Guys please stop downvoting this post, that is some hilarious shit here 🤣

people smoke because it feels good

Also only partially true. What feels good is mostly the satisfaction of the withdrawal symptoms that come with the addiction.

The main theme of the (super great) TV show White Lotus, specifically the theme song from the second season.

My small brain literally cannot comprehend how something so beautiful and genius can even exist. Pure perfection....

Oh and it blends super nice with this song, although it's not next in the album playlist. I always hear those two together.

Not generally disagreeing with you, but I doubt the following

thing I've read

I see endless possibilities, but it's questionable if any of them are realistic before we overcome capitalism.

But one idea I really like is AI helping with the implementation of sortition for democratic decision-making in government.

Recently, the concept got some attention due to climate protesters demanding it, which I think is nice. So while I don't want to discuss the concept and where it should be applied, here's what (future) AIs could do:

1. Enhanced Random Selection Process: AI can ensure a representative selection from the population for sortition by analyzing demographic data and employing stratified sampling algorithms.
2. Personalized Education and Communication: Once participants are selected, AI could offer personalized learning paths to prepare them for their role, and adapt communication to suit each participant's unique circumstances.
3. Facilitating Communication and Mediation: AI can manage communication among the selected group by setting up secure environments for discussion, and serving as an impartial mediator to promote fairness and respectfulness during deliberations.
4. Information Provision, Fact-Checking, and Bias Detection: AI can provide relevant, unbiased information on complex topics, perform real-time fact-checking, and monitor discussions for potential biases.
5. Emotion and Sentiment Analysis: As discussions take place, AI could detect the emotional states and sentiments of participants, ensuring decisions are not overly influenced by emotional reactions.
6. Advanced Simulation and Scenario Exploration: AI could create sophisticated simulations to help participants understand potential outcomes of the policies they are considering.
7. Public Accountability and Feedback Collection: After decisions are made, AI can ensure transparency in decision-making by tracking and reporting the progress of the deliberations, and collecting public feedback on the decisions made.

I should probably add that this list was made with the help of GPT 😅 so a more direct answer to your question might be: AI can help humans lay out their ideas and foster discussions.

Not sure I get it. How do you create keys? I use kleopatra and never saw a plaintext.

Yea you can block it and move on with your life

I'm not a religious person, but this shit makes me pray for more competent diplomats than Blinken.

He said the US would bolster its defense alliances with Japan and South Korea if China refrained from intervening.

They will do that anyway. Plus new military bases in the Philippines. But dprk super evil for building defense capabilities within its borders, ok. But all that and also the intense militarization of Japan, for example, can be seen as a direct result of the desire to have functioning self defense. If you cannot see that, look at the past and research what Japan did in Korea, its not pretty, really, really, really not pretty.

The secretary of state said he had no updates on (Travis) King’s whereabouts but that “there are certainly concerns” he might be subjected to torture in North Korea.

Ye, and there certainly are concerns that they clone him and mix his DNA with killer dolphins to create an unstoppable super soldier. How come thousands defect from dprk and no one cares, and those people get TV shows and whatnot (used for propaganda), but if one guy does the opposite even the highest US officials cannot resist conspiracy theories?

“It was important for us to put some stability back into this relationship, to put a floor under it, to make sure that the competition we’re clearly in does not veer into conflict, and that starts with engagement,” the diplomat said.

Literal bullyspeak. If you forgive me the anthomorpization, that's the language someone uses when beating his wife and then looks for reasonable ways to stop the escalation of the abuse.

And that leads me to also not give any value to statement such as

Blinken said China could help stem production of the illegal drug fentanyl that reaches the US through Mexico, control global climate change.

While that is true, everything points to the conclusion that from the side of the US the desire to escalate things is far greater than finding solutions for any problems. Like, who benefits from all the now all so en vogue China-blame regarding the fentanyl crisis, how many lives does it save? China has tried to control (regulate) that substance since 2019. Imagine how many deaths could have been avoided if there had been better relations and cooperation between those countries.

Man have you talked to the Tankies? They attack you even if you try to promote the idea of Socialism (while applying flawless historical materialism). Some people just value circle jerking higher than the exchange of ideas.

Disagreeing with someone and still acknowledging the other perspective as 'correct from their perspective' just isn't something that that online communities can foster that easy. It requires effort and imo a kinda 'small' number of users.

It took me a lifetime to paint like a child, but an eternity to paint hands like an AI – and I still get the thumbs on the wrong side!

Got me scared there for a minute, but my comment with 64 downvotes is still there 😌

Similar: when clicking on a comment in my profile it should show all comments by default, as that is the reason to Klick ones owns comment.

Idk how to solve that problem but the current system is increasing it: https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/

It's really not dirt cheap, it's pure madness.

I pay ~$100 for the hosting of 100gb, where I can place 20 websites and use 25 email addresses (which have unlimited space I believe). I can also use licensed stuff like divi theme or install Nextcloud and some other apps. That hosting is secure, fast and reliable. Customer support responds within a week at most. All that requires real infrastructure and real work. Every single day.

So pray tell why should the registrar, sponsor and the ICANN get 10, 20 or more % of what I pay for all of that? For one single domain? Every single year. It honestly drives me crazy.

And don't even get me started on those new TLDs, pure cancer. Not even talking about the obviously shady stuff, but also nice-sounding things like .art 🤮

The Internet is infrastructure. We deserve an at-cost, straightforward process to put our stuff there; no need for leeching gatekeepers and shady middlemen.

Free domains for everyone!

But why is it so expensive? Like 20$ for a .org Domain. Fuck that.

Currently just a pale ale, happy to invite you if the bundling with the frog licking doesn't concern you.

So a bundled union of 27 nations is raising concerns about the bundling of 2 office tools? The EU really seems to know where to put its priorities 🙄

If you need to state that AI cannot replace you, it probably means AI can replace you 🙄

Many great answers in here but can someone address this point?

Signal could very well be another Crypto AG-style honeypot: the Swiss company which provided secure communications services to ~120 governments throughout the 20th century, and was secretly ran by the CIA and West German Intelligence.

Thanks @Vexz@kbin.social and @lckdscl@whiskers.bim.boats, I really should have actually tried this before getting all confused about the issues of people who want to use it at the same time.

It's not super automated, but the switching with the Android and Windows Apps do not take more than 30 seconds.