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Recommendations for dumb tech?
  • Please stop making smart TVs!!! They were never needed to start with! I just want to turn in my tv and have it start showing what I have hooked up to it.

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    Recommendations for dumb tech?
  • Wired headphones are superior to Bluetooth in every way. I still lament the day major phone manufacturers got rid of the 3.5 Jack.

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    Fridges never die.
  • A thousand refrigerator psychers must be sacrificed so the frig emperor can live on in perpetual conflict with the gods of chaos: Frigidaire, whirlpool, Samsung and Slaanesh!

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    Fridges never die.
  • Ya. That black server fan in the frig is very common for the model of frig..also the little white resistance sensor on the coil tends to fall off of the tube sometimes causing it to defrost poorly. I like to swap them out when I'm doing the fan as a prophylactic.

    The reason they use that fan is because it's super quiet and voltage can be regulated to it for different spin speeds which I turn is supposed to save energy.

    The issue with the fan in and of itself is that it's inherently an aftermarket fan produced by an aftermarket manufacturer for GE. It's just junk.

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    There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage?
  • I just want to start off by saying that your opinion is valid and it's not even necessarily wrong. So don't listen to anybody trying to disparage you on this.

    If we are to allow billionaires to exist, they should take considerably more responsibility for the power that they wield and they of course should be taxed fairly in accordance to their income.

    Also, lobbying should just be downright illegal. Which it is borderline is anyway.

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    There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage?
  • I've often said we don't need billionaires. That when one reaches that milestone anything above $999,999,999 should be taken as taxes from that person.

    When I say this people often become defensive saying that the government shouldn't be able to dictate how much wealth one person can accumulate. (It also happens that many of these people are prolife but that's neither here nor there.) Often times comparing this action to communism which of course it isn't.

    The issue of course is that many people don't understand what a billion of anything is. The human brain can't comprehend such massive numbers. But nevertheless, there are people that are approaching the trillion dollar mark a number even further removed from a billion by several magnitudes.

    Should there be billionaires. Probably not... What do you think?

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    Do any non-corpos actually like AI slop?
  • There's no reason to assume that AI will be malevolent.

    I also said it would be equivalent to other important events throughout human history.

    For example, I believe the discovery of agriculture is one of the most detrimental things ever that happened to humanity. Doesn't make it any less riveting.

    If you do not understand or don't want to understand the implications of a fully realized artificial intelligence then you are simply willfully ignorant or want to be intentionally contrary.

    Either way when our ai overlords take over the earth your name won't be in the protected scrolls. May God have mercy on your soul.

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    Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why
  • That's funny, in my subdivision I had to put a sign up on my door that said "no candy" and I still got multiple knocks!

    (I'm a Halloween Scrooge don't judge me)

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    Do any non-corpos actually like AI slop?
  • It's funny you mention this, but the erotic roleplay aspect of llms is a thriving business generating millions of dollars every month now in subscription costs.

    We've barely even scratching the surface of what these models can do and they're increasing in usage at an exponential rate.

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    Do any non-corpos actually like AI slop?
  • The applications of what you call ai are absolutely limitless. But to be clear what you're calling "AI" isn't AI in terms of what you might want it to be what you're referring to are large language models or LLM's. Which aren't ai, not yet.

    It's short sighted statements like this that really get my blood boiling.

    If humanity actually achieves artificial intelligence it'll be the equivalent of the printing press or agriculture. It'll be like inventing the superconductor or micro transistors all over again. Our world will completely change for the better.

    If your interactions with these llms have been negative, I can only assume that you have a strong bias against this type of technology and have simply not used it in a way that's applicable for you.

    I personally use llms pretty much daily in my life and they have been nothing but an excellent tool.

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    I wasn’t able to get an abortion. Now I’m raising my rapist’s baby
  • So the article or at least the title is stating that she's raising her rapists baby. I understood the title to be derogatory towards the child like it's some kind of burden to raise your child. Which in many senses it can be. But it's not the child's fault, especially since it's already born that it was conceived during a rape. That child shouldn't be held responsible for that event. That's what I meant.

    I'm certainly not advocating against abortion, nor am I stating that a fetus is a human.

    Granted it has the potential for life or to become a human being at some point. But other than that I don't see how you could have taken my statement to mean what you said it does.

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    Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands
  • Why does anyone still use chrome!

    I get twitter and reddit because of the uniqueness of the platforms but chrome is just a web browser! Any other program can be used in its stead to view the same exact websites yet people continue to use it even being stubborn about it!

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