Lemmy was foretold… we just didn’t know… 🫣

“The internet is not a big chariot. It’s a series of aqueducts…” – The Roman Senator from Ultima Thule

Do you really think there’s only one study that shows that AI increases feelings of productivity, while also slowing down productivity?

Every industry is using this shit.

So I work for a landscaping company. How is AI going to help me move piles of dirt, or rake up leaves?

We already tried using it to generate site plans/maps and communicate with clients, and it’s worse than useless for both of those things. What else you got for me?

BTW, I’m not genuinely asking for business advice here, I’m pushing back against your assertion that every industry is using this shit. I’d go as far as to say that AI has no relevance to most workplaces.

“Vibe coded app that lets you create guitar tones by what you tell it” buddy, I’ve played guitar for years, and this sounds silly as hell to me. Describing the tone I want in English words sounds much more difficult than just twisting some knobs. I think the youtuber guy may just be trying to sell a product.

IDK, have you considered that perhaps the people demanding to be approached/questioned in a specific way are the friction point here?

Even on the nohello site, the “right” and “wrong” conversations are the exact same length (two messages each way). I genuinely struggle to see the point of any of this.

I love it… when people use ellipses… in business writing. So dramatic… so mysterious…

The other day I was out with two of my friends.

My one friend thought their car had a small issue. Me and my other friend are more knowledgeable about cars. We were like, “oh don’t worry about that, that’s normal.” First friend kept fretting until they looked it up on AI and AI said… the same thing that us, the two people standing next to them had said. They were so skeptical after what we said, and so relieved when AI said it was fine. I was so annoyed lmao.

I’m going to walk slowly in front of three cars just because you made this post. It’s the only reasonable response to your lack of civility.

Seriously, you’re advocating getting physical with someone because of a perceived lack of civility — literally walking too slow. I drive almost everywhere, have done so for decades, and this is not a problem I’ve had, even once in my life. If “people walking too slowly in front of your car” is a regular problem for you, you may need to cultivate more patience. You have lost the plot. You sound like you are the problem in this social interaction.

I never cross the street slowly… but I never hurry, either, and even that annoys some car drivers 😭😂

Their logic: people in cars = captains of industry who cannot be delayed as they go to their power lunches

People on foot = slovenly, slackjawed peasants who are obviously wasting time

I thought that was where a bunch of the initial core of libgen/anna’s archive was from? Maybe I’m wrong

No VCR

You dated the fastest hot dog shooter in the northwest? Omg

Pretty interesting history, actually. They were more or less brought over from Japan by Japanese immigrants, but adapted to American tastes and ingredients (sweeter, and wheat rather than rice – the Japanese ones are more like rice crackers). During Japanese Internment, production was taken over by Chinese immigrants and they’ve been associated with Chinese-American food ever since.

Then get your friends/family to take pics with their phones, and don’t hire a wedding photographer. No one is forcing you to. Just don’t then go on to complain if the specific moments you want are missed/blurry/composition sucks.

Like, maybe this is a controversial opinion, but of all the people trying to rip you off in the world, photographers are pretty low on the list.

Right, like the uber driver is getting ripped off too! The existence of multiple jobs not getting paid enough doesn’t justify any of them not paying enough.

Yep, I think kicking your kids out when they turn 18 is fucked. But, it’s better to do it at 18 than 38.

I don’t know what the solution is, but it’s not this.

The main disadvantage that I see is the quarter-laundry machines were pretty easy to modify so that you didn’t need to pay them. The whole app thing appears to be a lot more difficult to hack, the coin machines can be disabled with a screwdriver.

…OK but I used to work in a neighborhood where a bunch of people had actual, period exterior gaslights left over from the 19th century. They had been upgraded with digital timers and stuff. Automatic shut-off/restart. That’s ridiculous!

That’s… weird. VPN time? IDK