Part of the reason it’s as terrible for the environment as it is is because billions are being poured into keeping it running even though it’s not as profitable (or profitable at all) as they want you to believe it is. If the users actually had to pay the cost it takes to train and run these things, nobody (except maybe propaganda mills) would pay it because it would be a wildly expensive ripoff. The corporations and venture capitalists are hoping to get everyone addicted to it before they start squeezing.

If taxes pump the brakes on this shit even faster, all the better.

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The Onion makes its best social commentary when it initially fools you into thinking it’s real. The point isn’t to be absurd or trick you, it’s to hold a mirror up and make you think.

People keep saying The Onion can’t compete with reality anymore, but every week or two I keep biting.

Big if true. Maybe as much as 330,000 the mass of the earth.

⚠️ CORN FOG!

I thought for sure this had to have the saturation cranked up (very common when people post colorful birds), but the pic is straight from the Macauly Library and, if anything, underplays the fine details of the colors due to the image degradation.

Ah, dang. Fingers crossed a solution can be found!

I keep getting the following error while trying to participate: [200] Error while sending: Not an actor

I’ve tried all lowercase and as is capitalization for my username, and it doesn’t make a difference. It seems to recognize the Piefed instance, it just breaks down when I go to the step to enter my username.

Anyone else running into this or know how to fix it?

Unfortunate follow up: the dev of Tesseract just announced today that he’s quitting and it’s not going to be supported any longer 😔 I imagine instances that already support it will continue doing so for a while, but unless there’s a fork it’ll probably eventually break.

Don’t like thinking about how much of that probably made it to my brain, organs, and muscles :)