taladar @ taladar @sh.itjust.works

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It feels like this will be the point where the church decides if it wants to become relevant again by defying the trend of just turning more conservative and bigoted as so many governments are doing at the moment or if it just wants to die quietly along with the older people who just remain catholic by habit.

If targeted advertising worked the way they say it does then why is Amazon with my entire purchase history at their disposal, still unable to stop themselves from trying to sell me a second washing machine just after I bought one from them? Or Audible with hundreds of books in my account, most of them English, is still trying to sell me German versions of books with original English language versions? The whole notion that advertising has all that data to do better advertising assumes a competence level that just isn't there.

Only in countries that are extremely car-centric. You don't even realize how much your perception is warped by your country's dysfunction in this regard.

You are not helping people with ADD by devising some sort of convoluted "solution" which requires them to get and then keep 30 year old technology working and transfer over the result of their work with technologies that themselves require a lot of patience too.

Well, to be fair Ken Ham has a sort of super-power, listening to him for any amount of time makes your brain leak out of your ears.

Contrary to what car makers would like you believe the right to drive is not a basic human right. In fact if anything designing a society solely for cars is what ignores the rights of many who naturally can't drive (e.g. for health reasons).

True but I think the important thing to note is that their prosperity is not really a direct consequence of the dystopian shit. Something that could not necessarily be said of e.g. the big tech companies of our time.

It is just another step in that direction starting at real amateur porn (i.e. real sex by real people being filmed) over professional porn (actors being filmed), fake amateur porn (professionals pretending to be amateurs), animated or rendered or machinima porn,...

There hasn't really been that much genuine left in porn in quite a while.

The elderly and disabled are exactly the people who are forgotten in a car centric society that assumes everyone can drive.

Most of those places would work just fine with a combination of trains for long distance and bicycles/walking for local travel too.

If anything, emergency vehicles have been hampered by the rampant proliferation and deregulation of cars, because it makes it harder for them to get to their destination quickly and safely.

Hell, half of the time I can't move as quickly as I would like to through the city with my bicycle it is due to cars being in the way of moving quickly and efficiently. And that is a lot smaller than an ambulance.

I really don't understand why people think they need to use outdated technology and inconvenient transfer methods to be undisturbed instead of just disabling programs that generate or display notifications (e.g. on Linux the notification daemon).

Do people really have so little self-control that they can't just not use a network connection if it exists?

Society subjects people to a lot of things that people aren't "perfectly fine with" but only some of them have wider implications for reputation, career chances, ostracizing,... and that is the main problem with this kind of technology.

Your assumption that people need deepfake technology to fantasize about people sexually who have no interest in being on the receiving end of that is at best naive and at worst arguing in bad faith.

A different one at every site?

Agreed. It feels like a UI designed for little children or senior citizens.

In a way it has improved it. It makes it more plausible to claim that any nudes that do show up of you are fake.

Lets be perfectly honest here, especially for pictures this has been possible for at least 20 years.

What is ruining people's lives is the obsession a conservative society has with demonizing nudity and sex.

Is the increase in the number of children a sign that more civilians are targeted now? I assume at some point they would run out of actual separated groups that just contain anything even vaguely resembling something they can frame as combatants.

You know what would be even more productive? Not using video (or AI) at all.

That is mostly because the big mail providers like GMail do not accept mails from just anyone anymore (part of the aforementioned anti-spam technologies) and put the rest of the spam into a separate folder.