[-] apemint@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

This is a huge opportunity for Unreal as well. I'm surprised they haven't announced some flashy on-boarding campaign.

[-] apemint@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Bold of you to assume they even went to business school.
All the big wigs I've met were "self-made millionaires" -meaning assholes that used, manipulated and fucked over enough people to reach their current positions.

Also, tax evasion.

[-] apemint@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

*gestures vaguely at everything*

[-] apemint@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

It's really messed up how the world can be reduced to binary opinions.

By definition, liberals think more freely and are willing to entertain new ideas. With that of course comes that some of those ideas turn out to be counter productive or straight up bad. Ideally, this is when real liberals acknowledge this and shift to something else.

Conservatives on the other hand see this as a sign of weakness and misguidedness, so they take a stance rooted in what they "know" to be true. When that knowledge turns out to be false, they can't simply pivot because that would make them the same as liberals.

Not to mention, sticking to your guns is so much easier than admitting you were wrong and starting from zero again.

[-] apemint@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I agree that the “it’s too late to do anything” mentality is just as bad as doing nothing, but at the same time I recognize that the scientific consensus is more and more leaning towards "it really is too late to do anything" in the short term at least.

Certain gears have been set in motion that we truly cannot stop, but there are also other things that we can prevent if we act now.

I just don't know where the line between the two lies.

The next 50 years or so are set in stone, of that I'm certain.
But after that, who knows whether the changes we make today will affect the climate in a meaningful way. One can only hope.

[-] apemint@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just last week someone retorted to me with "I've been using the official app for 2 years and I'm happy".

I'm still not sure whether I was talking to an AI...

[-] apemint@kbin.social 43 points 1 year ago

The sad part is, no matter how bad things will get, the same people will keep denying climate change. Even as their shoes melt into the pavement.

Looking at the past, I don't have any hope for meaningful change.
Just last year or so we've had people on their literal death beads denying corona is real.

[-] apemint@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Interesting, I've never seen that. The opposite happens quite often, though; the question is the same as mine and there's 5 other people in the comments also not finding an answer.

Maybe I'm just Googling for too many obscure missing .dll files and such.

[-] apemint@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure about the photobashing thing.

If I remember correctly a generated image starts from noise and the AI refines that noise to form shapes. When watermarks show up, it's not because it's bashing the original images, but because it learnt to put watermark on an image.

[-] apemint@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm actually jealous of all of our laid off employees.

They might do more layoffs so hang in there

This is pure gold. XD
The whole internal structure of the company is a raging dumpster fire.

[-] apemint@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

It's not immune but until the fediverse reaches a critical mass, we're safe... probably.
After that, it will be the same whac-a-mole game we're used to and somehow I don't think we'll win.

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