Yeah. A moderator of fuck_ai is using ai.

No. The likely outcome is this. I’m going to use fake numbers for the sake of demonstrating a concept.

Samsung spies on you. From the data, they can harvest $500 million dollars throughout Texas tv watchers sending info back to South Korea.

Texas says “Hey! Whoa! You can’t do that! You better stop or we’ll fine you $20,000 dollars!”

Samsung says “Ok”, and keeps doing it. Pays the fine, and takes it to court. They lose the case, but cost Texas $15,000 of court costs just to win. Then they keep doing it.

Now Texas thinks twice about charging the fee, because last time they only got $5,000 after defending themselves in court.

Meanwhile Samsung just views it as the cost of doing business. And carries on.

Oh people like you make my head hurt. Not because you’re wrong, because you’re not. You’re entirely right here.

The reason people like you make my head hurt is because you live in this self isolated bubble where you think everyone else is mentally on the same page as you.

You’re baffled that anyone would agree to that checkbox, because anyone who reads it would understand as you understand that it’s not in your best interest.

Whereas I’M baffled that you think hardly anyone reads the EULA of anything.

Google could literally put in their EULA “user agrees to chop off their genitals and walk barefoot on hot coals”. People would still agree and check yes. Why? Because they never read it. They just click the thing that lets them do the thing and use the thing. Thats as far as 99% go with EULAs.

I’ve watched people like you in person complain that everybody doesn’t do things their way. And while that way is, in general, a better way than is currently being handled, it all falls apart on one key aspect to not understanding the world. That important key being that the world does not see things through your eyes. They do not think of things from your perspective. But instead of taking action to create a world with better ideas being practiced, you sit on the sidelines, watching as the world does what the world will do, and thats be influenced by others. That is what humanity has always been. That’s what it will always be. But in the last 200 years, instead of being influenced by the ideas of a community upbringing, and structure, and morals, it is now, and for all of our lives, been influenced by the ultra rich. The 1%.

We’ve fallen into a world where a persons worth is equal to their net worth. A world where celebrities and ultra rich businessmen are celebrated rather than shunned. Entire genres of music where the sole message is “I have money, therefore bitches fuck me”. And the masses flock to it, because they have adopted that message as their own.

Here you sit. Not having fallen for the basic tricks that are played on society. That alone gives you a huge step up, to rise above the glass ceiling, break through, and bring changes needed to this world.

Instead, you ponder why no one else recognizes there is a glass ceiling. You question why others aren’t doing things the way you would, while offering no resistence of substance.

Everyone wants to complain about shrinkflation, but nobody wants to stop buying the product. If they change the formula, or the price, or the portion size, or whatever, and suddenly they have 0 purchases, things go back how they were real fucking quick. It is up to us, as the ones who see what is happening to educate those around us. To filter out the static noise of the internet’s social media. To teach our loved ones that they are being ripped off. Stop buying “smart” tv’s. Teach those around you to only buy dumb tv’s. And if there’s no dumb tv’s on sale, then there’s no tv’s to buy. And if they keep not selling dumb tv’s, you keep not buying. You teach those around you to keep not buying.

This is how you fight the war against the elite. Not with guns, but with wallets that refuse to open. They can’t take our money unless we agree to buy their goods.

But we’ll never get to that point from the sidelines.

American here…first time?

Hey! Whoa! Uncool!

Drunk uncle here…I don’t stumble. I sit on the recliner until I pass out watching porn that I’m not aroused by, and not jerking off to. It’s just “on”.

The difference is, reddit has Spez. Spez has the authority to sign contracts that allow google to send him checks in exchange for AI scraping.

Whereas google (or other corporations) would have no one to send that check to. Nobody owns the fediverse.

They could create their own instance. And you could block/defederate from them if you want.

Threads is owned by Meta. Meta is a mega corporation. Threads took steps this past summer to federate. And IMMEDIATELY anyone who didn’t want to see them defederated.

Today, I can’t say Meta has made any impact whatsoever on the fediverse. Which to me is a bad thing. It tells all profit driven companies that there is no profit to be made on the fediverse. So rather than invest in the fediverse’s future, they will instead invest in other platforms where they aren’t driven out.

Whereas if they invested in the fediverse, they would have no way to truely control the fediverse. But they can buy Spez. So now instead of growing, Lemmy is shrinking. And the alternative, reddit, IS fully controlled.

I don’t believe that’s even possible on the fediverse. But we can let them pour their resources into growing it until they figure it out.

…what if I WANT a big titty goth gf?

Smart TV OSes help TV-makers stay afloat in an industry with thin margins on hardware. Not only do they provide ad space, but they also give OS operators and their partners information on how people use their TVs—data that is extremely valuable to advertisers.

I turn my tv on, turn it to whatever channel, and then I just go about my business. I even leave the house. Go to work. Ect.

So if I had a smart tv, I they would get info like “oh, he’s been watching tv for 36 hours straight…”

Meanwhile, I may have watched 3 hours combined at different times.

Oh, you want to pay these companies more money, because more people are watching? Ok…but I’m not even home. I’ve been at work for 5 hours. I just turn the TV on so it looks like someone is home.

Does it have to be companies? Could individual people just have 15k, and join? We just need 81 new members.

Well how do YOU connect your NES up to your TV then???

it looks like the AI bubble collapse is basically here.

FINALLY.

Cool. That’s a quality contribution to this disscussion. Really adds a layered nuanced perspective to the topic at hand.

GUYS! WE’RE GOING TO BE OKAY! STOY SAYS THEY DON’T CARE BECAUSE IT DOESN’T AFFECT THEM!!! WE’RE SAVED!!!

I’m not ICE, but in my state you need digital ID verification for that.

I’m releasing a new chipset structure. It’s not Intel. It’s not AMD. It’s BUTTS BUTTS BOOTYS.

So now all the best games will run on BUTTS BUTTS BOOTYS, and journalists will have to call it that.

Napster was audio only. Did you mean limewire, or kazaa, or one of the many napster clones that came after?

I think pancakes COULD kill you. You just need enough of them. Like imagine 2 tons of pancakes fell from the sky, and right onto you.

I will have a taco!

I mean…by that logic their ramblings make sense. Porn to them is child porn. So if all porn is child porn (in their minds) then blocking access to porn isn’t a bad idea.

The whole thing falls apart however if they were to realize that most people DO look at porn, but most people DON’T look at child porn.

I watch porn most days. I’ve never in my life had any desire to restrict others ability to watch porn.

But then again, porn for me is a woman fucking a dude in the ass, or 4 women standing around another woman who’s tied up and they’re tickling her until she screams bloody murder.

You know. Normal shit. Harmless shit. Fill in the blank of your own kinks, but at no point do kids come into play in my mind.

If I equated “porn” to “child porn” then yeah, I’d be trying to pass those laws too. But that says more about the way they think than anything.

Especially when you consider that schools are one of the most common places for public shootings, but you don’t see them racing out to pass common sense gun reform laws.

It’s such a hard problem to tackle, when you’re self defeating in your attempts. No other country has this issue.

drop a copy of bad babysitters 5 in every DVD player in best buy

Soooooo, 0 dvd players? Best Buy stopped carrying physical media years ago.

My first instinct is to make a crude joke about your wife.

But that’s actually really sweet!