AI nowaday is like Bluetooth 20 years ago: they put it everywhere where it's almost never useful
It's disturbing how we as a society are okay with ad companies weaponsing psychology
So many people that take psychology courses end up working in the advertisement industry because that’s where the jobs are if you have a psychology degree. Very few people sit back and think about the implications of the scientific study of the mind being used by companies to distort peoples perceptions and make them buy...
Lemmy has so few comments that I am now reading many more articles
Almost every problem in the world would be dealt with meaningfully if we outlawed billionaires.
Everytime I look at small problems or big global problems, if you follow the money trail, it all leads to some billionaire who is either working towards increasing their wealth or protecting their wealth from decreasing....
With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant
...and I don't know which possibility is the least worrying
Using Ubuntu may give off hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect.
hot take?...
Wear marks on a belt are like rings on a tree. ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
Monkeys given infinite time would probably get carpal tunnel or form a labor union before typing out Shakespeare.
Lemmy is a perfect reddit replacement in terms of saving a post "for later" and never coming back to it
10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player.
We should make more random friendly comments here on Lemmy
Like just commenting a friendly joke, a compliment or something like that
Remember when the body washes contained literal micro plastics and were advertised as such?
I hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace.
Hanging out with my nieces/nephews I now understand most the discipline I received as a child was most likely because I was being annoying and nothing to do with right or wrong.
It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office.
Dinosaurs were around before Saturn had rings.
Saturn’s rings are around 150 mio. years old.
Now that ChatGPT is being trained using Reddit posts
it will loose its ability to differentiate between there and their and its and it’s.
If frozen embryos are considered as children, then it must be acceptable to freeze children.
Please don’t take this satirical thought seriously, just take it for what it is, total nonsense.
If everyone had access to healthcare the net benefit of treating the mental illness and other disabilities holding them back would easily cover the cost of the healthcare itself.
Dissing car brands is console wars for boomers
Things like “Fiat stands for “Fix It Again Tony”” etc.
Metal is made from refined rocks, therefore Metal music is refined Rock music
When talking to people who dislike UBI about UBI, they'll often say both that 'people need a purpose in life' and that 'nobody will work if they get free money'.
Those seem incompatible to me....
The phrase “snitches get stitches” makes a lot of assumptions about the quality and expediency of healthcare.
"Cheaters never prosper" is a lie that a cheater probably came up with
Who else would try to convince others that Cheaters never succeed in profiting?