people begin to miss the familiarity of the past and wish to stop making progress for a short time.

    And so the real thing being spread and what needs to die is the meme itself. And the only way you kill a meme is to change it into a better version of itself. Better meaning beneficial. Whereas what memes naturally do is become larger and more popular ideas until they are out competed by another meme.

    You can’t kill a meme by turning conservative people liberal. All you can do is make people better conservatives and help them criticize and improve their own memes. Same way with religion and it’s been happening for millennia for most of them.

  • AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto

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  • Looked it up and according to their claims (which we don’t have much other info on) they said that 70% needed manual review. And I’m saying AI here but really that’s the buzzword, there was a whole engineered system behind this that was automated to some degree. So yeah it wasn’t AI but it also wasn’t just people either.

  • AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto

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  • From an engineering perspective they didn’t want to do this since it’s not just about AI tasks. If you go watch videos of it they have camera arrays and special shelf layouts and all sorts of stuff.

    Not to mention the engineers probably wanted to be able to test it privately and without disrupting an actual store and community.

    So it’s what I would’ve done as well frankly

  • AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto

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  • Peoole aren’t appreciating just how bad these things are because they’re misinterpreting it. The goal of what they are doing here and with Amazon was never to just fake the technology right. The goal was to fake that the technology existed by using humans to do an automated thing and then to leverage that into making it actually automated.

    But essentially what that means is theyre inventing technology that hasn’t been invented yet and selling it to you and the reason for doing so is to replace you with technology before it can even technically happen.

    It’s essentially like someone building a new automated factory and telling workers at their other locations that they can’t be hired there since it’s automated but then someone goes inside and finds out they’re just using child laborers until the robots are ready and also robots haven’t been invented yet.

    They’re using blood to grease wheels that don’t even exist to turn yet.

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    Wasteland 2 is something I wish I didn't feel mid about

  • Tulsi Gabbard freaks over damning report U.S. is spying on Greenland

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  • You realize that the US has nukes inside of the EU right?

  • 100 days

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  • Most likely the election for midterms will be rigged or rejected if it doesn’t go their way. Or it will be otherwise delayed. It doesn’t really matter, if they start to lose power faster they actually become more dangerous.

  • Tesla’s remarkably bad quarter is even worse than it looks

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  • Luckily the party is probably on its way to being over. It’s not like Elon decreasing his public presence with the president will make sales suddenly rebound.

    What everyone here is also missing is that it’s 71% profit loss with tax credits which means they saw this loss coming and scrambled to cash in some stuff so it didn’t look as bad. Without that, they would have reported a decent loss like they will next quarter.

    And fundamentally how would they fix their current issue? They could distance from elon but that would be a slow burn. They can’t make new cars. Can’t discount their cars much. They can’t do much of anything except lose more money.

  • Eight artificial dyes will be phased out of US food supply, Health Secretary RFK Jr. says

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  • I mean yes but I view this stuff as deeply unserious in the US politics.

    If RFK actually cared he would ban high fructose corn syrup from food. Or implement a sugar/calorie ban. Or focus on incentivizing exercise in everyday life. Or limiting/taxing fast food. Or force portion regulations to be stricter, even banning certain portions of things like soda.

    There are one million billion things the US government could do to improve health and they’re doing essentially nothing by going after something that (probably) impacts us very little in comparison with the entire rest of the industry.

    Call it what it is: pandering. They know that this has broad general support so they get brownie points while doing very little to actually help us.

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  • Trickflation

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  • If you really have to drink it, drink the zero versions of most sodas. Dr Pepper in particular has some really decent flavors without the gross aftertaste. Pepsi zero is also really good. Just stop drinking regular soda. We have the technology to make diet taste good now so use it.

  • If nothing happens after we die, what's the point of it all?

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  • Genuinely thanks for that first line. I’ve held that idea for a long time without the correct words for it to explain how I feel to other people.

    I feel like it also compliments the philosophy of “why not?” As in, “if nothing we do matters, why not be kind? Why not love people? Why not help people present and future?” If good and evil are equal utility, why not be a good person?

  • What are the signs you've noticed that you're getting older?

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  • Hot take but I think it’s because people stop having or seeking out novel experiences. Most of people’s lives are repetitive and boring jobs with barely any time to zone out in the evening. And once your kids move out and you’re with a long term partner, hardly anything is dynamic in your life. Or fresh. Or unexpected.

  • The government doesn't use SQL

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  • They were more competent bozos. They ran Germany the way that your stupid friend gets laid more often because they aren’t smart enough to be embarrassed by themselves and they know only one goal.

    Whereas these guys run America like an ugly stupid person that insists that no, actually, they have already in fact convinced you to sleep with them despite what your words say and the goal is to confuse you into bed.

  • Luigi Mangione Accepts Nearly $300,000 in Crowdfunded Donations for Legal Defense

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  • It’s not nonsense at all, you can move to another country to make them try to sue you internationally which most of the time they won’t bother with. That and they’d have to track you down in the new country, it complicates things for them more than for you. Even just moving to Canada is a significant legal hurdle for them.

    And I’m saying this post-trial not currently or as a criminal. If he’s found guilty, yeah he’d have to go to Russia. But if he’s found innocent and they’re pestering him, he has options is all I’m saying.

  • Luigi Mangione Accepts Nearly $300,000 in Crowdfunded Donations for Legal Defense

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  • Not sure why you think this, they’d need a lawsuit with merits and standing. And if you do it enough there wrong way, the court can absolutely protect whoever it is you’re suing or they can counter sue.

    Or even more realistically, Luigi can make his court appearances and ignore the lawsuits. At some point paying a lawyer to harass people with no money isn’t worth it. You can also waste their time as much as they waste yours and cost them money. Just get a cheap lawyer and tell them you’ll pay them to waste as much of their time as possible and it works. Your case may take 5-10 years to resolve that way.

    Or you can just leave the country. Which sucks but it’s better than being harassed all the time and bankrupt.

  • Man who ran dogfighting ring with 100 malnourished pit bulls jailed for 475 years

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  • I think because the intention is to hurt the animal by definition and produces no useful biproduct. But that’s my guess.

  • Tesla sales plunge 63% in EU’s second-biggest EV market

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  • I think that type of speculation is acceptable usually but their self driving tech hasn’t significantly improved in a while and has been out for years, so those expectations should be mostly priced in by now.

    You add that to their falling sales figures and the fact that they spent crazy money developing cyber truck and have had multiple recalls on it already, the stock is completely out to lunch. Usually they’re somewhat in touch with reality. Like Apple is a bit out to lunch but its movement is still news-based somewhat. Not the case with Tesla, they’re not out to lunch they’re out till next year in Tahiti

  • Tesla sales plunge 63% in EU’s second-biggest EV market

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  • No they don’t think it will hold that value, yes they think that musk is helping enhance it (and I agree), no they don’t think his actions as CEO are helping their core fundamentals, and quite possibly his last actions were years ago unless you count him being at their press events as work.

    This isn’t unique to Tesla btw, they’re just the largest example. Nvidia is also right behind them.

  • Tesla sales plunge 63% in EU’s second-biggest EV market

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  • Why? Shareholders do not care about the health of the company so long as its stock price is high. And Teslas stock price is not based on any fundamental principle of investing.

    Their market cap, or the total value of all their shares, is currently worth more than the next 30 largest auto manufacturers COMBINED.

    Let me put it this way: Every single car sold in the United States this year could be made by Tesla and they still wouldn’t even be close to being worth what they are right now based on company fundamentals. Thats how insane this is. Shareholders of the company couldn’t be happier and yet their company is declining in sales and killing off its customer base. Absolutely insane.

  • Family of U.S. Citizens Shopping in Milwaukee Detained for Speaking Spanish — Report.

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  • Benefit of the doubt would be to say it absolutely didn’t happen since proof doesn’t exist now. I didn’t say that.

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