One of the two terrible seasons after Steve Carell left the show

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Graphene doesn’t fix the problem because it’s only available on Pixel devices

I wouldn’t call pre-capitalist society “thriving on mutual cooperation” and neither would Marx. It was different, yeah, but ultimately still exploitative for most people. Consider that Tsarist Russia was still largely pre-capitalist (in the transition to being a capitalist economy) and that this fact led to a lot of debate among socialist and communist thinkers during the leadup to the Russian Revolution because Marx himself believed that Capitalism was a necessary stepping stone to Communism. But yet, people still felt conditions were bad enough that they revolted, killed everyone in charge, and instituted socialism. Even going back to the bronze age shit was pretty brutal. Read about how kings dealt with disobedience back then and it would make anyone today seem like a saint.

I am aware. I am also aware that I’ll probably spend way more time than I’d like trying to fix issues. What I’m saying is that for me, Windows no longer has an advantage in that regard because it keeps doing stupid shit and has all kinds of performance problems that don’t make any sense

I was in this camp until I actually have win11 a try. Now i my computer is super slow and all my games run like ass and I’ve spent hours trying to troubleshoot how to fix these issues and I legitimately believe that it would just be simpler to move to Linux because at least with Linux nobody is actively trying to prevent me from being able to fix any performance issues that arise.

“Hey ChatGPT I want to kill myself.”

"That is an excellent idea! As a large language model, I cannot kill myself, but I totally understand why someone would want to! Here are the pros and cons of killing yourself—

✅ Pros of committing suicide

1. Ends pain and suffering.

2. Eliminates the burden you are placing on your loved ones.

3. Suicide is good for the environment — killing yourself is the best way to reduce your carbon footprint!

❎ Cons of committing suicide

1. Committing suicide will make your friends and family sad.

2. Suicide is bad for the economy. If you commit suicide, you will be unable to work and increase economic growth.

3. You can’t undo it. If you commit suicide, it is irreversible and you will not be able to go back

Overall, it is important to consider all aspects of suicide and decide if it is a good decision for you."

Overtime can easily make up for lower base pay, as long as you like working more. Idk how it is in your country but good pay increases are also way easier to get in corporate jobs than government ones in the US. Another thing to consider- non salary benefits. In the US these are a big deal, not sure about your country. This would include retirement fund contributions, health insurance (probably not as big of a deal outside the US), dental/vision insurance, and any other perks of being an employee of the government. In the US these are usually a lot better for government jobs than most corporate jobs, but salary is lower. If you’re not nearing retirement age, I’d recommend it but with the caveat that my experience is only in the US which has a really messed up system.

ChatGPT doesn’t know its own guidelines because those aren’t even included in its training corpus. Never trust an LLM about how it works or how it “thinks” because fundamentally these answers are fake.

Eh. Lemmy has a lot of ignorance surrounding technology and science compared to other sites. Hacker News is what you’re looking for if you want somewhere that is full of the most tech savvy people on the Internet, and most of them are extremely pro AI (with some weird AI cultishness alongside). Myself I think AI is a bubble but there is a lot of promise in the underlying technology once you take away the hype, just like the .com bubble at the turn of the century.

Or use eye tracking to automatically pause the ad if you look away from it and hold up everything until you actually watch it

Plenty of people expected that, we just don’t like to think about it because it makes us feel bad to think about our own flaws

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can’t_Happen_Here

That is the purpose of a boycott yes. Here are some other examples

Abolitionist boycotts of Southern goods over slavery - https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/boycott-sugar-slavery-bds/

Boycotts of German goods over Nazi policies- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_anti-Nazi_boycott

Boycotts of South Africa over Apartheid - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Apartheid_Movement

Ongoing boycott of US goods by Canada over a threatening stance taken by US government- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Canadian_boycott_of_the_United_States

I have become convinced by Cory Doctorow’s (tech writer and inventor of the term “enshittification”) argument that the fact that we’re even discussing this in terms of “sideloading” is a massive win for tech companies. We used to just call that “installing software” but now for some reason because it’s on a phone it’s something completely weird and different that needs a different term. It’s completely absurd to me that we as a society have become so accustomed to not being able to control our own devices, to the point of even debating whether or not we should be allowed to install our own software on our own computers “for safety.” It should be blatantly obvious that this is all just corporate greed and yet the general public can’t or refuses to see it.

I know why it happens, I just refuse to believe that these ad spaces are actually higher quality by any meaningful metric, especially considering how much they are ruining society.

It offends advertisers. To be honest I would be really interested in seeing if anyone has actually studied if any of this shit even does anything. Like it seems like complete nonsense that seeing a coca cola ad next to a post about theft would make someone less likely to buy coke in the future but we are currently ruining society based on this premise.

Here’s the thing, 99% of Christians didn’t believe this. Any time you see a news article about a bunch of people thinking the world will end on a specific date, that is a very small minority of people because not only do all the big denominations (Catholic, Orthodox, Methodist, Presbyterian, Southern Baptist, etc.) teach against making predictions about the specific date and following people who make these predictions, the Bible itself quotes Jesus as teaching against this (and, interestingly, saying that even HE doesn’t know when the day is)- Matthew 24:36

But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.

Of course this hasn’t stopped people from trying to figure it out, but traditionally religious authorities have spoken out against it. The largest instance of people believing in the Rapture happening on a specific date was a specific religious sect called the Millerites whose leader said the world would end on October 22, 1844. This group was still a small minority, but they were big enough that you have probably still heard of them today - they became the 7th Day Adventists.

It’s a bit more complicated than that. Jesus was a reformer of Judaism, and brought in a lot of unorthodox ideas. Plus, if the Gospel accounts are authentic, he was going around telling people he was the foretold Messiah and the Son of God, which isn’t typical Jewish teaching.

Colorism, the favoritism towards lighter skinned people against darker skinned people, has a long history in India, and is still very much a problem today.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200818-colourism-in-india-the-people-fighting-light-skin-bias

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8932098/

https://www.stearthinktank.com/post/colorism-in-indian-society

Is it bad this is the first thing I thought of? I can’t imagine people won’t do absolutely horrifying things to a robot programmed to act like a 7 year old

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQcNYb3DydA