I feel like I’m looking at modern art. It makes me feel so many different ways. It all comes together but then falls apart the more you study it. I feel a small amount of resentment towards myself for being attracted to it, but that also excites me at the same time.

10/10, would frame and put on a wall if I didnt live in a shared space.

The meme is pointing out hypocrisy among those in America. Its common to hear them mock China for having a social credit score system, while apparently not realizing they have exactly that with credit monitoring companies.

This is all made more ridiculous by the fact that there is no social credit score in China as Americans understand it.

The joke is that Americans brag and call everyone else barbarians, when they themselves are the barbarians. Its pure projection to inflate the massive American ego.

Its dependant on the torrent you download. If you choose the wrong one that’s being tracked, you will get your IP sent to Spectrum in a legal letter eventually.

Because we don’t want our internet turned off, and there are no competitors to switch to.

This post just shows how many Americans are on here. Buc-ees is shit. What other country would turn a gas station into a tourist attraction. Its sort of like a church for giant gas-guzzling child-smashing cars. Oh and dont forget to take a shit while you are there, tell your friends!

Pretty sure the whole idea of getting an STD from toilet seats is just people cheating and blaming a random toilet as an excuse.

I’m giving an example of a group of people that have determined people are responsible for themselves for the most part at age 13. Its meant to show what’s possible on what many would consider the more extreme end of things.

Timestamps on activities you take can be combined with other data points to figure out things like your location, what people are nearby you, and what you are doing at that moment. These data points are created frequently and can be reviewed actively or retroactively.

That data is collected and sold by data brokers, who then sell it to law enforcement and government, as well as advertisers and other companies.

AI is very good at finding patterns in data points, and is accelerating the usability of all this data thats been collected.

I simply don’t like the idea of being targeted or used, so ive tried to minimize data collection. I have a custom ROM on my phone and have linux on my computers. I dont have accounts with companies I dont trust. Sometimes if I have to make an account anyways, I’ll use fake information and a vpn.

True but thats a benefit to you, not to others. Its good at least the tool is allowing you to learn. I’m sure learning a language isn’t easy, especially the finer details.

I’d argue that with a little bit of practice its quicker to write a comment and then revise it yourself. Fix the punctuation, grammar, misspellings, and read it through once at least. Its a useful skill to learn as well.

They are right though, we came up with lol and stuff like that because texting on a keypad was tedious. Its not really useful in the way it was back then, its just stuck around from popular use.

They dont despise it, they only use it to inflate their ego. They see communication as a tool to build themselves up. They literally never consider others around them. I call it main character syndrome because they treat everyone like NPCs.

Yeah I haven’t come across a movie or show hes in that I thought was worth it despite thinking hes a shitty person, but it could happen. I almost watched I am legend a week ago but decided not to. I’ll probably still watch men in black from time to time though, mostly for nostalgia.

You can do a good thing now, and have done a shit thing in the past. I dont understand why thats so hard to grasp. We aren’t absolved of shitty behavior because we didnt know better. A person who murders someone before they knew it was wrong will still have murdered someone. You can’t absolve your own past by future actions, just try not to repeat it.

Yeah, we live and learn. We don’t expect perfection, we expect self improvement. Its important not to excuse bad decisions/behavior. Be more skeptical of new technology in the future and pay attention to who’s creating/selling it.

They never said they should be shunned, they didnt even list a social consequence. The fact remains that if you used OpenAI in the past you already contributed.

I thought Zeeland was part of Denmark.

Can’t watch him in anything since he hit Chris Rock. It ruined his characters in nearly every thing he was ever in.

No, it drives demand for used pixel phones. No one’s buying new pixels to supply the used market. They don’t interact in that way.

If you really want to make sure Google never benefits, buy one off Craigslist, put a case on it, and tell people its a Samsung galaxy with a custom home screen.

Buy used and unlocked. Just sold one at my work, was a pixel 8 pro for 300 USD.