I’m thinking that double checking is slightly faster than doing the research yourself.

As opposed to Google searching manually, which always has accurate outputs and never outputs falsehoods as fact. 🙂

As long as you double check the source of an answer I don’t see an issue.

I’m not so sure Musk is actually motivated by his own hype, I think that’s part of his professional self branding that he relies on to juice the valuation of his companies. Seen through that lens, taking control of the main public square is a way to juice his rep further and make even more money.

I’m skeptical of ascribing immaterial motives to billionaires.

EDIT Oh! Also, I think the reason enshitification has accelerated so much recently is because of high interest rates. It’s why Silicon Valley Bank imploded, after all. Companies are scrambling to be profitable after the free investor cash has dried up. It’s not good enough to be maybe profitable in an undefined future, they need to be profitable now so they can justify investment. The bubble is deflating - though fortunately, it seems like it’s going to be a soft landing instead of a pop.

The only person in the world you can ever truly know is yourself.

So when I ask myself “If I were spez/zuck/musk why would I do this?”

The answer is usually “because someone gave me a lot of money”

I will never feel sorry for advertisers or the people who work with them.

:^)

Count me in that 30%

Russia’s invasion was wrong, but it goes back to the Euromaiden government upheaval and that should be considered. Russia isn’t just a crazy warband of orcs that wanted to restart the Tsar’s empire for no reason. What’s brainwashed about that?

A bunch of other countries, like China, which had 75% of people polled stating that the Russia/Ukraine conflict was good for China.

It kinda is in some ways because it’s basically left China as Russia’s only option for a lot of import/export, so China gets a ton of leverage in determining prices. It’s also solidifying China as a regional hegemon and opens up a lot of opportunities for China diplomatically.

I wouldn’t go as far as to say the conflict is good, but there are benefits and it’s not as simple as “people are brainwashed”

It won’t (my personal totally empty prediction). To get humidity in larger scale it means getting air flow. Air flow in sufficient numbers doesn’t come out of no where. Usually with this kind of stuff one quickly finds one needs just insane amount of flow to scale meaning big blower fans and then you find you spend all the energy you produce running the fans and other needed ancillary equipment.

It’s possible to use direct mechanical power harvested from renewables to turn the fans, though depending on the effiency it might make more sense to just convert that mechanical power directly into electricity. But, for example, a windmill (as opposed to a wind turbine) could harvest large scale natural air flow and then mechanically leverage that to move humid air at a smaller scale. Same with dams.

I hope without karma we can do away with vote fuzzing.

I’m convinced this all goes back to Silicon Valley Bank imploding and then everyone just pretending we didn’t have a banking crisis lol

I just don’t want to have a car, but alas this is America…

If you live in the city and are able bodied there’s no reason to not replace your car with an ebike.

I live in the countryside and I’ve used that thing to do 40 mile round trips for appointments and groceries. If I didn’t have to deal with snow I’d ditch my car entirely.

Just be sure to wear sunscreen lol

You think new gas powered cars are affordable?

One thing gamers are notorious for: physical outdoor activity

20/20 ez

Thing is? I totally lied several times because I knew what the test wanted me to think was fake and real, not because I actually disbelieved the headline.

Seems to me like GenZ just isn’t good at or interested in fitting into the narrative. If I wasn’t treating it like a test I’d totally have gotten, like 17 or 18 instead.

Unless they pay for new mods, their only option is to take volunteers.

The people who would volunteer to be the new mods after this shitshow are not the kinds of people that can run good communities. It’s going to be power tripping psychos and uncommitted absentees and, yes, saboteurs that want to wreck the place for fun. They’ll get a few good mods, but they’ll be outnumbered.