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  • I second what you're saying. Never let perfect be the enemy of good or good enough.

  • There are always going to be a "protest/activism is good but this is unacceptable" for any act of disobedience.

  • Yes or a "retry until attestation received" strategy by websites.

  • The original Japanese Twitter comment points out that sleeping pills is a Pay 2 Win mechanic, lol.

  • Trump is very talented with one thing and one thing only: Making Everything About Him. (MEAH?)

    It's the others in the party, whether it's legislators like McConnell, Green Margarine, Bobert, Cruz, or lobbyists for the capitalists like the Federalist Society, Koch brothers, O&G, health insurance that make sure things stay "good for business" (and shitty for your average person).

  • I was going to say ChatGPT.

    I think the smugness of StackOverflow is still part of it. Even if ChatGPT sometimes fabricates imaginary code, it's tone is flowery and helpful, compared to the typical pretentiousness of Stackoverflow users.

  • I guess I should start referring to Twitter as "Mathematical double-struck capital X"

  • I wonder how many (e)X-twitter users there will be after this change.

    Even Mastodon's old lingo "toot"ing sounds more trendy than "x"ing a comment.

  • Ideally it would help put real, complicated but achievable solutions forward to some of the world's toughest issues, like poverty, hunger, war and disaster,. AI is but a tool and in the current trajectory, much of its use is to advance the interest of capitalist moguls. In order to heed answers of improved AI models to achieve ideals of a harmonious world, we need to start with a change with our society to work towards it and accept change away from purely monetary ends.

  • The real robot wars will be the Scam Call AI vs. the Scam Call Answering AI.

    It will be like a new version of chess: Bobby Phisher vs. Magnus Callusthen

  • Headline to come one week later:

    "After some backlash from users, Musk comes to a compromise: the new twitter logo is a blue bird with a giant Red X over it."

  • "Oh yeah that's pretty cool" has been my go-to, whether drunk, sober or high.

  • I'm with ya there. As much as I'm done with Reddit... the thought of spitting in Reddit's face after what they've done to spite everyone else in the quest for money, is tantalizing.

  • Hahahaha, uh oh I might see if there's going to be a join lemmy logo effort.

  • Definitely this, they have probably been planning this to pump their engagement numbers up. If I am gonna engage, then I'd better be doing it to give Reddit the middle finger.

  • I went easy on myself. I vowed to never comment or post on that account... buuuut I didn't say I wouldn't place any dots in protest.

    Hmmm I wonder if the V O I D will win out this time.

  • I'm tired of saying the same things so have a fun analogy for Reddit:

    You have a sandbox, invite people to build sandcastles. So they come and build them and a lot of people are checking your sandbox out.

    Then you stomp on everyone else's sandcastle so that your overturned pail of sand stands the tallest, and laugh in their faces.

    Now you're wondering why everyone left and is mad at you?

  • CalKey would have cause a little less choking when trying to pronounce it...

  • Mutual insurance is closer to this setup. Policy holders are the main shareholders of the company. Issue is that most policy holders won't be able to insure each other in Florida if most habitable areas of Florida will be underwater by 2050.

  • For context this is the full quote, where MLK Jr. condemns riots but also equally condemns the conditions that cause people to riot: inequality, injustice, lack of humanity, lack of progress.

    Let me say, as I’ve always said, and I will always continue to say, that riots are socially destructive and self-defeating. I’m still convinced that nonviolence is the most potent weapons available to oppress[ed] people in their struggle for freedom and justice. I feel that violence will only create more social problems than they will solve, that in a real sense, it is impractical for the Negro to even think of mounting a violent revolution in the United States. So I will continue to condemn riots and continue to say to my brothers and sisters that this is not the way. Continue to affirm that there is another way.

    But at the same time, it is as necessary for me to be as vigorous in condemning the conditions which cause persons to feel that they must engage in riotous activities, as it is for me to condemn riots. I think America must see that riots do not develop out of thin air. Certain conditions continue to exist in our society, which must be condemned as vigorously as we condemn riots. And in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality, and humanity. So in a real sense, our nation’s summer’s riots are caused by our nation’s winters of delay. And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again. Social justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention.