Counterpoint: there are so many things a person could be doing that are far far more valuable to society than bullshit “profitable” work, and those things don’t pay, or pay very poorly. You think being required to earn basic existence in life is better, even though the vast majority of jobs are entirely pointless and/or could easily be automated? Such a shameful waste of human potential.

If people had all the time in the world to do what they wanted, most people would still work at least part time, but it probably wouldn’t be for shitty megacorps that treat employees like trash (and those companies deserve to die). Some people would choose to only do community improvement stuff, though, like beautification, guerrilla gardening, or helping to build/remodel community spaces. And that’s actually awesome. We need way way more of that, and less of developers/companies coming in and doing whatever they can to extract money from the community.

They do it now, when they have time or it’s directly beneficial to them, but volunteering is an inherently privileged activity. Poor people don’t have time or energy because they have other shit to do to be able to afford to survive.

Hell, it’s a very different target market from the rest of the horizon franchise..

Lego games are a slog. They can be fun for a while, but the design of them forces you to speed through the story and then go back to replay the whole damned thing to collect all the shit you can’t get the first time around.

Frankly I’m not excited about it. I love horizon, but I think it’s a stupid decision to make a Lego game as the next installment in an otherwise exceptional franchise. Especially since it launched for $60 on console. No way it’s worth that; it’s a Lego game.

Man I bet, that shit is rough. I’m also super short (two standard deviations below average for my a/s/l) and it just never stops being a thing.

I’m actually thankful for all my gray hair so people stop treating me like a goddamned child. The gray has its own drawbacks ofc, but I don’t care anymore, just don’t treat me like a kid.

On a wheel, on a wizard, on a whale, Anna no, Anna no I don’t wanna be dead again.

I would absolutely do this but I have health problems that would make me an unqualified subject :(

Of course, they are born as adults. If mama bird wasn’t carrying the egg, and rolled herself up, she’d fit in it, too.

It’s not super easy but a pihole, with a vpn to always have your device on your home network, isn’t that difficult or time consuming to set up, and will block shit network-wide. No ads in apps, browsers, smart tv firmware, etc. unless it’s hosted within the same domain the content is accessed through (like Amazon's trash).

I’ve used that setup for years and it’s wonderful.

Excellent.

I generated an image the other day, just sort of playing around with stable diffusion to see what the hype was about (kinda neat but fucking difficult to make it do specific things) and one of my renderings had half a pencil in it. Like one of those photos an artist takes of their work to post online with the pencils on it to, idk, show that it’s not photoshop or something?

So at least one of the training images was not legally acquired, likely quite a few, and I thus support the poisoning.

Our machines (like vending and coin exchange) often reject bills that are too new and crisp, as well as too old and uncrisp.

There’s a sweet spot with tech, and that needs to stop being the case.

Idk how duolinguo works (at all), but if the app can play the sounds for you and judge on your pronunciation, that would be quite enough to do the job. If it can handle mandarin (idk if it can) than any tonal based language is fair game.

I would think any decent speech to text could do a decent job determining pronunciation, if there isn’t a dedicated thing for that.. either it registers or it gets garble and you try again.

It’s not specific to that show but moviesandtv@lemmy.film might be a good place to ask, since the whole instance is for that sort of media.

Imho that’s reason enough not to find out.

Imagine the global reputation hit from a convicted treasonous felon being the leader of the country… woof. So much worse than him just having the support of such a huge swath of the country..