aesthelete @ aesthelete @lemmy.world

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Like I was going to die. Mortality weighed heavily on my mind.

I've said that at 30 I was worried I was going to die, and at 40 I thought, so what? Who cares?

Meanwhile I'm pounding down beers

I feel like if we continue down this particular meme street, at the end of the road everyone will be considered neurodivergent.

I think some representative of mobile gaming should be on this list (as much as I hate them). Probably either Candy Crush or Angry Birds.

There should also be a motion gamer entry somewhere on here like Wii Sports or something.

And maybe an indie entry...like perhaps Stardew Valley.

Also some type of sim entry...maybe SimCity?

And probably an adventure game entry of some sort (King's Quest or Monkey Island).

Relatedly, I think we're still waiting for a VR or AR game that anyone gives a real shit about.

Edit: the more I think about this the more I think we need more entries so I'll just stop it

I have a Honda Fit and it is the best car I've ever owned. If Honda came up with a Fit EV (again), I would probably buy it right away.

Link me to your wonderful social media utopia that isn't an echo chamber.

Facebook - Echo chamber, actively manipulated to make you be the most pissed off and spend the most time on it as possible and click on customized ads

Instagram - Echo chamber, specifically tuned to make you feel jealous of others and buy shit covered in the ads

Nextdoor - Basically Facebook but with a "locals only" aesthetic

LinkedIn - An echo chamber tuned for people who nod vigorously to everything the CEO says in the "all-hands" meeting

Threads - Echo chamber, tuned toward people to click on ads just like other Meta properties

YouTube - Practically a right-wing echo chamber, you can watch a video about cute puppies and with no watch history turned on you'll be on Infowars-like content within 2 degrees of Kevin Bacon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon)

Twitter (I'll continue to have this as my only deadname) - A right-wing echo chamber full of bots including "MechaHitler"

Bluesky - An echo chamber similar to Twitter before it was musked up

Mastodon - A left-wing echo chamber (similarly to Lemmy it's decentralized, and similarly to Lemmy it is somewhat moderated in a way that rids you of most right-wing / hitler-focused media)

Truth social - I mean, obviously a right-wing echo chamber

Reddit - An algorithmically tweaked astroturf echo chamber full of bots and serving up a daily AI training ground that gets more right-wing as time passes

Hacker news - A libertarian-leaning tech-literate echo chamber

TikTok - An algorithmically tweaked, purposefully addictive echo chamber that shows you what you want to see so you volunteer your money and your data

Shall I go on?

I don't just allow "both sides" to come into my living room and have a debate with me about whether or not trans people should be able to exist in peace or whether or not minorities should be exterminated. I similarly don't waste time "debating" them on social media or reading their posts. Tolerance of intolerant people just so we can "cover both sides" isn't a high priority of mine on social media, and it's also not available anywhere anyway.

This is true but I ultimately don't care.

Is there any social media site that isn't an echo chamber? They're designed that way on purpose in most cases.

There are enough forums catering to idiots. I appreciate the better moderation, tech savviness, and lack of tolerance for right wing BS on Lemmy.

Gotta be honest I don't give a single fuck about a Blackstone executive that was in charge of real estate specifically.

Blackstone is evil in general, but its real estate division is even higher up the scumbag charts.

They're literally part of the ever-worsening homelessness crisis.

Some of the deaths here are a damned shame though, and the whole story of it is basically a top to bottom American tragedy.

Edit: Only slightly relatedly, Ashli Babbit's story is similarly top to bottom an American tragedy viewed from a different angle. The lady spent most of her life falling for scams and getting fleeced and then got killed (justifiably though it was) because she fell for one of the country's biggest scams.

In a Manhattan corporate office building in the middle of the workday, unless you're exclusively shooting at security forces or catering workers your odds are pretty good of shooting an asshole.

They're the worst and I don't even use them the first time to assemble things in most cases, but I too have a whole bag of them.

Hilarious.

It depends on the tool.

The flip side is that AI being able to create art democratizes art so that anyone with an idea can execute it.

Is having a for-profit company intermediating and generating all art really "democratizing" it?

AFAIK "democratizing" something doesn't simply mean "makes it easier". That ease is also only temporary. Once you're thoroughly deskilled and dependent upon it, that's when the subsidies will end.

I'm also very tired of people saying that pan handlers are all millionaires because they heard or read some anecdote somewhere.

Like yeah I'm sure there are scammer pan handlers, but even in that 0.0001% case it's because begging for money is easier or better than getting a job.

In a sane country with a sane group of politicians implementing evidence-based policy, we would have wages that kept up with housing inflation, prevented blackrock and friends from buying up all of the housing, and built higher density housing in cities as a pressure release valve so that we had much more supply.

There are many factors and fiat currency isn't really one of them.

I downvoted it because it had no explanatory value whatsoever.

Me

Dude is like the construction crew from the movie the money pit with his constant refrain of two weeks.

https://youtu.be/lJhHjACjJjA

Nah every human is smarter than advanced autocomplete.

Every thread about LLMs has to have some guy like yourself saying how LLMs are like humans and smarter than humans for some reason.