I thought it meant forward for a second lol. Thought it was an email reference before I remembered email wasn’t a thing in the 50s

Worldbuilding?

I take a lot of people here have various writing projects. It’s honestly one of the communities keeping my Reddit account active because there’s so little engagement in the worldbuilding communities here.

Ignorance is bliss until it isn’t. At which point you’ll be completely unprepared to deal with the problems you’ve been pretending don’t exist.

Dumpsters get tossed around by garbage trucks and their panels stay on.

One of these groups is in fact living. The other not so much.

He was a yuge trump supporter though and wasn’t above using his fame to promote him.

At least it’s one less propaganda outlet.

They’re hoping Israel would have finished exterminating them by then so they won’t actually have to follow through with it.

Eh, I was breathing them before with no ill effects and finding out won’t change how they affect my body.

A motor that runs at a constant speed all the time can last basically forever. Starting and stopping puts way more stress on the mechanical parts.

Same reason I hate how modern hard drive enclosures force the hard drive to shut down after a period of inactivity. With a lot of workloads it will keep spinning up, stopping, and spinning up again which is a great way to kill the motor.

The appetite for 6G looks much bigger in China and the US than it does in Europe

Don’t know about Europe but most people in North America are still on 4G even though new phones are 5G capable because the ISPs charge a huge premium for 5G plans. No one wants 6G here because no one wants to pay even more.

But hey, China is getting 6G BUT AT WHAT COST?? Probably a lot less than even the 4G plans over here.

If you’re okay with involving LLMs in this, you can use it to string them along and make them think you’re falling for the scam (I assume it’s a scam because I’ve never heard of a legitimate business using tactics like this). That way they waste their time chasing a lead that will never actually net them any money, and prevents them from scamming someone else in that time.

Don’t even need an automated system for this, just paste their email into an AI and paste the phony response back.

I think of all the ways AI is being used, messing with scammers is one of the ways that’s actually beneficial for society. You can self host a Deepseek instance on your own computer and it doesn’t actually use that much energy.

operating income down %42

Let’s make it %420 next quarter!

First, I’d say it depends on the rumour. But in general for a sufficiently serious rumour:

Being “wrong about me” wouldn’t be the thing I’m pissed about. Anyone can assume the worst of anyone else, god knows I’ve done more than my fair share of that. But to spread a rumour goes above and beyond in level of malice. They showed that they, 1, didn’t care whether what they were saying was the truth or not, 2, didn’t care how it would affect me if they were wrong, and 3, are willing to ruin someone else’s social standing to improve their own since that’s usually why people spread rumors. Without further context to the contrary, these are systemic traits of a horrible person and strongly suggest they’ll do it again no matter how sorry they say they are.

I’m not even strictly anti AI art. But I absolutely hate the argument that AI makes art more “accessible” or “affordable” (it was accessible/affordable before, you were just too lazy to find artists at your price range) or “reduces the barrier to entry of becoming an artist” (by which they mean you don’t actually have to learn how to make art to make it, as if that’s a good thing).

I especially hate the animosity AI artists and AI art enjoyers have toward actual artists. Portraying them as pretentious, profit driven, judgmental, etc.

Except there are artists available at all price ranges. Usually with the expensive ones you’re paying for experience and/or prestige. There are less experienced/prestigious artists that will gladly take your $60 commission.

Also, art isn’t a necessity. It is a luxury and by definition always will be, especially custom art commissioned by you. The stance of the people behind AI art is founded on the notion that you need art so it can benefit from automation in the same way food does. But you don’t need art. It’s the capstone of Maslow’s pyramid. If you’re at a level of privilege where art starts seeming like a necessity, you can afford $260 for it.

Anything less than sanctions and total economic boycott is a stalling tactic aimed at allowing the genocide to finish.

This is no different from if the police show up to a drug house, and one of the residents stands in the doorway opining about how horrible it is that drugs were discovered at their home and how morally bankrupt the illicit drug trade is, in order for their buddy to finish flushing their stash. Except it’s even less subtle when countries do it.

People in this thread: BUT WHAT ABOUT LIFE EXPECTANCY?!?!

Bro you really want to argue life expectancy in favour of the ideology that argues whether curing a patient is makes business sense?

Your long life expectancy is thanks to science, which has existed for a far greater percentage of human history. To argue it’s because of capitalism is dumb as hell.

Also life expectancy took a nosedive when the Soviet Union fell. Wonder why.

Rich people hunger games

I did 97 meth deals ($45 each).

That’s $4365 in passive income.

I don’t even have any meth and just gave them sugar crystals.

The Canadian internet cycle:

Fuck Bell, I’m switching to Rogers

Fuck Rogers, I’m switching to Telus

Fuck Telus, I’m switching to Bell