“Ooooo, I’m so hot. Look at how hot I am, Finn.”

They’ll just lay off a bunch of people to cover the cost and have it rebuilt pretty quickly.

Yeah but if we didn’t have the internet it wouldn’t be obvious what was going on because our only connections to the outside world would be what is given to us. Most people probably wouldn’t even know who Epstein was let alone his connection to Trump. I’m only commending the actual quickness with which information can spread on online, not the internet itself. The modern internet is still an absolute disaster.

They’ve been using it as an infinite money glitch for awhile now. Make AI slop music and make a bunch of bots listen to it for the ad revenue. Nobody makes the music, nobody listens to the music, nobody listens to the ads, but Spotify gets paid. They’ll never crack down on this unless they themselves have to stop. Until than, they’ll just “assume” everything is made by people and play dumb when questioned.

I think a lot of people involved in the idea to go to war with Iran were severely underestimating the power of the internet. I’d say it’s the only saving grace with having old fucks in office is that they can’t bullshit us like they used to, for better or for worse. Back when the “War on Terror” started we were all hopped up on patriotism and it started out in a time where getting news from the internet was uncommon and most people relied on whatever local news they had. Everything, including public opinion, works faster with the internet. Whereas with Vietnam and the “War on Terror” you’d get an update once a week or even month, we get updates by the second. We didn’t have to wait to see how much of a failure Iran was. We knew from day one that it was a shit show.

Yeah, that’s kinda what the article is about. People choosing chatbots over real people. I’m just saying that it’s not good for your mental health and even worse for developing social skills.

Pretty much, yeah. It’s like reading fan fiction and assuming that’s how real people talk to each other. Similar to watching porn and assuming that’s how sex works when in reality sex is clunky and often times gross.

The issue arises when you don’t have anyone to talk to. Having something to talk, even though it’s not a real person, can be enticing to sate the need to communicate with people. The problem is that people that don’t have a lot of real life experience in communication fall into the trap of thinking it’s better because it’s always agreeable and “listens” better than normal people. To me that sounds like someone that has difficulties with oversharing and has poor social skills. What these people should actually be doing in order to feel more satisfied socially is to work on their social skills instead of only talk to chatbots that can’t say no. If the types of relationships people have with chatbots were translated into human relationships most people would consider them toxic. And how many people do you know that for some reason seek out and always end up in toxic relationships?

I tried one just for shits a giggles awhile back to see if there is any merit to the widespread use of them. The only way you’d find these even remotely realistic or interesting is if you’ve never had any kind of sexual encounter with a real person before, whether in person or through text. After about five minutes of “chatting” with one of these bots it started to respond like half baked fan fiction that didn’t understand the basics of sex or even anatomy. The cadence is very predictable and it tends to repeat the same wording and phrasing constantly. If you have real world experience with people, it just feels like a generic chatbot.

In my opinion, this is more proof that these people need to interact with real humans. If these chat bots seem at all human to you, you need to interact with more actual humans.

The only thing this will accomplish is creating a black market just like every other drug. Don’t get me wrong, it makes sense from a public health stand point and it will definitely save lives that were cut short from smoking related health conditions. But as we’ve found out with literally every drug in existence no matter how hard of a drug it is, the moment it isn’t legal it gets replaced by a black market with a mountain of new issues.

Just fell for it and imma send this to a few of my friends and pretend I didn’t fall for it so I can laugh at them. :3

It’s hard to tell, but we also got people like Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson calling his remarks “unhinged.” I even went to r/conservative on Reddit and 9/10 people were saying this is unacceptable. (Well, before the bots came in). On the other hand you have people like Meghan Kelly saying they’d still vote for him even if he dropped a nuke.

This genuinely does feel different now that Trump is playing with the idea of nuclear weapons and potential M.A.D. scenarios. This isn’t just about immigrants or regime changes or owning the libs, this is threating to genocide an entire country for a war nobody wanted. Believe it or not, most Republicans still have a conscience even if they are cowards.

I’m gonna have to agree. It’s been a growing trend for years and most sites don’t even give you half the features on the site.

The other day I went to place an order for a pizza on the Dominos website on my phone and it would crash every time I tried. Went to my PC and it worked perfectly first try. I’m not downloading your fucking app when I only eat your food, like, once a year.

We can’t even get them to upgrade our infrastructure to the 21st century in some cases so good luck with that. We still got shit running on Windows 7 or even Windows XP.

This isn’t sustainable. Almost all of our infrastructure runs on computers and eventually it will reach a point where you have a computer in charge of vital infrastructure that won’t be able to buy replacement part and it’ll just fail.

That’s kinda what I think too. I already have both God of War games and both The Last of Us games. That’s really all I wanted at the end of the day.

This right after they said they are going to stop porting their games to PC. Guess I’ll just have to live without PlayStation games. I have hundreds of games in my backlog anyway, I think I’ll survive.

It’s definitely hard to tell someone’s tone when it comes to text so i appreciate you mentioning that. I understand the confusion as I wasnt very clear in what I was talking about which is 100% my fault. I went a little off the handle and got defensive, I will admit, and I apologize for that.

I guess the point that I was trying to make is more so that we have many different ways to do it for years I was talking about things like captchas. The problem, in my opinion, is that captchas didn’t evolve with the Internet. We’ve been picking traffic lights for over a decade now and it’s obviously not working anymore. My whole idea with drawing pictures was to make it more human centric than clicking a bunch if buttons. Something that can take in the raw input of a mouse cursor or touchscreen and determine whether or not the movements are “human”. Like a fingerprint that doesn’t identify you. If it sees too many predictable patterns it flags it. I just feel like there’s a lot of wasted potential in older human verification systems that have stagnated. We’ve just accepted bots as the norm online and the company’s in charge aren’t doing a damn thing besides saying they’ll do something with no action.

It’s definitely not the right choice, but I can see why he’d do it. Silence would have been better. If he’d have said nothing nobody would be arguing about him.