I have never, ever, complained about human slop. Zero times. But AI slop? Fuck that worthless bullshit. Fuck Google for monopolizing search and destroying everything with SEO.
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fodor@lemmy.zipto
World News@lemmy.world•36-year-old left the U.S. for China—now pays $1,000 rent and $100 for groceries for family of 4: It's my 'version of the American Dream’English
33·20 hours agoLol that is absurd. It all depends on the job and situation. That is common sense. Which is true everywhere in the world. Because of course it is.
fodor@lemmy.zipto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Democrats Are Pissed Another One of Their Own Has Died in CongressEnglish
3·20 hours agoOh I mostly agree, but you think the Dems are making trans equality a hill to die on? … Which Dems? … Yeah, I don’t see it.
The majority of Washington Democrats are scared to openly talk about racism and other kinds of discrimination. They don’t want to “lose the silent center” or some bullshit.
If you want (some) Dems to drop their values, maybe they gotta find them first.
fodor@lemmy.zipto
stupidpol@sh.itjust.works•[Capitalist Hellscape | Tech] Teen boys are choosing AI girlfriends over real ones for 'maximum control, zero rejection'—experts say it could make them unemployable
33·2 days agoWhat bullshit. The kids trolled you and you pretend it’s real? Meh. Classic Fortune.
fodor@lemmy.zipto
politics @lemmy.world•Hegseth Calls Iran War ‘Gift to the World’ Despite Economic Calamity, Food Shortages
5·2 days agoNo. Trump is a strong narcissist. He only believes things that make himself feel good. It really is that weird.
But his supporters know what they’re doing, unless they’re drunk or stoned, which is often.
fodor@lemmy.zipto
Technology@beehaw.org•Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated
5·2 days agoOf course! Google would say that. Doesn’t mean it’s true. They aren’t under oath and they have every reason to lie.
Your simple question has a simple answer. The answer is that different people and different companies have different reasons for supporting Israel.
Some people are racists, some people sell weapons, some people want money for their political campaigns, some of those groups overlap, etc.
So obviously the answer is that it depends who you’re talking about.
fodor@lemmy.zipto
politics @lemmy.world•Kash Patel Got Arrested for Public Urination After a Night of Drinking
73·2 days agoOh, we are absolutely focused on his current f***-ups. And we also look to the past to see if it’s been happening for a long time, which it has.
I mean look, if you’ve been an alcoholic for decades and now you try to lie to people and say that you don’t have a problem with booze, people are going to go to your old drunken Facebook posts, point them out, and laugh at your lying ass. That’s just common sense my friend.
Except the gig economy is far less efficient. All it does is take money from your pockets and put it in really rich people’s pockets.
What happens when you work as a gig worker? You lose benefits, you lose a union, you don’t get minimum wage, you’re just poorer than you would have been if you had that job before it went gig. Of course your job security is totally shot. But it’s not like the price of delivering a package went down. Of course it went up.
So somebody got that money that you’re no longer getting. Moreover, if you’re replacing a public service with a for-profit private service, then the people who own the company are going to make sure they get their cut. They’d like to pretend that they will streamline things, but in reality we typically find that they just charge more because nobody can stop them.
Well that’s not true at all. If there were other search engines that were legitimate competition, there would be incentive to fix the problems that they face. That was the case over a decade ago, if you recall.
But then Google got a monopoly, and that meant they stopped caring, and it also meant all of the scammers started gaming their system. In other words, failure to enforce antitrust legislation created this situation and starting to enforce it would solve the problem.
fodor@lemmy.zipto
Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.world•Tucker Carlson says he regrets backing Donald Trump and is ‘tormented’English
3·4 days agoOf course it was intentional, but I bet he does regret it.
I feel bad for you, though. The error rate on the AI searches is high, and you might go the rest of your life not knowing you were lied to, believing the garbage that showed up on your screen.
In my opinion, the question of quality is paramount. If you want the truth, don’t listen to GenAI, because GenAI doesn’t actually know anything.
fodor@lemmy.zipto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Sometimes I hear the people next door... and then I'm like *oh shit, have they been hearing all the yelling in our house this whole time?*
2·6 days agoI think you’ve overcomplicated the situation. The goal of making more noise is to have your neighbor understand that wall thickness is symmetrical. After that either they will STFU or they won’t.
Whether they realize that communication was intended is beside the point. If you wanted to communicate with them openly you could do that through property management. Or by knocking on their door. But if they’re giant assholes then maybe that wouldn’t work.
fodor@lemmy.zipto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Sometimes I hear the people next door... and then I'm like *oh shit, have they been hearing all the yelling in our house this whole time?*
54·6 days agoYes, yes they have and you’re a giant a****** for not realizing that sooner. But if you keep it in mind in the future then good for you.
Also, if you try to avoid yelling between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. they will notice and appreciate it. So have your fights during normal daylight hours if at all possible.
fodor@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes LiveEnglish
15·6 days agoEven when they say it’s optional, it’s never actually optional. They are always enabling it in the background and just preventing you from seeing that.
But even if they actually did use an opt-in system properly, they would still only do that for like 6 months, and then in the next update you’d be forced to use it. And who can stop them? There is no alternative.
fodor@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educatorsEnglish
182·6 days agoI think the headline is wrong. It’s not that educators are alarmed because educators don’t offer a college degree in a few months. These are scam programs run by and taken by scammers.
And it’s pretty easy to see how this will burn the students who thought that they had saved a couple of years. If an employer asks for a copy of your transcript, what are you going to give them? … Or maybe you’ll falsify a transcript, but if you were going to do that then why did you pay $4,000 for your college diploma anyway?
Of course it’s partly the student’s fault, but it’s much more that money making scam artists who created the scams fault. It’s easy to prey on young people who think they have a quick path to cash, and it should be a crime to do so.
I think hope is a great thing, but I also think that for many people, it’s important to recognize the possibility that good things could happen. Sometimes it’s enough to recognize that the odds are low, but they’re definitely not zero.
fodor@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Thousands of CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivityEnglish
17·7 days agoI think your conclusion is too generous. Obviously many things can happen in the future as technology evolves, but we need to consider what people have promised us and what they delivered. That’s the definition of integrity. Many of these CEOs and of course this magazine lack integrity.
And I think you can be even more blunt. You can call out the companies that are riding the bubble as long as they can in hopes that they won’t be replaceable when the bubble bursts. If they can embed themselves with national governments or as pieces of other mega corporations, then they will survive even if they shouldn’t.
And some companies are run by people who have gotten rich already yet know that their companies will never be able to deliver on the promises that they’ve made. Because the point was for the individuals to get rich, not to sell something economically viable.
fodor@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Thousands of CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivityEnglish
20·7 days agoI love how Fortune is presenting this as like maybe the CEOs had been deceptive. They are admitting it which means they pretended otherwise for a while and now they finally have to tell the truth… Except Fortune was selling the same line, right there together with the CEOs. Has Fortune apologized for its own part propping up this bubble, when everyone knew it was largely nonsense?








A lot of crime is caused by poverty. A lot of deadly crime is caused by guns.
(And cars, but for some peculiar reason, traffic deaths don’t usually result in criminal charges.)