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DuckWrangler9000

@ DuckWrangler9000 @lemmy.world

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    Lemmy is losing the war against reddit. How do we change things?

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  • Are you sure it’s not a you thing?

    There's that reddit-esque toxicity, missed that /s why make gaslighting comments like this? As someone pointed out below, most subreddits have karma barriers, and top-level subreddits like 'gaming' also put into place ridiculous rules like no reddit auto-generated usernames, which isn't something that reddit tells you when you signup. So you make an account, have genuine interactions, then get permabanned from 90% of the community because of a rule meant to deter bots (that doesn't even work). My karma on reddit is generally positive, but that doesn't matter because moderator opinions over-rule the karma system, which makes no f*cking sense. If people genuinely like your post and appreciate it, but the mod of the subreddit doesn't like it, banned. Mod doesn't like you, banned. Mod doesn't like other communities you've commented on, ban. There was a whole debacle about unpopular opinion banning people for commenting on another subreddit so people made true unpopular opinion and true off my chest...and now both of those are just as exclusive and toxic.

    So tl;dr: No it's not "just a me thing"

  • Does the USA simply have no food safety standard at all?

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  • That's not what the dictionary definition of sanitary is. Seriously, go look it up. According to Merriam-Webster, it first says: Of or relating to health. Plastic leaching into stuff is not healthy. No one has ever proved that it's safe. The burden of proof is always proving that something is harmful, and then it's classified as harmful. The problem is, we don't know something is harmful for decades, or longer. People literally believed that it was safe to have cocaine in Coca-Cola and that cigarettes were completely harmless. We also believe that vaping is not harmful, and that marijuana isn't harmful either. Who knows if that'll be discovered as being extremely harmful to your health in 100 years or so.

    So to me personally, I don't find it sanitary to involve something in the process that you have no idea whatsoever if it affects your health or not. I would call that unsanitary.

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    How long until we're all replaced by AIs that try to kill us?

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  • genAI is currently very stupid, and each new version is having diminishing returns on what the models can provide.

    Objectively false statement. You can dislike it (which I do too), but you're totally wrong. AI passed the bar, AI can identify cancer images, AI can do things which very intelligent people can't. Each new version has surpassed the previous, and companies have started layoffs to replace workers with skeleton crews armed with AI models.

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    How long until we're all replaced by AIs that try to kill us?

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  • The amount that something costs is negligible. When have you ever seen billionaires complain about costs? They can spend 1 million dollars for 1 thousand years straight and still not be broke. They are so spiteful and hateful they will do anything to hurt other people and make them jobless. That's the true meaning of business, too. Billionaires own the business, why do they want more money? It's meaningless. They don't want the money, they just hate people.

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    Should people get preferential treatment because they have kids?

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  • It seems like you might not realize, but much of White collar America works right through lunch. It's the standard. You will work your ass off your entire life, and you will be grateful for your job, they will not be grateful for you. That's the standard that has been set in the USA. Hell, at least once a week I'm on a call with some other team and there's someone calling in from a doctor's office. Had a guy say he had to step out of the doctor's office mid visit with his doctor just to take a call and I thought that was the most absurd and ridiculous thing I have heard in a really long time. You're literally in the chair talking to the doctor and you say hold on sorry I got to leave really quick for business. Like what the heck?

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    Why do women avoid talking to men?

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  • tbh I hate interacting with other men online especially on bsky because they're creeps, and I've always been a very not-creepy normal guy. I get along very well with other people irl and see other men just saying the creepiest stuff. like for example a guy gif reacts to a selfie a woman posts that says "step on me" like ew. Women seem to offer much more engaging and real conversations with dimension and depth

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    Why do women avoid talking to men?

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  • This probably comes from a life with no shortage of blokes trying to get their foot in the door under the guise of “friendship”.

    So if a guy talks plainly and non-aggressively, like a normal and rational person with no insensitive comments or uncomfortable flirting... They can't be friends? I guess that's my confusion. I remember the world when I grew up being a bit more simple.

  • I wonder why people litter in the USA?

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  • Garbage is very expensive that's why you want to build a society that doesn't create unnecessary garbage

  • Why can't someone create a public alternative to health insurance in the USA?

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  • I feel like you in many others blame the insurance companies for basically everything which is fair, but what you are excluding conveniently is the fact that it's not just the insurance companies that are doing this extortion, it's also the leaders and people in charge. Hospital administration, pharmacy managers, and so many others. If everyone started saying no and stopped allowing this, it would never happen. If they cut out the insurance companies entirely and started making their own decisions on treatments and if the insurance doesn't cover it, so be it, we'll eat the cost, That's kind of the way the world worked before insurance became so big and massive. We take care of people in our hospitals and health care system and figure out the payment and insurance later. Would that be costly, probably. But it's not as bad as the fear mongers want people to think it would be, that's what I feel. They want us to think that healthcare is so expensive without insurance that no one would ever possibly be able to afford it in a thousand years so we have to have insurance, when that's not really the case, there were times when people simply did not have health insurance widely, and they still went to the doctor or went to the hospital. I mean hell look at other countries?

  • Luigi Mangione Played 'Among Us,' Breathes Air

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  • Funny, how much hand wringing is going on in the sweaty mainstream media about a guy who merely put down a vicious oligarchy-loving killer. You'd get the impression that media moguls are worried that they're next.

    It's a sign of the time that we're living in. When people find joy in the death of others in a society, the quality of living is exceptionally bad. It's reminiscent of Rome too where the last years of their society were filled with chaos

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    Is it better to quit, or be fired?

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  • Thanks for the advice. I'm thinking next is my best option. There's no telling who is going to get picked, and the severance seems like it's pretty generous. Three or four months pay.

  • Why are there so many new AI-powered tools that scrape websites?

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  • I know how APIs on reddit work, but you can block people who misuse the API if they're doing something nefarious. Some of these AI are in my honest opinion very taxing on hardware. Having to retrieve millions of posts, comments, pictures, text, on demand... and send that to who knows where for AI scraping.... Sounds very costly.

  • Why are there so many new AI-powered tools that scrape websites?

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  • A toy like that is easy to create and not that expensive to offer.

    Right, and the developers of Bsky didn't think to maybe block something that scrapes all that personal information?

  • I wonder why people litter in the USA?

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  • Honestly, it's because we are experiencing a massive, unprecedented trash crisis like never before. People cannot find places to throw away trash because there's so much of it everywhere. It's a lot of fast food packing materials, disposable silverware, plates, napkins, stuff like that. The fact that trash cans are full everywhere, constantly, and people are trying to clean out their cars all the time anywhere they can... It's simply screams trash crisis. People just cannot get rid of all the trash that they have, there's too much coming in and not enough ways to throw it away. We need to stop using disposable crap that goes into the garbage

  • I can't imagine being paid to act like I enjoy working in the office

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  • Rush hour traffic in big cities is like 1.5 hours each way. 3 hours of your life gone to hang out in an empty office.

  • I can't imagine being paid to act like I enjoy working in the office

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    Disney Plus apparently has zero account security at all

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

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  • These article titles are so crazy. Who thinks of this stuff?

  • How long will it be until we realize AI is detrimental to society?

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  • there being too many old people for the young people to look after as they'd be too busy with their jobs

    When your entire society revolves around working for a salary or for getting paid, that's why you can't take care of the old people. Now suppose AI automates a lot of stuff and we have time for taking care of older people... How are we supposed to do that without jobs? That's the problem

  • How long will it be until we realize AI is detrimental to society?

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  • My theory is that it will never stop making money because they want less people in society in general, it's a way of trying to kill people off without actually having to do it yourself. As the number of people shrinks due to poverty and being unable to feed themselves, basically mass homelessness, and only the elite few surviving, those elite few won't have to do anything because they already had tons of money, and now AI can do all the hard work that they were too proud to do before. So I think it'll always be profitable. Just not for everyone.