Yeah, I don’t really get these “this has always been possible” comments whenever it is about AI. Yes you could do this before, yes you could manipulate or even completely and convincingly make up photos before AI.

The point is that now is that it actually took some time, skill and effort to do that before, but now this has basically been made easily available to everyone, taking no effort or time. So that now any malicious moron out there who wants to do something destructive and evil are actually capable of doing it on the spur of the moment.

Yeah, but hops is by far the most expensive ingredient of the beer. Especially the hops used in US IPAs. Easier to make, but definitely not cheaper.

The “quietly” is aimed at Microslop. They didn’t grandly announce it on every platform like they do with everything else.

It is perfectly fitting in this context.

I made the deliberate decision years ago not to play multiplayer games even though having almost exclusively played those. It was just to get away from all the toxicity and competetiveness.

So from then on I have only played singleplayer games, and it have been such a positive change for me. Much more entertaining and no stress at all. And the bonus was of course that it made switching to Linux gaming so much easier, since I didn’t miss out on anything I wanted to play.

As someone who was using internet forums back then, it was so bizarre to experience the facebook breakthrough in real time.

“So you are using your real name and posting photos of yourself for everyone to see?”

“Relax, everybody is doing it. It is no big deal, and it makes it so easy to find old friends.”

How the fuck is it not? If you have been following developments, these oligarch techbros are basically the US government, they are crashing the economy for their shortsighted profit and complete control over the consumer electronics market via cartels, causing rising prices on everything, not to mention they are using their tech for dystopian things like palantir, surveillance and other autocratic things.

Perhaps if we were just talking Teslas in general, but the cybertruck? I can’t imagine any non-assholes buying and driving those. That thing is a statement, a fascist “own-the-libs” statement in particular.

This has nothing to do with what they could have done to Iran. Iran didn’t start this war, Trump (and Israel) did, and every single one of those countries has financially supported Trump.

They got the US leader they wanted. Now they have to accept that they are living in his demented reality.

Every time they bomb Iran they make the claim that they obliterated it. This current war was started with the same excuse as their objective, so the previous obliteration of their nuclear program must not have been very throughout.

That “sign of desperation” is pretty hurtful to the whole Ukrainian cause though.

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But China is capitalist.

It should also be mentioned that considerably fewer people lived there back then.

Yes, the very foundation of the US involved the country not paying its debts to France and Spain for services rendered during its war of independence (see Roderigue Hortalez and Company). It is also a Trump staple, but that is more because Trump is the very incarnation of the essence of the US.

Nothing. The rich fat bastard just wants some of that “line going up” which his US oligarch colleagues sees.

It is indeed curious that a place called “no stupid questions” is rampant with US defaultism.

Nothing to salvage from that mess of a live-service slop.

Unfortunately probably a lot fewer will move than we expect. People seem capable of accepting all sorts of shittification in favour of actively changing their platform. Just look at how many still uses twitter, despite its literal nazification.

So you have no idea which OS you are running? Well, that’s certainly a choice.

If you stop in the middle of a highway you absolutely are at fault.